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  1. Thrylos
    Career MLB: Sano: .248/.339/.485, 121 OPS+, .351 wOBA, 119 wRC+ Buxton: .230/.285/.387, 81 OPS+, .289 wOBA, 76 wRC+ just that
  2. Thrylos
    He is at the Twins' Spring Training home where he can take care of his lack of conditioning because of the immobility his surgery caused last off-season, while playing baseball and getting his timing back in a non-pressure situation and his mechanics corrected after the adjustments he had to make because of his early season injury. That's my no drama take. Let the haters hate. Not the first black latino that was not liked in Minny. Stuff happens. Crucifying your best player when it happens is inane. Not that different than Mauer's concussion and its aftermath. Other than the race and nationality part (and the $ Mauer was paid.) Period.
  3. Thrylos
    Sure, but having a team from the central in the WS is not a failure by any means. What he is doing is saying that the bar in the Central is lower. Fine with that. However, that is not "failure", since teams in the central have made the last 6 out of 7 world series, which is kinda the measuring stick of excellence. Having AL and/or NL champions coming from your division, instead of others, is a success, no matter how low the bar was set in the division because the other teams suck.
  4. Thrylos
    Sure, but a lot of young players are THAT important to this franchise, because a single top player never made a team a winner. Ask Mike Trout, if you don't believe me. Matter of fact, Byron Buxton sucks more that Sano this season, and has been throughout his career, while rated as the top prospect in baseball by most of the pundits out there, unlike Sano. How come there is no biweekly venom against Buxton around here? As some point, one has to think that it might be personal and malicious, esp. in the light of events that happened the last off-season (allegedly) involving Sano and certain people's friends...
  5. Thrylos
    They really have to see what they got in the minors. That madness of holding on to both good but not great players and prospects, until they disappear is getting them into a real problem. They need to clear the roster from players without options at or past their primes (Mauer, Dozier, Morrison, Wilson, Lynn, Santana, Rodney, Duke, Belisle), take an ax at mediocrity (Grossman, Adrianza,) extend the Eddies, and start rotating players with options in the rest of the positions to see what they have. And no matter what resist the dive in the dumpster.
  6. Thrylos
    From there: "The Central divisions, which don’t have to contend directly with baseball’s big-money markets on the coasts, are familiar with failure." That's pretty much garbage, because in each of the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 World Series, there was at least one team from a Central Division, and that team won half of the titles. Don't believe everything you read.
  7. Thrylos
    Nah. There was no Qualifying Offer back then. If they were class A or B free agents, the Twins automatically got picks...
  8. Thrylos
    Too much drama regarding the performance of a 25 year old in 37 games of an injury plagued season and , esp. since Golden Boy hit .234/.271/.332, .265 wOBA, 63 wRC+ in his age 25 season (much worse than Sano, FWIW) Same with Buxton btw. Too.Much.Drama. And way too often regarding Sano. Seems that there is a weekly let's ditch Sano article regurgitating the same things, as if Sano were all that is wrong with the Twins right now. Certain people must be auditioning to be the next Souhan or Reusse...
  9. Thrylos
    waiting for Scotty to surface over there before the end of the season as well...
  10. Thrylos
    Probably his best season since 2012. Still... Hope that the Twins sell high at the deadline
  11. Thrylos
    Gordon is not a shortstop. Sano is a third baseman
  12. Thrylos
    No Mauer next year. Escobar at second, Polanco at short, Sano at third. First basemen are easy to find..
  13. Thrylos
    Has been in the DL with shoulder issues. Not a biggie. About to get off the DL and start pitching again.
  14. Thrylos
    The problem with this is that he will be taking starts away from May and Pineda, both of whom figure in the Twins 2019 plans and need the work badly
  15. Thrylos
    Not if they extend/re-sign Escobar, as they should...
  16. Thrylos
    FWIW, Polanco started playing in MiLB games tonight at the Miracle.
  17. Thrylos
    I guess that Molitor forgot the biggest unwritten rule of the game: If your team goes belly up and certain of your players are not hustling, you better sit them down and let them ride pine until they decide to hustle. Buddies or not. He lives in a glass house. Unless he starts taking care of his own, he has no right pointing fingers at others'... 'Bout time to retire.
  18. Thrylos
    I think that there is another driver regarding this decision: They have to see what Mejia has before he runs out of options next season...
  19. Thrylos
    Add Rodney, subtract Santana. He is damaged goods and unless he can prove that he can get MLB hitters out, nobody will trade for him.
  20. Thrylos
    SIERA, like xFIP, is a lead indicator, and his predicts that his 1.14 ERA is artificially low and about to regress. So it is hard to use it to describe his performance (other than ground balls, pop ups, fly balls, walks and strikeouts, which are its components,) but it is better to predict the future. One can do that with his BABIP and LOB% :)M Magill has been a pleasant surprise and, thankfully for the Twins, his results have been better than expected (or predicted); however, sooner than later he will land to earth.
  21. Thrylos
    I see zero reason that soon to be 28 year old Alan Busenitz with 29.6 K%, 25.0 K-BB%, 0.88 WHIP, and 1.27 ERA/ 2.15 FIP in Rochester should be there while Matt Belisle is taking a major league roster spot.
  22. Thrylos
    Arraez hit 31 doubles in 114 games in his last healthy season, so not quite a singles machine. As far as comparables go, I think that Carlos Baegra might be a close one both with the bat (from the left side) and with the glove...
  23. Thrylos
    Got to agree that Dozier is "the most important player for invigorating the Twins offense". The faster the Twins get rid of him, his mediocre production, and his mopping about not getting an extension, the better they will be.
  24. Thrylos
    Check twitter. Teams that care to improve do it fast. Re: Nationals
  25. Thrylos
    Comparing people who did not sign until the middle of the season and did not have opportunity to work out with a team and play in EST games with Polanco who has been working out since day 1 of Spring Training is comparing players under different circumstances... Also, each player has different needs. Robbie Grossman for example needs just 10 PAs to get ready
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