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  1. Danchat
    Fulmer is only a rental, but a nice addition. I didn't think too highly of Gipson-Long, so I don't think losing him is a big deal. But we sure don't have a whole lot of pitching prospects left...
  2. Danchat
    They definitely need it, Jax-Lopez-Duran is a nice start but needs work. It's not out of the question that one of them gets hurt the next two months, so it wouldn't hurt to improve the depth and prevent one of Duffey/Smith/Pagan from throwing in a very important outing.
  3. Danchat
    I'm OK with giving up Steer... but including CEH hurts. That's 3 top 20 prospects for Mahle, who is a fine starter but nothing special. We desperately need a starter like him who can go the distance but he's not going to be a difference-maker in the playoffs. I wouldn't be shocked if the Reds eventually 'win' this trade in a few years' time... but we could offset this by inking Mahle to an extension.
  4. Danchat
    Despite all of our ragging on that trade, we lost no prospects worth of value - the Giants only have Kai-Wei Teng left from that deal, who is a starter at AA and is struggling. It would be another story if we moved someone who is contributing to our current team.
  5. Danchat
    22 to 13? Was that a football game?
  6. Danchat
    Where would we be without Miranda? Good to see him translating his 2021 minor league season to the majors, he's a keeper. As for Sanchez, could we move him to the pen? He still has good stuff and has been a starter his whole career - they may find a gem in the rough. Now it's Falvey and Levine's time... come through with some trades. I'm not asking for the farm system to be cleared out, but we've got to get another starter, two relievers, and a backup catcher at the minimum. This team isn't great, but who knows if a spark to the system could put us back in contention. At least try to makeup for the failures of the 2019 and 2020 trade deadlines!
  7. Danchat
    We could use him because he's eating innings and is durable, but he's also been a replacement level starter this year. We have enough of those already...
  8. Danchat
    Absolutely. I think that Baldelli isn’t close to being the main problem - but he’s also not the solution to any, either. Agreed, Rocco seems to be a puppet - which is why I’ve grown more disillusioned with the front office rather than directing it mostly at Rocco.
  9. Danchat
    Nice outing, got a couple runs on one of the better starters in baseball and then dominated the back half of their bullpen. Hopefully the offense can do this on a more consistent basis. Not sure why Gray was pulled after the 5th at 79 pitches... is he not allowed to start a new inning over 75 pitches or something? Having Pagan face the top of their lineup in the 6th seems just as bad as having Gray go a 3rd time through the lineup. And if I had to make a chart in who I have the least confidence in our bullpen... Duffey is climbing back up that list again. Kinda incredible how bad some of them have been even in low leverage situations!
  10. Danchat
    If only we hired you as manager, we'd one of the best teams in baseball! I just don't get how you can view Baldelli as a bigger issue then the horrific pitching, which has been the worst pitching by ERA since Wes left / the past month. It's not Rocco's fault the starters stink and the bullpen is worse, there's no reinforcements in the minors, that Bundy and Smith were the biggest FA additions to the pitching staff, and that the FO still hasn't made any trades. Hiring anybody else as manager wouldn't fix those issues.
  11. Danchat
    There was talk about extending Falvey and Levine this year / end of this season... it's Year 6 of their regime and we still haven't won a playoff game, the pitching staff is an unmitigated disaster for a second straight season and we once again do not have pitching prospects in the wings. There are things they do well - they know how to build a solid lineup and develop hitting prospects very well - but how can we sign up for several more years of this with the lack of results?
  12. Danchat
    I dunno about this pitching pipeline I keep hearing so much about... Balazovic is completely busted and Varland is fine at best. Our farm has had plenty of hitting crops, but it feels like the pitching side has had a permanent famine. Also, who is this Jake Dave fella who's playing at AAA? Certainly not an alter ego for somebody else who plays there... ?
  13. Danchat
    According to Baseball Reference, the Twins have used 6 of the same lineups twice.
  14. Danchat
    Trading away prospects is fine, trading away players who are actively contributing this team would be a very poor decision. I don't think our offense is good enough to be taking some of the better parts off it - not just for the 2022 playoff run, but for all the rest of years of control we have. I'd trade any hitting prospect not named Royce Lewis (more because we'd be trading him while his stock is low). If they move Steer and/or Wallner for pitching, that'd be totally fine with me.
