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  1. Danchat
    That took forever, but hey, our first series win in Houston in 7 years!
  2. Danchat
    Ryan deserves a shot... and I wouldn't mind seeing Strotman. Perhaps they could piggy-back Strotman with Ober to cover in the innings, or something like that. It should go without saying I have no interest in seeing Shepherd or Albers pitching here.
  3. Danchat
    Polanco! I just wish he would have hit like this back when we were competing for something. He's really taken Cruz's place in the lineup now. Could he hit 30 HRs this year?
  4. Danchat
    If Arraez had enough PAs, he'd currently be in 6th place for the MLB batting title. If you're only counting AL teams, then it'd be 4th.
  5. Danchat
    Houston's problem is that they might lose a 4 game series to a cellar dweller!
  6. Danchat
    I can't blame the FO for moving a lottery ticket for a 4th OF who provided some value in his first couple seasons (I wish they'd make more trades dipping into their farm system), but they've doubled down and completely failed to see that Cave's struggles in 2020 were not flukey. And they also sold really low on Wade.
  7. Danchat
    Emmanuel Rodriguez has hit 5 HRs in his first 60 PAs in the minors... not bad for an 18 year old. As for Palacios, I think it will come down to whether the FO thinks he can handle SS well enough. If he can, he should be protected and should see some time in AAA soon.
  8. Danchat
    Yup, that looked foul to me too.
  9. Danchat
    Yeah, I agree. I think Julien and Palacios will make it up at some point, and I'm bullish on Varland.
  10. Danchat
    I suppose, though Kirk is likely going to be the 3rd best QB on the trade market after Rodgers and Watson (assuming his situation clears up, I think he gets moved over the 2022 offseason). The Colts have 4 years of Wentz, and they have him at roughly $26M a year through 2024, though the guarantees mostly protect him in his 2022, but moving him would be possible. It'd just be weird for them to move on so quickly. Teams like the Giants, Steelers, and Broncos would make sense.
  11. Danchat
    It's $20M dead if traded this year, $10M next year, but the other team has to pick up the $56M guaranteed. The 49ers may have been an option to trade to, but since they moved 3 firsts for Lance, that's off the table. I don't know if any team would want to trade for Cousins and pay him $35M in 2022.
  12. Danchat
    Here's who lands inside the top 40:
  13. Danchat
    Well, good luck figuring out how to handle his $76M dead cap hit once you release him. ? I do feel like it's too reactionary to say the "season is over". Sure, Kirk might miss a game or two... and I find the chances of a forfeited game to be incredibly slim since 70% of the roster is vaxed and the rest are split up by position (e. g. when Mond caught the virus, only the QBs hit the COVID list and nobody else).
  14. Danchat
    Another injury to a key pitching prospect... such is the 2021 season.
  15. Danchat
    Minaya's coming out for the save with the runner on 2nd? Yikes.
  16. Danchat
    Well, I could, though he'd lose a ton of value not playing in the outfield. Arraez, conversely, doesn't bring a whole lot of value in the field. He injured something amidst a swing, and evidently it was something he hurt earlier in the game but was toughing it out. I haven't been watching closely.
  17. Danchat
    I love Arraez as a hitter, but he just has zero durability and it's not going to improve as he gets older. I legitimately think that DH will be in his future at some point... and it will help that there will be 15 more DHs at some point.
  18. Danchat
    Dick and Roy are going on praising Ober for his strike-throwing and delivery, but haven't seemed to mention that he's given up 6 hits to just 10 outs so far.
  19. Danchat
    Outside of Duffey and Thielbar, I’d legitimately take the AAA bullpen over the MLB one. Moran should be up now, Hamilton too.
  20. Danchat
    It'd be Browning... Mond also didn't get the vaccine, so he's in the same boat as Kirk. Good thing we've guaranteed $45M to Kirk in 2022! That can't possibly backfire.
  21. Danchat
    5 IP, 0 runs, 0 Ks. Odd start for Jax.
  22. Danchat
    I do think you need to put the player’s whole minor league career into perspective, as Miranda didn’t hit all that well in the low minors. I could see people calling his 2021 season an outlier if his career doesn’t go well.
  23. Danchat
    It's been hard to accrue innings when the 2020 season got skipped, the 2021 minor league season got to a late start, and now prospects all around baseball are dropping like flies due to injuries. Everyone's prospects got a year older with no experience, and a lot of these guys played their first full season in 2019. I know this sounds like a load of excuses, but the pandemic has put a hold on the team's pitching pipeline and there's nothing they could do about it. The current team's abysmal pitching has magnified the lack of minor league development... but as it has been stated by many others, the failure to supplement the big league pitching staff in 2016-2020 was more due to the complete and utter failures of Gonsalves, Jay, Stewart, Romero, and others. It can take a long time for young prospects to arrive - Balazovic was drafted in 2016, Enlow in 2017, for example - so not converting even a single one of the mid 2010s pitching prospects into something was a huge blow to the system. But those weren't Falvine's guys.
  24. Danchat
    With the addition of several new prospects into the Twins' farm system, I've gone a bit overboard and expanded my prospect rankings to a total of 50 players now... enjoy! Here is my new format: We're pretty deep in the weeds here, so let me know what you think. Oh, and yes, I know, I'm really low on Chris Vallimont. I know.
  25. Danchat
    I'm looking at his minor league track record, not where he was drafted. The MLB draft is notorious for being a complete crapshoot, and 4th rounders flame out all the time. It is one thing if the likes of Barnes and Jax fail, it is another if guys like Winder and Balazovic do too. If that happens, I will be panicking along with the masses.
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