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  1. Thrylos
    Poor man's Zobrist
  2. Thrylos
    Here (bet has better range than Brian Buscher) http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/images/products/ficus-nitida-potted-plant__0138745_PE298525_S4.JPG
  3. Thrylos
    That opinion was that of Jeff Todd who wrote that stuff. One guy's opinion.
  4. Thrylos
    The one issue I have with Dakota Hudson is that I am not sure that he projects as a major league starter because he has only two (albeit both above average) pitches and has command issues. Might get the change up in the pros or might not, but the command issues have to get fixed as well. Definitely a back of the pen guy for sure, which might or might not be fine at #15. The guy I like for the Twins more and more is LHP Eric Lauer who has been flying under the radar at Kent State. 4 pitches with above average to plus command and control, great mechanics and durability, a close to plus slider and he fits a need. Tom Glavine is a pretty good comparable for the style of pitcher he is. Pretty high floor and decent ceiling (number 2 or number 3 starter.) Pretty sure he will be available at #15, not so sure that he will last until the Twins' second pick... Interesting to see.
  5. Thrylos
    I'll give you a third, and a fourth, and a fifth: 3. His OPS+ is 107, which means he is 7% better than the average MLB hitter, even though he has not fully adjusted to the MLB vs Korean baseball; he will improve an already above average performance 4. The Twins have already prepaid a bunch for Park and what is left is 3 years at $2.5M and $3M which is practically pocket change, plus an option for less than what Plouffe made this arbitration year 5. He is the best fielding first baseman the Twins have above A-ball.
  6. Thrylos
    So if you sit him and make him a glorified utility player, would that increase his value and be able to sell higher than now? To sell you need a motivated buyer. And now you have 2. Who knows what will happen between now and the off-season. Grab the opportunity by the horns, addition by subtraction, even if Ryan's got to pay some cash and get a so-so prospect.
  7. Thrylos
    There is no such thing as a Twins' model. And if there is, it is different and less successful than the Royals' model. IIRC the Royals traded their top prospect and an up and coming pitcher for a top of the rotation pitcher (Shields) and a future closer. If the Twins traded Buxton and Darnell for Shields and Davis, there would be a revolution. Also, last July the Royals traded a top pitching prospect (Manea) to the As for Zobrist. This might actually be close to what the Twins did when Bill Smith was the GM (Ramos for Capps,) but nothing even remotely resembling Ryans wildest dreams. More like the antithesis of what TR has been doing, which is being unwilling to trade top prospects. I'd love it, btw, if he traded Buxton and got a high return before Buxton got exposed by started swinging at curves like he was swatting at flies in the majors. Something that KC would had done... Totally opposite mindsets.
  8. Thrylos
    Well deserved! Cannot have enough good lefties. Theofanopoulos has got to be one of the most misspelled names out there (appears 2 ways up there )
  9. Thrylos
    Reading Ortiz' book will provide a few other reasons of why the Twins could have chosen LeCroy over him. It is a must read for anyone remotely interested in this situation as well as the Twins' Front Office and Field Management of that time (and now as far as the FO is concerned.) One thing about Minor League Numbers of that era: Back then the Twins' AAA affiliate were the Salt Lake City Bees and balls were really flying out of their park (4,330 ft elevation vs 5,186 for Denver for comparison).
  10. Thrylos
    I think that Bill Smith did a first rate job with the whole Twins' Spring Training / Player Development facilities at Fort Myers. If you think that Bill Smith "was bad as a GM", wouldn't that mean that Terry Ryan (under whom the Twins had a worse record than under Bill Smith,) is worse, or at least that bad? The bottom line got to matter a bit, regardless whether Ryan busts his tail off... Loveable losers for 25 years has become a tad old, regardless the blasé approach towards the Twins' ownership, front office, and management.
  11. Thrylos
    Pohlad
  12. Thrylos
    I have been banging the drum about a need for a President of Baseball Operations for a while now... RE: St. Peter. He gets a lot of credit for things that Jerry Bell did (like the ballpark). All I have seen St. Peter talk with some sort of authority are: 1. concerts at TF 2. food at TF 3. some Dakota school athletics The Twins can do better in that regard as well
  13. Thrylos
    Can you enumerate them?
  14. Thrylos
    So you think that Ortiz would had been better than Phil Nevin and Jason Tyner than Ryan and Gardy had at DH when they went 0-3 against the As? (He had just a .287/.413/.636 slash line with 54 HR and 137 RBI in 2006)
  15. Thrylos
    It was a huge mistake and an even bigger mistake was that nobody was held accountable for it.
  16. Thrylos
    They should still do it and underoffer round 2, 3, and 4 picks to make it up.
  17. Thrylos
    There is no way that the Twins should pass on Garrett if he is available there, based on the shape of the LHSP in the organization. No way.
  18. Thrylos
    He was in 2014
  19. Thrylos
    This is 100% how it should be done, but it would require planning and for this 20+ seasons of ru(i)nning this team Ryan has shown that: a. he just cannot do it (esp. trade prospects with value) b. he overestimates the abilities of his players (eg. Dozier, Plouffe) c. he will never sell high because he thinks that the high will continue. Everyone in this team other than Sano should be tradable. Will he do it?
  20. Thrylos
    There is an 18 year old centerfielder by the name of Jean Carlos Arias who has not made it to the States yet, but might be the best of the oufielders in the Twins' minors. The other thing is that one can make outfielders out of other spots, but it difficult to make Catchers and Shortstops. I would be totally disappointed if the Twins select and OF in the first 3-4 rounds. Bigger fish to fry
  21. Thrylos
    These 2 do not belong in the same sentence (and Palka is a much better prospect IMHO than Walker who has exactly one tool). Palka has a career .273/.353/.498 (.851 OPS). Unlike Walker, he is an OBP and OPS guy. Other than Arcia, Palka is the only LHB in the organization with power potential. The Twins might not need Walker (who as a DH, his best position, is behind at least 3-4 players, depending how you are counting,) but they need Palka
  22. Thrylos
    I totally agree, that's why in my lists Sano was always ahead of Buxton (and Polanco was ahead of Buxton once,) and that's why Gordon barely made it into top 10. The problem is that minor league performance, esp for pitchers and esp below AAA, does not always equal expected MLB-performance, because, since the minors are developmental leagues, these guys may get shelled by throwing 10 changeups in a row, if that's what they need to work on a particular game. Stuff and potential is a key. Jay could be the best lefty out of the Twins' pen now and Chargois the best righty. That should matter.
  23. Thrylos
    I personally had Jay and Burdi, besides Berrios. BA had Stewart as well. It is all about ceiling and likelihood to achieve this ceiling. I think that Hu topped up in the high teens for me. Milone should be the Twins' best prospect based on AAA performance
  24. Thrylos
    Depends how one is counting, Gonsalves is from 3rd to 5th Twins' best pitching prospect. Not the best by any means. Plus I'd rather have Gonsalves than Hu every day, unless Hu learned to pitch with the other arm. The problem I had with that trade is that Ryan did his spendthrift thing, instead of going after a couple of arms that were better than Perkins who was faltering (apparently from shoulder issues) while the Twins were competing, he went for Jepsen and Cotts. This season is a great example on why Ryan should had been all in during the deadline as some of us were suggesting...
  25. Thrylos
    In his wildest dreams. We are talking about a 3 time All-Star Right now Walker < Steve Balboni
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