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  1. mikelink45
    The last thing I want to see is Colome pitch. I do not want to see anyone who does not have a future with the Twins on the field or the bench or the mound. The only reason to watch, listen, read is the future. Anything else and the FO is robbing us of a chance to actually stay interested in the team.
  2. mikelink45
    Thanks for the report. Interesting. Not inspiring. Nice to see Celestino get hits against AAA pitchers.
  3. mikelink45
    I am puzzled about what to say. Welcome to the Twins Mr Gant you fit right in with the BP. Pineda this is why no one made the trade for you. Where are the positives? I don't know. The record says all that is needed - 44 - 62 .415 18 GB Since 1922 the Senator/Twins have three times had worse percentages than this for the season.
  4. mikelink45
    Bring up Miranda - he deserves it and the Twins need a jolt - I would also reward Contreras with some MLB time. Cave is not the future, use his spot for some young players. Bring up the Saint's bullpen trio and let's see if they can be the answer to next year. I just look at the posts on TD today and it feels like the trade deadline was the end of the season for the team. Understandable. It would have been nice if Strotman had pitched great and gave us a boost, but this is reality and it did not happen.
  5. mikelink45
    I am with you. Ober has not been allowed to go 5 in numerous games. Is he a starter? I really hate Rocco's hook. I do not understand it at all. Tonight he was lucky, the BP did not fail us.
  6. mikelink45
    Trading Happ is an A+. Trading Berrios is a statement that the Twins will not commit to pay for a quality starter. No matter how people debate his ACE status (a worthless discussion) he is the best we have now and the best we have had since Santana. It will take a long time for one of the prospects to be as good as he is right now. Accepting that we were not going to sign him we made a good trade, but not as good as it sounds for this reason. As the CBA now stands we would have gotten one draft pick for him so our overall haul was really one prospect. So I give the Berrios trade a C. Trading Robles is a wash. I do not know about the prospect, but I do know Robles had a very uneven year, but much better than the other big signing - Colome. Give this a C. Not trading Pineda is a fail. Not trading Donaldson, Simmons, Colome, Kepler and anyone else is also a Fail. So I understand the ESPN grade.
  7. mikelink45
    Our prospect summary had only six players active yesterday and they went 3 - 24 and 11 Ks. And I do not want to comment on Balazovic. Still hoping he makes it to MN this summer. I find myself less enthralled with St Paul now that I hardly know the players over there. But I still like these summaries.
  8. mikelink45
    I love reading about prospects but always feel reluctant to over hype them. Your essay was really good and appropriate. I enjoyed reading it and it gives me a better perspective, but does not stop my wait and see feeling.
  9. mikelink45
    Excellent article - no more dumpster dive FA. Use the talent we have. Develop it. Let the arms work. Of course the trade deadline fizzled when we should have moved a lot more players and gotten even more prospects. Unlike Baldelli, Levine, and Falvey I do not see the pieces in place to succeed. Maeda, Ober, Jax and who make up the rotation of the team for next year at this point. Let's hope some of those minor leaguers fill in the rest and show even brighter than what these three bring. Who is BP? Alcala fizzled, Duffey is too erratic and seems to have lost something, Rogers has to come back from injury and Colome and Coloumbe are an interesting name combination, but I have no faith in them Thielbar - can he keep it going? Hamilton, Moran... Who is at SS - does Martin get it for a year, does Polanco go back there? Is Lewis able to overcome two years off? Does our OF have Kepler, Larnach, Buxton? Can Buxton stay healthy? Are we stuck with Cave again? Is Rooker DH? Can he overcome his K's. Is Sano DH? Can he overcome his K's? Will Donaldson stay on the field or do we put in Miranda? Garver and Jeffers - what to do with Rortvedt? So many questions for a team that is going to rise again - quickly.
  10. mikelink45
    I can only say - okay. As long as he is in the minors I do not mind and hopefully he will progress to the majors.
  11. mikelink45
    I agree with Matthew that they cannot compete without Berrios - they would have to spend more than they wanted to pay Berrios to get a pitcher as good in FA
  12. mikelink45
    38 minutes to go and a lot of players I hope that they move now that they have gotten rid of Berrios. Will anything more happen? Yes to anything for Happ, surprised to get a live arm.
  13. mikelink45
    Who cares as long as Happ is gone. Gant is 23 - 21 and has 1.8 WAR over 6 seasons. Aged 28 - that is so much more than the bag of used baseballs I expected us to get.
  14. mikelink45
    Another x-Twin to root for. If only the Twins had more reasons for us to keep rooting this year.
  15. mikelink45
    I do not know prospects - all the lists mean nothing. What percent of great prospects make great MLB players. I can only wait and see, but prospects for next year have definitely taken a hit and what will we do this year? Bring up Shoemaker? The only thing that makes the rest of the season interesting is if they play our prospects. Give us a hope for the future.
  16. mikelink45
    Pull the trigger FO - if you are going to trade Berrios, get it done, or just stop the charades and walk away and finish this soap opera.
  17. mikelink45
    A step backward. I only want to see glimpses of the future, not another glimpse at a washed up FA.
  18. mikelink45
    Yes - because I am trying to figure out what the highlights will be for the rest of the season. What keeps me interested after the trades are done. Kiriloff and Buxton gone, Berrios gone???
  19. mikelink45
    This is painful. No game report, except the minors where I had to read about Shoemaker again. With so many parts to remove and so much happening in the marker where are the Twins. We need to do more that lose Berrios - if we do!
  20. mikelink45
    Has Shoemaker done enough in AAA to move him to some other team?
  21. mikelink45
    I am not sure - I need an up to date scouting report on Gore. This quote from CBS - "Gore has been at the Padres' spring training facility in Arizona since mid-June while working on his delivery, Colin Deaver of KTSM.com reports. Gore struggled mightily through six starts for Triple-A El Paso, and after he surrendered six runs in 1.1 innings June 18, the Padres moved him to the alternate site due to blisters on his pitching hand. He's remained there even after getting over the blisters, working on refining his delivery and his arm action. There's no timeline for Gore to return to Triple-A -- much less make his major-league debut -- but general manager AJ Preller did say "we're hoping he's an option here at some point in the second half of the season," which would seem to indicate that the team is still open to bringing him up this year if he can work through his issues. Although this season has taken a bit of the shine off Gore as a prospect, fantasy managers would do well to remember that he's still just 22 years old and has plenty of time to work on his game." Does not excite me. We do not need another Lewis Thorpe.
  22. mikelink45
    I am wondering what the FO is thinking. We moved first with Cruz and then we have sat back and waited. As your report shows, two potential and good trade options for Donaldson and Kepler seem to have vanished. What are we waiting for? I am very worried that when, if, they move we will severely weaken the team in ways that will be hard to fix. I am not interesting in more RP dumpster diving, or signing old pitchers who might have one more good year in them. The clock on the site is a countdown, but also reminds us of how time is running out on so many levels. When a 17 - 14 loss follows the ticking of the clock (actually I am glad it does not tick).
  23. mikelink45
    I keep thinking - we scored 14 runs and lost! And we lost to the Detroit Tigers who are supposed to be the worst team in the division. And all we have for a diversion is a question about which good players we will trade or as we get closer will we trade? My is this season going from bad to worse to unimaginable.
  24. mikelink45
    Does Detroit want Burrow's back? We could trade for Baddoo.
  25. mikelink45
    If this was Happ auditioning for a trade I am afraid we are stuck with him. Oh my migraine.
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