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  1. Trov
    I think they did it right after the season in hopes he would pass through. My understanding is they need to get back down to 40 by the winter meetings and can no longer use the 60 day DL, which they had a lot on it. They also need to put guys they need to protect from the rule 5 draft as well. As of writing this comment I see 42 on the 40 man with 8 on 60 day DL. The only player listed from the article as other DFA is Danny Coulombe, the others were DFA already. Are there others above him that could have been DFA sure, but needing to get below the 40 to have room for others that need to be added for rule 5 draft purpose. I know of at least 4 that need to be added, Lewis, Sands, Widner and Miranda, plus others they may want to add. So they still need to find 6 more guys to DFA to make room for the 60 day IL guys and the new additions. That means hard decisions needed to be made, and the recent second surgery for Colina and right after the season reduces the amount of teams that was going to take a shot. None of the playoff teams were going to put in a claim as they still have playoffs to deal with. Every team is in a similar situation as the Twins, needing to DFA players for the coming year. I bet we see Colina on the waiver wire again during the off-season as TX tries to sneak him through much like Twins did.
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    I would give him around a C+. I think early in the year he fell into the these are our guys thing putting Colome out there again and again for too many blown saves, but Rodgers blew some early too. Really early on no bullpen guy had it going. I less had an issue early on when some guys were failing because you do not expect them to be so bad because they had track records. Where I had more of an issue is later in the year when the season was a loss and he did not give some guys a chance to see what they could be long term. Maybe that was mandate from FO or Rocci showing he will continue to try and win and use the best team possible but I would have liked to see Gordon get a little more time at SS just to see if the team is right that he cannot play there. Some times I feel teams create a self fulfilling prophecy. They believe a player cannot do something, so they never give them a chance to do it over time and the few chances they get if the player does not excel right away the team just says, "see they will fail." In a lost season, I like to give guys a shot to see if they can do something, because there is little to lose if they fail, other then they may learn to do it better later on.
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    The lack of depth on the offensive side of things is concerning. Of course we do not need much in the next year or two, but after that there will start to be holes that need to be filled. I know pitching was a big need for long time to have depth there, but my worry is we will be too much like Cleveland minors that keep pumping out pitching but no offense at all. Some of our bat only guys have not shown their bat carries into pro ball as much.
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    9 guys on 60-day DL seems to be high, not sure how many could have stayed off it and the team just said ehh lets put them on 60 day to bring someone else in. Either way that is a lot of DFA's that have to happen.
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    To compare the two is a poor comparison. Ortiz was not a top prospect that played elite defense and at times was possible MVP if could just stay healthy. Health was something that kept Ortiz back, but Buxton will be snatched up in a heart beat if he is not resigned. Ortiz was a bench player when the Red Sox signed him to a low paying contract. It took an injury to their starter to give him a shot and he ran with that. I did not read the article, but the only comparison I can see is that if Buxton leaves he could have a few great seasons with another team if he can stay on the field, but what led to the non-signing is not the same. Yes, Twins made huge mistake of letting Ortiz go, but he may not have become what he did in Boston if he stayed with Twins as well. Buxton if he stays healthy can be a top player in this league for a few years. Everyone knows that. I think Buck will continue to turn down offers unless the bank is broken for him. He will test FA to see if a team will bet on him staying healthy. There may be some teams willing to take that bet knowing he is a bonus and not some to count on. Mid to small market teams cannot plan to pay huge sums to someone that may not play much. Teams like Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox can pay him large sums and if he only plays 50% of games they are not hurt by it.
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    I would look to bring him back. He may not be a top end guy, but he is above replacement value. I also feel you need at least 1 or 2 vets in the rotation over the long season. I do hope we have a bit more of a youth movement in the starting pitching, but bringing him back would be fine by me.
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    I am worried to make moves expecting Miranda to just come in and be MLB guy for years to come. He put up huge numbers this year and should get a shot next year, but to just slot him in can blow up in your face. I am never a fan of moving established guys that can at least produce at MLB level for unproven guys that may not produce. That being said, if Donaldson can be moved for some value I am for it, but if not I would look to move or dump Sano. That would free up a spot for a few guys to play. Even if you keep both, not having a set DH like Cruz you can use that to rotate guys around.
