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  1. Trov
    I am pretty sure we can stop listing Alex Kirilloff as an OF. He clearly will be filling in at 1B and no intentions of him playing OF based on current team. Yes, he can play it, and what he came up doing, but he will play first here on out. Celestino will get sent down to AAA. My guess they will trade him if a team comes knocking with a good deal, but he can be down in AAA all year if we want. Being he is RH hitting, can play CF if needed, he will stay on team most likely. Pretty sure it is clear, unless health of Larnach is still a huge concern, Kepler will be going somewhere, just where. The hope will be that Buck does not need to DH as much this year, but it is nice to see we now will not drop off a ton on defense when he has to sit. I like the move, and it shows the FO knows the flaws and willing to fill holes and not just hope things work out.
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    Every team has always tried to unlock something in a pitcher that has stuff. We are not new at this. Some pitchers buy in, make changes, and come out of no where. Others either do not buy in, or just never make the full adjustment. It is also easier to take on a risk of a mid-tier guy, and try to get more out of them, then a top tier guy and hope they stay there. When the top tier fades, eventually the contract or trade looks bad, but if the pitcher coming is stays mid-tier we are fine with that, it is what we paid for, but if they climb up then it is just bonus.
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    I would say too early to call Sabato or Cavaco flops, either could still work way into MLB level. To me they will be flops if they never make majors or just a cup of coffee and get bounced. Although neither have flown up the minors like we would hope they are still in system. I mean until last year, you would have called Gordon a flop, but after putting up 1.6 WAR we are calling him a staple. It took Gordon 7 years to make MLB debut out of high school. Cavaco is entering his 4 season, 5th year removed from HS. He still has time to give something. Sabato still has time as well. The other 2 were busts for sure. Lewis has had 2 missed seasons mainly due to torn ACL, I would not say that is injury prone, but had 2 long injuries. If his injuries were of many types and constant missed time, not single big stretches, that is injury prone to me. The other 2 have had a varity of injuries that have led to long stretches and short ones, so they kind of fall into that. Petty was traded, but the trade brought in Gray who has provided value. Even if Petty never makes majors, he gave us value. Too early for Lee as you said. I would say still too early to have final report on Cavaco and Sabato, and could still provide something. Need to remember no team hits on first round picks every draft.
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    I do not see the Twins signing anyone just to DH at this point. I also do not see them making a full time DH, but will use it as a kind of day off thing, similar to what they did last year. Maybe someone will emerge as a regular DH, but to start I doubt anyone will be locked in.
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    When Arraez for Lopez was being floated as a 1 for 1 trade, or some were saying the Twins should throw in a player to get trade done, I was not for it. However, this trade to me is a slam dunk win for Twins. As much as I loved Arraez, I feel the Twins made an amazing move. First, they clearly could tell the Marlins desire to get a 2nd base guy, and a good hitter. They also knew Marlins were willing to part some of their starters, but Lopez was the clear one they were looking to deal. The FO stood strong and made the Marlins give more value. The fact they were able to get a top prospect and a good, not great pitcher, in the deal is great. As much as I loved watching Arraez bat, he was limited to mostly singles, with some flashes of power. He was fun guy to see play, but he was not anything amazing. He is limited on defense, and his running limited him as well. The fact is, we have several guys that should have overall good value that can fill in. The fact that we got not only a top 100 prospect, that unless he has terrible year should only go up, we also got a flier prospect. The fact that the the top prosect is most likely a couple years away means he will either be trade value, or will help out when we lose other guys to FA. When I saw what we got back in return I thought this was amazing trade for Twins.
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    I would not give Gurriel too much. If we could get him on a low cost to be right handed at bat and maybe bring back some value I am okay with it, but I would not pay him to be full time 1B.
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    The FO has made it clear, if they cannot sign a player they will trade them to get some value out of them. Berrios was in the same situation. Fans may prefer us to just pony up more cash, but I for one is a fan of the moves.
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    First, if the team is targeting "distressed assets" as you put them, that is an issue. However, as many have pointed out, outside of Paddock and Mahle I do not think that is really an issue. You left out Big Mike who they signed to 2 year deal, knowing the first year was a rehab year, that is a much better example. If the Twins are using the fact that they can sign certain players that maybe they would not normally be in on because their is risk of injury then so be it. Yes, we signed CC because other teams were not willing to take risk of 13 or 12 year deals, as they had offered, but that just opened the door. Is he "distressed asset" because he has a potential red flag for injury then okay, but he has not shown any issue of that injury in his career. To me, the signing of Big Mike, and extension of Paddock is really the only instances where they spent bigger money on a player that may not give much value due to injury risk. The traded players are players that had history known or unknown but any guy, particular pitcher, could come up with injury. Some people think a pitcher not having TJ is a red flag because most get it at one point in career now.
