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  1. mikelink45
    Check out his BR page
  2. mikelink45
    I will take your opinion, I do not know much about him or any of the other 15 coaches. What do they all do? Anyway Paddack was 4 - 5 4.73 era and 7 - 7 5.07 during Tingler's two years in SD. Wow.
  3. mikelink45
    Who is going to get high leverage? The BP was coming together, now we have confusion in both SP and RP - what did this solve? Did Rocco go to the FO and tell them that the pitchers that they signed stunk? This just pushed Winder further from the rotation and I would take him over any of these others. Fourth OF should be Larnach!
  4. mikelink45
    Well time to recalculate - the Rotation now has a proven leader, two good young pitchers and three reclamation projects. The BP has lost its predicted closer and best reliever in the trade - do we now go get another RP or are we promoting from within and will they be as good as Rogers. I do not see the Twins making the WS - sorry, but Paddock, Bundy, Archer do not make a championship rotation. I would have expected Kepler to be in the trade they just did, but I think the Padres value Paddock a lot less than the Twins do. I am fine if he is traded, but I want real value back. I am all in on the first three predictions.
  5. mikelink45
    Those RP better be ready and good - someone has to replace Taylor Rogers and that is a big hole in the BP. When Larnach was pulled many thought he was traded instead of Rooker, but I thought maybe they were going to make him the fourth OF and drop both Rooker and Garlick - I would like that and now Rooker is gone.
  6. mikelink45
    And the Padres fired him! We are full of reclamation projects already. The TWINS clinic is open send us all your pitchers who have lost velocity, gotten confused, been mediocre for a few years - we are ready and Dr Wes will fix them unless they are Perez, Albers, Gant, Shoemaker, Happ, Bailey...
  7. mikelink45
    Nice attitude. I like seeing the players believe.
  8. mikelink45
    Which is better - flexibility or quality? I am high on the quality scale! I like a Verlander who takes the game into his own hands instead of three or four okay pitchers all hoping to be good that day. Baseball is slipping into my rear view mirror with the changes it is making and I do not want to lose it.
  9. mikelink45
    For the sake of debate I would reverse all your takes - let's check in at the end of the season! Thanks for starting a good line of debates. I did enjoy reading the article and your takes.
  10. mikelink45
    I know we tie Donaldson to Correa, but I don't. For a year the Twins could have had them both. Our spending is not crazy wild. If they wanted to save money from Donaldson they should have signed a good pitcher. We could have had Garver, Donaldson, and Correa - now that would be fun.
  11. mikelink45
    By the way - Cueto was signed by the sox as a backup precaution. Smart move - no guaranteed spot, just another arm in the system.
  12. mikelink45
    I know it is a popular stance to always see the Twins in the best light, but Donaldson leaves Urshela in the dust. He is a place holder and that is fine. We dumped a salary and filled a void. That is as far as I can go until I see the season play out.
  13. mikelink45
    Other commenters have noticed the same thing I did. The age range except for a very few is already at peak value. They are backups but not future starters except for Miranda, Lewis, and Balazovic. Double A looks more like the future of the twins.
  14. mikelink45
    Thanks for asking the question. Remember we also have Gant, Albers, Bailey, Perez in addition to Happ and Shoemaker since 2019. I do not have much faith in Archer and Bundy. They were available cheap because they have been going downhill. It would be great to have one of them rebound to a good starter, but I wanted Winder as the fifth starter and still do. Whichever reclamation project falters should be dropped immediately, but I am not sure that history tells us that they will.
  15. mikelink45
    Another good review. The biggest take away is that with ST short and lots of new arms there is still a lot of sorting to do and that can lead to a lot of mistakes. Where is Winder in this discussion?
  16. mikelink45
    Surprises - the end of the roster is a quagmire of decisions. We had the TD stories about Godoy and were just starting to warm to him and now we are supposed to jump on the Sisco bandwagon - how they play with our emotions! By the way Godoy hit 250/333/375 this spring - Gary Sanchez 148/201/222 - I guess this is another case where ST stats don't matter. Garlick or Rooker is a who cares, but it says that the Twins should have been shopping Rooker after last season. He was never going to make it and Wallner, Sabato...are ready to slug their way into the next round of discussions. Good for Coulombe - if he stays long enough I will learn to spell his name without having to go back to the article. But then DFA could still be in the cards. Well the tension is building - can't wait for the next announcement.
  17. mikelink45
    I would like some consistency. Either buy quality SP to build the rotation you want or don't bother with retreads and go all in on the pipeline. If Bundy and/or Archer are mediocre will the team step away quickly and put the young arms in or will we see the Happ/Shoemaker/Bailey...slog through half a season or more? Nick your analyses have really been right on and I love the honest approach.
  18. mikelink45
    Nice article - he would be a good story - better than some of the pickups we have made from other teams.
  19. mikelink45
    Nice job - I am anxious for the season, but hold less optimism than many of the TD fans. That rotation just does not look good enough for me to see more than a 500 season. My best hope is that the vets burn out quickly enough to get some young arms in up to infuse some extra energy. Gray is the only vet I have high hopes for. The best fourth OF has already been sent down so we will have to see if Rooker provides anything of value and if Jeffers can catch fire and live up to status of number one catcher.
  20. mikelink45
    With Moran going down I see both Duran and Winder staying with the team.
  21. mikelink45
    Excellent summary. I cannot argue any of your points. I do hope Smeltzer finds a way to rise again and I expect Moran to be on the team sometime this year. Rooker is a conundrum the way that Cave was the last two years. Do we really need him? Does he offer something other than a right handed bat with a 201 BA and a .328 strikeout average? He has disappointed me with the inability to change and succeed. This spring he is hitting .083 and his K rate is .384. I will take Garlick over him and would love to have Celestino.
  22. mikelink45
    unless they are RP - then one pitch can get a Rivera into the HOF, two pitches and Duffey and Rogers can lead the pen.
  23. mikelink45
    Jeffers OPS+ was 83 - 17% below average. At this point we should have hope, not optimism. I really like him (even though I am not a big framer guy), but he has to step up this year or C becomes a big hole that is hard to fill.
  24. mikelink45
    It is up to Jeffers to prove that the decision was good. I really loved Jeffers in the minors and then the first season he was up, but he needs to start producing. No longer a rookie, no longer alternating. He needs to show us something to justify your accolades and I hope he does. He is one of the keys to our future success.
  25. mikelink45
    Moran is ready! Canterino should be one of the first SP call ups.
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