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  1. jokin
    Pelfrey should be 60-dayed soon. Parmelee will soon be DFAd once the OF and 1stB situations solidify, along with Correia being gone at any moment. That's 3 spots right there that open up. I can forsee Dave being right, although they might try any one of Johnson, Pino or Darnell (even Gilmartin?), before they finally call up May and then hopefully, Meyer. The Twins have an off day coming up, they can skip Correia's start next Monday in Boston in favor of Hughes. (I hope this happens, I have a feeling that Correia will get shelled both in Toronto and at Fenway). I'd also like to see them give chances to guys like Achter, Pino, Pressly and Tonkin to supplant some of the faltering arms in the pen, especially if they decide to try out Meyer as a starter.
  2. jokin
    I hope May or Meyer both get the call soon, but Terry Ryan's comments yesterday weren't encouraging. In the 4th inning, the boys were ruminating on the Futures game, and May and Meyer's names were the first 2 that Terry Ryan mentioned for the American team.
  3. jokin
    The Twins now have 2, and possibly 3 very good potential trade chips, should they drop out of contention. The Moreland injury in Texas illustrates how quickly Morales' value can soar, even before playing one game for the Twins. There are 20 teams within 5 games of a Wild Card- plus the 6 division leaders- that's 25 teams besides the Twins, many are likely to end up needing a hitter, or a Catcher. Morales and Suzuki could easily get something better than a C prospect (have we forgotten the Butera trade already?), while Willingham, if he keeps up some semblance to his current production level, might also yield a decent player.
  4. jokin
    Since the end of the 2011 season, the term, "rebuilding" has never crossed the Twins' lips, they've been half and half ever since then.
  5. jokin
    By my math, that leaves one wild card spot.
  6. jokin
    Again, you used the example of the Twins being in "last place", which makes no sense in terms of being only 2 games behind the 2nd place team in the Central Division and especially in terms of the 2 Wild Card slots. There are at least 10 other teams besides the Twins that will have to outplay each other just to get a wildcard spot. right now. There are exactly 2 teams out of 15 playing decent baseball in the AL. The rest are trudging through various forms of mediocrity. The AL Central is dominating the AL East in head-to-head competition, the AL East is besting the West, while the West is doing the same to the Central. Parity is the reality. And Detroit lately is showing no signs of running away with the Central. That's 3 potential openings for the Twins to shoot for. You ask: "How?" TR asks: "Why not?" As the rosters stand right now, you're right, it's a long hill to climb. But it's now become obvious, right now, that comparing current rosters and expecting the Twins roster to remain static is no longer an operative assumption.
  7. jokin
    Last place today, while just a few days ago they were in 2nd place? Place means nothing. As it stands right now, 11 AL teams are within 6 games of a Wild Card spot. 8 teams are just above .500, at .500, or just below .500. Parity has broken out in the League in a big, big way. No arguments here about their lack of insight in the offseason, many of us are just glad that they have finally started now to respond to make a more earnest effort to compete with what many of us pointed out were logical, obvious, necessary, doable, affordable and still strategically-sound moves for the long run. And trading away 2 potentially valuable chips (along with veteran pitching) at the deadline, if done properly in, can strengthen the club with new prospects, while letting valuable current prospects (Rosario, Vargas, Pitchers) begin to get their feet wet this year going into 2015
  8. jokin
    He will also block Pinto, but the signing still makes a lot of sense. If the Twins still stink on July 31, the Twins may be able to parlay a decent player out of Morales and still have time to develop Vargas in August and September. Or better yet, the Twins might not be done tinkering, Ryan himself said today the situation for roster positions is fluid, and there are still possible trades and deals that could be made. Ryan is back, and he's going for it....as long as the future isn't being unduly harmed or mortgaged, how can any Twins fan be against this?
  9. jokin
    Yes, especially if they don't get Meyered down in the details around "consistency".
  10. jokin
    Bingo. It's pretty universally accepted that the move to AA is the toughest- what's not to like so far, Mr Law? I'm wondering when exactly Klaw stated his negative dismissal about Vargas' chances and his future AAAA-ness, during this season, or previously? Pretty callous if it was before one PA at New Britain. His consistently strong performance since April 20 convinces me that he has a decent shot at pretty good major league success. And Rosario has come out of the chute far better than I think anyone could have expected- and playing mostly in CF. I'm wondering if he got a pep talk from Ryan during the down time wherein TR laid it out to Eddie what a big opportunity he had in front of him. (FWIW, Ryan sounded none too optimistic about Buxton taking the field any time soon).
  11. jokin
    I'm hope things do change. BTW, you nailed it, the bolded above is almost a verbatim quote from TR this morning.
  12. jokin
    Yup. Assuming Josh and Kendrys move on, the way is now clear for Rosario, Vargas, and to a lesser extent, Ortiz (in a 4th OF tryout), to claim 2015 spots.
  13. jokin
    There is now no room on the roster for Vargas to play this year barring calamitous injury, impactful trade or meaningless September call-up.
  14. jokin
    It didn't seem to be much of a problem for either RH or LH batters to hit it out of TF, once again today, or the previous 4 days, for that matter. But you are absolutely right, move them both this year if at all possible, especially when/if it is becoming clearer that days like today continue to be more the norm. Given that, I think it's now incumbent on the Twins to: Worry and focus a whole lot more about the dead weight on the pitching staff for the moment. Not one stopper in the pen today, Deduno is going to be a wild card in every game he starts, isn't there at least one stopper out there to pick him up on days like this?
  15. jokin
    Hmmm...and here I thought you were a lover of a little chin music....
  16. jokin
    Did he build you a house, too?
  17. jokin
    And Mauer is out.
  18. jokin
    Wow. Thanks for sharing..... I wonder if the discussion included a raise for Cuellar? There are now lineup scenarios where 60% of the team will be Spanish-first players.
  19. jokin
    Who did they sign as the new DH...? Yo-Yo Ma?
  20. jokin
    Very, very insightful post. With everything else going on, you just raised the giddy quotient by 5 more ticks. Your update efforts on Meyer are much appreciated by us folks in Twinsnorth-land. Keep 'em comin'!
  21. jokin
    It certainly appears that way, baseball can be a cruel, cruel spot.
  22. jokin
    OK, then, relevant to your tease...can you hit on the highlights as to what was interesting?
  23. jokin
    Wow. It's almost like the scene in Moneyball, with one guys waiting outside the locker room door, while the other guys is told by Brad Pitt to clear out his stall 'cause "there's only room for 25 players."
  24. jokin
    Linkie?
  25. jokin
    Thanks for the update on Cola, Seth- you're likely spot on. For all Chris has been through in his career, culminating in being at the very top of his profession by the end of April- he found out why hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports, and fell, hard. I don't think we've heard the last from Colabello. Let's hope there's a second act written for Chris that is as stirring as the first one.
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