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  1. Doomtints
    I would argue that you can't expect anything based on how others have performed in the minors. You can make educated guesses but you just can't know for sure. There is no cookie cutter mold that every player can fit into. Ultimately the only way to know if Walker can hit in the majors is to put him there. The Twins missed a chance to give him a cup of coffee at the end of the year in a futile season. We could know RIGHT NOW whether or not Walker can play. Instead, he remains yet another question mark for this team. Oh, but we got to see Beresford. I can see you laughing there, stop it. The Twins are marvelous experts at not being able to figure anything out. If the Twins can sign Byung Ho Park with a straight face after he did nothing more than tee off on 86 MPH pitches, they can certainly give Walker a month to prove himself. No?
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    Why? Sano's K rate was 35.5% and 36% in 2015 and 2016, respectively, and this percentage was considered surprisingly good for him last year, people were expecting far worse. Are you suggesting Sano should be in the minors? Why have different rules for Walker than for Sano? And what about Buxton's 35.7% K rate? Buxton's strikeout rate is simply unacceptable for a non-power hitter. Why are you holding Walker to a different standard? He is a known quantity in the minors, having been the same player for three years now. The Twins are only wasting time by not seeing what he can do in the majors.
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    Yes, Dozier is the Twins team MVP. No question. Good for him.
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    Until he gets the chance to beat up on good teams/pitchers, you simply can't know.
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    Clean slate the pitching staff. Even the guys who have potential have been broken by this system. Get rid of half of them this year and half of them next year. Berrios might be good someday, but it's difficult to imagine that happening in a Twins uniform. As for everyone else: yawn. If the half you keep impress in 2017, keep them. Otherwise continue with the plan and get rid of them. Just release the guys with stupid contracts if a trade can't be worked out. By 2018 there should be a whole new pitching staff unless some of them prove they can pitch well in 2017. For position players there is a lot of potential and in fact most of them are probably worth keeping. The ones not to keep are probably obvious to all of us. You also gotta get rid of either Vargas or Park, and Park makes no sense on a team that will need Sano to DH. A Dozier trade would go a hell of a long way toward fixing other things since Polanco is ready. Moving Polanco to field a new position poorly is not a solution, in the end the Twins gotta move Dozier for him so why put off the inevitable. Dozier had his career year and now's the time.
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    The last "Twins Way" player to come up was Brian Dozier, and even he isn't quite the right mold that the Twins Way describes. Dozier might even be closer to that White Sox profile you brought up. The majority of players coming up in the past five years can't hit and many can't play defense either. That was never part of the Twins Way. And that's just the position players The pitching has been such a vacuum that it's impossible to analyze the problem and perhaps not even worth it. It's probably better just to clean the slate, star potential prospects like Berrios be damned. I'm uncertain why anyone would still be talking about the Twins Way, it's not only dead and long gone but it was mostly a myth in the first place. It was a marketing tactic to try to describe the difference between the Twins and the high-spending Yankees.
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    The losing streak started right when Albers was first called up and Molitor gave up on much of the rotation. Also, I'm not knocking on Dozier for doing what I suspect he did. He proved some things that needed to be proven.
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    I like the position player moves and batting lineup ideas. However, I think the starting pitching needs a lot more work. If Berrios still isn't ready and May simply can't do it -- both very reasonable scenarios -- what then? The holes in the rotation will trump all of the other moves that were made and result in another high-90s+ loss season.
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    Bringing up Beresford and Albers was a sign by management that they no longer gave a crap. The players acted as expected by giving up when these perplexing choices were made. If you remember, there were reports that the Twins were telling Dozier to stop pulling and that they were even considering benching him for it. He then went on a home run tear, almost immediately. My suspicion is that this was him telling the coaching staff to stick it where the sun doesn't shine, that he can hit the ball however he damn well wants. His home runs were NOT opposite field hits. Dozier vented his frustration with obtuse coaching advice by crushing the ball like he knows how.
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    Due to off-the-field issues, Worley was demoted and then released by Pittsburgh in spite of playing well for them. Worley expressed sheer panic when Gardenhire declared him the #1 starter. Worley is bipolar and clearly the Twins had no idea. If they knew, they would have never put him under that much pressure so soon. Terry Ryan got duped. As for Nolasco, he flashed competence as a Twin from time to time. Let the sample size expand a bit and he will probably be the same pumpkin as when he was a Twin. Conversely, Santiago had bad stretches before he was a Twin. Again, let's get a better sample size before we make any bold statements. As for May, yes I know most Twins fans believed the hype and pegged him as a starter. I never did. My only expectation has been that he would be a competent reliever, and he has yet to live up to even that. This year was a step backward for him as he was plagued with control issues. At this point he looks like a long shot to even be a good setup guy. I'm not sure his wild pitches at very bad times can be pegged on the coaching staff. At some point Twins fans just need to realize that the early Terry Ryan moves were bad trades.
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    It's "Most Improved Player."
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    I can see why he would be a #3, because there are really only two guys to pick from this year. I imagine the only reason Nunez was not on some lists is because he is no longer on the team. However, it seems like a couple of guys threw darts at a lineup card to determine their picks. That's OK, that's about all this year has been worth.
