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  1. Rod Carews Birthday
    Both of these players need to go for different reasons. Larnach had a solid season, but rolling the dice with the raft of outfielders the Twins possess has much more upside and has the potential to be much more helpful long term. Lewis on the other hand has been pretty much a mess for too long to consider him a solution at first base or anywhere else. Trade value for each is very limited. If I were the Twins, I would start speed dialing around the league to see what could be out there. If nobody bites, it’s non tender time. It may seem like giving them away for nothing, but if we can get better players in their (former) roles, the team is better for it.
  2. Rod Carews Birthday
    You can’t expect to improve unless we find better players. Keeping everyone around because it makes us feel good or because we like them is a bad idea. Ober is no longer an mlb starter and would be a very expensive experiment in the bullpen. Larnach is an averagish player in an outfield with many better choices. Lewis isn’t a starting level first baseman and doesn’t appear to have the right mindset to be a utility player. The problem with tendering these guys with the plan of trading them is that their value is mighty low. Kremer seems worthy of a fifth starter spot and can provide stability there. Sands and Nance are cheap enough to put in the bullpen mix next spring. Ryan, Clemens, and Bradley are no brainers. The only significant tough call is Banda. He’s lefthanded and seemingly decent, but he’s not cheap and coming off an injury. I probably keep him and hope for the best.
  3. Rod Carews Birthday
    Once he got to third base, he seemed like a pretty solid player. We'll see if his bat takes another step forward, which would make him closer to an all-star, or a step back which makes him last year's version of Brooks Lee. I'm not personally a huge fan because I got turned off waiting for him to be something above mediocre, but I will admit he at least has me interested to see his development going forward. Good for him! If only a few others (ahem. . . . Lewis. . . Wallner. . . Martin. . . Matthews. . . et al) would take that step forward.
  4. Rod Carews Birthday
    Non tender Ober. The $7M or so saved will get a good reliever - better than Ober would be out of the pen. Kremer is your #5. The other spot besides the big three should be one of Prielipp/Abel/ Matthews, with two held as backup in St Paul
  5. Rod Carews Birthday
    In a ridiculously small sample size of one game, how did Sabato look with the glove? Did he look lumbering or comfortable? It would be wonderful if he could be the first baseman (assuming his bat plays, which it may not in the majors) next year.
  6. Rod Carews Birthday
    I think that it's time for the Twins to part ways with Royce Lewis. His offense is well below par and his defense has been "acceptable" at best, but really only if his offense were better. I'm not sure what value he has left, possibly for a bullpen arm or for another team's change of scenery candidate? Or, as a throw in to a larger deal if there is one to be made. As other posters have indicated, his bat really doesn't play at first base, and if things go according to plan, the move to second base is only a stopgap until (hopefully) Marek Houston comes up -- and not a great stopgap at that. At best, he's a utility infielder who can move around and play acceptable defense, but we already have a guy like that in Clemens, who is probably a more flexible defender and seems to be a better bat. I'm also not sure that Lewis would adapt well to a utility role off the bench. Right now, I think he still looks in the mirror and sees himself as a star(ter). I say give him a chance to do that on somebody else's team.
  7. Rod Carews Birthday
    OK. So you clearly think it IS ridiculous to bring him back based on performance. That's fair. I do choose to argue the overall stat line, and I know that there are MUCH worse ways to spend money than on Josh Bell. I'm not actually advocating for his return because he no longer fits the roster, but I don't think that money was thrown out the window. YMMV
  8. Rod Carews Birthday
    It's not ridiculous. He was certainly productive, he seems like a good guy. and I would rather have him than Larnach. $10M seems like a pretty steep price though for a team with a small payroll. That being said, I think that the team is better served to have the DH spot open for a rotation of players (like Buxton) and the additional flexibility on the bench that having a full-time DH prevents. I just hope we have enough good hitters to make that true. Thank him for his excellent service and wish him well on his next stop.
  9. Rod Carews Birthday
    They can ask, but someone has to want to trade for them. I can't imagine that both of their values are pretty far gone at this point. As for bringing up Sabato, why not? He won't be worse that Lewis right now.
  10. Rod Carews Birthday
    15.5 WAR in the first five years of his career. Might sign up for that, but not sure if the situation is the same. Although, as I said, weird career for sure. I worry that we might "ruin" Lackey by pushing him too much early (see Gomez, Carlos, who took a few years to straighten his career out after being pushed up because we had no options. In this situation, I would actually be more curious if Diaw is closer to major league ready (albeit with a much lower ceiling) than Lackey. Less concerned with messing up his development and hopefully Lackey could show up in 2028.
