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  1. RonCoomersOPS
    By that standard, Eric Milton should be in the hall of fame. He had a 13-strikeout game and threw a no-hitter, and they were even the same game!
  2. RonCoomersOPS
    Nick Punto. That guy really battled out there, got after it, and did all the little things every day.
  3. RonCoomersOPS
    I'd give a C so far. They have done the thing that they absolutely needed to do (extending Buxton), and they did it in a way that is unlikely to badly damage the team's current and future competitive positions. They brought in one pitcher in Bundy without blowing up future competitiveness, which is okay, and they got rid of the black hole that is Jake Cave's roster spot. I'd like to see Pineda back, and I'd further like to see them bring in a pitcher of the Montas or Castillo caliber. I'm looking at 2022 as the year that they start to see solid contributions from Winder, Duran, Balazovic, Miranda, and at least one of Martin or Lewis. If we can get at least a couple of those guys integrated and manage to finish somewhere between second and fourth in the division, I'm totally fine with that this upcoming season.
  4. RonCoomersOPS
    You should probably direct your anger at Berrios. It takes two parties to make a contract. One of the parties in this case consistently said he was going to test free agency, end of story, so the other party did what they felt was best in terms of maximizing the value of their assets. That he immediately signed with the team the FO traded him to is at least as much an indication of Berrios' character, or a statement about the not particularly inclusive nature of his former team's fan base, as it is a condemnation of the FO or the Pohlads.
  5. RonCoomersOPS
    Minor League games at Target Field in 2022 would indictate that CBA negotiations got, uh, kind of out of hand this winter.
  6. RonCoomersOPS
    Nope. I would still rather see J.A. Happ play shortstop over Simmons next year.
  7. RonCoomersOPS
    This. I don't want to see him at Target Field ever again. Not even as a member of the visiting team.
  8. RonCoomersOPS
    Oliva is a no-brainer in my book, a d it's a damned shame it took so long to get him into the HOF. He should have been inducted ages ago. Kaat feels like a soft pick to be honest. The guy pitched for approximately 3 eternities, yet only amassed 50 bWAR? The gold gloves are really remarkable and he had a couple of very strong years, but I guess to me it feels like his overall numbers indicate a Hall of Very Good type of player. In any case, good for him getting into the HOF.
  9. RonCoomersOPS
    I don't think it's that they don't like flame throwers so much as it is they want pitchers who can get lots of outs in lots of different ways. Ryan's deceptive delivery and Ober's ability to mix up his pitch sequencing throughout his starts are two non-heat tools that come to mind.
  10. RonCoomersOPS
    Why not more than one of these guys? The Baseball Trade Simulator says that Kepler, Arraez, and Canterino is almost exactly equivalent value as Montas and Manaea, for example. You could do a lot worse than Montas, Manaea, Bundy/Maeda/Winder, Ober, and Ryan in your starting rotation, and that trade wouldn't totally kill the lineup.
  11. RonCoomersOPS
    If it was up to me, with Buxton having been extended, I would be looking to start Celestino in LF with Larnach in RF. That gives you the chance to see if the adjustments that Celestino seems to have made in St. Paul are real, while not rushing Martin. Larnach is better suited for RF, I think, and Kepler might have more trade value now than we could ever reasonably expect him to have moving forward.
  12. RonCoomersOPS
    I'm not sure we can count on Kepler being on the team this year, especially as FA pitchers keep coming off the board and not landing in Minnesota. If he is still on the team come opening day, great. He's option #1. Celestino is probably option #2. If Kepler is moved for pitching, then it's probably Celestino as option #1 and Gordon as option #2. I think the Twins should put Martin in LF and leave him there. Same with Lewis and SS. Cave is probably not going to make it to the opening day roster.
  13. RonCoomersOPS
    I'm curious what this means for Royce Lewis? Does the FO see him as a shortstop moving forward (meaning his recovery must be going very well) or is he now trade bait for some high-end pitching (Castillo? Montas?)?
  14. RonCoomersOPS
    Torii Hunter, from 2002 to 2015, was good for all of 23 defensive runs saved above average according to Fangraphs. If you throw out 2002 and 2003, he was good for -11 defensive runs above average. Yeah, sure, he might have been a world beater from 1998-2002, but we don't have that data. Hunter also turned in pretty poor range runs above average for most of his career, too. Fangraphs has him at -7.4 range runs above average for his entire career, in fact. For the last 8 years of his career, he posted only one above league average season according to this metric. And, if you look at Hunter's Inside Edge Fielding numbers (which, admittedly, were only collected during his last few years in the league), you'd see that he was really only consistently good for converting likely or routine plays into outs. I hate to say it, but the numbers point to Hunter not getting many (if any) extra outs nor preventing many runs relative to his CF peers for most of his career. He made some great plays thanks to his wheels and it's nice to over-remember them, but once his wheels started to give out his advanced numbers kind of really expose the bad routes and the bad positioning. I've no doubt he falls short of Cooperstown. He might even fall quite a bit short of New York.
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    It would be really problematic for me if he was elected to the HOF. One, his offensive stats just aren't good enough (imagine putting him in the HOF alongside Willie Mays and Ken Griffey Jr.). Two, his defensive accolades were largely a result of his pure speed being able to make up for terrible routes, bad positioning and poor reactions; as soon as age took away his wheels, he became a RF and not a particularly good one at that. Three, imagine electing to the HOF in 2021 someone who said he would have problems if he knew he had gay teammates. That he got elected to the Twins Hall of Fame with that commentary already on the record is really problematic; it would not reflect well at all on the league if they elected that guy to the Major League Hall of Fame as well.
  16. RonCoomersOPS
    I'd definitely trade for Manaea, especially if we could get Frankie Montas back as well. The Baseball Trade Simulator says that Arraez, Kepler, and Canterino for Manaea and Montas would be a bit of an overpay from our side, but I would do that trade 11 times out of 10 if I were Levine.
  17. RonCoomersOPS
    The Rays are a very well run team and have generally been very competitive for a while now. We could do a lot worse than running the team in the "Tampa Bay way" (see also "The Twins Way").
  18. RonCoomersOPS
    They're already better than those fossils.
  19. RonCoomersOPS
    On top of this, I think most have forgotten just how terrible our pitching and pitcher development was under the previous FO. That we have as many guys as we do in the upper minors who look like they are going to be capable MLB pitchers -- even if only two guys have major league experience so far -- is evidence of a lot of progress.
  20. RonCoomersOPS
    Because people are trying to have it both ways.
  21. RonCoomersOPS
    Yes, without question they're better than the previous FO. My dead cat is better than the previous FO. Yeah they have made a few mistakes, but so does every FO. I guess I question which trades they've traded away more value than they've recieved. Wade for Anderson, sure, but beyond that?
  22. RonCoomersOPS
    For sure. The previous FO was a terrible judge of talent, and the previous couple of field management staffs were terrible at using what they had. This FO seems pretty good at player identification and player development, relatively speaking at least. Hence the "it's not 2012 anymore" comment.
  23. RonCoomersOPS
    Fair enough. I meant post after post after post. It's just incessant.
  24. RonCoomersOPS
    I, for one, look forward to Buxton signing an extension and watching this site find another reason to move the goalposts. The "Falvine is incompetent!!!!!!" threads never get old.
  25. RonCoomersOPS
    Also to Buxton, sign the extension. They can make all the offers they want, but if he's unwilling to sign then that's his decision and the FO will be correct in moving him.
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