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  1. jokin
    Is there still some lack of clarity about the extent of Buck's injury? FWIW, Bremer classified the injury on Friday as, in effect, a separated shoulder. My experience has always been that a separation is worse than a dislocation, which takes much longer time to heal, and sometimes never does fully heal. Is your information on the injury confirmed by the team? (In which case, we can breathe a little easier!)
  2. jokin
    Can you picture him in a Twins relief role down the stretch, Seth? Does he have an innings limitation lock on him?
  3. jokin
    I get he's not Buxton.... but... Did you see the final play of today's game?
  4. jokin
    I guess based on today's developments, the Giants are winning this trade in a romp- for at least half of August....
  5. jokin
    I'll take it. Let's get him up to Rochester for a couple games and see if he can quickly adapt to short relief pen duty. Velo can probably spike up towards 98.
  6. jokin
    Any special reason why Jeffers has sat for two straight days?. He was batting clean-up on Friday. What a first four in that Pensacola batting order when he's in the game....
  7. jokin
    Velo?
  8. jokin
    This is right about how I see it. IL for Perez or BP. His next start against the Braves is probably make or break for him. After that, he is scheduled to start against the Brewers a week from Tuesday, the SAME day that Pineda could first pitch coming off of the IL list.
  9. jokin
    This. And Sam Dyson, too!
  10. jokin
    Yep. And as much as it will hurt if he ends up having a great career, the Twins played it right in selling high on a non-top 30 for an immediate (and desperate) need.
  11. jokin
    I would hope so. Even low cost guys like Lucroy are being DFA'd. The article mentions veteran LHP Tony Sipp. Playoff experience with Houston. Hot hand since May 15. Super cheap contract with 2020 option. Guys like this need to have the tires throughly kicked. Little to lose, a lot to gain. And still an open 40-man spot available?
  12. jokin
    I was talking about the Twins calling the Reds, not the Indians. No way the Tribe would have dealt Bauer within the division, or even the AL.
  13. jokin
    Well, at least for the first two days of the trade, looks like the Giants won it.
  14. jokin
    Dyson looked more hung over than jet-lagged.... just sayin'.
  15. jokin
    1000 times this. Why? Why take Pineda out after only 80 pitches (we "had" to utilize the PH option, Why?)? Pretty funny moment transpired on TV in real time- Bert Blyleven was about ready to leave the booth and go down to the dugout and throttle the entire braintrust- but he held off, and bit his tongue, apparently wanting to go out of his broadcast gig without controversy- the patented. Twins Happy Talk Way.
  16. jokin
    I wasn't proposing anything like a Hicks/Murphy swap. I despised it at the time. And how is it you assume that I, or the Twins, would base my observation on one game? Re: subjects of the trade: You mean for the position that Polanco, and then possibly Lewis are going to occupy for the next 10-15 years? Your comment doesn't even add up, as Lewis is much higher than a Top 60 and never would have been part of a One-For-One trade.
  17. jokin
    All's fair in love and war. And the Indians couldn't get Bauer out of Cleveland fast enough. The Twins, at the very least, should have made a very serious inquiry on Bauer.
  18. jokin
    Bauer from Reds? Kennedy from Royals? 6 good arms from Marlins? Seems like they were get-able.
  19. jokin
    Ha! Awesome. And hilarious.
  20. jokin
    This Kernels team hasn't had anyone jump off the page statistically all season, until Steer arrived. How did Steer look in the field? I ask this because looking at the 2B/3B/SS options currently at Fort Myers, it doesn't appear that any of the above should be blocking Speer from a promotion to A+ level in August. His plate numbers this year and his remarkable improvement in his junior year at Oregon suggest he's made a quantum leap forward in 2019 offensively. The big drawback is his apparent lack of power. Does his glove work suggest he can provide quality help to the Twins in a "Adrianza utility role with a better bat" in the next couple of years?
  21. jokin
    I was relieved that Dyson came into play in the 11th hour. But it could have, should have been even more. The Twins cleared 4 roster spaces, so I suspect they thought they were going to get more. And unfortunately, this could have been accomplished largely within the risk-avoiding parameters the FO, and we both aspire towards. For example: The Marlins were open for business for their annual fire sale... The Twins were sitting in the front row seat! Obtaining any of Gallen, Lopez and Smith would have immediately upgraded the Twins rotation, and the Marlins have/had a small handful of intriguing pen throwers in addition to Romo. The Twins' relief pitching staff woes were addressed, and they have staunched the bleeding for now. But I would love to find out if there was a legitimate offer to the Reds for Bauer, and what it truly would have taken to get MB from the Giants. What the Stros accomplished makes what the Twins did this week seem like the definition of an exercise in futility.
  22. jokin
    The potential for this thread going apocalyptically nuclear really looked promising around 3:01 today....
  23. jokin
    I think all of the bargain/creative deals made today exemplifies your remark. It will be a darn shame if the Twins miss winning the AL Central and/or miss obtaining home field advantage because they didn't act on their obvious pen deficiencies much sooner than deadline day, today.
  24. jokin
    Absolutely spot on. Take anything Doogie says with a grain of his "self-serving-sources" salt. As that fictional chemistry genius Walter White once said: "Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable."
  25. jokin
    Yep, This third-tier-type deal should have been do-able in early June. But to be fair, Romo has been: FIPping at 1.79 over his last 15 games... with a 0.61 ERA, and a K/BB of 12/1, K/9 of 7.4 and a WHIP of 0.89. Over the exact same time frame, Morin's: FIP is 5.28 5.40 ERA K/9 of 3.09! WHIP of 1.11 The Twins did their homework, and identified a playoff-experienced veteran riding a "Hot-Hand", that can potentially provide some "stability" to the pen; and, who they can possibly ride for maybe 2 months>>> and only gave up a guy they likely were going to be unable to protect, anyway. But yeah, there better be better names than Romo on the roster by next Wednesday night.
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