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  1. TheLeviathan
    Absolutely, at the end of the day all the mistakes I worry they made could turn out to have been brilliant maneuvers by the team. I just take major issue with tossing the team shade already for their roster management.
  2. TheLeviathan
    We don't know how their choices will work out. But it was their choice to do all of the things you listed. They weren't backed into any corners or without alternatives. They willfully walked into their decisions. They deemed this the best way to go - fail or succeed it was their call. We should judge the results as such, not start giving them preseason cover that this was somehow the only way things could be.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Kepler is about 40% of my insistence on trading Plouffe. We NEED a batter like Kepler, he might step in immediately as the best leadoff hitter on the roster until Buxton improves his pitch recognition.
  4. TheLeviathan
    They could have moved Plouffe. They could have kept Sano at DH. They could have moved Mauer to DH and played Sano at 1B. Quit trying to give the team excuses. They had a multitude of options. These are the choices they made. They chose not to sign any relievers. They chose not to trade for any relievers. They chose to give Duffy and Nolasco preference to May in the rotation. They chose to move the 22 year old and not the 29 year old to the OF. They chose to sign Park. We may judge, at the end of this, that their choices were correct. But they weren't backed into a freaking corner, that's so preposterous.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Yeah the forced hand presentation of these choices is so terrible. It is about May in the bullpen. It is about Sano in RF. The team willfully made those choices and should be judged by their success or failure as such.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Again, Milone didn't have to move. We could be rolling out Santana, Milone, Gibson, May, and Hughes if we wanted to. We didn't want to. That's really all it boils down to.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Chances are that he'd be just fine. Predicting who will or will not be an effective bullpen arm is not much of a science, it's more guesswork. In either case, we didn't have to remove Milone from the roster to put May in the rotation.
  8. TheLeviathan
    You only have to "dump Milone" if you count what they did with May as "dumping May"
  9. TheLeviathan
    He's made 25 freaking starts, this argument is so terrible. Let's dump Buxton too if we're going to use this kind of argument.
  10. TheLeviathan
    But, as you kind of admit, these are all self-imposed problems. The team should be having Santana, Hughes, Gibson, and May in the rotation and had a three way competition for the fifth spot. They chose instead to move one of their upside starters to the bullpen, admittedly as a temporary act. It's pretty rare for guys to effectively bounce back and forth, so either the team is deluding themselves about May going back or they are deliberately feeding Trevor May false hope. Either way, they created this problem with their own choices: infatuation with a lefty starter, non-spending/trading during the offseason on relievers, and over spending on mediocre starters in FA in the past. All of that has lead to a real wasted opportunity to utilize Trevor May in the best position to help this team - pitching more innings as a starter.
  11. TheLeviathan
    We could use the same mentality in the rotation which, as you may know, pitches far more innings. This team cornered itself and people are rushing to justify it. Ugh.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I imagine Trevor May standing out in the bullpen with a single tear running down his cheek. I have many tears on the other hand.
  13. TheLeviathan
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  14. TheLeviathan
    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.
  15. TheLeviathan
    I was caught off guard by just how delusional Dozier was about his second half.
  16. TheLeviathan
    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.
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  21. TheLeviathan
    Under, I don't like that lineup.
  22. TheLeviathan
    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.
  23. TheLeviathan
    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.
  24. TheLeviathan
    6th or 7th huh? Well then....
  25. TheLeviathan
    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.
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