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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, the WS have a weak farm system. They should be asking for at least 2 top 100s and 2 or 3 more young upside picks as well. Sale has 3 years left and is a top of the rotation pitcher. He won't come cheap.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    De Leon, Alvarez, and Puig... I'd be happy with that. 2 major leaguers with high upside and an ace upside pitching prospect. I'm liking the fact that LA is being noted as being aggressive... now hopefully one or two others gets aggressive and thus forces them to up the price, by say swapping Urias for De Leon or throwing in another prospect and taking Santiago off our hands. One can dream...
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    Again, this is a stereotype and hardly true. He started at 17 in the DSL. At 18, he moved to the GCL. At 19, the Appy league. As for results... yeah, not exactly what screams "move him up". Landa walked 7.3 batters per 9 in DSL in 2011 and got promoted to the GCL where he walked 5.4 batters per 9 and saw a big drop in his K rate. Despite that, he got promoted to Elizabethon. His minor league career walk rate is 5.09. Compare that with Jim Hoey, who sports a 4.66 BB/9 in the minors. K rates in that stop weren't bad, but weren't stellar either. ERA was good. Look at the numbers before and see if there was a reason to hold the guy back before making statements like this.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    Hmm... I'll be in DC next week. Anyone know the hotel/conference center that I should be spending my evenings at?
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd rather sink or swim with Mejia or some other young pitcher than tendering Santiago. I don't have a problem tendering him if the FO is confident he can be traded (and I do think he has some value), but I don't want to see him in a Twins uniform next season.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    exactly. I don't think I send Dozier out without two of De Leon, Urias, and Alvaraz. That's me personally. If we have to pick up Puig and possibly send a lower tier prospect like Stewart over for it, by all means. But at a centerpiece, no way.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    MLB caught up to him two years ago and he hasn't adjusted. You're right in that he's not abysmal (roughly a .750 OPS the last two seasons), but you add to it that he's got a negative reputation, there's definitely quite a bit of risk. I don't mind Puig in MN as a lotto ticket, but Puig is not what the team needs to be competitive, and getting him instead of what we really need (pitching) isn't worth it. Like I said, I'd take him as a flier, but no way as any center piece.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    I think the sentiment is that this would not be enough. Puig is pretty high risk high reward. You don't trade sure things for that. Taking him as a lotto ticket to help LA eat some salary and get rid of a problem is fine, but he's not worth anything on the trade market. De Leon for Dozier is heavily biased to LA. I think we are getting more if those two are in the deal.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    so, the pool values are now hard slots, but not nearly as spread out. Can they still trade pool dollars? What does the spread look like between the worst team in the league (the Twins) and the best (the Cubs) for 2017? Just curious.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    Sale is the type of pitcher they need yes, but Sale alone isn't going to do much to fix this team, and Sale for 3 years means he's gone when it matters. You don't make that type of trade for your best tradable asset... now if they got him for a song, sure, but there's no way that happens. If Falvey can get creative and get him... awesome, but we need to be targeting upside pitchers with more control... and we need more of them. Still four more spots to fill after that.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    If the Dodgers had a top shelf catcher near ML ready, you could potentially deal both ESan and Dozier their way. Wouldn't be a bad option, especially if that somehow coaxed them out of Urias and De Leon.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Copy Cat
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm wondering if the easy solution is to require that pickup to remain on the 40 until May. I don't have a problem with a team grabbing a guy being DFAd if they want to keep him on the 40 and use him. It's just a tad unfair when they pick him up and DFA a week later.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd beg to differ there. They may not be now, but they certainly have the potential. Not to mention that finding a FA corner OF bat isn't that hard to do if something doesn't work out. Finding a shutdown pitcher on the other hand...
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Not sure about Perk, but I could see Santiago being a bit of a fill in given his year to year status and the opening of a rotation spot. I could also see them insisting we pick up a big contract like Puig in that situation too. I'd be all for that given his lack of value at the moment.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm a bit surprised we don't hear more about Ervin. I know Sale is going to set the market, but in that weak of a FA market, I'd have to think that there would be some sizable demand for Santana.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    I drool every time I ready this one.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    side note, but the biggest advantage of the Diamondbacks is that you could pit them against the Dodgers to get a better return.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    I could see a 3 way trade to make things work too... but seriously, I don't get the fascination with bats in this article. They have to walk away with one high ceiling major league ready arm, and I'd want at least one more high ceiling arm in the minors too. You can never have enough of those. If that isn't enough, by all means get the bat..
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    Well there is that
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    not that it would be easier, just that players would get a bit more say in it. The Brewers picked him up and then dropped him a week later hoping they could stash him off the 40 man. In my opinion, he should be a Twin (unless someone puts him on their 40 man) or get to choose where he wants to play.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm really curious what the reaction would be here if Terry Ryan hired them... Don't really have a problem here. This is kind of like a front office internship to help these guys start moving on from playing into management/coaching.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    TINSTAAPP, right? I disagree with this statement just as much as I do with the poster you were responding to. We have upside in the minors with several guys that could fit that description. Gonsalves in particular definitely has legit number 2 potential. The key is potential, the odds of him reaching it, as well as the time needed to get him there.... and with pitching prospects being as finicky as they are, you need a lot of them. The Twins don't have a lot of them, and some of the best ones are still two years away at minimum. The problem the Twins have right now is that the hitting core is here now. Yeah, the lineup sans Dozier will be hurting, but expecting improvement from Sano, Buxton, Vargas, Rosario, Polanco, Murphy, and Kepler is not unreasonable, and there are backup options available in some cases as well.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    Puig would not be of any value. Not against picking him up, but I'm not offering value for him b/c as it stands right now, he carries quite a bit of risk along with a high price. I'm all for picking up a contract like that hoping that the scenery change, and if that is the price needed to get a sexy list of prospects to go with it, I'm certainly game... but as a headliner... absolutely not.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    I think Garver starts in AAA, but if Murphy repeats 2016, I think Garver will find himself in the majors pretty quick. Not sure how much more seasoning Garver needs, but I think he's going to be in Minnesota for a long time.
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