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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    I would plan on Buxton starting next season in the minors and try and find someone needing 1 year make good contract (if one is out there).
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    Casilla…. there's a name I haven't though of in a while... speaking of this theme and unwarranted patience. Didn't he replace Luis Rivas.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    I think this is pretty easy. Austin to MLB Rooker to AAA On the pitching side, Gonsalves first, and then Thorpe. any 40 man reliever in AAA needs a look too.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    This article is a really good reason why I liked their approach with these prospects. They grabbed a bunch of guys who were being successful. Some are legit prospects and some are definitely fringe. But all 3 of the guys highlighted in Nick's piece would have qualified as fringe who were able to turn themselves into above average major leaguers. We picked up 11 guys at the deadline. If one goes on and has a career like these guys, the team will be fine.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    I remember AJ Pierzinsky basically said we got a winner in Escobar when he was traded to us... I don't remember the exact quote, but he was highly complementary of him.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    Not sure I'd call Houston impatient wtih Correia. The guy destroyed the high minors. Lewis has been really similar to Correia thus far, but to be fair, Correia turned it up substantially in both his second and third full seasons... Hopefully Lewis can do the same, but I certainly wouldn't be pinning my hopes on the kid breaking a .900 OPS in the high minors. That's not fair to Lewis. Lindor, strangely enough, was better in the majors than he ever was in the minors.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm apparently confusing him with someone else... not sure who.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    Well, both were first round picks. Anderson has reinvented himself as a reliever and is knocking on the door. That's an easy selection for a bullpen weak team to see if he can stick. Stewart has increased his K rate by about 25% and dropped his walk rate to go with it. Considering his biggest knock was his K rate (which is very respectable in AAA this season), someone might. You may be right that these guys are marginal 40 man adds. We don't see them either, so who knows. I'd think both are risks to go personally.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    Seems the rumblings on him is that he's having problems with quality breaking pitches... he should see some better ones in AAA I would think. I like that his K rate continues to decline as the season is going on. He's obviously adjusting/learning. AAA wouldn't be a terrible bump. Though I'm of the opinion that we won't see Rooker until at least middle of next year.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd say that there's a good chance that both of these guys will be selected if left unprotected.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    With ramos, I'm operating under the assumption that Castro is done. Even in that scenario, a Ramos/Garver combo would be pretty nice. Adams should be cheap, and 2 WAR or not, he's a huge upgrade over Mauer right now... or really anyone we'd be throwing at first. Cruz is going to sign a 1 or 2 year deal. Might be high salary, but a 1 year deal with an option would be great... My point is that with the exception of Ramos, those four won't be that expensive, and they upgrade us where we need upgrading. Combine those 4 with Polanco, Sano, Rosario, and Kepler, and you have a pretty good offense.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Ramos, Adams, Cruz, and Escobar would be a pretty good haul. Most would be reasonably priced.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    That Jeffers kid just knows how to hit... I do hope he can stick behind the plate.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    I wonder how much of this "bad clubhouse" came from people being upset that they didn't get big deals this offseason.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    I think his age has something to do with that. But yeah, he's doing what you want him to do.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't know why it wouldn't be true... what we don't know is how good the offer was.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    I think Rooker is close to ready, though he's still striking out a lot, and supposedly is having issues recognizing breaking pitches. I'm not counting on him in 2019, to be honest. Weil just got bumped to AA. To answer the first question, this season was lost, so yes. My point has always been to not punt on 2019. Only Pressly hurt in that capacity. I'll be a bit curious what they do this offseason. We have a surplus of ML ready pitching in the high minors and some big needs at 2B/1B/DH. This strikes me as something we could fill pretty easily with some trades.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    Honestly, if they can acquire a couple decent 1B/DH types and bring back Escobar, I'd say they have a decent chance to compete. Their offense was the downfall this season... use the rest of the season to figure out what next year's pen will be and then go out and get some bats to compliment Sano.