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  1. Trov
    I am not a fan of half-selling, meaning you only are trading away lower value trade chips. It normally results in lower value returns. For the most part, the players listed in the selling were players on lower value, outside Berrios. Jury still out on SWR and Martin, but their stock is falling fast. However, the rest of the trades are pretty equal or tip in favor of Twins. Ryan and Duran are great, and what we gave up for them were minimal at the time. Selling can bring in big talent, or at minimum supplement what you need. Rarely will a pen guy bring in big returns, but a lottery ticket of a young kid that may develop. Position guys or starter tend to bring in bigger prospects, but there are misses. I see no point in "selling" this year. I could see, if you are sold we can fill the last spot in rotation with some in AAA, trading Gray for the right deal. He is doing well, unlikely to sign with Twins, basing this on some of his comments about how they run things. Being we only need 4 guys in playoffs, if you are sold that the 4 we would most likely have, assuming health, and a good deal is offered, why not pull off what Cleveland has done.
  2. Trov
    I follow the Pirates, because my wife is a huge fan growing up in western PA. Cutch never wanted to be traded from Pittsburgh the first time. Every fan loved when he returned, he was their Puckett of that generation of fans. The fans loved him, he loved the city and the fans. Trading him away a second time would be like a big middle finger to him and the fan base, even if they are in last place. The fans hated he got traded the first time too, even if they got some current players. If they trade Cutch, unless he asks for it, the team will lose any little bit of respect the fans have for the team, or the players have for the team.
  3. Trov
    Really it is the Hardy to Baltimore that was the worst trade, not the Hardy for Gomez. You group 2 trades in as the worst trade, but if you look at the trade of Gomez and Hardy it was not a bad trade. The follow of up sending Hardy away because Twins thought they had a SS coming from Japan was the terrible trade. If we kept Hardy and he produced what he did with Baltimore with Twins we would not say it was a bad trade.
  4. Trov
    The only reason Lee will not be up at AAA soon is they organization feels they cannot find regular playing time at the preferred position they want to get him innings at. In terms of the bat, no reason he should not be moving up.
  5. Trov
    No way do you send down Julien at this point, or take away at-bats. The team loves to rotate around who sits. When Polanco comes up it will most likely be for Wallner. Then Polanco will get at-bats at 2nd and DH. Julien will get at-bats at 2nd and DH, maybe 1B. 3rd will be Salano and Farmer mostly. Buck will get at-bats at DH, but my guess until he starts to heat up, assuming Polanco is hitting like he can, Buck will get much more rest.
  6. Trov
    Turner interests me the most, if we are concerned about Lewis returning healthy this year. You never know with core issues. Even if Lewis does come back fully healthy, Turner could fill in at first, and AK can play OF. Turner also has plenty of deep playoff runs in his experience. If he can be had for a mid-level prospect I would go for it, but I am not giving up a top 10 prospect for him.
  7. Trov
    I would not give up any level of actual prospect for Cron. I get he fills in to hit against lefties, but outside of that he will be taking at bats from overall better hitters. He would be Garlick basically, and I am not a fan of a guy that will only be used to hit against lefties and nothing else.
  8. Trov
    I want to know why generally AK sits against lefties. He has shown some ability to hit against them, and over his short career he has hit better against them than Kepler has, but the team tends to play Kepler of AK against lefties. I would also discount much of AK early numbers being wrist was issue for much of it. I do not know AK's minor numbers against lefties, but he looks like he can sure hit well enough to play against them.
  9. Trov
    I am not opposed to trading him for the right deal, being we have guys that could fill the 5th spot down the stretch, and you do not need 5 guys in playoffs. Gray has been good overall, but at times he throws too many pitches and could have short starts in playoffs. However, I disagree that the reason should be because you expect the team to do terrible in playoffs, if we make it. Yes, our offense has been bad overall, but when you just need to win a few games it only takes a couple of hot hitters to carry an offense. Having top pitching is what teams will want in playoffs, and giving up that simply because you expect a loss pretty much means you never will expect us to win because no team is perfect.
  10. Trov
    I think hitting coaches at the MLB level should be more on just small tweaks to players, and should not look to have full change in approaches of players. I think those changes should be done in the minors, and at the majors you need to fix little things or make little adjustments when pitchers have adjusted to them. I think having a full change of hitting philosophy midseason will also be hard to do. I agree the Twins need to change what they are doing, but asking for a full 180 on what they were doing will be hard.
  11. Trov
    I fully disagree with the article. Sure, Steer has been good for Reds, but there is no evidence to say he would do same here, maybe yes maybe no. Miranda has been terrible, and no one expected that. Lewis was doing just fine, until the new injury issue. We have others in the minors that will come up and will play similar profile to Steer. It is unlikely Steer will be better than all of them, but possible. This year, maybe you can say trading Steer is coming back to bite us, but I do not agree it was a clear mistake to include Steer in a trade.
  12. Trov
    I am glad the FO did not overthink the 5th pick. Every scouting place had 5 top guys and big drop off from there. Sure, everyone could be wrong and the best player maybe some time after 5th, but sounds like the kid should be a good overall player.
  13. Trov
    I have never been super high on Max, nor super low. I would go against those that said he is always due for a breakout year, due to low BABIP, and this year without the shift people were saying the BABIP would go up, it did not. However, because of his defense I was willing to deal with him. I want him batting near the bottom overall, but we could do worse.
  14. Trov
    Personally, I pay no attention to the game for about 20 years now. Even when it meant something, I still did not care. The players for the most part do not care, unless they get a bonus for it. Most pitchers opt out to be ready for the second half, or they just pitched on Sunday anyways. The star hitters do not finish the game. The fact that 1 player from each team needs to go, this will lead to so many more snubs.
