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  1. TwinsDr2021
    What is plan prior to him being healthy enough to play? and what is plan b if he isn't good?
  2. TwinsDr2021
    Sure, but wouldn't you think you could find somebody to take a 200K plus job in the majors to be a pitching coach?
  3. TwinsDr2021
    If this is true it is a damning statement that there are people turning down a job to be a major league pitching coach. If you can't find people that don't want to coach this way, it bet it would be even harder to find pitchers that want to pitch that way?
  4. TwinsDr2021
    The Twins have no real long term payroll committed to anybody but Buxton. Kepler has two years left at 8.5 and 10, Polanco has two years at 7.5 and 10. Otherwise Nothing. Ryan, Ober, Winder, Varland, SWR, Balazxovi, Enlow, Henriquez, Jax, Duran, Moran, AlcaSands and any other minor league pitcher that helps is basically free. Arraez isn't a free agent until 25, Jeffers, AK, Larnach, Lewis, Miranda are locked up past 25 if they want them. Any other minor league player that comes up is basically free as well. If they wanted to they could sign Judge (45), Correa (35) and Rodon (25), next year would be a pretty high payroll but they could trade Gray, Kepler an it still wouldn't be cray high. (Not saying they should do this but to pretend the Twins can't go out and get who they want is simply not true) The Twins can sign anybody they want to sign,
  5. TwinsDr2021
    Super star players aren't hard to trade, overpaid/injured players are.
  6. TwinsDr2021
    I think the major difference between the Twins players and Atlanta is that the Twins players are much older and does it make sense to extend people into their 30's? Arraez will be 29 when he is UFA, Ryan will be 32, assume Duran will be 31, Miranda will be 30 I think? I might extend Arraez and Miranda but not chance I am with Ryan and Duran.
  7. TwinsDr2021
    The Twins best pitcher Duran pitched only 4 more innings than Pagan, something is wrong with that stat. But like the rookie pitcher I am going with Ryan not sure Duran greatness makes up for the 79 less innings. IMO
  8. TwinsDr2021
    Well as of right now I am not counting on AK for anything, Larnach would be starting, Kepler a back up outfielder (or traded for anything if Wallner proves his worth). Arraez at 2nd, Polanco at SS, Miranda at 1B/DH, and Gio the third basemen. If Lewis or Lee comes up to play SS, Polanco moves to 2nd, Gio stays at third, Miranda to back up 1B/3B/DH and Arraez super utility playing 1B/2B/3B/DH/LF there would be plenty of at bats to go around. Again not my first choice but the improvements in the other spots would make up for things.
  9. TwinsDr2021
    I don't want Polanco at SS, just like I don't want Gio or Gordon at SS, what I was trying to say is if they upgraded OF and 1B/DH to two all stars or all star type players and upgraded the relief pitchers, I could go with that, because Lewis and/or Lee are worthy of taking over at SS, Polanco, Arraez, Gio and Miranda could be shuffled around to solidify the in field.
  10. TwinsDr2021
    Just to remind people Ober and Winder were going to be on some sort of pitching restrictions this year and both pitched less in in 2002 than 2021. So I don't see them being used much different than they were planned to be this year, now they are 26 and 27 so I don't really care about protecting them any longer and should have zero restrictions on innings or pitches (besides you know the magical 100 pitches) and if they can't handle that well they should no longer be in any plan that includes them as a starter and be regulated to the bullpen or gone, you can't hold 40 man spots for pitchers that old that can't stay healthy. Same with Maeda if he is a starter he should be pushed until he is no longer effective who cares about protecting a 35 year old FA to be arm?
  11. TwinsDr2021
    Isn't that the basically same team as 2202? minus a few swap outs? Mahle (currently injured) for Bundy AK (Currently injured) for Larnach Maeda (Currently injured) for Archer And Lopez for Pagan
  12. TwinsDr2021
    The idea that a team trying to win that starts Gordon or Urshela at SS with the hope that Lewis and/or Lee will be there to the save the day isn't a team really trying to win or is a team without a real plan on competing. If Lewis had more than 40 major league at bats or wasn't coming off another year ending injury I would have a different opinion. With that said I could go for that if they Twins went out and got an all star type right handed outfielder (starting outfield of said right handed bat, Buxton and Laranch with Gordon and Kepler 4th and 5th outfielders. Arraez at 2B, Polanco at SS, Gio at 3B and Miranda and another solid vet at 1B and DH. And money spent on relief pitching, even though I am not really seeing any free agent pitchers jumping out to me (maybe Ottavino or Trevor Williams?), I don't see the Twins signing a starting pitcher for big money and keeping with the starting philosophy they have. Is it just me is this like the worst ever Free Agents besides SS and a few starters that will never be Twins?
  13. TwinsDr2021
    I love what Atlanta has done with their prospects, while the Twins seemingly get very old before coming up, Atlanta brings up a players regardless of their age. I don't disagree with with what you are saying, but do you see this FO doing that? We were told Ryan and Ober were on innings limits this year. I would love for them to put Duran in the rotation, but not as 5 innings 80 pitch pitcher, maybe a few starts at the beginning of the year but after that let him go.
