Jump to content
Game 2 against the Reds! Come join our game thread! ×
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

beckmt

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3,503

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by beckmt

  1. beckmt
    I am one unless you can make a great trade, Twins need to see what they have. Sorry to pour cold water on this, but when you have like 10 -12 prospects to be protected in the next 2 years, you need to find out what you have. Otherwise you may well lose the best ones on a misguess. No thanks.
  2. beckmt
    I had to look, but feel you erred greatly in leaving out Simons-Richardson from this list. He could also move up rapidly if he looks strong out of the gate. As noted above we should have some roster spots available He could really help himself with a strong start in Wichita.
  3. beckmt
    The first two look like the big ones for immediate help. Sabato and Cavaco must start showing something or they are headed for the bust category and a lot of gnashing of teeth about this front office and their draft picks. Varland is still probably a year or two away if he makes it. Will be interesting to watch. Smeltzer is a pitcher who might soak some innings on a bad club whose prospects are a couple of years away. Do not want to see him again here.
  4. beckmt
    Looks like the players have put cold water on things, saying that MLB was only posturing. Deal was never that close. This is according to MLBtraderumors. Looks more like the owners were trying to put pressure on for a quick deal. Do not expect anything to happen.
  5. beckmt
    I remind you neither Kluber of Bieber were supposed to have ace stuff. My point is we just don't know, and you might have us give away the ones that were to step up.
  6. beckmt
    I still stand by my comments in other threads. When you have the number of near major league ready pitchers the Twins now have, you have to find out how many of them will step up and become viable major league pieces. I hope we will be suprised by a few, but out of about a dozen, we should be able to find 4 - 6 major league pieces that are decent. If we are lucky maybe 1 - 2 will become at least #2 type starters.
  7. beckmt
    From what I am reading it will not be Martin. That is too bad, but it will work out. I had high hopes that he and Arraez could be in the line up as 2 top of the lineup pesks , to push opposing pitchers pitch count up, be a pest on the bases,, and in general, somewhat like the Yankees, set the table and force the pitchers to throw quality pitches. Lack of a defensive home for one or both renders this an issue. Good news is these things tend to work themselves out, so we will know more in 2023 and beyond.
  8. beckmt
    I could see the A's taking Arraez as he is cheap. They are looking for major league cheap assets and close to major league prospects. I doubt they would just add Piscotty and Andrus to the deal just to cheapen the return. Andrus could be gotten for not a lot (he has little value) and could be worse than Simmons. Don't know how long his deal runs, but is a thought is you are looking for a one year stopgap. I am more in favor of seeing what we have this year and spending money next year to fill the holes.
  9. beckmt
    Story comment must be a joke. He is probably going to be in the 7 year $200 neighborhood. You must be hoping the price really drops. Someone will pay him close to this figure. I agree with the poster on the starter. Why lock yourself in when you need to sort thru a lot of starters over the next 2 years and this is the best year to find out what some of them have. Rodriquez I could see. Depending on medicals could really help the Twins bullpen, since we have no idea how good some of the prospects will fare at this level. It would still leave 1 - 2 spots for the prospects, who then could start in low leverage situations.
  10. beckmt
    I think if we traded Kepler now we would be selling low. If we are having another difficult year, and he has rebounded, maybe at the trade deadline. The only option I might see is Miami, where they have too many starters and not enough hitters. But would not trade him unless the pitcher I was getting was a sure thing. We have a large number of prospects here.
  11. beckmt
    I think the idea would be for him is a bulk pitcher, about 4 innings 3 times every two weeks. That might limit the stress. You are talking a max of 80 pitches while he builds back his arm strength. Whether he does that in St. Paul or with the Twins is TBD.
  12. beckmt
    He probably has some of the best stuff of the Twins minor league pitchers. Command is an issue and might never be good enough to make it. This has bullpen written all over it. Not what I wanted here, but he has a few years to work things out. Like a previous poster, given the issues, he looks to be rated too high for me.
