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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    Honestly, I want to see a lot more of Park and Vargas. Both of shown flashes of being able to be pretty solid contributors to the team. There's potential there. It won't get unlocked sitting on the bench, and both have little to learn in AAA. I want to see Mauer sitting a lot more, both for his health and because we need to see what have in those two. If Mauer wants to play more, the occasional game at 3B when Sano needs to rest is one way. Defensively, there's not much different to 3B and 1B, and we all know Joe has the arm for it.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    If I understand the new CBA, comp picks in 2018 will be in the 3rd round.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    Well, it won't solve short term needs, but I got to like the upside there in that scenario. Sheffield will be starting in AA next season and Alvarez in A+. I'm guessing though that if they won't give up Alvarez for Dozier, why would they for Castro? Flip side is that you might have my attention if they sent JDL over in place of Alvarez and then a 3rd and 4th prospect got sent our way (one from each team). Both are getting upgrades in that scenario. The Twins might get a better haul.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, poverty there is pretty rough. Even in the so called vacation areas, you don't have to go far to see it. It's even worse on the other side of the island. But that said, just building the facility is a good thing from that side of things. It will keep people employed... I guarantee you though that it was likely very inexpensive to build.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    Honestly, I doubt whomever goes 1-1 signs for slot. With that in mind, they may be able to get an HS player that falls due to being "too expensive." College guys have a bit less leverage. They could still very much get an HS player for the next two picks.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd be careful with this. It was still a 4 game lead. Yeah, they could coast, but so could other teams too. 4 games is not a lock to win in 2017. 7 games isn't either. This logic astounds me to be honest. They have a hole at 2B... a big one. Yeah, they are a likely playoff team, favorites to win their division, and even if SF surges a likely wild card team, but that doesn't minimize the fact that they have a gaping hole at 2B. Teams in that situation should very much be trying to maximize their odds of a ring. I get that you wouldn't trade JDL, Alvarez, Verdugo, and Stewart for that, but it shouldn't take that kind of package to get a nice upgrade at 2B. I would think a much more reasonable package of JDL, Stewart, and possibly a guy like Ruiz would do it... or maybe a 4th C+ type guy that isn't even in their top 20. That's not unreasonable at all. It gives LA a 2B, and it gives MN 2 ML ready pitchers and a couple of lotto tickets as insurance.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    Given that all the reporting has made it clear that Buehler/Stewart/Calhoun aren't on the table, I think you need to recognize that it is distinctly possible that LA is lowballing MN. As was noted elsewhere, a package of JDL + Buehler or Stewart + a flier guy like Ruiz or something like that would get this trade done.... in a heart beat. But none of those guys are on the table.... and I'd add that even if Calhoun was, he isn't really a fit. Given that he is a top 100 prospect, if they will part with Calhoun, I'd think they would part with Stewart or Buehler... but they won't..
