Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Major League Ready

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    7,755

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    26

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Major League Ready

  1. Major League Ready
    No doubt that it happens to every team but it does seem like more than our fair share have done well elsewhere. I don't think one can deny we have also not developed front of the rotation starters. This is where I find fault with the organization. To be fair, it does look like we have some guys in the system right now that could or even should be legit.
  2. Major League Ready
    Are you suggesting it would have been a good idea to go all-in last year. Obviously, that would have required they give up several of their best prospects. Berrios and Kepler would be history and so would have a couple others. Keep in mind that there was no way they were winning the division. The benefit of paying the all-in price, if successful, would have been a wild card. In other words, a 50/50 shot at a series. BTW ... The 2015 Mets and 2015 Twins were not even remotely similar cases. Please compare those two teams starting with starting pitching. I would argue that following the 2015 Mets model would have been grossly incompetent.
  3. Major League Ready
    OR ... It could be they did not do any of those deals because non contending team don't do this type of deal. Teams like Philly and the Twins sell off these assets. Giving up top prospects for aging players when you are as down as the Twins or Philly or Atlanta is absolutely incompetent. It is true, the Twins acted like a small market team in the past. Maybe because they were. Now that they have a little more revenue ... we will see. How many $180M contracts have teams of with equivalent revenue given out and they also broke out the check book in free agency. Regardless, lack of desire did not prevent them for doing these deals. The fact they would have been very ill-advised drove that decision before any desire or lack thereof to make a big deal had any chance to influence the decision.
  4. Major League Ready
    You need to look back. I like a few others here thought they were overachieving. I remember one thread in particular where I wrote something about them having a unsustainable average w/RISP. You may also recall I listed the math associated with the risk they were taking. Which was basically the odds that odds makers gave them and then multiply by .5 because a wild card is a one game playoff. In other words, even if they got the wildcard they only had a 50/50 shot of making the playoffs. I opposed all of the maneuvers that were basically a product that were were about to contend. I thought the Tulo idea was absolutely a horrible idea as well as the idea of trading away top prospects for Lucroy who would be gone after next year. My support for the front office was that I was in the form of defending them not doing these things.
  5. Major League Ready
    The question you have to answer before asking why they did not attempt such a trade is should they have been in the Price/Hamels market? When you say “they Thompson is a top 50 SP prospect. Williams is #58 and Alfaro is a catcher ranked #86 prospect. It would have taken Berrios, Kepler, and one other top 100 ranked plus a couple lower ranked guys like Chin-Wei Hu to equate to what the Rangers gave in trade. Are you really saying the team should have considered such a move when it is obvious they were not anywhere near the point of maintaining contention? Should they have given up the very players that likely get them to contention to be a little better for 3 years if he does not regress as he will be 35 at the end of the contract. I would prefer 6 years of Kepler + 6 years or Berrios + 6 years of Gordon or Jay or whoever else it would have taken for 6 years, plus the $67.5M over 3 years that could be spent on a very good FA SP. I just don’t understand why so many posters here want us to give away our future for a player that makes us a little better than the terrible team we are now. It’s a very good way to stay bad or mediocre. I really don’t think there is not a GM in baseball that would consider this trade for 30 seconds given the Twins status.
  6. Major League Ready
    Carpenter and Altuve by a considerable margin but your point is still valid and Carpenter is playing 3B now but could play 2B. Regardless, I have not seen anyone suggest Polanco is clearly a better option. However, provided the right return, trading Dozier could be an important part of building contender. Trading a very good players was instrumental to the rebuilding process for the Royals, Cubs, Mets, Pirates, Orioles, Astros, and probably a could others I cant think of right now. I would prefer to trade Nunez and use Polanco in his role but the return wont be an impact player unless we get very lucky.
  7. Major League Ready
    or a nomination for President of the United States
  8. Major League Ready
    I would be happy with a good return on 2 veterans and elated if we made trades with a reasonable return on 3 veterans, specially if the return included a good AA or AAA catching prospect and or a high upside SP.
  9. Major League Ready
    How about Ortiz & Sadzeck for Santana with the Twins picking up $2M of the remainder of 2016, $3M in 2017 and $4M in 2018? Over optimistic?
  10. Major League Ready
    You both have good points. It always comes down to what is the return, right. I also don't know that I want to risk the decline that is probable with Santana. I think I take a decent offer and run. Different deal with Dozier... It needs to be a very good return. Sanchez, for example, would be a good starting point.
