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  1. SwainZag

    Sano related moves.

    SwainZag commented on Doc Munson's blog entry in Fantasy GM

    I think trading Miranda would be a huge mistake by the Twins. Since his slow start he has been raking and a much needed cog in this lineup. IMO he should be in the Twins long term plans.
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    To add onto that Chase Petty directly got them Sonny Gray, who is more of less the ace of the staff. Gray won't be technically listed as someone in the pipeline, but a draft pick got him to Minnesota as well.
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    7th round, Kyle Jones, 22 year old RHP, Toledo
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    Hopefully Ober is back soon, that will put 2 rookies and a 2nd year pitcher in the starting rotation. Combine that with your two best high leverage men being in their 1st and 2nd season and that's 5 fairly important arms being 1st or 2nd year players from that pipeline....not to mention Moran, Sands and Alcala have all been on the staff at some point this season.
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    When I say the title I immediately thought of Romero and Arcia. The amount of threads and pages dedicated to discussing Arcia on here/BYTO had to be in the 100s. So many varying viewpoints on him. If only he could have gotten regular ABs!! Lol. I would like to hear some prospects you thought that went the other way. For me it was Jorge Polanco. I never thought he would be a productive player and that calling him up as a 20 year old in 2014 was a huge mistake. I also think they left him at SS for way too long and should have been moved to 2B years before he actually was.
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    His stats seem to tell me he is a similar pitcher to Pagan but from the left side. Okert's LOB% of 93% and BABIP of .193 are running that ERA. Celestino IMO would be a gigantic overpay and a hit to the Twins OF depth. I would be willing to toss a low level prospect at them, but IMO the Twins should aim higher.
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    One of the most fun summers as a Twins fan in my memory. Mauer and Morneau both broke out that summer. Torii was in his prime. Santana-Liriano was the best 1-2 punch in the game and Joe Nathan was basically unhittable. Great memories for sure!
  8. SwainZag
    Bell is intriguing, but who do you give ABs to? If you play him strictly at 1B, which he is accustomed to, he takes away ABs from Arraez/Kirilloff/Miranda. While his splits are better than the two rookies, do we want to take ABs from them? You could play him 1B/DH...but Buck is at DH 40% of the time, Arraez when someone else is at 1B and Polonco is healthy. Do we want to take the bat out of Luis's hands? For most most teams you have an obvious weakness...but with Buck not in CF full time, it really throws a wrench in things.
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    The Twins have been held to 2 runs or less 30 times this season in 85 games, or 35% of the time. Their record when they score 0: 0-10. Their record when they score 1: 3-5. Their record when they score 2: 4-8. Total record when they score 2 or less: 7-23. The bullpen has lost this team it's fair share of games, but the offense has been to blame in a lot of games as well. That being said, I'm not sure who I would want to take AB's away from at this point. A lot of regulars have missed games, and there are a lot of young players who are still getting use to major league pitching. Catcher is about the only position where I see a clear upgrade could be had.
  10. SwainZag
    I've mentioned twice in this thread already....Winder went on IL a month ago and has had 3 rehab starts in AAA..2-3-4 innings. He started 2 days ago. There's no meaningless innings going on.
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    Winder got lit up by Oakland on May 17th, went on the IL on the 21st. He started his rehab assignment on June 9th. He had 3 short starts before being called up to pitch the 2nd game of the DH yesterday.
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    There's no way you are saying that with a straight face
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    To be fair, Robertson hadn't pitching effectively since 2018. He pitched 18 innings total in the 3 years of 2019-2021. He has pitched well in 29 innings with the Cubs, but that's $3.5M is a pretty decent sized gamble on a guy who hasn't been effect since '18.
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    He went to the IL at the end of May, started a few times in AAA, started last night and pitched very well. I don't think anything has changed.
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    Agree completely.
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    To be fair Culoumbe and Megill have performed pretty well, they just aren't healthy.
  17. SwainZag
    Lopez intrigues me, but does it bother you that other than this year, he has been well...awful? He's 29 and having a career year.....but glancing at his overall career and his .180 BABIP this year, it just seems like a correction is in order. Then again, with what the Twins are working with.....probably well worth the risk.
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    Is it weird I'm not even that upset about today's game? Last night was a huge gut punch. They probably didn't even deserve to win today's game anyways. Cleveland blew a thousand opportunities today. Still sucks they couldn't find some way to find those last 6 outs though. Is there anyone at AAA? Sisk? The offense needs to find a way to avoid the multiple inning slumps. You can't have a six inning stretch almost every night without making noise, it just doesn't lead to results. Edit: Thornburg's WPA was -.715. Incredible.
  19. SwainZag
    Frustrating day to be a Twins fan. Max's lost ball in the sun led to the Guardian's 1st run. The Twins can't take advantage of two Cleveland errors and go 1-8 with RISP. Correa's shot in the 4th would have left the park on almost any other day in Cleveland. Emilio Pagan had a rough 10 minutes and that's putting it nicely. Hard to win with 2 runs scored. Let's hope for a better offensive showing in the nightcap.
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    Would it have mattered? Twins were down when the bullpen came in and never scored again. Not sure how the 1 run would have held up if Archer would have thrown a CG.
  21. SwainZag
    He has certainly earned a call back. I think you gotta send down a pitcher and get him into the lineup.
  22. SwainZag
    Garlick has the highest OBP and OPS on the team against left handed pitching outside of Larnach. There was a lefty on the mound. It's not really that hard to understand why he hits Garlick in the top of the order against lefties.
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    Saw this factoid today. The last 2 World Series winners were under .500 on June 1st. Food for thought.
  24. SwainZag
    For all we know they have been making calls. All i am saying is pre-July trades are pretty rare and wringing your hands over the team not making any is pretty futile.
  25. SwainZag
    The issue is teams usually do not start trading off pieces until July. It's much more of a buyers market when things have settled a little more and there are more teams to bid on your commodities. You can tell all the people you want that you think the Twins should make trades now, but that doesn't mean there are going to be trade partners out there right now.
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