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  1. h2oface
    Well, did they sell high? Or is it I don't know what people were expecting for a utility INF for 2 months of rent......
  2. h2oface
    Exactly. Then why do it? Especially since it ain't over.
  3. h2oface
    Oh joy. More prospects. And not even a top 10 in their system. Quite the deal makers, this new front office. Throwing in the towel.
  4. h2oface
    I like this take, a lot. But 27 year olds ........ not really "youngsters" in baseball, even if it is just their first full season in the show. If Gibson is too old at 30, as some suggest, we only have a couple years left before Garver can't catch, as catchers seem to have to come out from behind the plate all too soon. These careers seem to be getting shorter and shorter. I hear some talking about Realmuto, who is 2 months younger than Garver, getting old at 27. Not me, but it is curious. 27-29 is usually heralded as the "prime". Here's to the 30 something stars. I really don't like how the system doesn't pay players what they are worth in the great early years, and then pay them too much in the lean later years.
  5. h2oface
    I forgot about Lee. Not a bad pitcher in his 30's.
  6. h2oface
    Yup. I have watched him his whole Twins' career, of course. I have always liked him, and was disheartened by his struggles. Jake Arrieta didn't look that good for the first 4 years. Then he took off, at 28 years old, and Baltimore had missed out, after he was cultured in their system. Sure, there is a list of pitchers that failed, and never got better, and it never clicked, and I am not saying he is a Jake Arrieta. But I like home grown players, and I have always had faith that he would get there. And now he has. To say, when Arrieta went 10-5 with a 2.53 ERA in 156.2 innings in 2014, "You watched him pitch the last few years right? There's plenty of reason to doubt..." would have been a valid way to look at it, granted. He was way worse than Gibson's worst. But it happens. Players do get better, and at different ages. Justin Turner is another example, albeit not a pitcher. I like betting on a player that has come of age at the MLB level, much more than a prospect. Gibson lost a good year, and more, really, as one comes back from TJ, so his age could be considered a comparable and a year less (Arietta has had no TJ), and being in your 31st year does not make one 31, and he is, by most, still considered to be 30, and won't be 31 until October 23rd, and next year will be his 31 year old season. (One poster has even called him 32 on this thread, and someone that the turnaround started in September, and not July! No need to not be accurate). But that is all somewhat meaningless, really. I hope he is a life long Twin, and we get the best he will and has become. I feel prospects are a much worse bet, than Gibson being a star pitcher for the next several years.
  7. h2oface
    I know that the farm teams are for development, but it would sure be more encouraging if the top 3 levels, at least one of them, were playing winning baseball.
  8. h2oface
    Boston is the only team without any top 100 prospects in the just updated list. They are pretty depleted. Perhaps the would trade Sale? He is getting so old though.....
  9. h2oface
    We just need to ignore a sweep by the next to the worst team in baseball.....
  10. h2oface
    Definitely a Gibson doubter. Diversity is a great thing.
  11. h2oface
    And to return the compliment, you are doing pretty good yourself.
  12. h2oface
    That's too bad. Already signing your team off for next year before the previous season is even over. Some teams even still go from last to first, and this team doesn't even have that far to go, especially if healthy and progressing instead of regressing. Tell Oakland they have no right to be doing so well. Nobody has said they wouldn't listen to offers. Listening is a fine and noble skill.
  13. h2oface
    Amazing they ever even signed Santana, then, and especially for 4 years.
  14. h2oface
    Yup. That is what we need. More prospects that may never ever get out of the minors, and if they do are years away. Who needs reliable MLB pitchers, anyway? Just every team, including this one.
  15. h2oface
    It would be so totally foolish to trade Gibson. To all the Gibson doubters.... I say it for him...... "Bite Me."
  16. h2oface
    "Twins manager Paul Molitor said. "Garv just had a phenomenal day. Started his first at-bat, the homer, the hit to right, the double. It was just one of those games where we needed everything." " So now he calls him "Garv"! Molitor won't play him, nearly enough, even when he is the hottest hitter on the team.... but now he acts like he is fond of him. Nice.
  17. h2oface
    Berrios should be 13-4 if he had a bullpen that didn't blow games and some run support in at least 3 of the games he took the loss in. Good thing the hitters decided to support him, tonight.
  18. h2oface
    I have no sympathy for the FO and call them all mistakes. Misguided. It is their job to make the right decisions, and not the wrong ones. The proof is in the results. Period. One can go "aw shucks" Minnesota Nice if they like. I don't see it that way. And Hicks is one of the mistakes, too, although not this front office's. And same with the Lynn, Duke, and Morrison choices. If they bomb, it was not a good decision, period. Hindsight, and reality that happened, is the proof. If a contender like the Cubs has room for a Rosario, so does the hapless Twins, even more so.
  19. h2oface
    Nice new box format for the minors. More like the MLB boxes.
  20. h2oface
    And it was Mejia, Bard, and Reed! All who, even with this game, still have a pretty good line, as long as you don't consider it is AAA, and to be a MLB player, one would hope it was better. Especially when you consider that arm chair GMs are always wanting to trade MLB players that are performing for more of these types that never seem to make it to the show, anyway! Reading this and looking at the box, just adds to the despair of the season. Zack Granite sure has turned into a pumpkin. Just can't hit now, after being ablaze at the same level in the recent years.
  21. h2oface
    Trevor May, who many are thinking will be helpful this year for the Twins, just got his ERA under 5. Barely. Hmmmmm...
  22. h2oface
    Even when Buxton doesn't strikeout, someone does it for him! Yikes. Looking forward to the update on Buxton's condition. It seems that having him play in Rochester might keep him from helping the Twins all year! First his toe, now this. Hey! Sano didn't strikeout again. And two walks. There is a positive. Looks like he can manage A ball. How is his conditioning and weight doing?
  23. h2oface
    Like Andrew Benintendi? Taken #7? Or Ian Happ? #9. I guess the fact that Buehler wasn't even on the list is somewhat telling. No conversion in the mix, either. Hey, I get that it is a crap shoot, the draft. No worries here, either. That doesn't mean I don't think of it, especially living in LA, and watching his quick rise and great help to the Big League club. Especially since I am beginning to think that Jay may never make it to the Bigs.
  24. h2oface
    Every time I see Tyler Jay's name I think about Walker Buehler from Vanderbilt, who was not taken until #24 in the same 2015 draft, and is already helping the Dodgers in the show. Both college juniors. C'est la vie.
  25. h2oface
    Offense!! Now if Escobar could get going again. Cave is really fun to watch.
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