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  1. Dman
    I wasn't a big believer in Dobnak because of his K9 numbers and the fact he came in not drafted. Looking at the rest of his stats though he looks OK. The WHIP is in line with earning a shot at the Majors because he appears to have decent control and since his ERA is low I assume guys are not generating great contact against him either. Does anyone have a scouting report on this guy? Does he have any above average pitches? He has never been mentioned as much of a prospect that I can see so a little worried he might get exposed at the MLB level. However, given what I saw from Perez the other night I doubt he can do much worse than that. Although he has been pretty consistent all year I am a little bit surprised that the Twins were willing to give him a 40 man spot. They must really believe he is a big part of the future if they are adding him now IMO.
  2. Dman
    Yeah I think Thorpe or Smeltzer can't be much worse than Perez and they are younger with a chance for growth and greater upside. He hasn't looked very good for Quite a while now. The FO said they needed to trust the guys they have to get the job done so prove it and see if the young guys can step up. Perez has had his chance and he doesn't appear to be getting any better.
  3. Dman
    If he pitches well in the upper minors I can see them adding him. Personally I think he is better suited to a relief role anyway. He throws hard and while he can maintain it the fact he had a shoulder issue this year worries me. Bullpen role would be less stress on the shoulder, he has good stuff and we need bullpen help. Seems like a good match to me.
  4. Dman
    Did I see the box score correctly? did Rodriguez have 39 pitches and 39 pitches pitches for strikes or is that a misprint? I don't think I have ever seen such aggressiveness from a pitcher before. He also had 9 K's if I remember correctly. This guy has a future, I know he gave up four hits but holy heck he must have some good stuff if all he threw were strikes and that is the best the other team could do.
  5. Dman
    Pensacola has s pretty nice lineup with Lewis, Kirollof, Larnach, Blankenhorn, Jeffers and or Rortvedt and Costello's bat isn't too bad either. If they bring up Maciel from high A then that makes them even better. Not a lot of weaknesses in the lineup. Pitching is good there too in Colina, Graterol (when Healthy), Duran, Jax and Alcala. With some high A arms ready to promote in Sands, Balazovic and maybe Ober, Enlow and if as good as advertised Vallimont to fill in any gaps. When you look at it I think half of the top thirty could be at double by next year for sure. Granted might not be quite enough room for all of them but phase 2 is working their way up the system with some guys likely ready for 2020 or 2021. It is nice to have a good chunk of our talent at the top instead of the bottom.
  6. Dman
    I really do love Rosario the player. I love the aggressiveness, the fearlessness and yet I also hate the aggressiveness that leads to easy outs and fearlessness to hit the ball in areas that are hard to hit the ball square. He is an enigma to me. I agree with you that just a touch of plate discipline could launch him to superstar status, but he is just to eager to swing. It is a cat and mouse game. He needs to take pitches that are strikes sometimes. Bait the pitcher into throwing him better pitches. Most pitchers attack him on the edges because he will swing at pitchers pitches. The defense is taking away his strength which is the right side of the field his pull side. He needs to even out his his approach to be more successful. I keep hoping for him to adjust but I just don't think he is going to. He is who he is. A guy with fantastic hand eye coordination who can get by on that talent alone. If he wants to move to the next level he has some serious work to do if he chooses to do it.
  7. Dman
    Very encouraged to see Celestino third on this list. He was a big part of the Pressley trade so I am hoping he turns into a special player. He has had a really good month. Hopefully he has figured some things out and continues to improve and move up.
  8. Dman
    I am going to miss Davis but you can't keep them all. He had some tough years but the Twins stuck with him. I really think he is ready for the Majors so I agree the trade is really good for him and the Giants.
  9. Dman
    Nice article! Always nice to take a deeper dive looking at players in the lower levels. Really appreciate the focus on the DSL players who we often overlook. Maciel has been impressive as a 20 year old in High A ball. If he continues to play this well he should start in AA next year. Would be nice if he had more power potential but I have seen the value a good on-base guy can bring to the team (Arreaz) so that skill has value as well. We'll have to wait a while to see how his skills translate at the higher levels but I like what he has done so far. Gary really surprised me this year. I thought it might take him longer to get his hit tool going and I wasn't sure if he would hit for power or not. Right now he looks like a good sign for the 9th round. Might be in the same mold as Badoo and Miranda will have to wait and see though. I have been watching Baez and Urbina since the beginning of the DSL season and Baez has been very consistent all year. Hopefully the bat is for real. Urbina has been a bit streaky all year. I am not certain he will make the GCL right away next year or not. Diaz was a surprise for me as well. He started out very hot to start the year and seems to be slumping a bit right now. All three appear to have good bats. It is just so hard to tell how good guys are in DSL as I have seen guys with great numbers there and then flame out pretty quickly so stats at that level don't seem to mean much. At any rate like you I like all three guys and I hope they all continue to do well.
