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  1. gunnarthor
    I think Arcia comes up as DH soon. And, unless he gets going soon, Santana will go down and Escobar will take over short for a bit.
  2. gunnarthor
    Sure, he'd look great here but he's not going to change much and I think Arcia would be a lot more valuable to us over the next 4 years he's still under team control for. And the end of the day, elite play out of a relief pitcher isn't worth that much. Trading Arcia isn't like trading Ramos, who was still a prospect. Arcia can hit at the ML level with power. That's sort of rare now. Meyer + prospect I could understand but not Arcia.
  3. gunnarthor
    Arcia is one of the few LH hitters we have who can hit 25-30 HR and is still only 24. Way too early to give up on him for 1.5 years of Chapman. There will be less sexy/less expensive bullpen pieces if we need to find one. Jonathan Broxton could probably be had for a tenth the price of Chapman, for instance.
  4. gunnarthor
    Man, not this year. We have Burdi, Meyer, Reed, Graham and Jones who all throw 95 or higher. Don't give up Arcia or Meyer for a RP (and I don't think the Reds would take less).
  5. gunnarthor
    Massive spoiler in this post so don't read it, Mike! I really liked this episode but the writers are still telegraphing things pretty bad. Did anyone not know the wildling woman was going to be killed by undead kids? But the Night's King taunt to Jon Snow was probably the highlight of the show so far. Brock, interesting that you mentioned King. I haven't read his Dark Tower books but about 6 months ago I read Joyland and Mr. Murder while also reading ADWD. I liked ADWD a lot but Martin in not nearly the writer King is.
  6. gunnarthor
    Yeah, it's nice to have Fein back but it would be nice to have another shut down reliever back there (I actually think Graham, if he stays healthy, can become that in a year or two). But it's also a credit to Molitor that he's willing to use Perkins in the 8th inning (and credit to Perkins for doing it well).
  7. gunnarthor
    http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/brady-aikens-medicals-are-out-situation-is-still-cloudy/ Mostly still up in the air and the Aiken camp doesn't want a lot of people seeing them and leaking information like last year. But there was one good nugget in the article - "One exec whose team doesn’t have access to the medical told me that execs from other teams told him it isn’t as bad as expected and that they think Aiken will go in the first round." It sounds like he's not in the Twins plans but if it's just common TJ surgery and Tate is off the board, I'd want him.
  8. gunnarthor
    Klaw seems the high guy on him. Saw something earlier (maybe here) that suggested the Twins weren't on Newman at all. Callis/Mayo at mlbpipeline have him at 29. He seems similar to Levi Micheal, who went 30, IIRC.
  9. gunnarthor
    Obviously, I'd love Rogers or Swanson but nobody thinks they'll fall, so ignoring those two, I'd go with Tate who has fallen in a few mocks. I think he'd be a real steal at #6, sort of like Rodon at #3 last year.
  10. gunnarthor
    Good for him. He seems to have a pretty good attitude after dropping in the draft. Hopefully, he makes a lot of teams regret letting him fall.
  11. gunnarthor
    I do think Molitor has done a nice job of using his bullpen pieces. I believe one of the fangraph articles also mentioned it but Perkins was first or second among closers in WPA, meaning Molitor wasn't afraid to use him for tight spots. And fortunately we seem to have some nice depth to replace a few of these guys if/when they regress.
  12. gunnarthor
    Whoops, my bad. Sorry Jimmer
  13. gunnarthor
    http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/brian-dozier-has-been-key-to-twins-surge/ "Dozier is not generally regarded as one of the best second basemen in the game, but his play dictates otherwise. In alphabetical order, the top-10 second basemen by WAR over the last calendar year are as follows: Jose Altuve, Robinson Cano, Brian Dozier, Dee Gordon, Howie Kendrick, Ian Kinsler, Jason Kipnis, Joe Panik, Dustin Pedroia, and Ben Zobrist. Going based on the names, one might suspect Panik is last on the list in terms of WAR, and that would be correct. Altuve, Cano, Zobrist, and Pedroia all get a lot of notoriety. Kipnis and Gordon have gotten off to great starts while Kinsler and Kendrick have had solid careers. It probably should come as a surprise, then, that Brian Dozier tops the list." Nice little article on Dozier and his approach at the plate. I still think that his RH pull power is really rewarded by TF (and so will Sano's!) but his walk rates make him a pretty good bat.
