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  1. 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.
  2. "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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Burdi isn't on the 40 man so it is highly unlikely he pitches for the Twins before next season.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Kuo Hua Lo - any reason why he repeated Betsy for the 3rd time this year? He dominated but was pretty good last season.
  10. Long relief. I think Nolasco has better stuff than Blaine Boyer.
  11. WAR gives a leverage bonus to relievers and they still can't match starting pitchers.
  12. Plays well with Suzuki too. Suzuki is good at blocking pitches in the dirt and you don't need to frame a pitch like that. You're fooling the batter, not the umpire.
  13. Maybe it's just the name but Placido Polanco was a very useful player who didn't play much SS in the big leagues. Instead he played 3B or 2B depending on where he was needed. Maybe Jorge Polanco can follow in that mold. That means he probably spends all of next season at Rochester as a utility player. Levi Michael isn't supposed to have the arm for anywhere but second base. My guess is he's also at Rochester next year.
  14. Pat Dean trending up, Taylor Rogers trending down...
  15. Gonsalves is having a great year. He's younger than Tyler Jay and having better results at the same level of competition.
  16. I think there's one spot for Arcia or Vargas. The Twins aren't going to carry two guys who can't field. I believe Vargas still has options for next season.
  17. I saw English a week or so ago. My guess is a lot of that "pop" is speed. He had a hustle double in the game I saw that wouldn't happen with an MLB caliber outfielder. He's an above average baserunner but I don't think his swing is exceptionally powerful.
  18. I'd move Santana to get Shields. Bigger contract commitment for the Twins but a better pitcher.
  19. I would love it if Vargas could hit well enough to be a major league DH. Sano can play the field and my guess is RF is his spot next season.
  20. RH relievers on the Twins with a K/9 better than Jepsen <blank>
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