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  1. Andy MacPhail
    We are in desperate need in the BP. SWR has 7 scoreless innings in relief since joining TOR with 1 win.
  2. Andy MacPhail
    Many clamor, "we need more offense"; I've always said we have enough offense, we only need more clutch hitting & priority of course is BP. It's amazing, we are doing so well with this BP. To be seriously competitive, FO needs desperately to get high-leverage RPs, & keep our better RPs in low-medium leverage, except Gomez (IMO, we wasted him in a meanless game, last night).
  3. Andy MacPhail
    We should have won this game, like many other games we've played. A team is as strong as their weakest link. The BP is our weakest link. Because of this, our rotation is left in too long. They tire & lose their edge, runners get on base & score, RPs come in with runners on base, we don't have high leverage RPs to put out the fire, so the game implodes, the momentum changes & INF defense falls apart. We lose our lead & game. I understand that trades that should've been made in the offseason is more difficult during the season. We can be very competitive once we get high-leverage RPs, until the GM makes it happen, Until then, we have to suffer through these games.
  4. Andy MacPhail
    Twins have good players, their biggest problem hasn't been their players. Whenever they decide to fix their BP, they can really compete. If they had made the BP their priority & got serious RPs to begin the season; we'd be easily leading our division.
  5. Andy MacPhail
    Bingo. So many baseball journalists & podcasters I used to like, have turned to the dark-side. Being influenced by big coastal team mentality of smaller teams have no right to compete, they have to trade their best players to them, so I no longer follow them. My scope of MLB news has gotten much smaller. I don't give any credence to what Jim Bowden says.
  6. Andy MacPhail
    I put in a Jeffers/NYY trade at BTV a couple of months ago & got a surprisingly good response. The need & means are there for NYY, Twins can't sign Jeffers & he's having a record year. I hope Zoll can swing a good deal once Jeffers gets back on track. IMO, it's a perfect storm.
  7. Andy MacPhail
    IMO, Twins should sell & buy. To protect themselves, yet be competitive. I like Jeffers & I'd like to sign him to a reasonable extention. But, I can't see that happening. If the Twins had foresight, they'd have got a promising young MLB-ready catcher to make an easy transition at catcher years ago. They did not, Which forced the Twins (who is supposingly strapped for $) to obtain another big bucks FA & possibly overpay for Jeffers in FA. I see Jeffers as a must trade. I don't want to trade Joe Ryan but even after last season big sell-off, we still need a young promising MLB-ready catcher. Unfortunately, I'm open to sell Ryan for a young promising MLB-ready catcher & upside SP. We have a lot of LH cOFers so Larnach is expendable, Larnach & Bell have no future with the Twins so they should be traded. To be competitive we need to keep our good young RPs, the others aren't worth anything & some should be DFAs. If we can come up with a promising young closing canidate, great.
  8. Andy MacPhail
    I love Buck from the time he was in the MiLB. I have stayed true to that impression. Social media flooded the internet with "Buck was bitter with the Twins & didn't want to sign". It was a lie because Buck really wanted to stay. IMO it was hype from teams that wanted him. The reason that the Twins didn't want to sign him was never the money; it was because he wanted a no trade clause. Absolute crazy. Twins should have signed him much sooner. I agree it's the best thing that happened to the Twins. Buck has been adamant that he wants to stay, yet we still hear the same crappy trade deals. Let's stop giving credence to this same social media crap & thank God that we have him. We could never come close to receive in what Buxton means to the Twins. Twins stop dealing away the heart the team.
  9. Andy MacPhail
    I'm sorry but I like underdogs, late bloomers players. They should have called him up a long time ago. Especially when Jeffers went down & Caratini caught regularly. Fedco should play against all LHPs, I don't know how well he does against RHPs. They should give him as many quality ABs as possible. I'd like the Twins adopt CLE's philosophy of developing & giving opportunity to such players. Ernie Clement is a late bloomer & helped TOR get to the WS. Twins analytics often write off such in-house players & not give much of an opportunity.
