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  1. Trov
    He is mashing in AAA, but I am sure there is some internal discussion about his wrist and has he worked on the few issues he had early this year? I think also they only want to bring him up one more time. I fully agree he could slide into DH or rotate around, but my guess is the team wants to make sure when he does come up, he will be up here for good. He is getting regular swings each day, and I think they want to make sure he will have no set backs on the wrist. Also, is he mashing fastballs only? I have not watched so if he is only mashing fastballs but still rolling over anything not fastballs, he may not be ready to come back up because he will see nothing but offspeed when he gets back up here.
  2. Trov
    Overall I agree that situational hitting is lacking. However, that is in part based on how players have developed over the years. Most MLB players have always been 1 thru 4 type hitters on their teams growing up, because they are most likely the best on the team. They were never asked to really advance runners. I have long talked about players lack of practicing such situations is the biggest issue. Like guys never bunting, but then asking them to do it out of no where is a problem, they normally fail at it. Over the past decade the game went away from situational hitting, but went to try to hit extra base hits, which requires hitting the ball hard. With the dead ball that has played out this year, doing the little things may be much more of a thing to work on. However, just because a guy wants to do something, does not mean they will, as the pitcher is not going to just let them do it. Also, if the hitters gets a pitch to hit hard, why take it because it does not give you the planned result of just advancing a runner? The Sanchez situation talked about, he did hit the ball the right direction, but just not in the right angle. Guys cannot always hit the ball the way they want to. Now, I will agree we should work more on those situations and get back to maximizing situations. I do feel overall the team is doing much better having better at-bats overall. You will always find bad at-bats to point out in any game. They just get highlighted when you lose by a run or two.
  3. Trov
    He has managed to take the ball each time, sure for only about 4 or 5 innings, but he has not been terrible. If we were to start playoffs tomorrow, he would not be my number one choice that is for sure, but he has added more value than some other guys.
  4. Trov
    First, I think the cost of getting Mantas will be pretty high. He is not a HOF bound guy, but he is best out there and as we get closer to deadline there will be a team thinking he will make the difference of getting into playoffs. My assessment is two fold for the NEED for upgrade at upgrading pitching. First, are they needed to get us to the playoffs? Then what kind of a difference will they make? I do not think we need to upgrade to make the playoffs, provided our top end guys come back from injury soon. Our pen will get us into the playoffs as well I believe. Now when we make it, will they be that big of a difference maker? Some top guys can be, the most recent deadline trade I can think of that helped push a team to the ship was Houston 2017, who it looks like gave up basically at best bench players for him. Great deal for Houston. Johnny Cueto was traded to KC in 2015 and he helped in playoffs having 2 good games 1 okay game and 1 bad game. Of note, during the regular season he had a stretch of 5 terrible games, but had about 5 great games too, However, beyond that I cannot find too many deadline deals that led to WS wins, and if you give up your full farm system you better end up with a ship, else it was a failure. If the Twins feel Montas will be a big addition to next years rotation, which I do not feel he will be needed, then I would be okay with a deal, but if he is not needed to fill out the rotation I do not feel he is that much better than what we would march out there, and you never know what the playoffs will bring. He could pitch 1 great game but never get another game, or he pitches several duds, or he could go on a mad bum like run and carry us to the ship. You never know.
  5. Trov
    I think the FO was less worried bout his ability to throw out runners, because for years teams just would not run. However, as MLB is looking to bring stealing back into the game, with different rule changes, changing size of base, and appearing to decrease the power of the ball, that liability is starting to show it may be a huge issue. I am no catching expert, and it may be just his arm is not as strong, or his set up to frame pitches cost him some time, or could be our pitchers do poor job too. However, watching some teams starting to run all over on him may lead to need to change. Since he is not providing any offense, really anyone can fill in for him if they can throw guys out. I would point out that very few catchers are good on both sides, but right now Jeffers is not doing great on either, and as MLB eventually gets the robo ump the pitch framing will be pointless, and throwing runners out will be a bigger issue. Maybe he will change things up when that happens to help with the runner situation, but right now, I would agree he is not an asset behind the plate overall.
