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  1. Major League Ready
    Balazovic had 47 pitches last night and only 22 strikes. The lack of command was a problem last year too. Kinda weird because the walk rate was not bad earlier in his career. Could be less disciplined hitters at lower levels allowed him to get a way with it. Olivar made an impression last year and ended up on MLB's top 30 (at 27) Twins prospects. He had an OPS over 1. I have him on my watch list. We need a catcher to emerge and he is looking pretty good.
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    Correa, and Miranda have sub 50 wRC+ and Gordon's wRC+is actually negative. Do you really think that will continue? Polanco and Gallo should be back in a week. There is a decent chance KIrilloff and Lewis will contribute by the half-way point too. Julien could enter into the equation as well. Let's not panic! Instead of forecasting 70 wins for a team that is off to a 8-4 start, let's also consider the possibilities with Correa, Miranda, and Polanco performing as expected.
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    I guess I was being too literal.
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    Not even remotely accurate. His base salary is $15M with the following incentives. MVP votes: 1st-$8M 2nd-$7M 3rd-$6M 4th-$5M 5th-$4M 6th-through-10th: $3M Also: $500K each for 502, 533, 567, 600 and 625 plate appearances.
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    Buxton playing center would be a huge boost. We have a few guys that could DH and that would be a big upgrade from Taylor's 477 OPS. Add Polanco back and lineup is much better/deeper. Also agree with Mike that Julien should be getting some reps at 1B. He is not an immediate solution, but it would be nice to have him play some 1B if Kirilloff's wrist continues to be a problem. Correa and Gordon have been the biggest black holes in the lineup. Correa is going to come out of it. Replace the DH, get Polanco back and Correa on track and this will be a good offensive team. Trading away pitching prospects/depth when we already need to make room for Julien / Lewis and perhaps Wallner seems like a very bad idea.
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    Let's not ignore what actually happened. Let's also not ignore the fact that Gordon (so far) has been the least productive hitter on the team with an OPS of 255 and Farmer has been great with a wRC+ of 147. Let's acknowledge it's probably not crucial to put a guy with a 105 average and a 255 OPS in the lineup against a really tough team.
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    Not really. Quite often they need a couple days to see if it's some sort of strain that will allow the player to return after a couple days. If they react immediately the players is lost for longer than necessary. The player that replaced him did not play so nothing was lost.
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    Solano gets two hits and a walk and Farmer knocks in the winning run. Rocco could have ignored the splits and started Gordon because most of the time LH hit RH pitching better. I guess that would look better to anyone not aware of Urquidy's splits.
  9. Major League Ready
    He didn't start Gordon because Urguidy has reverse splits. The emphasis on RH bats was intentional.
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    Yep, that one is easy. What do they do when Kirilloff is ready to come back? The initial plan was to send Larnach down. He looks as good as anyone on the team right now so who goes? I am thinking Kirilloff goes to AAA for 4-6 weeks to prove his wrist will hold up. Then, if he is healthy, Solano gets traded or cut. Obviously, injuries can and probably will enter into the equation let's hope they have to make a tough call.
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    In 2020 they averaged over 140,000 viewers per game. It's a fraction of that now because of distribution but I don't see why they can't return to those levels. If that's the average viewership, the number of people potentially willing to stream the product is something significantly above 140,000 viewers. The audience is out there. They need to find a good way to service that audience. Also, removing the blackout would effectively cut the price per game in half which would obviously make for a more attractive product. The new rules, especially pacer of play could bolster viewership as well.
  12. Major League Ready
    Anxious to see what Preilipp can do this year but Nowlin is also one of the guys I will track this year. Seems like he could be great if he can just develop a little better command. Ricardo Olivar is really interesting too.
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    They are not holding Julien back for service time time. They made a decision to add Castro over Julien / others for his versatility. Julien could replace Castro but Castro is going to be sent to STP when Polanco is brought back and that seems like it will be soon. There simply is not a spot for Julien right now so he is going to need to force his way up by crushing it at AAA. Hopefully, he works hard on hos defense and improves enough to take away that reason for keeping him off the MLB roster. The real interesting decision will be what they do when Lewis is ready.
