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  1. gunnarthor
    I like this group a lot. I'm ok with Kiriloff ahead of Rooker and Baddoo for now because I think Kiriloff has a better overall hit tool which is more important. But it's a small quibble. All three are darn good prospects. I think Baddoo should be #6 (Gordon, Lewis, Romero, Gonsalves, Kiriloff, Baddoo, Rooker, Enlow, Thorpe and Graterol) and I think he'll sneak onto some top 100 lists. I absolutely love his upside. Ceiling wise, I think he and Lewis are the only ones who could sneak into the top 10 down the line. Rooker grew on me and Sickels is a big fan - he might make his top 100. I like that he should be in AA this year and his power looks great. Really nice pick. I'm not sure what to make of Javier yet since he's so far away but the tools are certainly exciting. As to the pitchers, what does it say to our system depth that Enlow - a top 30 or so draft prospect can barely crack our top 10? We don't have the upside of a few years ago but the current depth is fantastic. I've hung around a few other baseball blogs/forums over the last year and a guy who came up in a few places to try and "steal" from us was Graterol. I was surprised there was such a whisper campaign about him.
  2. gunnarthor
    According to Bill James, Puckett was the 7th best CF at the time of his retirement, so stat heads seemed to like him. In 12 years, the fans voted him into 10 all-star games, so the fans seemed to think he was pretty good. When he retired he had the third most combined GG and silver sluggers for any outfielder, so the managers thought he was pretty good. I've always thought the writers did a nice job with selecting Puckett and not waiting for some statistical benchmark like 3000 hits or 60 WAR or whatever compiled stat you want. I know WAR is the current hot stat and it doesn't like Puck as much as other stats do but there's enough problems with WAR where we can look at Puck's other claims and put him in.
  3. gunnarthor
    The agent is probably working on an under the board deal with the Yankees to give him a 100m extension after a few months here. I'm not joking. MLB.com had an article about it a few weeks ago about how MLB is really trying hard to make sure nothing like that is happening.
  4. gunnarthor
    Looks like Citron is going to knock down Shopify in the coming months again although the link to the promised future report is just the same article. Yahoo finance bugs me sometimes. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-investors-want-believe-shopify-180850867.html
  5. gunnarthor
    Well, Sano was never going to be DH so Park really had nothing to do with it. Park was a reasonable gamble. For all those who want the Twins to sign Ohtani or Darvish, they'll be blocking Romero, Gonsalves, Thorpe, etc and taking payroll as well.
  6. gunnarthor
    It's a pipedream. He'll sign with the Yankees for only a million and then the Yankees will sign the best former Braves prospects with the savings he gives them. Then they'll beat us in the postseason next year and win the world series where Ohtani throws a CG no-hitter in game seven while hitting a grandslam in the 9th. And then the Yankees give him a 10y/200m extension that they promised him all along. sigh
  7. gunnarthor
    mlbtraderumors says the Twins are still on the hook for the money over the next two years. My favorite Park moment - https://www.mlb.com/video/parks-solo-homer/c-593993283 I really wish it had worked out for him b/c he had more power than Sano, I think.
  8. gunnarthor
    Not saying it was right, just forgot that Rivera was ahead of him. And WAR ain't a great stat (I mean, all stats show that Santana was better).
  9. gunnarthor
    Rogers sorta reminds me of Matt Guerrier in some ways. He can be a valuable part of the pen. Probably not your best piece but effective.
  10. gunnarthor
    I really like this group. Thorpe and LIttell can both be ML starters and might have some ceiling too. Wade is a guy I really like as a possible trade chip since we have so many lefties. But his on-base skills are legit so he could be a second piece in a trade. I want to see Garver play but it seems Molly doesn't trust him. It'll be interesting to see how the team uses him next year. Only Diaz is far away but he has some potential. We'll see with him.
  11. gunnarthor
    While some of our bullpen arms haven't made it some still look pretty exciting and some have already made it. The names aren't who we might have guessed but Hildy and Rogers look like legit pieces. Curtiss and Jay should be part of the pen this year. Jay could be special.
