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  1. clone52
    I lot of other teams also released Arcia, so its not like the Twins were alone in their thinking. Also, Vargas is not a terrible 1B. A team could live with him at 1B. (In fact, maybe the Yankees would trade for him).
  2. clone52
    Ramirez over Sano. He's having an amazing year. Not having Santana on the pitching staff? That's moronic. He should be in ahead of Fulmer or Carrasco.
  3. clone52
    I imagine there are a lot of reasons they'd put more in instructionals. Maybe they wanted him working on another pitch and didn't want that happening in real games. Maybe they wanted to give him 6, 7 or 8 days rest between pitching, which would really hamper the roster of a minor league team. Who knows.
  4. clone52
    Its not a choice of switching him back and forth between relieving and starting. I'd be an innings limit thing. Its entirely possible that with an innings limit, he only has 7 or 8 starts left this season and he would be shut down. Would it make more sense to give him 4 or 5 more starts, then 10-15 relief appearances at the majors? Other big time starters have gone that route (Price, Sale, Scherzer). It wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world.
  5. 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?
  6. clone52
    Regurgitating an old thread. I'm not anti-Mauer, but if they did let him go, they'd have other options. One would be moving Kepler to 1B and flling out the OF elsewhere (Granite, Grossman, Rooker, whoever develops in 2 years). Really, though, its way to early to think about 2019.
  7. clone52
    How do we know that Tampa won't give him an offer above slot?
  8. 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.
  9. clone52
    Dozier is way ahead of where he was on this date last year, amazingly.
  10. clone52
    Yeah, I looked extremely stupid in this thread.
  11. clone52
    Journeyman? This is really only his 4th year (other than a few outings in his first 2 years) and his first 3 years were really productive. Plus, its not like he was ever released. He was traded to the Rangers. I always kind of assumed "journeyman" was a guy who bounced around to different teams via free agency. If I were the Twins and could get him for a good price, I'd take a flyer on him.
  12. clone52
    My only concern on boosting the offense of the catchers is whether the catchers are the main reason our pitchers are competing.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. clone52
    Hell, his 2014 and 2015 numbers were better than most a good chunk of the Twins 2015. You can't tell me if he was back to his 2014-2105, he wouldn't have some value in the middle of a bullpen (not the closer).
  17. clone52
    Thanks for cutting off the part of my post that said there was a tiny chance of that happening.
  18. clone52
    Forever? You mean, he can't even come back for an Old Timers game? Man, you're harsh.
  19. clone52
    If he could get completely healthy and back to his old stuff, every Twins fan would want him back. It just that there is a tiny chance that happens.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. clone52
    You think Park would have hit .310 the rest of the season? That would have been a hell of a turnaround.
  24. 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.
  25. clone52
    Could be. I hadn't really looked at Brock Stewart much, but he wouldn't be bad. Mid 90's fastball, more than a K per inning. Extremely good command.
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