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  1. mikelink45
    The only conclusion this gives me is that we have a lot of arms and our crisis in the bullpen is a crisis of trust. TR likes the vets and the Cards win with young arms. Anyone able to give TR a wakeup call?
  2. mikelink45
    As I continue to reflect on the failure of Terry Ryan to be the kind of general manager who can move a team in todays market I read this article http://baseball-players.pointafter.com/stories/8852/ranking-mlb-catchers-worst-best-2015?utm_medium=cm&utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=ao.cm.ob.dt.8852&utm_term=dt&utm_content=2787525#8-Kurt-Suzuki-Minnesota-Twins and saw AJ ranked 29 to Suzuki's 22 and think of how AJ was on his list to improve this position. And then I wonder what would have been the rank if Mauer had found a way to stay behind the plate.
  3. mikelink45
    Perhaps better wording would have been in order, but then again I think about running around with old Cy Young and swapping stories about the old days.
  4. mikelink45
    That's right, I was a sophomore in High School.
  5. mikelink45
    When I said I was 70 and usher for the 1961 season I should have shared the starting lineup - just looking at the names brings back great memories. Bob Allison Earl Battey Reno Bertoia Billy Gardner Lenny Green Jim Lemon Don Mincher Camilo Pascual Zoilo Versalles
  6. mikelink45
    Invest yes - keep - NO. But we got the most out of Kirby and I hope this will be the same with Buxton.
  7. mikelink45
    Nice article, but I am 70 and ushered for the Twins in their first season at Met Stadium, memory lane is a long avenue.
  8. mikelink45
    What I keep looking for is one of the Twins Daily bloggers to examine TR's tendencies and history. In my mind I remember him making quick moves and then seldom making moves around the owners meetings, and finally picking up a left over near time for camp. Is my memory faulty? Because he is doing what he always does. Even trading a centerfielder has become a Twins trade mark - Torii when he was a centerfielder, Span, Revere, Hicks, Gomez! Has any other team traded so many center fielders during this time period? Of course, if an ex-Twin becomes available that will be his next move. That is why he went for A J first in his catcher search. I believe your analyzers will see more trends than I am listing.
  9. mikelink45
    I just through San Diego out there because they seem clueless the last two years. Of course I disagree with your conclusion on Vargas, but we can only speculate.
  10. mikelink45
    They are young, they will not cost a lot and we seem to have made a decision that they are not wanted. I would scoop them up if I was another team. Plouffe should have trade value, but recent trades do not make ok third basemen a valuable commodity and the Twins seem to have no inclination to trade him.
  11. mikelink45
    Isn't this the TR history. When did we last make news at the meetings? In fact, TR does his shopping early and then watches. What he picks up late is often what we wish we could get rid of later. He is not a mover or a shaker - although I suspect that he does shake his head in disbelief at the other events.
  12. mikelink45
    SP is not the exception. We pick from the dust bin and then wonder why we have so many long term contracts and so little talent.
  13. mikelink45
    Buxton in center is the only option, we need his glove, especially if we do not have excellent fielders in the corners. I have heard talk that Plouffe is actually slower than Sano and therefore less ready for OF conversion. I expect to see Rosario, Buxton, Sano in the outfield and I think it will be fine. It is not Plouffe who creates the log jam - it is Mauer as we have known for two years and will see for two more. The losers are none of these current players but rather Vargas and Arcia who actually might have more trade value than Plouffe, especially when paired with Milone and Nolasco - CALLING SAN DIEGO!!
  14. mikelink45
    So we lose only one player - I suspect we will not notice - even though I agree with an early posting, we had players who could have been moved if we saw a future for Jones.
  15. mikelink45
    I do not see anything here that will impact the Twins - they have a strong minor league right now so we should see some fringe players who cannot make it on to the team. Levi Michaels is better served moving on - I do not see him becoming a player that we could not replace.
  16. mikelink45
    I feel bad for Danny. So much promise and now the negative expectations have to weigh on his mind. Get him to a new team where he might start fresh.
