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  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. 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?
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. mikelink45
    I will wait to see - based on the history of Twins signings my optimism is slipping. I speak from the perspective that the old cliche's about birds in hand are still applicable - as a bird watcher I can work with that.
  8. mikelink45
    Aaron Sabato went 3-for-21 (.167), though he did walk five times. - he might be the most disappointing of prospects for me this year. "It was another rough week for Keon Broxton. He played in four games and went 1-for-15 (.067) with 10 strikeouts in 16 plate appearances." It is time for the Keon Broxton fans to move on - he does not have what it takes. Who are the next 10 players on the prospect list?
  9. mikelink45
    How wonderful to have some good news! I know prospects can fail, but this is too exciting to think about anything else. Especially when the Twins need something special. Let's see - Kiriloff, Jeffers, Larnach, Miranda - sounds like a really good base. Add in Arraez and an occasional Buxton, a sometimes hot Sano and things look up. Maybe Rooker at DH and Celestino with a little seasoning in CF. Now there is something called pitching! A request - the prospect list is getting stale - time to update, also can we have you name 30 prospects so that you can move the IL players off the list and onto a prospect reserve listing so we can watch the active stats of players who can really move up and down? Today there were six out for the season/IL players and with the did not play, did not pitch it is short on details. Then there is the fact that Larnach, Jeffers, and Kiriloff must be ready to move off the list.
  10. mikelink45
    I too think we underestimate the value a good player - especially a good pitcher provides for a year and a half of service. Half the FA pitchers last no more than two years. The prospects often don't make it in two years. Big deal if we get good value and lose him for nothing. All those great prospects floating around in MiLB are not moving us to a pennant. Players come up, get injured, go as FA. that is the way it is. But we have a good player and we want to move backwards because in two years we might not get value. The value is now and anything else is speculation.
  11. mikelink45
    I am in agreement. Look at the record we have of keeping and promoting minor leaguers. I want Berrios to stay. Figure it out Twins. This is MLB. If he is valuable to others he is valuable to us. All our ranked prospects keep going on IL or floating up and back while marginal vets fill the BP roles. I want real value. I know there are stats out there, but none of this makes sense to me. I do not want a full rebuild, I do not want another decade of mediocrity.
  12. mikelink45
    Soft hits are still hits. In this era of exit velocity the Sox are demonstrating that getting on base is what counts.
  13. mikelink45
    No one is worth that amount of money, but it is not real money to me and I am not paying it so I do not care. I just want both of them to continue with the team and in particular Berrios. I think Buxton might have reason to sign a good but shorter term contract to establish that he can stay healthy and get the really big contract. Of course there is the Mike Trout case where he "earned" the excessive monster contract and had stayed healthy all these years only to go IL when he got the big one.
  14. mikelink45
    While I am more old school, I am not ready to give up on the team. I would hope they might make some adjustments in their thinking, like raising the bar from bad to mediocre dumpster diving in the BP to getting the pitching machine in the minors pumping SP into the rotation. I am not sold on Rocco so I do not know if he is their reflection or if there is another tweak in the managers office. I know that measuring the FO is really difficult. Terry Ryan had some good qualities, but got stuck in linear thinking instead of adjusting. But who do we bring in? What do they do or accomplish?
  15. mikelink45
    Rooker is the big question mark. Have we given up on him? Do we have a trade partner for him? He is being wasted in AAA.
  16. mikelink45
    So far these are boring. The Blue Jays are interesting the other two are not even close and the White Sox are never ever to receive a good player from the Twins unless they give up Roberts or Jiminez.
  17. mikelink45
    The injuries throughout the organization make this a very difficult year to judge. Who to keep, who to advance, who to trade, who to count on and when? This is a particularly hard year to look into the crystal ball.
  18. mikelink45
    If I had to chose one player from your graph for my team it would be Bostock. A tragic end to his life does not diminish what he could do with the bat and in the field. He and Larry Hisle were a great tandem. Four years 13.1 WAR
  19. mikelink45
    I read the transactions and wonder what can be done to protect pitchers arms. At the rate things are going every team will need 30 - 40 pitchers to make it through a season. Something has to be figured out.
  20. mikelink45
    I just feel sorry for him. No one tries to get injured, no one expects their body to break down, it just happens. And over time the impact of each injury sets up the possibility of more injuries. Good luck Byron.
  21. mikelink45
    Well the BP is consistent. It blew games in the past and now that we are past the 60 games of last season they are starting over to blow games again. Is there any hope for Colome? I know a lot of people like Robles, personally I hope he is traded and we start over in the Pen. The bats are looking great and these young hitters are here to stay. Maybe Celestino will see his bat wake up, his fielding is picking up and he is our Buxton replacement, not Gordon. Gordon is good as a utility man and back up.
  22. mikelink45
    I have added that to my life notes!
  23. mikelink45
    Wait! We are now picking up waiver claims that are cut by THE DETROIT TIGERS? This will not offset Akil Baddoo or even Niko Goodrum. Oh well, good luck.
  24. mikelink45
    Like all the rest of you, I feel just terrible about Buxton. What an unfortunate event on a string of terrible injuries that have marred his career. I know he must feel frustration shifting to depression. I cannot fault the pitcher, in this game of high speed pitching the batters have a dangerous job. We the substance issue rearing its head there are going to be a lot more uncontrolled pitches. I just wish it did not have to start with Byron. Like most of you I had to look this up - "A boxer's fracture is a fracture (broken bone) of the hand. More specifically, it is a fracture of the neck of the fifth metacarpal (a bone in the “pinky finger") (Figure 1). It is referred to as a boxer's fracture because, most commonly, it occurs when people punch something." Boxer
  25. mikelink45
    Nice summary. It is great to get the vets back (although I agree with rv78 that I have no enthusiasm for Kepler). But I wonder if our little streak against a bad team is enough to get the FO thinking maybe this was a fluke and we actually have enough going forward? We don't. I like Ober and Dobnak starting, but not Happ. Try Barnes and keep trying young pitchers we have nothing to gain with Happ starting. He has already established who he is.
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