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  1. Danchat
    He's not taking a 40 man spot and he's basically insurance in case an infielder gets injured in the next month and/or Sano gets suspended. That's all this signing is.
  2. Danchat
    That's a great point, Chargois will be out of options in 2019 without much experience in the majors. Teams might not want to pick him up because they'll lose that flexibility to move him between the majors and minors.
  3. Danchat
    Darn. Some of us were hoping he'd take over the closer role by the end of 2017, but instead he's being outrighted during spring of 2017. Hopefully this is a repeat of the Melotakis situation and they'll be able to get him through waivers and retain him because I think he has make it takes to be a reliever in the majors.
  4. Danchat
    JD Martinez struck a deal with the Red Sox with a 5 year, $110M with two opt-outs included. Seems like a pretty reasonable deal to me for the production Martinez has been able to bring with his bat.
  5. Danchat
    Kirilloff at 13 sounds low compared to rankings from others, but I guess that makes sense since he's so far off and missed an entire season due to injury. I can't quite see Jay hitting the major league bullpen in 2018 unless he excels and the Twins are desperate... the kid has barely pitched any innings in the minors. Since his move to the bullpen, he pitched just 11.2 innings due to injury (and 9.2 over the fall league). I think he might need more time in the minors and prove he can succeed in the upper minor leagues. I really want Baddoo to reach the Twins just because of his last name. Here's hoping for a good 2018 for him.
  6. Danchat
    Yeah, I also think they're a .500 team but they'll be a few wins above .500 thanks to the poor competition in the division. They sorely need a #1 starter to be a playoff contender. I personally think they're done with adding starters (Wolfson said something to that affect). However, speaking of getting a DH, I would try to acquire Dickerson from the Rays. Now that's he's DFA'd, they're basically forced to trade him, so I think the Twins could get a discount on him.
  7. Danchat
    I know this is off-topic, but WTH why are the Rays designating Corey Dickerson for assignment? Dude just hit .815 OPS with 27 HRs! Dude's only owed $5.95M! If I'm the Twins, I would try to swing a trade for this guy.
  8. Danchat
    Nice, two years of Odorizzi for Palacios is a fair trade. Odorizzi didn't have a great 2017 but his past two seasons showed he can be a #3 starter. Palacios is a good prospect but the Twins have enough talent at that position at the moment, so I'm absolutely fine giving him up. Odorizzi will cost $6.3M, so I'm thinking the Twins won't be adding any more starting pitchers. The rotation of Berrios-Odorizzi-Gibson-Mejia-Open (Sanchez vs Slegers vs Duffey) still isn't good but it's a step in the right direction. I still want to see them add an ace but clearly that's not going to happen soon. The best news about this is Sanchez won't be guaranteed a starting spot, as we suspected by his salary. Thank goodness Sanchez isn't the headliner starting pitching acquisition this offseason...
  9. Danchat
    Well, they're definitely committed to analytics...
  10. Danchat
    That's what I'm hoping for, but if this is the only starting pitching move they make, then that's really bad. If they sign Cobb, then then Sanchez is facing off against guys like Slegers and Duffey for that #5 spot which should only be open for about 5 trips through the rotation and that's far more preferable.
  11. Danchat
    Thankfully it doesn't look like he's guaranteed a spot on the roster, but $2.5M for Sanchez?! This had better not be the only move they make for a starting pitcher. Still hoping for one of Cobb/Lynn. I've been defending Falvey/Levine for the past week and they do this? Sanchez's numbers are pretty horrendous the past two seasons and I'd rather have Phil Hughes starting than him. Ugh. Where's the nauseous smiley when you need it?
  12. Danchat
    Really? Hughes' numbers starting the past two seasons: 2016: 11 starts, 5.97 ERA, hitters hit .846 OPS, 5.0 K/9 2017: 9 starts, 5.74 ERA, hitters hit .875 OPS, 5.7 K/9 And he's coming off of another round of surgery... I just can't see how he could be "impactful" in the rotation. Compare that to Mejia and May: Mejia 2017: 21 starts, 4.50 ERA, hitters hit .822 OPS, 7.8 K/9 May 2015: 15 starts, 4.37 ERA, hitters hit .753 OPS, 7.95 K/9 It's hard to speculate if May could be the same in the rotation, but I think Mejia will improve off of his 2017 numbers, so I just can't see how Hughes will be better than both of them. IMO Phil looks like he's nearing the end of the line.
