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  1. farmerguychris
    This is perfectly said. Who cares if his stuff 'shouldn't get hit' - results are all that matters. I can't be confident in the pen if he's on it - period.
  2. farmerguychris
    yes
  3. farmerguychris
    Why wait - an injured Knebel will hurt us less than a healthy Pagan?
  4. farmerguychris
    Let the best pitchers make the opening day roster - If that means having a 6 man rotation, so be it. I can't imagine having 6 healthy pitchers for very long, so why not start with 6 and then have 5 before long? 7 relievers is enough.
  5. farmerguychris
    Can't get too critical of the f.o. on the potential talent we have in the OF this year. We know Bux could miss some time - much better plan this year than in the past! Excited to see how good we'll be - shouldn't be too many fly balls landing out there!
  6. farmerguychris
    Agreed - that article got me a lot more optimistic about Gallo after how Popkin worked with C4 last year. If he plays lights out and goes elsewhere next year so be it - I'll take one dynamite year out of him!
  7. farmerguychris
    Great - but aren't results all that matter? He was bad before he got here and we tried to fix him. We spent an entire year 'fixing' him and what did it get us. Why does the F.O. (whom I support more than many) want to spend a second year trying to fix him when the Padres couldn't, and we already spent a year failing at it? According to Gleeman last season: Emilio Pagán has a 4.82 ERA and 29 homers allowed in 123 innings since 2020. During that time ... - No reliever has thrown more innings with a worse ERA - He's allowed the most home runs per nine innings of any reliever - He has the worst Win Probability Added of any reliever. Why would we spend any time trying to fix this? Move on.
  8. farmerguychris
    Keeping him around puts us in the 'not even trying' list of teams. But we signed C4 - so now I'm just confused. How can you consider yourself really trying if you ever put him out in an actual game?
  9. farmerguychris
    My guess would be that other than Mahle, they really don't want to have to extend them because their young drafted guys are pitching so well and are ready for larger roles in 2024. That would be great, but I would be ok with also extending Gray if he can stay healthy this year, for at least 2 more years.
  10. farmerguychris
    Great opportunity to see what these coaches can do with young talent - I'm sure he wants to excel and be a great, long term solution at the hot corner. Lets mold him into someone who can consistently make plays like the one in the highlight reel shown in the article. Not all stars start out that way, some are made.
  11. farmerguychris
    Would love to see Dobnak in this role - no matter who it is, we can't have a pen full of 1 inning relievers again this year to prevent someone like Pagan being in a high leverage spot because everyone else is used up.
  12. farmerguychris
    In order to trade him at the end of this season - I believe that means we would have to first pick up his option. If we wanted to ensure ourselves something for him, we would have to trade him by the deadline this year, or be open to keeping him on the team next year if we did pick up that option.
  13. farmerguychris
    Sounds like it might be time to invest some higher draft capital in the backstop position - won't help now, but maybe a stud could be nearly ready by time Vasquez contract ends if we're super lucky. Still hope Jeffers turns it around, but can't bank on it.
  14. farmerguychris
    Found it - Thanks so much, I"ll take this with me!
  15. farmerguychris
    Looking forward to it! On that note - do you know a place (here or there or on-line) where we can get a list of who wears what numbers? I really miss not having names on back of practice jerseys when I'm on the quad set of fields.
  16. farmerguychris
    Don't like the rule, but it doesn't hurt us more than any other team since we're all playing by the same rules - we just need to do a better job of scoring runs in these games as we'll certainly have a bunch of them again.
  17. farmerguychris
    Let him try to continue to be a starter in St. Paul. He can always go to the pen, but he can't always go back to being a starter.
  18. farmerguychris
    I think its pretty simple to me - whoever are the most healthy for us this year will be considered the 'primary' starters when the season is over. Baily will get his chance, if he does well and stays healthy - he will be one of them. If not, then he won't. Last year Bundy was a primary starter for us by logging the most innings - is that something any of us are proud of?
  19. farmerguychris
    I can't see any way Polanco is still a Twin this time next year. He likely won't get that many at bats to vest his option. His $10M salary isn't worth it when we have so many younger, cheaper guys waiting in the wings. I would expect that IF he starts off well, and IF the prospects also do well in the minors, we could have a mid season trade of Polanco to someone who needs a 2nd or SS to bring one of the younger guys up and hopefully get a return for Polanco. If the younger guys are doing well - I would support this kind of move. Can't keep everyone and need a place for the younger guys to play.
  20. farmerguychris
    Gee..... thats too bad that Stanton can't get on base and still owed that kind of money.... Shucks! 😄
  21. farmerguychris
    Are they using robot umps this year to help with this type of face off?
  22. farmerguychris
    yup
  23. farmerguychris
    I wouldn't sweat the comment about trading for 2 more players who would reduce his role - that is exactly what they should have done! When you carry 13 pitchers you MUST have as many bench players who can play as many roles as possible! I think with our current expected bench we have backups who will all likely get 400 plate appearances without much drop off in the field. I like the direction they went - can't Farmer even play catcher if needed! Thats perfect.
  24. farmerguychris
    I'll believe progress is being made when I see some. As far as we know this group may meet to say nothing needs to change despite evidence to the contrary in many fans view. I think something has to change - you cant have one team fielding a team with 5X the payroll of another - the long term potential of this league will suffer if that is considered acceptable. I hope they look to the NFL as a league with the parity they should strive for - I know there are a ton of differences, but hopefully they work towards that over time. Would love to see a season start and any team in the league actually has a shot to win it all.
  25. farmerguychris
    Excited to see what Martin can do this spring. Reminds me of what happened with Buxton early in his career when they kept tinkering with his swing - last year it was all about getting more power out of Martin, which didn't happen. In that process however, I'm sure they were messing (and experimenting) with a variety of subtle changes to how he hit all trying to get more power. Hopefully this year - less tinkering, and maybe we'll get more consistent results that lead him to be a top prospect in the first place. Hard to judge someone while they are trying to learn something new.
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