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  1. Major League Ready
    You might be right about my optimism. However, while MAT has been quite consistent in the past, he is consistently below average offensively. His wRC+ for the year is 83 and 80 for his career. It's 37 for the month of May. Lewis only had 41 Abs last year but his wRC+ was 146. Will he perform at that that same level when he comes back? IDK but his offensive ceiling is well beyond MAT.
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    Lewis has had a grand total of 22 ABs this year between AA and AAA. He had 150 at AAA last year. Let's give him 60 or 80 ABs before we judge anything and of course, even that's a SSS. However, he proved last year he can make the jump. Get him up here as soon as they believe he is ready. I hope they start playing him in CF at some point in the relatively near future. That would allow us to replace a #9 batter with a 2-4 hitter. We still need to get Correa going but adding Lewis and Kirilloff is a much better lineup than we had to start the year.
  3. Major League Ready
    I think you are right about Rosario. So far for May his stat line is .390 .507 .661 1.168. Wow!
  4. Major League Ready
    Keeping Rogers and then extending him would have been a difference maker? I would say the decision to spend $33M elsewhere was better for the team.
  5. Major League Ready
    You know I am in this boat with you and Mike. However, they have not been giving him anytime in CF in the minors so I am thinking they are not going there, especially with Miranda out of the picture for now. Of course, it's possible they wanted to ease him in. A Long-term view sure seems like Buxton/Lewis manning CF is a great way to deal with Buxton's inability to man the position 140 games/year.
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    Assuming you understand how horribly unreliable RPs are in general, I bet you would understand if it was your money.
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    It will be very interesting to compare start of year with end of year ranking. Varland is out and it will be bad news if Lewis does not join him. Rodriguez and Salas are batting 150 and Rodriquez has a horrible K rate. SWR and Raya have not been great and Prellipp has been hurt. Enlow and Balazovic are looking better and quite a few players on the 20-30 "fringe" have looked good. This combination could easily produce quite the shakeup in our prospect list and year's end. Right now the players looking like they could move up considerably are Rosario, Severino, and Cossetti among position players although Ortega could get noticed especially if the power ticks up a notch. Enlow and Balazovic are in the top 20 but they could move up 7 or 8 places. There are few other pitchers starting to emerge and hopefully we have a couple breakout pitchers to discuss in August / September.
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    All you need is a subscription for Milb TV.
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    I thought about that. It could end up forcing them to trade or cut Solano . Deleon or Sands could be cut too and what about Mahle? What's the point of keeping him on the 40 man. Is there some sort of rule that prevents the twins from cutting him?
  10. Major League Ready
    Rosario has come on nicely after a slow start. I thought he looked very good in spring training. He could be the player that elevates his prospect status the most this year. We need an OFer to rise up. Our best OF prospect (Rodriquez) is hitting a buck fifty with a 46% K rate. That does not scream elite prospect. The silver lining is it looks quite likely we end up with an OFer with the 5th pick. I am hoping for Wyatt Langford.
  11. Major League Ready
    I would certainly hope not. I am sure you have heard the saying praise in public, criticize in private or some version of this. It's just not effective to say anything bad publicly. Athletes today just do not respond well to public criticism.
  12. Major League Ready
    Darkhorse candidate .... Michael Hellman? Kind of a RH version of Gordon.
  13. Major League Ready
    Not unless he demonstrates considerably better command for a reasonable period of time. His lack of command would likely be a real problem against major league hitters. I am excited he is pitching better but he has not demonstrated he is ready IMO.
  14. Major League Ready
    A 794 OPS in May is well above average for the league. It's also higher than Buxton, Correa, Polanco, Taylor, Kepler, Gallo and Solano. Taylor does a lot of other things well but his OPS for May is .616. Two months ago people were saying he should be starting in the OF. I don't think he is a crucial piece but having Gordon as the 26th man is a good situation. Solano is the most expendable once Lewis arrives IMO. Castro has far more defensively flexibility. Castro goes down when Kepler comes back which I would assume will be before Lewis is up but those two events will hopefully happen relatively close together.
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    It's pretty simple really. BA only tells a relatively small portion of a hitter's impact on producing runs. Obviously, a player with a 280 BA can have an OBP of 300 or 350. They are not the same. Where the huge difference comes in is slugging percentage. If Judge and Arraez both bat 320, batting average is not even remotely going to reflect their individual offensive impact. IDK if BA is the worst stat but it is certainly a very incomplete measure of hitting.
  16. Major League Ready
    Wouldn't the best example be Judge vs Arraez last year. They had nearly identical BAs. However, Judge had a wRC+ that was 76 points higher. Would anyone argue Arraez had anywhere near the impact of Judge?
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    The arm side run on the 1st pitch to Kirilloff has to be really tough for an umpire to determine if the pitch clips the front of the strike zone. The call on the inside pitch was simply horrible. Instances like the Kirilloff's AB are why we will have an electronic strike zone in the next couple of years. I just can't understand how anyone would prefer human error be allowed to impact a close ballgame like this one when it can be eliminated. Kirilloff took a good approach and the umpire took that AB away from Kirilloff and the Twins in a crucial spot.
  18. Major League Ready
    Correa definitely looks better. If Buxton would get going this team would look pretty good!
  19. Major League Ready
    Talk about full circle. A couple months ago a whole lot of people were quite down on Jeffers and said he had no business being the primary catcher.
  20. Major League Ready
    I agree completely at this point in time, but it could still change. I realize it's a relative longshot but the optimist in me hopes for Hidalgo to be a middle of the rotation guy. If that were to happen, ditching Donaldson and his salary, getting Urshella/Sanchez and 6 years of Hildago would make it #2 for me.
  21. Major League Ready
    Ryan for Cruz is #1 for me and Duran for the rental of Escobar is top 3. I don't see the trade of Josh Donaldson for Gio Urshela and Gary Sanchez on the list but that was a top 5 trade. Thank god we are not still saddled with that contract. They got a good year out of Urshella and a decent year out of Sanchez.. Then they flipped Urshella and basically replaced one remaining year of Urshella for 2 years of Farmer. It will be even higher if Hidalgo turns out to be a decent ML pitcher. The Mahle trade may turn out to be the worst. Quite a few of us disliked it at the time and suggested they bolster the BP but not invest that much prospect capital for a team that was in first place but was not a legitimate contender. However, if those prospects fizzle it's no loss. We shall see over the next few years.
  22. Major League Ready
    Brooks Lee has a wRC+ of 97 at AA. .267 / .328 / .422 is decent but also does not suggest he has conquered AA. I think the calls for him to join the ML club are a bit premature.
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    Thanks!
  24. Major League Ready
    Is it on Apple TV or do you have to have Apple TV+?
  25. Major League Ready
    They will have the money to get a top free agent SP next year. Try that first. Mahle could be a fall-back option.
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