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  1. Trov
    Buxton's struggles was the knock on him all along before the draft, which was considered a weak draft with lack of top end talent. He was a big fish in a small pond in high school, and sure his speed contributed a bit to his success. The problem with him from what I see is his swing is so long. My biggest worry is that it is not like he is chasing everything up there for strikeouts, yes he is chasing a bit, but he is also missing fastballs in the zone for a lot of strike outs. A player can learn to stop chasing, but if he cannot hit pitches in the zone that is a problem. Still think he will be a good player, but maybe not as great as we all hoped.
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    Gonzalves may even threaten the rotation next year depending on who is the GM. I don't expect it, but we cannot assume a new GM will operate like Ryan and sit guys in minors as long. Not saying he should come up, but you never know what will happen.
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    My only issue is the Rosario deal, I understand need to trade talent to get talent, but my worry is the defense going forward. Joe moving to right, or having ABW or Palka, who I do not know either to be that good defense wise, would hurt our outfield defense moving forward, and our offense may not be any better. Eddie has shown an improved approach at the plate, and even admitted he was pressing when got into a early slump. I am a big defense first guy, so that is why I would want to keep Eddie.
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    I like the improvements of the players overall. Park may have relaxed down in AAA or he may just be a AAAA player, which would not surprise me either. Sure he will have a HR here or there in MLB but overall will be over-matched with the pitchers there. Palka and ABW will both have to cut down on K-rate, as both have risen at each level. ABW has more speed than Palka I am guessing, reflective of his SB in the minors, and success of it, but do not know how their defense is. Overall the twins have about 4 players at one position and none of them have jumped out as the front runner moving forward. I would expect a lot of jumping around for Park, Varges, Palka, and ABW all bouncing up and down to DH next year. This is if Sano picks up his defense at third and Molitor does not decide he is to liable at third, then we will have a lot of power off the bench rotating through, when Sano is full time DH.
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    Tanking is hard in baseball, unless you bring up players that are no good. Players have too much to play for, money, spot on team, or playing time. I agree they should trade away any player with any value, as long as deal is fair, and we feel that player is not going to help down road or no replacement to call up.
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    I have been a fan of defensive metrics overall, because they take into account more than just errors, but situations, and how those errors occur. I remember when they first came out people were shocked because they turned the whole good fielding thing on its head. I believe defense is key to having a good team. It is the one part of the game you can't put numbers on that easy, but affects pitching so much. Good defense keeps pitch count down, and ERA because good defenders take hits away, or at very least do not turn outs into hits because they had a bad read or made a bad decision that did not result in an error.
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    Had not seen the press conference. What scares me is a guy who has been owning a team for several years, and basically was owning before his father passed, is NOW brushing up on how other clubs run their front office, by looking at their media guides. This is ridiculous. I always liked TR overall, but do feel he got stale and stuck in the old way of doing tings. He did not appear to make the changes needed in the changing world of baseball. I hope the Twins go for innovative thinkers when they look for new front office people. No more of the this is the way it was done for years kind of thinking.
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    To me he is progressing just as expected. He needs to pick up his fielding a little bit his range is up a little but his fielding percentage is down, could be a product of the increased range making throws he is not used to. His hitting is coming along just as many scouts expected. He was a small kid that needed to fill out, and hearing he is doing that. Looking forward to the future with him.
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    Not only when will the pitchers move up to AA the Twins should start looking at Gordon. I expect he will spend full season in high A or be a very late call up to AA since he is so young. However, he is sure showing that he is the prospect the Twins hoped for when they drafted him.
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    For the Buxton leg kick part, it is common for most teams to try and get guys to drop the leg kick when they enter the pros. This is because they fear the leg kick will cause them to be late on the now plus fastballs they will see unlike in high school or college. The problem with that is that this makes your body have to relearn how to hit after taking thousands of swings one way your whole life you are told it is not good enough anymore and have to change it. To me good coaches make little changes as problems come up, not make guys change what was working for them all along.
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    I know the FSL is a pitchers league, but the Twins starting prospects down there are starting to take it to a new level. Thorpe is even still out. I am sure once he is ready to come back starters will move up.
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    What I find crazy is how Stewart is only in his third year out of high school, and people were giving up on him. If he was in college he would a top pick but still expected to spend a couple of years in the minors. Sure he did not come out of the gate firing well, but remember he was not just a pitcher coming out of high school he was maybe going to be a football player. I just hate how if a high school kid does not tear it up right away we label him a bust. Like Gordon last year in first half. They are both young for their level.
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    I know small sample size but looks like Gordon is building off of what he did second half of last year, and finally building the strength the scouting reports said he needed to build and expected him to build. Maybe his brother gave him some tips after winning the batting title last year.
