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  1. farmerguychris
    We just need a placeholder until Lewis is healthy enough to play. See if Gio can still play there, or Gordon or any 10-20 range FA SS. Use our resources for high end pitching as despite having numbers in the wings - they nearly all have health concerns.
  2. farmerguychris
    Absolutely not interested in bringing him back. Time for someplace new for him. Rough numbers in San Diego, rough numbers here - would rather have Austidillo back and throwing pitches for us. There is nothing he can do for me to want him on our team - numbers show one of the worst relievers that past 2 years. Why would we even consider this?
  3. farmerguychris
    Easy fix. Win in the post season. If you win at least a series there, you'll buy at least another 3 years of fan support.
  4. farmerguychris
    If that is all the former Twins that are in the playoffs this year - that really doesn't look good for our scouting department. There has to be more and I'm assuming these are the only ones included in the article.
  5. farmerguychris
    He is a no brainer. Keep him for one more year while under team control, and then worry about the future of the hot corner the following year when hopefully our young guys are ready to burst down the door and need playing time.
  6. farmerguychris
    At the beginning of the season, most models predicted we'd finish 3rd in our division - we finished the year with an on the field product that looked nothing like it was supposed to compared to the start of the year team. Does that mean our back-ups overachieved as we hit that prediction? I can't blame Rocco, he can only play the players he is given. Much of the team he had down the stretch were not who you want going into a pennant race, and that fault lies with the F.O. and is due to injuries.
  7. farmerguychris
    I like Max as a player for us - he's not perfect and I think he'll have better luck next year at the plate as teams adjust to not putting their entire set of fielders on the right side. But - he is redundant by being a left handed outfielder. Trade him if we can get a decent middle of the rotation arm, or for a great reliever if we can for him. We have other younger, cheaper talent that can do what he can for us and we need pitching......again.
  8. farmerguychris
    Hmmmm - What kind of stadium do we need?
  9. farmerguychris
    I think Jeffers has the most to prove that he belongs, and unfortunately the Twins appear to have put all their catching eggs in his basket.
  10. farmerguychris
    I know our existing training staff is only 2 years in - but how about we re-evaluate them. No manager or F.O. could have won this year with the amount of players on the IL that never made it back, or took way longer than expected to return after injuries.
  11. farmerguychris
    I think we need to look into why so many injuries. Seems that for multiple years now, we are among the teams that have starters miss the most games in the A.L. Why? Do we have a inadequate training staff compared to other teams? Are we trying to save money by not having a very good training staff? Are we not using the best available/modern methods compared to other teams? This year it seems we not only were poor at preventing injuries, but also poor at getting the players back quickly once they were injured. (why does a 6 week injury turn into a 3+ month recovery?) If this were a video game - we appear to have hired a trainer with an F in preventative, and an F in recovery. We have the Mayo Clinic not too far away - maybe get a partnership with them to try and have our 2023 squad spend less time on the IL?
  12. farmerguychris
    Is it in Japan that the balls are a little tacky out of the box? I like that idea here - levels the playing field. Pitchers shouldn't get penalized for following the rules, but they do in the MLB.
  13. farmerguychris
    Hi future should be here next year. He can't control injuries. To succeed, the F.O. needs to give him horses, especially in the Pen if they don't want starters to go thru a line up 3 times. No manager could have success this year with the pitching he was expected to compete with this summer.
  14. farmerguychris
    Just gotta keep him healthy. WAY TOO MANY great prospects in Twins history have looked great until something happens..... So far looking like a great pick!
  15. farmerguychris
    That is a pretty impressive injury list when you lay it out by position like that - I can't imagine how any team could compete with that type of time lost due to injury. So the big question is WHY? Are we selecting injury prone players? Is our training staff not very good at their jobs? This isn't anything new for us, should we look closer at this department?
