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  1. drjim
    He pitched through most of spring training, disclosed his pain soon after he was optioned. Should the team automatically know the difference between injury, soreness, and just poor performance for someone with minimal track record?
  2. drjim
    I'm not sure I'm giving them a pass. They took a shot om the guy and looks like it provided no benefit. The front office has not been flawless in their decisions obviously. But there were also working with terrible pitching depth, some bad contracts, and the need to break in some prospects. Did limit the options a little. Still not an excuse for Belisle and Breslow tho.
  3. drjim
    With Schwarber struggling now too, Gordon has a very legit chance to be the best player out of that draft. Depends on Conforto.
  4. drjim
    The vet signing and Hughes bullpen is a good option, would have played out ok anyways. But outside if that, trading Dozier for an injured AAA starter and signing better pitchers to minor league deals would not have worked, I don't think they really exist. Relievers yes, starters almost non-existant. They went into the season with 7 guys and some minor league deals amd a wildcard in Haley. They maybe could have added another starter by pushing Hughes to the pen, but that would have been giving up Haley.
  5. drjim
    Yes, they did sign minor league guys and they were the wrong ones. You dip in that pool the results are likely to be poor, as we have seen. Getting value out of minor league signings is the exception. I don't think citing Gee is much of a change from what they actually did. Just saying "they should have done more to fix the rotation" while also demanding they create space for prospects is so lame and contradictory, but of course so remarkably consistent in its own impressive way. (And I realize that you specifically are not saying this)
  6. drjim
    Clearly the Royals are lucky not to play the Twins recently.
  7. drjim
    Turley, Wimmers, Haley in addition to Breslow. Still some guys to go if needed.
  8. drjim
    Plus, if he shut it down earlier and didn't try and pitch through it, he might be healthy by now. It's just rarely black and white at the moment, between injury and soreness.
  9. drjim
    Seems like a relevant point with Gee now getting the call. Signing another vet starter in the spring made sense, but the cost would be pushing Berrios and Mejia further down the depth chart coming in, and also not giving May first crack at a spot in the rotation. The front office really only had two options. Sign a vet and push prospects back or backfill with minor league signings and scrambling when it blows up. It's the consequence of mediocre pitching in the system they inherited.
  10. drjim
    Maybe, but he also never let them know he was hurt trying to win a spot out of spring. And he did reinjure himself since the original spring training injury.
  11. drjim
    So now you're advocating they should have signed more veterans last offseason to block younger pitchers for even longer coming into the year?
  12. drjim
    This doesn't make much sense. They haven't had a need for a 40 man spot, so why would they give up money and service time for nothing?
  13. drjim
    In the Twins defense, they still don't have much need for a 40 man roster spot.
  14. drjim
    I agree with this. I am interested to see how it all shakes out at the end. As good as the 2012 draft was for the Twins, they left significant money on the table, and to a lesser extent in the the 13, 14, 15 drafts too. That's a few extra hs arms they could have in the system right now.
  15. drjim
    Maybe, but I imagine they had plenty of information and likely even a deal with Enlow before the 35 and 37 even came up. They would have known that Carlson wanted $2mil and that they Mariners were hot on him, so they would have had to pick him at 37 to get him, and decided to pass. I imagine most of the overslot high school deals are pretty locked in before the wave of second picks start to happen.
  16. drjim
    I personally don't have much of a strong opinion on any of the hs rhs from the draft (aside from Greene). If the Twins passed on Enlow and took a different pitcher I would almost certainly default to trusting their scouting/process. The BA/mlb.com rankings are fine, but the difference between say 25 and 95 when dealing with hs rhs is so small that I'm not going to be that concerned either way. I just assumed people were extra sensitive about Carlson because he was a local kid and they had actually heard of him.
  17. drjim
    I realize I just did a little bit of a flip flop on Gonsalves, but did a little bit of a deeper dive over my lunch break inspired by birdwatcher's post. I am concerned about his low inning totals in his past several starts. 6, 5, 5, 7. If he is ready to move along he should be going 7 on a regular basis (allowing the occasional slip up). He has decent stuff, but not electric. If he is having trouble putting away AA hitters in an economy of pitches he'd get absolutely killed by major league hitters. I would guess the front office will want him to put together at least 3-4 good, deep starts in AA before he moves up to AAA. Once there, they'll probably want at least 10 starts. He is a good distance away from being able to compete in the bigs, the Twins will keep cycling through retreads before forcing him up in a position to fail. They would maybe call up a Romero type to see if they can catch lightening (though not Romero this year because of inning limitations), but that is not the type of pitcher Gonsalves will be. He may get a couple starts in September if they fall out, just to give him a taste, but they aren't going to put him out there in a competitive game unless he really rips off something like 10 good starts in a row.
  18. drjim
    I'm skeptical, but if he is promoted it might mean the front office thinks he is further along than I would guess observing from afar.
  19. drjim
    His hr rate has also spiked a little. Might be a fluke, might be the result of improvements in k and bb rates and to be more economical with his pitch counts. Seems like he has a few things to tighten up in AA, and should need to make around 10ish starts in AAA before he's even considered for the majors. I had higher hopes when he first got back healthy that he might move quicker, but there is clearly some development still needed. I think he might get a couple of starts in the majors if the Twins fade, but they aren't going to use him if they are still in the race. Likely he goes into next season as the 7th or 8th starter.
  20. drjim
    I always took that as longing for a local kid more than any sort of desire from the Twins. They would have known how much he cost and what other teams would have wanted him. Passing on him on 35 and 37 made it pretty clear they had other priorities.
  21. drjim
    All that said, if the Twins are still in it in September, I highly doubt Gonsalves comes up, unless they add no one and are desperate for a starter. And even then I'm skeptical. He's potentially a fine 3-4 (more 4) going forward, but not the type that would really play up in the pen. Much more likely, in my mind, that Romero comes up as a reliever.
  22. drjim
    I don't think a potential cup of coffee in September is rushing him, and it would be an especially good idea if the Twins fade and are out of it by then. But expecting him to be an effective starter in August for a team trying to compete instead of potentially adding a cheap (Pavano-like) option would be a mistake.
  23. drjim
    If Gordon was hitting like this as a college SS he would have been picked #1 overall.
  24. drjim
    Was the ability to afford him ever in question? Always struck me as a scouting/ranking decision.
  25. drjim
    By trading Erv for prospects this summer. Not sure rushing Gonsalves is the answer to this dilemma.
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