  11. Major League Ready
    Apparently, the Target Field revenue has influenced a new view of paying down contracts. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/minnesota-twins It sure would be nice to get a good return on Santana. Between paying down on his contract, the poor FA market next year, and it being a sellers market in general, that seems quite possible.
  12. Major League Ready
    A man can dream can't he? You are right, I was just being a typical fan hoping for an unrealistic return.
  13. Major League Ready
    What if it was a prospect with front of the rotation stuff at AA. Sign me up!
  14. Major League Ready
    It sure does seem to be a seller's market. Let's hope that means a very good return. I would love to see them eat half the contract and get a top 50 type prospect. I am not too woried about us still needing some pitching to get through this year and perhaps next year even if it means Nolasco at the back of the rotation. Pitch him until Gonsolves or someone else is ready and then DFA Nolasco or put him in a mop role if he has no trade value when Gonsalves is ready.
  15. Major League Ready
    Pretty impressive SP staff at Chattanooga!
  16. Major League Ready
    I would not bet on us eating salary but we had different economic circumstances for most of our history. It’s not like Arizona getting a huge TV contract but we do have more financial resources than we did throughout our history. It would be nice to see that additional revenue used to get a good prospect in this situation.
  17. Major League Ready
    It would sure be nice if something went right and Nolasco and/or Santana are great this month and one of them is traded by the deadline. For that matter, it would be just fine if they both got traded. Berrios would be here to stay. As long as I am wishing, let's hope they get a nice return on Nunez and Polanco gets a chance.
  18. Major League Ready
    Thanks Seth. Palka is reported to have a strong arm where Walker is said to be suspect in that area. If he has decent speed he and takes decent routes he might be a big bat without the being a big defensive hole. It pained me to watch Delmon and I don't ever want to watch that again. I hope this guy turns out to be a surprisingly good transaction. His K rate is quite a bit less than Walker but it would be really encouraging to see him improve in that area in the next year.
  19. Major League Ready
    How much if a liability is Palka defensively in the OF? I cant find a scouting report that is not 3 years old. Is he a DH / 4th outfielder at the ML level or can he play acceptable OF defense? Mauer has 2 year left. Maybe Palka spends next year in AAA and eventually replaces Mauer. Is the IF at the end of next year Sano / Vielma / Polanco / Palka? That could be good provided this came with good returns for Dozier and Nunez.
  20. Major League Ready
    The Twins or any other team with a lot of young talent with any GM with an IQ above room temperature is not going to trade away their chance to be relevant for one superstar, even Trout. It is a good way to assure mediocrity or worse for a long period of time. To complain that our GM would not do it is to complain that we don't have a GM that would make this incredibly bad decision.
  21. Major League Ready
    Sorry, I meant to quote the poster that said he did not want a soft tossing lefty in the pen. In other words, I too was thinking it screams long reliever. That's ok. Milone could provide some value in that role and it makes room for one of Meyer/Berrios/Duffey. Let's hope Nolasco continues to be great and makes himself marketable. As long as we are hoping. Let's hope a contender finds the need top add him and we actually get something for him. That makes room for 2 of Meyer/Berrios/Duffey.
  22. Major League Ready
    Does it really matter how hard he throws if he is extremely effective during the first ABs?
  23. Major League Ready
    I don't know if Sano has ever commented on his desire to play in the field and we would have to take whatever was said with a grain of PR salt. However, I would think that Sano and his representation would be against a strictly DH role. Players who can man a defensive position command more dollars and what player would prefer, especially with his athleticism wants to be just a DH. Point being that defying his wish to play in the field if it exists would be a good way too assure him leaving once he has the option.
  24. Major League Ready
    Fair enough but what about the many other players that have benefited as have their teams by switching positions. This is a pretty common thing and I would guess just bet every MLB team has had a player that they decided just would not cut it at their intended position and then switched them at the major league level. Having said this, I think their is a pretty good chance this decision was a product of being at the bottom of the league in OPS last year as well as an unwillingness to accept this team had no real shot of winning the division
  25. Major League Ready
    You speak of maximizing victories in #3 and then the future in #4. Quite often they don't go together. There are too many players to name that benefited greatly for a position change. Good thing KC's management was willing to experiment with Alex Gordon. Now, if they did this to accommodate Plouffe, that would be very short sighted. However, if they just did not believe Sano could stick at 3B, then this is all about the future and therefore a worthy experiment.
×
×
  • Create New...