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  1. Oxtung
    I think he brings something to the table that Santana and Arcia don't. As was stated earlier Sano is going to be bad defensively and a late inning defender could prove very useful. In addition Buxton is going to need days off (or perhaps even end up at AaA sometime this season). IMO I'd rather have Mastroianni than Santana in that role who is not a good defender and frankly might not hit any better than the Maestro either.
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    At this point Buxton is a wildcard and it's hard to know if he will need to be pinch hit for. Suzuki clearly could be. Escobar not so much; he had a .750 OPS last season.
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    Thanks Thrylos your effort is appreciated!
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    He might be one of the five best starters currently. Even so the Twins are probably a better team with May pitching high leverage innings out of the 'pen.
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    Personally I don't have a problem with this decision based on the current roster. There are many adequate options for the starting rotation (Though I think May would be better than a few of those) where as the bullpen is in dire straights without him. So given those realities the team is currently the best with May in the bullpen. My problem is with the offseason decisions that put the Twins in this position to begin with. A spot in the rotation could have been created and the bullpen could have been shored up. IMO that would have been the best solution given the roster at the beginning of the offseason.
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    You can't make the argument that his 10 starts are small sample size,then break those starts down further and claim he wasn't good in his 4 starts before Sept callups. If 10 is too small to judge him on then 4 surely is.
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    Duffey pitched 25 innings in the 4-6 range and 4 innings in the 7-9 range. Talk about small sample size. In the long run you might be right but those numbers tell us nothing at this point.
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    Plouffe and Nolasco are not traded at the deadline. Berrios gets <15 starts this season.
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    I think you hit the nail on the head here Brian. If the Twins were to cut Nolasco and/or Milone they don't have enough starters to make it through the season. Certainly one of them could move to the pen but you do have to take into account they probably don't want to at this point and there maybe repercussions because of this. It's real easy to sit back and say "be grateful you're getting paid and make the move with dignity" when you're on the outside. It's another thing entirely when you're the one getting demoted after years doing the job. How many of you can honestly say you wouldn't be disappointed if you walked into work tomorrow and your boss told you, "Hey we know you've been with the company for several years, you've been working hard, but we need to make room for your subordinate Steve. Starting tomorrow you'll be reporting to him." No matter how poorly you've been performing that's going to hurt and embarrass most people. On top of that someone comes with a microphone and immediately asks for your comments. I've never been in that exact position before but I know when I'm hurt I don't immediately make the best choices. After I calm down and think about it I am able to make some rational choices (and apologies) but in that moment...
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    Thanks for replying guys! I'll try the one space thing. Although it will be tough for me to remember. It's ingrained in me from 20 years of typing. I've had to go back and erase a space after every period I wrote here.
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    I just downloaded Chrome. Let's see if this a different browser helps?
  12. Oxtung
    I use NoScript in Firefoxes browser. I am testing now with all scripts allowed.
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    Does anyone know why when I post something the spaces following the periods are deleted? I end up with these really dense, hard to read paragraphs. Just to test this sentence is bolded. This is Italicized. This is underlined.
  14. Oxtung
    It seems we have a fundamental difference in how we view Kyle Gibson's future, and probably current, capabilities. The data shows that pitchers begin to enter their decline phase (albeit a slow decline initially) in their early to mid 20's. By 32 their velocity and k-rate decrease while they're LD and FB percentages increase. On top of that there are very real injury concerns here. Set aside for a moment that he's already had one TJ surgery and what that means for a potential second surgery and instead focus on just the natural injury risk associated with pitchers. We are currently seeing that with Nolasco, Hughes and Perkins. Kyle Gibson is not the type of player that is going to break the bank. He is a low strike out ground ball pitcher and that skill set just doesn't get paid very much. Extending him just to save 5 or 10 million dollars over the next 4 or 5 years will have no impact on the Twins ability to sign future FA's or extend other deserving players. It will however lock the Twins into paying him regardless of any injury or decline that does happen. It also cements his spot in the rotation barring multiple terrible years like Nolasco. Perhaps Gibson improves over the next few years. Perhaps he can remain healthy. As a fan I certainly want to believe those things, however the statistics show those are less likely outcomes.
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    I was a season ticket holder last year and didn't have the option of paper tickets. I had to use their mlb ballpark app to get in. It depends on what your ticket package is.
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    His ERA+ the year before was 87. So if you want to split the difference and call him average at this point I'm fine with that. My point is that if he is average-ish now, in his prime, do we really want the Twins to lock themselves in to decline phase (and probably below average at that point) Gibson? For those of you who are pro-Gibson extension, what is the upside to an extension? On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know why my paragraphs are reformatting and I end up with no spaced between my sentences?
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    Kyle Gibson is not an MVP caliber player like the 3 you mention above; if he was the conversation would be very different. He is somewhere between below average and average right now in his prime. The question is do we want to extend a pitcher that will be post prime and likely to be below average 5 years from now.
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    There was just a big study released attempting to predict TJ surgery a few weeks ago. One of the factors they found predictive of future TJ surgeries is having one in the past. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/02/predicting-tommy-john-surgeries.html
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    If anyone is interested, I think an interesting article would be Plouffe's comparables for next season. If he's making $10M does that price him out of the trade market? If they couldn't move him at $7M this off season why do people think he'll be movable next year at a higher price and a year older? Back to the article at hand. If the Twins have truly given up on the Sano at 3B experiment than extending Plouffe for a season or two makes sense. There isn't another player with the Twins currently that profiles to be better at the hot corner.
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    Interesting. Didn't know that. Is that true than for players like Dylan Bundy who signed a MLB deal immediately for less than 6 seasons, iirc?
  21. Oxtung
    I actually think the TC media deserves kudos for allowing Sano time to grieve and attempt to move past this difficult time in his life without having to worry about an even brighter spotlight than he already had as a baseball player. When your job is dependent on clicks and eyeballs on your articles this must have been difficult to pass up.
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    I'd be fine with a 2 or 3 year extension at a reasonable rate for Escobar. As you stated within your piece there really isn't anyone close to ready that is clearly going to be a better option. At the worst he could become a nice utility player if his bat slips a bit. OTOH I don't think the Twins would sign (or be wise to sign) a contract that allows ROsario to opt out of his contract after just 4 seasons. You're better off going year to year with him (not that I'd sign an extension as I think he'll slump offensively until he learns to take a walk). Perhaps though he'd be fine if those were mutual option years instead? That would allow the Twins to retain 7 years of control and allow him to not be tethered to the 3 extra option years. Perhaps the pricing would need to be adjusted slightly though.
  23. Oxtung
    The best part of that video is not Sano but rather Arcia. He's constantly giving Sano pointers. It takes a big man to try and help the player taking your starting spot away. Bravo Mr. Arcia, bravo.
  24. Oxtung
    MLBTraderumors is quoting $4 million signing bonus with a $4.1 and $4.15million salaries in '16 and '17 respectively.
  25. Oxtung
    It depends on your reference point. From the pitchers perspective a 12-5 curve would break towards a right handed batter but from a hitters perspective it would break towards a left handed batter.
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