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  1. Thrylos
    Walker makes Delmon look like Willie Mays on the field, and Buxton look like Barry Bonds as far as Ks and BBs go at the plate. Would be fun to see Walker traded within the division in September...
  2. Thrylos
    have not problem with any of those steps, but there are at least 3 steps that need to be done before those: a. Get someone with baseball knowledge and make him the president of baseball operations, charge him with 1. finding Ryan's and Molitor's replacements and 2. figuring out who in the Front Office and the Twins' minor league field managemnent staff should stay and who would go. b. Trade everyone over 26 who is tradable (yes this includes Ryan Pressly) c. Make Molitor play the young players instead of letting them sit.
  3. Thrylos
    Good. Trade him
  4. Thrylos
    Speak about yourself They barely cracked my top-40 prospect list because of the deficiencies they have...
  5. Thrylos
    Great stuff! However, if the poor kid thinks that Minnesota is as cold as Pittsburgh, he will be in for a pretty big surprise come his first winter there
  6. Thrylos
    I am glad that you are advocating that Buxton (42% K-rate, higher than Arcia, and with options left,) should have been the one demoted instead of Arcia DFA'd... Cannot excuse the inexcusable. Ryan had options.
  7. Thrylos
    The Phillies are pretty much set at RF. They have a 22 year old by the name of Dylan Cozens who is hitting .294/.371/.595 with 19 HRs in AA Reading (Eastern League.) He is a lefty hitter and thrower and around 6'6"/230. They are not going anywhere this season so they will not rush him, but he might be their starting RF as soon as 2017. They don't really need Arcia.
  8. Thrylos
    That's included in the "few more". The team is going nowhere, Park needs to adjust to MLB pitching so the team is better with him in the majors right now.
  9. Thrylos
    Let me count them: A1. Send a reliever down a. Demote Kepler whose OPS and OPS+ is less than Arcia's b. Ditto Buxton c. Trade Plouffe d. Trade Dozier e. Trade Abad f. Trade another reliever and a few more. Pretty horrible move from the guy who got rid of another power left hander. Ryan has to go.
  10. Thrylos
    in 2014 Kepler's highest level was the Miracle - no MLB time then
  11. Thrylos
    Other than Dozier who should be gone, I wouldn't mind this lineup in principle. That said, I think that: a. they should play Grossman (who is just 26) until he cools off. He earned a starting job right now over Rosario b. the other guy who earned at least a trial job over Rosario (and even over Kepler whose OPS is under .600) is Daniel Palka who leads an organization hurting for LH power with 16 HRs and whose OPS is hovering around .900 in AA
  12. Thrylos
    Based on a lot of MLB vs AAA records for pretty much every young hitter who made the trip, and the shape of the team's hitting, as a whole, the better question to ask is 'what to do with Tom Brunansky'.
  13. Thrylos
    Unless they trade Buxton or he flops, Kepler will not play in CF. Plus, he really is not a centerfielder.
  14. Thrylos
    He was in the top 5 pitcher conversation. And if you pick a pitcher regardless the pick, he should had been. That best player available approach has never worked for the Twins (and other teams, really,) because "best" is subjective, esp. if the subjects are 17 year olds... So "best" player available truly becomes "most projectable" player available, which is a huge risk. 95+ mph fastballs are not subjective.
  15. Thrylos
    Appel is one example of pitchers that could have fulfilled the Twins' need. Giolito (the best pitcher available in that draft, and the one I wish the Twins took), Wacha, Stroman, Gausman are others. Can you say that the Twins would have been better off last season with Buxton over (let's say) Wacha? I seriously doubt. If they had Wacha they could have been in the post season. That draft is too recent to reach conclusions. Give it 10 years or so. Up until 2006, Prior was clearly a better pick than Mauer in the 2001 draft...
  16. Thrylos
    I happen to like Lewin Diaz, Amaurys Minier, Jean Carlos Arias, Jermaine Palacios, LaMonte Wade, Trey Cabbage as cOF/1B types more than him. (Arias could be a CF, we shall see; I include Palacios, because I think that he will end up there.) And, yes, he has some real baggage, IMHO more than the Puerto Rican kid who doped...
  17. Thrylos
    The only good I see in this pick is that they can actually trade him to the Pirates in a year or so (both him and his father have a lot of Pirates connections) and get somebody back who can help them. That's about it. More baggage than talent, for my liking, plus plays a position (cOF/1B) that the Twins already have better alternatives at every level.
  18. Thrylos
    What a player can do and what the Twins think he can do, painfully obviously, are two different things. And, again, if "2B is an offensive position", I suspect that it is still a less offensive position that corner OF or 1B. So, please compare his numbers in AAA this season and MLB career to Max Kelpler's who is older than Polanco.
  19. Thrylos
    Another High School OF. Exactly what this organization needs.
  20. Thrylos
    Don't know what else Polanco needs to do to get respect: .330/.382/.523 in AAA this season .262/.385/.476 in 22 MLB games 5 months younger than Kepler (he is still 22. DOB: July 5, 1993) How do Kepler's numbers compare? And Polanco is a SS and not an OF...
  21. Thrylos
    Wrong Hudson maybe? The one who is up for draft has two pitches (the fast that he tosses a horrible change and a slower also horrible slider does not count) : An above average to plus FB that has reached up to 97 and a plus cutter/slider that sits at 87-90. Command has been a pretty big issue as well. Unless he develops at least a third pitch and harvests his command, his ceiling is that of a closer. Which is nothing to sneeze at, but he is a questionable pick at 15
  22. Thrylos
    I don't see how Thorpe can be that high without throwing a single pitch the last 2 seasons. If Meyer dropped that much, the same logic should push Thorpe way back. Meyer still has the highest ceiling that any pitcher in the organization. If you are ranking ceiling, he should be #1. If you are ranking likelihood to achieve or floor, (which seems to be the case here,) Thorpe should fall also big time... Glad to finally see Walker where he should be Hard to argue with these, other than Wander Javier (btw good to see a Twins' player never to step foot in the US as a pro included) placement. Comparing his situation with that of Nick Gordon 2 years ago, should have him higher (and his ceiling is higher than Gordon's).
  23. Thrylos
    The manager needs to be motivated to do that. I am not sure that Molitor is that motivated. The Polanco case in point. He was with the Twins from 4/20 to 5/20 (one full month) and got 32 PA (the equivalent of 7 games or so). Something's got to give.
  24. Thrylos
    FWIW, he comes with baggage. Check out his dad's website.
  25. Thrylos
    Good stuff. I will wait until the draft to start thinking about mine. Glad to see that FINALLY, you got Garver over Turner I think that both Ynoa and Minier are low, just based on their ceiling. When healthy Minier can be a monster. Smart move for Blackenhorn. If he can handle 2B, his stock will rise.
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