  9. Trov
    Please name the 1 starter they could have had for 19 million that would have put them over the top? Also, how would Rodgers, who had a terrible season after May. He got worse as the season went on, but okay having a guy with negative WAR would have helped us. According to baseball reference, Pagan had -0.4 WAR, and Rogers had -0.7 WAR. Logic would suggest Rogers would not have made the difference. I also cannot think of a single starter we could have signed for 1 year 19 million that would have made a difference. If you can please let me know.
  10. Trov
    I think as it pertains to the Splinker, is much like a hanging offspeed, when he missed with it, he could get hit hard. Also, half of his HR is 3, and although he only threw the pitch at 16% he still threw it 163 times. Being it averaged 96 MPH, compared to 4 seam at 100, or curve at 87. He still got a whiff rate of 34% on it compared to only 26 on 4 seam. My guess it generally would come down to location, where it would stay much more thigh high. It would allow hitters to catch up to it, and was more in the zone compared to others. Working on getting off the zone more, or lower in zone will help I would say. It is not like it is a bad pitch, but maybe not as good as we have been told. His curve was much more effective. In terms of the more multi innings, I agree the logic seems to defy the numbers, that he did better with less multi inning games. However, where maybe the writer should have included, was that if you look at his game logs. From what I can see only 1 time did pitching in 2 innings actually have a negative result for him. He allowed runs in 10 games all season. Only 1 game was in the second inning of pitching, and the other 9 were in 1 inning outings. I do recall a few times he may have pitched into a second inning and was pulled after allowing runners, that did not score, but overall he was fine with multi inning outings. The only game was also April 15th.
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    Lewis injury was an overall fluke. Many guys make the transition to OF from infield. To argue that because someone who has not played the OF will get injured, means that everyone will get injured playing OF, because at some point it is their first time playing it. I could go over several guys that transitioned to OF later in career, or even early in career after playing infield whole time growing up, that never got injured playing OF.
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    Personally, I believe playing corner OF is one of the easier defensive positions to play. The hardest thing is judging where the ball will be and taking good routes. SS have to practice good routes on pop ups all the time, so it is not like he will have not had some level of practice on that. I will say that a great defender in the OF can help a ton, robbing doubles and what not, but it is much easier to transition to OF from infield than other way. Gordon was pointed out as recent, but we have had many others on our team, Cuddyer was drafted as SS, moved to 3b at MLB and eventually went to right. Our now Joey Gallo I believe was a 3b in college and coming though minors, to become a top OF defender. Gordon for KC similar path, 3b on defense coming up to transition to LF and was amazing there. I am not saying Farmer will be top notch, but it is not uncommon to make the switch, even late in career.
  13. Trov
    We assume it is Gallo over Kepler, as we assume he will get moved, but it should be Gallo over other 4th OF options. Not saying Gallo is 4th OF, but he will start any of the 3 positions, pushing someone out or down the list. If he can regain his Texas form, he will be a boon to our offense, but at least he can put up big defense either way. Correa is a push because he is who we had last year. Is Farmer better than Urshela that is the only other real addition we have had. Maybe the one we should talk about is the change in medical staff, if they can keep our team on the field and healthy that will make a huge difference.
  14. Trov
    I give little weight to scouting of these kids at 16 and 17 years old. Even ore so on the rankings. Many time the top ranked prospect does not pan out, and the much further down does better over a career. Not saying there is no weight to be given, but lets wait and see what becomes in 3 plus years, as they are not even likely to come state side for minor league ball for 2 to 3 years.
  15. Trov
    I remember Gioleto being a highly touted HS pitcher but coming off TJ that year, so he fell based on that. Took some time but he finally had some good years. These show how much of a crap shoot drafts can be.
  16. Trov
    I do not expect any of them to do enough to crack our 40 man out the gates, barring injuries to others, but will love to see how Lee does at the plate. I have a feeling he makes a debut this year after some injuries to infielders.
  17. Trov
    The one thing to remember about the trade value machine you like to use is that it is subjective to the person putting in the data, but does not look at how the team values the player. For example, the trade value has Rodriguez at 14.2, and Miranda at 26.4. Personally, I think long term Rodriguez will be a much better player than Miranda, but Miranda is MLB level and Rodriguez is A ball right now. If a team has high expectations of Rodriguez they will not care about the value in the this machine. When it comes to prospects, it is hard to determine how much value a team puts on them. I know you can look at national rankings, but that does not mean a whole lot if a team themselves values them base on their opinions.
