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  1. TwinsDr2021
    Here is the list from MLB - Trea Turner (29, 12.1 WAR) Xander Bogaerts (30, 10.2) -- Can opt out Carlos Correa (28, 9.7) -- Can opt out Dansby Swanson (29, 9.1) Tim Anderson (30, 6.7) -- Can opt out Elvis Andrus (34, 4.2) -- Can opt out José Iglesias (32, 3.0) Alcides Escobar (36, 1.1) Andrelton Simmons (33, 0.6) Marwin Gonzalez (33, -0.1) Dee Strange-Gordon (35, -0.3) Didi Gregorius (33, -1.1) I am not sure where they are getting the WAR from?
  2. TwinsDr2021
    Isn't that how 23 looks next year If Buxton is healthy, if Miranda figures it out, If AK comes back, If Larnach is the good player we seen for a minute, If Ryan improves, if Ober/Winder/Gray/Mahle aren't hurt, If Maeda comes back like 20 and not 21. If Jeffers can actually hit. If Polanco stays healthy. Lee is either going to be a stud or not, the longer he spends in the minors the less chance that is likely to happen. Start him in AA and if he gets hot get him up. (Like Atlanta has done with their prospects, minor league prospects don't have to spend years in the minors) It wouldn't be the end of the world if he is not up next year but he better be playing well enough that he is in the plans for 24.
  3. TwinsDr2021
    He might play for a team like the Tigers but anybody that starts a 26 year old career minor league player at short stop isn't being serious about contending.
  4. TwinsDr2021
    If Lee is as good as well all hope he should be ready for a call up next year, he turns 22 before the season and while that isn't old is shouldn't be unreasonable to expect him to get time next year.
  5. TwinsDr2021
    That is a sign of growth and progress right? ? See a problem/issue and fix it. (I mean sure we all would have liked to have this happen in game 49 instead of 149 but.....)
  6. TwinsDr2021
    What makes you think I expect more starting innings from Maeda, Ober or Winder? I have a feeling Ober will be on some sort of inning limit is whole career as a Twin, unless he magically stops getting hurt. I also expect Winder will be on some sort of innings limit since he only pitched 72 in 2021 and is very likely not going to make it that far this year. Maeda coming off a year off except he would be on a limit as well. Now the Twins could do what some have begged for this year and make them 40 game 3 inning pitchers to piggy back off of 5 innings starts or they could have them start 25 games and pitch 5 innings and burn the pen out again. I don't have any idea what how the Twins will do that. Maybe they let Ryan, Mahle and Gray being pitch into the 6th or 7th inning guys and they have the last two spots be piggy back type starts. IDK IMO I don't see the Twins changing much, I think they might let a few select starters go a bit deeper next year, but they better be damn near perfect, not let runners on after the 4th and have a low pitch count to boot. (Similar to Ryan's last two starts)
  7. TwinsDr2021
    "Therein lies the definition of the 2022 Minnesota Twins season: A failure to capitalize." Agree to disagree; 2022 should be the year of a bad plan and template for what not to do. (Players and Philosophy) They went into the season with no real plan B's. There Plan A was full of players that the odds say were probably going to get hurt based on their history. Gray, Ober, Winder, Buxton, AK, Archer. Or hadn't been all that good prior, Sano, Jeffers, Bundy, Sanchez, Kepler, Pagen, Jax, Smith. The starting outfield was Larnach, Buxton and Kepler and their plan B was? Celestino, Gordon, Garlick, Cave, Contreras, and AK? Wow, hard to believe that didn't work out great. When they decided to pay Correa and trade a first round pick for Gray, they should have shored up the back ups, they didn't. When everybody seen the bullpen was being overused early in the season they should have changed up what they were doing, they didn't (and I don't mean longer starts, that may have helped though). They let Chris Archer start 25 games (They team lost 16 of those games) and only pitched 102 innings with an ERA of 4.56. From June 14th on the team lost 11 of his 13 starts. They should have done something different with Buxton starting in July (He only had 14 singles in July and August and hit .214. Pagan blew 7 of his 16 save/hold chances? I could go on and on,
  8. TwinsDr2021
    I said yesterday Bundy should never pitch for the Twins again, they should thank him and pay him his remaining salary and say good luck next year. There is ZERO reason to have him on the Twins any longer. (FYI I would have said this even if he pitched a perfect 6 innings yesterday this season is over and he has no future with the team, or at least shouldn't.
  9. TwinsDr2021
    I don't see the twins moving off the philosophy of limiting pitcher exposure to the other teams lineup, if anything I see them moving the other way next year, more piggy backing or starter games to let the main pitcher get deeper into the game. For example start a Jax/Varland for two and then bring in a Winder/Ober for 5 innings and then only having to use two back end relief pitchers a game. Because them using 4/5 every night for one innings can't be the solution next year. Maybe they will let guys go further if they are on, but Ober/Winder/SWR for example will still be on a inning limit (I would think) after the innings they pitched this year.