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    Gordon, Solano, and Farmer are above average players if they are used against opposite hand pitching. Hopefully, they can be used in that way instead of covering injuries. Getting Polanco back will facilitate these players being used advantageously. Would love to see Lewis here as well.
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    You certainly do like to avoid any factual reference and then drop these pearls of wisdom. You also changed the entire conversation from why they have not scored runs so far to what they may or may not do going forward. I listed the performance of their acquisitions to date. Those acquisitions have performed better than the guys we most rely upon and that reliance is definitely not equal among all players in the eyes of fans here. Actually, your argument is that we should have "done more" instead of relying on players like Larnach. He not someone anyone here was saying we could rely upon during the off season conversation. The most productive players to date are the acquisitions and guys that people like you said we should not rely upon and now you are avoiding any form of fact so that you can continue to insist "the problem is they didn't do enough" to bolster our core guys when the problem is the core guys.
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    Fangraphs have his speed as 20 on the 20-80 scale.
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    Hopefully, they both get squeezed out by some combination of Lewis / Julien / Martin / Wallner and Lee.
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    I am not commenting on "sports". I am talking about MLB so I don't know why you keep talking about "sports". It's not the same across all sports except that all sports have found replays useful. I record and watch nearly every Twins game. I can't think of more than a handful of calls I disagreed with after seeing the replay. I find the 2 minutes it takes a very small price to pay to make sure the outcome of a game or even a play is not changed by umpire error when we can so easily get it right. You are welcome to your preference. I will gladly wait the two minutes for a fair outcome.
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    What percentage of reply calls do you think are correct? I bet if you assembled an independent panel the outcome is around 99%. We should scrap it because it might not be 100% accurate. Why do we care about football replays in the context of this discussion. It's is 100% irrelevant.
  20. Major League Ready
    They need Polanco back. Then, they can go Buxton / Polanco / Correa / Larnach / Miranda. Hopefully, Kirilloff comes back strong and adds more depth. It wouldn't hurt if Julien went nuts for the next 6 weeks and forced himself on this team. That would Kepler in the bottom third or even 9th when Buxton is in CF.
  21. Major League Ready
    That's a very good point. The Rangers have $4.4M less than the Twins. That's a big deal given they pick right before us. This should really put us ahead of them practically speaking. The slot value of the 4th pick is 7,698,000. Unless they are willing to put 77% of their money into one player and I don't see that happening. Of course, they don't have a 2nd rounder so maybe they hang it all one the 4th pick.
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    That's not what you said. You said the problem was that they didn't do anything. That's your go to move. Management is stupid. The facts is that the players that we all expected produce are not and Polanco is hurt.
  23. Major League Ready
    Vazquez does not count? His wRC+ is 129 Gallo does not count? His wRC+ is 195. They got Farmer and Solano to bolster offense against LHP. Larnach is back. Did you want them to keep him in AAA? His wRC+ is 209. They retooled Jeffers swing. His wRC+ is 286. The problem is the guys they (and we) relied on the most are not hitting with the exception of Buxton. Polanco is out. Correa, Gordon and Miranda have been very unproductive. Those four guys are not anyone we would want replaced so to say the problem is they “did nothing” ignores some very obvious facts.
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    15 minutes really? The average is under 2 minutes. You are welcome to your preference. I would much MUCH rather take two minutes and get it right. The players should decide the game not umpires.
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    It makes more sense to me to change the rules than to have umpires ignore them. The point was an electronic zone is not an impediment to the imperfections you described. It's just a tool/technology that can be programed to provide the ideal outcome 100% of the time. You are entitled to your opinion. If these to be really poor reasons to accept error in officiating that inevitably leads to an unfair advantage. BTW .... Those replays are going to run regardless of a challenge system. I think it would be fantastic if you could not tell the difference between a good umpire and a bad one. Also, I find the aesthetics of bad calls far more objectionable than taking a minute to get the call right. Plus, there really wouldn't be any aesthetics associated with an automated zone. It would just be correct. call 100% of the time. How is that bad aesthetics?
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