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  1. DJL44
    I don't understand the obsession with pigeonholing relief pitchers into certain innings. A relief pitcher's job is to pitch. The numbers on the scoreboard shouldn't matter. Go into the game and hit your spots with your pitches. Adding one good player doesn't keep them from adding 4-5 fringy players. Fringy players don't really cost anything if they're brought in on minor league contracts.
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    Eventually he will go hipster and start following Manchester United.
  3. DJL44
    You're not thinking of Terry Mulholland, are you? They had Stewart, Hoffman and Danny Coulombe in camp and kept Stewart, Tyler Duffey, Jharel Cotton and Trevor Megill. Megill got better with the Brewers but Duffey was bad and Cotton is out of baseball. They also had Ian Hamilton who has done fairly well with the Yankees. It just goes to show how many of these "fringy" relievers without options there are. I would throw Ronny Henriquez on the list from the RH side. He was okay this season and is still young enough to add upside. For lefties you mentioned Funderburk and Headrick. I wouldn't count out a reunion with Thielbar since he should be pretty cheap to sign as a free agent. There's also Jovani Moran who was out this season due to ligament replacement surgery. None of those names are as exciting as if they move Prielipp quickly through the system to the major league bullpen.
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    I think every season some "reclamation project" becomes another team's All-Star reliever.
  5. DJL44
    Everyone faces mainly RHPs.
  6. DJL44
    No, that's the exact opposite of what I stated. I'll propose a counter-narrative. The scouts watched Austin Martin on the back fields in spring training and said, "This guy's not going to help, go tell the Dodgers we'll take Manny Margot."
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    The fact that Martin can't do anything better than anyone else on the roster makes him a terrible player (relatively speaking these guys are all elite athletes). Martin isn't good enough at baseball at the moment to hold a 40-man roster spot. There are too many other guys who hit as well as him and play better defense, hit better than him and play the same defense or both hit and field better than Martin. The guy was outplayed by Manny Margot and Margot will be lucky to get a major league contract this offseason.
  8. DJL44
    This team does acquire college starting pitchers in the middle rounds of the draft. That's how they acquired Jax and Sands.
  9. DJL44
    No, they exist to win baseball games. Player development is crucial because they can't afford to fill the team with free agents. If a player is "stunted" in their development because they aren't a better option than a veteran retread then they stay in AAA.
  10. DJL44
    The Twins don't have a vendetta against Austin Martin. Buxton was hurt. They thought that Martin wasn't better than Margot at playing CF and hitting LHP (they were correct, he isn't better at either of those things). The only opening then was to give Martin the job playing CF and hitting against RHP. With hindsight that job should have gone to Keirsey and Martin should have stayed in AAA (Keirsey may have also been injured at that time and unavailable, I can't remember). If Martin can't hit RHP or play CF then he probably isn't going to make it as a major league baseball player. He doesn't hit or defend well enough to be a platoon LF against LHP. Most rosters don't have enough room for that kind of player anyway. That's why Mike Restovich never did much in MLB.
  11. DJL44
    I already like him better than Paddack for the 5th spot.
  12. DJL44
    I have advocated taking another team's castoff major league starters and trying them in the bullpen. Cole Irvin isn't a bad gamble but it helps to be able to start these guys in AAA to give them time to see if adding velocity in the bullpen actually helps their stuff. They won't be immediately successful in relief.
  13. DJL44
    If players want to get big league playing time, they need to be good enough to earn it. No scholarships based on draft status. The Twins are trying to win baseball games. They don't exist solely to help develop Austin Martin to his fullest potential.
  14. DJL44
    This is true, and I'm not sure any front office is really that good at it. The best way to have a great bullpen is to develop more young pitching than you have room for in the rotation. There probably isn't anything they could do better. Relievers are volatile and tend to have short runs of effectiveness before they get injured or the league figures them out.
  15. DJL44
    There are 60 catchers on MLB rosters, not 30. The median hitting catcher would be #30, not #16. Your analysis would be like comparing starting pitchers and picking #40 as the "median" starting pitcher.
  16. DJL44
    Willi Castro is not in the lineup until one player gets hurt. Instead of Wallner + Lewis (7 WAR) you have Castro + Martin (3 WAR) instead of Lee and Martin (0 WAR). Castro gives a net +3 WAR because someone is ALWAYS hurt on an MLB roster. Plus, if one of your AAA subs is actually decent but blocked you can pull them up and move Castro to a different position. That sub would tally the 1 WAR but Castro is the player who enabled that move instead of grabbing the -1 WAR player from Double-A.
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    Positional flexibility gives them more depth to pick from. If someone gets injured they can pick from 6 different position players in the minor leagues to replace that player on the bench with Castro moving to the injured player's position. I believe there was part of last season where Buxton, Keirsey and Rodriguez were all injured at the same time but the Twins didn't have to reach down to AA to call up a centerfielder because Castro is on the roster. I think it happened again later in the season when Correa and Lee were both hurt at the same time and they used Castro at SS. I will agree that Castro has the most value when he's the 10th player on your roster and is only playing every day because he is filling in for an injured/resting starter.
  18. DJL44
    Castro is a free agent after 2025. Unless the Twins give him a contract extension this offseason there is no "beyond that" to worry about.
  19. DJL44
    I will take the under.
  20. DJL44
    Interesting to see someone argue that Christian Vazquez is underpaid.
  21. DJL44
    I don't think there is much downside to giving him a chance in the rotation. If he struggles, move him back to the bullpen.
  22. DJL44
    There is a difference between "offseason" replacement value where there are tons of freely available players ready to fill in the margins of your roster and "in-season" replacement value where you are limited to your own organization or whoever gets dumped on the waiver wire. You are right that having someone like Castro allows for more in-season flexibility when determining who gets called up in the Twins organization. That has value that is not captured in WAR.
  23. DJL44
    They need either a RH hitting 4th outfielder OR they need a second baseman. Castro can move to the other spot. If they get both they can start their players with huge question marks (Julien, Martin, Lee) in the minors and see which ones produce. I don't see Vazquez getting moved until the trade deadline when half his salary is paid down. They don't have any pitchers I would count on to fill in for Ryan, Lopez or Ober. They have some options who could take Paddack's spot without much drop-off (if any). I agree that the bullpen needs a good lefty.
  24. DJL44
    He can open for Raya in St. Paul then.
  25. DJL44
    And he hated Milwaukee. Why would he want to come to Minnesota?
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