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    Diaw good enough to Catch at MLB level in ‘27? Spend on Jeffers (QO) - Minter - Larnach? ………. that’s $40M They have plenty of inexpensive youth……… Rodriguez - Gonzalez - Keaschall - Culpepper - Jenkins ……..Lee - Lewis - Clemens, all 3 total $11M? ………..8 guys for $16M! Not sure if they still owe Houston another $10M for Correa?
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    Rotation options w/o changes: Bradley - Matthews - Ryan - Kremer - Prielipp - Rojas - Abel - Lopez - Ober ($50M) PEN options w/o changes: Banda - Sands - Hoffman - Morris - Festa - Gomez - Funderburk - Anderson - Nance ……. I can’t take Adams seriously & Minter & Rogers are gone. ($28M) 18 guys currently at varying levels of health and effectiveness……….to me, absolutely should be able to get, at a minimum, 10 effective guys from this group to bring North in ‘27. Rodriguez - Gonzalez - Jenkins - Keaschall - Culpepper are all minimum guys ………. Lee - Lewis - Clemens - Jackson ($13M total) Buxton - Caratini cost $25M including Caratini’s ‘28 buyout. This group costs $106M ……… Tom can’t go forward with the “competitive slant” without spending another $35 - $40M! …… right? Seriously question, he has to add payroll and sign 3-4 other players at a minimum - right? Thoughts? Praying for some spending floor to be enacted for ‘27 or starting in ‘28!
  13.    Mike Sixel reacted to a post in a topic: Twins 4, White Sox 7: Walker Jenkins' Can't Do It All In Debut
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    Lackey isn’t Catching to start ‘27………’27 is “the future” he described. Why would they let Clemens go???
  15.    JD-TWINS reacted to a post in a topic: Twins 4, White Sox 7: Walker Jenkins' Can't Do It All In Debut
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    ERod’s 6 year career with the Twin’s minor leagues…….games played per year starting in ‘21: 47 - 37 - 99 - 47 - 65 - 47 so far this year…… I get he’s been a Top 100 prospect……he’s got a very nice OBP……..he’s got some real power. Matt Wallner had nice OBP in MLB a couple times and he also has some real power. He strikes out a bunch and his biggest issue is, obviously, availability/durability! Culpepper had his defense to fall back on if he didn’t hit when he came up. Jenkins has too much ability to be a complete bust………ERod, to me, has mostly been hype…,.. specifically because he can’t be taken very seriously if he averages 57 games per year.
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    Your comment will fall on deaf ears ……. it’s continually “bring up everybody in the minor leagues…….”. Larnach’s season has mostly been a slash line of .270/.375/.435…….he’s been as high as .288 BA & .390 OBP…..his OPS+ is at 116 now……including a generally poor August. Wednesday he hit a line drive home run ……… flew out to the middle of the warning track with two on & two outs ….. and doubled. Friday night he has another double & run scored in 2 AB’s Brooks Lee - Luke Keaschall - Cody Clemens - Josh Bell all have had terrible stretches but since their last 6 weeks have been solid, they are infallible, and Larnach sucks. Larnach was a highly touted #1 pick at one point……..he’s become a Solid Hitter v. RH pitching (72% of pitchers are RH) and he has improved greatly (until last 3 weeks) on swinging at pitches in the zone. How s strikeout rate continually gets better. The “cost of keeping him” being an issue from the fans point of view is nuts to me. The payroll is $106M and was $155M in ‘23. The Team doesn’t need fans supporting “not paying anybody”, Ownership needs to modestly Step Up! …….he’s a perfect platoon DH for ‘27 with Keaschall and Buxton sharing RH batting duties v. lefties.
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    He’s ATHLETIC, nowhere near a good outfielder though. He may have the worst throwing arm of any outfielder in MLB. I like Luke and hope he can figure it out. Probably needs to play LF exclusively from ‘27 forward? He’s obviously become the hitter we all saw & hoped for in his flashes last year. The fact that he’s been forced to play CF is a reflection on organization not taking action with other moves when Martin went down & while Buxton has been banged up (2 months). They chose Luke’s bat over Kreidler’s glove and it’s been a mix of bad & good……….Bringing & keeping Roden up with Larnach in the mix wasn’t great …….. they tried Fedko & that failed……..Hopefully, Walker J. will have some success early on, like this weekend!
