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  1. The Wise One
    A player that believes in themself is not going to take a team friendly contract when there is getting more and more money in arbitration. Why should Rosario, Sanyo or Berrios take a deal? Now if you see something there more than the player produced like Dozier you can get a bargain. Kepler might fit that
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    Signing twos, threes and less was a Terry Ryan thing. Who knew he was ahead of his time?
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    The advantage of player leadership? Yup, Jimmy Butler and the rest of the Chicago Bulls sure led the rest of the Timberwolves into playing defense. The case for cutch begins and ends with what on the field production at what price to the rest of the club?
  4. The Wise One
    Gordon so far has failed at AAA. I fail to see how in a player's development that a few months of failure at the major league level benefits a player. Gordon couldn't have done worse than Motter. That is true. Where does failing for months benefit a developing player? Relief pitchers. If Busenitz were a couple years older would you be calling for the Twins to release him? What makes him or Duffrey any different than having Belisle.? Think they could have promoted Vasquez faster? Nick Anderson has been good in AAA. Stat scouting says he is good Radar gun likes him. He still had very little time in AAA when Belisle was signed. Jake Reed still walks to many people. Let me make my position a little more simple for you. A bad old veteran is no different than having a bad young player playing.
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    Motter was a warm body when they had no other warm body. Featherstone fizzled , Pettit can hit the rare single. Name one other warm body in AA that they had as a middle infielder. I really doubt if anyone in any organization thought Motter was more than a AAA emergency piece. Gordon is still a prospect. No argument there. It is more than reasonable the FO signed a Motter, Pettit, or Featherstone not as a replacement for Gordon but as a bridge until he was ready. Please name the source where anyone had "At 28 years old, in the eyes of the Twins Front Office he was a great promotion and apparently was a solid prospect." as a take.
  6. The Wise One
    Speaking of Gordon, although the thread seems to be bash the drafting of Stewart or Jay the real bashing should be the pick of Gordon. Nola, Turner, Freeland, Chapman and maybe even Conforto would have been way better picks. That is a lot of players to have guessed wrong on. Kohl Stewart at this point has Tim Anderson and some guy named Judge looking like great players. A lot of teams passed on those two. Benintendi makes the Jay pick look bad. https://www.mlb.com/news/draft-profile-arkansas-outfielder-andrew-benintendi/c-128283976 would show that the Twins were more unlucky than unwise.
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    One player on the current roster that you can say was not pushed. The rest were not held back. None were pushed as fast as Trout, Machado or Harper, but you wouldn't call any of the players their level of OF/IF. Motter had a better record in AAA than Gordon had. I am not sure there was another IF in the system that one would have called up that has prospect status
  8. The Wise One
    . Surplus of talent at AAA. Buxton, Reed and Anderson will net what kind of starter? If it is not Including Buxton the rest of what was not called up might get you another Kohl Stewart
  9. The Wise One
    You can think pitchers with career metrics around a half a run worse Lynn’s would bring more in trade but you would be wrong as you forgot about the cash and the Yankee need to move on some prospects Rosario netting an ace pitcher is a long shot.
  10. The Wise One
    . Selling Gibson or Odorizzi nets you nothing. If you are trading outfielders with 3 years of control why bother calling it a rebuild call it being a farm system for other teams With all the talentMiami traded away no top 20 prospects came back.
  11. The Wise One
    . The comment was that the starters would have a better era if not for all of the inherited runners scoring. The starters have given close to 400 runs even if all of the inherited runners that scored were put on by the starters the era drop from a few runs would not transform the starters as a group to anything more than below average
  12. The Wise One
    The people here will never believe that it would appear that Grossman is learning how to play the outfield
  13. The Wise One
    when I looked at the site someone had posted the Twins had given up something like 24 inherited runners. Not good, but not so much as to change starter era significantly
  14. The Wise One
    There will always be some reason for optimism. The people who want it will embrace what can go right. There is the other side of the coin.
