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  1. I now believe the Twins believe Buxton will be healthy to start the season. Castro will play on the days when Buxton needs a break. Martin will be ready by mid-season and take over if Buxton is done. That is what I think the Twins are thinking and will now get pitching. Do I think Buxton will stay healthy - No.
  2. Since when do the Twins have a hole at 2nd???
  3. The Twins did get 4 players in the minor league Rule 5 draft, including a catcher. Don't know that we lost anyone in that draft.
  4. There was a poster in another thread who correctly stated that there were 13 players selected last year in the Rule 5 draft. A grand total of two were non-pitchers. I don't think he will get drafted. Will find out soon.
  5. Was it wrong for the Twins to move up last year almost the exact same # of spots to get to #5 in a draft in which there was a clear cutoff in talent at #6? I just don't remember anyone on TD saying that was wrong.
  6. No. Prato is younger and thus more likely to be picked. But teams like to stash pitchers, not hitters with Rule 5 picks. I say neither gets picked. Regi Grace is more likely than either one to be selected. He is at about the same level as Tyler Wells when the Orioles selected him. But I'm predicting none of our players get selected.
  7. "Twins minor leaguer Regi Grace was named the team's Minor League Players Union Representative for the coming year." Good, Maybe this will keep a team from selecting him in the Rule 5 draft (probably not true but I'm hoping). I know everyone is more concerned about Prato being selected but I think the biggest chance for a Twin to be selected is Grace, as he is very much like Tyler Wells, a relief pitcher who really improved and who the Orioles selected years ago.
  8. Not Maeda. With this roster, if Buxton couldn't play CF at all, it would have to be, and many don't want to hear it, Lewis. A variation of MIranda, Polanco and Farmer would play 3B with Lewis moving there on a day we play Castro in CF.
  9. Pagan signs with the Reds on a 2-year deal. The Reds sure like guys from the Twins, minor leaguers before now.
  10. Who is in charge here? Scott Boras says Lewis can only play at 3B. Varland only wants to be a starter. Sometimes I think the first day of training camp they are going to have a sign up sheet for the positions they are allowed to play so we don't hurt anyone's feelings. Having said that, I still like Varland as a starter.
  11. Do I remember correctly that a team can trade away the end of first round compensatory pick? Certainly could see that included in a deal for a #2 pitcher.
  12. Yep, that's where I think they are at.
  13. Correct because the contract is for more than $50 million.
  14. That's what I keep telling myself - wait until the entire offseason is done to evaluate the FO as they often make moves at the end (and not always for scraps).
  15. The Cardinals must be the 2024 resting place for most former Twins pitchers - Lance Lynn, Kyle Gibson and now Sonny Gray.
  16. Maeda apparently signs with the Tigers, 2 years for $24 million. Curious why the Twins didn't match that, if the info is correct.
  17. Cossetti is in A ball. He's not on the Twins next year or probably the following year. Played really sparsely in the AFL but hit .100 something there. I like him but he is about a one level per year advancer.
  18. At that price, should have put the $20.5 million QO on him.
  19. Lewis in CF changes our OF depth a lot (or LF if Buxton has a miracle recovery). That has been discussed in numerous other threads so I won't dive any deeper.
  20. If you think you are getting the Kepler from the last half of 2023 (not the playoffs), keep him. If he's going to return to the guy hitting in the middle of the order in 2021 and 2022 who batted under .220 and couldn't get a total of 100 rbi's, sell high. Do NOT extend him. Rodriguez and Jenkins are coming.
  21. Just from comments on TD and some experts who rank prospects, I get the impression that E-Rod is going to be okay in CF but that we are going to be saying, "Buxton/Taylor/Kiermeier (or some other great defensive CF)" would have caught that ball - that the range won't quite be the same either due to lack of experience, top line speed, or getting the right jump on the ball. Any thoughts on that? There must be some reason there is talk that he possibly moves to a corner OF position.
  22. I can see all four of these guys in Wichita with Raya and Nowlin as I believe they do a 6 man rotation.
  23. We can make up fantasy trades that will never happen like Logan Gilbert, George Kirby and Luis Castillo for Lewis. I predict Corbin Carroll isn't getting traded either. These trades aren't going to happen.
  24. Most of us who are working just don't have the time to do that. We rely on people on TD and the stats. I especially like when posters like yourself report what they actually see in person at games or on tv. Most of those reports have been glowing on Rosario's power and Miller's glove. Both need to develop other tools. Not sure why we have to bash either one of them (though I did say I was disappointed in Rosario when he was hitting .060 after two weeks in the AFL - did pretty darn good after that to get his average up to .214 by the end).
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