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  1. IndianaTwin
    I think there may be some teams trying to be sellers. I just don’t think there will be many teams willing to be buyers, for many of the reasons listed above. You need both to make trades. (And unless I missed it, nobody’s mentioned the possibility of playoffs not even happening, in which case you’ve given away an asset for essentially no return.)
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    I think Rocco articulated well a strategy that makes sense, particularly when you are a strong team and there are eight playoff spots. With their offense, they’re probably going to be tied or have the lead after six innings in at least 33-35 of those games. Get the win in 90 percent of those, and you’ve got 30+ wins in the bag. And with their deep pen, even the Nos. 5 and 6 guys are usually going to keep them close enough for the bats to come back and get a half-dozen wins amount the remaining games. That’s 36 wins and a pretty high seed. I don’t mind the bullpen games, and with Hill being so close to back, they likely aren’t going to need more than one more (assuming health). Look for it Monday or Tuesday, with Maeda pitching the other. Hill will be back by the following weekend when that spot comes around again, if not before. Beyond that, Pineda is back in a couple weeks, and Bailey is assumed to still be in the mix. An issue with sending down a reliever to bring up Duran or another starter from St. Paul is that you’ve now lost that reliever for the next 10 days (barring an IL move, which admittedly they are very willing to use). And speaking of the offense, if they’d exploded for 12 runs on Tuesday rather than Wednesday, we wouldn’t be worked up about it having been a bullpen game.
  3. IndianaTwin
    I’ve really enjoyed these articles — thanks for the series, Ted. This may seem like splitting hairs because it’s a nuance, but I think of four of the stories as being more about “women in sports media” than “women in baseball.” (And “women in sports media” is also a worthy series, since that’s another place were women have been woefully under-represented.) I think of it this way. For Lambert, for example, the logical career path is likely to be up the food chain to a network job doing the NFL and the Final Four, or even to the news side doing “60 Minutes.” I think it’s also telling that she says the Twins are a great organization to work “with” than “for.” It’s Fox that signs her paycheck, not MLB or the Twins. Now, if she was a producer for the Twins marketing/scoreboard/social media department with the natural path of moving up to be Twins Director of Media, I’d portray this differently. Or the producer slicing and dicing video to work at player development. Again, that’s not to detract from the excellence of the articles. That you’ve needed to expand to include people like Lambert speaks to the paucity of women in the field. I’m also looking to watching the Diversity webinar to hear some additional stories about women.
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    Short a significant injury, I don’t see any reason to start the service clock on any of them. At 12-7, they’d have to go something like 17-24 to not make the playoffs. Beyond that, I’m not sure that seeding is that big of a deal, so the advantage of a win or two isn’t much. None of the guys you’ve named have had any real opportunity to significantly up their game since spring training, other than the maturity that comes with a few more months of physical development. While they may be more successful than Cave, the marginal value of improving your 4th outfielder is about as small as any spot on the roster. While there’s something to be said in player development for being up close and personal with the major leaguers, these guys are probably getting more hands-on time and reps with coaches in St. Paul than they would in Minneapolis. Frankly, if they are able to call Whitefield back up after optioning him to Pensacola, having him available to pinch run for Cruz, Sano, or the catcher when they start on second base in an extra-inning game is probably more likely to make a difference in a crucial game than having Kiriloff, Larnach, or Rooker available as a pinch hitter. I might also see it different if one of them was a clear upgrade over Sano and could serve as a defensive replacement.
  5. IndianaTwin
    Can he hit?
  6. IndianaTwin
    So, for perspective, at least Garver (3 for 32; .094) is outhitting Gary Sanchez (3 for 35; .086).
  7. IndianaTwin
    I’m sure Rocco would rather not use Rogers in three straight days, but only throwing 18 pitches in the two games would tempt me into using him if needed on Sunday, particularly with four games coming up against the Pirates. (Better, of course, would be an 8-0 win.)
