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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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!!
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. mikelink45
    MIAMI (AP) — The stumbling Washington Nationals are now hurting themselves. Right-hander Drew Storen broke his right thumb slamming the lock box in his locker in frustration Wednesday after giving up the go-ahead homer to Yoenis Cespedes in the eighth inning, helping the NL East-leading New York Mets complete a three-game sweep. Nationals manager Matt Williams said Saturday the former closer would likely miss the rest of the season. Washington didn’t learn of the injury until Storen was unable to throw Friday in Miami. The reliever then told the team what happened, and an X-ray revealed the extent of the injury, Williams said. Storen flew back to Washington on Saturday to be examined by a hand specialist. The reliever’s reaction to the injury? “Regretful that it happened,” Williams said, “and a little bit embarrassed about it, of course. He’s a competitor, and he was frustrated and made a mistake.” Like his teammates, Storen has struggled lately. He walked three batters Tuesday when the Nationals blew a six-run lead against the Mets, who padded their cushion in the NL East with the sweep. Storen is 2-2 with a 3.44 ERA in 58 games. “He’s a big guy lost for us, so some other guys will have to step in and do that job,” Williams said. “It gets guys in some different roles for sure.” Sorry, but even his 11K does not present a positive for me.
  7. 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.
  8. 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 ???
  9. mikelink45
    Sorry, but this would be terrible. What Hunter did for the Twins Papelbon would undo. Storen is falling from his peak and we do not need him cluttering the pen or the roster. No more wiley vets.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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???
  15. 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!
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. mikelink45
    Why? Where are all those young arms. Power arms are what we need, not old arms.
  19. mikelink45
    No - does this team ever move on or do we have to have every ex-Twin come back for a farewell tour. Go young, we have the players. The upside of the players we have and the performance of Revere do not match, go with the potential and move on. Move on from Nunez and Fien too.
  20. mikelink45
    Start him, play him, have some patience. By midseason we will have the player we all desire
  21. mikelink45
    Baseball trades are beginning to become great mysteries to me. The value of a starting player is a low ranked prospect? I do not get it.
  22. mikelink45
    I like a simple approach - find out what we have - keep rotating the young players until their role is determined. No FA, no multi-year contracts. We have enough clogging the pipeline and a barely over 500 record is not sufficient to move from our internal options.
  23. mikelink45
    Thanks for posting this. For all our happiness for 2015, we performed above expectations and made it to .500. This is a realistic look at the starting pitching. For 2015 we need Berrios to live up to our hopes, Duffey to find his 2015 magic, and the management to look at performance and not salaries in 2016.
  24. mikelink45
    Vargas has more value if the Twins move in to the trade market with some real hopes of doing something significant. Vargas power plays well in the majors and he can be coupled with a couple more expendable, but good minor leaguers, Plouffe and Nolasco in an interesting grab bag that might interest some team that is looking for changes - Miami?
  25. mikelink45
    #1 Mauer - yes, this is now a three more year problem. The Twins better find someone to work with him that can help them recover some more of their investment. #2 Nolasco - we still have him for another year and he is clogging the system. #3 Santana - Not Ervin, but Danny. We wasted a lot of SS time hoping he would not be a rookie fluke. #4 The bullpen, yes Perkins, but Stauffer(?), a diminishing Fien, Graham being stored and not reliable... #5 Not Pinto, but Suzuki - we paid for a one year career year and he went back to what he was (Hughes is close to this too). Pinto is a shame, but he was not with us, nor was Arcia or Meyer - it would have been good if they have blossomed, but they are minor league problems. Suzuki was a major.
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