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  1. Major League Ready
    Their options as I see it were to DFA Kepler or Solano or send Julien down. Sending down Julien with Polanco out makes no sense. Therefore, they would have to DFA Solano or Kepler. Here is where your point about impacting player's career enters. DFAing either would be a very bad look with players and agents for the reasons you cited. Veteran players and agents definitely believe they are due greater respect, especially if part of the logic is to play a prospect had 2 good games. Teams simply can't treat players this way. Kepler has been with this organization a long time. The right way to handle it is to eventually find a trade partner or pass on his option. It's a different story if he starts hitting well below league average. Solano is a little different situation but he is performing about as expected. To dump him 1/3 of the way through the season would be looked down upon by players and agents.
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    Good point. I did not think about comparing to Kepler directly. I think Castro is the new Gordon. He is even more versatile because he has a better arm and therefore can play 3rd. Pretty decent base steeler as well.
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    I agree that we can't just be cutting players at this point in the season, especially based on literally two good games for Wallner. However, I would like to see Wallner or Larnach take Kepler's roster spot over the course of the season. They are unlikely to just DFA Kepler so this could take until July or even the deadline. The versatility of Lewis / Castro / Farmer and Gallo will provide plenty of options in terms of how they manage the transition of the roster in general. While the main guys need to be better, the others guys also need to contribute a little. Vasquez has been horrendous lately. His wRC+ for May is 14. MAT is not much better at 34. These black holes in the lineup have killed a lot of opportunities. Buxtons wRC+ for May is 90. That has little value as a DH so if this continues, he needs to play CF and MAT goes to a 4th OFer and defensive replacement role. Perhaps Julien becomes a semi-full-time DH.
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    Good point about the need to find depth for 2024. I too was wondering how that would be achieved. (maybe they extend Gray) The guys with the highest ceilings have had lots of questions. Let's hope a couple of them emerge over the course of the season among the group of Enlow / Balazovic / Raya / Headrick / Prielipp and Festa. It would also help if Canterino gets back in the discussion by the middle of next year even if it's a BP role.
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    I sure hope they don't replace Varland with Maeda. Valand is an important part of the future. Let's find out if we can count on him now. Send Sands down and put Maeda in the BP. Julien for Polanco makes sense. Julien needs to play every day to work on his defense. Perhaps they should give him some reps at 1B so that he has some positional flexibility. That would make it easier for him replace Solano.
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    Fans need a scapegoat, and they don't want to blame the people (players) who are directly responsible for the failure. Do we think coaching is somehow responsible for the Twins being 4-47 with the bases loaded? You keep using facts and logic. People don't want to hear it and facts will be ignored because fans need to complain when their team does not win. Last year we heard the constant drumming about Rocco pulling pitchers based on a spreadsheet. Well, the Twins SPs are at the top of league in average IPs proving your point and mine. Your point being players make all the difference and my point that people are still complaining about a spreadsheet while ignoring the fact Rocco has proven he is quite willing to ride with pitchers worthing of being trusted.
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    I agree they matter. However, fans see what they want to see. The point was suggesting the uninspired play of the position play is poor leadership and let's just ignore the great effort from SPs is not exactly consistent. The two biggest culprits of poor play are Correa and Buxton. They are seasoned players who are supposed to be leaders themselves. Not to mention most posters here were adamant the Twins resign both players. There was a lot of "if they don't sign" these players they are not serious about winning. We sure ignore whatever gets in the way of complaining. We have a meager understanding of Rocco's leadership. From what players and former players convey, he appears to be a pretty good leader but we have little in terms of actual knowledge. Evaluating leadership requires a close-up evaluation of actions and interactions over a period of time. Ranting here about leadership is naive. BTW .... teams pay $8M per win in free agency. If a manager made that much difference you would have managers getting paid $30M/year.
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    Apparently Rocco is a great leader / motivator of starting pitchers but can't motivate position players. Apparently getting paid $33M/year does not inspire performance. Is lack of motivation what influences Buxton to swing at pitches with absolutely no chance of being a strike?
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    The majority of people here were very supportive of the Mahle trade. There were loud cries that we had to go for it because we were in 1st place. There was a minority that wanted BP additions but were against spending that much prospect capital on a team that may have been in 1st place but were definitely not contenders. Arraez would have just been another guy standing on base while Buxton and Correa failed to deliver. Buxton looks lost and Correa has been anemic. Both were extremely popular signings for most TD followers.
  10. Major League Ready
    Rosario hitting 341 in may with a wRC+ of an even 200. He is ready for the next level.
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    I have not seen enough of him in CF to have an opinion as to if he can hold his own in CF. He would be a real asset if he could play an average CF. Maybe they should send him to STP to play CF for a couple weeks.
  12. Major League Ready
    So you would ignore how he is playing now and assign playing time based on him not playing well last year? Vasquez really sucks right now but he was good last year so should Rocco also ignore Jeffers is hitting far better than Vasquez because Jeffers played poorly last year. I guess he should quit playing Castro too based on last year. Kepler's offensive performance this year is well above average and he is a well above average defender. There should be no mystery as to why Rocco is playing him as long as he keeps it up.
  13. Major League Ready
    I guess I missed Rocco's plate appearances w/risp.
  14. Major League Ready
    He started out fairly slow but is crushing it in May. His May stats are 338 ave 1081 OPS and 205 wRC+. I thought he looked great in spring training so I was a little disappointed in April but he has to be the Milb hitter of the month for May. Now Rodriquez has to get it going. He is my disappointed of the year so far.
  15. Major League Ready
    I don't think it's undoable. Teams turn around quite frequently. Adding Kirilloff was big. Getting Correa right would also help a bunch and he has been looking better at the plate. Lewis will be here very soon and Julien needs to take Solano's roster spot if we get enough guys back from injury. We also have Polanco and Kepler out. All of this adds up to plenty of opportunity to improve significantly.
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    I really don't care about winning the division if that is accomplished with a 500 record. Winning the division will be a hollow victory if we don't have some young players step up an establish themselves as the future. Kirilloff and Varland have been bright spots. This team really needs Royce Lewis to succeed. Larnach or Wallner or both need to step up.
  17. Major League Ready
    They say these things even out over time. I hope that happens in this case because we are going to score a bunch of runs when we get to the part where it evens out.
  18. Major League Ready
    I will give you this, you have great taste.
  19. 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.
  20. Major League Ready
    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.
  21. Major League Ready
    I think you are right about Rosario. So far for May his stat line is .390 .507 .661 1.168. Wow!
  22. 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.
  23. Major League Ready
    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.
  24. Major League Ready
    All you need is a subscription for Milb TV.
  25. 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.
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