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  1. Danchat
    Finally, a loss that wasn't a brutal giveaway! As for Sands, I think he may be better off switching to being a reliever. I know that's always a first reaction to seeing a starting pitcher struggling when first coming up, but I don't think his stuff looks good enough to hang in the majors. Reminds me of when Zach Littell first came up - he looked way better once he moved to the pen and gained a few ticks on his fastball.
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    Balazovic has an ERA of 8.82 in AAA, with a 15 hits/9 and 6.6 walks/9. Yeah, he'd probably be even worse.
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    Going by decade: (Yankees Wins - Twins Wins) 2020s: 7-1 (.875) 2010s: 53-21 (.716) 2000s: 57-25 (.695) Interesting that there isn't much difference between the 2000s and 2010s, despite the 5-6 year stretch of bad Twins baseball in the 2010s.
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    Could we stop blaming everything on Rocco? The plan for Buxton was crafted by a collaboration of the trainer / coaches and probably input from Falvey and Levine - it's not like Rocco is will-nilly penciling Buxton out of the lineup, he's on a defined schedule. I don't like the plan, but it's the will of the front office.
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    I've heard rumors that Baldelli doesn't get very much freedom to make decisions, and there is a ton of collaboration with the front office when making lineups / bullpen pecking order / etc. I don't think he makes that big of impact on the team, positive or negative.
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    I think Woods-Richardson should be a candidate to be promoted very soon... I would think about preparing Canterino for a bullpen role, and I'd keep Varland at AA.
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    I'm not convinced Sabato is going to reach the majors leagues, and even if he does, he won't have half the career Sano has had.
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    He's a very good LF/RF (he won a minor league gold glove award), and presumably is decent in CF, but should probably be below the two names you listed.
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    Looks like Celestino will be back for the Toronto series, and Ryan won't.

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    BBref has him at -0.1 WAR, so if not a liability, he's a replacement level player that is forcing the bullpen to throw a minimum of 5 innings whenever he toes the rubber. But yes, right now there aren't any clearly better alternatives...
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    You can remove "Starting to Become" from the title of the article and that'll do it. Archer should be a long reliever who can go 2-3 innings per outing - hopefully Winder will be healthy soon and can take his place.
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    And to put the cherry on top, it sounds like Wentz developed a shoulder strain and was pulled early, yet we could do nothing to him. Reminds me of our 2020/21 squads getting crushed by mediocre lefties...
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    Do we even know if that’s Rocco’s call? Last I’ve heard, Rocco doesn’t have much power over the roster (it’s more of a collab with Falvey and Levine).
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    Yeah, I'm thinking Canterino to the bullpen is going to need to be a move if they need a top-end option. With Cano and Moran not looking like they're going to help, there's not much else in the minors, so they'll need to make some trades, but that probably won't happen until July... so perhaps it's time to prepare Canterino for his new role (call up him to AAA and have him pitch shorter stints?).
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    It's disappointing that Balazovich and Sands haven't looked good and have spent time on the IL, but Winder was expected to be there instead of on the MLB roster the whole year, so I suspect he would have been putting up gaudy numbers there. At least we've got SWR, Canterino, and Varland dealing at AA. Enlow should get into the conversation next year.
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    Yeah, right now you'd have to probably call up Chi Chi Gonzalez or Dereck Rodriguez, but hopefully Winder will be ready to go sooner than later. I could see Canterino as an option to be a multi-inning guy, I think he could go directly from AA to MLB.
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    Sands has been on the injured list for some time and actually hasn't pitched all that much for AAA, Henriquez is only 22 and has thrown only 20 innings so far, so I'm not concerned about him yet. Balazovich is concerning me, even though that's just a small sample size - he's been brutal.
  18. Danchat
    This one felt like a loss, good job by Thielbar and Pagan to hold the Tigers off long enough for the offense to wake up again. Also, this post-game quote from Rocco was great:
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    I don't know if he's really worth worrying about... maybe he moves to the bullpen and turns things around, but he's more valuable off the 40 man roster than on it.
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    I originally thought the trade was a mixed bag - it was a fine return for Rogers (and Rooker, but he has zero value to me so it's really just Rogers), and it seemed like Paddack was going to rebound from his 2020 and 2021 seasons, and we definitely needed another starting pitcher. I didn't go into the positive range because it made our questionable bullpen even more shaky. And now it just looks like a bad trade. Getting so little out of Paddack in 2022 and 2023 irrevocably ruins the trade for me. We gave San Diego one year of one of the best relievers in baseball, and now all we've got is Pagan (whose peripherals suggest that he'll be sharply regressing sooner than later) and Brayan Medina, a 19 year old pitcher who is several years away from debuting, which I'd consider a lottery ticket. That's simply a bad trade for a team that is looking to be in playoff contention. All that being said, the bullpen has overachieved thus far, and it's absolutely possible to add help to the bullpen. Maybe Alcala will return and finally become the reliever we've hoped he could be. But we can't go into another playoff series with the pitching staff being duct taped together and having to convince ourselves that they have what it takes to go on a run when they never had a chance (looking at you, 2019 Twins). A single bad trade doesn't have to loom over the season if they don't let it.
  21. Danchat
    Chad Pinder, who usually plays LF for the A's, was pitching and trying out some sort of breaking ball that he clearly hasn't tried throwing in years, and it harmlessly bounced off Miranda's leg. It was quite comical.
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    Rocco said Lewis will be playing several other positions than SS at AAA, so going off your first sentence, you shouldn't be happy about this...
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    I can't find a reasonable way to justify this move... if you're trying to win more games, you've got to put him in your lineup every day no matter the position. It would make more sense if there were an actual log jam, but with Miranda looking completely lost at the plate, I don't get how he's still here. If anybody needs to get back to AAA ASAP, it's him. And if it's because we need a backup 1B - suddenly why do we not care about Miranda's development and only Lewis'? I would consider DFA'ing Nick Gordon, he's a .600 OPS hitter when we've already got Celestino and Garlick on the bench (once Larnach is healthy), with his main strengths being speed and hitting singles. Very poor OBP, little power, not a big threat to steal bases, can't hit at all versus lefties... with Contreras as a fine backup on the 40 man, I'm not sure if Gordon is needed anymore.
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    Agreed with several of the other posts, Rocco is a fine manager and takes a lot of blame for things that are out of his control or is just part of the modern game of baseball. I just don't think managers make much of an impact, and say if you fire him, Falvine is probably hiring a slightly different version of him that's going to do many similar things because of how much a collaboration the whole operation is. It just annoys me that when anything goes wrong I see "this loss is on Rocco", and then when things are going well, he rarely draws credit (I usually hear "the Bomba Squad carried him" or "his record is only good because they're in the NL central"). But there are plenty of moves that he makes that I question, no doubt. But I'm not going to fall into the mindset that I know better (because it feels like a lot of baseball fans I know from other teams all think their manager is bad at decision-making). Manager of the Year? That's gonna be a hard no from me. But I'm interested to know which managers consistently get more from the players, make better lineups, make better bullpen decisions... no that I doubt that there are any, just that I never hear or see any managers making huge differences compared to the likes of Rocco.
  25. Danchat
    Perhaps, but Larnach and Celestino have been examples of guys who really struggle their first times up, and then the second time (the next season), something clicked. This might be the case for Miranda too, or maybe 2021 was all a fluke. Who knows, but I'll err on the side of patience.
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