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  1. gunnarthor
    I think the problem was: 1) bad starting pitching. Most nights, our starters couldn't get out of the 5th inning so the pen needed to pitch more than they should. 2) Bad choices on roster management. Twins have failed to recognize the decent relief arms they had. I've mentioned in other threads but they've let guys like Wells (29 games, 114 ERA+, 43ip), Curtis (40 games 125 ERA+, 43ip) and Chargois (35 games, 160 ERA+, 34ip) go. Those three are all still making league minimum and arguably out pitched Colome and Robles. Twins have had 28 pitchers this year throwing 987 innings. Only 332.67 have come from pitchers the Twins drafted or international signings and that's been worth 2.1 WAR. Free agents brought in have been worth -4.3 WAR! That's hard to do. 3) Questionable pitching philosophy. This one might be wrong but the Twins have spoken a ton on how much they don't want their pitchers to see the other teams lineup a third time. So that requires a strong bullpen. But with a weak bullpen, the pitching staff falls into this death spiral where the starters struggle, the pen is wiped out, worse pitchers come in, etc, etc.
  2. gunnarthor
    They can't possibly be worrying about service time, can they? Right now, they should be wondering if they have guys who will even have a six year ML career.
  3. gunnarthor
    Yeah, that move seemed strange to me too. I mean, he's a good ML relief pitcher who won't embarrass the team. And the Twins are really struggling right now so a vet might be good. But I'm trying really hard to be nice.
  4. gunnarthor
    This FO let Ynoa, Gil, Rodriguez, Wells, Anderson and Chargois go in their first two years. That kind of changes the storyline on how good the pitching they inherited was, doesn't it? And they got back to back 4 WAR seasons out of Santana, acquired by the previous FO, as well as an "in his prime" Gibson, and even 21 decent starts from Mejia.
  5. gunnarthor
    Travis Harrison. Comp pick, IIRC, who had the best HS power in the draft. Without looking it up, I think he got to AA. This is probably what you should normally see when you look at prospects 21-25.
  6. gunnarthor
    I hope Nick is getting a little kickback from the FO at this point. I'm pretty close to completely against them at this point but articles like this kinda push me over the edge.
  7. gunnarthor
    I understand why the Twins took a flyer on him but he needs innings. Lots of innings. I think they should cut him, no one will claim him, and then send him to AAA, make him a starter, and get a bunch of innings into him. He's barely thrown 100 innings since 2019. His lack of innings isn't just the Twins fault but it also might be a side effect of the Twins philosophy of the 5 inning starter. Our minor league arms just aren't throwing enough innings. Twins don't seem to have a single pitcher in the top 50 in minor league innings pitcher - https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/leader.cgi?request=1&type=pitch&year=2021&group=Minors&sort_by=W
  8. gunnarthor
    I just meant in picture quality. Ballysports picture isn't nearly as crisp.
  9. gunnarthor
    Anyone comparing ballysports v espn? Espn looks much better, hadn't realized how bad ballysports feed was.
  10. gunnarthor
    I hadn't realized Burrows had been a first round pick. I suppose it makes sense to give him a look. (I'm trying real hard here)
  11. gunnarthor
    Sano's an impact bat who, I think, will age surprisingly well but I think he presses really hard and affects him. Once he gets going, he's ok but you got to let him go through his valleys. One of the dumber things Rocco did this year was bench him for Astuddio (sp). He should be penciled in at 1b/DH all the time. I'd be ok with Kiriloff in the OF with a healthy Buxton.
  12. gunnarthor
    The DH will also help the NL become a stronger league.
  13. gunnarthor
    Since 2005 or so, I had watched Twins pretty religiously, even getting the MLB package when I lived out east. I easily watched 140 games or so each year. I watched only a handful of games in 2020 b/c COVID made everything hellish. This year, I've proabably watched 10 games. I'm a lot less interested in this team because: 1) they suck. 2) they are boring. I hate watching this pitching staff. Absolutely hate it. I watched the 2013 staff and enjoyed it more. Can't emphasize enough how much I hate this pitching. 3) Buxton's hurt and Berrios is gone. Those two were the main reason I watched games. 4) Lastly, this started a few years back. I really dislike Dick Bremer now. He annoys me and the game passed him by. I don't want to hear another story about getting a productive out or how what Ohatni's doing isn't as impressive as what Babe Ruth did. He needs to go.
  14. gunnarthor
    I suspect he'll won't be here next year but I think he does have a role somewhere as a jack-of-all-sorts backup player/pinch runner.
