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  1. big dog
    With a universal DH Sano becomes a lot more valuable, too.
  2. big dog
    I think this is pre-lockout "we gotta get a body" panic. I'm pretty disappointed we didn't sign anyone else, but we need to sign more pitchers and they weren't all going to be great. Or maybe very good. If the stoppage goes until Feb 15 this might look like a good play. Worst-case scenario is we cut him and that's the way it goes. At least he's going to pitch this year, unlike the initial Pineda signing (which didn't work out that badly). We'd like the big splashes to come before the marginal deals, certainly, but as long as this is one of the marginal deals I don't have a problem with it. If this is the best pitcher we sign, or the second-best pitcher we sign, it could be a really long season, kind of like "Spahn and Sain, then pray for rain." Ober and Ryan, then watch the team dyin' Ryan and Ober, then quit being sober See, there's a lot we could do with that.
  3. big dog
    Couldn't they just have made a waiver claim to get him back? This is a signal about his expected value, unfortunately. I think if anyone is picked and stays for the year it will be Palacios.
  4. big dog
    Thanks, my Twins PTSD just flared up again. John Ryan Murphy. In related news what's the over/under on the number of games Hicks plays this year? I feel for that guy.
  5. big dog
    Understood, but he was 23 at the time...nearly ten years ago. I don't see it.
  6. big dog
    Eduardo Escobar has played one game at shortstop since 2018, and he's never played more than 25% of his games at that position. I don't see why we would count on him to be better than Polanco in 2022.
  7. big dog
    I don't see how anything could be worse than Nishioka. Factor in that signing him led to the team trading JJ Hardy for Jim Hoey and the whole situation becomes a Superfund toxic waste site.
  8. big dog
    I don't have strong feelings about Segura in particular, but I like this idea in general. Spend the big money on Buxton and pitching, get someone to stand in at SS who is plausible for a year and see where we are. Same idea as last year, hopefully with a somewhat better outcome. I would really like to have a crystal ball into Lewis' future to help make this decision. We have several good pitching prospects, we ought to be able to get one or two reasonable starters from there before too long and who knows which ones. At SS, we've got Lewis and...Palacios? I'd love to turn the job over to Lewis in April or May and hope he catches fire, but it's probably well into spring training before that's anything more than a dream that might become a nightmare.
  9. big dog
    Just kidding.
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  11. big dog
    Interesting analysis, fun to think about. My biggest question is why Sano got a C-, but Gordon got a B-? I think that might be biased by expectations. Gordon looked better than expected, Sano a little worse. However, for who had the better year, I'd have to go with Sano. Neither one exactly blew the lights out, of course. If Gordon were a top prospect like Larnach I think his grade would have been lower.
  12. big dog
    Pineda and two better than that, please.
  13. big dog
    Jason Castro has had a couple of huge moments as well. Ryan Pressly is bored. Martin Perez and Hansel Robles, not so much. Danny Santana gets to run once in a while. Twins everywhere in Fenway.
  14. big dog
    You didn't ask about 1994, but we sent Marty Cordova that year. He was ROY in 1995.
  15. big dog
    Well, it is at least MY most disappointing season in MLB history, anyway.
  16. big dog
    It feels like Goodrum has 9 home runs this year and 14 of them came against the Twins. When a player only performs well against the team that cut him, it suggests that team wasn't wrong, even if they have take some pain as a result. Figure it out, Goodrum- play like that against everyone. Provide your own motivation.
  17. big dog
    "as the pitching staff continues its excellence" hack, cough, {Colome} but mostly true. They are on a heck of a roll.
  18. big dog
    Just when I thought it was save to bring Colome into games...yikes. Nicely played game through 8 1.2, Would love to sweep the kitties.
  19. big dog
    For me, they are the most disappointing team since...the 2020 Twins. Heading into the playoffs on a roll, team allegedly healthy, then we absolutely fall apart and crawl behind the couch against the Astros. Bad hitting, bad fielding, questionable managing- that was two days of getting punched in the stomach. I was crushed.
  20. big dog
    I feel somewhat better about this group now than I did in July, that's for sure, but it still needs an upgrade or two. I forgot about Stashak. Like what I've seen from Gant and Garza Jr. Been hearing about Thorpe for what seems like ten years, and it never pans out. He'd better have a lights out spring training or I wouldn't give him another shot.
  21. big dog
    It's also his second time facing them. Easier to fool them the first time.
  22. big dog
    I choose "neither", unless the draft position race is between first and, say, tenth.
  23. big dog
    "Fun" fact from the Cubs broadcasters (including former Twin Jim Deshaies): the only two players on the current roster who have not missed time due to injury this year are Jorge Polanco and Alex Coulombe. If you include the earlier trades, I think Berrios gets added to the list. That can't possibly be a regular injury rate for a major league team, can it? I've been arguing that we should use these last games to evaluate our younger players, and I still believe that is true. However, I think that the Jax-as-a-starter evaluation is complete and I do not wish to see any more of it. Thank you. Unfortunately, we currently need starters and I'm not sure we have any options.
  24. big dog
    "The price would certainly be high, perhaps involving an already established player such as Max Kepler or Mitch Garver. " I've given up on the idea that anyone would trade a decent starting pitcher for Max, unfortunately. Right now I don't know that we could get a decent outfielder for him. Other people's projects...I'm not convinced about our ability to work magic with them.
  25. big dog
    Is there a rule limiting the number of players a team can lose? I think there used to be one, anyway. That might create a little strategy about who you choose to leave available, though I would have to think a bit to see how it might work.
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