  11. Rod Carews Birthday
    Maybe, but what a weird career he had. If I remember correctly, they brought him straight up from A ball. He looked like he might be a major star his first few years for us, had a couple of good years for the Yankees, and was pretty much done at age 29. Not sure bringing him up early was what caused it, but it was certainly weird. Lackey certainly has more experience than Wynegar did, but I'm not sure the situation is the same in the league now as it was then.
  12. Rod Carews Birthday
    If only any of these guys were ready to be starting catcher for the Twins next season. The team is quite lacking in candidates for that gig.
  13. Rod Carews Birthday
    This. We all have bosses. Sometimes that gets forgotten.
  14. Rod Carews Birthday
    Maybe. . . but I don’t really think that’s the best plan for the Twins or for Buxton. Early in his career, he played the outfield like a man possessed. However, in the past few years he’s become much more cognizant of his body and the damage that he can do to it by running into walls, etc. At the moment, he’s undoubtedly our best CF, as well as one of the best in the league. Whether that continues following hip surgery is far from certain, and that should be the deciding factor. The thought of being “proactive” about his health by having him play CF is I think a little overstated. He still needs to run and slide and hit and twist as a DH, albeit less than in CF. The other factor is that he has generally not done particularly well as a full time DH. Why? Is it because he was (partially) injured? Maybe. Is it because he’s just not wired to sit on the bench and bat four times or so per game with no other real involvement? I think more likely, and I get that completely. It’s not a personal failure, it’s how he’s wired. All of this being said, I do think that Jenkins/Rodriguez are probably both solid CFers in the short term. They don’t have Buxton’s speed, but seem to be solid fielders — perhaps not to the Puckett, Hunter, Buxton level, but acceptable at least. You don’t always get to have a gold glover in CF. We probably need to get used to that.
  15. Rod Carews Birthday
    So glad to see him finally overcoming the injuries enough to make his debut -- and what a fine debut it was! Given his power pedigree I wasn't necessarily shocked by the home run, although it's an awesome story for him. What made me most excited was the outfield assist. I guess he wasn't intimidated or hesitant out there! There are going to be some up and down days and weeks that will require some patience, but I would love to be able to write his name in the lineup in pen for the next five years.
  16. Rod Carews Birthday
    Take a breath. Pretty sure you know as well as I do that there is a lot of really bad AI crap out there in the media. I was looking for a real source. Thank you for providing one.
  17. Rod Carews Birthday
    Thank you! That’s an article I missed. I too would highly regard that source. It always makes me nervous when people say “AI says”.
  18. Rod Carews Birthday
    THATS how we’re researching this? Surgery of the hip is like saying pain in the torso or cancer of the insides. Is there actually real info to be had?
  19. Rod Carews Birthday
    It seems like I have missed something, but maybe I'm just not looking in the right place. Do we know what type of hip surgery he is going to have? A three to five month recovery isn't extreme, but it's more than a quick scope for sure. I wish him a successful surgery and a speedy, full recovery. That's best for Buxton and for the Twins.
  20. Rod Carews Birthday
    So, the reality is that only about four regular players actually contributed something positive for the month. Yikes. That's not going to get it done.
  21. Rod Carews Birthday
    Yes. From the outside it looks like that. We do need to remember that the front office has information and analysis that we don't have. That can sometimes color their decisions, and sometimes they're right (and other times they're not). I think that they have screwed up too often, but I don't think it's from a lack of seriousness at all.
  22. Rod Carews Birthday
    Maybe, but this is kind of Monday morning quarterbacking. I know many were calling for them to be traded this past off season, but IF the two of them had remained healthy and had good years, this team would have likely been pretty competitive and probably a playoff team. I object to the notion that our job for the league is to develop/refine players so that we can trade them for prospects/suspects and other teams can benefit. We've messed that up too many times for me to get excited about trading the type of proven pitchers that we would desperately want to acquire -- not to mention the unlikelihood of ownership reinvesting the money saved into the team. "A bird in the hand. . . " That didn't happen, so obviously the answer is that they should have been traded. But again, hindsight is 20/20.
  23. Rod Carews Birthday
    Two weeks of AB's are not going to be career altering one way or the other for Erod. This just doesn't rise to that level. FWIW I would have broken camp with Erod in the majors, but since his season got shredded shortly after that with injuries, I don't find this to be bizarre at all.
  24. Rod Carews Birthday
    This. In the greater scheme of things, there is almost no difference between calling him up two weeks ago instead of now, EXCEPT they got him more at bats in St. Paul than he probably would have been able to get with the Twins. We all need to remember that the idea is long term viability, not short term results (see Wallner, Matt). There are plenty of things to be frustrated about with the owners and front office, this probably is a pretty low on the list.
  25. Rod Carews Birthday
    Glad to see this happening, finally. Let's go! Would love to see some excitement in these last couple of weeks of the season.
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