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  1. FlyingFinn
    Does Winkel have a chance of being a backup MLB catcher? He had a nice week with a couple homers and his stats seem at least as good as Camargo. I believe he's okay on defense as well but someone can correct that if I'm wrong. Cardenas with his first good week of the year at Wichita. Sabato (after a good first few games) and Cossetti (struggled at the plate for about a year now), not a good week. Hess, De Andrade, Culpepper with great weeks at the plate while Urbina is like Sabato, just has never lived up to the hype, with one more tough week. Thomason with 5 homers in 2 weeks. Impressive. 11 hits on the year and hitting .200, still has things to work on. That league is tough for homers though.
  2. FlyingFinn
    With the bullpen so rested, the Twins recipe will be 5 solid innings from Paddack, a quick hook, and then our four best relievers for the win.
  3. FlyingFinn
    Wow, Prielipp and Hill's #'s in the box score sure are impressive. Stay healthy and keep this up.
  4. FlyingFinn
    I thought Alcala had reached 5 years of service earlier this year. Thus, he could elect free agency (and probably would), and another team like the White Sox surely would sign him to an MLB contract. Did I hear wrong on that?
  5. FlyingFinn
    The back end of the 40 man roster isn't for your 38th, 39th and 40th best guys. It's for guys who are lower, maybe 45th or so. These guys get DFA'd frequently so you can bring up other guys in that 45th or so range. Scott Blewett is a prime example. He has pitched great for two teams and been DFA'd both times (actually passed through waivers for the Twins once this year). But now he's pitching good enough that he isn't passing through waivers. Bride and Clemens will both be DFA'd by the Twins when Lewis, Castro and Keaschall get healthy (or even Martin). McCaughan is pitching so well that if the Twins call him up again and try to DFA him, he may go the way of Blewett. As for depth, we had Lee, Julien, Keaschall, Martin, Gasper at 2B. Lee has to play 3B now and Keaschall and Martin are injured. The 40 man can only hold so much depth at each position and it's not often that 3 injuries affect one position all at once. Luckily this didn't happen at SS where don't have the kind of depth we had at 2B.
  6. FlyingFinn
    Can't do that unless you never want to see Alcala again. Another team will gladly take Alcala. He's got the stuff and thus somebody will stash him on the back end of the roster until he figures it out.
  7. FlyingFinn
    McCaughan is pitching so well that we may not be able to DFA him again if the Twins call him up. Oddly, this makes it harder to call him back up to the big leagues.
  8. FlyingFinn
    A couple more good starts, this time by Morris and Langenberg. And Gasper, he just has to make you laugh. Two HR's already with the Saints and it didn't look he could get the ball near the fence with the Twins.
  9. FlyingFinn
    Zebby is ready when needed. Emma Rodriguez will be ready. Give him time. There is no comparison between him and McCusker - he plays a premium position well, he's faster on the bases, and he will hit good (the one tool McCusker does have a chance to do well). The only question has been health, so far so good this year.
  10. FlyingFinn
    Matthews 80 pitches didn't get him through 4 innings so probably not his best outing, but not bad. Seems like many on TD don't like DeBarge but he keeps producing. Big clutch walk off HR last night. SSS but Questad seems to be dominating this year.
  11. FlyingFinn
    That hamstring is going to take far more than 7 days. The 7 day IL doesn't mean they come back after a short period of time.
  12. FlyingFinn
    Not yet, at least nobody is saying it. The Twins usually hold down the young pitchers in AAA whom they think they will call up as they want them to able to pitch in September. They held Festa to 50-70 pitches per game until April 30 last year and then let him go further. Matthew pitched 57, 80, and 71 so far this year so............ Having said that, the Twins have always held Raya back more. Besides an injury, the medical staff must be saying this is needed. They are treating him like the injury-prone Ober in the minors (and that worked out). For high quality young guys, even after the team figures out they are relievers, it's much easier to control the pitcher usage by starting them (if the game is cut short due to weather, they still pitch; they face the top of the order more and get tested against the best guys, very controlled warming up before the 1st pitch, etc.). Unless the Twins are out of contention, Raya isn't going to be a starter for the Twins, this year.
  13. FlyingFinn
    Jay Thomason - 3 HR's in one week in the Florida State League. That's impressive. When is the last time that has happened for Fort Myers? 17th round pick. Any chance of being a diamond in the rough? I'm guessing probably a one-week wonder or it's just way too early to tell.
