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  1. h2oface
    This team needs pitching. They will next year. And not Pineda, who is still overweight and mediocre, even if he can perform at all in his first year back from TJ. I hear all this arm-chair general managing. If that advice is followed, all that will ever happen is the team keeps trading for more prospects. And this team will constantly be doing the same thing, and not winning to the level of competing for the championship. The Twins need pitching....... at the MLB level. Not A ballers who never make it.
  2. h2oface
    I was just thinking about Jay as I watched the game today, and wondering how it would have been for the Twins if they would have taken Benintendi with the #6 pick of the 2015 draft, instead of Jay. Boston didn't miss him at #7.
  3. h2oface
    Damn. No higher than A ball prospects. Wake me up in 3 years.
  4. h2oface
    Now that is funny! Next up, Tom's stand up routine......
  5. h2oface
    "Magill gave up a run on two hits over 1 ⅔ innings, but he also struck out three batters." Well, kind of. He pitched in 3 innings. On the stat sheet, he gave up two runs, but one was Taylor Rodgers (and the brain trust, who ordered two intentional walks) walking a third batter all on his own and walking in Betts with the bases now packed, instead of providing relief, so I will also go with he only gave up one run, too. And what? No Rodney?
  6. h2oface
    And 3 Ks in 4 ABs in the first game of his return. Ouch. At least he was swinging at strikes.... just missing them.
  7. h2oface
    I love it when the expert guessing stops....
  8. h2oface
    And wait until you see Pineda. He was around 300 before he had been on break with the surgery. It always amazes me that professional athletes don't take control of their own fitness. That is all they have to do, and are paid handsomely.
  9. h2oface
    Coming to the Twins as being touted pitching experts.... the FO tandem has missed horribly. Not just the pitchers on the big league team they added, but the most glaring was Dereck Rodriquiz, letting him go in November FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Since debuting May 29th with the Giants, he is 5-1 with a 2.75 ERA in 59 innings. What a whiff. I have no faith in their supposed expertise of pitcher identification. We sure could have used some of that. But hey, if he had not been just granted free agency, he would probably never had the opportunity. And then they added Belisle. That says it all. Pressly should enjoy pitching for a team like Houston.
  10. h2oface
    And Rodney once again is the MLB blown saves leader. Now there is a trade I would love to see. He just thinks he can throw it right down the pipe, flat with no movement, and blow it by hitters. That pitch was such meat. Kepler almost had it. I thought he was going to get it. Molitor must live in a dream world, dreaming that this was last year and Belisle could actually be counted on. I mean really, two 89 mph 4 seamers in the exact same place, belt high and right down the middle of the zone. And all night, on all sports networks, tv and radio both, I have been suffering through the clip. Just release the guy, already. For these two tourists to destroy Rosario getting to Kimbrel is just criminal.
  11. h2oface
    I guess I will just have to pretend that Esocobar had a season ending injury, and is now out for the year, and then a free agent. Good luck to the new prospects, who enter a system that has reorganized to the tune of none of their top 3 levels can muster a winning record and establish a culture of winning.
  12. h2oface
    We can talk about it when it happens, when they actually put up the numbers that Escobar is doing, in the show, like in 5 years. Maybe I will be alive in 5 years.
  13. 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......
  14. h2oface
    Exactly. Then why do it? Especially since it ain't over.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. h2oface
    I forgot about Lee. Not a bad pitcher in his 30's.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.....
  21. h2oface
    We just need to ignore a sweep by the next to the worst team in baseball.....
  22. h2oface
    Definitely a Gibson doubter. Diversity is a great thing.
  23. h2oface
    And to return the compliment, you are doing pretty good yourself.
  24. 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.
  25. h2oface
    Amazing they ever even signed Santana, then, and especially for 4 years.
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