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  1. Thrylos
    Ivan Nova. How about Nova? Controllable for 2 more seasons with a modest contract that would cover his prime seasons. I think that he would make a good addition. If you are rebuilding and you are Oakland (or Tampa) and have not reached an agreement to extend a good young pitcher through their arbitration seasons, you trade them before they get too expensive during arbitration. That's has been their MO. If you are the Yankees (or Phillies) you don't care.
  2. Thrylos
    As far as Haley goes, he is third on the pen (behind Pressly and Duffey) in K-BB%. He has been punished by a 25% HR/FB rate that should hopefully normalize. If I were to get rid of pitchers, Belisle and Wilk would be ahead of Haley in my list.
  3. Thrylos
    This is a huge fallacy Yes, Les Straker ended up being the Twins' third best pitcher there but, if you remember, they started the season, in addition to Viola and Blyleven, with a veteran workhorse who pitched 198+ innings the 4 previous seasons, named Mike Smithson (who fell apart during the season) and a former top prospect who had a very promising 1986 season Mark Portugal (who also fell apart during the season) as their 3rd and 4th starters, with Straker rounding up as the 5th (occasional back then) starter. When Portugal and Smithson bombed, MacPhail replaced them with a future Hall of Famer (Steve Carlton) and a veteran of 20 years who had a 3.50 ERA with the Yankees in 1987 (and ended up winning 221 games), Joe Niekro who gave one of the most memorable performances of a Twin ever (in the David Letterman show.) Not remembering Smithson and Portugal is excusable. Not remembering Carlton and Niekro, is not...
  4. Thrylos
    Depends on the trade. If it will bring back a younger controllable pitcher, like Sean Manaea or Aaron Nola, I would not mind if they trade any prospect in the organization, other than Jay and Burdi who can help potentially this season and Fernando Romero who I think can be special. If they want to go after someone like Dan Straily or Clayton Richard or Yovani Gallardo, then the prospects I would be willing to include would be lesser... (Disclaimer: the names are for indicative purposes - I don't see the Philies trading Nola, for example. Just examples of pitcher types...)
  5. Thrylos
    Yes, it is mental. He is afraid to hammer the zone. Same with Berrios last season. Totally mental and hopefully fixable.
  6. Thrylos
    Someone like Stewart's prospect level, not injury level. Gee. And Stewart has knee issues and when healthy he is treadable. I think that you are missing and/or ignoring the point here...
  7. Thrylos
    Good stuff, and he has great potential, but he has issues adjusting to hitting with wood, which need to be addressed. He is hitting .153/.210/.194 this season, after hitting .222/.306/.253 last season. One cannot continue to be sub-Buterean with the bat, and expect to be a major leaguer, no matter how good the glove is. He needs help and I hope that they realize that he needs help and they give it to him.
  8. Thrylos
    Agreed, esp. on Dozier. You deal from a position of strength, and unlike starting pitching, middle infield has been a strength in the organization. However, I would not hesitate to add a prospect like Stewart, to a deal for a better return. Makes no sense hording prospects until they become non-prospects or goners. Case in point Adam Walker. Would the Twins be better of trading him or adding him to a package than what they got from him, of course they would. At some point you got to let go, esp. those in-betweeners...
  9. Thrylos
    So you take an accomplished College closer and try to turn him into a starter, but he becomes a failed starter, then get him back in the pen where he is on his way of shining again, and want to repeat that failed experiment? No Way. The Twins do need one, maybe two starters, but they should not break what is not broken (and, mind you very fragile) to fix that. I hope that Gibson rebounds. The thing with him is mental. They might have to go outside the organization for an extra starting arm
  10. Thrylos
    Comparing the Twins' market with that of the Pirates and the Royals makes zero sense. Data: Twin Cities: Population 3,615,902. Median Household income: $54,304 Kansas City, MO/KS: 1,776,062 & $46,193 Pittsburgh: 2,358,695 & 20,935 So: Population x MHI / 2 = (approximate market size) Twin Cities: $98,178 M KC: $41,021 M Pittsburgh: $24,690 M So about 2.5 x the market size of KC and 4 x the market size of Pittsburgh. and if you look at the other markets in the AL Central, spare Chicago, there are smaller than the Twins' Cleveland: 2,945,831, $42,215 ($62,179M, ~2/3 of Twins') Detroit: 5,270,909, $22,319 ($58,821M ~2/3 of Twins') And they have been pretty relevant, pretty fast and for longer periods than the Twins. Enough excuses about "small" and "mid" market, because the Twins' is right on top of the division.
