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Sorry for the multiple posts. The website is broken. The "submit" button doesn't let you know it has been submitted.
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Willi Castro was an All-Star. He was at the All-Star game. https://www.mlb.com/news/willi-castro-named-all-star-replacement
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There are many pitchers in the Hall of Fame worse than Koufax. Santana is better than all of those guys too.
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I would stick Castro at 2B and mostly leave him there. He's top of the depth chart at that position. Putting him at 1B minimizes all of his abilities that make him valuable. I would rather they trade him for a 1B with power instead of playing him at 1B full-time.
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Eeles is going to win a job based on OBP and defense. He's not going to produce a lot of power.
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I continue to be surprised that Canterino is on the roster.
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Ronny Henriquez DFA. That figures into the price paid to add Coulombe to the roster.
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His opportunity is second base or bust, they can't move him anywhere else except LF and he doesn't have the power bat everyone wants from a LF. If he wants the job, he's going to have to outperform all of those other options. It's possible that he does. Helman is gone, Castro only has 1 year left, Julien is a bad fielder at 2B, Martin struggles on offense and defense, Lewis and Lee are both better at 3B than at 2B. Keaschall might be an outfielder. My guess is Eeles will be the last person they try next summer and he's going to have to play good defense with an OPS > 900 in AAA to get a shot.
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I'll phrase that the opposite. We know exactly what we have in Bader, very dependable defense with limited potential offensively. We don't know what we'll get in Keirsey. Is he going to turn into another Celestino? Keirsey will cost us nothing, Bader will cost us $6.25- 8.25M plus '26 buyout. Bader blocks nobody except Keirsey, Keirsey has no safety net behind him if he fails.
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You know what's really sad? This is the biggest move the Cardinals have made this offseason.
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A flyball pitching staff needs a good CF behind it. Between Buxton and Bader they should be happy.
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There are a dozen guys like Michael Helman who will have to settle for a minor league contract this offseason. Many of those guys will have MLB experience already. The Twins maxed out his trade value with this move.
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Will Holland does that and he hit better than Helman last season.
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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.