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    To me, the litmus test is whether or not they COULD have done better, not as much should. I'd have liked to have seen more value there, but let's be honest, given Dozier's play, I'm not sure that was going to happen. I understand where you're coming from here, but I'm not sure I agree. They may be a dime a dozen, but this team is lacking them in the high minors, as well as the majors. We had only Rooker going into this year. We've added Raley and Austin. They are going to need a couple bat first guys in those spots... and had we had them this year, we probably wouldn't be selling right now. Mauer has shown increasingly less power, and Morrison was awful. It was pointed out to me in another thread that there aren't much options out there in FA either. Raley and Austin certainly have question marks, but this team really needs some guys like them.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't really disagree with anything you said here, but I just think there's a pretty huge difference between guys like Gonsalves, Thorpe, Littell, Romero, Slegers, May, and Mejia in comparison to guys like Walters, Albers, and Deduno. Now that said, I'd certainly be fine flipping one or more of those guys for an established ML need (such as C or a 1B/DH type), as we have too many of them and more coming behind them. But I can also see why we might flip a guy like Odorizzi to make room for them too. It really comes down to how many open spots the FO is willing to roll with. Right now, our sure things to be in the rotation are Berrios, Gibson, Odorizzi, and most likely Pineda. That's a lot of guys for 1 spot, and I personally struggle with the idea that May and Mejia won't be able to outperform Odorizzi in 2019.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    I seem to remember a lot of criticism being leveled at the front offices of years past because they didn't do the 1 year contract thing. Granted, the market made that easier, and you're probably right about this being a trend, but doing the 1 year thing and then flipping most of those guys for prospects when the run failed certainly makes sense... and I'd argue this is something we rarely ever saw before. For once, I appreciate the decisiveness. The only real trade I wasn't a fan of was Pressly, as he helps in 2019. Everyone else (especially since Escobar didn't want an extension) was necessary.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    They've retained some, fired some, replaced those that they fired, and added some more. I'm not sure your logic works. There's also new methodology being adopted that has nothing to do with the scouts they are using. I think it's fair to let the new brain trust have some time before we conclude that they are just as bad at this as their predecessors.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm not sure the last 15 years matters here. We have a new FO with a new methodology for identifying talent in this type of trade. I think you need a few more years to see how it works out... The one thing I can say is that most of the guys they got have some upside. I would agree that many will likely fail, that's part of the equation, but if you get enough of these guys, you're going to hit some of them. That's why you do this. I'll pick on Dozier for a second... But as a prospect, he would have fit right in with the types of guys we acquired this time around. He was never a top 100 guy. He made MNs top 10 list once for BA (#10 in 2012), and that's it... and he's been the WAR leader for 2B for the last few years. You can strike gold with these types of guys.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    So I guess the question I ask of Tom... some of your grades are pretty low. What were your expectations there? Should they have, for instance, simply kept Dozier? The way I see it is that if they are giving up on 2018, which I think they did (and should have done), then it's their job to ship out pretty much everyone on a 1 year deal for value. I don't think, for instance, that Dozier was going to get much more value than that. I think the grading is really kind of all or nothing here, with the exception of Pressly, who by trading him you put 2019 at risk (unless the FO thinks he's smoke and mirrors)... Everyone else pretty much needed to go.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    The big difference between 2019 and every other year is the volume of prospects available to fill that role. We've relied on cast offs such as Deduno or just tons of org filler (PJ Walters anyone?) to fill those roles. Don't get me wrong, I expect guys like Gonsalves, Thorpe, and Stewart to struggle when they get their shot... Maybe we get lucky and they don't, but we really do have a fairly large list of guys that could provide some of that quality major league depth that Jimmer specified in another post, and quite a few of them have the upside to make it work. We aren't stocked with non-prospects in Rochester anymore. Truthfully, I think they may need to trade off some of their SP prospects in the not so distant future. They have way too many of them with guys like Wells and Graterol nipping on their heels.
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