  10. Dman
    To be honest I always just thought of Dobnak as filler. It is funny how I think about guys who are drafted low or not at all. I guess my general feeling is they don't have a chance to make it. Looks like I was wrong about Dobnak. I knew he was having success but I never liked his K rate so figured he would get killed at one of the higher levels. He kept moving up and while I waited for him to flame out he kept getting guys out. He has a really nice WHIP this year so he is attacking hitters but they must not be getting great contact because his ERA has been under 3 all year. If he keeps this up he has a good chance to make the big club next year. Too bad Duran melted down in the 6th. No hit through five shows he has some impressive stuff when he is on but seems a bit fragile mentally to me or maybe he just ran out of gas hard to say. I hope he keeps pitching well and maybe we will have a pitcher with front line stuff. I never really understood why they didn't start Breek in E-town this year. I mean I guess it is just a number game but I felt like the way he pitched last year he should have started there this year. I guess you can make the jump to A ball from either league so not a huge deal but I do wonder why they kept him in the GCL.
  11. Dman
    Yeah I get that. All I am saying is it just hard to say yeah this guy is great when he gave up six runs and couldn't make it past the third inning last night. Every pitcher has his bad game now and then so I get what you are saying but the reality is it is hard to praise how good a guy is after an outing like that. I mean he was awful last night that is just the reality. He didn't look dominating. He didn't look like he had command of his pitches there just isn't much good to say about an outing like that and it was the first game with his new team. The first time I get a chance to see what he can do. I can't say I was impressed because well I wasn't. I also get what you are saying about results matter more in the bigs. Sure in the minors they are learning as they move up and results don't mean quite as much but the reality is they do still matter. If he throws like that every game then he won't move to the next level. Players need to show some level of dominance to give the team a reason to move a player up so results do matter. Even if they move a marginal performer up odds are they won't make it to the level beyond that anyway. You have to have good outcomes\results to keep moving up otherwise your talent level has peaked and you won't make it to the next level. I agree with you it was just one game but it was a game that did not show that he is a dominant pitcher as he didn't get good results. The other team was getting hits all over the place. It is just hard to say hey that guy is really good after a performance like that. Not trying to be mean but realistic. I am sure he will be better next time out and then I will be sure to mention all the positives. I still like his potential one game won't define him it just came at kind of a bad time IMO.
  12. Dman
    So does Cole Sands have a chance to make it to AA this year? He has been outstanding in the FS league. I mean a .79 WHIP means he isn't having control problems and if he is challenging hitters and they can't seem to hit his stuff shouldn't he be moving up? He has been in High A a couple of months now so those stats look to be pretty solid IMO. It would be nice to give him a solid month in AA to see how things translate there with tougher hitters and smaller parks. Should set him up with things to work on over the winter.
  13. Dman
    Kind of tough timing for this article after he gave up a bunch of runs in his first start with his "great" stuff. I know it is just one one game and he appears to be a guy that is going to be a good pitcher. He has the size, the control, the tricky stuff that you like to see your pitchers have. He also is willing to leverage technology to make himself better so you know he is dedicated to his craft. I am still a believer and the Twins scouting staff picked him for a reason so they must like his stuff as well. This is a results oriented endeavor though so hoping to have better things to say about him in the future when he is having greater success.
  14. Dman
    I guess someone had to take Jaylin's spot and it was gonna be tough to fill the way he was playing but this guy should help fill the void pretty well. Welcome aboard Brandon Barnes.
  15. Dman
    Does anyone know the Twins record for day games this year? If memory serves me correctly they don't seem to win many day games.
  16. Dman
    And yet Arizona gave up their #1 prospect for him rated number 59 in the top 100 on MLB site. He held a potent Twins offense to two runs. Maybe a lucky night but it seems like he made believers out of Arizona. Maybe he does turn back into a pumpkin or maybe he is the next Kluber hard to say I don't know much about Gallen but he impressed in the one game I saw him and Arizona obviously sees value in his arm so it makes me wonder.
  17. Dman
    He made a nice play ranging far to the first base side during the game but not many balls were hit to him so it is hard to say just how good he is defensively. There were a couple of balls hit past him but the Snappers were just pounding the ball so not much of chance to do anything about those. It looked like he might have been working on his power stroke as I believe most of his outs were fairly long fly balls. He didn't seem to have the power of Akins, Isola, Weiss or Snyder so I think your assessment of not great power is likely correct but really hard to tell from limited at bats in just one game. The thing that impressed me was his ability to swing at pitches in the zone and get contact. So many of the others wiffed on a lot of pitches but he always seemed to find ways to contact the ball and he didn't strike out when I watched him. To me he had the best approach at the plate and always seemed able to put the ball in play. Even though he didn't get a hit in this game he was the most impressive batter on the team IMO.
