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  1. 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.
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    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.
  3. 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.
  4. TJSweens
    The Twins also got Gabriel Gonzalez and Justin Topa in that deal. That's not even in the running for bottom 5.
  5. 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.
  6. TJSweens
    Five worst Falvey moves: The 2018 draft The 2019 draft The 2020 draft The 2021 draft The 2022 draft
  7. TJSweens
    Falvey in a nutshell. Nine drafts have produced one All Star...Brent Rooker.
  8. TJSweens
    Falvey's legacy of draft and development failures finally caught up with him.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  13. TJSweens
    Who is being blocked by Rogers?
  14. 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.
  15. TJSweens
    Maybe the Twins should focus on a starting SS rather than a backup.
  16. 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.
  17. 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!
  18. TJSweens
    Prielipp just turned 25 on January 10 and that's how old he will be all season. His elbow surgery set his time line back. I would guess that in his second year back his secondary pitches will be sharper and his pitch count and innings can be stretched. He could appear as a starter this year.
  19. TJSweens
    Culpepper as #2 seems right. His defense last year was a revelation. Everything I have read indicates the Twins are more than satisfied that he can stick at SS long term. Great approach at the plate. I think the whole launch angle debate is over rated. Tait sounds good, but he is too far away to worry about it. E-Rod concerns me because of health and strikeouts. Seems like a little Julien in him, who would rather look at strike 3 than try to foul that close pitch off to keep his AB Alive. Prielipp is only in the conversation as a starter. There is no debate about he is better suited. A move to the pen is predicated on need and getting Prielipp to the majors sooner. In my opinion, that strategy in short sighted. Especially when the Twins are not going to contend this year.
  20. TJSweens
    Our quadruple A roster is going to loaded this year.
  21. TJSweens
    And keep running him out there as a pinch hitter when he is 0 for 30 as a pinch hitter.
  22. TJSweens
    I've said before that Twins approach to free agency is like Howard's strategy for picking up women on the Big Bang Theory... "First we let the lawyers and the jocks thin the herd, and then we go after the weak and the old and the lame." The Twins late acquisition strategy amounts to letting other teams fill their needs first and then combing through the leftovers. Sometimes they get a Bader and sometimes they get a Staumont.
  23. TJSweens
    I always hate these lists because it always amounts to picking a favorite member of the WAR family tree. Sorry folks, they just aren't the be all and end all stats that they are made out to be. There are numerous pitchers in Twins history than Radke. Don't get me wrong, I loved Brad. He was a solid, sturdy gamer. Jim Perry, Frank Viola, Camillo Pascual, hell even Dave Boswell, who was on the verge of a monster career before his shoulder exploded in the 10th inning of his playoff start was a better pitcher than Radke.
  24. TJSweens
    Merlo is the only one rated in the top 50 international prospects. He comes in at #34.
  25. TJSweens
    How many slow footed, league average hitting, subpar defensive, figures to spend time at DH players do we need?
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