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  1. Major League Ready
    I have never been a believer. Not even when he was in the minors. Lee was never really dominant in Milb and he is a mediocre at best defender. I would love to be wrong. He has been great for his last roughly 100 ABs. Let's hope this is a break-out and not just a hot streak.
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    IDK exactly how to define "under the radar" but there are quite a few unheralded prospects playing very well right now. Ben Ross has kind of cone out of nowhere. Ricardo Olivar and Billy Amick are both pretty well-known but their stock was down based on performance over the past couple years. Those two guys are playing great. Jaime Ferrer is raking. Yasser Mercedes stock had been down but he has put himself back on the map. If there is a silver lining right now it's all the prospects that have picked it up a notch or two. I didn't include Prielipp, Quick or Ellwanger because I think the expectations for those three were high.
  3. Major League Ready
    If the goal is to go from 70 wins to 73 wins, then yes, keeping Larnach makes sense. He is not at all important if your goal is to build a 90-win team. For those of us who think these half measures generally produce mediocrity or less, it does not matter if Larnach is here to get us to 73 or 75 wins. It just takes up a roster spot that could be used to audition players that could contribute to building a contender. We also don’t know if Rodriguez or Jenkins would be hurt if they had been brought up. We do know that Rodriguez would not have made the slide into 1B that got him hurt and Jenkins would not have run into the wall on the play that got him hurt.
  4. Major League Ready
    I would be thrilled with this acquisition if Gomez became a reliable 7th inning option.
  5. Major League Ready
    Trades for prospects are not made for the impact on the following season. Should we judge the Duran trade based on him not making it to the majors until 4 seasons later? Looking at this through this lens makes absolutely no sense.
  6. Major League Ready
    Great. I would love to hear the basis for your disagreement? Are you suggesting there are teams with 3 or 4 MLB proven starters sitting in AAA? If so, give us some examples. If that's not your contention I would love to hear why you disagree without any examples. If these MLB ready SPs are not in AAA, where are they?
  7. Major League Ready
    Ask yourself .... How many teams in the league this year or any other year have 8 or 9 SPs with a proven track record. It does not exist. Therefore, why would anyone define depth in the context of proven starting pitchers? Depth is and always has been in the form of prospects that are ready or veterans on Milb contracts looking to make a comeback. I would call Abel, Prielipp, Rojas, and Morris good depth.
  8. Major League Ready
    Arcia is a better SS than Lee so it would be more likely Lee slides to 3rd and Arcia plays SS. I like the idea. We are better short-term and if Arcia plays well he could be a decent trade piece at the deadline. That would give Culpepper a little more time to work on his approach at AAA. His defense looks ready to me.
  9. Major League Ready
    Ben Ross is probably a better OFer than Outman. He tore up AA, got promoted and stunk it up for the first 5 games. He has only played 11 AAA games so I am not suggesting they should bring him up in the immediate future. However, the last 6 games his line is .300. / 500. / 750 for a 1.250 OPS. For the season .337 / .454 / .663 for an OPS of 1.117 He can't possibly be worse the Outman. I hope he gets a shot 4-6 weeks from now if he continues to play well. They could also put him at SS, move Brooks to 3B and give Lewis a reset at AAA.
  10. Major League Ready
    I have been watching the Saints games and Gonzalez looks like he can stick at 1B which is a nice development but he is not hitting. (.643 OPS). They are not going to dump Bell just yet or perhaps ever if history replays itself. However, if they could somehow move Bell, Sabato would be a lot more likely to get a shot. He has been red hot.
  11. Major League Ready
    I think they will move Lee to 3rd and use Arcia at SS. I would like to see Culpepper up but I worry about his approach. I have watched about half the Saints games and ML pitchers will exploit his lack of discipline. The question is do you work on that in St. Paul or use this opportunity to give him a shot. His defense is legit.
  12. Major League Ready
    I was thinking the same. Might be time to let Cardenas go. He would be a black hole at the ML level. The other problem in getting Olivar ABs in AAA is all the OF depth. Perhaps the picture becomes clearer a month down the road. If Olivar is still anywhere near this hot they need to get him to AAA. Tait and Olivar could be quite the catching tandem in the future.
  13. Major League Ready
    Ricardo Olivar's has 10 HRs in his last 13 games with an OPS of 1.507. (.362 / .464 / 1.043)
  14. Major League Ready
    A potential deal with Boston at last year's deadline seemed legit. Could they have gotten Arias and another top prospect? Maybe that speculation by the baseball writers was never going to happen. However, if that possibility was real, their delusions of being a contender this year really hurt the team's future. How good would the future look with Arias, and the #3 pick in a couple months. Arias is hitting .346 / .426 / .704 at AA as a 20 year old.
  15. Major League Ready
    I would assume the guys that can go longer would be used in a more traditional way. Perhaps 3 traditional SPs and 4 that piggy-back still leaves 6 BP arms.
  16. Major League Ready
    It's really hard to say what they should have done with Pablo because we don't know if there was a team that believed he was healthy and would have given trade value accordingly. If there were serious offers, I think they should have used an approach similar to what the Cardinals did with Sonny Gray. If retaining $10M/year could have gotten them a good prospect, they still would have had $11.75 to spend in the BP. If they wanted to retain the tiny degree of going for it you described, they should have kept Varland and spend the $12M on Tyler Rogers. That would have given them a better chance in every game instead of the 1 in 5 Pablo would have started had he remained healthy.
