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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    I was going to say, he's moved up the system fairly quick. This really isn't a case of mishandling. His time at DH was also right after an injury. He's not 40 man eligible this offseason, and he was a 9th round pick. He wasn't all that good last season either in A+ ball, so it isn't like he tore the place up and got held back.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    They have several top 100 pitching prospects: Justus Sheffield, James Kaprielian, and Domingo Acevedo. They have some nice up the middle prospects too.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    I still think the Yankees would be a good fit. BD is quite the upgrade over Starlain Castro an they have prospects (Gary Sanchez, Justus Sheffield, and a few other A+ pitchers) to get it done. NYY has never shied away from adding talent, and I suspect refueling their farm is both for improving their future team as well as using those assets to put them right back at the top.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    I suspect Avery's conviction will be overturned at some point... and it should be. Not sure if he did it or not, but had the Manitowac PD followed appropriate procedures, Avery would have never been able to make the framed defense. Those procedures are there for a reason, to prevent exactly what happened. That alone = reasonable doubt because they bungled this investigation every step of the way the moment they allowed someone with a conflict of interest to be involved in it. If there's a retrial far away from Wisconsin, Avery will walk.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd note that there was a substantial improvement in the K rate in his second go around at A+. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the same thing next year. Moving up a level is hard. There are adjustments that need to be made.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    Within a week of so of his demotion that wrist injury popped up, and if memory serves me right he had been dealing with it for a while. In a way, this is pretty optimistic, as Park sure looked the part early on the season. If his ineffectiveness is to be explained by injury (and based on his AAA numbers, it could very well be), then I think we have reason to be hopeful for Park next spring... Now as to the real problem of Mauer/Park/Vargas for 1B/DH... well, I guess Molly will always have a nice bat off the bench.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    perhaps I misread something somewhere, but one of the points behind the lawsuit was that the CBA covers minor league wages, which if that's the case, the MLBPA is very much representing them, whether they have a voting rights, are members. or not.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    If his career ended a couple years ago, I think he'd have been a lock like Puckett. Not quite sure now to be honest, though I'm not sure how a couple of bad seasons post concussion suddenly makes him not an HOF. I think if he can rebound a bit in his 30s and post a few .800ish OPS type seasons, that might change some perception as his counting stats will clear that 2000 hit mark. If he could make another run at a batting title into his 30s, that would probably help as well. That said, Mauer would be served making an HOF case if he could switch to a defense first position, play said defense well, while continuing to hit they way he has hit this year... I'm guessing that won't happen for a number of reasons, most of which I'd add are quite valid (note I'm not saying he should become a SS). That said, if I had a card, I'd vote him in based on his run as a catcher.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    So here's the big catch. Minor league players are represented by the MLBPA. They get no voting rights there though. For that reason alone, I'm a bit surprised that this has been allowed to continue. I'm no lawyer, but I don't think you need to stay at a holiday in express to recognize the legal issues at play. MLB hasn't really denied it, they just used their deep pockets to force players to sue individually, making this much harder.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    This... I get the guys in the first few rounds who get massive bonuses, and by proxy are able to continue playing... that works for them. Not so much for others. I don't think asking for minimum wage is unreasonable for MILB players... I just don't, especially when fixing this problem can be had for the cost of one or two utility players. An organization like MLB should be able to take care of it's own.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    Well, Clinton cannot seem to avoid scandals. The newest was exposed by the NYT and the Clinton foundation. Most seems pretty benign, except for the part of taking money from foreign governments and foreign officials. Bill managed to escape that with the Chinese donating money to his campaign (and honestly, this is something he should have been impeached for... not that Lewinski thing). Anyways, the short of it (if I read it right) was that she was taking donations from foreign entities while being the secretary of state. Obama asked that practice be stopped in 2009, which they 'complied' yet still continued taking donations, the most notable being from the Afghans which they simply chose not to report... and now since stepping down, they still take them and use them as a way to get donors access to the Clintons. Again, in Federal circles, this is a big deal. ducks and runs
