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  1. DJL44
    The Twins can fit Duran into the budget next year without any issues. They should be trying to sign him to a 3-year contract, not trading him away. Coulombe is a pending free agent. If they're under .500, he needs to be dealt. Brock Stewart is very good, but also injury-prone and in his mid-30s. He's a guy I would be looking to sell at the deadline. His stuff is good enough and his salary low enough that several teams should be interested. He has enough team control remaining that they could get a real return.
  2. DJL44
    So you want Sabato to sit on the bench, rarely play and occasionally pitch in blowouts?
  3. DJL44
    That window is WIDE open. They should swap Martin for Keirsey ASAP. They certainly don't need to wait a month.
  4. DJL44
    Yes, good game from him. 5 and fly is fine right now. Build on success.
  5. DJL44
    It was at a bar, right?
  6. DJL44
    Young players are more likely to improve than old players. Yes and no. There were other players who could have been cut instead of Henriquez. Players who have since been cut from the roster were kept instead. This stuff happens. Relievers are hard to predict. Hoffman and Pagan are closers now.
  7. DJL44
    The Marlins are quite happy they grabbed Ronny Henriquez off waivers.
  8. DJL44
    Joe Ryan leads the team in WAR, but honestly the gap between Joe Ryan and the next pitcher in AAA isn't as bad as the chasm between Buxton and Dashawn Keirsey. Keirsey has been so bad (-1.2 WAR) that he negates the entire contribution of Willi Castro AND Matt Wallner. Somehow he has been able to do that in just 70 plate appearances. Therefore, I agree that Buxton is the right choice.
  9. DJL44
    81 games in the books. Double the stats to project season totals.
  10. DJL44
    Would you want to trade strikeouts for contact and rely on the Twins defense behind you?
  11. DJL44
    I know Correa is playing hurt, but his defense is average at best now. Culpepper might be the SS good enough to move Correa to 3B.
  12. DJL44
    Here's your long reliever prospect
  13. DJL44
    Joe Ryan would be a deserving All-Star. He's tied for 6th in bWAR among all pitchers.
  14. DJL44
    Sell at the deadline, buy in the offseason when the price is lower.
  15. DJL44
    Not what I'm saying. If they decide to blow up the 5-man rotation / 8 reliever paradigm in favor of eight 3-inning pitchers (on a 4 day rotation) and 5 relievers, where are they going to get 8 3-inning pitchers? They've been acquiring their starting pitchers from outside of the organization all along. They're not going to acquire 3-inning pitchers because nobody else is developing them. They're not going to be able to trade 3-inning pitchers to other organizations for other players because those orgs will want starters and relievers instead. Free agents won't want to come to Minnesota to become a 3-inning pitcher. If this is just a different way to develop your reliever prospects in the minors, that's fine. However, they don't seem to be developing the starting pitchers that are the key to any organization's long-term success. Their top SP prospects are pitching 3-4 innings in the minor leagues at AAA. This doesn't prepare them to be starters. It doesn't make sense to create a "relief pitcher pipeline" when relievers are readily available at little cost and starters are the most valuable resource in baseball. It's like focusing your position player development on producing DHs and utility players while ignoring C, SS and CF.
  16. DJL44
    Sonny Gray, Joe Ryan, Chris Paddack, Kenta Maeda, Michael Pineda, Rich Hill, Jake Odorizzi. Most of their starting pitchers have been acquired outside of the organization.
  17. DJL44
    I doubt it. Most fans don't obsess over minor leaguers. If you brought in a bunch of washed up former All-Stars they would probably draw more fans than a team full of unestablished rookies.
  18. DJL44
    They can sign him as a free agent just like any other team. Castro is going to test free agency.
  19. DJL44
    It might be worth converting him to the bullpen to see if an extra couple MPH improves his stuff. I doubt it improves his location, though.
  20. DJL44
    Julien is a platoon DH/PH.
  21. DJL44
    It's going to be especially hard to do things this way because it means you need to develop your whole pitching staff internally. Other teams are not training pitchers to pitch like this, which means you can't acquire a pitcher in trade and expect them to be successful with this strategy.
  22. DJL44
    He's not playing second if Kody Clemens is healthy.
  23. DJL44
    Trust the process. If they grab enough players off the waiver wire, eventually that will lead to a championship, right?
  24. DJL44
    That's the main reason I don't understand the move to extend Baldelli. He has no support whatsoever among the fans and it is affecting attendance. Do they understand that selling more tickets increases the value of the team?
  25. DJL44
    I do not understand this "everyone pitches 3 innings" strategy. What is the end goal? Do they want to have 13 middle relievers on the roster with every game a bullpen game?
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