  17. Major League Ready
    The difference is that the Tigers were one game away from winning the division last year even though they were 2-8 in the last 10 games of the season. They had a lot better chance of being a legit contender this year because of Skubal. The Twins accepted this risk with a very low chance of being a legit contender. That's what makes this so frustrating.
  18. Major League Ready
    I just want to acknowledge this is not hindsight on your part. You had this stance of few months ago when many of us pointed out the foolishness of taking this risk given the state of the roster, especially given their unwillingness to spend. The direction taken by ownership could end up being very costly for several years. The Walker Jenkins parallel is an adept comparison and they would have gotten a 2nd good prospect as well. Given ownership dropped payroll again, I would have liked to see them at least shop Pablo. I think they could have gotten a good prospect had they absorbed $20M of his remaining salary like STL did with Sonny Gray.. Then, I would have liked to see them spend $15M which would have basically been a wash in terms of annual salary if you consider what they spent on Rogers / Banda. I think RPs are the worst free agent investment. However, we had nothing left in the bullpen after the deadline and those assets are the easiest to move at the deadline.
  19. Major League Ready
    I watched Matthews last two starts and thought he looked quite a bit better. Matthew's Achilles heal has been too many pitches in the middle of the plate but he did not leave much in the middle of the plate these last two starts. I would have liked to see him follow-up those starts with a few more but I think you are right and he is going to get another shot in 5 days. He has quite a bit more upside than SWR IMO.
  20. Major League Ready
    Did Zoll make the decision to once again cut payroll again? Would Zoll have made different personnel decisions had they added $10M instead of reducing payroll by $25M. Perhaps Tyler rogers instead of Taylor or both? You don’t seem to understand the influence of strategic decisions on personnel decisions and until you do you should abandon the theory that some of us are too stupid to understand owners don't make personnel decisions.
  21. Major League Ready
    I can't speak for others who supported a rebuild but I never suggested Tom Pohlad was making personnel decisions. He made decisions on payroll and strategic direction. (Continuing the rebuild vs whatever you want to call the direction he took) Tom Pohlad and the Pohlad family made the decision to invest virtually nothing in the BP. The direction they took demonstrated incompetence. Zoll did not decide the direction or to once again cut payroll even further while insisting this team was a contender as is which screams not a clue kind of incompetence.
  22. Major League Ready
    Tom Pohlad is in charge. He is responsible. His actions and his public statements make it quite clear he was not willing to continue the rebuild. Falvey's deadline decisions made it quite clear he favored a rebuild. I don't think a 1 year deal for $7M is an indicator he was not willing to continue the rebuild. St. Louis signed Dustin May for $12.5M after trading Sonny Gray and eating $20M in salary. They also traded their best position player and signed Ramon Urias. I would concede that we don't know exactly what Falvey was thinking because we did not see it play out but we did see Tom Pohlad's intentions play out. This is on him.
  23. Major League Ready
    I agree it's easy to blame ownership. Prior to this year, I had often said the criticism of the Pohlad's was a bit overblown because they spent in line with revenue and let the baseball people run the team. In the last three years under Joe and now Tom, they have dropped the payroll every year. Doing a 180 in the middle of a rebuild which is utter incompetence, especially when you continue to cut payroll. That's on Tom Pohlad. The majority of posters here looked at this plan and knew the result would be exactly what we are seeing. Tom Pohlad put an even less talented roster than the one that lost 92 games last year, while cutting payroll and told us this team would contend. Yes, I am blaming Tom Pohlad. and I have never put the majority of blame on the Pohlads.
  24. Major League Ready
    I am always pulling for Fedko because he kind of came out of nowhere last year. He looked terrible the 1st 11 games of the season. However, in the 16 next games since that bad start, he has a wRC+ of 191 and an OPS of 1.181. He is red hot. Let's hope he keeps on crushing.
  25. Major League Ready
    Yet, Tom Pohlad tried to convince us that we would be a contender if we kept the remaining players and added Bell, Rogers, and Banda. Starting a rebuild in this situation is what smart teams do. The Cardinals traded off their best players and they were in better shape than us. Milwaukee and Cleveland do it as a matter of practice. What is absolute incompetence is reversing the process after what they did at the deadline. What they should have done was to trade Pablo and eat $10M of his salary and used the savings to sign 2 good BP arms instead of Rogers and Banda. The $11.75M in saving from Pablo, plus the $3.625 would have given them $14.625 to spend on 2 RPs. We would have been a lot better and had a great asset or two to trade at the deadline if they were not in contention. My guess is that Tom Pohlad really wanted to cut salary but he had to find a way to convince fans this team was a contender despite a great deal of evidence to the contrary. He came up with the brilliant plan of convincing fans they would be a contender if they just held onto Ryan and Lopez. Never mind they were doing virtually nothing to replace 4 very good RPs and the offense was still very suspect. Falvey didn’t want the baseball world to think he was this incompetent so he fought Pohlad and Pohlad predictably won.
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