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Can this team contend in 2017? That's the question that has to be answered. If the answer is no (and I suspect they could be a pretender in 2017 if this second half turn around is to be believed), then I don't see a logical scenario where we keep BD short of an extension. I like him, don't get me wrong, but with Polanco doing well right now and no real place to play (I'm not one to give up on Escobar just yet and with Gordon likely starting in AA next season, a replacement isn't that far away). Since pretender is the best I can see for the 2017 Twins, and Dozier is gone after the 2018 season, I say you trade him for a kings ransom. And by that I most definitely mean a highly thought of ML ready pitcher or catcher and some highly thought of, but less ready, prospects in the A+/AA range. I'd argue that at least one should be a top 100 guy, and quite possibly more than one.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm not sure a few snippets from an interview really say much about whether or not Allen is the right fit for the job. not to mention that there's some obvious SSS caveats with anything covering how Allen is working with him.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    I think it would be wrong to not keep Vargas. Even with Vargas, Mauer, Park at 1B/DH next season, that give Molitor some options as well as a potent bat off the bench every game. If/when someone gets hurt, the other guy steps right in.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    He basically did the same in FTM last season and then restarted there this year and ratcheted up the Ks. Hopefully next season is a repeat, with an up tick in his K rate over this season.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    Ramos is going to get a lot more than Suzuki money.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, seeing it as well. Also getting a bunch of cert errors from ads. Mega-tags (or something like that) is using a self signed certificate. Might be a provider to just exclude. Edit: adding brtll.com as another cert. This one at least doesn't appear to be self signed, but I'm guessing the CA on it is garbage if I'm getting a notification.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    Brandon noted in his article that Escobar has an .800 OPS in June/July. Not sure about the Aug splits, but if that's the case, it might just have been Escobar's injuries that held him down. I'd be all over holding on to him at that point, especially since Gordon will likely be in AA next season and Esco can keep the spot warm so to speak.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    He shouldn't be. Not a fan of sink or swim options when he hasn't gotten any reasonable amount of high minors development. He's show twice now that he's going to sink.. That isn't going to change in an offseason. I'd get a one year stop gap here. 2017 isn't likely going to be much better than a pretender type year anyways, use it to get Buxton ready for when the team will need him more.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm trading Dozier b/c he's gone in 2 years, and I'll take A+/AA pitching b/c I want better than Mejia type prospects. Teams with ace type potential pitching in the high minors aren't likely to unload it for the likes of BD... I'll stand corrected if they do, and be ecstatic about being wrong, but I think BD is more likely to get ML ready catching than ML ready pitching.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    Twins can add turner if needed, so I think Centeno gets the DFA this offseason. I'd add Boshers to the list as well. I have to think they want more than one spot for Rule V/FA. Not 100% sure we protect Vielma. All glove no hit, those guys are pretty easy to find and I don't think many teams have room for a purely defensive MI that they can stash on the roster for a year.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    Yeah, I didn't have to much of a problem giving him the cup of coffee when the injury forced it, but why he wasn't sent back down right away is beyond me. Buxton needs time in the minors more than anything else. It's clear that a bad stretch makes him press, so getting him to take good habits to heart against competition he can beat up on is something he desperately needs.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    I think Polanco (long term) will be better with the glove than Dozier, and Sano needs reps. He isn't going anywhere. Escobar is fine defensively and Mauer is above average. Not sure about the catching defensive side as I don't know if I put stock into those pitch framing numbers... etc. Kepler is above average in the corer, as is Rosario. Buxton if he figures out the bat is already above average in CF... and honestly with our staff, I'm more concerned about OF defense than IF defense... with that said, trade Dozier and non-tender Plouffe. Neither are defensive game changers. Dozier should get some pitching help, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the A+/AA type range. I'm more concerned about catching as the need there is more immediate and other than Garver, there isn't much help in the minors. Go with upside in the rotation. Gibson and Santana are what they are (Santana is above average I'd add as well). May, Mejia, Duffey, and Berrios all represent upside.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    Well... could not vs. would not. You're right, they CAN spend the money. I suspect though that this one is coming from ownership and that they won't... maybe that changes with a new GM, who knows, but I suspect this problem is a bit deeper than Terry Ryan... or maybe I've just been in the acceptance stage of grief for too long I cannot speak for you, but nothing I saw on Trea Turner (other than fast riser) that really made me want the Twins to draft him. I think the Twins were right going for ceiling over speed to the majors, especially given that SS hasn't really been a position of need for the team over the last few years.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    If mentoring was boiled down to questions like this, there would be no mentors... yet why do you seem them in the corporate world? For that matter, why do you see them in baseball? They have an impact, and there's zero way to quantify that except that most successful players will certainly attribute success to one at some point along the way. I don't have a problem with the Twins holding on to Zuke if the best offer is org filler. I don't. It isn't that big of a deal. You wont' see Garver until September anyway... same with Murphy (if you see either at all).
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