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  1. DJL44
    You can pull guys back in an expansion draft. Not the Rule 5.
  2. DJL44
    #1, #2, #3, #5, #7 should be added. Those are the ones that would hurt if they got away. 1, 2, 3, 5 should all be in AAA next year and might be valuable depth call-ups, meaning it won't be a wasted 40 man roster slot. Felix Jorge has upside and I can see someone wanting to steal him. For #1, #2 and #3 if they don't want to protect them they should trade them to a team that would. Pat Dean is freely available talent. He won't make the starting rotation and he's not a great prospect for the bullpen. I think eventually he signs elsewhere as a minor league free agent. Zach Jones is a bad bet to stick all year in the majors. Ditto with Bard and Melotakis though someone could play disabled list games with them. They might protect Melotakis for that reason, power lefties are scarce.
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    I'm on board with 4-man starting rotation but I see a 13 man pitching staff with 9 relievers, not 11 and 7 like your plan. Starters never, ever go more than 6 innings and 5 is common. That limits your starters to roughly 200 innings (40 starts x 5 innings). Starting pitching is the scarcest commodity in baseball. It is much easier to find a reliever who will be as good as your SP the 3rd time through the order. Blaine Boyer types are everywhere. The best relievers are as good as a SP the first time through or sometimes better.
  4. DJL44
    The Greinke trade was 2011 and he went to the Brewers. And I'm not crazy http://bleacherreport.com/articles/538102-mlb-trade-rumors-10-reasons-the-minnesota-twins-should-acquire-zack-greinke/page/7
  5. DJL44
    I think people underestimate what it takes to maintain two swings as a switch hitter. "Unfortunately, Hicks started drifting away from those changes later in the season, so his bat cooled off."
  6. DJL44
    They may have traded him too late. There were rumors of a Zack Greinke deal that would have been led by Aaron Hicks as the top prospect. In hindsight that would have been a better idea.
  7. DJL44
    Interesting that several commenters are saying essentially "not a bad trade but it wasn't my idea so I don't like it". Span is going to get a multi-year deal and not from the Twins. There are veteran OF who could potentially help as bench players instead of re-signing Shane Robinson Marlon Byrd Shane Victorino Will Venable Drew Stubbs Grady Sizemore
  8. DJL44
    The Twins were even thinner behind the plate if Suzuki got hurt and catchers get hurt ALL THE TIME.
  9. DJL44
    Murphy out-hit Hicks both of the last two seasons and he's 2 years younger than Hicks.
  10. DJL44
    Selling low would have been after last season. I think he sold high on Aaron Hicks. He's going to be a Super Two next year and start making more money through arbitration. He still doesn't hit great lefthanded and he's going to get passed up by Buxton so he'd be rotting on the bench soon enough. Get a mediocre starting catcher for a mediocre starting CF, nice trade balancing the roster.
  11. DJL44
    If I read conspiracy-theorist into recent moves I conclude that the Angels didn't give a qualifying offer to Freese because they already had a deal for Plouffe in place. I would be disappointed if it was just one reliever for Plouffe but the last time the Twins had a Bedrosian on the roster they all got shiny rings.
  12. DJL44
    No Pierzynski. Brayan Pena is a better fit.
  13. DJL44
    I hope they turn Jay into a starter in Ft Myers next season.
  14. DJL44
    If there is a GM somewhere that will give the Twins a pitching prospect as good as Lewis Thorpe for JT Chargois then Terry Ryan needs to make that deal now.
  15. DJL44
    "it's not really even fair to compare the two at this time" And yet to create a prospect list you have to compare them. It isn't really fair to compare Aumarys Minier to Max Kepler either.
  16. DJL44
    This is where I expected to see Palacios and he's definitely ahead of Navaretto. I never expected to see Navaretto this high and just assumed he was out of your top 50. >50 makes more sense than 20th.
  17. DJL44
    Kepler will probably come up but I have doubts that he will play much. Polanco may come up also. If Mientkiewicz doesn't get a big league job he's probably going to stay put. I've been more impressed with Jake Mauer turning a bunch of mostly non-prospects into winners. Mientkiewicz had it easy in comparison.
  18. DJL44
    Cedar Rapids winning despite not having the best talent in the system. Only Jorge and Gordon are likely to appear on a top 20 list.
  19. DJL44
    Burdi isn't on the 40 man so it is highly unlikely he pitches for the Twins before next season.
  20. DJL44
    I always thought of command as being able to get the movement you need to make the pitch effective and control was being able to locate. If you can't "command" your breaking pitch, you can't get it to break. If you leave your curveball up, you couldn't "control" it. I agree that they are used sloppily.
  21. DJL44
    How about this alignment to start 2016? 1B Mauer 2B Dozier 3B Plouffe SS Escobar LF Rosario CF Hicks RF Sano (can rotate to 1B and 3B also) DH Vargas UT Danny Santana (can play infield or outfield) C Suzuki C TBD (I like Wieters as a starter or Brayan Pena as a platoon partner) OF/DH - Arcia AAA outfield depth - Walker, Buxton and Kepler, AAA infield depth - Jorge Polanco, Levi Michael Buxton should force his way up fairly quickly and Kepler may also but neither has spent much time in AAA.
  22. DJL44
    They might throw Phil Hughes for Chattanooga one of those games
  23. DJL44
    Kuo Hua Lo - any reason why he repeated Betsy for the 3rd time this year? He dominated but was pretty good last season.
  24. DJL44
    Wimmers could definitely be the long reliever for Rochester next season
  25. DJL44
    Long relief. I think Nolasco has better stuff than Blaine Boyer.
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