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  1. drjim
    A very real counter to all I've said is going down in Cincinnati. Amir Garrett and Rookie Davis both made the opening day rotation despite no major league experience. I think this ends poorly, but it is a good example of a team having no chance throwing the young guys out there. Will be interesting to follow. Also looks like Stuart Turner makes the team, at least initially.
  2. drjim
    That is probably true. I thought even before the WBC the Twins would look to start Berrios in the minors to manage innings (or at least keep them lower stress). Really hard for a pitcher that young to answer the bell from day one and make it through the season.
  3. drjim
    It's not like the backend of the Dodgers opening day rotation is anything special. They're throwing vets out there to see what sticks and keeping the young guys as AAA depth. Sounds pretty familiar actually.
  4. drjim
    And? He was a very good performer at the end of the year, a consensus top prospect and was ready to go.
  5. drjim
    As an example of how run of the mill it is keeping a pitcher like Berrios down, Urias is starting in AAA for the Dodgers. He pitched about the same as Berrios in the bigs last year and is much better. Pretty standard stuff.
  6. drjim
    You sure people are saying that? No development in the majors?
  7. drjim
    He made 14 starts in the majors last yeat. He was promoted. He got a chance. He sucked. He missed a large chunk of spring training. But he'll be back. Probably pretty quick.
  8. drjim
    No excitement for the Hughes gem so far? The loser of the Mejia/Duffey showdown is going to be relatively moot.
  9. drjim
    For starters, Santiago has multiple full seasons as a major league starter with at least some success. Berrios hasn't done a thing in the big leagues. Pushing him into this role is setting him up for failure, if not injury. He's much too valuable for that. I don't think the front office or Molitor care about criticism on this issue. And yes, a young pitcher who has less than a half year of experience in the bigs with terrible performance doesn't usually crack the opening day rotation for any organization, unless they show something for a sustained time in spring training. So very run of the mill.
  10. drjim
    This strikes me as too clever by half. Isn't the easiest course of action just to believe Molitor and the front office? I understand the disagreement, but sending Berrios is a pretty run of the mill decision that pretty much any other front office would have done. No need for a conspiracy.
  11. drjim
    Either Mejia or Duffey will start in the rotation to begin the season. If Berrios had been here from day one, getting his innings and being evaluated, he absolutely could have beat those two out. I think it was far from certain he would have went to the minors. He obviously wasn't Plan A going into spring, but once May was hurt it opened up the competition.
  12. drjim
    Tough, but fair.
  13. drjim
    Probably works. But what has Berrios done on the major league level that should force the Twins front office/management to create a special schedule for him to make sure he is on the opening day roster? Seems to me the risks outweigh the rewards. Pushing a young pitcher like that sets him up for failure and increases injury risk. He'll get plenty of starts in the bigs. If the obsession is getting Hughes out of the rotation, Mejia and Duffey would be ahead of Berrios at this time anyways.
  14. drjim
    You really think Berrios isn't going to get a whole of starts in the bigs this year? I know it's all we have right now, but the opening day roster is extremely overrated. It's a different game than 35 years ago.
  15. drjim
    I guess I don't know what else you are looking for. Molitor seems to be expressing a talking point that would have been decided by everyone.
  16. drjim
    Molitor is the public, day to day face of a group effort.
  17. drjim
    It would stun me if Falvey and Levine were as hands off as you suggest. The might give a little extra weight to Molitor's opinion that they might not in the future, but it is their show. Probably also a massive mistake to assume the moves you disagree with would be different if only Falvey and Levine were making it instead of Molitor.
  18. drjim
    Hughes will get 3-4 starts in the bigs to start the year, but I don't think his leash will that long. If his velo doesn't recover he'll get bounced to the bullpen or the DL. But he is going to get a handful of starts.
  19. drjim
    Why stop at Berrios? Get rid of everyone!
  20. drjim
    We should start a collection of all the banal things the Twins do, similar to all other orgs, that result in a post with "only in the Twins org would..."
  21. drjim
    Out of curiosity how did they define "committing to rebuilding"? Seems that would be nebulous enough to finesse the data to come up with whatever conclusion you want.
  22. drjim
    I see your point on Hughes - he does have the benefit of being a veteran and having a guaranteed contract. He is coming back from a very serious injury, so they are probably not counting spring as much as they would with others. He'll have by far the shortest leash of the 4 veterans, maybe only 3-4 starts. If he can't perform he'll go on the DL or get bounced to the long man, and one of the young guys will get their chance.
  23. drjim
    I don't think you can even do that do a reliever except on really rare occasions. Once a reliever gets warm really quickly and isn't used, he can't just sit down and warm up multiple times before coming in. Recipe for injury. He either comes in that inning or starts the next one or isn't going to be available that day and often not the next day either. That is not a sustainable use of reliever resources. That is why roles develop, either by plan or organically.
  24. drjim
    I do think a young player should have to beat out an older/established player. That just mirrors the reality of most other industries. This isn't "rigged". Beyond that, a big part of the disconnect is that if a player is established it is very easy to point out and hammer on their weaknesses, while on the flip side with a younger player it is very easy to dream on what they might be, even if (or perhaps especially because) they have never done anything in majors to prove that reality. I want young players to succeed and take positions, I really do. But I don't understand the hurry to give them spots on the roster they haven't done anything to earn. Or the thinking of "let's just put out there and they'll be fine." The big leagues is hard. Doubly so if players are put in a position that does not maximize their ability to succeed.
  25. drjim
    Does anyone here, ever, lay any accountability at the feet of the young player? Or are their failures always the fault of coaching and management?
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