DJL44
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I am pretty confident Wallner could get to a "normal" platoon split. So could Larnach. For Wallner that means instead of the 950/600 split he showed last season he could have a 950/750 OPS split. If he needs an off day against Blake Snell, that's fine (and he can pinch-hit later). I don't see any reason to pull him from the game for a random bullpen lefty in the 5th inning.
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You mean how he pitched 6 years and two Tommy John surgeries ago?
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There has to be a trade coming. Can they trade an outfielder (Larnach), infielder (Castro), reliever (Sands?) and a starting pitcher (Paddack) for Cease? That would make these moves make sense. I agree that Brooks Lee is as good as either of these guys.
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Twins looking at back-up infielders...
DJL44 replied to Twins_Fan_in_NJ's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
They have to be trading Castro. Brooks Lee is as good as DeJong or Urias. They're buying a reliever, an outfielder and a SS. Castro, Larnach, Sands and Paddack for Cease? -
If Rodriguez can avoid injury he'll get plenty of chances to play MLB games this summer.
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I am guessing that revenue sharing is up due to the rich teams spending more money above the luxury tax.
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I didn't know much about Castro when they acquired him, but he looked really good in the spring training game I watched. He earned his way onto the team by playing well. He's the counterexample to these assertions that the Twins never play the young guys and only play aging veterans. They don't play the young guys because most of them aren't very good and they haven't earned it. Miranda earned his way up, so did Larnach and Wallner. Brooks Lee is getting playing time despite not really earning it yet. Harrison Bader is blocking NOBODY. Emmanuel Rodriguez has barely played at AAA and is first on the depth chart for a callup as soon as there is an injury. Keaschall has barely played at AA and his results were not great. The rest of the guys in the upper minors are non-prospects. Helman, Gasper and Keirsey aren't even young. I don't have space to list all the counterexamples. There are hundreds, possibly thousands of players who had an OPS in the 800s in Double-A and weren't good enough for MLB.
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Keaschall's production in Double-A last season is the roadblock to him getting called up. An 830 OPS in AA shows he's not ready yet. He's not even ready for AAA.
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He's the best value free agent signing this front office has made. 2 WAR players for this low of a price are not easy to find. The minor leagues are not full of 2 WAR players, they're mostly full of negative WAR players. Larnach, Miranda and even Brooks Lee also look like "league average bats who can't defend the premium positions". Is it time to think about trading them? After all, they're only "marginal improvements" over what you can get in the minors.
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Byron Buxton came up, couldn't hit the ball with a boat oar and spent the next two seasons bouncing between the majors and minors. Some people thought the Twins had permanently ruined him by bringing him up too early. They did burn a lot of his service time on seasons where he wasn't particularly good. In the end he spent over 100 games in AAA. I wonder if it would have gone differently if he had done it all in one stretch instead of spread over 4 seasons. Why does Willi Castro get lumped in with Bader, Paddack and Vazquez? Castro has been a very good contributor as a Twin for a very cheap price. If he's a "marginal improvement" then I'll take all the marginal improving I can get.
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Julien might be the best pick for DH, or he might be a terrible hitter again this season. Who knows. They will rotate Julien, Larnach, Lewis, Miranda, Buxton, Wallner and Jeffers through the DH spot.
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Another "the roof is leaking so we should burn down the house argument". It is prudent to see if the Rodriguez can handle AAA before you give him a starting position in the majors. His batting profile is quite weird, extremely patient to the point where it may all turn south as soon as he reaches a level where pitchers can hit their spots. Should the Twins trade Jenkins if they think he's not ready this spring? How about Marco Raya? They should probably trade everyone they drafted in 2024 and 2023 and all the 16 year olds they signed out of Latin America in January. After all, if the Twins think they're not ready, the only logical thing to do is trade all of them.
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What good is an array of bad players with options? That just means you're cycling through bad players hoping someone has a 2-week hot streak that fools people into thinking they're good. Then you have to spend the month watching them suck before they make another move. Bader has a higher chance of being useful than all of Helman, Keirsey and Martin do collectively. It sounds like you think the GM needs to prevent themselves from improving the team because management can't make decisions about who to play. If the management can't figure out who to play, then the GM needs to FIRE MANAGEMENT because that's their primary job. He can't play CF, we saw that last year. He's just another bad choice.
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Too bad, you're getting platoons for everyone whether you like it or not. That's Baldelli. Second question is valid, I'd rather have Laureano for $2M less than Bader.
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Who would you rather have rostered as the short-side platoon partner - Bader or Martin? We know they will roster someone for that role. I could find-and-replace Bader with Martin in your complaint and it would be just as valid. At least Bader can provide value by catching the ball. Yes, it is disappointing that they insist on having this role. Why wouldn't we want them to improve the personnel they use for that role? If Emmanuel Rodriguez can't play well enough in AAA to make management think he's better than Harrison Bader, then he's probably best served spending the whole season in AAA. I remember just how bad Buxton was in his first season when they pulled him up from Double-A.
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I think they would have cut Margot last year if Martin hadn't been so awful and Rodriguez hadn't missed the whole season to injury. I think they would have cut Farmer if Julien or Lee could have done anything right. The excessive playing time for Margot and Farmer is much more an indictment of how bad the other options were. The other options are still likely to be really bad, they're just a year older. They still have all those players available to cycle through. They didn't cut everyone else on the roster when they added Bader. If they can't figure out which players deserve playing time, that's a problem with management, not with Bader. Your argument is the team shouldn't try to improve the roster because their manager can't make good decisions about playing time. That's a very strong argument to fire the manager, not an argument to never acquire free agents.
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Beats the hell out of Austin Martin or Michael Helman getting starter level PAs.
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I am confident that Rodriguez, if he can stay healthy, can beat out Austin Martin and get 300 plate appearances as the first outfielder called up from AAA. It's perfectly fine for him to bounce between AAA and MLB this season. If he proves that he can play ball, then they could pretty easily trade Bader at the deadline.
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This signing should push Willi Castro into the infield more often and I think that's a good thing. He could be playing a lot of 2B. If the Twins go with Bader/Buxton/Wallner for defense, then nobody is trying to take an extra base. Keirsey is the big loser here. He's back in AAA and may not get an opportunity with Emmanuel Rodriguez about to pass him on the depth chart.
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Statcast disagrees, he ranked 95th percentile for range, 86th percentile for arm strength last season. That's better range and an equal arm to Byron Buxton. There will be no drop-off in CF defense on the days Buxton is inevitably unable to play in CF. It might even improve. His offense is basically the same as playing Manny Margot, Austin Martin or Michael Helman but his defense is a LOT better. If they pinch-hit for Larnach or Wallner late in the game, they also get to upgrade the defense.
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Steamer on Canha .246/.340/.374 with below average defense. Do you think he can go 0 for 32 as a pinch hitter?
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They'd better hit because their defense looks really bad at the keystone.
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Any comments about the new MyTwins rewards program?
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I think they're overinvested in relief pitching and underinvested in the MLB bench but a trade could fix that pretty quickly.