  15. The Wise One
    Berrrios would follow the lead of other teammates and her on himself September is important to any player. From needing stats for arbitration to proving you belong this time is valuable . Stewart and Gonsalves are rising. Littell is sinking as is Busenitz and Duffey. There are way too many reliever on the 40 man roster. by the end of the month the FO will have enough data on Austin and Cave to know if the are a short term fix, part of the future, or just another bunch of replacement players. As they are the product of the FO talent acquisition team their ceiling might buy them more tome. Grossman may not be so lucky. His .750 ops should be good enough to keep, but maybe not. Adrianna should have a replacement I am not sure where the corner depth is going to come from. Has Stewart,or Gonsalves looked good against anyone with corner depth? A top 3 starter is on everyone ‘s wish list Buxton will get a raise to 2 million. He should also be traded for top of rotation help
  16. The Wise One
    . https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=deB_u-to-IE Is that the kind of fire you meant.
  17. The Wise One
    from robbing Garver of ABs, to hero leader. wow
  18. The Wise One
    Beane's comment is full of that stuff that was piled outside the neighbor's barn and as pungent on the first warm day. You do not trade for Sean Manaea when he did without it being a long term plan. Sonny Gray would not have been traded for talent down the road if there was solely planning for the here and now. That he does not have a specific plan for five years is believable. That he tries to put the best team he can together is believable. That he trades players away long before they are free agents shows bottom line is more important when the win line is low
  19. The Wise One
    An estimator showed roughly that OPS to runs were somewhere around 1 run per .1OPS. per year The greatest defense in the world is not going to overcome 2 hr/game. which a starting lineup of 40 hr hitter will produce. A team of -20 DRS fielders would give away a run a game. The HR hitters wins.
  20. The Wise One
    Busenitz, Moya, Vasquez. Magill, Curtis, De Jong. There are 5 relief pitchers to go with Drake and Duffrey needing playing time to figuring out where they fit in. Then there 5 established relievers and Belisle. There really shouldn't be enough of a need for more relievers. As far as Buxton goes, as a hitter he regressed in AAA from his past numbers. Maybe having to work on hitting to get a call up is not the worse thing in the world
  21. The Wise One
    Dude, Some one else wrote a much better article on this. You can find it https://zonecoverage.com/2018/twins/warne-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-buxton-decision/
  22. The Wise One
    Anybody on the 40 man that are not Romero or Lewis, injured or allegedly so, have been called up. In the should have department. Anybody that should be protected from rule 5 could have been added to the 40 man now. The list of qualified candidates is sparse. Busenitz, Moya, Drake, Magill, Vasquez, De Jong and Curtis all need to show what they can do. That is a 7 man bullpen and leaves Reed, May, Rogers and Hildenberger if you are actually trying to win the game. As much as Reed and Anderson deserved a shot, there are plenty of others that the FO needs to make a decision on. I don't see a position player that deserves a shot. If a middle infielder in 400 PA OPSed .547 in AAA (not small sample size statistics) was not a first round pick, there would be no argument for not bringing them up. You do not need to bring that up to the major league level to see what they have.
  23. The Wise One
    Play through migraines and nicked thus performing poorly the player can get ripped. Don't play with leg weakness, you get mocked and ridiculed. There is no winning for a player
  24. The Wise One
    As long as people are being preposterous, with all the strike out pitchers the Twins have, or are going to have, with all of this financial flexibility, Grossman could play short. Championship teams have to have pitching first.
  25. The Wise One
    Roberts has a team that should be leading the division by a safe margin not anywhere near that. What would Roberts do with these players based on this year is not a good example to use. LaMarre started hot and was an option for Molitor. When he cooled, Molitor played him less. In Chicago LaMarre has once again started hot. 35 AB is not that much to judge a player on other than the manager is using him effectively and not over exposing him. I don't think Molitor really had that option
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