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  1. gunnarthor
    Yep, looks like it'll be a pretty bad period coming up. I own some Indian stocks that have been destroyed with Brexit and the trade wars - like thousands in the red. Could sell and get a tax write off at this point. Deere is down 5% today. Great company, I think, in the longterm but it might get cheaper for a bit.
  2. gunnarthor
    I'm not sure why anyone would think we should poison the water with one of our most important players. He's doing fine on his rehab assignment and we need his bat. Gonzalez is posting a 55 OPS+.
  3. gunnarthor
    Buehler is the one we should regret passing on, not Bennintendi. Buehler was actually in the discussion for the Twins and there was some expectation we'd take him. He and Berrios would look great together.
  4. gunnarthor
    Blankenhorn is having a solid season - .279/.356/.442 across A+/AA. My understanding is the Twins see him as a super utility type (maybe their Marvin Gonzalez). He's only 22. Especially with benches going to 26 players in a few years, he'll be a MLer.
  5. gunnarthor
    I think Eddie is the team leader in the clubhouse but Buxton is the face of the team for the fans.
  6. gunnarthor
    Glad to hear that Stewart will get another start. I still think he can help the ML club. Good that Cabbage is hitting in A+ (SSS). Kiriloff and Sano might be on the same team at the end of the year, too.
  7. gunnarthor
    Right now, CJ Cron is posting a 81 OPS+. He's not getting it done. His defense is good but he's not going to stop the Twins from bringing up an uber-prospect, much like Dougie Baseball didn't stop us from bringing up Morneau.
  8. gunnarthor
    Currently, the Twins minor leagues have given us a few pleasant surprises (Balozavic, Rortvedt, Jeffers, Arreaz) but a lot of injuries (Javier, Kiriloff, Gordon, Gonsalves, Severino) and some rough starts (Larnich .682 OPS in, Rooker .269 OBP, Thorpe 8.19 era, Enlow 6.94 era, Baddoo .198 avg, Celestino .458 OPS) among our top 20 prospects. I'm still a believer in most of our struggling guys but Enlow is a head scratcher. He's never looked good. I think Kiriloff is going to be a Mauer-like bat for us for a decade. Maybe a few more homers but huge avg/obp guy. Really nice to see him hitting and taking walks in AA.
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    Royce Lewis is starting to heat up a bit as well - he's had five 2 hit games in his last 8 games. Balazovic is going to skyrocket up these lists. I think he's already our second best pitching prospect. That 2016 draft is going to be amazing for us.
  10. gunnarthor
    Hoping NEWR has a nice run, as well. Additionally, while I don't own Adobe but my kids do and that's been on a nice run.
  11. gunnarthor
    mlbpipeline likes him well enough and Atlanta just promoted him to AA. He's certainly not a lock to make it to the majors and he might end up as a bullpen arm.
  12. gunnarthor
    Graterol and Balazovic are really exciting prospects. Jax pitching a lot better than I thought he could. I remember thinking he wouldn't be top 30 in our system last year. He's really stepped up now that he's pitching full time.
  13. gunnarthor
    I'm not very impressed with the pitchers in our top 20, outside of Graterol. Nice to see Smeltzer pitch well but his upside is limited. The FO made a lot of trades at the deadline the last two years but I'm not sure the returns are all that inspiring. Certainly too early to make a final decision but, ugh. I'd much rather have Ynoa back than Littell. Nice to have Gordon and Kiriloff back and good to see Sano is moving. Seems like Lewis is getting hot, too.
  14. gunnarthor
    Seriously, Mike, thanks for the Shopify suggestion. That is a fun stock.
  15. gunnarthor
    https://www.mlb.com/news/replacing-vlad-jr-as-mlb-s-top-prospect?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage
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    Way too soon
  17. gunnarthor
    He certainly has the talent to be in the discussion but so do others. I expect he'll be #1 on a few lists by the end of the year though. But Mize threw a no-hitter tonight in AA.
  18. gunnarthor
    I really like Rortvedt. I was kicking around putting him #10 in the TT voting and now I'm sure he is.
  19. gunnarthor
    I thought it was pretty good although I probably liked individual movies in the MCU better. Didn't like one part at the end which seemed out of character but they really did a great job considering all those movies.
  20. gunnarthor
    Kepler's blast looked like a classic Thome blast. wow. Loved the Cruz signing. He'll be the AL's all-star at DH this year.
  21. gunnarthor
    I'm certainly not ready to defend the new FO on this and you don't want to hear "it's early." But, it's early. In 2015, Sano hit .163/.299/.388 through the first week of May. Commentators here were saying that he was rushed back from his injury, they should move him back to A ball, etc. He was in the majors two months later and finished 3rd in ROY voting. Generally, you should trust the talent. Lewis is too good to be this bad. I'm more worried about guys like Enlow and the pitchers we picked up in the trade deadline the last two years. But Lewis and Kiriloff and Larnich will be good ML players. Rooker might end up being a Palka-like player but I think that's his floor.
  22. gunnarthor
    Graterol is impressive. It's also nice to see Cabbage doing well. This is a make or break year for him but it looks like he's stepping up.
  23. gunnarthor
    On the OF, I think Wade and Raley can be a solid corner OFers defensively but one is playing out of position in CF now. As to Rooker, I would expect him to be a below avg defender. So, realistically, the Red Wings are playing two LFers and a 1B in the OF on most nights.
  24. gunnarthor
    Klaw might have been right about Balazovic. Sounds like he's got incredible stuff.
  25. gunnarthor
    Disney streaming services are going to be huge. We own some Disney and my wife and I were talking about buying more into our IRAs. We waited and now Disney is up over 10% today.
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