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    Actually, he's gotten quite a few guys out in AA. In 32 starts at age 21 and 22 he's gone 14-12 with a 3.51 era in 169 ip. But 89 walks against 99 strike outs and 19 wild pitches so control is a big problem. I would have protected him since he's only 22 and made a spot start in AAA already. We'll see what happens.
  13. gunnarthor
    Dude, you'll go crazy if you think of the things you should have bought. Just have a solid longterm plan. Fund your IRAs every year, if your employer gives you a matching 401k, max it out. Make sure you have some safe stocks and/or index funds as part of your portfolio.* Speaking of safe and boring, my wife added $5500 of Microsoft to her IRA yesterday. * Not an investment professional, just some idiot on a baseball website.
  14. gunnarthor
    He'll start either in AA for us or in another teams bullpen. How he does from there is up to him. I hope he can put it all together.
  15. gunnarthor
    Didn't the Padres carry four catchers for a while last season? I'm positive they did.
  16. gunnarthor
    Killebrew took three ballots. That's my guess for Thome.
  17. gunnarthor
    I think the Twins did a good job of building up Santana in 02 and 03 before making him a fulltime starter in 04. He had only pitched 130 innings combined in 00 and 01 so he threw back to back 160ip seasons before 04. What I always forget is that he didn't come in second that year to Colon. Rivera was second.
  18. gunnarthor
    I think Stewart is a lock to be drafted by some team. He's still young, throws mid 90s and it's easier to hide a pitcher in the pen all year. Why wouldn't a rebuilding team like the Padres or Phillies try that and at least see what he's got in ST? Plus those teams probably still have detailed write ups from his draft year so they'll be intrigued to see if they can 'fix' him. Interesting, it looks like other top 15 picks from the 2013 draft that weren't protected including Mark Appel (DFA'd), Phil Bickford, Trey Ball and DJ Peterson. I'm not sure what happened with Ball. I thought he'd be ok.
  19. gunnarthor
    Yep, in law school trademarks class we learned about how Deere trademarked its colors. Pretty interesting case reading, as those things go.
  20. gunnarthor
    I do think it's fair to argue that the Twins FO underestimated its chances when it moved Kintzler, for example. I like Tyler Watson but it's not like he's an elite prospect. He's probably not in our top 20. And for that, the FO saved a few bucks for ownership and ran up the white flag. I think it's fair to criticize them for that.
  21. gunnarthor
    I know it's a safe boring stock but we bought John Deere a couple years ago and it's been a really good stock - strongly out performing the S&P and giving back some nice dividends as well. It won't blow up in a good way like some tech stocks but it's got a pretty strong moat.
  22. gunnarthor
    I think this offseason will tell us a lot about the new FO but I don't think we can give them a lot of credit for what they've done so far. Some credit, sure.
  23. gunnarthor
    As a group, I like 21-25 much better. Miranda is the only one I'd keep and I'd bring Jay, Stewart, Rortvedt and Granite down into this ranking. Miranda I'm really high on and would probably have him even higher. He's going to turn into a slugging third baseman. The rest I'm quite meh on, frankly. I like Curtiss, I think he'll end up a big part of the pen next year but he's the only one I think will do anything for the ML club. Jorge is a AAAA type in my view and I'm not sure the other two are even that good. Obviously, I hope they prove me wrong.
  24. gunnarthor
    It's a cop out but let's see how the offseason shakes out. I'm not opposed to the Twins letting him DH in April and May to confirm what they have if Sano can stay at third. I like Vargas' power and think a smart manager might use him a bit like Leyland did with Monroe and bury him low in the line up to surprise opposing pitchers instead of putting him in the 5 spot. But if the Twins sign a better bat, great.
  25. gunnarthor
    Yeah, I think people are focusing too much on Rortvedt's batting line and not considering the improvements made after that abysmal start and that he was in full season ball already.
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