Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

mikelink45

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    10,086

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    27

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by mikelink45

  1. mikelink45
    I am not pushing for him, just using him as an example of how easy it is for teams to fill the corners in the OF, DH, and 1B. That is why their value is so low. However, before you knock C. J. - he had a 3.4 WAR last year. Only Buxton and Polanco had more for the Twins.
  2. mikelink45
    I am not advocating their trade, just assessing trade value and they are the most valuable non-pitchers we have. Young, under control, middle diamond positions. DH/1B/LF/RF are not positions of high value. So how much do we want to get a really good pitcher?
  3. mikelink45
    I just cannot be excited about these three - Stroman is the only one I would sign. Kluber is at the end of the road and we do not have to continue to offer long term care to aging pitchers. Thor has too many injuries and just cannot be counted on the way Berrios did making every start.
  4. mikelink45
    You made me laugh. Of course we have a problem. Winning 90 in a division in which teams 2 - 5 are all below 500 is not a monumental feat. When the Rays win 90 in the American East that is a feat. There is something that impacts the central teams when they get into the post season and maybe it is the fact that they are not hardened by the competition during the season. We were 13 - 20 versus the East, 37 - 39 in our own division, and 13 - 20 versus the West. And 10 - 10 interleague. We often fool ourselves and think we are better than our record - even this year that might be true.
  5. mikelink45
    We hope
  6. mikelink45
    Okay - not sure I can remember, but I hope you are wrong
  7. mikelink45
    How many have Maeda and Pineda had? Or Kiriloff?
  8. mikelink45
    If we want to have value in trades it is Lewis and Martin that will garner value outside pitching prospects. The DH, 1B types are everywhere and do not bring a big return.
  9. mikelink45
    Our surplus has the least value on the trade market. Look at Cron - he outhits all those we list and yet has bounced around year after year.
  10. mikelink45
    I think that the FO pushing Colina into an unsuccessful MLB debut when he was not ready led all of us to believe that they saw this pitcher as a future part of the BP. We signed Pineda when we knew he would be out a year recovering from surgery. Now we drop a young, seemingly talented young arm in a pitcher starved year because he had two operations. It makes no sense to me. And the PR hit that moves like this make - like not giving Maggi an AB - stuns me.
  11. mikelink45
    I think we have another ex-Twin that we can see succeed and wonder why the Twins were so willing to give up on him.
  12. mikelink45
    Let's wait to anoint him until we see it play out next year. We have been hoping for a long time and if he is turning the corner I am really pleased, but I did not see enough this year to make that leap.
  13. mikelink45
    Get an older baseball guy to be a bench coach - someone that can balance and slow down Baldelli's analytic obsession.
  14. mikelink45
    No doubt at all
  15. mikelink45
    Your grade is fair and accurate. The fact that we played 500 ball for the second half does not rescue Rocco. With the expectations that we had for the team beginning the season we would have been upset with a 500 team, but this team was not 500, that was half a season when all the pressure was off them in the worst division in baseball. I do not like the way he handles his starters, and the artificial limit on pitches which is well below 100 - and I always thought that was an artificial number. Colome is part of a bad bullpen management. He said he did not use designated closers yet he continued to use Colome in that role. Combine the SP going to few innings with a poor BP that was then expected to cover over half of every ball game and we have the mess that presented itself this year.
  16. mikelink45
    I agree - the bats that are not in MLB are not impressive when you get past the top 3
  17. mikelink45
    Somehow the Cardinals were able to extract what they needed from him and yes - he helped them. Maybe Shoemaker was right, the veterans do not take well our pitching instructions.
  18. mikelink45
    Painful, but you ended like the Twins with some positives. You might add some preseason months when we signed Happ and Shoemaker.
  19. mikelink45
    There is no answer to this question - it comes down to a variety of issues: Do the Twins think he can be healthy? Does he want to be here? Did last place sour him? Will the Twins meet the demands of the agent? Is the agent willing to negotiate? Do we have a CF if he is gone? What is his market value? If he leaves will a FA want to come to the club minus its biggest star? Stay tuned.
  20. mikelink45
    It interesting to me that after a terrible season we are left with a debate over which adjective to assign to it. We were last in the worst division - imagine if we were in the East. Disappointment and shock are the best descriptors I have. Because we all believed we were in a fight for the third division title in three years. I do not know anyone or any service that foresaw this travesty. I still see the lineup with the potential of a very good team, there are good prospects. The season hinged on SP and RP and even with a few gems at the end, we go into 2022 knowing our best pitcher is gone. So will 2022 be a surprise and a joy or do we have to go to the thesaurus for disappointment and shock again?
  21. mikelink45
    It's nice to have a wrap up, but is it really the season wrap up or will there be another reflection? I am not sure how I feel about the season other than being disappointed. What do we build on? How do we truly evaluate the end of the season. Nice that we ended on a good note but it's a lot easier to win when the pressure is off and there is no hope for the off-season. Players like Ryan and Ober we're fun, but does that mean that we can count on them for next year? So many questions. I think point about Arraez is one of many questions that are left to be answered from this season.
  22. mikelink45
    I do not know how to grade front offices. There is the organizational part - putting the right people in place, maintaining a functioning organization, establishing communications. Then there is the on-field portion which is both MLB and MiLB. I cannot speak to the organization, the Minors are looking good, but the decisions at the major league level were definitely a fail this year. Simmons, Happ, Shoemaker, Colome, Robles are poor results. Trying to avoid 90 wins instead of preparing for the playoffs is a terrible result. Having to trade Berrios because we could not sign him and having Buxton still dangling out there with the possibility that we might have to trade him is a bad reflection on leadership. Lacking a rotation, a bullpen, and a short stop going into next season looks pretty incompetent. I will not give a grade because I lack the ability to see all aspects of their performance, but I cannot see a grade above C after looking at the team on the field as it ends 2021 and looks at 22.
  23. mikelink45
    What a year - our goal is not first, second, third or even fourth place - it is to not lose 90 games!
  24. mikelink45
    Add in the commissioner!
  25. mikelink45
    Ober and Ryan should be in the rotation, but Gant and Jax should not. The audition is over. When the Cardinals give up on a pitcher they seldom prosper elsewhere. Figuring out the pitching staff for next year it is a real difficult conundrum.
×
×
  • Create New...