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  1. IndianaTwin
    Had they traded Caratini and Jeffers signs elsewhere, they are left with Jackson and, um,... they are left with Jackson. Now if Jeffers were to accept the QO (which he’s reported to have said he won’t do) or otherwise sign, then sure, get some money back with a trade.
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    There once was a guy called a potcher…
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    A) Pohlad B) Zoll C) Shelton D) The Players E) Buxton’s health (I’m not sure how, but he’s usually on the list somehow. 😀)
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    😀 I just think using the language of "analyzing" rather than "blame" ratchets down the emotions and contributes to better comment threads. I think "analysis" rather than "blame" allows for more nuance when part of the answer is sometimes that "life happens." (I think your comment is in response to mine. If not, my apologies.) EDIT to add: As in, I appreciate your analysis above noting that this hasn't really been a collapse, but rather an extension of a team that has generally played a few games below .500. That's much more helpful to the conversation than another diatribe.
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    @Craig Arko can correct me if I'm misinterpreting his comments, but I read what he's saying as: "Never saw much value in the blame game when I'm not in a position to make a genuine difference in the situation. [Blaming] doesn't actually solve anything." Mrs. IT would tell you that I do much better at this some times than I do at others, but as a general rule of thumb, I find it much easier to walk when my shorts aren't in a wad blaming people for things I can't control. I think there's also a significant difference between "blaming" and "figuring out what went wrong," though "blame" does likely generate more clicks on the interweb. Certainly a business that isn't meeting its goals is needs to figure out what is going wrong. We don't know the conversations going on behind the scene (and we shouldn't, I would say), but when you look at the amount of roster turnover between, say, July 1 and what's now on the 26/28 man roster, I think they are trying a lot of new things.
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    Speaking as someone who just came home to a fresh batch of banana chocolate chip muffins made by Mrs. IT, I concur.
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    Depends on your definition of what it means to be "under an innings limit." I've never heard the Twins say he's "on an innings limit," but they've been pretty consistent in saying things about "managing his workload." And they've subtly done it... His first start was in Game 24. He last pitched (as a bulk pitcher) in Game 139. Were he to have pitched every five games, he'd have 24 starts in that time period. He had a brief IL stint which cost two starts, but he's only had 20. They gave him extra days on several occasions, twice going on 7 days rest, once on 8 and once on 9. By comparison, Bradley has never gone on more than five days rest, save his own two-start stint on the IL. He's never pitched more than 98 pitches. (Aside: An impressive stat about his season is that he's never gotten shelled badly enough to get pulled before 72 pitches or before 4 innings.) By comparison, Bradley has gone 99 or more pitches 14 times and has averaged 97 pitches. As we get to the end of the season, they used him as a bulk guy on Tuesday to lessen the likelihood of facing the more stressful top of the order three times (and strategically pulled him after 76 pitches when the game was broken open). They've announced Matthews, Bradley, Ober for the weekend, meaning he's going to get at least one extra day before a start on Monday. They kept Ryan to 3 innings on Tuesday night and have said he could come back on the road trip. If they were to use Ryan Monday on five days rest, Prielipp would go Tuesday on six days. And I suspect if they reach of the point of self-determining that they are out of the wild card chase, they will shut Prielipp down for the year.
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    But can probably already say names better than Gladden. 😀 It's September. It's still not "Carantini," Mr. Dazzle. Last night I heard him say Dingler threw the ball into right field when it happened and he was doing play-by-play and then into center field when summarizing it in the postgame show. Urgh.
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    I see all the angst about Keaschall’s defense. People forget that Tony Gwynn was a pretty crappy defender when he came up and eventually became a Gold Glover. Keaschall seems like the kind of guy who will do the work to improve on that side of the ball.
  10. IndianaTwin
    Am I correct in thinking that with Wallner not having been called up, he is not going to be arbitration-eligible as expected this winter? From what I can find, he entered the season with 2.043 years of service time and gained somewhere in the neighborhood of 48 days this year. If they don't bring him up, it seems he'll be well short of the 2.130-ish it typically takes to be arbitration eligible as a Super-Two. If that is the case, I think it changes the calculus on him. It only costs a 40-man roster spot (which granted, can be valuable) to carry him to spring training to see if he can rake and/or see if he can be traded for a lottery ticket. If, for example, Buxton has surgery and there is question about his opening the season on the active roster, Wallner becomes another DH option if the outfield is some combination of Keaschall, Walker, Larnach, Rodriguez, Gonzalez. Even with Wallner's suckiness this year with the Twins, his career OPS+ remains above that of Larnach, for example. I like Larnach, but at his best he has been nowhere close to Wallner at Wallner's best.