  13. beckmt
    I am hoping he dominates in spring training (if we have one) and starts with the Twins rotation. Time to see what he has. And hope the arm issues were minor.
  14. beckmt
    You need the DH to rotate bats through it. Donaldson probably at this point in his career needs to spend 20 - 33% of the time there. Twins have a glut of bats, maybe need to trade 1 or 2 for a pitcher. That could be hard.
  15. beckmt
    Seems to me to be more of a depth option for minor league innings. No big deal.
  16. beckmt
    This is what I also feel. These guys need to be given the chance. Like Cleveland I think more will succeed they we believe will. This year will tell. Just don't get down on them if they don't succeed at first. Many of them will need more than one chance before succeeding.
  17. beckmt
    For the few good trades you have mentioned, there are several bad ones. The Pirates got very little for Cole. The Marlins made several bad deals, a lot of them to the Yankees, as payroll dumps. The big market teams being able to take on payroll, have a big edge in these non baseball revenue trades. Until you fix that you will not come close to parity,
  18. beckmt
    Top teams would not like their spending capped as would the top players, that is why football has parity. The floor would end tanking by forcing teams spending $50 - $60 million to raise they spending. Revenue sharing would be great, but not going to happen. Most of the suggestions I have seen would hurt the bottom teams, so hoping we can see movement soon. As I wrote, don't see the owners moving until they are looking at lost revenue. All that is happening now, is that you are hurting the younger teams who need player development time, with their places on the 40 man roster.
  19. beckmt
    Players need to get a salary floor, that is the easy fix. No way are the owners going to give a hard cap. Lower control will only hurt the lower revenue teams. Then you might as well go back to 16 - 20 teams with a $120 million floor and a $250 cap. too many lower teams do not spend anywhere close to $100 million.
  20. beckmt
    To me the only way to get a decent deal at this time is to not sign any deal or make progress until March 1. At that point the owners will be looking at expenses with no revenue. That may be the only way for the players to get a fair deal. Also remove Boris clients from the negotiating committee. They are heavily weighted to the top players and do not have the average player in mind.
  21. beckmt
    I am thinking we are going to rotate a bunch of young arms through this year. Have no faith in Dobnak, other two might work out, though Cotton has the more upside of the two. They are lottery tickets and do not make enough money to force them staying here. So we hope and will not be major disappointed if they fail.
  22. beckmt
    From the owners standpoint, what is the hurry. This is going to put the squeeze very badly on the mid level players, who are free agents into having them take one year bad deals or make good (read cheap contracts). Harking back to my days in the computer industry, you can always find someone younger and cheaper to do the job. If they are not quite as good, for a lot of clubs that may not matter, since most of those players will need jobs (the overseas market has been somewhat tapped out), will have to take bad deals. The superstars will be paid, but the mid level players not under contract will see their earnings reduced.
  23. beckmt
    Thanks Seth, great article. Twins have a very deep farm system, probably without the super top players which bring you the higher rankings in the farm system reports. This I probably why I have felt with the coming 40 man roster decisions, we need to find out which prospects are real and which might flame out. I am just hoping we don't lose Gore in the rule 5 draft. Should be interesting, though I am afraid of how long it will take the new CBA to be worked out.
  24. beckmt
    It is always interesting to watch these kids develop, we shall see.
  25. beckmt
    I think the biggest thing for players is the number of club owners who don't care about the major league product, just taking a run for about 2 years out of 10 and making lots of money on it. A salary floor in the 80 - 100 million range would at least force some money to be spent, not the current 40 - 60 million payrolls the bottom feeders have. It would help the mid level players who can be replaced by rookies at half the cost. You are not going to be able to sell a hard salary cap and bigger revenue sharing at this time (this would really help to make the product wonderful). Service time is an issue, but maybe you make the rule that any time over 60 days counts as a full year and any time over 20 days counts as a half year. That at least would end some of the blatant stuff.
×
×
  • Create New...