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  1. 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.
  2. big dog
    Just kidding.
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  4. 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.
  5. big dog
    Pineda and two better than that, please.
  6. 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.
  7. big dog
    You didn't ask about 1994, but we sent Marty Cordova that year. He was ROY in 1995.
  8. big dog
    Well, it is at least MY most disappointing season in MLB history, anyway.
  9. 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.
  10. big dog
    "as the pitching staff continues its excellence" hack, cough, {Colome} but mostly true. They are on a heck of a roll.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. big dog
    It's also his second time facing them. Easier to fool them the first time.
  15. big dog
    I choose "neither", unless the draft position race is between first and, say, tenth.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. big dog
    This is both the funniest thing that I've read in a long time, and something that explains the last 15 years of Twins history really well.
  20. big dog
    And giving Gordon 10 more starts this year might solidify that choice toward Simmons for everyone. I get it, he's probably not a ML shortstop. But we might as well give him more chances to prove it, or prove us wrong. Absolutely nothing to lose.
  21. big dog
    What does it cost us to look? More at-bats by Simmons? I'll pay that.
  22. big dog
    Yes. Gordon at SS. Good or bad, let's figure out what's happening next year. What do we have to lose right now? Fourth place? Big deal, look ahead and figure out how to move forward. If he can't play SS, fine, figure out the next step. Agreed on Moran- how is it helping him develop by leaving him in for multiple innings until the wheels fall off? What are we learning there? Ridiculous. OK, let's go back and check the betting lines- who had Jax/Ryan/Ober/Barnes/Albers as our starters in September? That pretty much describes the year, doesn't it? I would add Pineda but he's about due to get hurt again, I think. I want to learn as much as we can about our young players' chances and then end the 2021 season with a stake in its heart.
  23. big dog
    Does anyone see anything in Jax that leads you to believe he has a shot at being a starting pitcher? I was hopeful, but not optimistic, a few weeks ago. Now I'm neither. Albers, Gibault, Burrows...let's see what the kids can do. Move on.
  24. big dog
    Nice to see Alcala doing well. He's started to show the stuff we hoped he could maintain. Like to see him finish the year strong.
  25. big dog
    Yeah, and at least 350 of them would be good players.
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