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  1. Thrylos
    Granite up Buxton down
  2. Thrylos
    Unlike the TR 2.0 years, the Twins are competing this season, so the major league team should not be expected to be used for player development Had TR been around (god forbid) DanSan and Kyle Gibson would still be with the Twins. This FO has shown that they are not afraid to pull the trigger. Surprised by Rucinski, maybe they know something (or maybe he has an opt out clause.) I'd rather have seen Melotakis, but Tonkin's spot is not for very long... But one think that one got to give credit to this front office is that they are standing by their off-season acquisitions: Gimenez, Breslow, Tepesch, and now Adrianza and Rucinski are with the Twins. This might make this place more attractive to some low level free agents in the future. Someone mentioned O'Rourke in the same sentence with prospects: He is as old as Tepesch and Rucinski. He is not a spring chicken
  3. Thrylos
    Fact: Tepesch pitched 223 innings in the majors with 4.68 ERA, 4.66 FIP, and 1.372 WHIP. Berrios pitched 58-1/3 innings in the majors with 8.02 ERA, 6.20 FIP, and 1.869. Is this small sample? Berrios pitched 14 games. About half a season. He made 2 more starts for the Twins than Andrew Albers. How about Albers? Small sample too? Did he get stiffed by the Twins? I think that Tepesch right now is likely a better pitcher than Berrios and Mejia Also, he might be a better pitcher than Hughes. We will find out. Do I think that Tepesch has Berrios's or Mejia's ceiling? No, of course. But I think that he gives the Twins potentially a better possibility of wining right now, than either of them, and I'd love to find out whether this is the case. The Twins are competing and have to play the players who will give the best possibility to win right now. This is not about developing Berrios.
  4. Thrylos
    You do realize that Tepesch's record in the majors is better than any other pitcher's the Twins have in the minors, correct?
  5. Thrylos
    Why?
  6. Thrylos
  7. Thrylos
    Free Mason Melotakis
  8. Thrylos
    Not that simple. The role of the MLB pitching coach is to help pitchers who are already major leaguers to improve and/or get out of slumps by tweaking few things here and there. The roles of the minor league pitching coaches are to help pitchers develop and work closer with them. Eg. teaching them new pitches, making major adjustments etc. Different beast. So there is not "better" or "worse". Just different job.
  9. Thrylos
    First ballot Hall of Famer? Dream on
  10. Thrylos
    Meaningless Pedro Martinez had to pitch 167-2/3 innings in AAA before he made it to the majors. And Berrios is not Pedro...
  11. Thrylos
    Bottom line: The Twins are leading the division. Unless they fall out of contention, I'd give the FO the benefit of the doubt. Re: Berrios: Check his peripherals out: He is doing worse in AAA than he did last season, and we all know how he did in the majors last season. Also, I suspect that the reason he is in AAA is not his numbers. He has to work on something(s) in particular and unless the Twins are satisfied with that, he will still be there. Also, arguably, Berrios' numbers are not the best of a Twins' AAA starter right now. Hurlbut's (and Tepesch's) are pretty much identical, and Mejia's are better.
  12. Thrylos
    That's what I am talking about.... Doing the right thing. ie. voluntarily retire
  13. Thrylos
    And here is more on the subject with plenty of quotes from Perkins.
  14. Thrylos
    Sure about that? Are the Mets still paying Cuddyer?
  15. Thrylos
    Sure. He sued the Twins when they sent him down for sucking back in the day. And by insisting pitching while hurt in 2015, instead of saying he was hurt at the All Star Break allowing the Twins to get a real replacement, he cost them the 2015 post-season. And if he were such a great guy, he'd retire to save the Twins some $ so they can spend it in improving the club this season. But he won't. Spam is also Minnesota born and bred
  16. Thrylos
    This one. Of course I knew the 78 in the middle of March. This one had that velocity not increasing a bit since then. And there were no velocity reports for a month and a half... That was the only one back then and nobody bothered to say that it did not get any better.
  17. Thrylos
    Did not realize that they declared him out for the year. That's a bummer.
  18. Thrylos
    EST does not count as a rehabilitation assignment, since it does not have a formal roster or even formal games (they don't keep score or stats ). The clock starts with the Rochester assignment
  19. Thrylos
    It is If it had been out, I would have been all over it. Believe me
  20. Thrylos
    Sure. But that number 78 mph was not there. It could had been 85 and would have been an issue, and Molitor's statement would still be valid. But at 78, it is much more magnified. That's where Graff's scoop was, unless someone else posted that number previously. The media people with access hasve been hush hush regarding Perkins' velocity numbers for some reason (maybe because they were afraid about that access? I dunno.) But, thankfully, someone indicated the severity of the problem. 78
  21. Thrylos
    Sorry, did not see anyone other with access saying that Perkins maxed at 78 mph this Spring and his velocity has not improved, publicly before I read Graff's article. Any tweets from yesterday you can point out?
  22. Thrylos
    Seriously? The fan-base reaction to Santiago went from not tendered last off-season to offering him $15MM+ after this season? Because of one month? Santiago is the poster boy of selling high. And this high could have been before tonight's start. Here are his numbers: ERA 2.45; xFIP 4.95, SIERA 4.41, 4.8% HR/FB, 84.8% LOB A regression ready to happen. If the Twins can get an decent prospect out of him right now, I'd rather see Berrios/Mejia pitch...
  23. Thrylos
    He was in the Twins' dugout last night. Chad Graff added a little previously unreported detail in his writeup last night: Perkins' fastball was up to 78 mph during ST, and "his velocity has not increased much". Stick a fork in him. (Not that this is any news...)
  24. Thrylos
    That one was not even close. I'd love to see Palacios gets promoted when Arraez comes out of the DL, because a middle infield with those 2 would be fun to watch.
  25. Thrylos
    This is a given pretty much. He threw a simulated game before yesterday's start.
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