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    Unfortunately, most of the guys on this list had one good month. So yeah, you're right.
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    I can see the love for Dozier but his run at the end of the season is unsustainable. He deserves a team MVP award (probably), however. I think it has to be Nunez, who made the best of getting regular playing time due to the rest of the team being terrible. Apparently he played too well to keep around. Shucks. The rest of the players that got votes can be completely ignored for the purpose of this discussion, but it looks like everyone had to produce 3 candidates so I understand why they ended up here.
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    "Falvey will need time" is a bit of a silly thing to say. If there's one thing baseball GMs get, that's plenty of time. Falvey will get what Ryan got his second time around as a minimum. Barring more 100 loss seasons, a huge scandal, or him getting a better offer, he probably has the next decade of his life sewn up. I don't suspect any other Twins GM will get the Bill Smith treatment. A good general policy when handing a job off to someone else is to not hang around in the employee lounge waiting for the new guy to fail. The Twins won't have Ryan to fall back on if the new GM has one bad year, which is apparently a very good thing. Everyone understands that it's a best case scenario for Falvey to turn things around in 2-3 years. Everyone knows its unlikely ot happen. But, I would hope, everyone understands that this should be the goal regardless.
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    The maximum time they can be in the minors on a rehab assignment is 30 days.
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    We may want to start calling this the "Twins Myth." Generally speaking, the Twins have done very well in years where they had good defense, a good bullpen, at least two good hitters and at least two good starting pitchers. How they accomplished those things hasn't mattered.
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    Weird. So he was trying to win brownie points with his current employer or apply some leverage to win some battle. Pretty scummy.
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    Possibly the worst kept secret in history.
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    Yes, this is the worst team in Twins history. The 1982 Twins had a terrible May when they only won three games (3-26). By the end of the year they were playing near .500 ball: July: 14-13 August: 13-15 September: 12-16 This year's Twins started bad, played well in the middle (for a mere 6 weeks), and then collapsed. We are not seeing an improvement with this team. The 1982 Twins had a terrible bullpen and a terrible manager. This team has both of those plus a terrible starting rotation.
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    The Cubs only have the one great draft pick. The rest of their success can be attributed to spending money. Note that the Twins also could have picked up some of those guys but passed. Dexter Fowler's salary is not out of line and he signed very late with the Cubs. The Twins could have signed him a year earlier and paid even less. A team that has been in the Twins position passing on Fowler is baffling when they had two chances to get him. The fact that he signed with Houston when Houston was as bad as Minnesota indicates he wasn't picky. Also note that Kris Bryant would be picked on a bit by fans in the Twins market due to his defense and his strikeouts. I was at Wrigley on the 4th of July and saw him collide with two different players and let several balls drop. The conversations around Bryant would all be about regression and how dare the Cubs let a 3rd baseman play in the outfield. The grass is always greener, I suppose.
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    Probably doesn't matter. If Falvey is a smart guy, he will have learned by watching what those guys were doing.
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    Awesome. Everything's fixed!
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    Bill James claims that success in the minors will almost always translate to success in the majors. If he says that, you can bet there are numbers which back him up. Part of the problem is what people call "success" when looking at minor league players. Scouting reports often get blurred in, as do opinion pieces from respected baseball writers. The "tools" conversation gets thrown around a lot and with many people "tools" trumps performance, which is a bit nutty. "Tools" should only matter at draft time. If you tune out all of this noise and only look at numbers, I think it's possible to get a clear picture of a player. This is why I keep harping on that Polanco is going to be a truly great MLB player. Those who weigh scouting reports/pundit reports over numbers see otherwise. (And, yes, I feel like I'm in a minority when it comes to my opinion on Polanco). I think Rosario has already proven he can play in the majors and probably should not be on this list. The Twins are treating him like a prospect, but he isn't one. He is still learning but his baseline is more than acceptable. I think Kepler will be very good. I would not put money on the other guys, even Buxton, even though I really hope Buxton figures it out. Vargas's success has just been weird, but the team should be OK with weird, inexplicable good play from a baseball player and keep him in the lineup. Even moreso for a team which has so little talent that can perform at a major league level.
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    If it were me, I would hire MacLeod. You know, someone who was part of the Cubs as the turnaround occurred. Someone who was earlier with an impressive run with the Red Sox. Cleveland, if anything, has underperformed from what was expected from them over the past three years -- and this isn't one of the tougher divisions in baseball. The Cubs have to contend with St. Louis every year -- a team so consistently good where they still could knock the Cubs out of the playoffs in spite of the Cubs dominating the regular season (note: I don't think this will happen). The talent on the Cubs team truly is impressive. They're not a mirage. If the Twins want to duplicate that, that's where they should pull front office talent from. Pulling talent from Cleveland is not tragic, mind you. But in my opinion it's not hiring the best available. 2nd best, maybe. But why not go with the best? So I think asking if Falvey can replicate what happened with the Cubs is a bad question. He had nothing to do with that and we can bet he will have a different way of doing things than the Cubs front office. A better question is whether he can replicate what happened with the Indians ... nevermind that the Indians will be already replicating it in the same division as the Twins. If this were chess, I would call it a stalemate. </rant>
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