  11. Thrylos
    I meant future difference makers who would be ready in 2-3 years. eg. Cespedes' contract with the A's was 4/ $36M and he was signed when Ryan was assembling that mess. same with Dodgers giving 6/$36 to sign Ryu So instead of 1-3y/$51, you spend 4-6 y/$75 for those two.
  12. Thrylos
    That's one of the worst things that can happen for the Twins. They tooked a failed starter and turned him into a decent reliever. No reason to go back there again. I think that it is time for Gibson to show that he can step up.
  13. Thrylos
    The TR administrations were spendthrift. They would rather throw away $50 million among 6 mediocre players than sign one or two difference makers. Case in point: Ryan's moves when he got re-hired after the 99 loss 2011 season: 3y/ $6.2M Jared Burton 2y/ $6M Jamey Carroll 3y/ 10M Ryan Doumit 1y/ $4.75M Matt Capps 3y/ $21M Josh Willingham 1y/ $3M Jason Marquis 6 players $51 million in contracts, instead of 2 difference makers. They did spent
  14. Thrylos
    Have you checked Greene's velocity the past few weeks? Maybe McKay is not pitching at 100% trying to save his arm as well...
  15. Thrylos
    The words "Turley" and "prospect" do not belong in the same sentence. He will be 28 in 3 months or so...
  16. Thrylos
    That was my first thought... That TJ surgery really went a bit too far
  17. Thrylos
    The fact is that at the major league level in 2016, his 8.02 ERA, 1.869 WHIP, 6.20 FIP was below Santana, Gibson, Duffey, Nolasco, Milone, Dean, Santiago, Hughes, and Albers (other than the WHIP on the latter). That would make him their worst pitcher (as far as starters go) in 2016. Dunno what other facts there are, but that's the fact. Potential has nothing to do with performance. Hopefully he got it and will stay at the same level for a decade. Or more.
  18. Thrylos
    Santiago pitched in the WBC. Berrios sat on his ass
  19. Thrylos
    Well, the "too long" is a speculation. What if he were up in April and threw the way he did last season? Hard to tell. It is what it is and great to see. Now the Twins need another pitcher to step up
  20. Thrylos
    This might be correct, but the Twins took a similar risk in Stewart and seems that it did not pan out. I just don't trust that group to draft high school pitchers. There is another issue also: A College player would a. be able to help the Twins in 1-2 seasons and b. he would be about the same age as the good young core of the team, and with Sano 4 seasons away from free agency, this core might not have the time together to allow a High School kid to be MLB-ready; especially one with one only pitch who might never get MLB-ready, if he does not get at least a couple other plus pitches. McKay is almost there. Greene might not be ready before the opportunity passes for these Twins. Got to look at the big picture here. If Greene had 2 pitches and was putting video game numbers it would have been a different story; and I don't care whether he looks like Adrian Peterson or like Bartolo Colon.
  21. Thrylos
    The same Nick Hanson who had a 9.18 ERA and 2.400 WHIP his first season as a Pro?
  22. Thrylos
    Which dropped down to .739 with 2 outs and RISP, .672 in high leverage situations, and .532 in "Late and close" situations. That's what "we people" are talking about... And BTW, Here is the big one about his HR last season: Men on: 12 HR / 248 AB (20.7 AB/HR) . Nobody on: 30 HR / 367 AB (11.5 AB/HR) His career numbers: Men on 35 HR in 1104 AB (31.5 AB/HR), nobody on: 87 HR in 1732 AB (19.9 AB/HR) Numbers do not lie.
  23. Thrylos
    Sure. Those are 2 PAs from years past. How about his 2 PAs today with men on? Or his .192 last season and .200 this season batting average in high leverage situations?
  24. Thrylos
    I don't know about you, but I start thinking that the Twins should had passed on Buxton, based on his performance so far and drafted someone like Corey Seager or Addisson Russell instead.
  25. Thrylos
    And that should really be the "All-Star second baseman" who was supposedly worth more in trade than the Dodgers offered. Unfortunately he sucks on big time situations, like today, when he came up with 2 on and 2 out twice and left all 4 on base. But he has been great in hitting solo HRs when the game is not on line. About addition by subtraction time as far as Dozier is concerned...
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