Brandon Warne
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If you want someone to offset the bats of Kepler and Rosario from the left side, Grossman is probably a good fit. There's a reason Molitor hit him third against lefties. Grossman hit .344/.418/.576 against them this season.
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Cody's 2016 Twins Offseason Blueprint
Brandon Warne replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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That's fine. But if it brings back more unproven young talent, how do you ever dig out of the hole? How many more young outfielders does a team need? How many teams are going to trade pitching talent better than Ervin Santana in the future for him right now? If I'm wrong that's fine, but at the end of the day I'm still not sure the Twins get enough for it to make sense. They have the young, close-to-ripe pieces that are ready to take off. Miguel Sano is too good to play like this forever. Byron Buxton looks close. Jorge Polanco and Max Kepler look like players. They need stability behind the plate and better pitching. That alone will work wonders for wherever they're headed next year, whether they win 90 games or lose 90 games.
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Dude. Name some names, then. The fact of the matter is it's going to be a buyer's market whether it's on the free agent market or in trades. You sure love to be critical without offering much in the way of solutions of your own.
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That obviously has to happen, but if it's at the expense of the organization's best hitter.....that's not going to move the needle much. I'm not sure what was controversial about me saying that.
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That doesn't mean you can just plan to turn over all five of the starters you have, though. They have to stick within what they have. Is it unreasonable for Santana, Hughes and one of May-Gibson-Berrios to have decent years? Not really. That's a fairly good foundation. Don't take that to mean I'm saying it's very good, but you can only start from where you're standing.
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Hard to say. A good rotation isn't a must in today's game, but it sure is helpful.
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What's the net gain here? Sure the pitching is better, but it's a huge gash out of the hitting. I'm not sure that's all that helpful.
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Trading them for less than they're worth doesn't move the needle, either.
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They had the second-youngest batters in the AL. Everyone knows their pitching needs to be changed out, and they were still younger than the AL average on that side of things. AL average hitter age - 28.7 (Twins second-youngest, 27.0) AL average pitcher age - 28.6 (Twins sixth-youngest, 28.3) You were saying?
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Did I not dedicate an entire section of the blueprint to this?
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I have no problem with the "trade anything not stapled down" idea, but that's pretty much Ervin Santana, Brian Dozier and a bunch of spare parts. You aren't getting much for Robbie Grossman. I can be convinced if the team moves on from one or the other of Byungho Park and/or Kennys Vargas. But if nobody is giving you want you need back, you hang onto Dozier and Santana, both of whom are A. good players and B. great guys for the clubhouse culture you want to create. Neither of them are really *blocking* anyone. I'd rather see Jorge Polanco every day at short than Polanco-Escobar up the middle every day next year if I had to choose, and I really like Escobar.
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Those years WERE the rebuild. The team right now is young. What are you going to rebuild? You keep saying this and it makes no sense whatsoever. The team didn't fail in 2016 because it wasn't talented. It had too many young players who didn't know their way in the big leagues. They can and will grow together, but will need supplementation.
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The blueprint was very clear this was not the case. Maybe re-read it.
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And besides, it's not "doubling down" on anything. It's being realistic with what the team has and what moves actually make sense.
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Because a year before that it was an 83-win team with almost all the same players?
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What do you need Holland, Feliz or Storen for if you're punting 2017 like you suggest in the first part?
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Why? His career ERA is 3.84 and before this last season was 3.58. He's not a conventional pitcher, but four years and over 500 innings say he's pretty good.
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Feel free to come up with your own.
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Not much, considering it's one year and a very poor free-agent market.
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That I don't have Santana there suggests I think he'll be DFA'd, but if he's the 25th man I'm not going to be too tore up about it. He just has positional flexibility and some speed. If he could give you a .700 OPS or thereabouts, he'd have a little value. I have no problem with the other points. I think Gomez takes one year to rebuild value because they payoff is much higher after year one than year two. Even if Plouffe doesn't produce enough to have that value in a trade, I think he has value hitting lefties for the Twins. That's a good platoon partner for Mauer at first, and in a lineup that can be a little lefty soft with guys like Kepler in it. IDK.....Vargas mauled lefties last year too. It'd take some creativity but I still think I'd go that route.
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A lot. Walker took some steps forward last year, but is very, very young. I just don't see a way they deal him.
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Spent the early afternoon writing mine up today: http://coldomaha.com/2016/twins/devising-a-2016-twins-offseason-blueprint/ Let me know what you think. As a teaser: I have the Twins adding two former Astros, a former very good reliever and not doing much on the relief market. Thoughts?
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And now, Ryan Pressly
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Here's Glen Perkins.
