John Bonnes

I wouldn't be shocked if the Twins try him as a starter next year, in say, AA or AAA. But for a Rule 5 guy, and with options like Gibson already struggling to find room in the rotation, I don't know why anyone would mess with it.

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FWIW, I think for the most part the figures in that web site are correct. They look to me like they were pulled from USAToday's tracking DB, which is widely recognized. The problem is that the 2013 numbers were never updated. They match the 2012 numbers exactly.

I can. I'm closing this thread and sending a warning about trolling.

While we wonder whether Morneau or Willingham are worth trading, there is a name that is brought up a lot less often: Trevor Plouffe. If the Twins are convinced Sano can stay at 3rd, Plouffe is looking more and more like a cheap, productive, everyday player at a position that is hard to fill, similar to Denard Span a couple of years ago. Now there is a name that could bring back a pitching prospect, right? And would you?

Mmmmm. Cake. I'll ask..... How much of the concern over where Gibson spends his July is due to: 1) I think he could help the Twins right now 2) I think he could benefit next year from 40-50 innings in MLB this year 3) I think he could benefit long term from 40-50 innings in MLB this year 4) I just don't like the way this current administration does things 5) I just want to play with my shiny new toy Personally, I'd go with 1 - 5% 2 - 30% 3 - 5% 4 - 10% 5 - 125%. (Of, I guess just 50%). I'll add - I can't get too worked up about this. The only real tangibile benefit is maybe how he pitches next year. And it is likely easier to protect his arm (especially given the undue attention he is already given) by keeping him in Rochester.

It's an interesting question. Given their minor league careers, Dozier would seem to have more promise, but he's also in a position to be squeezed - and Rosario is looking like the real deal. I think whoever said "neither" might be right. I'm still not convinced that Florimon will last beyond this year - the Twins aren't afraid to go nab a bargain gloveman at SS in the offseason. So I guess I'd go with Dozier. If he improves enough or if Rosario does well in AA, Dozier could be kept around to keep the seat warm, even if it's just through next May.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised thta looking at the pitching matchups, things look a little bleak in all 3 games. Fortunately, there is also offense to consider. For instance, despite the Twins sending out a 6.12 ERA tonight, they're favored today (very slightly) by Vegas.

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Aaron and John talk about their night in a Target Field suite, praying for Samuel Deduno, Oswaldo Arcia showing he belongs again, Clete Thomas subbing for Aaron Hicks, the Byron Buxton experience, Trevor Plouffe coming off the disabled list hot, grumpy Bonnes and sunny Gleeman, starting a team from scratch, releasing Anthony Slama, mailbag questions from listeners, and being chased by the cops. Here are: the podcasts the rss feed if you want to subscribe and the podcast on iTunes. Or click below if you want to listen right now....

Aaron and John talk about their night in a Target Field suite, praying for Samuel Deduno, Oswaldo Arcia showing he belongs again, Clete Thomas subbing for Aaron Hicks, the Byron Buxton experience, Trevor Plouffe coming off the disabled list hot, grumpy Bonnes and sunny Gleeman, starting a team from scratch, releasing Anthony Slama, mailbag questions from listeners, and being chased by the cops. Here are: the podcasts the rss feed if you want to subscribe and the podcast on iTunes. Or click below if you want to listen right now....

A lot of this thread seems to be driven by the playing time of Parmelee thus far. There are some other long-standing gripes being raised, but they're probably better addressed in other threads, so I'll stick with that one. I think I'm one of Parmelee's biggest supporters so far, so here's my take and why I'm having trouble getting upset about it. Doumit was incredibly hot coming into this week - so hot that he was moved to 3rd in the order - and I couldn't disagree with it. With Doumit and Arcia (who, I think, nobody has any problem with getting time) and Morneau and Willingham and Mauer - there is no place for Parmelee unless you want to see him lunging around center field. It's that simple. Gardy could do a couple things - he could give one of the other guys a night off occasionally, but here's the thing: Parmelee hasn't exactly forced the issue. He's been - at best - mediocre and has been KILLING them in clutch situations (with a good chunk of bad luck mixed in, I would claim). His WPA is the 2nd lowest on the lineup at -1.33, just above Aaron Hicks. Before he was benefiting from Doumit's slump, but Doumit put that to bed. Now that Doumit is cooling off a bit (god is he a streaky player), I think Parm will get some more opportunities. If not, I don't really see why he's on the roster at this point. Is he out of options? I'm sure he was a candidate to be sent down when Plouffe came up. If I had to choose a guy for Parm to take the place of, it would be Willingham right now. He's not healthy. He's not productive. I'd like to seem him get two weeks or so to get his back or knees or whatever better, hand Arcia LF, put Doumit at DH and give Parm another 2 weeks to find himself. But that not be managerially possible.

Maybe eventually, but nothing like this, and not this fast.

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Huh. So Herrmann is backup CFer again. I still don't know where Arcia plays, especially now that Parmelee & Doumit are hitting. Id have rather seen Antuan Richardson (is that his name?), I think.

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I think I was at at party. The guy who was knocked out was also a Packers fan who had been talking s-word about Greg Jennings. That might have been part of what got Klaus so worked up. Plus, his wife left him recently. All she left of hers was that damn umbrella.

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Are people going to be disappointed if we end up with Bryant ( because pitchers go 1-2-3)? Do we need pitching that bad? i know I won't. But I sense I'm in the minority.

Shoulda listened at 8:20 this morning. :-)

I would personally take this as very good news. Twins would almost have to take a Big 3 guy then.