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  1. Otto von Ballpark
    Have they added rostered anybody yet who wasn't going to be Rule 5 eligible? They have certainly left a few guys unprotected in Rule 5, but every FO does that.
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  3. Otto von Ballpark
    Appreciate the take! We ran out of pitchforks anyway.
  4. Otto von Ballpark
    We pick on the Cleveland outfield, but after this trade, the Twins and Indians active roster outfield performances are exactly 111 wRC+ in 2019 (and this includes Yasiel Puig's bad start in Cincinnati): https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=1&season=2019&month=43&season1=2019&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=1&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2019-01-01&enddate=2019-12-31&sort=16,d Although the Twins still have an advantage in outfield defense, of course!
  5. Otto von Ballpark
    FWIW, I think Littell's 10 days on optional assignment were up after Wednesday July 31st, since he was optioned before the game on July 22nd. So they could have flown Littell to Miami on Wednesday night, planning for him to be active for the Thursday noon game, rather than rush Dyson into town on Thursday morning. (Not that they really needed Littell or Dyson for the game, given how rested most of the pen was.)
  6. Otto von Ballpark
    More frequent would be recent Twins relievers imploding their *last* time out: Parker - 0.1 IP, 4 R Magill - 1 IP, 6 R Morin - 1 IP, 4 R Mejia - 0.2 IP, 3 R Adams - 0.2 IP, 5 R Romero - 0 IP, 2 R Hildenberger - 0.1 IP, 3 R And of course, De Jong, Vasquez, and Adrianza count in this group too. Hopefully Romero and Hildenberger (and not Adrianza) eventually get the opportunity for a better send-off.
  7. Otto von Ballpark
    Debuts in relief for the Twins this year, before Dyson: Romo - scoreless inning Stashak - 2 scoreless innings Thorpe - 2.2 IP, 1 R (relief debut, after 5 IP, 2 R starting debut) Poppen - 4 IP, 3 R Eades - 2 scoreless innings Stewart - 4 scoreless innings (although he was a "primary pitcher" after an opener a few times last year) Smeltzer - 4.1 IP, 1 R (relief debut, after 6 IP, 0 R starting debut) Adams - 2 scoreless innings Morin - 2 IP, 1 R Parker - 1 IP, 1 R Harper - 1 scoreless inning I don't know if they count as implosions: Perez - 3.2 IP, 3 R (we were up 8-0 at the time) Romero - 2 IP, 3 R (we were up 15-4 at the time) The only previous "implosion" Twins relief debut this year would seem to be: De Jong - 1 IP, 4 R And of course, Adrianza's 3 runs in 1 IP. You're probably thinking of Andrew Vasquez too -- 3 runs without recording an out (just like Dyson!) in his lone 2019 appearance, although it wasn't his Twins pen debut -- he pitched for us a bit last year as well. If you count him, you probably also need to count Mejia (0.2 IP, 0 runs in 2019 debut, after 1 game in relief last year) and Littell (2 scoreless innings in 2019 debut, after a few games in relief last year). In any case, I guess Dyson's best Twins reliever debut performance comps are currently Vasquez, De Jong, and Adrianza. That's comforting.
  8. Otto von Ballpark
    De Jesus, not De Aza.
  9. Otto von Ballpark
    The Twins have been very aggressive lately about shuttling pitchers to/from Rochester (and DFA). I suspect they saw an opportunity here, after Poppen pitched Wednesday night, to shuttle him out and have Dyson available for Thursday, but it was probably A. a tight squeeze, given it was a noon game Thursday and Dyson wasn't flying until the morning B. unnecessary, given that Poppen and Rogers were the only relievers who pitched on Wednesday night. I get that there can be an advantage to shuttling in fresh pitchers -- but when you have an 8-man bullpen, there's also an advantage in that you shouldn't *always* have to shuttle guys. We still had 6 relievers with a full day's rest heading into Thursday's game, without Dyson. (And 4 of those had at least 3 days worth of rest, 3 with 4+ days rest, and one -- Thorpe -- with a 5 days rest, now up to 6 days rest...)
