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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It should also be noted that Pohlad unambiguously said, on the Inside Twins show a couple weeks ago, that yes the Twins could afford to sign/keep both Buxton and Berrios. Maybe the pandemic has put him in a reflective mind and given him a case of the "can't take it with you"
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    Noted and recorded!
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    I think what we are looking for, is a statement from someone before Wheeler made his decision. Not an after-signing comment from a press conference where both parties say all kinds of things like "never a doubt" and "always wanted to play here". Given equal offers and recruitment efforts, it's more than likely and more than fair to think Wheeler would have signed with the Twins coming off a 100-win season, instead of the .500 Phillies. (with apologies to the poster above who requested we not fight these old battles here)
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    That's how Donaldson and Cruz were signed, you realize?
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    Maybe Berríos can take some good lessons away from his catastrophic meltdown
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    I heard this from Atteberry and Gladden after the game, as well, so you are not alone. "The Twins were building momentum coming off a game one win..." Didn't the Twins just get swept by Detroit?
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    More fun with numbers: It looks like the expected batting average (xBA) for Cabrera’s game winning hit was, literally, .000 https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?gamePk=633275
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    how quickly we forget Maeda
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    Pohlad said unequivocally on the Sunday Twins show that yes absolutely the Twins were in a position to extend or sign Berrios and Buxton and keep them around after 2022. @Tim @insagt1 My two cents: i think the painful decision would be trading one of Polanco or Arraez (though various posters here make a good case that Arraez might be suitable at third base). I think the painful painful painful decision would be to part with Larnach or Kirilloff for a solid controllable pitcher. What do people think of that?
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    I said nobody saw Ynoa's success coming, but for that price, obviously someone would have. Apologies to whoever out there was a Ynoa advocate! All I remember from that conversation on this board was how good it was to flip Garcia after one start the way we did. I stand corrected.
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    How about trades not made? It would also be interesting to see what the conversation around trading Sano was in 2018. And I like Sano. He has given us some value and some moments, but if the ultimate goal is reaching the World Series, how much worse for wear would the Twins have been without him, three years on.
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    Romo gave us some good value and good innings. But this is what makes Huascar Ynoa such a great example, even though it’s still a bit early in the guy’s career. Various people have talked at various times about guys like Nick Anderson, Jake Reed, John Curtiss, and others, guys in the high minors, but with Ynoa, no one saw it coming. No one in Minnesota, anyway.
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    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!
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    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!
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    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.
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    Under the same constraints the Twins faced. For example, the 2020 minor league season was cancelled for all teams, not just the Twins.
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    The days of three days’ rest!
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    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!
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    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.
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    In that case, we would call them ‘Ribbies’
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    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.
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    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.
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