  10. TwinsDr2021
    It is just a feeling I have that he isn't buying into the system. I could be completely wrong on that. But why spend 12 million on a guy that averaged less than 5 innings a start on the hope that a pitcher that usually get injured doesn't get injured?. I think they could get similiar results from one of the other six starters that have. Ryan, Mahle, Maeda, Ober, Winder, Varland or possibly SWR. Maybe a team like SF, Seattle, Houston, Toronto that seem to have a little different pitching philosophy would take him and a Larnach for example to fill a more needed void. (outfield, Catcher, something) or use that saving on extending Correa or another SS.
  11. TwinsDr2021
    IMO Ryan, Ober, Winder, Henriquez, and SWR gets all the rest of the starts, Maybe throw gray in for one or two. But I think he is traded after the year so don't really care about him getting any more.
  12. TwinsDr2021
    He doesn't do a lot for me, I like that he is a young 22 and has a high K rate, but he seems like a relief pitcher going forward. Hope I am 100% wrong on that.
  13. TwinsDr2021
    Well if they move him expect a ton of short starts, he pitched 16 innings last year and only 65 so far this year, can't see them doubling that next year. Or maybe next year they actually piggy back starters and don't blow out the pen by June. At this point they have Gray, Ryan, Maeda, Mahle, Ober, Winder and Varland I would expect to be ahead of him as starters plus Paddack coming back. but I fully expect Gray to be traded and don't expect them to bring in any starters except for back up in AAA. As for May he wasn't that great of relief pitcher not sure he would have been better as a starter. (His career ERA is 4.35)
  14. TwinsDr2021
    Is there any reason to put a 23 year old with a career in the minors of .220 BA, .294 OBP and .390 SLG on the 40 man and hit .209 in AA? I think not and I also don't think there is any reason to put a 26 year old career minor league player on the 40, unless of course the Twins plan on converting him to a relief pitcher.
  15. TwinsDr2021
    I assumed that was satire or sarcasm because nobody can think you can make up 7 games and jump another team in 17 games. Cleveland play KC 6 times and Chicago 3 times, ?‍♂️
  16. TwinsDr2021
    I am not saying move on from him, but him being a 1st round pick and a college star was 4 years ago. Larnach like just about every Twins prospect has performed enough to keep people excited and not want to trade him, but not enough to decide if he is actually worth a starting spot (Minus Miranda).
  17. TwinsDr2021
    He has done nothing as this time and should be nothing more than a Plan B at this Point. Hopefully he pushes into a starters job.
  18. TwinsDr2021
    Coming into the season they had a former all star catcher and top prospect, former all star at first and top prospect right there, the guy at second was coming off a 4.9 WAR, All world SS, third was manned by Urshela and Arraez, Buxton and his 4+ WAR in Center, A solid RF and top prospects in LF, Traded a first round pick for Gray, Had super rookie Ryan, Stud second year pitcher Ober and signed Bundy and Archer and all that was just to get to .500? Prior to trading Donaldson, Garver, Petty and Rogers I could go along with .500, but then they signed a 35 million dollar all world short stop, traded a recent 1 st round pick, Donaldson, Garver and Rogers and a prospect pipeline just waiting to explode, and my expectations went up to higher than .500, maybe not 90+ but higher than .500. Now I don't blame this on Rocco, think it lies more with the FO, which is why I believe he will be back.
  19. TwinsDr2021
    My guess for what is next with Rocco is that he will meet with the FO and they will talk about minor tweaks to their approach and he will be managing the Twins in 23 and it will be very similiar to the last three years (I don't mean results, but that wouldn't surprise me, I mean style, game decisions, etc..)
  20. TwinsDr2021
    This is exactly where I was last night,
  21. TwinsDr2021
    3 of the first games of the season Gio Urshela was hitting 4th.
  22. TwinsDr2021
    an both have been pitching in the majors since age 22 and 23, so the odds say they are likely to out perform the guys getting to the majors later (Winder/Ober/Varland for example)
  23. TwinsDr2021
    What about the outfield next year, that seems like a huge question mark again. If they go into next year with Buxton, Kepler, AK/Larnach and nobody else for the 3rd year in a row?
  24. TwinsDr2021
    I put this in another thread. Coming into the year the twins top 6 starters were. Gary - 22 starts Ryan - 23 starts Bundy - 25 starts Archer - 25 starts Ober - 7 starts Paddack - 5 starts Smelzter - 12 starts That is 119 starts of 139 games, and they traded for Mahle and got three starts. that is 17 games that basically they had to fill the rotation and if you add Winder that is down to 10 games. The problem wasn't the injuries it was the top 4 pitchers killed the pen and this FO and manager decided to fill that void with mostly 1 inning relief pitchers. As for the injuries to the offensive guys Buxton and Polanco hurt the most, but if you are the FO you really need a plan B and C for Buxton because we all know he isn't playing the whole year. AK, Larnach, Jeffers have never done anything in the majors so again you need a plan if they can't hit or get hurt, doesn't seem like there was one. In conclusion the injuries hurt but more than the roster construction? I am not so sure.
  25. TwinsDr2021
    Totally agree with this take as well. Cleveland for example this year top 6 starters were 4th round (2016), 1st (15), 1st(16), 12th (16), 3rd(16) and 3rd (18). (not all their picks)
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