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  1. TJSweens
    Bottom line is that as bad as this division is, it will require a better than .500 record to win it and I don't see this team as capable of doing that.
  2. TJSweens
    Our quadruple A roster just keeps getting better and better.
  3. TJSweens
    Yes, this gets overblown. I read numerous accounts that Culpepper's defense greatly exceeded expectations last year and he now looks like a player who could stay there. Somewhere along the line everything reverted back to Culpepper changing positions.
  4. TJSweens
    Lee was drafted for his bat and it has not lived up to expectations, so far. He was supposed to have a polished swing with a great approach that was supposed to easily transition to the big leagues. With over 700 plate appearances we have yet to see it. This is a major problem, since Lee needs to hit in order to justify his glove in the lineup. All we can do is hope Culpepper gets off to a fast start and earns a call up.
  5. TJSweens
    I think a greater offense is calling Ty France a meaningful major league piece.
  6. TJSweens
    My guess is that he is going through one of the off-season pitching academies the Twins have for their prospects. He's probably working on modified grips and trying new pitches. Matthews is a good candidate to start the year in the pen. He has nothing more to prove in AAA. The usual uptick in velo that accompanies a move to the pen should make his fastball more effective. The short stints should also make it easier to break in a new pitch or a modified existing pitch. Matthews also has enough innings under his belt to make it easy to stretch him back out if they want another look at him as a starter.
  7. TJSweens
    Pointless rationalization. Of course you need outcomes from all sources. I credited Falvey for acquiring pitching. My point is when you go outside the organization, you give up assets. And don't give me this development schedule bs. It's been 9 years and the only starter they produced is Bailey Ober, who is a mid rotation guy at best. What teams had the best pipeline in a given year couldn't be more irrelevant. The subject is the Twins pipeline over the last 9 years and it isn't good. That's why we had a fire sale to bring in more pitching prospects, while home grown prospects have stalled.
  8. TJSweens
    The heart and soul of a pipeline is scouting, drafting and developing. The Falvey pipeline is a trickle in this area. Ober stands as the lone starting success. You can't count Festa and Matthews as successes as they figure to start the year in AAA behind Abel and Bradley. Griffin Jax is another success as an elite reliever. Sands and Varland are successes to a lesser degree. Personally, I don't see this as a successful pipeline. The Falvey regime has done a decent job of acquiring pitchers that other teams scouted, drafted and started to develop. The problem is that these acquisitions should supplement your in house core, not be the core. The Twins continually move assets to acquire what they fail to draft and develop.
  9. TJSweens
    Just like I have trouble taking arguments seriously that look at OPS+ in a vacuum and ignore that he can't hit LHP, is a defensive liability and runs like molasses in January. But hey, if you're happy with these drafts, I'm happy for you.
  10. TJSweens
    1. Wallner is a slow footed, weak defensive platoon player who strikes out a lot. Larnach, rinse and repeat. I counted Jeffers as a success. 2. Julien is a terrible defender who hit well enough for a couple of months to justify his existence. Career went over a cliff. 3. Sands had one good year and one bad year. Varland is up and down got pounded with the Jays, Jury out on both. 4. Steer is barely a league average hitter even playing in a band box. Sub par defensively. 5. Pitchers in the pipeline are just that. They’ve proven nothing. I remember back when we were supposed to be giddy about Graterol, Balazovic, Alcala, Enlow, Winder, etc in our pitching pipeline. Same goes for Jenkins and the other position players. We all thought Royce was our next superstar. So 9 years of drafts and international signings has yielded a slightly above average catcher, a couple of slow footed platoon players, a mid rotation starter, a high end/high leverage reliever, a couple of questionable mid relievers, a couple of huge question marks (Lewis, Lee), a mediocre second baseman for another team and all star slugger for another team (Rooker). Ratioalize it all you want. That is not a good track record for 9 years.
  11. TJSweens
    Don't sell me Larnach, Jeffers and Cole Sands as examples of our drafts being not that bad. They aren't all going to be All Stars, but how about any All Stars in 9 years? I guess there was Rooker...oh wait. How about a some legit every day players? Falvey was going to create a pitching pipeline like this organization has never seen. His drafts have produced Ober, Jax and Sands in 9 years. You want to polish the giant turd that is 9 years of Falvey drafts, go ahead. I expect more.
  12. TJSweens
    The Twins also got Gabriel Gonzalez and Justin Topa in that deal. That's not even in the running for bottom 5.
  13. TJSweens
    That might be a compelling argument if I put any stock in the WAR family of stats. I also factor in the importance of a frontline starter. Replace Pablo with Arraez in 23 and the Twins don't make the playoffs, let alone break an 18 game playoff losing streak, let alone win a playoff series.
  14. TJSweens
    Five worst Falvey moves: The 2018 draft The 2019 draft The 2020 draft The 2021 draft The 2022 draft
  15. TJSweens
    Falvey in a nutshell. Nine drafts have produced one All Star...Brent Rooker.
  16. TJSweens
    Falvey's legacy of draft and development failures finally caught up with him.
  17. TJSweens
    Matt Garza and Kyle Lohse had longer careers than Boswell, not better. Boswell had his career cut short when his shoulder exploded in the 69 playoffs, pitching his 10th inning. Lohse and Garza never had a stretch anywhere close to what Boswell did in those first 6 years. Keep in mind Griffith produced his players in half the time the time of the Pohlads.
  18. TJSweens
    Santana didn't come out of the Twins system. You want to throw in the Hall of Pretty good? How about Hrbek, Gaetti, Viola, Bob Allison, Gagne, Versailles, Earl Battey, Graig Nettles, Lymon Bostock, Pascual, Dave Boswell, Dave Goltz, Mincher. Many of these guys were at the core of 3 World Series teams and a few near misses. By any objective measure, the Griffith organization produced a higher quantity of quality major leaguers in less time than the Pohlad ownership.
  19. TJSweens
    Drafting and development futility is a hallmark of the Pohlad ownership. They just don't hire good baseball people. In 24 years in Minnesota, that north end of a southbound brontosaurus, Calvin Griffith, produced six Hall of Famers...Killebrew, Carew, Oliva, Kaat, Blyleven, Puckett. In the following 42 years, the Pohlad ownership has produced Joe Mauer.
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    Del
  21. TJSweens
    Who is being blocked by Rogers?
  22. TJSweens
    The best part of the Rodgers signing is that it reduces the talk of Prielipp to the pen. There is no reason not to continue stretching him out now. There are a few starting prospects who failed at AAA and are candidates to move to the pen. Raya, Morris, Festa and Lewis can all move to the pen. There is no reason to move Prielipp, who has yet to fail.
  23. TJSweens
    Maybe the Twins should focus on a starting SS rather than a backup.
  24. TJSweens
    This is truly an awful idea. The rationalizations for doing this trade seem like something I would come up with after a prolonged period of insomnia.
  25. TJSweens
    Give me your has beens, your never weres. Your rag arms yearning to earn major league minimum, The wretched refuse of your teeming minor leagues. Send these, the DFA'd, tempest-tost to me, I lift my pen and a minor league contract beside the golden door!
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