  18. Trov
    As many said, if he signs on minor league deal and we see if he can be healthy. I would hate to see a line up with him and Gallo in the line up. Throw in Walner and we would have like 12 K's from them alone some games.
  19. Trov
    Eventually we will get to full robo umps. I think it will start with the challenge system, mainly to ease the change in for both players and fans. The younger fans want the right calls, it is the older fans, generally not all, that will say we need to keep the human error as part of the game. They will point to 94% percent accurate, but ignore that they get 2 inches on the edge of the zone that can go either way as accurate. Meaning, they could have much less than 94% but the grading is only based on way off calls. I read an article years ago, which I cannot find now, but it showed that umps in clear calls, meaning not close to edge of zone, they are almost always right. But when it was on the edge of the zone, within those 2 inches, they were 50/50 according to the data the article used. Further, it showed that if count was 3-0 the strike was called at much higher rate if it was in that 50/50 zone. Hunter use to say automatic call when he was commentating. The reverse was true, if 0-2, the ump would more often than not call it a ball if in that 50/50 zone. Then it looked at that an ump was less likely to call a repeated strike in the same area on back to back pitches, if in the 50/50 zone. Pitchers are trained to pitch to the edges of the zone, but calls on balls or strikes are basically a coin flip when they do. I would love to see the full robo ump sooner than later, but I expect the challenge system first, then the full system a few years after that.
  20. Trov
    My wife is a Pirates fan, so I follow them as kind of a secondary team, and their ownership and FO is worse than what we have been dealing with in the past. That being said, I know Cutch never wanted to leave Pirates, even if they would have been losing I believe he would have stayed with them. I am not surprised he returned, knowing he will get regular playing time, and will get to return to his team. Good for him, not that he needed a few more million.
  21. Trov
    I dislike when teams try to change what a player does well, in hopes of getting something a little better, only to then have worse affects. We did this with Buck for years. Kept telling him different ways to do things, to fix problems he really did not have at the time, but expected to have. Martin, the issue is his lack of power, but if he can hit line drives, I am okay if he is not a big power guy. Works for some guys. Twins just assumed it would be a problem down the road so lets try to change what he has done his whole life and what got him drafted 5th overall. Hard to change what you have done your whole life.
  22. Trov
    He better put up the highest career WAR as a SS for Twins, or we made a bad signing.
  23. Trov
    It is hard to speculate on what Miami is doing, are they just shopping pitching knowing they have some and would just want to trade away 1 and hope the return makes them possible contender, or they doing Reds/Athletic style tear down fire sale? Miami has been known to do that in past. If they are doing full tear down, only prospects and young controlled guys will get any deal done. If they are floating names for hopefully faster rebuild or compete this year, then MLB ready guys like Arraez could be used. The only issue I have, is unless you are 100% convinced they will be better than our top 2 or 3 guys, what is the point? I mean why trade off assets to just clog up our pitching to not increase the floor of that pitching? I am not opposed to a deal for better pitching, but I am not seeing any of them clearly being better. The one that does interest me the most is Luzardo. I find it interesting how crazy the home road splits are for Luzardo and Cabrera. Both did much better away than home. I wonder what led to that.
  24. Trov
    First, Marlins can have Garlick for free, as he has to pass waivers and they could put in a claim, so if they do not do that, why would they trade for him? Second, why would they give up a good trade asset for Kepler, unless they plan to flip Kepler. People keep throwing Kepler name out there for pitching to teams that are most likely rebuilding or looking to load up on prospects, like Marlins would be doing if they are trading away pitching right now. Arraez they may have interest in as he is still young and controllable and could help in next few years, but Kepler is of no help to them in what they would be looking for. Now, if they think they are on the cusp of winning, then maybe they would be willing to take on someone like Kepler, but my guess they do not think they are there. Gordon may have value to them, as he is also young and controllable. Can people stop floating Kepler to every team thinking everyone will want him for some of their pitching?
  25. Trov
    "With Jose Miranda entrenched at third base, it’s possible Lewis becomes a right-handed outfield option (but that’s where he got hurt!), or he’s traded to help balance the roster." Is Miranda entrenched at third base? I mean he was decent hitting, but he was a rookie, and some times they fizzle. He also was not a good defender overall. Maybe he does better at 3rd this year, but if Lewis can defend 3rd much better and hit better, why would we move him to OF? Put Miranda as DH, or trade him if need be. In terms of Lee, he can play 2nd as well, or move to OF most likely. His bat appears so elite I would not look to trade him. If you can hit elite we can find a spot.
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