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  1. Thrylos
    At this point, I'd stick a fork on Perkins, because his 40-man spot might be more valuable for the Twins than he will ever be.
  2. Thrylos
    Got to spit on (or something else) the dirt before you rub it on to work...
  3. Thrylos
    My take on who should be protected for Rule 5, along with the eligible players is here. Bottom line: They should be aggressively trading people this week to open some spots.
  4. Thrylos
    Which front office?
  5. Thrylos
    Totally surprised that Centeno still occupies a 40-man roster spot, but I think that this will be fixed after the internal meetings conclude later this week...
  6. Thrylos
    Here is a fun number: .338/.407/.416 switch hitting Vielma's slash line from the right side (vs. .249/.325/.287 as a LHB.) He is a natural righty and he throws right. Poster boy of quitting switch hitting. Hope this FO will be a bit more aggressive in fixing issues like this.
  7. Thrylos
    We will find out... Got to disagree with the rushing part: Usually players "get it" at some point. If one player, got it, there is no reason to keep him down or slow him.
  8. Thrylos
    I think that this is some very interesting piece of data that can help frame the conversation. From BP. Catcher defense, that including framing + throwing out + blocking runs above average. Descending. It includes AAA, which makes comparing JR Murphy with Castro possible, as far as defense goes. It also has Mitch Garver (next page; check the name of the guy above him...) who has a short sample at AAA. Based on this, I think that the Twins might be better of with a Murphy/Garver two headed beast in the majors than Castro.
  9. Thrylos
    What did you expect him to say publicly? That the Twins' front office is totally worthless? He has to work with these people, until he sorts them out. The one thing I hope happens right away, and it sounds like it is happening, is to set a new direction and see which one of the remaining front office people are a. good enough to do it and b. want to do it and sort them out.
  10. Thrylos
    Today the A's traded Danny Valencia (whose career numbers have been pretty much identical to those of Trevor Plouffe) who is in his last arbitration year, for a 23 year old former supplemental 1st round pick SP, who has a lot of pitches, but his best pitch is a two-seamer and he does not strike out much, and his last name is Blackburn (cannot make it up.) So... would you trade Plouffe for Blackburn, keep him and block a few players or non-tender him?
  11. Thrylos
    The facts that a guy who was traded for Nunez is the 6th best prospect and a late recent first round pick their number 3 prospect does not say much for the system. Unless of course the author of the ranking has a bias against IFAs who have not yet played on A+ or higher. That's the problem here. Any Twins top-10 list that does not include (at least) Diaz and Javier should be suspect...
  12. Thrylos
    It all depends on who the MLB-level pitchers are. If they keep Santana, Hughes, Gibson, Santiago, I would suspect that the fifth would be May or Duffey (the loser to the pen.) That would leave Mejia, Berrios, Wheeler, Hurlbut, Slegers, Gonsalves etc etc to fight it out. I hope that at least Santana and Santiago go, but AAA really depends on the majors. The only one I would maybe try to re-sign from that list is Heiker Menesas, because he is still young (25) and has some potential. Lots of more intriguing MiLB FAs out there, including this guy, and this guy, as far as LHPs go, over Darnell and Dean
  13. Thrylos
    Check out how he is doing in AFL and compare it to how the BA #34 overall prospect is doing? The thing is that most national publications are biased against later round picks, and against players that they have not seen playing much. I think that Garver should be a top 100 prospect. He is at level of Jorge Alfaro, if not better.
  14. Thrylos
    Defensive metrics here. It really is Castro or bust as far as FAs go. Otherwise not worth it. I do understand that having a good framer catching a young pitching staff might help. Intriguing name on that defensive metrics list: Travis d' Arnaud. If I were the Twins, I'd try to see what can make it happen, in a package probably with one of the Mets' pitchers...
  15. Thrylos
    Steve Pearce was a Twin once and they cut him at Spring Training because he was not good enough I guess. Regarding his positions: DH/1B/LF might be it. 2B is a joke
  16. Thrylos
    Willingham had tremendous value after his .260/.366/.524. 35 HR season. Ryan, like usual, did not sell high and then Willinghman's value elapsed. Ditto Suzuki after his All Star season. Same with Santana and Dozier. That's why they need to go at the peak of their value...
  17. Thrylos
    Data. Here. Look at team ages. They are not young. They were older than the 2009 team... Neither they rebuild the last few seasons. Compare that with the real rebuild in the early 80s...
  18. Thrylos
    A 99+96+96+hickup+103 loss team does not need band aids or veterans. It needs rebuilding. If Santana and Dozier and Plouffe etc and the likes of Kintzler and Boshers etc are with the Twins in 2017, the new FO would have failed in their first off-season. Your blueprint will get what? 10 more wins than 2016? Also committing a 23 year old to a DH sentence is too much. Sano should get the opportunity to spend a full season at third base, and then be criticized. As a matter of fact his early defensive numbers at 3B were better than the equivalent of both Plouffe and Koskie. They got to rebuild and they got to trade for young MLB-ready talent
  19. Thrylos

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    Thrylos replied to teaune2012's topic in Other Baseball

    Shoulds AL MVP: Mike Trout NL MVP: Kris Bryant AL CY: Chris Sale NL CY: Noah Syndergaard AL MOY: Tito Francona NL MOY: Joe Maddon AL ROY: Gary Sanchez NL ROY: Corey Seager
  20. Thrylos
    Having the DH position as a rotating position to keep for regulars who might have slight issues and/or need a rest is the way to go. Unfortunately, the Twins made a pretty large investment on Buyng Ho Park to be their designated designated hitter. Just did not work out the way that the Ryan Front Office have planned it (captain obvious statement of the year.) Also: No matter what, unless someone is practically crippled, like Kubel, you never want to make a young player a full time DH while they have the opportunity to grow in a particular position. DH was established to extend the career of hitters who just could not play the field any more, like the aforementioned Molitor, Jim Thome, Don Baylor, etc. You just don't do that to a kid, if you have any sense.
  21. Thrylos
    Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch --- A lot of Twins fans have not realized it, after a season with the worst record losses, since the franchise moved to Minnesota, 103, but this week signified too major events for the Twins: The start of the 2016-2017 off-season that finds them tied in the first place in the AL Central with a .500 record The start of a brand new baseball leadership in the faces of Derek Falvey as the first ever Twins' Chief Baseball Officer and Thad Levine as the Twins Senior VP and General Manager. And, even more importantly, this is the first time that the Twins have hired their baseball leadership from outside the organization, since 1986 when Andy MacPhail, replaced (for practical purposes) Calvin Griffith, as the Twins baseball leader. Hope runs high and I want to wish the new Twins' leadership good luck, and offer a single piece of advise: Please do not assume, because the bar is so low and that hope runs high, that the Twins' fan base does not have high expectations. As a matter of fact, some of us are setting the bar not at the level of who you are replacing, but at the level of what happened the first time new blood infused the franchise. And that is a very high bar, set at the level of 2 World Championships in 4 seasons. What would be your one piece advise to the new Twins' baseball leaders, along with your well wishes?
  22. Thrylos
    The Twins do not need to look at that list. They should look at the list of the 100 best players & prospects under 25 and go after a couple of them in trades. Aging free agents will not help them rebuild...
  23. Thrylos
    I think that your radius is pretty narrow. Use the media marker radius the Twins are using, and see how that size changes. Their market is identical to that of the Giants.
  24. Thrylos
    Why exactly would the Twins need Puig?
  25. Thrylos
    If the Dodgers came asking for Sano, I'd ask for Urias, Seger, Edwin Rios, and another prospect...
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