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    Digging deep with the Steve Selsky quote …. who??? The ball tailed away from Keaschall in the Left Center Gap ……. he should have caught it …,,… they showed the path of the ball on the replay from somewhere near the announcer’s viewpoint. It was obvious - being left handed would have helped a bit in this one specific. Bottom line is Keaschall can’t throw at all and may not be smart enough to play RF (continually misses the cut-off) …….he certainly doesn’t have instincts in CF, for sure ……… to me, from my Lazy-boy, without any anecdotal quotes from a couple guys…….Luke’s only future is learning how to play Left Field.
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    Steep hill! ………….. how do they go 18-10 over remaining games? 4 of 6 v. Tigers 3 of 6 v. White Sox 2 of 3 v. Guardians …….Plausible but not very likely, to put it mildly……..particularly since KREIDLER is the only “CF” on the 26-Man. They cannot send Keaschall back out there! ….. Buxton has to sit for a week plus to somehow become effective. Buxton hasn’t hit a Home Run for over 2 months & his absence is sort of the norm for his Teammates. After Division foes, Yankees for 3 then 7 games with two Teams that will be toast mentally in Giants & Angels…….then a poor road Team in Texas to wrap in Minneapolis ………gotta go 9-4 over last 13……..wow. Must see Jenkins added to Roster tomorrow for Buck for next 9 games at a minimum ……..cannot wait out Buxton’s hip & its ability to rebound! Assuming Buxton is back in 10 days from yesterday, Jenkins is in the mix and Roden is kept up with the Roster Expansion next week.
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  28. JD-TWINS
    if nobody touches the ball and runner is safe - a hit every time, no matter how ugly
  29. JD-TWINS
    4 hits & 2 runs aren’t getting it done……. Bradley had an uphill battle each inning he walked to the mound!
  30. JD-TWINS
    Taj struck out a bunch of guys - great!! He only walked ONE guy through 6 2/3 - really great!! Entertaining - great!! Bottom line is, he gave up 4 earned runs over 6 2/3 innings ……. that’s a 5.40 ERA for the game - not great!! 3 really bad Cutters, just spinning and middle-middle……those were his downfall. He had two outs in the 2nd and an 0-2 count on the #7 hitter … 1st ugly cutter crushed into left/center gap. Then #8 hitter comes up and gets 2nd ugly cutter and hits it in the seats. Bradley has great stuff - seems to be a solid competitor. His focus seems to drift & then really drift! Sometimes hard to watch. He pitched OK on Tuesday night — mistakes & results matter.
  31. JD-TWINS
    Fedko has the same chance that “the potential waiver wire pick-up” would have.
  32. JD-TWINS
    My assumption is that they don’t screw around waiting for a couple days to “see how Buxton feels”……….. when they get back to Minneapolis, Buxton goes on IL retroactive to today & Jenkins is up to play CF. 72% of pitchers are RH so I’m not too worried which side of the plate the guy hits from. Last, Roden isn’t going to move the needle - right? Gonzalez or Wallner for Roden could be a shot in the arm - getting desperate!!
  33. JD-TWINS
    2 runs Tuesday …….. Agreed, offense and it’s lack of consistency has been the central issue with Wins/Losses.
  34. JD-TWINS
    Not sure about your #4 & #5 statements? #4??? #5……had to mean that 28% of major league pitching is LEFT handed. The Author pointing out a player mix (cited by Gleeman 8-9 months ago) of LH hitting OF last Fall, to where they are now, is misleading & ridiculous. Clemens is squarely the Second Baseman & only plays OF maybe 20% of his playing time. As you point out above, Outman has been gone a couple months & Julien hasn’t been on the roster for the entire year. Jeffers - Caratini - Jackson - Lee - Lewis - Bell - Kreidler - Keaschall - Culpepper ……..that’s 9 of 13 guys on current 13-Man that can hit RH……….Martin (another RH batter) has been there nearly all year until recent injury. If MATT WALLNER & EMMA & Mendez cannot beat out Roden, that’s their problem., not the organization’s. they have Jenkins is 21…….he was hurt for weeks ………he’s been hitting very well for 3-4 weeks. They don’t think he should be in MLB, probably until Sept. 1st Roster Expansion……baseball people’s judgment. Emma’s dilemma for the organization & himself are squarely at Rodriguez’s feet. He’s averaged 53 games per year over the past 5-6 years. He’s perpetually hurt! Getting him prepared for a ‘27 debut while in a Playoff Race isn’t, nor should it, be a priority! Nobody’s worried about Roden’s future ……he was an “attractive throw-in” as part of the Varland for Rojas trade. He’s gotta play a bunch better to force Team to take much more of a look. Bottom line - we agree in principle that 8-9 RH hitters is plenty and the “too many LH hitters on 40-Man” is not really an issue.
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