  14. FlyingFinn
    I'll be the lone ranger here (almost), I think the Twins can turn this around. Everything begins with starting pitching - between Lopez, Ober, Ryan, Paddack, SWR, Festa and Matthews, we start getting 6 quality innings every day from 5 of them. The bullpen can be really good (Jax is the main problem and he will be good for most of the year). Buxton certainly looks the old Buxton and he stays healthy (okay, okay, so that's my weakest point thus far). We do have a great defense with Bader/Buxton/Wallner in the OF (I know Larnach will be out there some because Bader is already slipping back to his historic hitting #'s and we have Kiersey for late innings) and Lewis, Correa, Lee, Keaschall, France (some combination) in the IF and Jeffers/Vazquez at C. We just have to score enough runs. All of the above, especially the starting pitching, means this team can actually go on long winning streaks. Other teams have turned things around with this formula. Thus far, we haven't and we look like the Fort Myers defense, like we are the Bad News Bears.
  15. FlyingFinn
    And Gasper immediately goes 2 for 4 in AAA last night. He really has conquered that level of baseball but isn't an MLB level player.
  16. FlyingFinn
    Lots of great pitching up and down the minors. Great to see Prielipp throw well again. Darren Bowen was a hard thrower whose stats didn't look good last year. Now, he's got great #'s. Has he turned the corner? Do we have another good pitcher here? SSS I know.
  17. FlyingFinn
    For those that thought DFA'ing Scott Blewett was a horrible move, the Orioles have already DFA'd him. He is available.
  18. FlyingFinn
    Okay, I picked the wrong batting average. What tools does McCusker have or need to get to in order to be an MLB player? Judge and Ohtani obviously have more than one tool.
  19. FlyingFinn
    And last year everyone complained that Julien has to swing at strikes. Sometimes players can't win.
  20. FlyingFinn
    I read the above on Fort Myers and @Dman is exactly right. These guys are the bad news bears. Hard to evaluate pitchers unless you're watching. Doktocyck just didn't let them touch the ball most of the time, striking out 10. When they did touch the ball, disaster! Amick doesn't belong in Cedar Rapids. He needs to be challenged more as the pitching seems similar to what he faced in college.
  21. FlyingFinn
    McCusker vs. Severino. Is there a difference? The one main tool they have is power. Not sure either can consistently hit .300 even though they show flashes of it at times. Defense is lacking or is McCusker good enough to play an average corner OF in MLB? Speed isn't great (is McCusker a little faster?). The Twins clearly don't have any plan to bring Severino up to the majors unless there is a slew of major injuries (or they plan to DFA him within a couple weeks to send him back down like they've done with Blewett, McCaughan, etc.). I'm curious what people who watch rather than read box scores think. I'm really wondering if McCusker has any chance of being a Wallner rather than a Severino. @tony&rodney @Seth Stohs what do you think?
  22. FlyingFinn
    Severino was a free agent this winter, not even Rule 5. Any team could have picked him up. I believe Severino thought there was a path to MLB with the Twins at 1B. Thus far, France has closed that door.
  23. FlyingFinn
    I did listen to the Kernels game while Soto was pitching. According to the announcer, there were a couple of his hits that the defense should have had including one Hess butchered into a triple. Also, Soto threw 80 pitches, which is the most he has ever thrown. One other note - on a single to left with a runner on 2nd, that runner stopped at 3rd. Gonzalez airmailed the throw to home allowing the runner to go to 2nd. The announcer wasn't too happy with Gonzalez decision, or lack there of.
  24. FlyingFinn
    Highly doubt he will play the OF. Still recovering from surgery last year and just this week played his first full game at 2B (not one play in the OF this year). Lots of DH and 2B.
  25. FlyingFinn
    Great article Seth! Very excited about Questad's start to the season. Schobel would have to continue this all year and maybe last year was an isolated bad year. Rosario and Gonzalez, I'm just not excited about. Their bats are inconsistent (Gonzalez more than Rosario) and I don't think they are very good on D or have much speed. De Andrade - I love great gloves at SS who can hit at all. If he's not even playing SS now, I drop him from my top 10 last year to not even ranked now. He's the one I'm most disappointed in. Rodriguez is really young yet so give him time.
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