  13. Danchat
    I'm hoping to see Gonsalves by July in the majors. From what I've read, it seems he'll slot in as a #3-4 starting pitcher. Having the young core of Berrios (#2), Gonsalves (#3), and Mejia (#4) and seeing them perform up to their talent levels would be huge for this team. Now if they only had a true ace... I am concerned about the recent trend of rookie starters for the Twins. This includes Kyle Gibson (10 starts, 6.53 ERA), Trevor May (9 starts, 7.88 ERA), Jose Berrios (14 starts, 8.02 ERA). Mejia's first 10 starts were OK (4.93 ERA). The only good recent rookie starter I could find was Tyler Duffey (10 starts, 3.10 ERA) and it's been all downhill from here. The Twins will have to be patient with Gonsalves... sophomore years have been much better for our starters.
  14. Danchat
    Whoops, I hadn't seen that. I guess you can disregard what I said... though it's still shocking to see the small contracts teams were throwing Darvish's way.
  15. Danchat
    We still don't know anything about the Twins offer other than it was 5 years and more than $100M. I'm not buying Dave's "99.9% chance if the Twins bidded higher that gets leaked" opinion, so I don't think we can safely say that lowballed or "bunted". Perhaps the price has gone down because teams have finally realized that paying pitchers over 30 years old over $20M a year is usually a bad idea? According to this report below, the Rangers were lowballing him incredibly hard.
  16. Danchat
    I actually applied for an internship with Delaware North a month ago and I'm hoping to hear back from them soon... however I'm expecting they're going to offer me a minor league deal, so I might leave for elsewhere that offers me more guaranteed money. Seriously though, I would love to work at Target Field. I could tell people I'm a part of Twins Daily... forums, that is.
  17. Danchat
    I wanted to give Darvish that $100M+ contract but I do realize there is a big risk in doing so; the guys on 1500 ESPN were talking about how often $100M+ deals to starting pitchers in free agency worked out and out of 17 contracts, 6 of them were OK to great and the other 11 underperformed. You got guys like Barry Zito, Felix Hernandez (hasn't been close to worth it thus far), Jordan Zimmerman, Cliff Lee, and etc showing you how starting pitchers fall apart while in their 30s.
  18. Danchat
    Sure his record was 5-1 but his ERA was at 5.51 right before he hit the disabled list. His 5 wins came in that month of May where the Twins went nuts with runs... I'm happy they were able to get Busenitz by trading Nolasco away, but the Twins ended up paying Ricky $12M a year for the equivalent of 2.5 years of a #5 starter, and even that's generous.
  19. Danchat
    This would be my guess, though maybe it'd happen next Friday because of how slow everything has been proceeding.
  20. Danchat
    Sorry for the nitpick, but Nolasco a C?! We ended up paying him something around $42M for 3 seasons (they sent $6M to LAA, I think?) and got 321 innings of 5.44 ERA with 1.474 WHIP and 11 hits per 9. Baseball Reference gave him a -0.4 WAR for those 3 years. If that's a C, I want to know what an F is.
  21. Danchat
    My guess would be that they the Rays were probably asking about Lewis/Rooker/other top 10 prospects that the Twins didn't want to give up. If they are unwilling to trade Kepler as a base for the Archer trade, well, then an Archer trade is certainly not happening.
  22. Danchat
    So in other words, the Twins are going to pursue some of the remaining free agents out there instead of trading a king's ransom for Archer or other trade venues. At what part of the tweet suggested that the Twins were just going to give up on the rotation and leave it as it is? I'm frustrated at the lack of progress in the rotation too but I'm certain there will be at least one addition. They know the rotation is a problem and all reports suggest that they're actively trying to solve it.
  23. Danchat
    Sounds like they'd rather go after Cobb or Lynn instead of giving up a king's ransom for Archer. The Rays know the Twins are desperate for starting pitching and are in no rush to trade Archer, so they can set the price sky high. Sounds to me like that trade won't be feasible unless they're willing to give up a large chunk of the farm.
  24. Danchat
    Or, you know, maybe it means the Twins are upping their efforts to trade for Archer because they didn't get Darvish. I highly doubt the Twins are just pretending to have interest in the best pitchers just to get fans' hopes up... just to let them down later. That makes no sense to me.
  25. Danchat
    Hmmmm... yeah, I guess this is path they have to take next. Archer is going to be really expensive, but if the Twins are serious about competing, they're gonna have to pony up. So, roughly, something like: Archer and Span for Kepler, Gordon, Romero, and Baddoo? I'm just throwing names out there. Then the Twins sign Jaime Garcia to a one year deal and they're probably at $130M+... probably not enough to sign Gomez. Then you start Span/Grossman and hope the ball doesn't get hit to RF? That's a tough situation IMO. It might be worth it to salvage the starting rotation.
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