Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

big dog

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4,132

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by big dog

  1. big dog
    You might be right, but I'd sure like to be able to bet the over.
  2. big dog
    Danny's a good color guy, and brings a very good player's perspective to the broadcast. Congrats to him!
  3. big dog
    He might be our best reliever, but I wouldn’t assume it. He doesn’t have that much of a track record. Are you ignoring his 50 innings the year before with an ERA over 7? He had a good few months one year. Do I predict his future will be good? Probably, and I hope so. Would I want him as my closer right now? I don’t know that he’s likely to be any better in the role than some others. And neither do you.
  4. big dog
    He had an ERA of nearly 5 for the Jays along with a WHIP of 1.4. That’s not closer material. I think this was a very good trade for the Twins and Varland probably doesn’t regret it at this point.
  5. big dog
    I doubt if Shelton expected much better, other than not losing Lopez. Do you think he expected some big free agent bats? He’s happy to be managing again and hoping it goes better. I wish him luck. He’ll need it.
  6. big dog
    I think if 15 more outfielders get suspended then re-signing Trevor and trading him will turn out to have been a good strategy.
  7. big dog
    So the Mariners signed Mitch Garver on a minor-league deal but didn't invite him to camp? Yikes. I hope he either gets healthy or invested well.
  8. big dog
    Well, duh. Thanks Ken. Slow news day.
  9. big dog
    If Outman is a waste of a roster spot, which of our recent non-pitcher cuts would you rather have?
  10. big dog
    I would very much like for zips to be right. He’s got to be the Pick That Clicks.
  11. big dog
    I test-drove an $85,000 pickup once, too, but still driving the Honda that now has 187,000 miles. I think this is a very little bit of smoke and zero fire. It's the equivalent of lighting matches and throwing them over your shoulder.
  12. big dog
    To be fair, when Zack Littell was acquired from Boston Tampa Bay became his fourth major league team. He was in his age-27 year and appeared in about 175 major league games. Not exactly a prospect. Are these people we should consider prospects? If so, then some of the Twins names previously discarded as too old should definitely qualify. Rasmussen had appeared in 27 games over two seasons with Milwaukee and was 25. Shawn Armstrong was 32, on his second go-round with TB, and had appeared in over 150 games before his first time with TB. Fairbanks only had 39 games in the majors before TB acquired him in 2019, but he was 25 years old. Kelly similarly came up as a 25-yr-old rookie in 2023. Stephenson was acquired by TB in 2023 at age 30, with over 230 ML games. Poche did come up as a rookie and after missing two years with an injury finally played a role at age 28. So I respect Tampa Bay for finding pitchers and making them perform better, but not many of these guys were acquired as true prospects as others are defining them. They were mostly other team's prospects who had flamed out (or in Littell's case, flamed the manager on the mound) and they were able to get more out of them.
  13. big dog
    The ESPN rankings for top 100 include Prielipp at #54 and Soto at #97. FWIW.
  14. big dog
    Well, this article pointed out one thing that is indisputable- our minor-league pitchers are a lot better prospects than when the top names were Gonsalves, Romero, Jay, Stewart, and Jorge. Stewart was the #4 overall pick, Jay was the #6 pick, Eep. Even with all the legitimate concerns about his future, Brooks Lee has already had a better major league career than all of those guys combined.
  15. big dog
    Just checking my memory on Arcia. He finished his rookie season with an OPS of .734, but his first month it was .900. He was still at .842 in late June, then he slowed down. He did have a very good first few months. Julien peaked at an amazing peak of .318 BA, .394 OBP, .574 SLG and .968 OPS in mid-July of his rookie season. He finished at .263/.381/.459/.839, He continued to be good at taking walks but got worse at hitting and hitting for power. I didn't realize how big that dropoff was in the second half of the season. Good final numbers, but looking at August and September his BA was .237 and then .202.
  16. big dog
    His totals aren’t as good but I think he got off to a pretty hot start.
  17. big dog
    I'll nominate Oswaldo Arcia.
  18. big dog
    Major points for using R*2! Stats forever!!!
  19. big dog
    Yeah, and it made me wonder why he was a consensus top-8 or so pick? At least that’s how I remember it. Not just a first rounder, but one expected to go early in that round.
  20. big dog
    Based on what I saw last year, I would much rather have Ohl on the team than Adams. Why keep Adams instead? Maybe he's next, but I would have let him go first. Maybe their deck chair reshuffling is going to result in 3 more guys being cut, I don't know. I'm waiting for it all to somehow make sense.
  21. big dog
    White Sox signed Seranthony Dominguez, 2/$20 million. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6836565/2026/01/23/mlb-seranthony-dominguez-free-agency-signing-white-sox/ Twins' options continue to shrink.
  22. big dog
    Hey, you might be on to something there.
  23. big dog
    Really fun article and discussion. Thanks all.
  24. big dog
    Remember that we aren't talking rational decisions here, we're talking Falvey who just signed a shortstop who can't hit and doesn't field well and is on the downslope of his career.
  25. big dog
    Better title for this article: Twins Continue Fetish for Cooked Players
×
×
  • Create New...