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    How many teams have a SS that is a good fielder and hitter? There are very few SS that are considered top fielder and top hitter, so you could say most teams FO have failed if that is a bench mark for success. Most teams have to decide if the bat makes up for the glove or vice versa. This is similar to Catchers, very few are great on defense and good at the plate, and teams have to decide if they are good enough on one side to make up for deficit on the other.
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    Catcher as always been a defense first position. If you get a catcher that can hit and play good defense that is a bonus. I would prefer not going with both Garver and Jeffers platoon as they do not make a good platoon. If you want one to be regular guy and other to be backup getting a game or two a week fine. If you want more of a normal split I would look to have Rortvedt as the second guy. I would be open to trading either Garver or Jeffers for the right deal as long as you have a planned backup guy to come in when someone goes down with injury.
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    The award is not about best prospect, but about the best numbers overall. The award is not saying Varland is the best pitching prospect but stating he put up the best pitching over the year. The fact he is older than others does raise the fact he is not a top prospect, as prospect rankings take age and projection into account. Maybe Varland climbs system quickly next year, or maybe he just sits in the minors, only time will tell. I do not think anyone is suggesting he should be number 1 pitching prospect for team, but he is a name that was not high on prospect list but may be rising now that he actually got a full season of pro ball.
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    As exciting as his breakout is, I am not expecting him to come up next year and be a force. If he does great, but do not expect it. I have a feeling a youth movement in the next season is coming and it may a boom or bust kind of thing. I could see Miranda, Lewis, Martin, Kiriloff, Larnach, all having major rolls in next two years. Not to mention several starting pitchers having major innings. I think if that is the plan just go all in with it next year. It may be a rough next year if they do, but it will also give them all some good experience than just trickling them in.
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    If the NL does adopt the DH as many expect, then he may have some value in the trade market. No team will want to bring him in to play 1B. He is not elite enough of a hitter to make up for his defense. For teams that have never had a DH there may be teams willing to go out and take someone like Sano. That being said, he value is still not that high to expect much in return. He will not get a MLB ready top guy. Most likely if he is dealt it will be for either a lower level prospect, or for someone in a similar situation, position of possible depth and a change of home may make a difference. Overall, I do not think Sano is going anywhere unless a team really feels they can unlock him and get the player everyone wish he would become. At this point he is who he is, he will strike out a ton, hit monster HR, and when hot he can carry a team for a few weeks, but when not he will be a very feared number 8 hitter.
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    You bring up the perfect question of what comes first, playing time or showing you deserve playing time in the limited at bats you do get? Would Rooker benefit from regular playing time? Maybe, but how long of failing do you give him before you put someone else in? I personally would move on from him. He has no trade value for anything more than a complete flier prospect. Bad fielding middle of road hitting OF are everywhere and no team will be jumping at chance to get one. We saw this with Eddie, who is a much better overall defender and hitter than Rooker has showed, but no team had interest in Eddie. I would DFA Rooker, see if a team claims him, if not let him play back in minors to see if he can be consistent in AAA and then if needed give him a call up. I bet someone will claim him, but I also bet he becomes one of those DFA by many teams hoping he passes through waivers only to be claimed for a few days. Unless he can hit at an elite level either power or average, he offers nothing to a team.
  14. Trov
    You actually are hitting part of my point right on the head. You point out he did terrible for a couple of months, which in his history of moving up levels he would do horrible at each level for a couple of months. Everyone would say well he is struggling and clearly a bust, only to bounce back and have success at the level and people think he may just make it. That is his trend to struggle at each new level. I am not advocating for being SS, or even that he should play every day or anything. I am pointing out that every level he played at he started slow and took a couple months to start turning it around. I just wish in a lost season he got more playing time earlier and not bouncing back and forth so much to see what kind of value he may have going forward. I am not ready to write him off just yet.
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    I know some want to write Gordon off as a miss. However, if you look at the history of him moving up the ladder, he normally would have rough starts at each level and then after a bit of time he would increase his output. I wish he would have been given a lot more playing time this year to have a much better idea of what he have moving forward.