  15. Trov
    I thought I was the only one not seeing it.
  16. Trov
    I fully agree with the Kepler out move, and agree Popkins can go too, but I rarely blame a hitting coach for vetrans struggling. Vets have been doing it for years, a young coach should not be the cause of their issues, but it is also the young coach is not able to help them fix the issues. Either because he is younger than some of them, or because he just is not able to identify the issue.
  17. Trov
    I need to push back on Cossetti a bit. He had great time in low A for just over a month, where he was 2 years older than average player. Moved up and hitting decent, but still a year older than average player. You have him on there, but Lee does not make the list at all, which is fine as he has been okay as well, heating up lately, but Lee is at AA 2.5 years younger than average player. Cossetti is a year older than Lee and yet to sniff AA. Not discounting what he did for a month in low A, but if you really look at age and level, Cossetti, in my mind, is having not that great of a year. I am not saying Lee for sure is better, just used him as example. E-Rod is having a better time at high A and is 3 years younger than Cossetti. Sometimes I think if guys do better than expected, we say they are doing well, where if a guy is doing about the same, but lower than expected we say they are struggling, which may be true.
  18. Trov
    Personally, I feel the approach of the team is not the best, or most fun to watch, but they are in the middle of league in runs scored, 18th, but only 10 runs separate 18 and 14. We lead our division in runs scored, but the team gets attacked when other teams strike out less and gets runs across without the HR. The point of the game is to score runs, and they are not the best in the league, but they are the best in the division. Is it sustainable? Maybe not. I sure wish they would change things up a bit, if nothing else for entertainment. The scarier thing is it seems they are missing pitches in the zone at a huge clip is means they are even missing the mistake pitches middle middle too much as well.
  19. Trov
    He is putting up the numbers he did last year before his knee injury now. Remember he not only had the knee injury last year, but was on shelf part of this year I believe with a core muscle issue. I am not surprised he started off slow, as someone who has had an ACL repair much of when you are coming back is mental, but then you throw in core muscle injury that will really affect your swing. I am hoping he has figured it back out and gets moved up to AA some time second half.
  20. Trov
    I agree they all had better hitting stretches than Kepler, and I am not a big Kepler fan, but if you look just a slightly better bats over Kepler, you ignore the other half the game, that of defense. Kepler is a very good defender, and ones you listed are all worse than Kepler and some by far much worse on defense. I know many like to look at the offense, because you can quantify it easy, compared to defense, but defense should not be overlooked.
  21. Trov
    Happy to see E-Rod starting to heat up too. I was not too worried about him, being he was coming off knee injury then had core issue early on. He seems to be heading back in the right direction as well. I would not ask if he was SSS heating up because he has shown the ability in the past.
  22. Trov
    Is Sabato just on a SSS hot streak, or has he figured something out? I know he has fallen off all prospect lists, but over last 11 games he is on a very hot streak. He has not played much this year, only 21 games, and only 6 before June. However, since June 6th, he has a .500 OBP, walking more than striking out, only 2 HR, but 7 doubles in 54 plate appearances, but only 38 at bats due to all the walks. I hope it is something just started clicking for him and he can be something down the road, but need to see this carry for longer than a couple of weeks. To me the more walks than K's is the important part though. If you include all of June he still has more walks than K's. His slugging on the year is not what you want from him, but clearly he was injured and maybe will start showing some growth.
  23. Trov
    The constant platooning of guys is one thing I am greatly against. I am for it in certain guys and situations, but I hate when you have a kid you want to be a star, and expect will be one, and you never give them a chance to be one. If you look at AK's career splits at MLB level, could not find minor levels, but he is not terrible, this year has not been great, but how can you expect him to be better if you never let him do it? He seems like the type that should be able to hold his own against same side pitchers because he is willing to hit other way, so the breaking pitches away from him will not be something he will roll over or swing through much. You cannot know who your stars will be if you never give them a chance.
  24. Trov
    Sadly he will not likely get regular at-bats with us at MLB level. Buck is taking up DH with what appears to be no plans ever to return him to OF. AK is at 1B, but could move to OF. So possible to move AK to OF get get Williams a chance at MLB level sometime.
  25. Trov
    I hate when people evaluate trades based just on the players involved. I say this because roster building is just not that simple. If we did not make the trade for Lopez, we would be having SWR, Winder, Sanchez, or some combo of guys doing pen games for our 5th starter right now. Lopez just had a great start, in a Twins loss, but not his fault. But really without Lopez in our rotation right now we would be pretty bad off and everyone would be begging for a trade for a starter. Assuming Arraez would have put up same numbers with Twins this year, not sure if he would, but he still would be doing well, he would have maybe helped us a few games. Would he be playing 2nd or 1st mainly for us? I do not know, but if he is in the line up, someone else is out, which right now would have been a good thing. However, we have much more depth in our system of MLB ready or hopefully in near future, that can play 1st and 2nd, more than we have MLB ready starting pitching. I love Arraez and he is fun to watch. He does not fit the current Twins offense approach, not saying that our current approach is good, but our hope is that in next year or two we will hopefully have someone close to or better hitting at 2nd and 1st base. Sure, they will not have the same average, but their OPS will be similar or better, is the hope. Time will tell. It is too early to judge the trade, and if you look at just players involved, you are short changing the fact the organization hopes Lee and AK will be taking the positions Arraez would most likely be playing for them, and the hope both will be overall better on both sides of the ball. Arraez is still a super talent, do not get me wrong, but we dealt from a position of depth, to a team with depth. We both had needs and it fit perfect. I do not agree you cannot look at the extension as part of the value assessment either because we could not have signed Lopez to an extension without the trade for him, at best we would have had to sign him in FA, which may not have happened.
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