Well I was talking about the trade deadline mess from last year. Do you think they pulled one over on the Rays or the blind squirrel found a nut? I might lean towards the latter with their recent lack of success.
Go scout the 12U little league games. Maybe he can get a jump on the youngsters. He looks like a fool signing these retreats one day and releasing the next.
Roden is part of the team because his value and ability are the definition of what the Twins are. Not because he is truly a valuable MLB player. The whole roster (except for a handful of players) falls under this definition.
I don't agree that just because Roden, Rojas, Abel and Bradley have played on the big club they were successful trades. Just shows how weak we are. I do agree time will tell on others.
Don't know what you mean about Ryan, other than he was a good trade. In last year's sell off, Taj is ok, Roden is blah, Abel, jury still out. Rojas, not impressed. Everyone else, we wait. Not a great haul for what we traded.
Problem is management doesn't know what a good prospect is. How many are contributing from our big sell of last year? I know Abel is hurt and some aren't ready, but i am skeptical that they know how to judge talent. Other team GM's probably salivate when they know they can fleece us with "prospects".
When a pitcher shows he is done, a fresh arm is better no matter who it is. Double, HBP, Single in his third inning is asking for too much. Lucky to get 2 innings out of him much less stretching him to 3. Shelton needs to find someone else to make the pitching changes. He hasn't had a clue all year.
And then people think we can just trade Ryan, Lopez and such because we have such a strong pipeline with Matthews, Festa, Abel (insert any garbage pitcher here), and we will be fine. It would be really foolish.
Spend what you have to to keep Ryan and Lopez. Ryan. Lopez. Bradley and whoever emerges from the rest of the lot would be an ok starting 5. If you are a serious owner, wanting to win, that's what we need to do. If not, live with mediocrity or less year after year. We can't keep going dumpster diving year after year to fill out a rotation, esp after we finally have 60% set.
I'm afraid if we trade our ace, and maybe lose or trade Lopez, we will be back to the Bundy, Archer Shoemaker days. I am not confident Matthews, Festa, Prielipp etc, etc are going to get it done. You have to keep the pitching when you have it.