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  1. Thrylos
    Interesting to see that among the 5 former Twins (Nate Hanson, Tony Thomas, Tanner Vavra, Mark Hamburger, Corey Williams) in the roster, there are a lot of young players. Wonder who will be the next Saint that the Twins will sign... Good luck to them, but I hope the ball park is empty when the Twins play home games and that the local baseball fans support the Twins first and foremost.
  2. Thrylos
    If you did the same exercise with the 2003 World Champion Red Sox team, it will look like only 2 players carried that team (Ramirez & Schilling.) Which of course was not true, since David Ortiz and Pedro Martinez had almost identical, but just lesser numbers than them, all around. Sano's season is vintage Barry Bonds, but there are 5 players with OPS plus above league average. Pitching is a different story, that's why this team will still need some work to content, including the possibility of Berrios stepping in as a good number two in the rotation, and 2-3 of the young arms in AA and AAA in the back end of the bullpen. But this methodology is not a good way to draw conclusions (thus the 2003 Boston reference)
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    The White Sox will laugh at that... Need to add Tonkin to balance that trade
  4. Thrylos
    I would not trade anyone with any potential to a team within the division.
  5. Thrylos
    Lynyrd Skynyrd would agree
  6. Thrylos
    I think that his biggest issue in the majors last season was overthinking and trying to be perfect instead of doing what he knows what to do and go get them. Interesting to see how this will work this season, with a different set of catchers. Hope that the Castro/Gimenez duo helps him over that.
  7. Thrylos
    Well... the thing is that he has 3 MLB pitches right now. The kid has a fastball that is flat and fast and "he is a great athlete" and nothing else. This is not the NFL. And even Cordarelle Patterson kinda bombed there. You got to go with the surest thing closest to the majors. At this point it is a no-brainer. Really. Even all the pundits have the Twins taking him 1-1. Greene, yeah, alright. Good luck
  8. Thrylos
    Here are the College Pitchers who were taken 1-1 in past drafts since 2007: Price Strasburg Cole Appel Other than Appel who is yet to be determined, I'd say that College pitchers who were taken 1-1 have been pretty successful.
  9. Thrylos
    Goodrum is the guy who has been the longest with the organization without making it to the bigs. Interesting.
  10. Thrylos
    a. he was jaded b. he had bad council Does not matter. He chose team PR,USA over the Twins, which is what (apparently) matters. Bad choice and he has to learn from it.
  11. Thrylos
    Santiago had already an MLB contract, and please remind me where Vargas spent the last month or so?
  12. Thrylos
    He did not play for his National Team. That would had been team USA. Check his passport if you don't believe me And he did not play much. They just sat him on the bench most of the spring
  13. Thrylos
    All of those guys are RHPs. Wilk is a lefty
  14. Thrylos
    Bakersfield, CA. My favorite Rolling Stones' song is kinda about that town
  15. Thrylos
    Smoking marijuana was the issue with both of them. Romero did not hide it, while Gonsalves said that "he did not inhale" while accompanying his buddies who smoked... College (adult) vs High School (child) also comes to play here... Biggest issue is: Can he pitch? If so, grab him and fix him.
  16. Thrylos
    Pretty pathetic. Melotakis at Chattanooga on the other hand....
  17. Thrylos
    FWIW, I ranked the four best College pitchers, based on both objective (performance) and subjective (scouting) criteria. Here are the results.
  18. Thrylos
    I'd draft Romero if he fell down to the supplementary or second round picks. Gonsalves has had the same issues out of High School before the Internets went crazy or knew who Gonsalves was.
  19. Thrylos
    Drug test? In College? That sounds really weird. College cannot test students for drugs by any means of the imagination...
  20. Thrylos
    This is in relevance on how teams (vs the commissioner's office) see the WBC. Nothing to do with Berrios, other than his bad choices...
  21. Thrylos
    The Twins are a game over .500 in the division. That's all it matters. And they are just behind Cleveland in the Standings, leading the race for the second wild card spot. Have I told you a month and a half ago, that the Twins will be here on May 10th, would you complain? Gee!
  22. Thrylos
    Sure. On paper. Real life differs from paper...
  23. Thrylos
    Back to Wilfk: What could have possible the Twins seen in him? I'd ignore his last 2 MLB games. I'd ignore his numbers at PCL this season. And I cannot get Korean splits. Here are the splits I get at his last 3 seasons in International League (AAA) against lefties: 2016: 0.57 WHIP, 29.3% K%, 0 BB% 2014: 1.07 WHIP, 25.7% K%, 5% BB% 2012: 0.97 WHIP, 29.1 K%, 5.1 BB% As a starter. I'd say that's quasi eye opening. And might get better as a reliever. Rogers, Breslow and Buddy B are the LHRPs the Twins have right now. I don't mind them rolling the dice for possible something better here. That's all. Dice roll...
  24. Thrylos
    In this division heavy schedule, what matters is the bottom line: Wins within the division and overall standings.
  25. Thrylos
    Well, if you all remember, during Spring Training, I kept saying that Berrios leaving the Twins to go and "pitch" (he warmed the bench) with his island's team in the WBC, while others were busting their rears to win a spot in the Twins' team, was neither the smart choice nor something that I would recommend to a person in his position... But there were a lot of "national pride" and "someone's nation should mean more than his team" (as if PR were a different nation to begin with) replies... Guess Berrios is learning a hard lesson: If he shows the Twins that making the Twins is not his number 1 priority, the Twins will act like him making the Twins is not his number 1 priority. You got to walk the talk and Berrios did not. How long will he keep getting punished for it? I don't know, but if I were Berrios or Berrios's agent, I'd have a meeting with the Twins brass, explain my priorities and apologize for previous bad choices. But I am not Berrios or his agent.
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