  14. gunnarthor
    I don't think the article was that bad. I don't think anyone here thinks the Twins are the best team in the AL (let alone baseball). The thrust of his piece is that the Twins FO shouldn't make a "win-now" trade this year. He's ok with them going after a guy like Harang or other "low hanging fruit" but not to make a trade involving a guy like Sano or Berrios. With Ryan, I really don't think that would happen anyway. He did say that the Twins wins and baseruns won't stay that far apart. But that doesn't mean that the Twins have to finish sub-.500, for instance. In just a few weeks, the Twins have improved enough for the baserun model to change from a .380 team to a .424 team. Considering we're only a third of the way through the season and (hopefully) the Twins worst stretch is behind them (being outscored by 30 runs in 7 games should be the nadir), the gulf between real wins and base wins will continue to shorten.
  15. gunnarthor
    The big thing that keeps coming to me is that there is really no great teams right now. Washington should be and St Louis might be but both are in the NL. Who are the best teams in the AL? Astros? They're a bigger surprise than us. Royals are legitimately good. Tigers should be better but they certainly aren't great. The entire AL East is a mess. Seattle is probably the most disappointing team, unless it's the Angels. So I think a big part of our success may just be that there isn't a lot of difference between the middle 10 teams in the AL. Every team has problems and some of those problems are huge.
  16. gunnarthor
    A few months ago, I was really hoping Cody would pitch himself into the top 10 so getting him at 73 would be great, IMHO. I think that Tate is the best case scenario for The Twins and am really starting to hope he falls. Getting those two guys would make me pretty happy.
  17. gunnarthor
    We could, but Vargas sort of sucks. Let him figure out how to take a walk in AAA and bring him up later.
  18. gunnarthor
    Don't most teams at this point not have a full time DH? I do think though that in a few weeks Arcia will be our fulltime DH and Rosario will stay in LF for a bit longer.
  19. gunnarthor
    http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2015?list=draft Re did their draft list (Tate has dropped to 5 so I'm really starting to hope here). And they now have 200 names on the list, so the guy we get in the Supp 2nd and 3rd round are probably on the list. Their new top six are: Rodgers, Swanson, Fulmer, Bregman, Tate, Cameron.
  20. gunnarthor
    For a bit, I'd like to see Arcia DH, let Rosario stay in left a bit longer, send down Santana and let Escobar start at short.
  21. gunnarthor
    I saw that too. I submitted a question about Hu and Gonsalves and promotions but he didn't answer it. In any event, I think we'll some promotions in the coming weeks.
  22. gunnarthor
    http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?sid=milb&content_id=135182083 Apparently he got a concussion and some broken ribs on the collision. He also hurt his spleen and needed surgery. Looks painful.
  23. gunnarthor
    Someone at minorleagueball made the comment that Stewart is injured but no surgery at this time.
  24. gunnarthor
    You cut off the best part - "I would bet the Twins have a heavy hitter at the Lake Elsinore regional to see Tate." I wonder who the Twins will send? Honest to God, I'm loving the rumors of Tate slipping to us. That would be fantastic. I think Jay and a few others have acquired 'shiny new toy' and people are making a mistake letting Tate fall - sort of like Rodon last year.
  25. gunnarthor
    The problem is that many of understand that that is your point. We just don't agree. And I think that's fine. My wife loved "Emma" by Jane Austin. I hate it. I think Emma is a horrible character but my wife sees her completely differently. We're both smart, we both read a lot of books, by most definitions we are "cultured." And yet my wife is completely, utterly wrong on this. But that's the way it is. It's not really worth the fighting and arguing. So if you think certain ways of characters, you aren't wrong. But neither is Mike or I who think completely differently.
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