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  1. Oldgoat_MN
    I agree with this article completely. Dozier is an excellent player, but he is only worth what you can get for him. He is not going to make us relevant this year. I really appreciate the player and person he is, but we need to get what pitching we can get for him and move forward.
  2. Oldgoat_MN
    Not enough patience. I remember how happy I was for him when he won the NL Batting title the next year. That was fun to see for Justin!
  3. Oldgoat_MN
    I believe the Twins FO has used some questionable practices. Drafting tall pitchers because they would have better success (never mind that Johan Santana was only 6'0" tall). Drafting relief pitchers out of college with the intention of them becoming starting rotation pitchers (don't know how fully they employed this strategy, but I am not a fan). I mean, I get they are thinking outside the box, but it feels like there is a reason no one else is doing those things.
  4. Oldgoat_MN
    I won't, but someone has to take the blame for your spelling.
  5. Oldgoat_MN
    Haha! That's a good one on me! I meant to write that Toronto is south of Minneapolis. Completely mis-wrote that! As for the other part... Seattle catchers keep their hands in their pockets? Isn't that dangerous?
  6. Oldgoat_MN
    I had a vendor out of Toronto. Several of them kept referring to how cold it was in Canada. I finally explained to them that Minneapolis is south of Toronto. Someone there had to look it up before they believed me.
  7. Oldgoat_MN
    Don't quite understand the Santiago hate here. His numbers are better than Gibson's over the last 3 years. He had a bad August for the Twins followed by a good September.
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    The new guys have to do something, and probably in their way of thinking, something big. The way to do that is to trade Dozier. This will show the team owners and fans that they intend to shake things up. After the last 6 seasons everyone should think that is an excellent idea. I see very little chance of Dozier not being traded. It is interesting that the Dodgers are the only team that has really even been hinted. People mention the Yankees, but they have to be hoping for a bounce-back from Starlin Castro, as this was the first year of a 7 year, $60 million contract. You don't just walk away from that because of one bad year. I expect them to trade Brian Dozier. I just hope they make it count.
  9. Oldgoat_MN
    Interesting to note that Garver may wind up being envious of Turner. Good luck to both.
  10. Oldgoat_MN
    So... 30 for Twins players?
  11. Oldgoat_MN
    I am cautiously optimistic about Mejia. Gonsalves had a great year, but he has pitched only 72 innings in AA. Tyler Jay may be coming along, but a 5.79 ERA and 5.8 SO/9 in AA does not scream "BRING HIM UP". DJ Baxendale (in AAA) had better numbers than either of them in WHIP and SO/9 and he was left open to the Rule 5 draft. If either of them perform at a level that insists they be promoted to MLB it will be up to the FO as to whether they are being 'blocked'. And it may be that a dis-functioning Gibson is more is more likely to be set aside than a career average Hector Santiago. I still believe Santiago should be tendered a contract. ** my bad. SSS for Jay in AA. He was excellent in A+ this year.
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    I believe they will all be tendered contracts and I believe they should be tendered contracts. I know some will say we should let go of Santiago, but he has been an above average pitcher from 2011 through 2015 and our depth just took a potential hit as we leave Baxendale and Wheeler open to the Rule 5 draft. I know Hector is not a top of the rotation pitcher, but let's not forget our Voltaire ("The perfect is the enemy of the good"). Letting guys like Santiago go is how a team winds up with guys like Albers and Dean as the starting pitchers in MLB games.
  13. Oldgoat_MN
    Robbie is hard on electronics.
  14. Oldgoat_MN
    Coming into the off-season everyone is concerned with the pitching staff. Too many ignored the weakness the Twins have at the catcher position. The Twins have addressed this in a way that should help the pitching staff. That looks like a win to me.
  15. Oldgoat_MN
    So I looked up his fielding numbers on FanGraphs. Valid points...
  16. Oldgoat_MN
    I haven't been flamed for a while, so I'll see what this inspires... 1. I do not understand why so many are fine with letting Grossman go. Is he pretty at the plate or in the field? No, but he had the highest OBP on the team. I would expect a site based on analytics would appreciate that. 2. Jason Wheeler and DJ Baxendale are 25 years old, but they both had better numbers in AAA than Albers or Dean. Lower WHIP, higher SO rates and better SO/BB rates. Not that a team should measure a pitcher's MLB potential on Albers and Dean, but our new FO must see some pitching potential that the last members of the FO missed.
  17. Oldgoat_MN
    Non-tendering a guy like Santiago is how you wind up with guys like Albers and Dean pitching MLB ballgames for you. I wouldn't do it. I also would not be so anxious to let Centeno go. You are going with Garver, but he has never caught a major league game. I would rather he earn the position rather than be handed it. Grossman may have had his career year with the Twins. That said, he led the team in OBP. Cannot imagine why you would let that guy just walk away. And if you trade him you need not replace him with a CF. Besides Buxton, both Rosario and Kepler played a lot of CF in the minors and either can handle it (if) when Buxton gets days off. Lots of interesting things to think about. Thanks for the article!
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    Maybe after I'm gone. Until then you might be the second to last.
  19. Oldgoat_MN
    A higher number is a better PAIP (or RF, as it used to be called in the old days, like this morning)
  20. Oldgoat_MN
    I appreciate the desire for a strong, consistent presence at SS. I also believe that our dire needs at SP and catching are so huge that we can expect Polanco and Escobar to provide reasonably good defense and an actual threat, of sorts, at the plate that SS will not be anywhere near Falvey's initial focus. Escobar and Polanco. They will be above adequate, which is more than can be said for our current SP & catching positions.
  21. Oldgoat_MN
    I understand bringing some pitchers along slowly if that is what's best for them. However, based on the SO/9 and WHIPs that Gonsalves and Romero are posting I would really like to see each of them pushed up a level to start 2017. Gonsalves to AAA, Romero to AA. See what they can do.
  22. Oldgoat_MN
    In 2006 the Dodgers drafted a kid out of High School named Clayton Kershaw. He spent 220 innings in the minors before throwing 107 innings in MLB for the Dodgers in 2008. Strasburg was drafted in 2009. In 2012 he threw 159 innings in MLB. They are not all Kershaws or Strasburgs, of course. But neither are they all Kohl Stewarts. If Green has the right work ethic and talent, draft the kid.
  23. Oldgoat_MN
    Not soon enough.
  24. Oldgoat_MN
    I believe that the fact that Logan Schafer has played in 12 games from Aug. 29 through Sept. 11 suggests that the future is not what Molitor is looking at. Why would the infield be different?
  25. Oldgoat_MN
    Hopefully they see what he has before the 'fix' a 'flaw' in his mechanics.
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