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  1. C Garver/Jeffers 1B Sano 2B Polanco 3B Donaldsom OF Kepler Buxtton/Kiriloff UT Arraez SS black hole, but if the other 9 are playing up to their potential that is a lineup that would average over 120+ WRC+. If the FO doesn’t think they can hit their potential they should have cleaned house. So far they have not. If they thought they could they should have addressed the weaknesses. Given the health and wellness problems of pitching (see any season injury report) I can understand the reluctance for avoiding the long term contract. They still have to try something
  2. He and Duensing could have got the team Basset and Montez. That is with 3 of the top 10 prospects
  3. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/12/2021-minor-league-rule-5-draft-results-conner-menez-carson-fulmer.html\ The nice thing is that there are links so that you can see what king of player
  4. It is called giving a player a chance., something like a rule v pick up that did not cost even 50K
  5. So a pitcher is an Ace a number three or less. Got it. A pitcher’s third and fourth pitch are as effective as their most used pitches.
  6. When a pitch is used rarely in a game that pitcher doesn’t have a four pitch mix. Whatever you want to believe. Have at it. A poor pitch is not a benefit
  7. 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
  8. Gioloto, Montas, Morton, Ray to name a few. Know what’s pitchers do
  9. 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
  10. When the other position is CF I would think there is something athletically there.
  11. Martin is close enough to Lewis to diminish that value. Pitching at the major league level is always lacking.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. Local revenues are split in a complex formula involving market size, revenue and the commissioner’s office getting their share. When the Twins moved into Target field they actually lost money because they went to contributor rather than receivers of revenue sharing Also not included in the local revenue to be shared is debt service and ballpark operations LinkedIn has the Twins with over 1000 employees. 136 by your count is just the tip of the iceberg The 50/50 split is achieved by counting what is paid to minor league players. Accounting is like baseball fielding metrics
  16. What is your definition of flame thrower? What minor league signing did they miss that met that description
  17. Yet in the 2020 season his best games were against Oakland and Houston, the best teams of the made up division
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. Nobody wins in the end when games are impacted. Habits change.
  22. Some whew have failed to realize what a joke they have been all along
  23. A Jordan Zimmerman type signing would be better?
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