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  1. When you state by JAWS he ranks currently 71 with maybe only Grandal among the current catchers likely to pass him the answer is there might be 10 other players up for election voters will choose before him. His chance is very slim. He needs about 20 votes
  2. Gioloto, Montas, Morton, Ray to name a few. Know what’s pitchers do
  3. Santana and Mack are ancient history Some players that get returned go downhill. Mostly what seems to get selected and stick are relievers. Whitlock is an exception. Baddoo was an exception. Baddoo made as good of first impression as one could make. As the season wore on the statistics sort of caved in. Players with a ceiling get chances. Rule V lets a few get an earlier chance. Most fail and are never heard from again. Maybe being selected and failing derailed them. Maybe not The excess of AAA catchers can be trade bait for yet another Shaun Anderson
  4. When the other position is CF I would think there is something athletically there.
  5. Martin is close enough to Lewis to diminish that value. Pitching at the major league level is always lacking.
  6. Good rum was a minor league free agent, not a rule v Baddoo and Wells would have gotten their chances with the Twins last year with how far they reached for OF and relievers. I can’t recall any other rule v players drafted from the Twins.
  7. There are plenty of pitchers considered better than a number 3 pitcher with only 3 pitches. There is nothing typical about a number 3 pitcher other than over the course of a season he doesn’t have as good of results as some pitchers but is a lot better than most. I guess you and the OP must not have looked at the starting pitching to the the large sinkhole;. Austim Martin going into last season was rated higher than Lewis. Same position, same athleticism. Having starting pitching develop is far far more important than Lewis, and Martin
  8. No news is no news, Texas was able to sign 3 free agents of note. So much for bad teams not being able to sign free agents. They still might not be a good team I wish I would have saved the Falvey quote about big changes going to be made. It takes 2 entities in baseball to make changes. The free agents are not being very interested in Minnesota. Nobody is making trades. It will be either a wild post lockout or a long season.
  9. What is your definition of flame thrower? What minor league signing did they miss that met that description
  10. Yet in the 2020 season his best games were against Oakland and Houston, the best teams of the made up division
  11. I don’t think the person thought much of the contracts of Ray and Gausman. The only reason not to like the contracts is that you do not think they will live up to them and drag the team down. A signing of Ray or Gausman would be to return the Twins to the glory of the years prior to a down year. The Jordan Zimmerman comparison is not a bad one
  12. Not 5 million more than Bundy got. I bet you did not laugh. You might have soften Stroman for a better offer than the Cubs, you might not have. Stroman on a 3 year deal is a great team deal. I don’t know what is left on the Cubs to make it an attractive place to play
  13. Every player is an asset. What they bring back is how much another team sees in them. The bad trades are the players the Twins did not see what the other team does. The good ones are the opposite
  14. Some whew have failed to realize what a joke they have been all along
  15. A Jordan Zimmerman type signing would be better?
  16. Unfortunately I don’t think the television contracts are tied to inflation. Wages in baseball are tied to revenue streams, even if they are not worth what they once were
  17. I am getting the impression the Twins are adverse to long term contracts for pitchers. Of those listed as remaining Rodon for a 2 year contract seems like a Twin thing to do. They would have familiarity with Boyd I think is FB and change up guy, not a slider. If they think they could improve his slider significantly he would make sense
  18. No. The career greatness was cut short. See Olivia, Tony
  19. The ultimate spite would be to put them in after they die
  20. The question becomes did he do enough as a DH. A career Fwar of 51 might not be enough for some voters. Only playing bat might not be enough
  21. Hughes contract was much larger than Caves. It seemed like just last season the Twins were picking up somebody off the waiver wire. If Larnach, Celestine or Rooker look like they are ready Cave will be cut
  22. Even if the team signed a top free agent pitcher, extended Buxton, traded for another starter, released Jake Cave and signied a short term shortstop before a potential lockout, there will be people ripping away. All of that still will be forgotten by many because the lockout, if one occurs, would be the last action.
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