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  1. This spring has indicated some good steps in that direction so I'm hopeful as well. I'm glad you pushed back on him a little bit, those responses were hard to read and not hold against him.
  2. I was caught off guard by just how delusional Dozier was about his second half.
  3. Yes, one of the higher upside pitchers. I don't care what Hughes weights or where Gibson was on the prospect list 5 years ago. May is one of the few potential starters with the ability to strike people out and the pitches to do it as a starter. That alone makes him pretty much the highest upside arm outside of Berrios. Santana is sort of a known quantity, there isn't a ton of upside in him.
  4. I think that's pretty unlikely. If May pitches well the argument becomes "he's too good to move back!" If he struggles it becomes "well if he can't hack the pen....." Guys just don't flip back and forth much, this likely is the end of the line for one of our higher upside SPs.
  5. This is the crux of it for me. In terms of upside, only Berrios exceeds May among guys likely to pitch for the Twins this year. We're trading that upside in to patch something we could've solved in other ways. I just can't get behind operating like that.
  6. That we did nothing via trade or free agency to bolster the bullpen and that we loaded our rotation with a number of overpriced FA signings. So now we move arguably the 2nd or 3rd best starter in the rotation out to the bullpen to compensate.
  7. Do you toss everyone out for their stats the first go around in the big leagues? Watch out Byron Buxton..... The freaking kid had 25 starts under his belt and was starting to show EXACTLY what you want from a young starter when we flipped him to the bullpen. It's patently absurd to argue that May's move to the pen had anything to do with his inability to be a starter. It had much more to do with the team's inability to field a competent bullpen and overspending on mid-tier FA starters. We should be investing in players like Trevor May for the future of this rotation, not using his talents to put a band-aid on roster blunders.
  8. I think this is an important point for any holding hope that May can return to the rotation in the future. It's just so uncommon for guys to flip back and forth successfully that we can pretty much mourn May's potential as a starter today. I hope he turns into a brilliant reliever, but I can't help thinking the team made a mistake here.
  9. I'm glad they didn't carry on the ruse of him competing any longer. I'd rather him start preparing for his role now if that's what the decision was always going to be any way.
  10. I'll go with the over...a full season of Wieters plus better depth helps them squeak by the over.
  11. I think the only way Sweeney or Quentin makes it is in addition to Arcia and Santana. And I just don't think we'll carry that thin of a pitching staff to start.
  12. Looks like no flip. Maybe he's warming up. I hope he flips on every home run and doesn't care one damn bit about people whining about it.
  13. I hope it was an epic flip. Gotta get ready for prime time.
  14. It's almost as if you can't just throw infielders in the outfield and expect magic! I'd say that's some sort of newsflash, but it appears someone should run the headline over to the Twins at some point here. But I like that we're giving Escobar the job right now. We have Polanco in the wings so I feel ok about the position, or at least more ok about it than I did last year.
  15. According to DRS on Fangraphs, he had a good year in 2004 but was otherwise pretty crappy from then on. Most other measures say the same thing.
  16. We still need that article talking about what a "floor" is.....
  17. Last year I was excited about Rosario and that worked out well. So I'm throwing my prospect hat in the Kepler ring this year. He brings so much to the table that this team will need. I, too, share the hope that he forces the Twins to rethink their outfield configuration.
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