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't know. I know tons of Reps that went Hillary or Gary Johnson. Lots of them couldn't stomach Trump, and he won anyways... SSS I know, but I don't think he's the great unifier of the Republican Party by any stretch.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    Very well said. What I find funny is that at the time 2012 was regarded as a week draft and 2014 a strong one... kind of funny how you look back and rethink that. I think Allard was one of my big names for the 2015 draft, though to be fair, he fell pretty far. I don't remember why. There really wasn't a whole lot floating around Jay other than that he was one of those options at that pick. Ace upside, but with far more question marks then you wanted out of a 1st rounder. That was one of those drafts where in all honesty, we had no idea who the Twins would draft. The same couldn't be said for Gordon and Stewart. They were pretty much the best of what was left in terms of ceiling.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    Yeah, I think play second bat second had a lot to do with that. There plenty of low OBP guys batting in front him most of his career. Kind of hard to get RBIs when you don't have guys on base in front of you.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    "Not a lot of future stars" doesn't mean someone couldn't take that step forward and become a future star. It is just an honest assessment that there are a lot of question marks with their top pieces. That's where that depth piece comes in. Some of it is just looking at the system and going "hey, there's a lot of guys here good enough to make the majors." But setting that aside, there's a lot of guys could just as easily put themselves on that future star list. Off the top of my head: Jay, Gonsalves, Jorge, Romero, Thorpe, Javier, and Gordon are all guys who people could be swooning over next year at this time. Plus there's #1 overall and huge boatload of raw and talented guys in the low minors. Now will they all? Probably not. But it's certainly not dire.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Honestly, I've got to think May is ahead of Berrios. He's actually had some success as a starter, which Berrios has not. He was demoted to the pen out of need, not because he couldn't cut it. My big gripe is Santiago. I'd rather struggle with May and Berrios in the rotation then to hand a spot to Santiago, and since he just got a 8M contract for a year, I don't see that happening. Perhaps F&L think they can flip him for a C prospect if Hughes surprises. I'm just skeptical. I wouldn't give up anything other than org filler for him.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    I said it, but I could be mistaken here. I seem to remember that podcast a couple weeks back where they said as much. That's what I was thinking of when I wrote it.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    And we kept trotting Luis Rivas out at 2nd. That got us lots of WS rings, right?
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    It's kind of like "Brett Farve doesn't even need to perform like 2009 for us to be good in 2010" I would get the not wanting to make an expensive move if LA and a 2-3 WAR player there. Not much of an upgrade, but when you're a contender with a black hole at a position and the opportunity to replace it with much better arises... well, you take advantage of it.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    luxury maybe, but given their production at 2B, he's a huge upgrade. That line of reasoning is the kind that will haunt them later.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm not a fan of 'luck' in general to explain statistical variation. It is quite possible for variation to be something other than random, especially in smaller samples.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    While English needed Lasik, I'm waiting for pretty much every ball player to undergo the process as a performance enhancer. I suppose there really aren't much in the way of long term side effects (which is good), but I'm not really sure what to think about that.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    I cannot imagine a scenario where Texas want's less for Profar than the Twins do for Dozier. Profar for JDL is selling low in my opinion. Yeah, he needs at bats, no question there, but if Texas didn't have plans for him, that trade would have happened a couple years back when Profar was much more valuable.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    I guess the real question for me was what caused his drop off in the second half. His final results were 'acceptable' offensively for a SS, but not what I want to see in a top prospect. He got off to a fantastic start, maintaining an .800 OPS into (if memory serves me right) August. Finishing with a .723 is concerning. Is it just not being used to the rigors of playing baseball full time, or that the FSL caught up to him? Glad he hit the AFL running.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    That's a pretty fair assessment, though fangraphs was much more brutal, calling it a bottom 10 system. Law likes ceiling more, and there's plenty of high ceiling guys in the system, it's just that most of those guys come with plenty of question marks. This system is one of those where it could be suddenly very good again if a few of those guys take that big step forward. That's not a bad thing given they just graduated their star power guys, but not a good thing if you don't see that progression.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    is this ish or ick?
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    The whole part of buying that out is spreading the risk around while giving some cost certainty to both sides. I think in general that is a good thing (though I'd have fought hard for that 1st year of FA). The Twins should be looking to do this with guys like Sano and Buxton once they start to mature as well.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    So I would note that as tech, we are far more diversified than most places. Those self driving cars, we are there. Robotics, we are there. Cloud, we are there. Security, we are there. etc. You're right though, you aren't diversified. The flip side is that I think in terms of value, technology right now is finally starting to reach the promise that was expected out of them during the dot com bubble. I don't think that sector will be as volatile... Now that said, if you're looking for up and coming, I think the next big movement within tech may be security firms. Companies are getting the rear ends handed to them by hackers. Finding the next big security firm would probably yield a good payday.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    I think 80 is probably on the top end of what they could do, but I like the optimism. I think they will do much better than the 59 wins they popped out this year as I agree that there's good reason to think people will take steps forward.
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