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  1. KGB
    Agree, his BABIP has not decreased, BABIP 2013 .383 2014 .342 Career .348 He just need to stop striking out, Morneau figured that out and won a batting title last year.
  2. KGB
    He pretty secure with his position, but I hope Pinto get more playing time. I would expect Suzuki to go backward, but the standard for catcher hitting isn't very high. He can be a placeholder for some of the catching prospect to develop and any tradable assets they have can help the fill the outfield weakness.
  3. KGB
    No and as long as they go through arbitation and cut him during spring training, it only cost 30 days of the season salary. He really not much of a utility player - he plays a lot of position, but none of them well.
  4. KGB
    Thanks Ken I tend to agree that they will not be cut, but on trade value remember Milone was picked up by the Twins for a player put through waivers a few months before and that was before his less than impressive Twins performance. And if Duensing had any trade value, you have to think it would have been more the last 2 years and I wonder why a 90 loss team would keep a 60 inning pitcher if he had a lot of trade value. I hope they are not going keep players like Milone, Duensing or Pelfrey because they think they will have trade value.
  5. KGB
    Are arbitration contracts guaranteed? I thought I heard you could still cut players and pay out 1/6 of the reward during spring training. If they are not guaranteed, the Twins would be better off letting Milone and Duensing go through arbitration process so they have the option to cut them if spring training gives them better options and nobody is taking them in a trade.
  6. KGB
    Gibson would not have made the roster out of spring training if the Twins had been able to sign Santana or Garza like they wanted last year. Frank Viola needed a couple years and 50 starts with an ERA around 5.00 before he turned the corner and was Cy Young and World Series MVP, so I think giving him a shot worked out. When you are not a contender, I think it's better to go young than lose with old players. Danny Santana didn't force his way in to the majors, he was given a shot only because they screwed up the CF position so badly. Once there, he made the most of it but if Hicks had played at any kind of respectable level, we never would have seen Santana up in the majors.
  7. KGB
    But is it really going to be a fair competition? You have players with guaranteed contract versus rookies with minor league options. The rookies most likely are going to be inconsistent like Gibson was last year, so it's easy to keep the veteran with the guaranteed contract and put Mays and Meyer's back to AAA. At some point you have to give them a fair run in a major league rotation if you are ever going to find out what kind of players you have. It seems the front office has very little confidence in these players.
  8. KGB
    The roster is what I would expect, but I'm disappointed that they don't have roster spaces for Meyers and May. That's why I don't understand why they signed Stauffer and gave arbitriation to Duensing, when you have a lot of options. But I guess when you sign 30 year old pitchers to long term contract, you open up options due to injuries. Just doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me.
  9. KGB
    No benefit to extending either player at this time. Hope they wait this out ..
  10. KGB
    Adding two 32 year-old for two 29 year old is getting older. But the point of a 4 time 90 lost team going with more age. Trying to get to 85 losses? The rebuilding plan must start in 2016
  11. KGB
    Old staff and getting older. If you are going to be bad be young. 2015 is looking like a year in waiting for the prospects to contribute in 2016
  12. KGB
    I agree that Pelfrey will be given every opportunity to win the 5th starters spot. He has a guaranteed contract and if he can still pitch they will try and get some value from him. So the thought that we’ll have an open competition and select the best is unlikely. If someone has guaranteed money verses someone with minor league options, they are sending down the player to the minor league. It seems the front office is not able to look at the team and evaluate it. Last year they signed Morales instead of playing a younger player because Ryan thought “why not us” for the wild card. So we ended with another 90 loss season and missed another opportunity to evaluate players at the major league level. From a marketing stand point, I understand the positive spin, but the last four years have shown that it’s not a realistic evaluation.
  13. KGB
    Here's some study of when prospects made the majors, looks like the Twins are very slow in getting them up to them majors. They might be young compared in the lower minors, but like Mays and Meyers, after a couple years in AAA they stall the prospects. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=13018
  14. KGB
    It's looks like we have a chance to have a very good rotation in AAA
  15. KGB
    Twins really love Braves pitchers. Scouting department needs to travel a little bit more.
  16. KGB
    It's an upgrade on what they had last year, but is it an upgrade for the future. The Twins are not going to win any division next year and if you committ 4 years to Santana and go forward with Nolasco and Santana as in your staff for the next 3-4 years is that an upgrade or is it an investment in pitchers with declining value? Last year Gibson outperformed 2 out of the 3 free agents signed. I think Mays and Meyer's will outperform many of these free agent over the next few years. Why not invest a season in the young players in a year you are not going to contend? You should supplement the roster in a year when you have a chance to contend. If you do it now, we'll hear about salaries restraint in the future due to bad contract.
  17. KGB
    And I bet he'll be just as tradable next year as Nolasco is now. This doesn't make any sense, but it's sounds like a Ryan plan.
  18. KGB
    I hope the Twins hold off signing anyone now, no need to make another Nolasco signing. Let the market play out for awhile and see if you can add bargins later. Garza and Santana signed late last year. If not go with the young players and make the a move in free agency next year.
  19. KGB
    Mike Trout on Hunter from the article: Then there's his off-field leadership, which is impossible to measure and isn't given much weight in a game so driven by the numbers and the tangible. Not to Trout, though. "He's impacted my whole career so far," Trout said. "Coming up, he kind of took me under his wing and showed me the ropes. He was always there for me, on and off the field. Any questions I would have, he would answer. He was the right guy to go to. "He's been in the league for that long, a veteran guy, he really took it upon himself to lead me the right way, and I can't thank him enough." If the best player in baseball feels he impacted his career, I guess we can choose to believe it or not.
  20. KGB
    That what a good mentor does. Trouts the one calling him a mentor, if he says it, I don't know why we don't believe him.
  21. KGB
    http://m.angels.mlb.com/news/article/40262584/ Torii Hunter played a big part in helping Mike Trout bounce back from an up-and-down 40-game stint in the Majors in 2011 to become one baseball's best at age 21. Hunter helped Trout grow as a center fielder, as a hitter, as a man. Now Trout is starting to come to grips with the reality that his biggest mentor probably won't be back with the Angels next season. "I've been calling him, wishing him the best of luck," Trout said on a conference call Monday, shortly after being named the unanimous winner of the American League's Rookie of the Year Award. "It doesn't look like he's coming back. I've been just thanking him. Even if he plays for another team, I'm sure I'll still be able to call him and keep this friendship going. He's just an incredible guy."
  22. KGB
    Typical Ryan move, he can't not wait out a market. At this point, nobody else probably would accept a 1 year deal, so he signed the only player who would accept the offer now. In a couple months, he would be able to get better players for less money, but it's just the way Ryan works.
  23. KGB
    I think we'll need to give Mike Trout a "shiv to the liver" then. I keep hearing from him how much he missed Hunter.
  24. KGB
    I hope Ryan has a backup plan for the outfield, he hasn't had one for the last 2 years. I'm not against signing a player, but I think we need to be more agressive in bringing up players. Keeping players like Meyers in the minors when he is a top prospect and 25 years old doesn't make a lot of sense, The goal shouldn't be to make him a all-star at AAA, we need to see what kind of player he is in the majors.
  25. KGB
    I agree that we shouldn't use Aaron Hicks as an example not to bring up young players. The problem with Aaron Hicks is looking more like a Aaron HIcks problem and not a being brought up too young.
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