tarheeltwinsfan

I'm hoping Miranda will man 3B for the Twins the next 10 years.

To answer the title of the article, "Do the Twins Have Tradable Assets", I would say this: Apparently so ....because it seems many players which the Twins have released or traded somehow seem to morph into the next coming of Babe Ruth or Cy Young. For example: Lance Lynn, Ryan Pressly, Liam Hendricks, Nick Anderson, Zack Littel, Lamonte Wade, Akil Badoo, Shaggy Chargois, Luis Gil, Brustar Graterol, Aaron Hicks, Niko Goodrum, Kurt Suzuki, Edwardo Escobar, Kyle Gibson,. I call this the curse of Big Papi ! How do we break this curse? If I were a major league GM, I would be looking to trade with the Twins and pick up the Twins' waivers.

Probably the Twins didn't want Stroman because he attended Dook University. Sincerely, Tarheeltwinsfan BA UNC 1967 and JD UNC 1972.

"Sign"...not "sing" Sorry for my eror. My typin gets worse, the moore excited I get abot the subject mattor being tiped about.

Do any of you think that the Twins are not going to sing big money pitchers and are going to use their young pitchers and see what they have? That might not be a bad idea. Let a few of them get the "yips" out of being new to the major leagues, and see which 3-4-5 of the young pitchers has what it takes to get batters out in the majors. Then in 2023 we take the best of the young pitchers, who have a half year to 3 quarters of a year experience having pitched in the majors in 2022, Maeda coming back (healed I hope) and probably Lewis and Miranda somewhere in the lineup with Kirilloff -1B , Polanco= 2B , a SS to be named (hopefully Lewis), Miranda 3B, Larnach LF , Buck- anywhere he wants to play, and Kep in RF, 2 of Jeffers/ Garver/Rortvedt at catcher, Donaldson/Sano/ Araez at DH and substitutes at 3B, 1B, 2B, Lf, and Gordan at utility SS, 2b, CF. Not a bad offensive or defensive team. Now about those young pitchers....

Het Doc, Cheer up. The FO signed Buck. for 7 years. With the pitching staff the Twins have assembled so far, think of all the spectacular catches we will be able to watch Buck make, as baseballs are being crushed all over the Twins outfield.

Good luck Dylan Bundy. I hope your time with the Twins is successful for the team and for you and your family.

Will Buck be turned loose to steal bases? There is a threat of injury here. But he can ruin a pitcher's day when he is on first base. Will Buck be encouraged to bunt if the shift is put on him? That is almost like giving him a double. Also if Buck is encouraged to steal when when he gets on first base, it may cut down on Buck being thrown at by opposing pitchers. I'd encourage Buck to steal 2B almost every time he gets hit by a pitch. Who will bat behind Buck? He needs someone to take pitches to allow him to steal (Arraez or Polanco or Kirilloff ?) and someone to make contact (Arraez? ), who can hit .300 (Arraez/Polanco). Would the opposition walk Buck to get him on first base with Arraez next up? Or would Buck be told not to steal bases? If a high strikeout hitter bats behind Buck you are not optimizing Buck's speed. on base.

I like to see 6 foot 8 inch, 250 pound pitchers running in from the bullpen for the Twins when a fight breaks out after some jerk hits Buck with a fastball up and in.

I realize I am the only one, but I like the idea of having Cave available at $300/800. I think Cave has more in his tank than we saw the last 2 years. He had a bad injury. I think Cave is a major league ready 4th OF who can play adequate CF and hits left-handed with more pop than our starting SS last year (but so did 99 % of all batters in AAA ). And Cave hustles, has some speed and is encouraging to his team mates on the bench. We have seen the Twins play worse OF defenders ( Rooker) repeatedly the last 5 years and Cave's bat may come around when he is fully healed and able to get some regular at bats. Come on Jake, prove all these naysayers wrong. Have a great spring and win that 4th OF position. Now about the Twins # 2 and #3 outfielders currently on the 26 man roster? I contend Cave conceivably could beat one of them out and actually start in the OF in 2022. OK now it is your turn to counter my argument contained herein.

Do the statistics show that 5+ years for a starting pitcher doesn't pay off too many times to justify 5+years? If so, Berrios would have been the type of pitcher I would be willing to take a chance on, given his good health history and his attention to his workouts.

