Thrylos
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Speed is one thing, but Palka has a better arm. He pitched also and use to throw in the low 90s. They are both lefty throwers, so that is a wash. Speed does not always translate to better defense, correct routes etc. Palka is still learning the position and will be fine at RF. Kepler at some point said that he preferred LF, not sure why...
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No. He was interviewed for the Pitching Coach position after Andereson was fired and the Twins decided to hire Neil Allen over him. -
How good is their Spanish? Have a look at the Twins' good young players, and with the exception of Buxton, they are all foreign-born and predominately Latinos. Hard to have Cuddyer be their role model...
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I cannot wait for them to name Nick Punto as a Special Assistant for helping players busting their tail off. Don't know whether bringing back former players from the "almost good enough" teams, instead of the World Champions makes much sense to me, esp. since one of the biggest problems with the Twins has been the culture of patting themselves on the back and treating "almost good enough" as success... They had the option of bringing Viola back last season and they blew it. Plenty of former Twins' players form the 1987 and 1991 teams in professional positions around baseball, to ignore that...
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Lewin Diaz, Amaurys Minier, and Zander Wiel would beg to differ. Vargas is not a prospect, but is pretty good too, and more proven than someone who exhibits power only in California, Texas, and Pacific Coast Leagues...
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This is pretty wrong, in many levels, the least of it is that based on that logic, one could credit the "semi-success" of 2015 for a potential pennant in 2018. Nope. A pennant in a particular year is the result of a very successful year in that particular year. Matter of fact, "unsuccessful" (in W-L) previous rebuilding seasons have more to do with winning a pennant, that half-mashed .500 mediocre seasons with mediocre veterans blocking rebuilds (ask the 1991 Twins, if you don't believe me.) Got to sell high. That's why both Dozier and Santana have to go.
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Romero certainly does. So does Berrios, but he needs to get over last season. Jay may be there as well sooner rather than later. The problem is that there is nobody who looks like a legit number 1 in a winning team. So I'd rather package one of those listed (or the ones not listed, like Gonsalves and Stewart) along with a (let's say Dozier) to get closer to a number one...
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FTFY. They still can; deadline to tender a contract is midnight December 2nd. But I suspect that they still will be shopping him around (like the rest of the arbitration-eligibles) to see whether they can get anything back, before they decide to tender or not.
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If anything, it will help them, since Dozier's contract is under valued. They will need to shed some $ after next season, but they really do not have much commitment after 2018, and in 2018, other than Kershaw, Gonzales, Kasmir, & McCarthy are the issues. Can they flip one of them after next season? Maybe. 2017 payroll does not matter to them really. Another tactic they can use is to take on bad contracts that expire after 2017. That might be kind of an opportunity for the Twins to flip someone like Santiago for someone like Ryu who is due a bit less than $8M in each of 2017 and 2018, so the Dodgers can save $8M in 2018 and the Twins can end up getting a better pitcher than Santiago for the next 2 seasons. Same with Puig who is owed $8.2 and $9.2 M the next 2 seasons. Can the Twins trade someone like Park (due $9M the next 3 seasons, $8M savings for the Dodgers) for him? Maybe, if they add someone. Does it make sense for the Twins to do it? I dunno...
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Not bad at all, compared to another MiLB contract... Albers played there a couple years ago with not that much success (close to 6.00 ERA)
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3 proposals that could pry Dozier away from the Twins
Thrylos replied to Thrylos's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
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3 proposals that could pry Dozier away from the Twins
Thrylos posted a topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
interesting article. Here. Discusses potential trades of Dozier and others to the Dodgers, Nats and Rays (of all teams.) I love what they proposed for the Dodgers: Twins trade: Dozier, P Glen Perkins, P Hector Santiago Dodgers trade: 1B/OF Cody Bellinger, P Jose De Leon, P Chase De Jong, P Ross Stripling, IF Omar Estevez Is there any Twins' fan who would not do that in a heartbeat? All 3 trades are heavily in the Twins' favor IMHO, but interesting read anyways... -
I think that teams would utilize best the 26th (and 23rd, 24th and 25th) roster, by rotating the three hottest arms and the hottest bat on the 40-man roster between AAA and the majors. This would give them the hottest fifth starter and 2 pen arms, allowing the ones that cool off to spend that spell in the minors. Of course, it would require getting rid of some old veterans without options to make it happen, which should be what a rebuilding team is doing anyways...
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Has to be Terry Ryan. Pohlad was honest with the total system failure and did the right thing.
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REPORT: Twins To Sign Jason Castro
Thrylos replied to Parker Hageman's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Looking closer to the numbers, Castro against RHPs had a .757 OPS last season. The last time a Twins' catcher (who was not named Mauer) hit that well was in 2003. His career OPS against RHPs is .753 (and against LHPs .536) Poster boy of platooning and playing Garver or Murphy against LHPs. He can hit ok, just not against LHPs I think that it is a good move that would help the Twins young pitchers- 223 replies
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My criticism is not comparing them to the other "established" sites (that have not seen people play either.) Nobody who have seen Diaz and Kiriloff play the last year, and knows what they are doing and are not biased, would had rank them at those relative positions. Just sayin'
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Got to love it when they have a 2017 ETA for a guy who played in the majors in 2016... (make that 2 actually, and one of them was in the majors for more than a month...) Lots of kool-aid bias towards recent first round draft picks. Wonder if the author has seen any of the people he writes about play...
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And, of course, highly inaccurate to describe someone who hit .338/.407/.416 against LHP this season.
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Beg to differ. Same age, same level, Goodrum (another mistake to be left unprotected) was better (.275/.352/.464 vs .249/.339/.443 last season) and has much more positional versatility.
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I need to look at a more complete list (and will do this week,) but I think that the gem here is Venezuelan LHP Ismael Guillon. His changeup is up there with another Venezuelan pitcher of yore, and you cannot really teach the feel of changeup. Has been mired with injuries (TJ and a torn lat) that made him lose a couple of seasons. His control is a step better than Pat Light's and his FB out of the pen will play big. Definitely worth a chance because lefties with a plus plus change do not grow on trees, plus the Twins do well when they have lefties with plus plus changes. Hard to see them pick anyone else, to tell you the truth. The old regime would have gone after either Jimmy (Brasoban) or Johnny (Chirinos) and called it a day, btw...
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Unfortunately this happened a year too late. He should have been traded during last off-season, get something in return, and avoid the Sano to RF embarrassment. Happened to Pierzynski and Mientkiewicz when better younger players were coming along. Nothing new here... It has been noted in several places that Plouffe was a "team leader" and that the Twins will miss him in the locker room. Just looking at the records of those Twins' teams (when Hunter was not around) and that would be another good reason to cutting the cord... Time for the "leaders" of the losing teams of this decade to start going...
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This trade makes no sense for the Nats. Daniel Murphy is too short to play 1B.
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It's not the leagues, its the teams. Some NL league teams let their pitchers hit, while their opponents may use a DH. Realistically, everyone can use the DH, some NL teams on occasion opt out (i.e. use their SP in the DH position.)
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Next big thing will be the unionization of MiLB players, fought by both MLB and the MLBPA Union
