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  1. TwinsDr2021
    Having the bases loaded with no outs is a bad thing? EDIT: Having the bases loaded with one out is a bad thing?
  2. TwinsDr2021
    The Buxton that was 0 - 4 with 3 K's can't bunt? He walked so not horrible call not bunting, but in a tie game in the 10th with guys at 1st and 2nd and no outs I telling Correa to bunt. If the home team comes up in extra innings and the away team didn't score, it should be an automatic bunt to start the inning.
  3. TwinsDr2021
    I think one of the reasons the Twins don't run is that usually the fastest guys on the team play up the middle. Correa hasn't stole a base since 2019 and only 6 since 2016, Polanco has never really stolen bases and isn't really that great at it. Buxton has been hurt and hasn't really been a big running threat for the last 5 years or so (again injuries) One of the biggest threats (Gordon) doesn't really get on base, and none of the other outfielders run really at all. Not expecting anything from 3B, 1B, and C. That is how you get the 2022 MN Twins running game (Steals).
  4. TwinsDr2021
    You are reading what you want to hear, I am not saying at all what you are pretending I am saying so you feel smarter. I said the Twins are in first place and thus should try to fill holes without trading away their top prospects, that is their duty to the fans, their duty isn't to blow up the future for this year. Sure the odds might not be great to win the world series but they can still improve this team to up the odds, just like they did with Gray and Correa. I have also said trading away top prospects for what others assume is a number 1 pitcher (Montas) isn't the solution for multiple reasons, the cost is high and the Twins don't ride number 1 type pitchers like teams have done in the past (In the playoffs and regular season) Maybe I misread what Whitey333 wrote (Current Twins team has many holes and deficiencies to make playoffs this year IMO), I thought he was writing that that teams that are close shouldn't worry about trading prospects because they normally don't work out anyway but this year isn't the year to do it because this team can't make the playoffs anyway.
  5. TwinsDr2021
    You veered way off topic, but I will play along. Do the Twins players know the odds have them with no shot and if so why even keep up the charade of playing? Or maybe the front office might see this and say our odds might go up if we could fill some holes, I mean their odds went up with the Gray trade and the Correa signing.
  6. TwinsDr2021
    So ignore the fact that have performed well enough to be in 1 place, and go with the odds. Brilliant! I don't care if the Twins win the world series this year, I want them to try to make the team better, make the playoffs and not fold like a cheap suit.
  7. TwinsDr2021
    Well they are in first place on June 20th, little to nobody thought that was possible, thus my lightening in a bottle comment. Don't care what others say about no chance without a number 1, the Twins have pretty much proven they aren't going to pitch a number 1 pitcher like a number 1 pitcher has pitched in the past, and yes I have said I agreed with you over and over about not mortgaging the future for 1 guy without controllable years. (if the player has multiple years of control, IMO that really isn't mortgaging the future, that is part of building a future.) I gave my opinion. hence IMO. Also IMO you can't always be building a team at some point you have to say the team is built (while continuing to build for the future) and take a chance on trading for help. Sure people could say this isn't the team wait until Larnach, AK, Miranda, Winder, and other get better, but what if they don't, then they are building for years down the road and I don't believe the Twins have enough goodwill with the fans to keep kicking the can down the road. Maybe you and others disagree but with my SSS, I don't think they have.
  8. TwinsDr2021
    If your belief is similar to Whitey333 that they can't make the playoffs this year, then you are 100% correct, you trade established players for more prospect to continue building the pipeline. But you believe that the Twins have caught a little lighting in a bottle this year, then you can trade a few prospects to fill needs and try to make a run. If it works great, if not you haven't sacrificed the near future for this year. Which IMO means you don't trade Miranda, Lewis, Ryan, Ober, Winder and probably SWR. But for the right guy(s) with multiple years of control Balazovic, Martin, Canterino, Steer, Wallner, Sands, Enlow, Sabato, Varland (just a few examples) could be used (1 or maybe two at the most) to fill some holes for the right player(s). That IMO is how to build a team a little bit of everything. FA(Correa), Prospects trade (Gray), Sign your own guy (Buxton), Trade players almost out of control (Berrios, Rogers), Make a move to fill holes if everything seemingly is falling into place. (Trade a few decent prospects, with the expectation that will be replenished by trading vets later.
  9. TwinsDr2021
    That is because adaptive cruise control is terrible. If I set the cruise at 60, I want to go 60 not the speed of the car in front of me. Off soap box!
  10. TwinsDr2021
    Nobody on this list is going to cost Miranda, Steer or Laranch. But my guess is that were it kind of starts for Montas. Old relief pitchers or relief pitchers that only have control to the end of the year don't cost that much, they will cost more getting them before the deadline, but that cost comes with having them pitch longer for you.
