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Crazy. You would trade Kohl Stewart Alex Meyer AND Danny Santana for Castro? REALLY? That's a bad deal for the Twins.

"Add in the fact that he had expectations to be the greatest player ever and didn't live up to that" LOL, based on whose expectations? Joe's? You? I certainly have never sensed that Joe thought he was going to be the greatest player ever. My god the guy is stoic beyond belief. People need to wake up and smell the coffee. He ain't all that and by all outward appearances he's in heavy decline. Too many people worship this dude like he's some sort of baseball god like Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, etc.

Disappointing if his ceiling is a relief pitcher.

Meyer is a mess. Guy has ZERO control.

Hmmm....sounds like more of a mid to back end rotation starter.

Personally i think Buehler is a solid pick. Sometimes you HAVE to go for solid guys. Guys with a variety of pitches and a clean delivery AND a 91-94 mph fastball are nothing to scoff at.

Come of it, he's not going to be ruined by being promoted to AAA Rochester after the tear he has been on the last two seasons. That's just absurd. He's made 26 starts at the AA level and been absolutely awesome. I don't think there is any danger of destroying his confidence or risking catastrophic injury. He has a solid well documented work out regimen and the work ethic and positive attitude to back it up. The results in New Britain / Chattanooga have backed up this assertion. Relax he is ready.

I like the outfield combo of Rosario, Hicks and Hunter. All three play adequate defense and they seem to have figured out the hitting woes (knock on wood). I didn't like the Vargas demotion then and i like it less even now. Call him back up. Arcia is the odd man out right now in my opinion. He probably should go to AAA for a while, but could stay with the club as a 4th outfielder / backup DH / PH. Schaffer and Stauffer are easy DFA's.

Well Milone has handled the demotion pretty well this time around. He raised a pretty big stink while in Oakland when he was last demoted, but so far he hasn't said anything as far as i'm aware. Kinda surprising. My gut feeling is that Milone OR Pelfrey are traded at the deadline and someone gets demoted when Santana returns. If the Twins are still in the hunt for a playoff spot come July early August that will complicate things further as Santana is banned from the playoffs (total BS if you ask me). Playoff rotation would be Hughes, Gibson, Nolasco, Pelfrey and Milone / May? That said I think folks need to temper their expectations a bit on Milone. 0.28 era through 30 innings and 4 starts is awesome no doubt! But remember it's AAA.

No way you trade Gibson. I would think first and foremost the guys to move are Mike Pelfrey and Ricky Nolasco. A couple more good starts each and teams will notice. That's when you put the "for sale" sign out at the curb. The Twins have a log jam of quality starters regardless of whether or not Alex Meyer is a bust (looks more and more likely). Milone (should have been called back up already), Taylor Rogers (southpaw), Pat Dean and Berrios soon enough. Santana will return this season and that will push someone to the pen or AAA. My guess is Pelfrey or May. It's a dollars and cents / contract issue at this point.

I don't see how you don't listen to offers. Pelfrey is gone at seasons end unless Ryan signs him to another extension, which in that case they might as well trade Alex Meyer and Trevor May with Ervin Santana coming back. One thing is for certain if Pelfrey's run continues into July he will be the most valuable he's ever been as a Twin. The same goes for Nolasco who has strung together several good starts now. If I was the Twins GM i'd be looking to deal both these starters and open up rotation spots for Santana and one other starter (Meyer, Berrios or Rogers).

100% agree. The Stats speak for themselves.

Minnesota 2014 - 57 games .214 BA (obviously a bad season for him) 2013 - 21 games .342 BA Rochester 2015 - 33 .274 BA 2014 - 60 .279 BA 2013 - 19 .314 BA Call it what you want. I'd rather have PInto and Vargas over Herrmann, Nunez and Bernier.

yawn.

Whatever man. Teams DO need bench players but not at the expense of fielding an inferior bench. Guys like Vargas, Pinto, etc. should be with the major league club and not twiddling their thumbs in AAA.