  18. Dman
    I agree with you on the Marlins. I don't know much about Gallen but if he as good as he was against us I would have created a package to get him. We need good young controllable pitching and if he was the answer and could have been had for Larnack or Kiroloff with some other throw in's that could have really helped us IMO. Maybe Gallen isn't that good? I don't know but even he was just effective he would have been a nice piece to have moving forward. We need pitchers not hitters right now. so trading to even that out would have been nice IMO.
  19. Dman
    I think the Twins FO did OK here. Seems like they stuck to their plan of safe guarding the farm and finding a way to offer value to another team with Prospects largely outside the top 30. Given the prices for the higher quality talent this year I think they did well. They managed to turn two potential rule V players into assets to acquire talent (Two Relievers) at the deadline and even add to the farm an interesting pitcher with three more years of control left who is currently in our top 30 prospect list and a lottery ticket player to named later. They gave away no high end prospects to get the two relievers who should be able to help this team compete through the end of the season. The pen is what I wanted them to fix the most and they did that. Would I have loved a high end starter? Yes I would have but not many of them moved this year so I don't find myself blaming them for the odd market this year. They are right in that we need to believe in the players we have. Believe that they can get the job done. There are 5 playoff spots and really only 6 teams competing for those spots. Once in anything can happen. Right now I am happy with what they got done.
  20. Dman
    I went to Beloit with my 8 year old son to watch the Kernals get shellacked. I guess I am a good luck charm for the Snappers. It looked like Kody might have been OK had Wander not almost airmailed a throw he had plenty of time to make and made the first baseman leap for the ball taking his foot off the bag. Things just seemed to unravel from there. Cabezus is a plucky guy but he looks far more suited to the pen than starting. He also gave up some pretty loud contact but was far superior to Kody this night. Funny thing is I think Casanovo pitched better than both of them and he is the catcher. Wander didn't look good in the field at all and while he batted OK it seems like he has a crap load of work to do if he wants to be even a good not great player at this point. I know he is young but he has bust written all over him from what I saw. He doesn't look great defensively at short either. Honestly I don't think I would have him in my top 30 right now and if I did it would be in the high 20's. Maybe he just had a bad game but I didn't like what I saw tonight. Ricky De La Torri one of my favorite players looked liked he couldn't make contact with a ball in a softball beer league, but he did look good defensively at third base. He was swinging at air all night. Some one needs to work with him on that swing you can't miss the ball as much as he does and consider that a competitive at bat. Isola, Akins and Weiss looked decent at the plate but lots of popups and long fly balls for them tonight and only one went over the fence. They are all long shots but they look like they can make it to the next level. The only guy that looked really good at the plate I mean really good was Spencer Steer. Good eye with the strike zone, always making contact, actually had a clue at the plate. I know he went 0 for 3 but he looked good. He looked like a player that could move up. Everyone needs to improve quite a bit from what I saw hopefully things start to click for some of those young guys. I really want to see them succeed but what I saw tonight was pretty discouraging over all.
  21. Dman
    Man I wonder what crazy offer they made to get Gallen. He had a ton of control left.
  22. Dman
    Wow we are getting down to crunch time and still not much happening out there.
  23. Dman
    They will make a move it just won't be as big of one as we all would like, I am sure they talked about deals for all kinds of guys at various levels and will work the phones today to see what they can find. If they don't find anything they can stomach I guess I would find that hard to believe. We have a lot of talent that is rule V eligible and they might as well do something with those assets rather than let them go for nothing. I still believe they will make at least one deal.
  24. Dman
    Man Cleveland got a haul there and they got just what they needed as well. I hope their FO is writing thank you notes to Cincinnati. Reyes appears to be Sano part 2, They get another big bat in Puig to finish this year out with. They get Allen who was considered at top 100 prospect by some and Moss looks like a very good reliever is his floor as well as a flier on a young bat.. All for the reds to have essentially a one year shot at a playoff berth? They have to be crazy. Why can't we ever run into deals like this? Well buckle up because the fight for the division is on now. Just when I thought the Indians might be starting to crumble they get a boost like this to keep them at the top. I am sure it was a tough decision to give up Bauer early but I think they still have enough front line pitching to win the division they just needed more power in their lineup and they just got it. Baseball is funny you never know what is going to happen but this trade looks like it really helps the Indians for the stretch run. We'll have to see how it plays out.
  25. Dman
    Cleveland just got the HR power they have needed for a while now. I sure hope our pitching is good enough to match those guys as their lineup just improved a lot.
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