  6. Trov
    On name in the internal options not mentioned is Spencer Steer. He has played some over there, and assuming he is not the best defensive option, but has a lot of offense upside, if he can balance enough he could be a bridge until Lewis is ready next year. I highly doubt we land a top FA SS. Correa was an odd situation where for some reason no one was willing to give his asking price. Now it is possible that teams will shy away from some of those deals as the big SS signings so far have not done great. Seager and Seimien with Tex have OPS around .700. Baez he is fielding fine, but he is hitting terrible for making 20 mil. Story had a hot stretch for like 2 weeks in May, outside of that he has been below replacement player earning 20 mil. Correa has been by far best of them all, and will most likely command the 300 mil he is looking for. I doubt we pay it. Could we hope one of the other 3 top guys agree to something closer to what we want to pay, maybe, but only if last years crop scare off a few teams, which for the LA's and East Coast teams I doubt it will.
  7. Trov
    Yes we can beat the yankees, the problem is we do not play like we can. Of course they are talented team, we are not only team that has lost to them. However, we seem to always make huge bone head mistakes, like no one trying to catch a pop up in the infield. These get compounded and more mistakes get made. We just play differently against them. I mean over the time Gleeman posted, we had some good teams, division winning teams and like 90 win teams. We had some bad teams too, but it is not like the Yankees were always the best team in league. There just happens to be something against them. No matter the lead it is not safe. We always find ways to blow it. Now, I will say I am happy with how we hit their starters and over last 4 games we have faced 4 pretty good pitchers this year and done well against them. Now we just need our staff to get right.
  8. Trov
    Overall I would agree with this. The Odo trade they were dealing from depth and need to cut money. I would disagree with the Ryan for Cruz trade. If Rays did have him slotted as a pen arm, that is on them for not seeing what he could be. Sure he may not stay at level he has been, but I have not seen any signs of regression overall. They may have needed a bat, but they could have found one somewhere for much less than what they gave up. It shows at worst that they just were wrong on Ryan, which it happens because they stole Anderson from us for nothing, but maybe that will not turn out as he really only had 1 decent year, and been injured all last year and this year. The Garza deal we got fleeced, but that is more on us. Pretty sure Garza did not like it here and we decided to try and get a bat for him. We were thinking on old ways of baseball at that time, not thinking bat first corner OF guys are easy to find. We were hoping Young would be more than he was, which was not terrible but pitching is king and bat first corner OF guys, unless they are HOF bound, are easy to find.
  9. Trov
    Please site your source for his lack of speed to cover CF? His throwing has been in question, but I have not read anything to suggests he lacks speed to cover CF. He clearly has speed with 21 stolen bases this year already, and baseball reference has his range factor, which is outs plus assists/ 9 innings at a high level. Maybe it is just good positioning, but Buxton is current active leader, and 16th on all time list, at 2.714. Martin in minors so far is 2.34 in CF. This on par with Kevin Pillar, who is 6th on current active list. This year in very small sample size he is 3.49, but in only 6 games so would regress most likely. For comparison Gilberto Celestino has a career minor league mark at 2.20 in CF. The point is, his early numbers show he may not be elite at defending CF, but could most likely could hold it down. It is possible his numbers are just small sample size compared to guys who spent every game in CF or mostly, but please provide your source for fact Martin lacks the speed to play CF.
  10. Trov
    I quit watching once the infield just let a pop up drop without a single player trying to catch it. I knew how it was going to go from that point.
  11. Trov
    I would not say he is the best trade chip, as you noted his prospect ranking is dropping, hard to say he is a top trade chip if his value is dropping. Now, if the question was is he most likely to be traded if one is made, I would agree with that. I do like him overall, and the throwing errors would hopefully be something he can work on. He has great range and speed but with Lewis looking like he will hopefully hold down SS, or at least better than Martin would, and Buck locked up long term in CF, Martin is not knocking on the door and we could send him off and not be hurting because of it. Based on his dropping value not sure he nets what people would be hoping though. Our best trade chips would be Buck, Correa, Lewis, or Ryan in my opinion, but you do not trade any of them if you are trying to win this year or anytime soon.
  12. Trov
    Mad Bum numbers on their face look fine, but a deeper look suggests he may be set for a poor run. His first 6 starts were great, but since he has been okay. I would not give up Kiriloff for him. I would be willing to take a flier on him over Bundy right now, but not Kiriloff. Mad Bum is giving up hard hit rate of 46%, and a K-rate of 16% with a walk rate of 8%. with a FIP of 5.01. All of Bundy's numbers in those categories are better. I would just be worried with Mad Bum too, he may be getting by with a lot of luck and will get blown up soon.
  13. Trov
    I do not know about Gray or Winder, not much updates, but Ryan is supposed to get a rehab start soon coming of the COVID list.