JB, it' just like Mike's analogy. Just because you didn't get caught last night driving home from the bar drunk doesn't make the decision any less boneheaded. There are good roster moves and there are bad moves regardless of how much or how little the team is winning and it doesn't make the Vargas demotion acceptable. This kind of group think is part of the reason why the Twins have had 4 losing seasons in a row with 90 plus losses. Sure the sum of one part (roster move) may not be greater than the whole, but enough bad decisions like Nunez, Stauffer, Duensing, Boyer, Bernier, etc. will eventually have a negative impact on this team at some point. Just because you think its "WORKING" right now doesn't make it okay.

I would like to say 85 wins, but given the front office is making bone headed decisions again, I'm leaning towards 75. The Vargas demotion in lieu of Nunez coming off the DL is brutal. Why would they do this? Vargas is coming out of a slump and had raised his BA to .248. Why send him to AAA against inferior pitching? So here we go again. A bench composed of junk: Nunez, Herrmann, Robinson and Bernier. Zero power. Yuck! It also appears that Mauer and Santana are heading into slumps again which will drag down the team in the long run. Oh...by the way this is the long term version of Mauer your seeing. Slow bat speed, no power, high strikeout totals, lots of GIDP's, no extra base hits and mediocre batting average. Ridiculous for a guy getting paid 20+ million a year. Other moves that will cost the team down the road is the return of Stauffer from the DL and the continued use of Duensing who is quite frankly ineffective. Moves like this will be the difference between 75 wins and 85 wins. The question is when are the TWins going to cut bait with the garbage and go with the young talent.

"Tell your fellow GM's you have an over-supply of pitching and need to cull the herd." Haha. That's about right and it's about to get a whole lot more crowded when Santana returns. If the Twins sit on their hands and do nothing SOMEONE has to go to the pen or AAA in addition to Milone in order to make room for Ervin. At this point it's a wild guess but my vote is Pelfrey. The guy is downright wild at times, but has been decent this year. Time to sell and RUN! We won't get this opportunity again, sell while you still have a chance at getting something for him. Hang onto Milone as insurance in case one of the before mentioned guys falters or Santana needs extended spring training time to shake off the rust. Then the Twins can decide what to do with him at that point as well.

Good. Another 7 or 8 starts like that and 10+ wins will make him a trade-able commodity.

"120 home runs a year" for those three? So 40 each? Wow....that is shooting high high.

Promote Buxton to AAA, cut Schaefer, keep Rosario in the bigs.

All of the sudden it seems like the prospects are pushing upwards. Decision time for the Twins front office.

Patience little grasshopper. All in due time. There is no reason to rush Hicks. Let's see how he does through the month of May. If he's still hitting well towards the end of the month then it's time. Not before though. We've seen this from Aaron before.

Well if May's start today is any indication of how his next couple of starts go, you have your answer. May to AAA. Hughes Santana Gibson Nolasco Pelfrey Milone and May in AAA.

I have to admit that after the 1-6 start i was flipping the panic switch. That said, these last two weeks and the Twins return to relevance has been a breath of fresh air. I hope it continues. I like that the front office has called up Rosario and is watching Buxton closely in Chattanooga. That would seem to indicate that changes are likely coming in the outfield soon. Obviously the platoon in CF is not ideal but it hasn't been so terrible (lately) that it has cost us games. Arcia too hasn't exactly been outstanding in LF either. I bet that Ryan is watching Buxton closely and we could see a callup to Rochester in a few weeks. The point is though that help is on the way for the outfield. The next key item is the starting rotation. If these guys can keep these games under control and respectable for the most part this team will win games, there's no doubt in my mind. The offense is good enough to compensate. What has impressed me the most is the FO commitment to May after Nolasco went down with the injury. Maybe it was by chance, but they stuck with him and Trevor has stepped up pretty well. I expect him to gain more steam as the season progresses. Pelfrey....Mike has been a big surprise so far. I think a lot of us had pretty much given up on him, but now he appears to be back on track AND he's added a split finger pitch to his repertoire. My honest opinion.....SELL, put that for sale sign out at the curb RIGHT NOW. Now is our chance to recoup some of the lost investment in him. Especially true given we have Milone, Rogers and Berrios ready to go in AAA. Nolasco. Boy I don't know about this guy. What do you do with him? If he continues to pitch like this i don't see how you keep him in the rotation. He just stinks. Too bad he's signed for two more years. Yuck!