  17. mikelink45
    Nolasco and Milone in the Bullpen. Nolasco late innings, Milone long relief. Then we use young arms to bridge, but Nolasco, Perkins, Jepsen at the end could work out. Never thought about Rogers, but our Loogys have not been great and he could get a shot. The rest of the pen ???
  18. mikelink45
    We have the potential failed starters all over the place - Nolasco for short relief, Milone for long relief, and with lucky the youth moves in and Hughes anchors the pen. Then of course we have the young arms - we do not need to over pay. The record of relief pitchers have consecutive good years is not good and filling a pen with Cotts type relievers is a step back. Holland went down or at least slipped and the Royals moved on. We cannot rely on a reliever who had a good year to have another one so better we create a treadmill of young strong arms. Take a look at the graph in http://www.fangraphs.com/community/the-value-and-consistency-of-pitcher-inconsistency/ and you can see that teams might want to follow the KC model, but it is tough to do. They are the outlier by a large margin in this 2014 graph. This article on Rivera http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2013/3/14/4078568/the-maddening-consistency-of-mo demonstrates that it is really unusual for a relief pitcher to be consistently good over a large number of years. I fear the relief pitcher quick fix.
  19. mikelink45
    No matter what the scenario - there are only two options for Nolasco - put him in relief or trade him and half his contract for a bucket of batting practice balls. I do not share the trending - he will be a good pitcher in 2016 (both here and on KSTP1500). Why because he is rested? I am happy to be wrong, but hold the optimism until the ball starts flying out of his hand this spring. What I do not want to see in this or any of numerous hot stove hallucinations is any prolonged middle of the rotation pitcher contract - I want to sink or swim with Berrios, Duffey, May. I would be happy to see a trade of Nolasco and one of the other three pitchers in this crazy contract for pitcher year. They all have inflated values now.
  20. mikelink45
    More logs for my fire - this is great - keep it coming. For me it is not the fact we have so many logjams, but rather TR. Can someone put together his track record? Which months does he trade? Which months does he sign free agents? Lets analyze the key guy, not the players. My old time memory says TR moves fast and then sits. At the end he adds players that others pass on so he can get savvy vets to fill the voids.
  21. mikelink45
    Mauer should bat 8 or 9 if the lineup is filled with all the sluggers. I like the idea of the second leadoff hitter - a 9 that is on base as the rotation revolves through the game.
  22. mikelink45
    I know I am both Old and Old fashioned - I like defense. I like fast agile defenders who prevent runs. I like Buxton, Rosario, Kepler. I like a great infield, but we cannot have that. Escobar and Dozier are at least average. The corners? I know we tend to see teams sacrifice here, but the biggest issue for me is that if Sano is not OF and I hope he is not, and if he is not DH - we have now committed this - we have to put him at 3B. Catcher???
  23. mikelink45
    Move Fien and move on - he had his upside days and relievers are not consistent year by year, however the K trend is a real indicator. We have other options. Nunez is another question mark. He does just enough good to think he has something, but the key is his low cost so he will be kept. Milone and Plouffe should be sign and trade candidates. The Twins have some players for a multi-player trade!
  24. mikelink45
    Forget the expense to the Twins, why do we bother trying to think about saving dollars - MLB has gone crazy - see the Price deal. $30 Million a year. He couldn't even win a post season game! So we are worried about starting the clock on a good player. If he is ready just keep him and then it is the manager who has to allot the bat spots. I am ready for an all young team (no I have not forgotten Mauer at first) and I think that goes for pitching and outfield. The infield might be too set, although I would prefer Sano at third so we could do a Rosario, Buxton, Arcia, Kepler foursome in the outfield. Nice article.
  25. mikelink45
    I really enjoyed reading this. For years we had the Twins Way and I think you have described the dangers of having a set performance behaviour in an organization that will rise when individuals reach their own performance goals and not the rigid judgment of form and discipline.
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