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  1. DJL44
    Right, it's pretty mediocre. I think they have actually done a fairly good job of picking the right pitchers. I just think they need to pick more of them. Weight pitchers higher on future value than the position players. Take more shots on goal. A glut of pitchers is a lot better problem to have than a glut of future second basemen or corner outfielders.
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    You don't see the pattern with picking a lefthanded hitting outfielder high (Jenkins, Larnach, Kirilloff, Wallner) picking middle infielders next (Keaschall, Schobel, Steer, Ross, Ortega, Miller, Shuffield, Gray, Holland) and leaning heavily on maxing out velocity of late-round college pitchers? The Twins know what they like but they're going to keep getting the same results from the same process.
  3. DJL44
    Who bats 3rd then? Vazquez? Miranda? Kepler? Gallo? Farmer? Castro? Taylor? The Twins have too many players who should be batting 7,8,9 in the order.
  4. DJL44
    The bullpen has been better than I hoped but it isn't deep. They knew it wasn't deep this offseason (or should have) and didn't do anything about it besides signing minor leaguers Stewart and De Leon. They also knew they had trouble hitting lefthanded pitching and their big free agent signing was another lefthanded hitting outfielder with the same strengths and weaknesses as Kepler and Kirilloff and Larnach and Wallner.
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    I think they have two assistant hitting coaches on the MLB staff.
  6. DJL44
    Yes, it is a good thing they can make trades and sign free agents to make up for the shortage of pitching coming up from the minors. They have done that with most of their current roster. Ober and Jax are really the only successful pitchers on the team they drafted and developed. They can't trade multiple prospects for pitching forever and they don't have another Arraez they can trade for a top of the rotation starter. Right now they have no pitchers in MLB's top 100 prospect list and Festa is probably the only one who would even be considered for a list like that. Drafting pitchers becomes more important because the Twins record with international free agency is dreadful when it comes to producing pitchers. You have way more confidence than I do that Varland and Winder can replace Gray and Maeda. Winder is 26 and has an ERA over 5 in AAA. People talk about "drafting for need" with a catcher. If they were really drafting for need the next 10 picks would all be pitchers.
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    The roster is half pitchers. Picking just as many pitchers as batters will leave your organization short because pitchers get injured and flame out at a far higher rate than position players. The Twins lose Mahle, Maeda and Gray to free agency next year. Who are the three pitching prospects that will replace them? If they had enough pitching they wouldn't have made the trades for Mahle or Lopez at last season's trade deadline. They wouldn't have kept Emilio Pagan for his last season of arbitration. They wouldn't have traded Arraez for Lopez last offseason. The Twins top 10 pitching prospects at MLB.com are: Prielipp; injured Raya: having a decent season Woods-Richardson: trending toward the bullpen Festa: having a good season Canterino: injured Henriquez: back end relief pitcher Balazovic: back end relief pitcher Hidalgo: OK A-ball starter Headrick: trending toward the bullpen Mooney: Maybe a reliever and he's already 25 They have a lot of fringy guys who could give them relief innings but only Festa and Raya look like starters and neither will be ready in April. To have a "pipeline" they need to turn out a starting pitcher and a reliever every single year.
  8. DJL44
    Which would leave them well short of the number of pitchers they actually need but that is the pattern of past mistakes.
  9. DJL44
    MLB Draft Tracker | MLB.com Click on "undrafted". Top 3 are Jack Hurley and 3 high school pitchers.
  10. DJL44
    There is a huge drop from Sonny Gray to Dallas Keuchel or Louie Varland
  11. DJL44
    First base, where he should be playing anyway.
  12. DJL44
    Are there really going to be two guys available at 34 and 49 that would make them want to go several million below slot at #5? Wouldn't they have to be high schoolers? I don't remember the Twins ever doing a misdirection campaign.
  13. DJL44
    I might have but I would expected a higher return than I would have for Steer. Lewis was always the long-term answer at 3B. Trading BOTH Miranda and Steer is defensible.
  14. DJL44
    I hope so, because he's worth the comp pick AND their shot at the playoffs to the Twins. You have to give up a lot to get me to give up my shot at winning the division.
  15. DJL44
    This is not true at all. Correa has been basically slap-hitting lately and Joey Gallo slapped a dribbler to the 3B gap for his single.
  16. DJL44
    If you want to sign Hader after this season you don't have to give up anything but money. You're trading for the next 3 months of Hader, about 30 innings of pitching. What happens in the offseason is irrelevant to his trade value.
  17. DJL44
    They can't give away offense at LF, CF, RF and 3B and have an effective lineup.
  18. DJL44
    Jose Miranda continues to be 0 for his callup. Losing Royce Lewis has been a huge setback for the Twins. I wonder if Jeffers at C last night instead of Vazquez would have been a better move to get a little more offense in the lineup. Willi Castro cannot be their "RH bat" solution in the outfield. He has the same 697 OPS from each side of the plate. There are lots of outfielders who can do better than that. He's a defense-first player, not the #5 hitter.
  19. DJL44
    Duran has trouble locating his pitches. He's more of a "thrower" than a "pitcher" and gets by because his stuff is just nasty. If he was able to locate his pitches better he'd be much better. He'd be like Bautista of the Orioles.
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    Against an All-Star throwing 100 MPH gas with nasty breaking stuff.
  21. DJL44
    I don't want Correa bunting in that situation. He hit into the double play but I thought people here would be giddy that he didn't strike out.
  22. DJL44
    I do
  23. DJL44
    There is the option of buying tickets and attending in person today. Should be a terrific night for a ballgame.
  24. DJL44
    I also want to know which one of you old farts here is his father.
  25. DJL44
    I have never been so tempted to change my username.
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