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  1. Thrylos
    Good pick ups. For the 2018 Twins. However, the question we all should be asking is whether any of the 3 would have had a place in the 25 men rosters of the Yankees, Red Sox, and Astros. Because that's where the bar has to be set if the Twins were to be competitive in the post-season ever again. Not at the Detroit and White Sox levels...
  2. Thrylos
    My concern with Gonsalves as a prospect has always been his fastball command. In the minors, if you have decent secondary stuff (and Gonsalves has a plus change) you can do ok, albeit run high pitch counts. As we saw yesterday MLB teams adjust quickly and instead of swinging at fastballs out the zone, are siting on those change ups. At some point the Twins have to start thinking of prospects as assets (esp. for trade situations) and should not expose them like that, but trade them instead. They have needs on the top of the rotation and at the end of the bullpen. Gonsalves could have gone a long way towards solving one of those needs, maybe packaged with Gordon and/or other top prospects. There is no need to expose your players if you know their weaknesses...
  3. Thrylos
    Had he not pitched two days before... He would had to go on short rest, which is a no no .
  4. Thrylos
    Urena is Dominican. Acuna Venezuelan. Plenty of Americans have been involved in beanings. Which other cultures play this game without any of this? If you are talking about minor leagues or their equivalent foreign leagues, that's a different story...
  5. Thrylos
    His FIP is 1.07 vs LHBs and 3.48 vs RHBs. Draw your own conclusions
  6. Thrylos
    Despite his overall just above average performance, he is practically lights out against LHBs and his mis use against RHBs drags his numbers down.
  7. Thrylos
    Gets more impressive if you look at his splits this season: vs LHB: 1.09 FIP, 0.81 WHIP, 12.0 K/9, 1.8 BB/9, .178 OBA vs RHB: 3.78 FIP, 1.38 WHIP, 8.7 K/9, 2.8 BB/9, .273 OBA He just needs a manager who can use him properly (which means very sparingly against RHBs)
  8. Thrylos
    1.35 ERA, 1.36 FIP, 33.3 K%, 7.4 BB% and 1.05 WHIP, plus career high velocities in the FB (94.1) and slider (87.1; this one by a whole 1.5 mph), while the curve is still at 77.4 and change at 86, makes me think so far so good, sample size and all.
  9. Thrylos
    Rub.It.In.
  10. Thrylos
    There are many versions of that card. The cheap ones are not signed by him...
  11. Thrylos
    Probably wearing a Mets' uniform right now...
  12. Thrylos
    Agreed. But it should be a pitcher (or 3). If they don't get an ace and fix that bullpen, there is no way to catch the Indians, Red Sox, Yankees, and Astros, just with one big bat. And as far as bats go, I am fine with signing Escobar as an insurance policy to youth in IF, and get a power bat regardless of position (IF, OF, or 1B.)
  13. Thrylos
    Flip him while he is hot. And sign Escobar next off-season to play second.
  14. Thrylos
    But sarcasm aside, you saw what happened at his next PA... It is complicated...
  15. Thrylos
    Told ya...
  16. Thrylos
    I am talking in general about HBP. Esp. when people are talking about 50 game suspensions. Despite the fact that they are usually "ordered" by the manager....
  17. Thrylos
    How do y'all feel about that Castellanos bat flip tonight?
  18. Thrylos
    Acuna matata. Thankfully the guy is ok and playing today. The sky did not fall. There will be more beanings, more hot dogging home runs and more discussion regarding it tomorrow. Unless there is an objective way to determine intend it would be hard to pronounce people guilty. Also, these days batters do not stand in the batter's box and have body parts hanging outside the box, making it practically impossible to pitch inside without hitting them. On the other hand, if beaning someone resulted in a discrete disadvantage for the team that did it, like the opponent's manager can chose to take away a player from that team, it will definitely reduce beanings.. On the other side of that coin, if a batter has parts hanging over the inside line of the box, he should be charged with an automatic strike. And over celebrating a home run, should be a 15-yard penalty an ejection. It is more complicated than it seems.
  19. Thrylos
    Re: Rortvedt: He is hitting worse than Butera did in high A. Just sayin' regarding that "improvement". Does not need to do much to improve from a below .600 OPS your first 2 seasons as a pro. Whether that might be enough to make him a major leaguer and not yet another high pick wasted under Deron Johnson, is yet to be determined. Wish that someone asked this guy about Levi Michael, Trevor Harrison, Boyd, Bauer, Shooter Hunt, the closers to be turned into starters strategy, and the rest. But nobody does...
  20. Thrylos
    Some of the best closers were made by failed starters. Aguilera, Eckersley and Nathan come to mind (Smoltz too, but he was not a failed starter, just lost endurance after surgery). We kinda know that the Twins do not have anyone in the pen who marginally flashes dominance (May excluded.) Same with AAA. So, what I would do, would be to see what Odorizzi can do as a closer just with the fastball and slider (both have scored pretty well) while dropping the "thing" and the curve that suck. He is under contract for another season and clearly the Twins have better options in the minors (and majors) than him for 2019. See if changing the role might change his effectiveness. Alternate version of that: Kohl Stewart. Might even make more sense at this point, since his FB has ticked a tad higher than Odorizzi's.
  21. Thrylos
    Hopefully not. Romero is scheduled to pitch tomorrow for Rochester. Lewis Thorpe was promoted to Rochester tonight. Hopefully Romero will be starting for the Twins and Santana would go to his happy place #smellbaseball
  22. Thrylos
    Stuff happens, but with Berrios you hope that it does not get between his ears. He tends to overthink
  23. Thrylos
    Rochester, then instructs, and then winter baseball. He needs to see live pitching. Oh. And a $1000 fine for each hands first slide
  24. Thrylos
    Yeah. Rodney could not go away soon enough, as far as I am concerned.
  25. Thrylos
    Darn. I agree 100% with what you said about Santana. weird.
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