  16. Trov
    I would say very poor bullpen early played a huge role. So many games were lost early in the season with late inning blow ups. I put little stock in complaining about injuries, every team deals with them. Yes, going through like 10 OF options is not common so the fact so many injuries happened in one position does tax the depth a ton. The pitching injuries you always expect and need to have the depth, we did not have that depth. It is hard to point to any one or even three things that blew up the season because it was different things at different times.
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    Dobnak I expect a bounce back. He never was able to get on track all year. Colome I am not sold on coming back, but my guess they will since he had some recovery the second half when forced to pitch. Jeffers will get his time because he is good on defense. He may end up being a low .200 hitter with some power, but if he plays good defense he will have a job for a long time in the league. If you get offense from a catcher that is normally a bonus.
  18. Trov
    If they can get anyone for cheap return I am fine with brining any of them in. However, the more you give up the more you are expected to keep running the pitcher out there even if they are a fail. We have many of our own guys to look at without being tied to someone because of what we gave up to get them.
  19. Trov
    The way Joe walked off mound it sure looked a lot worse than just a bruise. He walked off without even having it looked at. I wonder if he makes another start this year.?
  20. Trov
    You did not sell me on why he would fix SS. One of worst defenders and subpar hitter. Sure he may get better hitting like he did when first came up, but defense is rarely something that changes with teams, so I would not expect an uptick in that area.
  21. Trov
    The electronic zone does change based on the hitter and is not a static zone. It is also used to grade umpires on their calls by MLB. If MLB uses the system to determine if the ump is doing well at calling balls and strikes why do they not use it to actually call balls and strikes? There was a study done several years ago, and it showed that one, umpires got the borderline calls right about 50%, so better than a coin toss. Two, it showed that on those calls if they had called it prior, they were less likely to call it again. Also, more umps were less likely to call them for a third strike. What the study showed was umps would think about the count, the situation, and history to make the calls. It is one of the hardest jobs in the world to do, but the league could take those human elements out of the game and get the right call all the time. It will happen one day, I just hope sooner than later. If it is a strike it should be called that way, no matter the score, the count, home team, the hitter or the pitcher. None of that should influence the call, but studies show it does.
  22. Trov
    Marten should have not get in the second run down. Once they threw home he should have stayed at first. I have no issue pulling a pitching prospect in 6th with a no hitter going. If he was at 88 pitches after 8 then I would say give him a shot at it, but no way at current pitches he was going to complete the game and he has had arm issues over his career, like all pitchers.
  23. Trov
    I would be willing to give him a 1 year low pay contract. If he is healthy he is a good starter, not great, but good. If he is not healthy or is not effective it does not hurt to move on from him. I just would hope they would not keep throwing him out there like Happ this year.
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    For me he is not the worst, mainly because he is not that far off of what he has shown. Good defense and poor offense. Yes, the offense is worse then expected but it is not like signing a guy you expect to carry your offense and they put up those type of numbers. For me, Tsuyoshi Nishioka is by far the worst signing that I can think of. The main reason is he did nothing for the position he was signed for and never really contributed. The money was not crazy high, but it involved us sending a good SS to Baltimore for two pitchers that did nothing for us. The signing made JJ Hardy expendable because we thought Nishioka would play there. Well, he never did play there and he was trash the few games he played anywhere with the Twins. At least the signing of Simmons did not result in trading someone away because we had him. Simmon was always expected to be a 1 year thing. Was he worse than expected, yes, but for 1 year that is all we put into him. Nishioka was years of issues connected.
  25. Trov
    I am not going to say he is going to be a top of rotation guy based on 2 starts. Yes, his last start was great, but many guys in MLB history have had at least 1 great start with no-hitters or perfect games and HOF pitchers never had those. His stuff looks decent, but picking apart Cleveland is not a huge deal, their offense is not good. Lets pump the breaks on him and putting in Ace status. There is a reason Tampa, who needs to keep pitching pipeline depth, was willing to give him up for a rental player. Maybe Tampa was missing something, but they normally do well in their decisions.
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