  15. Danchat
    I'd protect the first 6 (losing Urbina wouldn't be much of a blow, he's barely even played in the minors and is years away from relevance). Isola is a near-lock for me, as prospect catchers are a premium and as nicksaviking said, there's zero chance he makes it through the R5 draft. And we also have zero catching depth... One other name I'd consider is Sean Mooney. He numbers remind me a bit of Bailey Ober and Tyler Wells, and it'd hurt to lose another pitching prospect for nothing. I also wonder if Sisk or Schulfer would get picked up in the draft, but probably aren't good enough to be protected.
  16. Danchat
    Completely agree, though knowing this team, two of Arraez/Miranda/Garick/Kirilloff will probably hit the IL within the next week or two just because it seems like all of our roster crunches always get solved by other players getting hurt.
  17. Danchat
    It’s too bad he’s only getting used in blowouts… it’d be nice if he or Cano could break through this year, but that’s probably just wishful thinking.
  18. Danchat
    Diaz was considered to be a top 20 prospect here IIRC, but the other three were mostly just wildcards. Davis was tearing up AAA (hitting .300 with 35 HRs!), so trading him did tick off some fans here, but it seemed the Twins knew that was a mirage, since he's been unable to get out of AAA the 3 years since. If they're going to acquire rentals, then moving prospects the caliber of these guys is totally fine to me. Maybe we could do the old trade and extend trick that worked well for Arizona when they got Eddie Escobar and the Astros when they traded for Pressly. My goal would be don't give up on the 2022 season, but don't ship off any top prospects unless the acquisition comes with more team control.
  19. Danchat
    You just can't field a competitive playoff team with a bad bullpen, especially when the starting pitching is not good enough / out of sorts. You can't go into the season with Joe Smith and Emilio Pagan as your primary additions and then fail to 'coach them up'. Now they're at the point where they probably should be DFA'd, but likely won't because they're simply out of options. Pulling starters out of games early hasn't worked well with the combination of having a bad bullpen, but Archer doesn't have what it takes to go past the 4th inning anymore. And the pitching pipeline... we've had a few breakthroughs, but still not close enough to what Cleveland's (like we expected). Outside of Winder, we don't have any prospects on the near horizon that will be able to help this year. And this front office has been subpar at developing reliever prospects - Duran and Jax are a start, but the 5 years before this it's basically been coasting off the previous regime's arms, vets on 1 year deals, and AAAA guys that they haven't been able to get the most out of. It's definitely not time to give up and sell... I just don't trust our front office to do the right thing.
  20. Danchat
    Oh yeah, I forgot my most important point - I love the pitch clock. The game goes by at such a quicker pace, we were at 2 hours 20 minutes in the top of the 9th. The pitch clock needs to be in the majors in 2023, no question in my mind.
  21. Danchat
    I was at the Saints game tonight, my thoughts: Sano is 100% healthy, no question - still could lose some weight, but you have to wonder whether what version of him we'd get if he is given his roster spot back. The icy cold version of himself or will he heat up in the 2nd half like he has tended to do the past couple seasons? Palacios is the real deal at SS, his defensive play is phenomenal. He deserves to be on a MLB roster as a utility guy, but the Twins simply don't need him right now. I hope he gets another shot at the majors soon. Sisk looked sharp, forced some lightly hit groundballs. I think it's time to give him or Schulfer a shot. Cave dropped a ball in deep LF that went down as a double and ended up being a huge factor in blowing the 9th, but he did gun down a runner at 3B in the top of the 10th. I'm in favor of keeping Contreras ahead of him on the depth chart.
  22. Danchat
    Fire Rocco and field the exact same roster next year, and I think we'd see about the same results. How is firing him going to fix the hitters' inability to execute in clutch situations, fix the completely imploded rotation, and also fix the bullpen that gets annually neglected by the front office? Yeah, I don't like pulling Smeltzer early either, but he gave up 7 baserunners in 3 innings and looked cooked. Even if he went 4 or 5 innings, Jax still pitches and probably gives up runs, and we know the hitters weren't going to put up any resistance. There are a lot of problems with this team, but can we stop acting as if Rocco is the only thing holding this team back from greatness? Would it hurt to put even a little bit of accountability on the players for not playing well?
  23. Danchat
    I don't think any team in baseball would pay anything more than cash considerations for AAAA players who are hitting well at AAA. Guys like that are a dime a dozen and are in the minors for good reasons.
  24. Danchat
    We could really use some average relievers, and if it costs prospects like Diaz, Berroa, and Teng then I’m all for it.
  25. Danchat
    The Twins could also be the ones to go on a random 7-8 winning streak - their August and September schedules aren't that hard and I think July is going to be the low point for this team, and they'll lock up the division in September beating up on the AL Central. That being said, they're probably getting crushed in the playoffs... I don't see any way around that barring some major moves and some major improvements from our pitchers.
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