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  1. clone52
    Its not a blanket statement that pitchers can't succeed right away, but what if they see some of the same things in these guys that they saw in Berrios before he came up?
  2. clone52
    How do we know that Tampa won't give him an offer above slot?
  3. clone52
    I'm going to guess that Leach isn't going to sign for much under slot, if at all, especially if he was talking that he wanted to go to college. Maybe they will spend money on him. Seems to have a good scouting report.
  4. clone52
    Yeah, I looked extremely stupid in this thread.
  5. clone52
    My only concern on boosting the offense of the catchers is whether the catchers are the main reason our pitchers are competing.
  6. clone52
    For example, Tampa Bay is currently 10th best bullpen ERA in baseball, at 3.72. If you remove their 2 worst games, their ERA drops to 3.10.
  7. clone52
    Thats a fair point, but I doubt many other team have 2 games where their bullpen gave up 22 earned runs. I'd be willing to bet that if you dropped the worst 2 games on every team's bullpen, the Twins would still have a Top 10 bullpen.
  8. clone52
    I honestly don't think the bullpen is a question mark at all. Currently they are 18th in baseball in ERA and have a 4.18 ERA. Pretty mediocre, but look beneath the numbers. The Twins had 2 travesty games. If you take those 2 games away, the bullpen has a 2.95 ERA good enough for 4th best in baseball. Taking those same 2 games away, Matt Belisle has a 1.25 ERA in 16 games instead of a 7.80 ERA. Taylor Rogers has a 1.22 ERA in 20 games instead of a 3.52 ERA. Even Haley would have a 4.2 ERA instead of 6.60. That really gives them 5 very solid guys in Kintzler, Duffey, Breslow, Belisle and Rogers. Really, Pressley is the only hole in the bullpen and even he has looked good the past few games. Adam Wilk as well I guess, but they probably need him for mop-up duty with such a thin rotation.
  9. clone52
    Hughes is healthy (hopefully) Santiago might produce better results than Ricky Nolasco Gibson had a bad year and should revert to the mean Young players should improve (Sano, Buxton, Kepler, Rosario, Polanco) None of these are gaurenteed, but they are reasons for hope.
  10. clone52
    Berrios and Chargois will be called up eventually. The logic to send Berrios down made sense. Need more innings. The logic on Chargois is debateable. On the one hand, you could just let him pitch in the majors. On the other, you might run the risk of ruining him if he gets devoured. What if he was having command problems with one of his pitches and just needed to work through it. A few weeks in the minors makes sense.
  11. clone52
    Not necessarily. It sounds like Gimenez can play OF our 1B, so in theory, he could be the platoon with Mauer. He's got much better splits againts lefties.
  12. clone52
    You think Park would have hit .310 the rest of the season? That would have been a hell of a turnaround.
  13. clone52
    Mauer doesn't have to play every day. Kepler or even Sano probably gives him days off. This is all probably short term. They won't keep 13 pitchers for that long and its entirely possible that Santana gets released at some point.
  14. clone52
    Yeah, but he could choose the Reds. If the Dodgers were offering double the money of the Reds, he'd never choose the reds.
  15. clone52
    Reading up a bit more on it, it sounds like this was middle ground. The owners wanted an International Draft and ended up with this instead.
  16. clone52
    I'm not really talking about the old guys. I'm moreso talking about the guys getting their first contract after arbitration. I could be completely wrong. Maybe the MLBPA really wants the owners to spend a boatload of money on international players.
  17. clone52
    And the big money going to stars with their second contract is far, far better than it going to unproven rookies. At their second contract, the player is a veteran and has proven he belongs. NFL players don't bemoan that Von Miller got a huge contract, he deserves it. Its stupid when guys like Jamarcus Russell, Darius Heyward-Bey and Vince Young get rediculous rookie contracts.
  18. clone52
    Umm, being able to cut a player earlier is helpful to the veterans. Sure, you can still cut veterans early, but you don't have a Top 10 draft bust eating up a significant portion of your salary cap.
  19. clone52
    I don't see how the international spending cap is a capitulation by the MLBPA. Why would current players want teams to spend ridiculous amounts of money on unproven players. It seems to me like the MLBPA would rather that money go to current players, or player development or whatever. In the NFL, wasn't the player's association in favor of limiting the value of rookie contracts so those rookies didn't take up all the cap space and reduce available salaries for veterans? Seems like the same logic would apply here.
  20. clone52
    Rioting would be stupid. Maybe the Twins wanted Haley all along and just made this deal to get the extra cash on top of it.
  21. clone52
    I would imagine there is cash or international signing pool dollars involved.
  22. clone52
    Ervin Santana by far. Younger, cheaper and you are not locked into his 2019 contract. Plus, Santana has more than 1 good year as a starter since 2010.
  23. clone52
    I don't think your offer comes even close to getting Sale. The White Sox are rebuilding. They might want Dozier just to trade him again, but otherwise, they wouldn't want him at all. My guess is any Twins offer would have to include Buxton and/or Sano along with Berrios.
  24. clone52
    Do those teams have 40 man roster spots available to block moves like that and will they want to use those 40 man spots to try and block a Kintzler or Suzuki trade or do they want to risk them blocking other trades.
  25. clone52
    I do think Suzuki will be dealt today. However, if the Twins know they won't re-sign him next year and want to get an extended look at Murphy or even Garver, they may just let whatever team claims him have him, or work out a trade for a PTBNL or cash. I would rather trade Abad or Kintzler, but if they don't move them now, they will be put on waivers and they "might" be able to trade them in August. No guarentee they can of course.
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