  10. Andy MacPhail
    Twins are lost in some things, they blew it with SWR. He was sick last season, to begin the season, he was sicker than a dog & they still pitched him!? He got out of sinc & behind & never got the opportunity & slack to recover before they DFAed him (like we had a ton of great experienced pitchers!). He got some rest & TOR put him in the BP. As expected he pitched 4 scoreless innings against Philly. Twins need to get their act together pertaining the BP.
  11. Andy MacPhail
    The last few years, the Twins have looked very good on paper but couldn't execute, which resulted in disappointing seasons. Last year dead-line devestated the BP & line-up, I was especially disappointed with the Varland trade. If we kept Varland, we'd have won most of the close games we lost, sustaining the momentum of those winning streaks. That alone would have made the difference between a struggling team to a competitor. We needed a closer this offseason, a trade of one of our abundant LH hitting cOFers would have sufficed. Staking the Twins' BP future on losing lotto tickets isn't the pragmatic way to go. Supposingly, it's more difficult to make trades after the off-season. Yet, the Twins need to find a way to make it happen. We can still make it to the post season if we do. A winning attitude is so important.
  12. Andy MacPhail
    I'm not a big fan of Law. CWS with 3 promising young MLB-ready catchers (Keel, Quero & Romo), when most teams don't have one, pass over Cholowsky (SS) for Lackey (C). Even though hoarding catching makes much more sense than corner players, I still don't see it.
  13. Andy MacPhail
    If we can get some young impact players who can help the club soon then yeah & not a bunch of lotto tickets who might never really do anything. We don't need anymore redundant LH hitting corner players that last regime liked to stock-pile & hoard who haven't made much of an impact yet. Will the new regime under Zoll be much better? I hope so eventually but I doubt it right away. Then I'd prefer to keep Ryan especially if there is going to be a salary floor.
  14. Andy MacPhail
    I really like Jeffers, he starts off strong offensively & is competent defensively. He's very good in challenging balls & strikes. But he'll wane as the season goes on & not worth the QO. Twins' problem has been over-paying some players & not getting players they need. It was very easy to see the catching dilema coming but the Twins have been blind to it. For years the Twins should have invested in a young promising MLB catcher but have failed to do so. Over-paying Jeffers shouldn't be the solution for Twins' past short-coming.
  15. Andy MacPhail
    Thanks, Patzky, I knew Sims was going to be picked up by someone. Former team makes sense. Makes me sad how Twins takes care of their home grown players & how they take on inferior players & hope they stick. We all know how bad our BP was starting the offseason. I don't like their mostly miss & hope for a mediocre BP stragedy. That's not the way to be competitive. Good luck to Sims. Maybe the Twins finally wake up.
  16. Andy MacPhail
    It seems like he's making good contact but right at someone. I used to think that there's very little difference between the cOFs. So why does Larnach doesn't want to play RF? There must be a difference. So now focusing on a new RF position & Buck isn't beside him to help him might be distracting his hitting. Yet he's been doing very well in RF.
  17. Andy MacPhail
    Sims doesn't have amazing velo or stuff so he has to depend on smarts. It's very important to get on top of your game early in the season or you lose your edge & lag behind. Like Ober last year, they pitched him when he was sicker than a dog & he never really recovered fully the whole season. Sims was sick last year & came into this season skinny, when he got really sick they should have never pitched him. That set him back big time. Maybe they talked BP to him & maybe that didn't set well with him. IMO, it's part of Twins fault in the SWR dilema. Nevertheless, IMO, Sims can come back, even if it means temporary low-leverage 1 inning games. The rotation & BP are in shambles so it's rediculous that the Twins DFAed him, IMO, some team will pick him up.
  18. Andy MacPhail
    CWS have 3 very promising young catchers (I hope they don't pick Lackey). And if TB stick with a LH hitting prep star, Twins could end up with best player of the draft.
  19. Andy MacPhail
    I really liked Teal as a college catcher & IMO, Lackey is better. I see him making it to the MLB fairly soon & Tait is no sure thing to make it at all. It's not bad to pick according to need especially when he'll be the best player at #3. Finding a primary catcher is like finding a dinosaur, if Lackey doesn't become one especially in the beginning, that's ok. Hope the Twins find someone who can further his development.
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