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    I'd argue that the drop from No. 1 to No. 2 is bigger at catcher than at any other position, save perhaps shortstop. Then, take into account that you need two catchers and that the drop from No. 2 to No. 3 is also huge, I have to go with Garver.
  9. IndianaTwin
    Fifteen. I look at the roster and say, "Even the 15th dude on the staff has the ability to contribute." I like that.
  10. IndianaTwin
    I was wondering about this. With this scenario, he could easily have some games when he hits three markers, one for the start and two for innings levels. In theory, he could even get four incentives if he has something like 55.2 innings though 10 starts and goes 7.1 to reach 56, 59, and 63 in his 11th start.
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    I'd like to see an average of three out of four starts, with a reasonably quick hook in blowouts. (And extra days off in the final two weeks after they have clinched the division. )
  12. IndianaTwin
    Thanks. I missed that.
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    In terms of strategery, it seems like the home-field advantage might be more significant with the extra-innings rules.
  14. IndianaTwin
    It’s also a plus that Pittsburgh is one of their four-game opponents. Cleveland also doesn’t have an off day in the first week, so their rotation would set up to be starters 2-5 on the second weekend, whereas we would go 1-4. Living in EDT, it’s a major plus to have no PDT games.
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    A lot may depend on how quickly Sano is back. If he’s cleared relatively soon and it appears they will only miss him for a week or so, it would be easy to use Gonzalez, Adrianza, and Astudillo, each of whom started at least 10 games there last year. If Sano is out longer, or if Donaldson tests positive and Sano has to go back to third, etc., then look at something from the list above.
  16. IndianaTwin
    I think the likelihood of any records being broken is blowing in the wind, but I could see a few Bomba Squad launches leaving on a jet plane.
  17. IndianaTwin
    My understanding is that it's still visa issues. https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/twins-fernando-romero-visa-issues-continue/
  18. IndianaTwin
    Though "yes" also works. I just hope the "what" isn't what the dog left behind.
  19. IndianaTwin
    Great — what time will you be on your way home from work? Oh, you meant you were on your way home when you were listening to the radio!
  20. IndianaTwin
    On a different note, do we know when the schedule will be announced?
  21. IndianaTwin
    With some of the formats they were discussing earlier, it was intriguing to think of the scheduling options. For example, in the three-leagues-of-10-teams format, two home-and-home series (12 games) against the nine teams made for a nice 108 games. But with just 60 or games on the docket, that really ratchets up the importance of a single series against a contending opponent.
  22. IndianaTwin
    Does that mean that TD will allow us the opportunity to use even bigger type when we celebrate a home run?
  23. IndianaTwin
    But in regards to the question at hand, I place Pineda's return squarely in the camps of "good problem to have" and "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it." You've outlined several good options, but the choice is so very dependent on how other guys have done, both in effectiveness and staying healthy. So to your options, I'd one more -- bullpen reinforcement. Particularly if starters are healthy and effective, I think it's very fair to say, "Big Mike, you're penciled into our 2021 rotation, but we've got a good thing going with our starters right now, and we don't want to mess it up. We're going to work you into the bullpen -- you just made our deep bullpen even deeper. We especially want to use you as a guy to vulture wins -- Bomba Squad 2.0 is at your service! We also want to keep you stretched out enough so that you're ready if a starter does go down."
  24. IndianaTwin
    We really don't know whether there's been anything discussed. I've had my curiosities and can see merits both in the argument to adjust suspensions or keep them the same. My sense is that with all the other variables being discussed, dealing with suspensions -- of what is it, maybe one to three players -- is pretty low on the list of negotiation topics. Put it this way, if a deal gets held up because of whether or not to reduce Pineda's suspension, we've got bigger problems with owner/player relations than any of us realized!
  25. IndianaTwin
    If we're looking at series stats alone, having Garver over Battey's .120 average would have made the offense a little saucier.
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