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  1. DJL44
    Kevin Jepsen might be interested in a two-year $10M contract when settling his arbitration case.
  2. DJL44
    You can pull guys back in an expansion draft. Not the Rule 5.
  3. 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.
  4. DJL44
    Wieters becomes the 3rd highest paid C in baseball and gets to try again next year.
  5. DJL44
    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.
  6. 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
  7. 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."
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. DJL44
    The Twins were even thinner behind the plate if Suzuki got hurt and catchers get hurt ALL THE TIME.
  11. DJL44
    Murphy out-hit Hicks both of the last two seasons and he's 2 years younger than Hicks.
  12. DJL44
    Murphy out-hit Hicks in 2015 and 2014.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. DJL44
    I think Christian Bethancourt could be acquired without a huge cost. The Braves need a 3B now that Olivera is being moved to the outfield.
  16. DJL44
    No Pierzynski. Brayan Pena is a better fit.
  17. DJL44
    I hope they turn Jay into a starter in Ft Myers next season.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. DJL44
    The purpose of the Hall of Fame is to recognize important players throughout history. I'm open to having the best players elected, even if they played 100 years ago. Deacon White was a pretty big oversight when looking at players through history and their impact on the game. Bill Dahlen was a helluva player, but also a colossal jerk from contemporary accounts which explains why he has been left out. Harry Stovey was really fast and a very good player for his time. Wes Ferrell was better than many pitchers already inducted. They wouldn't embarrass the HoF if they were inducted but leaving them out isn't embarrassing either. The other players would be mistakes and they certainly don't need more owners in the HoF. I agree 100% that it makes no sense to keep picking white players while leaving black players out of consideration. There are black players from the pre-integration era as good as Stovey and Ferrell that aren't inducted (John Beckwith, Quincy Trouppe, Alejandro Oms, Dick Lundy, Dobie Moore) and they should continue to be considered. One caveat about WAR - it is a counting stat. You can't directly compare the impact of a player who only had a 135 game season with one who played 162 games by comparing total WAR. You also have to consider defensive WAR from that era as highly inaccurate.
  22. DJL44
    You can always buy a ticket
  23. DJL44
    My takeaway from the sOPS+ data - how in the world were they that bad at pinch hitting. Did they go up blindfolded?
  24. DJL44
    Terry Ryan spoke before the game Sunday and said "about 6" was the number they were thinking of protecting.
  25. DJL44
    I've said it before but kudos to Mauer for finding a way to win without a whole lot of top prospects.
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