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  1. mikelink45
    I believe the standard line for drafts in all sports is - I can't believe our luck, he fell to us and is much better than his draft position. MLB.com says - "The 6-foot-2, 190-pound hurler was ranked the No. 27 prospect in the Draft by MLB Pipeline and is committed to the University of Florida. The assigned slot value for the No. 26 selection is $2,653,400." https://www.mlb.com/news/twins-2021-mlb-draft-day-1-picks Since I have no personal way to judge it will be wait and see.
  2. mikelink45
    Seven prospects injured. How does that compare to other organizations. It seems really high to me.
  3. mikelink45
    Am I the only one who does not see great promise in Ober? I hope he proves me wrong, but I am not seeing the upside so many do.
  4. mikelink45
    Still can't let the starter go the extra inning. Good game - but we are playing the Tigers and we were supposed to be a better team. My enthusiasm is low.
  5. mikelink45
    It is sad to see our best batter go (and we are assuming he will) when we actually have some players like Donaldson who would not be missed. The end of the career shifts from Aaron to the Brewers, Thome to Cleveland...are part of baseball's tradition. The old win every year Yankees made a history of picking up Johnny Mize, Enos Slaughter and other players who suddenly blossomed for a good ending in pin stripes. I wish we could ask Cruz where he would like to go.
  6. mikelink45
    I think MLB should divide the season like they do in some minor leagues. Everyone starts over - first half winner meets second half winner and more importantly the Twins never get a chance to dip below 15 games behind in the standings. I believe that Stu did miss the most important lesson - this Team has adopted the Minnesota Nice slogan and tries not to beat up on lesser teams - and of course we are actually better than all of them.
  7. mikelink45
    I have been in Alaska for three weeks - one more to go. No games, no streaming, just an occasional internet. I have been hoping to see a big change, but a win over Detroit after stinking in Chicago is not the uplifting beginning of the second half, but if Happ gets it together, the bats wake up it might be fun. I think the best thing for all of us is to just wipe the slate clean and hope for a good finish. If trades happen I will wait to see what the brain trust does, but overall it has been a good year to be out along the coast. So hear are my second half desires - I want to see Jeffers, Larnach, Kiriloff make the next step forward, I want to see Gordon get more playing time. By the end of the year Miranda should be rewarded with a MLB appearance. One or two minor league starting pitchers come up and succeed giving us hope for next year. Some of the young BP arms in St Paul push our the chaff that is our BP this season. Buxton goes a month without an injury, illness, or personal set back. We retain Berrios. We make one trade that gets us all excited.
  8. mikelink45
    I read that Ober is back of the rotation as a starter and yet he is ahead of Sands who is described as an exciting pitching prospect. Does that mean that Sands is also end of the rotation and Enlow is 3 or more in the rotation? Just trying to see how the rankings work. Rooker seems to be sliding over the years. When you write of him taking over for Cruz I have to imagine that Sano fits in that slot first.
  9. mikelink45
    Excellent news, although Robles is one who still does not have my trust and I think his stats overstate his value. It is a strange season when we celebrate that the KC ROYALS did not sweep us.
  10. mikelink45
    I went to the MLB hitting leaders on mlb.com today. I only looked at the top 25 - OPS, Slg, AV, OBP, HR - Cruz is on every list. No other Twin is. That is sad.
  11. mikelink45
    Perhaps you can help me understand. I keep seeing us sign players and assign them to upper levels of MiLB. Where are we getting them? What is the impact of the minor league contraction and realignment? How has it changed things? Can you see the differences that it created besides team names?
  12. mikelink45
    Nelson Cruz has this award - every month. We can name it for him. But I really like Larnach as next in line.
  13. mikelink45
    This is very sad and it falls on the Twins who have failed to take Sano, Kepler, Polanco to the next level. They were the building blocks and we did not coach, lead them to their potential.
  14. mikelink45
    Please have these guys solve our BP - no more random signings
  15. mikelink45
    Running out of comments. This year is too confusing on all levels. Steer and Miranda look like real prospects. No appearances for Rooker, Astudillo raking in St Paul, Barnes looking much more promising than anyone the Twins put out there. What am I missing.
  16. mikelink45
    I am starting to understand the Baldelli logic - take out Ober before he can get a win because he is young and we need to save his arm, leave in Jax too long because he is young and obviously his arm is fine??? Okay, then I read the Rocco quote - " MNTwins skipper Rocco Baldelli: "We needed to tack on some more runs in the middle of that ball game." What a concept. Next he will tell us we need to score more than the other team to win.
  17. mikelink45
    Trade him. The Twins do not need to keep paying for a hitter, we need the money for an arm!
  18. mikelink45
    Berrios - he saved the pen, he pitched the innings, he did what a great to good starter is supposed to do.
  19. mikelink45
    I am so pleased that the Saints are back to the fun in the stands. Actually the team was supposed to be our rock - so much talent ready for MLB, but the bus back and forth between the Saints and Twins has actually taken away a lot of their potential. Time to just laugh and enjoy the whole experience again. Bring in the pig and and the massages. In AAA a lot of rehabs happen and the fans get to see the big leaguers. It seems different this time. With some like Byron splitting time on both sides of the river. Was it exciting to see Pineda? No. I really appreciate the report because the lower levels have a lot of interesting players and story lines.
  20. mikelink45
    Pitching has always been the key to the game - WS wins are usually about pitching. But signing them is not that easy, would you pay $40 million for Bauer - I would not. Where this team really failed was the BP and staying with Shoemaker when it was obvious that his arm was gone. Thorpe, Dobnak, Smeltzer are just names, not real options, but the team did not seem to realize this. The BP was poor and then with the 4 inning starter they were over taxed. So much needs to change. I do not know how this will change unless the minor leaguers come in and blow us away with their talent and somehow the BP finds magic arms that can last for way too many appearances.
  21. mikelink45
    I like Steer - the rest, not so much. I prefer many of the almosts to Soularie (prove something before being listed), Colina (I want to see the arm in action before putting you back on the list).
  22. mikelink45
    I have no idea. I have a difficult time judging how nice players are. I am not sure it matters. There have been some terrible individuals in the game since the beginning - Cobb and Cap Anson are two of the worst and they are HOF. What is our definition of worst?
  23. mikelink45
    There are two good things about being in Alaska - the games are over early and the second and perhaps best is that I am most often unable to get internet so I only suffer every few days.
  24. mikelink45
    Please - no more Shoemaker, You are not going to fool anyone into trading for him. Just DFA! Do not think about it, just do it.
  25. mikelink45
    Love it when a real prospect on the mound does well. Nothing against Ober or Jax, but Balazovic and Duran are our hope for the future.
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