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  1. AlwaysinModeration
    But couldn’t they bring up Martin if first if they wanted him as a possible post-season option?
  2. AlwaysinModeration
    THAT’S who the Twins needed to trade for at the deadline!
  3. AlwaysinModeration
    I don’t think Julien, AK and Wallner are better at judging the zone because they have experience with ABS. They are simply better at judging the zone. It’s a skill, and that kind of discipline allows them to hit better, because they are only swinging at stuff they can make solid contact with.
  4. AlwaysinModeration
    Is there any speculation they would trade for Lance?
  5. AlwaysinModeration
    Wallner hit a single, not a double. He crushed that ball was too hard. Umpire had a lousy game. It’s a bad situation when everyone watching the game on tv, and the announcers, can see clearly how badly the ump is missing calls.
  6. AlwaysinModeration
    My vote is Andrew Stevenson over Jordan Luplow on the Twins’ roster. (Even though he is a lefty.)
  7. AlwaysinModeration
    If Correa catches that soft liner with the runner going, that’s a double play and they are out of the inning down 4-3. That hurt.
  8. AlwaysinModeration
    Is it just me, or does Floro keep coming into close games and immediately gives up at least a run or runs?
  9. AlwaysinModeration
    Pablo López scoreless innings streak: 19 innings Zac Gallen scoreless innings streak last year (12th all-time): 44.2 innings Orel Hersiser all-time scoreless innings streak: 59 innings Nearly 1/3 of the way there! Also: Pablo Lopez ERA: 3.51 Luiz Arraez BA: .361
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    Great story on Darryl Strawberry. I was at the Saints game in 1996 (?) when he hit three homers. Nice to read about how playing with the Saints was a part of him redemption story. Good for him (and his wife) for getting on track.
  11. AlwaysinModeration
    For not being a hater, you do a great impression! Melissa, great piece. Joe will be a Twins HOFer this weekend, and in the national HOF soon. Like Tony Gwynn, he is the face of the franchise.
  12. AlwaysinModeration
    Kinda seems like the Twins’ trade acquisition was….Dylan Floro.
  13. AlwaysinModeration
    Never mind…Pham to DBacks.
  14. AlwaysinModeration
    Pham and Raley to the Twins for…Maeda, Gallo, and a lower tier prospect?
  15. AlwaysinModeration
    He basically signed for the slot. Boras can say he got an over slot deal, I guess.
  16. AlwaysinModeration
    My recollection is that the Twins had just moved to Target Field, and they thought it was going to be a pitcher’s park, and Gardy didn’t like having a SS who couldn’t steal bases and/or run fast on the team.
  17. AlwaysinModeration
    This is what happens all of the time. While each pick comes with an assigned amount, 90% of picks sign under that amount, and especially near the top of the draft. Brooks Lee signed last year for less than slot. Noble Meyer got $1.5mm less than slot and the Marlins gave it all plus more to Thomas White. Paul Skenes signed for $500K less than slot (while getting the highest signing bonus ever). So, yes, I think it plausible that the Twins could sign Jenkins for $6.5mm, which is $600K less than the $7.1mm slot, and give that savings to another prep player they drafted. I don’t know if it will happen, but it’s entirely plausible, because that’s how the draft works with the fungible draft pools.
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    I don’t think there is any concern that he’ll sign. He went top five and will get a check for $6mm+. It seems unlikely he would pass on that for a chance to…go #1 in three years? I think the fact that he hasn’t signed (only first rounder not to sign yet?) might actually be a good thing—it means that the Twins might still be working out a way to sign one of the two prep kids they drafted in the 19th/20th. I think there is a scenario where they can offer them upwards of $1.5mm, whichever takes it first gets it. If neither bites, Jenkins will get full slot. If one takes it, Jenkins will get something like $6.5mm.
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    Don’t the Twins have until tomorrow to sign Jenkins? I’d like to assume that this delay is simply about trying to get one of the two late HS draft picks to sign,..but seems like it is a bit down to the wire.
  20. AlwaysinModeration
    What exactly is this MLB Draft League and how do the players wind up there? I took a quick perusal of the website and they succeeded in having dozens of kids drafted each of the last three years. Twins took Santos, Lee and Cossetti from this league.
  21. AlwaysinModeration
    This is a fascinating insight: “Spending two years in the ACC, it felt a lot more like business and just having to be on the good side of the coaches if you wanted playing time. If you didn’t fit their mold in their program, you just weren’t going to cut it. I believe those big schools end up picking their favorites and leaving a lot of kids in the dust.” Makes you wonder how meritocratic baseball really is. Are the kids of former ballplayers really better than their teammates or do they get more chances because of their name?
  22. AlwaysinModeration
    If Soto signed at slot, then they have signed 17 players for almost exactly the total slot. Let’s say Jenkins signs for $6.5, which is about $630K under slot. They could go $720K over their total cap (5% over), plus offer a base of $150k. $630K + $720K + 150K = $1.5mm. Would one of the two high schoolers at 19/20 sign for $1.5mm?
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    Brooks LeeEmmanuel RodriguezWalker JenkinsMarco RayaDavid FestaCharlee SotoSimeon Woods RichardsonMatt WallnerBrandon WinokurAustin MartinLuke KeaschallConnor PrielippYasser MercedesBrent HeadrickJordan BalazovicMatt CanterinoBlayne EnlowJose RodriguezTanner SchobelAndrew Cossetti
  24. AlwaysinModeration
    I mentioned this before, but the Twins could go 5% over their pool to add an extra $717K to their draft pool—which they have never done unlike 28 other MLB teams. Wonder if an extra $700K added to an offer could be the difference between signing or not signing Ashton Larson.
  25. AlwaysinModeration
    Sorry to say they only play once today.
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