  11. TwinsDr2021
    The guy is 7 for 53 since 5/23. one could argue that is is the opposite of turning the corner. I hate the stat Should be - "ZIPS believes that Jeffers should be slugging .441" He is slugging .329 for the season, end of the story on what has happened. Now I do like using the stats to predict how somebody should be moving forward, and that seems like a good sign for Jeffers, and fingers crossed he figures it out.
  12. TwinsDr2021
    Way too many lost years from the guys in the minors, with injuries and Covid, maybe time to try something different with these pitchers? IMO it seems there have been an excess of injuries with guys brought though the minors.
  13. TwinsDr2021
    Do you see this division not being one of the worst two in the near future? If your answer is no, does that mean you never will trade? IMO trading a few prospects isn't selling off your future. Now I would agree with you if Miranda was traded for a relief pitcher or a starting pitchers with little to no control and no ability or want to sign that pitcher long term.
  14. TwinsDr2021
    Just reminding everybody Miranda is a 1 1/2 younger than Steer. EDIT: Correction 1/2 younger!
  15. TwinsDr2021
    At this point I think bullpen is more important and I am not trading Miranda for bullpen help. I can't imagine a pitcher like Montas signs an extension here without some guarantees that he will be allowed to be a traditional type starter and not a guy that gets pulled on pitch count or number of times though the lineup. Would the Twins do that? Should they do that? I wouldn't be afraid to trade some of the seemingly injury prone type pitching pipeline for help.
  16. TwinsDr2021
    You left out the minor detail that Berrios was 22 and Sands will turn 25 next month. You don't have to DFA him, but could use him as part of a deal to get a relief pitcher.
  17. TwinsDr2021
    If Oakland would take Sands, Steer and some non-40 man young prospect and the Twins haven't done that, the FO should be fired. I don't believe the A's would take that deal, I think they would laugh and hang up. The Twins got Martin and SWR for basically the same pitcher, so I would assume the Twins would have to give up something close, do the twins have anything close? Besides those two guys? I don't think so. So IMO the Twins would have to Offer a Winder/Ober/SWR and Martin. So basically to get Montas they Twins will have had to trade Berrios last year and not have any major league play from the guys for the first 60 plus games this year, can't in a 100 years see this front office doing that, and they shouldn't.
  18. TwinsDr2021
    I wouldn't trade AK or Laranch for a relief pitcher, I wouldn't give up a major league player for a relief pitcher either. I would try to win them over with minor league pitchers, starting with Sands.
  19. TwinsDr2021
    101 pitches for Sands does that officially mean the Twins are done with him? "This was his best start ... I thought he threw the ball really well." Rocco, He gave up 5 runs in 4 2/3 and that is his best start, not a good sign, I have enough of the Sands experiment, time to see if another team thinks this 25 year old pitcher is worth anything (he will be 25 in a month) I will add sitting Buxton and Correa at home on a Saturday was unacceptable (it worked Saturday), Me and my son were planning on going but we waited to get tickets until the lineup was announced and then decided not to, Had no plans on going today since Sands was pitching and that was going to be a loss no matter how well Buxton and Correa played, sure I get they were facing a lefty today and Saturday was a day after a night game, blah, blah, blah, but am not paying full price to see that lineup.
  20. TwinsDr2021
    It is good to see the held SWR to 69 pitches, can't have the minor league pitchers getting hurt.
  21. TwinsDr2021
    Seems exactly the type of pitcher the Twins like ?
  22. TwinsDr2021
    I think for sure they ask for the players you mentioned and maybe more. I wouldn't include Ryan in a trade for either, I wouldn't want to include Winder either, but might if the other players are lowered ranked than Duran/Steer/Martin. Would the Twins be willing to part with Ober? of the three major league starters he would be the one I would be most willing to part with, I just don't see him staying healthy. (But other teams may feel the same), Going with the Median - The trade simulator loves Ryan (32.2) and Lewis (33.2) (and Kepler(30.5) for that matter), but ober, Winder and Balazovic are 15.8, 17.6, 15. Based on that it would take two of them plus another top prospect, or one of them and Martin plus another prospect. All seems like overpaying and too much prospect capital.
  23. TwinsDr2021
    Anybody but Duffey, but prior to last night this guy has pitched in 5 games, three against Detroit and two against KC, not sure that taken for anything more than what it is.
  24. TwinsDr2021
    It seems like the are treating the minor league pitchers like they do in the majors, couple of times though the lineup with a pretty low pitch count, Seems like they are setting up the pitchers to get injured, 100% effect for a short period. This is my opinion IMO this is the type of player you fast track though the minors, He is already 24.
  25. TwinsDr2021
    Why is a 24 year pitcher mowing players down to the tune of a 1.99 era averaging less than 5 innings a start and still in high A?
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