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  1. The team has gone through about 35 pitchers every year. Players will get their shot at a cup of coffee. For Dobnak the chance will come if the pitches come back. If the hand remains too stiff he is on to his next career.
  2. Maybe this is the year that they are not using starter 8-13 due to ineffectiveness or attitude. No Lynn, Shoemaker,Happ Buddy or Archer types on the roster.
  3. I think the 10 run rule should be in place, though i thing the 10 run rule should be the losing team has to buy a beverage for every fan still in attendance at the game
  4. Minor league deal, fine.
  5. Trying to assess a bullpen is a tricky thing. You really can’t look at win/losses/blown saves. The bullpens of bad teams do not get that chance as often. The game is over before they get a chance. Most other numbers will get skewed by a bad outing or two. It makes it hard to fully assess. Does this current bullpen have potential? Yup. Then again, so didn’t Duffey up until last year.
  6. The master plan probably includes getting Pagán to pitch as effectively as possible
  7. The corners is what has to be decided. Kepler, Larnach and Kirilloff for corner outfield/1b. Gallo would be a given.
  8. In the late 80s a 90+ fb was not very common. Now it seems like the average for decent pitchers is in the mid 90s. People do not seem to understand that for most they get there through effort. That effort produces more stress, hence more wear and tear leading to IL. It shouldn’t be that hard to figure out, but it is
  9. The last true ACE was Madison Bumgartner. That has been a decade ago. Regular season success becomes meaningless when in the end you lose in the playoffs.
  10. Was 2019 so long ago that the blogger forgot how the pitching went south? Did they forget the seasons that were mostly career years for the younger Twins players?
  11. Brooks Raley and Jason Adam, though very indirect, reminded me the Twins’ castoffs provide at pipeline for the Rays bullpen.. Makes one think they should have hired a Rays FO person. Then I remember that Boston is a train wreck. Sorry for the stray thought. Back to WBC
  12. Dozier was an all star and got votes 3 years in a row for MVP. Middle infielders tend to be done at age 32. There will be a few exceptions at the all star level, back up level, but for some reason that is a trend. Outfield and the corners go longer., but it tends to be the corner positions. Age for prospects as far as a team goes, if the pipeline brings you 5 good. To great years out df a player teams will gladly take that. Those are the cheap years Arraez was also unbanked as a prospect and an all star
  13. Including DSL there are about 180 players in a system. They all start as prospects
  14. Yet 22 on the list did make it to the majors
  15. https://www.minorleagueball.com/2012/2/24/2821479/minor-league-ball-baseball-top-120-prospects-for-2012 2012 minor league ball top 120. Nowhere on that list do you see Brian Dozier’s name. He debuted that year for the Twins. Put up 20 some bwar. Somewhere in the 30s is Sano. I think he is still in the single digits. Just a reminder of rankings don’t always mean much. On that list you will also find Lindor’s name pretty high up there at the time of the ranking he had 20PA and a .666 OPS. Just a reminder the guess on talent are actually right
  16. I think someone has complained in evert thread. That is what a lot of people do
  17. Outside of the top 20 rankings are a guess. The players will be ifs. A successful team is not going to have the number of high end draft picks these ranking system loves. Thus a system will be lower. That does not mean a system that is low in talent. The Arraez types do not show up on these lists.
  18. It certainly looks like clickbait. The ebbs and flows is your predicting how the season will go within the story and comments
  19. I do not remember if Vargas would come up hot the get as cold as Frostbite Falls on a winter’s day. The stat line looks good. The lack of signing by other teams raises questions. Maybe he passed the aged to be considered prospect status. Sano has to prove he is healthy to be signed by anyone. He might only get a minimal contract as baseball is trying to move from the 3 outcome baseball. Sano exemplifies the 3 outcomes. He might not be appreciative of low offers
  20. I do not know what happened to observable articles, but pure negativity seems to have taken over much of the writing. Speculation on a guy’s weight is a story. Never mind there was mainstream reporting last summer that Correa was telling Miranda he has to eat better and work out more. If Miranda looks less pudgy than he used to it would appear he followed the advice given. The answer is not in this blog
  21. The post says the remaining relievers are marginal but solid relievers. I would guess that is also why they are not signed anywhere, When it gets to the point that they will sign for the minimum for any team there will be signings
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