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  1. Doomtints
    Garver is righteous.
  2. Doomtints
    Actually, trading Santana seems like a TR move. Trade him without doing anything to address the hole it causes. Sign a washed-up player to replace Santana who is worth about 50 cents and act like it was a successful move when the player performs at a 55 cent level. Meanwhile the other teams will use that $1 player like Santana, who sure might perform at the 90 cent level instead, and beat the Twins with their 55 cent players every day of the week. If the Twins actually could solve a logjam at SP by trading Santana, then sure let him go. But the Twins will still have Hughes, so they will be keeping the worse option. Also, there are no young players ready to step in for Santana. It was mentioned by someone that the A's found success by trading older players for younger ones. Sure, but they were SMART about it. When the A's were good at this, they didn't create holes by their trades. They had someone ready to step in. They traded for others who could fulfill the role. Who the heck are the Twins going to trade Santana for that would not be a net loss to the team? The team's holes are too cavernous for this trade to fix.
  3. Doomtints
    Jose Berrios - Rest his arm, have him play in the winter leagues. He has been bounced around too much. Byron Buxton - Ditto Tyler Duffey - Call up Yorman Landa - He is far too raw. Not even close to ready. Adalberto Mejia - He's not ready, but may as well call him up to get his feet wet. Mason Melotakis - Ditto. John Ryan Murphy - Call him up. Not expecting much, but he has to play as much as he can and he has been in the minors most of the year. Byung Ho Park - Down for the count in 2016. Randy Rosario - He is far too raw. Not even close to ready. Kennys Vargas - Call him up. Adam Brett Walker - Call him up. If the Twins do not plan to re-sign Suzuki at a lower salary for 2017, then bring up Garver. Otherwise leave him where he is so they don't mess up the roster.
  4. Doomtints
    Why? Berrios has been bounced around enough. There is something to be said for not bouncing him yet again. I say let the kid rest his arm a bit and send him to the winter leagues.
  5. Doomtints
    It's interesting that the Twins went from 1 lefty starter to a boatload of them ... but none of them are good options. Itsa bad year, man.
  6. Doomtints
    Trading Dozier can make sense, as it helps clear up a potential logjam as Polanco can step in. They can trade from a position of strength/depth and use that to plug another hole. Tradnig Santana makes less sense. It would make the team worse, it would serve nothing but to move a hole somewhere else. Moving someone like Santana was the sort of thing that got the Twins into this mess.
  7. Doomtints
    True. People thrust into a senior role without any management experience tend to take a hardline stance on issues which does not work. This is how bad ideas become processes and has sunk many an organization, not just in sports.
  8. Doomtints
    I think when it comes to coaching hitters, he is learning that every hitter can't take the approach he used when he was playing and turn that into success. I think he is truly surprised by this revelation. I think this is why we saw the phenomenal strikeout rates at the start of the year. He seems to have learned this lesson. I think when it comes to game management, he has this bizarre idea that pitchers need to complete innings. This means he is reluctant to pull a pitcher who is clearly out of gas until after the damage is done. This is a problem and it does not seem like he has figured it out. He should probably let a pitching coach make these calls during games because he is managing by something arbitrary (finishing an inning) rather than observing how a pitcher is doing. The biggest problem is that young guys are coming up lost and overwhelmed. This is a leadership problem, for sure, and I'm not sure it's one that can be fixed without replacing leadership. This is one of those things that either you are good at or you're not, you can't train someone to be the type of person who makes other people feel comfortable. Or can you?
  9. Doomtints
    We'll see what happens. At this point all we know is the moves a lot of us thought were bizarre didn't work out. My opinion is that the pitching staff is thin enough to where keeping Santana is important. The holes already at pitcher are bigger than the hole currently at catcher. Trading Santana would make the pitching problem even worse.
  10. Doomtints
    Repeat what was already done and did not work? Trading Santana would just mean having to trade for some other pitcher to replace him later on. There is no one available who can step into his shoes. I also don't know who would trade a pitcher for a catcher or vice-versa.
  11. Doomtints
    Reports of grown football players freaking out over the gruesomeness of the injury are not good.
  12. Doomtints
    Vikings fans have it tougher, easily. The Twins have won it all a couple of times. The Vikings have an enviable W-L record in the regular season, but for various reasons have never won the big game. And heck, it's been 40 years since they have even made it to the big game. The Twins problems are often self-induced. Vikings problems are different.
  13. Doomtints
    Sounds like a good solution is to not use WAR. Let's face it, no one needs WAR. The other stats are ample for getting a picture of a player. WAR/OPS+/ERA+/wRC+/FIP all fluctuate by year (and thus era), so just use stats that don't fluctuate if you want to make a comparison. You can also make your own stats if you see a gap. Personally I love OPS+ and ERA+ but I freely recognize that they can't be used for comparing players in different eras. There's nothing wrong with everyone using the same care and avoiding WAR and FIP in this situation, which I admit might sound sacrilegious as WAR and FIP are the flavors of our generation.
  14. Doomtints
    It's good to know that they have a chance to get a player which may or may not be good in another four to five years. Viva la 2020!
  15. Doomtints
    Lew Ford wasn't on the table at the start of the season, however. The Twins should give him a call.
  16. Doomtints
    I'm not pining -- I made it clear that he would not have led this team to the playoffs. What I am stating is that this was the first mistake of many. The moves made after their horrendous start have been panic moves. They would no doubt have made fewer panic moves had they started the season better. Keeping Arcia solely because he was out of options was not a bright move. Of the two of them, Quentin was the one who was ready to play. Arcia is now playing on his 4th team this year, which must be approaching an MLB record.
  17. Doomtints
    He clearly has the right approach, but talking about how he's Joe Experienced might rub the young guys the wrong way. He needs to actually do what he says he is there to do -- actions speak louder than words. If he continues to hit .000 his messaging won't be around long in any case.
  18. Doomtints
    "The man has batted .211 has a .770 OPS in the Mexican League in 2016." Corrected.
  19. Doomtints
    I disagree, and I have been high on Arcia historically. He was not ever going to be an upgrade over Quentin. And who cares if Quentin was only going to be around a year? Look at the OF depth they have in the minors. Arcia not being ready would not have been a tragic loss. There are plenty of guys who will be ready in the coming years.
  20. Doomtints
    Planning to fail. Failing to plan.
  21. Doomtints
    I agree. Calling that game instead of resuming it was B.S. and it really seemed to affect the team.
  22. Doomtints
    This is the exact response I would predict from 90-95% of people who read what I wrote. Nevertheless, I think that move was the first mistake of many that sank this season. It was the first sign that someone in management doesn't have a clue. Come on, Arcia over Quentin? With that move I felt that the Twins had ensured themselves a worse year than 2015. Later moves confirmed that quickly. But, of course, none of us predicted we would see the worst year of the franchise. As for that 0-9 start (and in the weeks beyond), look at how many 1-run games were lost. It would not take much to have turned that into a close-to-.500 record.
  23. Doomtints
    To be quite honest, when the Twins dropped Carlos Quentin I figured they had shot themselves in the foot. They were going all youth and the veterans on the team don't have a track record of being able to mentor. I was still as surprised as anybody when the entire team forgot how to hit for 6-8 weeks after that. The Twins would still not be great, but Quentin would have produced better than Arcia and sometimes hits are contagious. I think most of us would take knockkng-on-.500 over what we have now.
  24. Doomtints
    Actually, Sano's RF numbers are better than Cuddyer's were. Look it up, yo.
  25. Doomtints
    No. I'm talking about after the first few weeks. I had a gut feeling that they were not going to be good, but I went ahead and predicted they would land similarly to last year.
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