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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    I guess I'm more with Seth here. Polanco didn't exactly dominate AA. Having him up wouldn't be bad, but at the same time, he's got to play. It isn't as though baseball adds more positions after September. There's still only 9 positions and a DH to fill, and the infield is already croweded. He'd end up accumulating service time and maybe getting a handful of at bats. Could he learn from it? Maybe. I'm not sure how much.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    Not quite sure if he's ahead of Meyer yet, but he's closed the gap. I don't see him heading north with the Twins next year though.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    You'd have to figure out a way to move some immovable contracts to pull that off in the pitchign world. I think you could argue that Millone, Nolasco, Gibson, and May will all improve as well. I'm not a fan of platooning Arcia and Hicks. Both shoudl play every day, even if one is in Rochester.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    Since we are talking contradictions, I'm going to simply state that I think this is a big one. If pitchers couldn't control babip, then I could go out there and throw and end up with an ERA roughly around 9. I think people are confusing a bell curve with luck. Hitters have control over their babip, but when it averages out, it averages out to approximately .300. Throw a bad pitcher out there though, and that babip will skyrocket.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd argue that this it true of any decent offense. Runs score in bunches. That's not new. The goal is to score a lot of them, and that's something that the current offense does very well. I'd add that it is even more impressive when you consider the fact that they were a pretty poor offensive team earlier in the year.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    Not to discount Vavra, but how does the ranking get determined? I'd have put Minier, Walker, and Garver in some order for 1-3. Vavra did well, but not as well as those 3, and he's quite a bit older for his league.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    I think your oldest son is being a bit unfair to Escobar and Plouffe. Plouffe hasn't been a star, but he's been a top 10 3B this season, so solidy above average. Escobar has been above average both defensively and offensively. Santana looks like he could be better in boht categories (though playing CF isn't helping him), but I'd caution on using the term 'utility' to describe Escobar. He gets that term b/c he plays several positions, but he's played them very well. This team's problem is mostly pitching related, and unless Nolasco gets better, Hughes keeps doing what he's doing, and we see improvement from May and Gibson, the problem will continue to be pitching.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    This is baseball not football. You cannot just cut a guy if he's not perforing. They are under contract, and baseball contracts are guaranteed. You also won't typically find much in terms of impact pitching out of the FA market. Likewise, the younger players take a lot more time to adjust and become good players. Very few walk in and suddenly become stars. That, to me sums up the big problems b/c Nolasco and Pelfrey in particular aren't going anywhere. Gibson and May will need time to improve. Meyer and Berrios aren't ready. The offense has been pretty good since the young guys have been brought in, and while it can always be tweaked (particularly in CF until Buxton is ready and a long term decision about LF), I think Nick's point is generally valid. What I find amusing about this is that the Twins did exactly what we asked them to do last offseason and essentially blow up the roster. They went out and got 3 pitchers. 2 of the 3 can only be described as failures (which I might add is not terribly unusual in the FA market) and one of those two has 3 years left on his contract. Now we ask that they go do this again. The problem is that there's about 40 million left on the books, and we cannot just recoup it by cutting the guy. I'm not a fan of the Pohlads by any means, but if we want a case study on why that doesn't work, we should go look at how the Cubs have been run for the past 50 or so years. It rarely works.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    Not sure why Gibson isn't on the 2013 list. He was pretty bad last year. I'm not terribly worried about May for that very reason. It takes time to adjust.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    This team has plenty of 'long man' types in the pen. I liked Deduno, but I'm not crying over him going. Ryan gave him away which basically meant that his options were to give him away or pull him back because if Houston would have given a bag of balls for him, Ryan would have taken it.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    He's not going to net a top 100, but every stat out there shows Plouffe to be an above average 3B right now. I'd imagine if he has a similar or better year next year, his value only rises. Sano isn't ready now, so there's no reason to not keep Plouffe. If he continues to improve, then we have a really nice dilemma on our hands. Souhan is right about Santana. The real problem I see is that we have 2 above average SS... wait, did I just type that? I'd think one of Santana/Escobar will need to get traded unless the Twins work out a way to have Escobar spell Plouffe, Dozier, and Santana 3 out of every 4 games. Otherwise, I think one needs to move. I also think there would be more value out of that trade than trading Plouffe right now.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Yeah, this is an audition for Duensing's role... That said, if that's what they wanted, I'm a bit surprised O'rouke in AA didn't get the call. He's been lights out against lefties (not so much on the right side)
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    1 - Yes 2 - No (though maybe in a year depending on other things) 3 - Yes after playoffs.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    I vote plouffe... the offense has been pretty good this month.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Not sure I'd write either off yet.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    I think Correa over Buxton was defendable as they wanted to get other guys in the system too. Correa isn't exactly a bad prospect. He's up in the top 10 too. You forgot though about them getting hacked recently as well.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    Vargas, Arcia, and Sano are going to make a very nice core over the next few years. I'm pretty excited about that as all of them. Combine them with Buxton, Santana, Mauer, and Dozier, and you have a pretty nice 1-7.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    Doubt they'd offer much, but Deduno doesn't fit in the long term plans. I'd probably give him to the Stros if they couldn't agree on something... Though that said, I wouldn't wish that on Deduno.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    I would think they have to be tracking this someway. 60ish innings isn't that much. These guys have obviously had some sort of workload in EST. I'm guessing it's a non-issue. It isn't like the big league club is going to say 'don't play them'.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    Just a moderator note, this has been a great thread, but let's try to keep it respectful. Thanks.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    Interesting example. Lamb had come off a .800+ OPS season and was considered a pretty decent signing. It just didn't work out. It was the Livan Hernandez/Ramon Ortiz/Juan Castro signings that made me cringe.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    I see your point, but I seem to remember some farm systems around 2009/2010 that time that were highlighted by some pretty weak prospects (BlackBurn, Tyler Robertson, etc). Heck, Sano has been a near consensus number 1 for quite some time largely b/c there was nothing that looked to be high impact in the high minors. I could be off on my timelines, but even though Smith was in charge at that point, the system was largely Ryans.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    This is true, but I don't think it's fair to say that we know what Ryan's recommendation was. Bill Smith was in charge and could do what he wanted. If I were a guessing man, Ryan recommended no trading Garza, Ramos, or aquiring Sano.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    This is fair criticism. He left Bill Smith with an org tied together with shoestring and duct tape. I'm not sure I liked where Smith went with it, as I think there were better options, but no question that several of the drafts leading up to the 2011 collapse were pretty bad. There was nothing in the high minors to replace guys with, and the ones that did work out (Plouffe and Dozier) took a while. Keep in mind though, it isn't as though the experts were raving about our system at that time. They said it sucked, and it did. That's why I'm pretty encouraged by his approach right now.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    I think Terry would be a very good boss to work for. He doesn't seem to meddle much, which is why Gardy gets away with some of the things he gets away with. Terry lets him do it. I'd have sat Gardy down and said "you will play player X" on more than on occasion now. That said, I'd probably qubble on the signing guys part, but I do think he knows what he's doing when it comes to drafting/trading.
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