  10. Otto von Ballpark
    Not sure if most would describe Philadelphia to Miami as "cross country" but I guess it sort of does go across most of the country, vertically.
  11. Otto von Ballpark
    Not to harp on this, but if there was any chance we want Dyson to pitch in the Thursday noon game, why didn't we fly him in on Wednesday night? Trade was finalized at 4 PM, Dyson was already on a road trip in Philadelphia. The Giants game went past 10 PM, surely they could have gotten him into Miami by that time? Otherwise, if it's customary to give a guy the evening off on the day of a trade or something, why fly him down to Miami on Thursday morning, just to fly him back to Minneapolis on Thursday afternoon?
  12. Otto von Ballpark
    Not sure if that is an accurate summary of MacPhail's philosophy. We paid for Blyleven, Reardon, Morris, Smiley -- even Tapani and Aguilera, in a way. On the hitter side, we bought Chili Davis, then Dave Winfield at the end... Although it is interesting to remember that even Torii Hunter was drafted under MacPhail!
  13. Otto von Ballpark
    I don't think service clock would be an issue, for a team in our position. We're contenders right now, Gallen is in MLB right now, and he still has 6 years of team control after this season. (And even more if you have to option him in the future, although ideally he'd stick in MLB -- but he does have all 3 option years left if the need arose.) Now, I don't know Gallen from Adam. He's had a good year, but only 35 innings so far in MLB -- is he a better bet going forward than Smeltzer? I don't know.
  14. Otto von Ballpark
    FWIW, Kirilloff has slid to 40th at Fangraphs and 43rd at BP. Still probably more valuable than Gallen, although the gap has narrowed a fair amount in 2019. If we had an immediate need in the rotation, I think one would have to consider it.
  15. Otto von Ballpark
    Here is a good list of upcoming free agent eligibles: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/08/2019-20-mlb-free-agents.html
  16. Otto von Ballpark
    Of course, as impressive as they were, those A's had yet to win a playoff series (and still haven't, outside of sweeping us in 2006). In any case, I am not too pessimistic yet about our chances in 2019. Should be fun!
  17. Otto von Ballpark
    You know, there's a game thread...
  18. Otto von Ballpark
    Dyson is probably thrilled to see so much activity in his thread!
  19. Otto von Ballpark
    Oh sure, Cole has some say in the matter. And the QO shouldn't affect his market much. But the Astros should be able to make a competitive offer.
  20. Otto von Ballpark
    It's maybe not quite that simple. He left off Milwaukee (dome, I guess), but included Toronto. He also left off Cleveland but included Cincinnati. Also left off both Chicago teams, Pittsburgh, and the Mets (but not Yankees). And he included all of the California teams...
  21. Otto von Ballpark
    Depends how they structure it. Greinke and Verlander are both only signed 2 more years, and Cole will sign for a lot longer than that, so there will be some opportunity to backload. They will probably start paying a luxury tax penalty next year but they are still pretty far under the top penalty threshold, which seems to be the only one anyone worries about these days (and even Boston has passed that). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KggX-IVrw6TywbOR6OIooQyxAY1MpTlnq88PqnNkuWQ/pubhtml
  22. Otto von Ballpark
    I understand the no-trade is a roadblock, but it is one that I hope my FO can overcome. Just like luring free agents who may be apprehensive about coming here. My pipe dream was if we could have sold him on Minnesota, we could have outbid the Astros and maybe Arizona doesn't even tell him about any Astros offer when he has to decide about us. Would have been interesting, anyway!
  23. Otto von Ballpark
    See my post above -- deferred money, including bonuses, is always the responsibility of the team he earned it for -- in this case, Arizona. Houston only has to worry about the 2019-2021 salaries and any deferred payments of those specific salaries, plus the small trade bonus, less the money Arizona is including in the trade.
  24. Otto von Ballpark
    Any deferred money he has already earned, including any deferred signing bonus, is still the responsibility of the team he earned it for, meaning Arizona. He will only earn $76.5 mil over the next 2.5 years, including the trade bonus. And of course, Houston is only responsible for ~$53 mil of that now, per their trade agreement with Arizona.
  25. Otto von Ballpark
    ...except us.
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