  15. gunnarthor
    I want Buxton back and finish the year healthy. I'm excited to see Ryan make his ML debut after the olympics.
  16. gunnarthor
    This is quite true although Alcala is probably the most underrated disappointment this year. 43 games and negative WAR from both B-R and fangraphs. Not sure what happened there. I thought he might have had a chance to be a power starter and now he's just a really bad bullpen arm. Shocking.
  17. gunnarthor
    Sorry. Maybe it'll go back up.
  18. gunnarthor
    Yes, the Twins missed on some draft picks. That's the nature of the beast. There are other ways to build up pitching other than the draft. Look at the Twins from 01-10. They missed on the draft in those years too but were able to put together good pitching staffs by other means. They traded for Mays (146 starts and 10.5 WAR for Roberto Kelly), Milton (165 starts and 15 WAR in the Knobby trade), Lohse (162 starts and 6.5 WAR for Aggie), Reed (65 starts and 3.5 WAR for Lawton), Silva (124 starts and 9 WAR for Milton), Liriano (141 starts and 9 WAR for AJ), Boof (60 starts, 0 WAR for AJ). And they also picked up Santana in the rule v although that was technically a trade for Camp. This FO threw in the towel in 17 to acquire Enns, Littell, Watson. In 18 they traded for Duran, Alcala, Rijo, De Jong and Smeltzer. Not a lot to like there. They also lost Ynoa, Gil, Rodriguez, Wells, Anderson and Chargois in that period. One might ask "how different would 2019-present look if we had kept Ynoa and Gil for our rotation and Anderson, Wells, and Chargois for our pen?"
  19. gunnarthor
    Jax is giving a little Scott Baker vibe, in a good way.
  20. gunnarthor
    Yeah, I was surprised how angry I got reading about this. **** Cousins. Jesus. Get the ****ing vaccine, grow up, be a leader.
  21. gunnarthor
    This far out, I have no idea but Lesko excites me the most of that group. Agree with Mike that I'd like to know who the big college pitcher is.
  22. gunnarthor
    Things are too negative on TD (I'm partly the reason for that) but there are some reasons for optimism for 2022 1) Buxton is due a full and healthy season. He goes on the IL too much but it's usually a freaky, silly injury, rather than something you expect to be a constant problem. And if Buxton gives the Twins a full season, the Twins will have one of the best players in baseball. 2) Miranda and Martin look to be two pretty good bats that will be ML ready sooner rather than later. Martin was arguably the best bat in last years draft and was thrown straight into AA and more than held his own. Miranda is having the breakout season many of us expected (God, I love that 2016 draft!). 3) Continued improvement from Larnich and Kiriloff. Both seem like they should be solid middle of the order bats in the longterm. Both have struggled at points but both have shown glimpses of what we can dream on for years to come. 4) Balazovic and Woods-Richardson will make the majors. Both are top 100 prospects and I'm really excited to see both of them in the majors. I'm sure they'll struggle a bit (remember Berrios' rookie year?) but I think both will solid ML pitchers.
  23. gunnarthor
    Stewart, for instance, was 21 coming off a 2.88 ERA season between A+/AA in nearly 150 innings with surprisingly low strike out numbers. How much of his failure to develop from there is on the new FO or the old? Is Balazovi's continued improvement on the old or new? Now Stewart hasn't gone on to do much so maybe he was never going to be much but what about Enlow? Or Leach? They are 22 and 21 this season. Were they just bad picks by this FO or are we failing to develop them? Did Romero need some special assistance that this FO ignored that led him to torpedo his career? I'd rather have Graterol back than Maeda but I understand that you and I have very different views on Maeda.
  24. gunnarthor
    I've given this FO credit even in this thread but they had a job to do and they failed at it. Maybe they'll get better, maybe they won't. They were clearly hired to replicate what the Twins did from 2001-2010 where they kept window of contention constantly open and only had one losing season while moving from one core to another. I mentioned Rosario and May not because we necessarily miss them (replacing Rosario with Larnich was a 100% Terry Ryan move) but that the core they inherited is getting old and the FO needs to make the right move to keep the window open. Our pitching staff is the oldest staff in the league and, by far, the worst. That's amazing.
  25. gunnarthor
    Yeah, that core was going to win. They nearly made the playoffs in 2015, made it in 2017, 2019, 2020. (We started to see the core leave after 2020 in Rosario and May). 2016 and 2021 are consensus TSF years, apparently. Even this year, the bats are still good enough to be a playoff team. Pitching was a disaster. My opinion is that the FO didn't do enough to supplement that core or to keep the window open long enough.
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