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  1. FlyingFinn
    If the Twins need someone for a short 5 day stretch, Goodrum would make sense because they can DFA him and he probably would clear through and head back to the Saints.
  2. FlyingFinn
    And there will be no call to the left-hander to come in to pitch.
  3. FlyingFinn
    It appears we are never calling the left-hander out of the bullpen with this team.
  4. FlyingFinn
    Hey, I didn't know that. That is great news! I thought he would flame out because he pitched like me, a soft, strike throwing machine (okay, okay - I topped out in the 70's and my pitching days were done by high school).
  5. FlyingFinn
    The Twins certainly agree. With every injury, the choice of not signing some of these guys (I wanted Giolito at the right price), the Twins off season decisions look better.
  6. FlyingFinn
    If I was the opposing manager and Lewis came up with the bases loaded, I might just want to intentionally walk him.
  7. FlyingFinn
    I think you have to look at the entire picture. Put all the pitchers we've traded for on one side and then list all the players we've traded away. Then, where would our pitching staff be if we never made any of these trades, last year and this year? I'm pretty sure there are some teams that have never made any big pitcher trades during this time frame. And without some of these trades, our 40 man roster would have been overflowing and we would have lost players in the Rule 5 draft. Pitchers are valuable and risky.
  8. FlyingFinn
    Nice to see Paddock and Canterino on the mound. Great news is that everyone except Winder is healthy.
  9. FlyingFinn
    What, no mention of your favorite Twins player who did hit the ball - Julien?
  10. FlyingFinn
    Twins put Josh Winder on the 60 day IL to make room for Margot. Winder's career is hanging be a thread at this point.
  11. FlyingFinn
    The clear winner of this trade is De Andrade. The Twins like him enough to move Miller and clear the Cedar Rapids SS spot for him.
  12. FlyingFinn
    Last year, the defense that I was most disappointed in was Kirilloff's. I had thought he was a good 1B defensively. Hope he's improved there. If the Twins no longer consider Miranda a third baseman, he's about out of positions. That's new news to me.
  13. FlyingFinn
    I don't either. If Castro's hurt, do you still want to play Martin every day at AAA. If so, maybe Helman gets his chance. Or with another injury (Twins really sound healthy right now), both Martin and Helman with the Twins? Helman also plays every position that Castro does, which is everything except catcher (Martin is more 2B, LF, CF). My feeling is that he plays better defense than Castro in the OF but worse in the infield, but not by much and I'm just guessing. @DocBauer and I are probably his two biggest fans. Maybe Doc or someone else can shed some light on that.
  14. FlyingFinn
    Rather have them than Homer Bailey.
  15. FlyingFinn
    Disagree. Festa needs to be helping the Twins by 2025. If he's two years away and still in AAA for all of 2025, he's being surpassed by other guys.
  16. FlyingFinn
    I think Helman's short-term avenue to make the big league's isn't straight OF but utility. Therefore, it would take a Castro injury combined with Helman playing great at AAA that would get him the call. The problem, as it was in late 2022, is that he's not on the 40 man roster. He's good enough that they probably can't add him and later DFA him (as all teams love to do with the 39th and 40th guys on the 40 man) or he would get claimed (but teams don't think he's good enough (or he's too "old") to get picked in the Rule 5 draft.
  17. FlyingFinn
    Lots of great points and questions. I can only answer one of them right now - Chris Williams will not be/is not the Twins #4 catcher. If he's called up for that purpose, it's only until the veteran free agents plane hasn't landed yet. It's just not his major league position.
  18. FlyingFinn
    Vazquez at $10 million and Castro at $5 million would certainly be candidates to be moved if their replacements in AAA look good this year, though if Castro plays like last year I wouldn't want to see that happen.
  19. FlyingFinn
    I don't think your projection is what is going to happen. I'm expecting $ to come off the books for Farmer and Jackson to the tune of $7 million. I don't expect all of the arb 1 and 2 players to be on the team (Larnach and some of the relief pitchers). Lots of things will change by the end of the season.
  20. FlyingFinn
    Their young for arbitration and free agency maybe. But that's not really the meaning of young. But I also don't think it's bad to begin your major league career at age 25-27, especially considering the lost covid year for some. Plenty of guys do well starting at that age.
  21. FlyingFinn
    Miller is the Platinum winner. Schobel isn't going to be a SS in the majors. 2B or 3B are his main positions (though someone might want to check exactly what he played last year as I am going off of memory).
  22. FlyingFinn
    Interesting decision for the Twins on who plays SS in the minors at the different levels this year. I see both De Andrade and Miller as the primary SS's on their team. If you hold Miller back at Cedar Rapids at the beginning of the season for his confidence/improvement of his bat before going to Wichita, then you hold De Andrade back. Or are we pushing both up a level right away at the beginning of the year?
  23. FlyingFinn
    Agreed. Miller is in my top 10. His defensive ratings at SS were well ahead of every SS in the minors in 2023, at any level. At a minimum, that will get him to the majors IMO as great defensive SS's aren't easy to find, at least for a bench position. It's not like he is old at 21 years of age. His bat really improved in the 2nd half of last year. If that continues to improve, his ceiling is high.
  24. FlyingFinn
    No, he is not a catching option except in emergency. Lucky for Vasquez because he would be gone if Williams had even an average catching ability. Isola is also not going to be a catcher in the majors as he plays more games at DH and 1B than catcher.
  25. FlyingFinn
    Agreed. Now, what if the Twins are healthy and doing well in the infield for most of the year and Lee is doing well in St. Paul? There is a point where the team keeps him at AAA long enough to make sure he still qualifies for ROY in 2025. (I'm not quite up on the rules that eliminates rookie status) Great problem to have for 2025 if this all happens in 2024. Of Lee, Julien, Correa and Lewis, none are first basemen (Julien's played a bit there) and only one could play in the OF. This would be a super problem to have next off-season.
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