I'm ready to hand the SS job to Lewis and let him do the best he can and take his lumps as he progresses. He has the type of mindset and the type of athleticism which will succeed at SS for a winning MLB team. . To quote Newman: "Mark my words and mark them well.". Lewis will succeed at SS for the Twins in 2022. He will light a fire that this team needs and he will be a leader in the infield and Buck will be a leader in the OF on this Twins team for years to come.

This is absolutely the best news. Now I am looking forward to Spring Training at Ft. Myers. What specifically is a full no trade clause? Does it mean the Twins cannot trade Buck? Thank you FO for signing Buck. Now go get some pitching.

I'm thankful the Twins still have Byron Buxton on the roster. I'm thankful the 2021 season is over. I'm thankful I can say, "Wait 'til next year".

I hope you are right about Buck wanting to stay a Twin.

Sign Buck to watch him play and take a chance that he stays healthy. The proposed contract is already at a discounted value based upon his health. If it were not, he'd be worth 20 million per year.

I would not be in favor of trading either Garver or Jeffers. The Twins catching position seems to be in good shape for next year. Leave it alone. If we trade either of them, then the Twins will need to "strengthen" the catching weakness which the Twins just created by trading both major league catchers. I is a good situation to have 2 capable major league catchers on the team.

No Mas.

Good-bye La Tortuga. I wish you well.

Me too. I'm thinking the Cardinals would be my new favorite team. Terrific tradition and classic brick stadium. Prettiest uniform in the majors. Stan, The Man, Musial, Dizzy Dean, Lou Brock, Ozzie Smith, and Bob Gibson, The Arch overlooking the stadium on the Mississippi River and the Budweiser Clydesdales prancing around the stadium on Opening Day. Even after 67 years of pulling for the Senators/Twins franchise, I can change teams easier than most of you who will be reading this on TD because I live in North Carolina. Or maybe the Braves, home of WWII veteran, Warren Spahn, Eddie Mathews, Civil Rights icon and arguably the greatest home run hitter of all time, Hammering Hank Aaron, Dale Murphy, Dave Jolly (who lived 20 miles from my home), Glavine, Smoltz, Maddox, Joe Adcock, Bobby Cox and on and on. This makes more sense than the Twins because Atlanta is only a 4 hour drive from my home. Plus Atlanta's 2 year old state of the art spring training facility is an hour drive closer to my home than Ft. Myers, Plus the Braves just won the World Series with an aggressive young team. My wife and I have been going to spring training each spring for some time until covid hit. Plus I never have liked the DH. So friends at TD, I really do enjoy Twins Daily and the civil and thoughtful manner in which we discuss baseball, however here are two other, more reasonable teams for me to enjoy, I really am tired of the Twins organization at present and I am thinking about a divorce from the Twins. I don't need this constant disappointment and stress. So maybe a trial separation is in order and some counseling.

The smoke from the BBQ ribs drifting into the field from the long concourse between the stadium seats and the brick warehouses, which now house bars and gift shops and pizza joints and crab cakes .along right. field at Baltimore's Camden Yards. If you are lucky, as you standing in line to order a rack of delicious ribs, a baseball will suddenly fly onto the concourse from Max Kepler. HOME RUN !

There is a self fulfilling prophecy in having an organizational mindset that the Twins can't win next year, therefore trade the best current players for prospects who may or may not succeed, in 3-4 years. With this mind set, the organization will continuously be building for the future, at the expense of the present, and will annually part ways with the best proven players while they have the most "trade value" because they succeeded the past season and are still young. It seems to me to be a recurrent theme with the Twins, which makes it extremely difficult to build a winning culture in the organization. It allows the rich to get richer in current talent. The players and managers and coaches see all this and this self fulfilling prophecy comes true every year. The organizational emphasis is not placed on " winning in the present" . but instead is placed on "building for the future". This is a formula for present day mediocrity and stagnation. It states to the staff, the players and the fans that the Twins' end goal is to be like the children of Lake Wobegon, " above average". This attitude does not attract players whose main purpose is a team first mindset, oriented to winning above everything. What did Vince Lombardi say about winning? If I am correct in my assertions, how has this worked out for the Twins since 1991?

Agree with all except Taylor, whom I feel will be over-priced.

Don't trade for Chapman, unless 1) he can play SS or 2) pitch 200 innings and average a strikeout an inning., or 3) he is Buxton's BFF.

"While he plays fruit ninja at home plate during each at bat." I laughed out loud at that sentence, and I didn't even know what fruit ninja was. Then I looked it up and laughed out loud again. What a great sentence describing Simmons at bats. I nominate this sentence for the funniest sentence of 2021 on Twins Daily.. Thank you Jamie