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  1. Thrylos
    Feel free to compare him to any replacement level player. Danny Santana might be better comparable: Career: Florimon: 6 seasons, 2.4 bWAR, 0.4 bWAR/season, 0.6 fWAR, 0.1 fWAR/season Profar: 3 seasons, 0.0 bWAR, 0 bWAR/season, 0.0 fWAR, 0 fWAR/season Danny Santana: 3 seasons, 0.4 bWAR, 0.1 bWAR/season, 1.1 fWAR, 0.4 bWAR/season Santana: Career: .268/.302/.382 Profar: Career: .239/.321/.338 Todd Van Poppel, Brien Taylor, Ben Grieve, were number 1 overall prospect in baseball once upon a time. Does not matter. Would I trade him for Danny Santana? Sure. That's about it.
  2. Thrylos
    Not sure that giving the Twins credit for drafting JD Martinez makes any sense. Teams draft High Schoolers in the late rounds even though they know that they will not sign. Hard to see them getting credit for really wasting that pick vs taking a college senior with a pulse. Drafting players and not signing them should hurt, not help their scores. Would love to see the total WAR of all teams from 2003-2012 ranked, based on players they have signed. I would bet the the Twins will be either in the middle or the bottom third. Not a good reason to promote anyone, because you are promoting mediocrity...
  3. Thrylos
    Not sure that Profar is not Florimon2.0. Minor league numbers cannot help you hit a major league breaking ball. And the least the Twins need right now is a no-hit average glove SS. His career bWAR is 0. AKA replacement level. I'd take Polanco & Escobar & Gordon & Javier. Thank you.
  4. Thrylos
    Agreed with both. Maybe the problem was that the manager had too quick a hook for his starters. If the pitching is not good, there is no reason to take the starter out before he pitches as long and he can, no matter the score. Manager's choice to give quick hooks. Let them in for 5-6 or 100 pitches. Who cares about the score?
  5. Thrylos
    Doubt that Florimon will even get close to the Phillies next season, other than injuries. They are ready to hand the SS job to JP Crawford and still have last season's starter, Freddy Galvis, as a backup/utility, plus they just signed Hector Gomez who I suspect that is ahead of Florimon as well.
  6. Thrylos
    There are some interesting news there regarding Tyler Jay....
  7. Thrylos
    Here. Published today Something seems a tad wrong, but I just cannot quite place it
  8. Thrylos
    Rohlfing
  9. Thrylos
    Not a hate. He is blocking Berrios, Mejia, and any other pitcher the Twins might acquire in a Dozier trade. As is the 2017 Twins starting rotation is set: Santana Hughes Santiago Gibson May Does not look like that of a rebuilding team to me. No hate at all. Just a numbers game.
  10. Thrylos
    2016: Mike Napoli: .239/.335/.465, 104 OPS+ Kennys Vargas: .230/.333/.500, 123 OPS+ Makes zero sense to have anyone else over Vargas at this point, esp. for a rebuilding team. I am ok if they get a veteran or two, but they just don't have the space right now. They need to clean house first of their own veterans and not so veterans
  11. Thrylos
    He's on the 40-man roster, so he will be there
  12. Thrylos
    I think that the Twins should be more into the selling than buying mode right now. As far as potential FA relievers go, Storen is a no-no situation: Loss of 2-3 mph in all of his pitches, sounds like a Perkins2.0 scenario. At this point I'd rather have them see what some of the younger players can do in the pen. Heck, I'd rather see Chargois and Duffey close a game or two first. We are talking about MLB-ready starting pitching in a Dozier trade, but right now there just are not any spots for them. Santana, Hughes, Santiago, Gibson, May (and Berrios, Mejia, etc). Something's got to give, and Santana and Santiago should go ASAP... Still lots of cleanup left in this team.
  13. Thrylos
    Too early to tell... I suspect about 3-4 of the ST invitees are not with the team yet.
  14. Thrylos
    Yeah. Consider O'Rourke the new Duensing.
  15. Thrylos
    Niko Goodrum (2 out of 3 - ain't bad), and I am not still writing Levi Michael off. And there are plenty of lefties (alphabetically) : Gonsalves, Jay, Mejia, Melotakis, Theofanopoulos, to name 5 in addition to the 3 (Boshers, O'Rourke, Taylor) who finished the season in MN (and I am not even counting Santiago and Perkins - stick a fork on that one.)
  16. Thrylos
    Sano had an OPS+ of 110, Mauer 106 and Polanco 105. Above league average.
  17. Thrylos
    Kepler's .235/.309/.424 is not that much better than Rosario's .269/.295/.421 and Buxton's .225/284/.430 is worse, so I'd wait a bit before I hand anyone a starting job... Let them all earn it this Spring.
  18. Thrylos
    These are the important numbers as far as O'Rourke goes: 31 PA, 2 H, 3 BB, 11 K, .071/.167/.192 pretty much lights out against LHB. He should not be facing a single right handed batter. Period. Unfortunately the manager had him face 70. Hopefully this will not be repeated next season.
  19. Thrylos
    Sorry folks, other than the Minnesota part and that the Saints is an independent league baseball team, I have no idea what this has to do with the Minnesota Twins. Please enlighten me.
  20. Thrylos
    Great stuff. Not sure that I would agree with those being the top 2, even though after the AFL, I am thinking more of Gordon, but overall a good list. I am doing my preliminary work for my off-season top 40 (waiting for trades etc until January-February) and the only ones in your list that might not be on my top 10 are Kirilloff and Blackenhorn (and Mejia, because I don't list players who have been in the majors.) Just refuse to buy in the Kirilloff hype, esp. since I need to see him play. I have a few problems with him, the least of which is that his glove is not there yet but any means. Blackenhorn has been atrocious with the glove and he has a teammate same age bit better with the glove and much better with the stick (who is not on your top 10) so I have that guy (and probably a couple more) ahead of him.
  21. Thrylos
    Russo is a columnist and not a beat writer, like LEN3 is. I guess that there is a misconception of what a beat writer is. A beat writer (let it be sports or court or poliics or...) reports things as they happen and as they are told that they happen in press conferences. That's his job an he excels in it, along with several others in the Cities. The Twins' market these days is blessed to have beat writers who care about baseball and have baseball backgrounds mostly. If you want him to be a columnist or an investigating reporter he is not. Not.His.Job.
  22. Thrylos
    That's horrible. Sounds like his dad was driving and maybe were other family members in the car. How awful. Hope the Twins do something for them.
  23. Thrylos
    I'd be baffled if his name did not come up in conversations, and I suspect that it did. Just it was not publicized...
  24. Thrylos
    David Ortiz was a PTBNL
  25. Thrylos
    I suspect that they are looking at him as MiLB free agent. I suspect that the new regime has seen his FIP, K/9 and BB/9 numbers from last season @ SD (4.19, 5.7, 4.0). He is probably better than Albers That's what this should be compared to.
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