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I followed you until you kept Cave - Celestino can hit as well as Cave and field a lot better.

I like to look back and see how your selections fair = Huascar Ynoa was a good pick. Now pitching for Atlanta Braves. He had 1.7 War before his injury and looks like he has really good potential. Moran is now a Twin and hopefully a bullpen fixture for the remainder of his career. Andrew Cabezas has not been a bright star yet in the minors. Too soon for Lawyerson. If you ranked the picks you have made from 1 - 5 how would you see them now?

probably not, but I like collective inputs.

I have no idea. The biggest question for me is who has value to other teams and what can we get from them? Then there is the FA question - which FAs fall into the list that actually might be willing to sign with the Twins? The prospects needing to be named are a good group, but too many coming off injury to project them in the majors. The only reason I can see for Cave playing during the last few weeks is hoping he hits enough to interest someone else. He hasn't. He is my first drop. Rooker, Refsnyder, Garlick are the kinds of players that fill out the rosters of bad teams - I want something better. SS is the biggest puzzle. I cannot believe that Simmons might come back, but all the discussions eliminate us from the big book boys and say our own players can't play SS. So what might happen?

If Pineda is gone and Colome is coming back I am one disappointed fan. Come on Rocco - we have seen enough of Colome. I assume that it was a sympathy move to allow Detroit to score one more run before the end of the game.

I was impressed by the past list of hitters chosen even if two are on other teams. Akil - Tigers 260/327/443 770 Diaz - Miami 215/250/486 736 Can you give us an update on Chris Williams? I see Matt Wallner in the top prospects and he has had a good year, but Chris is a mystery to me. I like to see the progress of your picks.

Catchers are really valuable and many are able to last a long time - look at the Cardinals! So age would not be a critical issue for Garver if he had not been hurt as much as he has. Injuries take a big toll - ask Mauer. But a trade of a catcher should bring in a really quality pitcher. But who has an abundance of SP and needs a catcher? The Dodgers have the pitching, but also have their catcher. The Rays always seem to have pitching even if I can't keep track of who their starters are - do they have catching? Who else?

Colome getting the save is a great example of why it is a worthless stat. He stunk again. Getting out of the inning and giving up two runs in the process is not a good outing. Please find a new home for him.

I do not see them trading Sano - they will dream of his second half and probably fill the DH with him. Rooker has not shown that he would give more value and he is the other full time DH option.

I am concerned about our top three pitching prospects. Duran's injury creates a question mark and Balazovic and Woods-Richardson both have whips that are too high and that concerns me since I really hope they move to MLB soon. Are Winder and Canterino the next arms to consider for our rotation?

We have a habit of dropping like a rock in some seasons. Look at 1989 -1990 1991 95 67 586 1990 74 88 .457 1989 80 82 .494 1988 91 71 .562 You choose three good examples, but the las 60 years have seen too many of these collapses. Add 1968 and 1978 to the list of What Happened Seasons. Here is where those seasons fit into the records. x-1970 98 64 .605 -- 1 x-1969 97 65 .599 -- 1 1968 79 83 .488 24 7 1967 91 71 .561 1 2 1979 82 80 .506 6 4 1978 73 89 .451 19 4 1977 84 77 .522 17.5 4 1976 85 77 .525 5 3

I have not seen anything that gives Jax hope, but I do remember that Berrios also looked terrible his first year. I hope Jax recovers from this start.

I don't see Rooker or Jax being part of the team after Spring Training next year. Miranda has passed Rooker as a prospect and someone needs to step up on the mound. Jake Cave continues to prove he does not belong and yet I do not trust the brains to see that. I just do not know what to think about 2022

The pressure of this championship series has to help the players develop. Nice to see.

Thanks for shortening the prospect list to only those who played. Nice to read that we have one team still competing for the top spot.

Time to move on. We have sabato and Wallner coming up with the same power and strike out potential but hopefully a little more consistency. In the meantime we still have potential for Sano and Garver to get time at DH. Time to move on from Rooker and cave.

Over has really made an impression. I hope he can build on it.

If none of these pitchers make it on the roster next season it will mean that we really are getting better. If they are part of the team we have not climbed back out of the hole we are in.

Yesterday was a really good story all around. I do want the Blue Jays to get into the playoffs instead of the Yankees, but I will take this. I am more and more convinced that Pineda will be back. He takes time off every year, but when he is on the mound we get good quality. Pineda, Ryan and Ober give us a start on next years rotation.

You are probably right, but I would take the extra inning anyway and I really dislike this continuing use of Colome.

I am puzzled by what to put here. Polanco is definitely the best bat. Larnach got figured out and seemed to give up - can he come back? Alcala always seems on the verge and then bombs. Kiriloff has a great bat, but he is like Buxton - an IL specialist. Ober is another great story and a positive. Let's hope he can continue this as they scout every detail of his pitching. Jeffers regressed and Garver keeps teasing us. Sano takes off half a season and blossoms when it is too late - do we trust him? Griffin Jax is a wonderful story, but not a wonderful pitcher so far. Who will be SS? Is Miranda a mirage? Can we please move on from Jake Cave? The management of our 4 inning starters is still a sore point for me. I want a new manager and I want 7 inning starters. When things go bad do we have the coaches that can correct it on the fly? Is there a reason that pitchers do better in other organizations? Is Rooker really this bad? Let's see Ober and Polanco - I need a third person. Well tune in later.

This is a real challenge. Where does Stashak fit in the plan? How about Cano from the minors? Please not Law, not Colome. Move on. But to whom? I do not know.

Just think - Ryan pitches one more inning and Colome isn't needed! Please get rid of this guy.

I think our batting order let us down and in some real key situations and while they're not the biggest problem the first half of the season we constantly wrote about leaving runners in scoring position and the lack of hitting in key situations. Sano looks good right now but half the season he was absent, Larnach looked great but once he was challenged by Major League pitching he didn't know what to do and obviously our coaches didn't know how to help him. Simmons is not as good as his Fielding rating and his hitting is horrible. Arraez it's supposed to challenge for the batting title. He hasn't and he has had some prolonged hitless periods. Kepler should not have batted lead off for second for all the games that the manager wanted him on top of the lineup. I am finding myself less and less enamored with the manager and the lead coaches. Too many things happened that I expected them to begin to fix, but it never happened. I certainly don't like pulling the pitchers as early as they have the starting pitchers going deeper helps a bullpen that is struggling.

Nice to see Miranda continuing his hitting from beginning to end of his Minor League season. I have no idea where he'll play, but I'm quite impressed with him and at the same time on the major league team I'm disappointed in Arraez this year and Miranda may push him for a spot. Looking at the prospects I'm constantly disappointed in Rooker too. Now that we have used the best pitchers on each squad who gets game 3 and 4 of this championship series? I would like to see them put up a battle at least