  14. TwinsDr2021
    I see what you are saying, but saying Jeffers and Kepler are bats might be a stretch. If they don't want pitching the trade simulator show Jeffers, Kepler, Polanco and Wallner being a slight over pay, you could replace Kepler with a young pitching prospect. Arraez and Miranda is larger overpay so I would assume the Twins would need something else back. Trading Arraez or Miranda without the other requires a Celestino and somebody else. To be honest none of those trades seem like things the Twins would do.
  15. TwinsDr2021
    I would guess because he will be 25 next season, didn't pitch in 2020, threw 16 innings in 21 and 67 this year. If they moved him to a starter next year he would mostly likely be on an innings/pitches limit for the next two years. My two cents
  16. TwinsDr2021
    I love what Duran did, but I can't give an award to a guy that pitched less than half the innings the other guy did. Ryan gets the award from me.
  17. TwinsDr2021
    I don't disagree with this option, my question is who are you willing to trade for this pitcher? Straight up for somebody would likely take Duran, Ryan or Lee. Otherwise it would need a combo of players most likely Ober or Winder and another top prospect. Larnach value is fairly high on the trade simulator but not high enough to get a Lopez type and would need somebody like SWR. Polanco or Arraez also probably take a Winder or Ober or highly rated prospect. The free agent starting pitchers don't look that great either.
  18. TwinsDr2021
    Should The Twins Look to Upgrade From Kyle Garlick? Yes, for sure, absolutely without a doubt. The guy will be 31 when the season starts and has done nothing to this point in his career to display he is anything more than an injury replacement level type of player. I can't see any team that is even pretending to compete giving him a major league job. Which that said good luck Kyle on your future.
  19. TwinsDr2021
    Hopefully they all go there and do well. Neither Martin or Julien are players I consider young. Both will be 24 very early next season so this is a pivotal time in their career, if they can go to the AFL and do well and have that carry over into early next year (Like Wallner) that could be exciting. If either struggle early next year I wouldn't consider them much of prospects and more likely just utility type player. If Wallner is not starting for the Twins next year he better be bashing and forcing the front office hand to get him up.
  20. TwinsDr2021
    You don't have to worry about Petty, The Reds allowed him to pitch 98 innings at age 19, so his career is basically over. It is my understanding if you jump from 5 innings to 98 your arm will be ruined fro for life, at least that is what I have read. ?
  21. TwinsDr2021
    I 100% agree on paper it looks much, much better, but if you dig into it it looks a little different. First the good news Ryan shouldn't be on any innings or pitch count (I mean outside of the magical 100). Now moving onto to Gray, he shouldn't be on a innings limit because he will be 33 next year, but he only pitched 119 and 135 the year and has made 26 and 24 starts. So you have to assume he will be hurt and miss multiple starts next year, if anybody goes into next season thinking Gray will start 30 and pitch over 150 innings you are pie in the sky crazy. (Yes, it could happen but everybody should be prepared and planned that it won't happen. Mahle, If healthy should be on not limits, but again he is 28 and only once has made more than 25 starts and pitched over 130 innings. So that maybe seems like there are some question marks on a full season (30 starts and 180 innings) is it more than 50/50 it will happen? IDK but I am planning on not. Ober will be 28 in July, basically been hurt every year of his career will be on some sort of innings and pitch count again. Winder another guy that has been hurt and will be on an inning and pitch count again. Maeda coming back from injury and minus 11 starts in 2020 (and his rookie season of 2016) has pretty much just been a decent pitcher and I imagine will be limited in some way. Varland will be a 25 year old rookie and there really shouldn't be a reason to limit him, they probably will, just like they did this year. So what you are calling Pessimism is probably more realism. I hope everything goes right for each of this pitchers, but that is all it is - blind hope. I look at these pitchers and say yes this doesn't look to bad, but there better be a back up plan for every one of these pitchers minus Ryan, and besides SWR and Cole I am not seeing that coming from the minors, so my skepticism is they bring more Bundy/Archer types in and hope the young guys force them out. (Rinse and Repeat of the last two years)
  22. TwinsDr2021
    IMO this is not true, they had the pitcher that finished 2nd in the CY, they had a future 100 million dollar pitcher, they brought back Pineda, they brought in Happ and his 3.57 ERA in 2020. And they had the pipeline to fill any needs (Ober did just that). Plus they brought in Colome and Robles to solidify the bullpen. They had basically the same lineup that won them the Division in 2020 and brought in Simmons. To say they weren't trying to win 2021 is revisionist history at best. What you are trying to sell is that this FO coming off of a Division title decided to bring in Happ, Colome, Robles and Simmons but weren't really trying?
  23. TwinsDr2021
    So are you saying you don't like the Twins self-righteousness and headstrong insistence on there's only one way to play baseball?
  24. TwinsDr2021
    I can't believe anybody is looking for the Twins to play that style of baseball all the time, just asking the Twins to play a bit more situational baseball, but if they are you are correct they are watching the wrong games.
  25. TwinsDr2021
    IMO there are two prospects in that list SWR and Henriquez, and I most excited about SWR. At 21 year old doing well at AA and AAA is always exciting. Duran is the best pitcher of the group but he spent the whole year in the majors so I don't consider him a prospect. The rest are all over 25 years old and still trying to prove themselves, so either they should have a job with the Twins next year or probably be gone, no reason taking up a 40 man spot on that old of pitchers that aren't in the majors. IMO
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