  14. Trov
    Sad to hear E-Rod needed help off field. Lets hope it is not a major injury but only miss a few weeks at most. He was set to get moved up to High A I bet soon.
  15. Trov
    Overall I liked the hitting approach by the team against Cortes. They fell behind in the counts early, but still made him work, and was willing to just put the ball in play getting some weak contact hits. Archer was okay and the overall results were good, but he was walking tight rope all night falling behind and walking guys. The GIDP helped him get out of a lot of possible messes. Miranda really needs to work on defending first, he looked liked a mess out there last night.
  16. Trov
    They for sure made the best pick in Buxton. Gausman would have been the only one you could say looking back may have been the better pick, but even moving forward Buck still has the biggest impact when he his on the field. Had we known he would have so many injury issues, maybe we go a different way, but not upset at all with what Buck has done. We could have drafted the bust Appel.
  17. Trov
    I do not think the article is saying Urshela is our worst option, but it is pointing out that sometimes the eye plays tricks with big plays, when routine ones are not being made. Not saying Urshela is the worst option, but maybe not as good as old Dick likes to say.
  18. Trov
    In a 162 game season you do need to worry about the following games. If this was a best of 3, 5, or 7 series, yeah you do not worry about the next game if you can win the one you are in. You worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. However, in a 162 game season, you know we will play tomorrow. As pointed out you cannot ride the same 3 guys every game and need innings out of others. Even if that results in a loss sometimes. Yes, you can complain, but where will we be later in the year if all our end of pen guys are burnt out with arm injuries because we used them over and over in every close game early in season?
  19. Trov
    This is going to be an ugly series. Our bottom 3 current starters versus their top 3 current starters. I still cannot believe that "foul" call in Kepler at bat. I mean if they want to say he swung okay, but to say that was foul, I mean it shows how bad some calls can be. I felt the called balls and strikes were not bad last night, but that was terrible call. I do not feel it made the difference in a game at least though.
  20. Trov
    It is still just his second year in profession ball. My guess he will get moved up soon, but he was not a top prospect and sometimes numbers do not tell the full tale. We have had many pitchers do well in minors and never make it to the MLB level.
  21. Trov
    This is a great article on how the eye test can be deceiving when it comes to defense in baseball. I long said Jeter was not nearly as good on defense as people thought. He would make these flashy plays and that looks great, but you do not think about the plays they do not make that are not errors. I remember watching a highlight video of outfield plays and someone commented that Jim Edmounds, who made some great diving catches, really was not that good on defense because he was slow and had less range that is why he had to dive so much. Now I have not looked up to see if that was accurate, but the point is, sometimes making a diving highlight play does not mean you are good on defense, because a good defender may have made that play look easy. Buck is a great defender, not just because he can make some diving plays, but because his range is crazy, and he gets great jumps, so he gets to balls most will not even get to. That is also why when I see errors for infielders in minor leagues, I always say, we do not know what kind of errors they are if you did not see them. Joe Crede one year led league in errors at third, but was considered best defender by runs saved. This is because players with great range sometimes will get errors on throws when they try to make plays they can, but many others could not. The play would be a hit plus an extra base. A lessor defender would have not even been in place to make the throw. Urshela makes the highlight plays, but I fully agree he has also not made many plays he could.
  22. Trov
    It is hard to call Kirirlloff and Sano Goats when they have not played a ton due to injury. Sano did play a lot up to that and was terrible overall, but Twins were winning when he ended up getting injured. Pagan has blown a couple of saves now, and he may get worse, but he has not cost us a ton of games. Both his BS and his blown lead in 8th are against Detroit, maybe we just stop playing him against them. If you take away those three outings his numbers are not terrible. Outside of those Tiger games he has only give up runs in 3 outings none of which affected the outcome of the game. New Rule Pagan cannot pitch against Tigers.
  23. Trov
    If you can get him for very low level prospect I would take a flier on him that he can keep it going rest of year, but nothing too much. You cannot have too much pitching, but do not over pay for SSS. He can bust just as quickly.
  24. Trov
    I would not full DFA him yet. I would put him in much lower leverage outings and see how are many other rotating arms can do in high leverage situations, hoping Duffy can work through his issues. He has history of having a good run, maybe he can regain it.
  25. Trov
    If he can hit at MLB anywhere close to what he is doing at AAA he will fit where ever he can. DH, 1B, OF. I would much rather run him out there as a regular DH or move him around different positions than keep running Jeffers out as DH when Sanchez catches, or having Sanchez DH every time Jeffers Catches. Alex should be better hitters than either.
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