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  1. PDX Twin
    What does the bench look like? Knowing the Twins, the starting lineup you propose will play half the season (less with Kirilloff, who may not play at all). Given that the other half of the season will be players worse than the ones you list, I'm guessing closer to 60 wins. I'd say stick with the team we have, which could win 85-90 games with luck and health. Sounds like more fun than the eternal wait for a magical rebuild that never happens.
  2. PDX Twin
    The only way that a "miracle" is necessary is if you expect the Twins to be a championship team. I don't, and I doubt that the ownership does either. This team will be fine. It will win a lot of games and lose a lot of games. It will finish between 2nd and 4th in the division and stay home in October. That's what the Twins are on average. Sometimes they are better and win the weak division; sometimes they are worse and finish last. Dreaming is nice, but we don't "need" a miracle. The Twins will be respectable and they will break even with modest attendance and a low salary budget. That's life. We are not the Dodgers or the Yankees. And some of us don't want to be! Sorry for being "Debbie Downer," but I just get tired of the apparent expectation that the Twins should suddenly become something they are not, and are not likely to be except on those rare, lucky occasions when everything comes up aces.
  3. PDX Twin
    I'd be OK with this signing if it were a minor-league contract. For $11m? Not so much. It's like paying $100 for an undrinkable bottle of Gallo... I fear that Joey will be washed down the drain by mid-season.
  4. PDX Twin
    How about resigning Sano as a shortstop, where he started? ?
  5. PDX Twin
    "At the moment" is the most important phrase here. Our three best non-pitcher prospects are all shortstops, This is only a position of weakness for a few months or perhaps one season if at least one of them pans out. Are we really that all-in on 2023 that we want to commit debilitating (for future years' budgets) money for this year? If last season showed us anything it is that this team is NOT a Carlos Correa away from being a contender.
  6. PDX Twin
    Walking about 5 per 9 innings? I doubt anyone would take a chance on him.
  7. PDX Twin
    Ervin Santana, Jake Odorizzi, Michael Pineda, Phil Hughes. The Twins HAVE had success acquiring veteran starting pitching. But they have to buy carefully, avoid long-term contracts, and leave enough room for the promising youngsters to rise when they are ready.
  8. PDX Twin
    This new M is pretty awful. I actually liked the old M that they used in the early 1990s. I have and still wear a Portland Beavers cap with a like-styled P from when they were the Twins' AAA affiliate.
  9. PDX Twin
    No no no no no no no no no! We have enough left-handed striker-outers!
  10. PDX Twin
    I'd be looking at starters rather than minor-league relievers. I don't know all the details, but most of the key recent internal relief stars that I remember were starters in the minors and even in the majors to begin with: Rogers, Duffey, May, Nathan (with Giants), Duran, Perkins, etc. The minor-league relief aces were either never given a chance or didn't do especially well: Burdi, Chargois, and few others that I remember TD posters begging to see in Minneapolis.
  11. PDX Twin
    In the good old days, there were a couple of "swing men" on the pitching staff who could do spot starts but mostly did 3-4 inning relief appearances when the starter crashed early. A 4-inning relief stint saves two 2-inning or four 1-inning appearances and keeps the bullpen fresh, especially if the game is not close. Is this not a possible model today, where everything seems totally scripted and there is little flexibility. I thought this might be where the team was going with Winder on the roster as a 6th starter who was not actually in the rotation at the beginning of the year, but it didn't seem to work out that way.
  12. PDX Twin
    Will a pitcher ever win a batting title? Seemed like a totally stupid question until Ohtani came along.
  13. PDX Twin
    So, another one headed for surgery to remove the chip?
  14. PDX Twin
    The Bay Area? Are you referring to Mission Bay? Or have the Padres moved a few hundred miles north?
  15. PDX Twin
    There's a difference between "already injured" and "previously injured," no?
  16. PDX Twin
    Well, at least they are trying something. Now if they can just quit acquiring already-injured pitchers.
  17. PDX Twin
    Wow! One of my favorite non-Twins players.
  18. PDX Twin
    He might stay at SS but, if not, this old-timer remembers a pretty decent thirdbaseman named Brooks ...
  19. PDX Twin
    Someone inclined toward mathematics might call it a Gio-metric paradox.
  20. PDX Twin
    The thought of Julien and Arraez drawing 100 walks each at the top of the lineup should make Buxton and the other middle-of-the-lineup hitters giddy!
  21. PDX Twin
    IMHO: Not worth it. My (selective) memories of Correa with the Twins are from the July/August period when we were desperately clinging to the division lead, and Correa made weak outs in close games with runners in scoring position time after time after time. His statistics ended up pretty good for the year, but he was not Kirby, who always seemed to come through in his most important at-bat. And as for his clubhouse presence, the Twins clubhouse in September was about as ugly as any I remember. And this was not a bunch of jaded veterans putting in their time. It was a collection of young, impressionable rookies desperate to make a good impression. Nelson Cruz made everyone else on the team better; if Correa did, I can't see the evidence from where I sit. I'd be happy to get him for $20m/yr, but someone is going to pay him more than that, so I'll be satisfied with the Twins' standard "we tried" effort.
  22. PDX Twin
    Why would he want to come here and surely get injured? ?
  23. PDX Twin
    Lots of stinky statistics in there! I doubt that most are as bad as that, but there certainly looks like a lot of potential space on the 40-man roster.
  24. PDX Twin
    It had not occurred to me until reading this that the Twins now have batting champs born in Panama, Cuba, and Venezuela, in addition to the more mundane Minnesota and Illinois. Next country would figure to be Dominican Rep.
  25. PDX Twin
    I had a similar reaction. I enjoyed a peaceful, baseball-free late afternoon and evening. I looked in to check the score and it said 2-2 in the 6th. I said, "OK. 3-2 loss. I don't want to watch." They are so predictably awful in clutch situations.
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