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  1. AlwaysinModeration
    I honestly feel like Gibson and Hughes are going to make a pretty nice 2/5 of a rotation this year. However, it may be early to giving any serious thought to the Hall of Fame for Gibson.
  2. AlwaysinModeration
    Right! Other fun games involve a revolver and a single bullet, a W2 and a 1040, anesthesia and a long, thin drill. Another fun one involves Gardy, 13 pitchers, three catchers, and a platoon. But I digress.
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    Sure, BUT after today's game, Dozier's batting average is less than twice as high as Florimon's! (On a side note--Jose Bautista, center field? His "play" on Florimon's "triple" single-handedly raised Florimon's SLG 50 points for the season.)
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    Didn't the Twins put him on their 40 a few years ago in a surprising move? Now that they have suffered for years with no consistency in the MI, it makes sense that they would give him away...
  5. AlwaysinModeration
    Here is some fun with 2014 numbers: Plouffe is on pace for 120 walks, which would be 10 more walks than he has in his MLB career (across 4 seasons).
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    Colabello seems to be doing what he has been doing for years, now. I think MLB has an "age-ism" problem...if you don't advance quickly, or have to repeat a level, or are too old for a minor league level, you are written off. It seems to me that the team that capitalizes on this market inefficiency in baseball is going to have success...maybe pulling together a bunch of "AAAA" guys with chips on their shoulders.
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    I don't mind the Kubel flier, and they didn't lose Parmelee, so no big deal. Bartlett, meh. But if the Twins really wanted to get the band back together, I personally would have preferred Hardy and Gomez to Bartlett and Kubel.
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    Nelson, you mean?
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    Why? What possible reason? I guess they had too many SP for Rochester? To be nice? I didn't have high hopes for Worley, but I can't come up with a good reason for this move....and neither of the possible reasons I mentioned above seem any good to me.
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    In fact, I am going to go out on a limb and guarantee you one of those five will be available at #5!
  11. AlwaysinModeration
    "Give Hicks all the starts against lefties while getting Presley into the lineup frequently versus righties, against whom he's much stronger." What is this magical concept you are talking about, Nick?
  12. AlwaysinModeration
    Nice Freudian slip there, Seth.
  13. AlwaysinModeration
    We are no one to be trifled with.
  14. AlwaysinModeration
    My point is that I hope the very important upcoming decisions about Miguel Sano are made based on strategic planning, and not based on reactionary reflexes to short-term events. (And perhaps they need some more "the emperor has no clothes" voices in their decision-making processes.)
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    I think that he will probably stay longer. But there is no way he breaks camp with the team, and he shouldn't. He won't in part because of the Hicks debacle. That Hicks decision was terrible, and shows organizational decision making at its absolute worst. The management wanted to believe he was ready, and let a good year at AA and a few good days at Spring Training, (after a roller coaster minor league career) reinforce their theory and convince them it was a good decision. It was also in part reaction about the fact that they traded Span and Revere. The fact he was going to be the starter was obvious early in ST. It could have worked out. But there was a strong chance it would work out terribly, as it did. On the other hand, starting him at AAA had zero possible negative outcomes; if he rakes, he saves a year of service time and is called up in two months, and if he stinks, it is obvious he needs more time at AAA. The decision-making resembles the Hardy trade, frankly. After a frustrating first year at Target Field, management latched on to two ideas and can't be convinced otherwise: Hardy is always injured, and TF is so big they need to inject speed in their lineup. Once they got wedded to these ides, it quickly became obvious Hardy was going to be traded and no one was convincing them otherwise. It it appears to me that Gardy was a key figure in both of these decisions.
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    I guess this answers the questions as to what Gardy talked about the FO going after someone they had talked to before. I think if I were Garza, I would have bet on myself, and signed the higher AAV contract. SP prices could be much higher in 2017, and he only would have needed to get a contract greater than $8mm to make it worth his while.
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    I think this story begs the question "What exactly is minor league bamp?"
  18. AlwaysinModeration
    It is almost like he was baiting this forum with the pitch to contact response. Awesome. I like this kid. I hope he and Stewart move up through the minors together. It was an interesting response about watching guys he played against and thought he was better than get drafted higher. I like the chip on the shoulder attitude. I have a gut feeling in a couple of years it is going to be hard to remember that he and Stewart were drafted three rounds apart.
  19. AlwaysinModeration
    Well argued. I think your point is that it makes sense that the rankings/perceived skills of young prep and college players are correctly extreme in their volatility. We don't know exactly what they are; when they are making their way through the minors and early in their MLB careers, this volatility in rankings decreases as we learn more about them. The lesson I take from this is that the 2nd round pick the Twins might surrender to get Stephen Drew is even more valuable than we think. That pick could turn into nothing...or six months later, we might have gotten Jonathan Gray. I think the Astros, given a second crack at the 2012 draft and 12 extra months of baseball knowledge, would pick Buxton. The other lesson I draw from this is that, to the extent it can be determined, it is critical to pick players who have big upside and the biggest potential to make a Jonathan Gray-like leap. I think the Twins usually do that...Buxton, Stewart, Gibson, and Hicks all fit that description, in my opinion. AP fit that description when the Vikings got him. BUA, not BPA.
  20. AlwaysinModeration
    All of that is undoubtedly true. I am just perplexed as to how Jonathan Gray can go from way outside the top 30 guys to consensus top 5 in 3 months, while Sean Maneaea does the opposite? Did their skill sets change that much in such a short time?
  21. AlwaysinModeration
    In answer to the question at hand, I am going on a limb here and saying "no", the Twins are not the mystery team.
  22. AlwaysinModeration
    Riddle me this: Why is 1 month of play against MLB players in spring training or Sept irrelevant or hopelessly SSS, while 3+ months of play against wildly divergent college or high school competition (with metal bats) highly determinant? Hell, I've seen whole MLB seasons be waved off as outliers.
  23. AlwaysinModeration
    Agree. And backs up the point implied in my question: which 5 guys would be the best 5 starters for the Twins right now, regardless of service time? I agree that Meyer would be on that list. I think Gibson would be. What would the top 5 be? Would Berrios crack that list? (Would Stewart?)
  24. AlwaysinModeration
    Turner's season debut, with video: http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/game-report-north-carolina-state-ss-trea-turner/. Bunt single to first base in 3.42 seconds.
  25. AlwaysinModeration
    Except it isnt 100/30, it's probably more like 150. We are talking about any prospects that made any of these three lists. I am guessing that is at least 130 total players.
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