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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    This time let me just quote your last sentence. In the last few years the Twins have been doing basically what you, in hindsight, have been advocating, and here they sit, at the bottom of the standings. The Twins hitting evaluation seems good; however, the Twins have been losing MLB-caliber pitching in all ways imaginable: free agency, trade, Rule 5, and not acquiring the talent to make up for it. Thad Levine mentioned that the Twins will be giving the scouting point-of-view a bigger role in the decision-making process. That's a good sign to me. It turns out that Falvey and Levine weren't the pitching equivalent of Theo Epstein and Billy Beane after all. No shame in that. Will I acknowledge your argument about what the Rays would do? I mean, it's irrelevant. Two different teams, cities, owners, histories. The Twins front office is not the Rays front office. If they were, we probably wouldn't be in this situation!
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Most of your post is a mischaracterization of my position or off-topic, so I will just quote your opening sentence, and I will reiterate that I think the Twins can compete in 2022. If you hope I am wrong, so be it.
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    The starting pitching is going to come from, first, 1) a trade, and then 2) a free agent signing. They need two additional starters on par with Berrios and Maeda, or better to be competitive in 2022. It can happen. On July 31st this year? Not sure. 1. The pitcher to trade for? I don’t know. They do need to get it right. So maybe make two trades, deadline or offseason. The front office assures us that competitiveness is sustainable, meaning that good position players are always coming up and fighting for playing time. That does seem to be working. To me, it really shouldn’t matter who they trade away, Kepler would be a candidate, even Kirilloff or Larnach (but not Buxton or Berrios, and I would not trade Lewis either). All in all, the front office has done a good job filling the lineup, in my opinion. 2. The free agent? Again, I don’t know. It sure looks like the Twins passed on the better options in free agency in recent years that would be making a difference now (Darvish, Wheeler). Keep in mind, with one year deals, you get what you pay for. Relievers are important too, but I’d start with the starters. Maybe Duran can start as a bullpen guy. I am optimistic this can be turned around in time for 2022!
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    He could be part of a trade package this month for MLB-ready starting pitching?
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    Good comment. The radio guys have been asking all year why our catchers plant themselves into the ground and then have trouble moving to block pitches. The breaking pitch in the dirt is a tool in the toolbox a pitcher must have, especially today with the more effective uppercut swings at the low pitches. we see. The radio guys were also pretty much describing how angry Taylor Rogers was while trying to pitch the 8th last night, with all the shakeoffs and then the last wild pitch which was not blocked. I am going to have to take the side of Taylor Rogers on this one.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Under the same constraints the Twins faced. For example, the 2020 minor league season was cancelled for all teams, not just the Twins.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The days of three days’ rest!
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It is a huge concern. Even in 2019, they were down to two starting pitchers by the end. How deep into the postseason did they think they would go with only two starters!
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I am still disappointed that the Twins cancelled Saturday’s game so that “Happ can pitch Sunday and we will send out Maeda to pitch Monday in Chicago, instead.” Well apparently Chicago heard about this, and countered with their own chess move tactics by cancelling the Monday game Maeda was preparing for, and then letting the grounds crew run out and interrupt Maeda in the third inning last night. Just play the game! If you want to back him up until Monday, just back him up. If he’s hurt, put him on the IL. Don’t turn around and say the weather was bad or all the days off affected him or whatnot. The Twins are making their own bad luck, and not just on the field, and before 2022 arrives the whole org needs to return to fundamentals!
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    Agreed - very interesting. Plus, for starting pitchers, it’s already baked into the negotiation. No agent is going to come back to the starting pitcher client and say, “the team wants to offer you more, but they have concerns that you started in only 32 games last season.” With Buxton, his time missed will be a huge concern for teams bidding on him. At this point he won’t have a strong comeback for them, either.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    In that case, we would call them ‘Ribbies’
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I was glad to see Dobnak had a nice outing today! However, I still think Dobnak is a long reliever / 5th or spot starter, at best. Ever play Yahtzee? Building the pitching staff around the Dobnak extension is, to me, kind of like using the 1s, 2s, or Chance category on the first roll. Not too bad maybe, but you still haven’t done the hard stuff yet.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I don’t have an opinion on Anderson but it doesn’t make sense to me to continue giving preference to a half dozen guys who are middle relievers, tops. Anderson might turn into something more than that? Who knows. Another aspect of the Wade Jr. story I did not like: leaving Wade off the 2020 postseason roster and activating Kirilloff, which necessitated adding Kirilloff to the 40-man roster and dropping another player from it, and that player was Sean Poppen, another young relief pitcher who had options and a ceiling higher than middle inning mop-up reliever. Now, I’m not saying Poppen will become the next Mariano Rivera, or even make it back to the show, but he does have a live arm, is pitching well in Tampa Bay’s system, and all the Twins had to do to keep him was to keep Wade on the postseason roster.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I am sure the Twins can compete in 2022 if they improve their pitching. We had a similar conversation about Brian Dozier after the 100-loss 2016 season. Against the wishes of fans on this discussion board, the Twins kept Dozier instead of trading him—and then he helped lead the Twins to the postseason the following season. I had a lot of confidence in this front office at that time. Let’s add to the pitching staff between now and 2022, instead of subtracting from it, and go into next year and see what happens. Anyone confident that the front office can negotiate a nice return for Berrios now should be equally confident that they can negotiation a slightly less nice return for Berrios a year from now, if need be.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I’m convinced 29 out of 30 MLB managers send Ober out for the fifth.
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    Not only for Ober, but the other pitchers. Guys like to see their teammates succeed and achieve things. It could have been a nicer game ball moment after the game. It doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme, no, but it seems punitive for Rocco to withhold that small statistical accomplishment from him. Not a fan of how that went down.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Agree. Way too easy to get last night’s extra overworked inning back on a future date.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I’m confident we can get Ober’s fastball up to 100mph if this thread goes a few more pages!
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Well, if it was me, the Twins would still be on Year 4 of the Darvish contract. Do you want to continue?
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Rocco predicted Pineda would get a long rest, so an IL stint seems imminent. I do think many teams would claim Dobnak but who knows, roster situations seem kind of wonky in 2021. I wouldn’t rush Duran and a couple of these other guys just because to save this season. They’re the seed corn and need to stay on their own timetable. We probably do see Duran in 2021 anyway. That will be fun. However I would consider accelerating some other guys in preparation for 2022. I will throw out two names: Villamont and Faucher. They are in AA now and in a normal year wouldn’t have a shot at all, but, let’s take a look. Others on this board might have other names the would like to see. As you say, it’s a total mess.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It’s time. (Past time.) Shoemaker has earned roughly $20 million dollars as a ball player in his career. No need to shed a tear.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Dobnak and Shoemaker have been dropped from the rotation, at least for now.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Good article. I’m rooting for Gordon. He has nice energy for 2021. I don’t know why Riddle and Blankenhorn were given priority. I am usually a skeptical of infielders in the outfield but that was a nice grab of a hard hit ball, albeit with an expected 77% catch chance. If what you say is true, and Gordon is limited to second base, that means the Twins have basically three second baseman to consider for 2022: Arraez, Polanco, and Gordon.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    What a lightening strike comeback!
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    53 Our Twins are on a season-long 53-win pace in games started by someone other than Berrios. That amounts to a 53-109 record, six games worse than the 2016 team.
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