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    The article did imply Joe did not disclose the vision concern to the Twins. Vision problems may be a common issue with concussions, but do they last two full years? I would imagine if the Twins knew about the issue they would have tried anything to fix the issue. I bet since he would say the issues would come and go Joe did not tell the Twins, figuring they may take him out of the lineup and he felt he helped more with bad vision, some of the time, then someone else with good vision, all of the time.
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    I hope it works well for him, but why did he feel the need to wait TWO FULL seasons before he said this was an issue. If this is the reason for the drop off in numbers, or at least a major part of it hopefully he bounces back. However, I believe if you are the highest paid player for your team and you are doing so poorly you need to figure it out well before two full seasons pass by.
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    What I find interesting, is that the dip in his numbers relate to the Twins change in shifting defense. That is where I question how the metrics fully work. Do they measure how far the player actually moved from where they started or based on where a player normally would start a play at. I find it strange that a player can go from 3rd best to 3rd worst in 2 seasons and still in prime of career. I also wonder if the metrics take into account the couple of times he cut a ball off going up the middle and threw a guy out at home. Also, does it take into account when a ball is stopped but an out not made, but prevented a runner from scoring, or from going first to third. I am not saying Dozier is the best in the league, and the eye test would back up a little regression in defense, but still question the defense metrics.
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    I completely agree with this article. I would not do that trade straight up. I was never that big on Shields, he was called big game James, but what did he do in big games? From what I remember he was terrible for the Royals in the playoffs. I say if you can dump Ricky for mid-level prospect and have to eat some money so be it. We do not need more 30 something starting pitchers for high prices. Shields would be way too much for what he would produce. Only way I do something like this is either get money back or a prospect as well, and would have to be a good prospect.
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    What I liked most about this read is that it shows no two hitters are alike, and a good coach gets the most out of what he has. From my experience is it is not where you start but where you finish when it comes to hitting. Some hitters have a ton of movement before the pitcher starts to pitch, but all the good hitters get set to the same point and finish at the same point. It is so hard to tell an athlete that everything they have been doing for years is now wrong and you need to unlearn what you learned your whole life. This just messes with them. What should be done is work with what they know and make small changes to fix wholes in swings.
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    People's biggest knock on Turner is his hitting. His average is not high, nor does he have a ton of power, but he takes a good amount of walks. If he can play great defense, and get on-base at .300 or above, I would take that. He would hit 8th most likely, and just asked to not be an easy out, work the count and move runners over when need be. Now if he cannot take walks in the majors like he has in the minors, that is a different story.
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    This list is 41-50, would you expect any more than guys that have just a small chance to make the bigs and contribute a little bit? Only 25 men on the roster at a time. If one of these guys become a regular in the big leagues I would be surprised, Quezada sounds like the best chance to be a regular bullpen guy if he learns to throw more strikes. He is young enough and has the velocity to have a chance to be a bullpen guy.
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    Twins would have no interest for him this year, because they do not have the international pool money available. They spent it all, and would not go that far over because would tie hands next year for international players. Also, being a CF, of which we have depth right now he does not fit in too well to current needs.
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    My question is who would be taken off the 40 man roster to make room for any of these you mentioned? Someone mentioned putting Graham on the 60 day DL. Pretty sure unless he needs surgery if he was put on the 60 day DL the union would have an issue with the Twins. I find it funny he went on the 15 day when he did. So barring any 60 day DL people, who would get DFA?
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    I don't know the injury severity of Santana. I would agree with moving Polanco back up to AAA, but I would not send Gordon up to AA. He is just really figuring out low A ball. Why have him skip high A for a month to face even harder pitching that may just regress his development.
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    This team reminds me a lot of the 2001 team. The team that had good first half but faded, and was filled with a lot of young talent. No big moves were made that year, unless you think bringing in Rick Reed was a big move. That move did, somewhat help them the next year, and they gave up an aging vet that did not fit into the future. I see a similar possible move here, or a buy for this year and next kind of move. My main target would be Lucroy. I think we have the assets to get the deal done without messing up any future. What do you think the asking price would be? I think Berrios would be at the start of the talks, if he is in the talks then maybe Arcia(his brother is a top prospect in the Brewers system) and another mid-level prospect, or two lower level prospects. Maybe Adam Brett Walker be the other mid-level. I would be willing to make this deal. Lucroy is signed two more years, at very cheap, and is a top defensive guy, with a decent bat. His numbers are down because of a injury but would expect a bounce back next year. Plus, Berrios is not as needed as was before, and the outfield/DH is pretty crowded.
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