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    This is not an argument for or against Bell coming back, but to clarify on his contract that it's a mutual option. So first the Twins will have to either offer Bell the $10M or pay him the $1.25M buyout. If the Twins decline, Bell becomes a free agent. If the Twins offer the $10M, Bell then has to choose whether to take it or walk away and pursue free agency. That's why the last mutual option exercised (according to AI) was Aramis Ramirez and Milwaukee in 2014. Typically either the player plays poorly and the team walks away or the player plays well enough to want to test free agency. In most cases, either the terms or the player's performance makes declining the option a complete no-brainer on one side or the other. With how Bell has done, the perceived excellent clubhouse fit (on both sides) and with the possibility of a lockout, I think there's at least somewhat of a chance it would be picked up on both sides, but I also see the logic in either side declining.
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    I don’t know if this is more meaningful, but here’s what bothers me — couldn’t the makers of avocados put a new toy inside once in a while? I’m kinda tired of the little wooden balls they keep including.
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    I'm pretty confident we'll be past 8,725 before long...
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    I’m not arguing for piggybacking Prielipp, but the math does in change in September. The argument against piggybacking in the regular season is that it leaves a team with a seven-man bullpen. In September, with the extra pitcher, it still leaves an eight-man pen. In addition, the Twins have three off days left in the remaining 30 days, with only one streak of playing more than six consecutive days. In reality, his next start comes on Tuesday, the day the roster expands. Given that Ryan is being targeted for a rehab start “early next week,” I’d just give Prielipp his “normal” start on Tuesday, but with a shorter leash, and then either send him down or move him to the pen if Ryan returns the next time that spot comes around. If Ryan looks like only one rehab is needed, they could actually send Prielipp down after Tuesday and effectively have a 10-man bullpen for a few days until Ryan returns.
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    I'm not sure the difference between "Notes, Tidbits & Rumors" and "News." They are pretty much the same to me.
  16. IndianaTwin
    Andrew is pretty much a craftsman on the mound…
  17. IndianaTwin
    I'm an ordained pastor, but despite the whole "seven deadly sins" thing, let's get greedy, win the division and take the No. 2 seed for the first-round bye.
  18. IndianaTwin
    Unless I missed it, no one has noted that Jenkins has played LF three times in the past week. Buxton may move to a corner at some point, but at this point in the season, it's very unlikely he's anywhere but in CF each time he has on a glove. Part of Jenkins proving he's ready is demonstrating he'll be able to play a corner spot. I'm sure Ron Washington would say that playing LF is also incredibly hard. That they are experimenting with him there is a positive sign for his potential promotion.
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    A bunch of bats, apparently, but how did you leash them in the first place?
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    In various posts, I’ve suggested that this year’s task for the bullpen was to “sift and sort,” churning through guys with the goal of identifying at least one player per month that they can go into the offseason feeling good about. They sped up the process with some trades that appear to be working well, but if we consider Gomez, Hoffman, Morris, Funderburk, Nance, Banda and Anderson, that’s ahead of pace. That also doesn’t include some of the young ‘tweeners who will be Nos. 9 or 10 in the starting pitching derby and switched to the pen. There’s also guys like Sands and Paredes. And then we do a similar exercise with the rotation… Me likey where the pitching staff is at come November.
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    He’s been on my wish list for several years.
  22. IndianaTwin
    I’d add Banda.
  23. IndianaTwin
    Huge props to Shelton, but given that the Team That Shall Not Be Named is on pace to increase its win title by 25 and potentially win the division, I'm guessing that Mr. Venable is seen as a fronterrunner.
  24. IndianaTwin
    In some variation of how they handled it earlier in the season when they gave him as much as eight days off. I'm not suggesting a permanent move to a six-man rotation -- that would be particularly ill-advised with nearly every Thursday off between now and the end of the season (though having that many off days also contributes to a bullpen reset in its own right). It could mean giving him a single bullpen outing in that stretch. It could be making it a one-game callup for whoever gets that start. Rather than a full 10 days, they could give him eight and start him in the spot a listed Matthews, giving Matthews a couple extra days. They could even consider optioning him -- it's not like he's been lights out recently. And they are getting an extra bullpen guy on September 1. There's virtually always other moving parts around injuries and such. At some point they're going to be (hopefully) clearing a spot for Ryan, etc.
  25. IndianaTwin
    Prielipp is listed as the starter for Friday, followed by Kremer and Ober Saturday and Sunday. Anticipated would be Matthews and Bradley on Monday and Tuesday. Prielipp then would be scheduled to come back on Wednesday. If they want to skip a start for innings preservation, that is the time to do it. Skipping Prielipp for a spot start from Marquez/Rojas on Wednesday, followed by Thursday's off day, would lead to Kremer, Ober, Matthews and Bradley on Friday-Monday on five days rest. Prielipp could slot back on Sept. 1 on 10 days rest. (That doesn't take into account a potential return from Ryan somewhere in there.)
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