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  1. DJL44
    Since your data has no labels it's impossible to determine what you think you're showing. You did answer the question of whether you have ever seen Rodriguez play defense with a definite NO.
  2. DJL44
    They don't need to roster a player who hits worse than Christian Vazquez.
  3. DJL44
    The Dodgers also didn't worry about set roles in the bullpen. Use the best pitcher for the game situation.
  4. DJL44
    I agree that improved up the middle defense will help with run prevention. 2B needs to improve and more Willi Castro might be part of the solution. CF should have Emmanuel Rodriguez and Keirsey backing up Buxton instead of Margot, Castro and Martin. A full, healthy season for Correa and Lewis would help.
  5. DJL44
    His performance in AAA and his age. He looks like a 700 OPS ceiling on offense.
  6. DJL44
    The Twins play in a bigger league against a bunch of other players. There are threads for hockey and football on this site so I don't think an article going over other things happening in major league baseball is a crazy idea. It's better than dissecting every piece of lint in the bellybutton that is the Twins offseason.
  7. DJL44
    I personally wouldn't mind a walk around the other teams in baseball instead of an article for every single player who might or might not get arbitration. I think the focus here sometimes gets too Twins centered. What players on other teams might get non-tendered (or otherwise squeezed off the roster)? Would the Twins be interested in any of them?
  8. DJL44
    If Falvey non-tenders Duran he should be fired on the spot.
  9. DJL44
    Emmanuel Rodriguez is going to play every day as long as he's healthy. He's not coming up to be a bench player. They'll keep him in AAA until one of Larnach, Buxton or Wallner gets hurt (which is inevitable). He'll take the spot of whoever was injured. I expect he'll go up and down next season like Brooks Lee did this season.
  10. DJL44
    Catcher is one position where teams have been very hesitant to grab players from Japan, mostly due to communication issues. There are a few MLB caliber catchers playing in Japan. Giving Takuya Kai or Tomoya Mori a shot at catcher would be interesting. I'm surprised the Dodgers haven't done it since they have two Japanese pitchers on the roster.
  11. DJL44
    I think Kirilloff is a better fielder at LF than he is at 1B and he touches the ball a lot less often in LF. I wouldn't play him at 1B at all.
  12. DJL44
    The money doesn't matter. It's about the roster spot and roster fit. The Twins really need a RH hitting outfielder. Even with Kepler leaving they have plenty of LH hitting outfielders (Wallner, Larnach, Keirsey, Emmanuel Rodriguez). I can't see them cutting him loose for nothing but a trade would not be surprising.
  13. DJL44
    I would like to employ the pitcher who says "I want to go into the game and get people out" and not employ the pitcher who says "I only like pitching in the seventh inning because the number 7 is a little sexier than the number 6 but less scary than the numbers 8 or 9."
  14. DJL44
    When is it not stressful to pitch to major leaguers? Why would we want any pitchers who only want to pitch when it isn't stressful? I want pitchers who want to get the best batters in the world out. It is nonsensical that we have to keep Duran as the closer (even if he's not effective) because he's "comfortable" there. When they're checking on free agent relievers are they asking them which inning they're comfortable pitching and not obtaining three sixth-inning guys and nobody for the seventh inning? What if you have five effective relievers who say "I only want to pitch if I'm closing". Do you trade four of them for less effective pitchers who only want to pitch lower stress innings in the seventh and eighth innings? Maybe the next time Duran needs to pitch in the 8th they can just change the scoreboard to make it look like it's the 9th and he'll be fine. They can even play his entrance song so he's more comfortable.
  15. DJL44
    The AFL has become extended A-ball. There are very few actual pitching prospects. It's sort of a demotion for Double-A players like Rosario.
  16. 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.
  17. DJL44
    Eventually he will go hipster and start following Manchester United.
  18. 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.
  19. DJL44
    I think every season some "reclamation project" becomes another team's All-Star reliever.
  20. DJL44
    Everyone faces mainly RHPs.
  21. 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."
  22. DJL44
    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.
  23. DJL44
    This team does acquire college starting pitchers in the middle rounds of the draft. That's how they acquired Jax and Sands.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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