  16. farmerguychris
    I think we are pretty stuck with Jeffers and possibly Leon next year as we have nothing our system. The below list of 2023 FA Catchers doesn't excite me either: Yadier Molina C 40.1 R R STL $10,000,000 - Willson Contreras C 30.2 R R CHC $9,625,000 - Gary Sanchez C 29.8 R R MIN $9,000,000 - Roberto Perez C 33.7 R R PIT $5,000,000 - Martin Maldonado C 36.0 R R HOU $5,000,000 - Omar Narvaez C 30.5 L R MIL $5,000,000 - Christian Vazquez C 32.0 R R HOU $7,000,000 - Tucker Barnhart C 31.7 L R DET $7,750,000 - Austin Hedges C 30.0 R R CLE $4,000,000 - Jason Castro C 35.2 L R HOU $4,750,000 - Mike Zunino C 31.4 R R TB $7,000,000 $9,645,521 Curt Casali C 33.8 R R SEA $2,600,000 - Kevin Plawecki C 31.5 R R BOS $2,250,000 - Kurt Suzuki C 38.9 R R LAA $1,750,000 - Sandy Leon C 33.4 S R MIN $1,000,000 - Robinson Chirinos C 38.2 R R BAL $900,000 - Stephen Vogt C 37.8 L R OAK $850,000 - Austin Romine C 33.8 R R CIN $700,000
  17. farmerguychris
    Perfectly said! Before the trade deadline it was simply unfair to expect Rocco to both limit how long starters go, while at the same time turning games over to an incompetent BP. Not sure why they refuse to invest in the Pen in the off season and year after year it is a weakness that we need to then trade prospects to get back to adequacy. I am curious how our pen ranked in salary compared to other AL teams trying before the trade deadline - I'm better pretty low.
  18. farmerguychris
    Just because you don't like it doesn't mean its not the best thing for our team when it comes to limiting the amount of times opposing batters face the same pitcher. Now this does require having at least an average bullpen, which we didn't have for the first half of the year. I blame Bert going on about pitching 300 innings a year over the airwaves for 20 years. However - things improve and facts don't lie. Will this come full circle and someday pitchers will go complete games more often than not in the future? I highly doubt it as pitch speeds increase and pitchers arms are pushed further and further for higher speeds. If anything, I think pitchers will go less and less innings in the future. Its not Rocco, its that hitters simply do better they more they see a pitcher on the same day today, and they always have.
  19. farmerguychris
    Maybe it wasn't Falve who helped make Cleveland a pitching destination - could it have been the coaches who worked with the pitchers on a daily basis who made them look so good? Not saying picking the right players isn't important - it obviously is - but its the coaches who actually develop them into something, not the F.O. Do we have the right trainers (to keep healthy) and the right minor league pitching instructors to turn these picks into front line starters for us compared to Cleveland in the past?
  20. farmerguychris
    I think that in today's MLB, especially teams that value science and analytics - developing a starter to consistently go 6 innings is the goal. Many people who listened to Bert go on about throwing 170 pitches in a game won't like the new style of what is expected of a starter - but just because one does not like it does not make it factual.
  21. farmerguychris
    Had he started the year in the big league, and had he not stumbled out of the gate I'm sure he would have more ROY votes. Now if we could just get him to become a good 3rd base, we are set for the next half decade with him in our lineup.
  22. farmerguychris
    I have no problem with the way he manages. He is new school, which aligns well with the current Front Office in using science and stats to determine actions taken during games. I know a lot of people don't like the 'managing by spreadsheet' way of making decisions - but its exactly how teams like Tampa are so good every year without spending money like the NY or LA teams. To be more successful, he needs only 2 things - better health (he's tried to give players days off to heal up, which many fans hate), and better players. I don't think the FO did a good job before this season started getting him the pitchers he needed to be successful in either the starters, or the in the pen. The FO knew they were going to be pulling starters several times before they faced batters for a 3rd time - they should have known the pen would have been tested and invested more in that before the season started so we didn't need to trade the assets we did at the deadline to finally get some stability on the back end.
  23. farmerguychris
    I looked that from a different angle, and maybe my mind was just trying to justify him standing there. I think by him not hustling down the line and acting as if it were a foul ball - did it perhaps slow the catcher down just a bit and make him second guess if he should actually throw a foul ball to 3rd base? Kepler seemed confused about if he should run or not to me.
  24. farmerguychris
    Gotta say, despite missing some routine plays at the hot corner - I like having Gio on this team. He makes some great plays at 3rd, and has multiple important hits for us when its really needed. I think we should seriously consider keeping him by offering arbitration for one more year. Great job of working that count and slapping the ball to keep it in play down the line.
  25. farmerguychris
    Fair enough- Which players are you referring to that are not currently on the roster should we replace him with?
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