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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    Finish up the year and not renew his contract. I don't think Gardy's expertise is mentoring and developing talent, and this is something he's going to need to do.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    Oh, and the Yankees got some rings out of the deal too.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    Buchanan became Bartlet. Didn't hte Twins get a comp pick for Guzman?
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    oh, should add that Doumit would be a decent fit here as well.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    Ryan is not conservative in every aspect of the game. This offseason he traded off a major league centerfielder and his ML ready replacement for desparately needed pitching help. They went with some kid out of AA who had a good year, but was hardly dominant and known for his slow starts. Ryan takes risks. That should be clear. The man executes trades frequently, and those are high risk propositions in and of themselves. What he doesn't do is take risks on the FA market. Part of that is defendable given his budget restrictions with the Dome, and with the current team, I'm not sure those risks make a ton of sense either. It's not a "too conservative" issue, it's a smart risk vs. foolish risk. What I can say comfortably about Ryan is this. For the rebuild task, he is without a doubt the right man for the job. He was behind a good chunk of the 2002 rise of this team, and he architected successful reloads of talent that kept this team good up through 2010. What I'm not sure about is whether or not he will be the right man for the job when the next wave gets established. It is well documented that he's not a fan of the FA market, and given where the Twins are now, they may need to fill some holes there. That, however, wont' be an issue until the 2014/15 offseasons.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    You have a point here... to an extent. I don't think anyone would tell you that having a good farm system, hot prospects, high picks, etc. will guarantee that you win regular season games/playoff games. However, while some prospects fail, the more you have, the more likely you are to end up with the ML talent that does win games and playoff games. You are correct on the development piece as well. The problem is that when the ML team sucks, which it has for several years, there really isn't any way to get out of that funk except to develop a good farm. The Twins don't have the budget to plug in every high priced FA out there, and quite frankly, the FA market typically doesn't have enough pieces to do that either. There are examples of how this works as well. The Marlins are one of the more recent ones, where just two years ago they spent a bazillion dollars on expensive FAs and even tried and failed to bring in Pujols. It didn't work. Where the team sits presently, it is in the best LONG TERM interest to aquire as many high ceiling prospects as possible and see what it has in terms of talent that can be used to augement them. The best way to do that is to trade off what won't contribute to the next wave and let the talent that's in the majors take some lumps. The end result will be more losses in the short term as well.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    I agree on Skaggs, but I doubt they offer him up as he's already in their rotation and they have to replace him with someone else. That said, Perkins aside, this team is a pretty good match. They need pen help now, and trading Duensing or Burton for a guy like Barret would be a win for both teams. Barret shoudl be able to be a back end reliever for the next wave and the timeline is perfect. Owings is another interesting prospect, though the big concern is the PCL piece. The PCL can make good hitters out of a lot of crappy hitters, and the rest of Owings stats (minus an excellent year in A+ ball) have not been impressive. The kid doesn't talk walks and strikes out a ton, which I suspect MLB pitchers would expose. If he has top notch defense, it might not be a bad move.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    For some reason, I thought your avatar was a cross between a Jawa and an Ewok.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    For those that can actually watch the games, what's up with Correia's K rate? His K/9 took a huge jump in June and appears to be continuing into July. Are his pitches sharper or being located better?
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    And we are getting them.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    This times a thousand. It's not tanking. Trading guys, especially guys that have some value but are not long term fixtures should be what Ryan is aggressively pursuing. I'd go a step further and add that trading a guy like Perkins, who has significant value and is likely overvalued as a reliever would make a ton of sense IF the return was significant. It will result in more losses in the short term and add additional pieces in the long term.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    The post may be applicable, but the argument is getting old and very tiresome. As I said before, I'm hardly a defender of the front office, but I grow tired of defending what amounts to reasonable moves (even if I disagree with the reasoning) in regards to very unreasonable criticism that quite honestly for some would be there no matter what was done (note, I'm not aiming this statement at you in particular). Go look at their history, the Twins have consistently been one of the more active teams in the international market, and it has been that way for quite some time. They've intentionally branched out into other areas such as Europe and Australia where there's a much lower presence to get access to guys that other teams pass on. That's how they picked up some kid named Kepler a few years back, Thorpe last year, and this Dutch kid this year. I'm also not sure they should be blowing their entire amount on a two or three prospects unless they are really sure this high ceiling kid can succeed. As it is, they are still picking up high ceiling kids, and they aren't done with their spending either. Given that they have almost 4M to spend, going after one of the big ones and throwing 5 or 6 $500k bonuses after other high upside guys is hardly foolish, and that's especially true given the crap shoot nature of the market. These kids are all high upside, though no one in this market was considered to be Sano good.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    Yeah, he's an impact upgrade to any team with shaky back of bullpen issues. Teams would have to dangle top 100 guys to get him, and the Twins should be listening.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    Don't worry, they'll find a reason to make you regret it.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    I hardly consider myself a fan of everything the FO does, but statements like this tend to force people into defending them. For your info, they had the 4th most money (before teams started trading it). The signing period is also far from over. The rankings you quoted are equally silly, as the folks doing them don't have the resources to scout them out like they do college players. I suspect that the Twins had Lewin Diaz as the first on their list, as they outbid everyone for his services by a healthy margin. They clearly wanted him. And they have also signed several other higher ceiling guys as well for pretty sizable bonus amounts. There are 32 teams. Last year, they got several guys in the top 30. This year, they have one and may still get some others. They've made it clear they expect to spend their money and have plenty of time to do it. Throw your conniption fit if they don't spend their money.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    Correlation does not equal causation. For one, that extra 20 points makes a huge difference between a crappy pitcher and an elite one... Second, I can pretty much guarantee you that if I took the mound every 5th day for an entire season that my BABIP would not be floating around .300. It would be closer to .800 I'd guess. Pitchers have control over their BABIP and to insinuate that one does and the other doesn't is kind of silly, especially since pitchers that have consistently high BABIP never even make it to the majors.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    Stewart. 3IP, 1H, 3K, 0 BB. Nice line.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't see the purpose of this for anything but org filler. The Twins aren't in a race where adding a marginal pitching upgrade makes sense. Go after him this winter if they want him.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    Not sure I can agree with this premise. Over the next two years, the Twins will be replacing their current roster with their next wave. I don't htink you can say that just because they do bad this year, they will do bad next year. The year the Twins drafted Mauer, they were in first place at the time of the draft... picking 1 overall. All of the things you want to see happening, can still happen with them losing games. I'd go as far to say that some of these lumps they are taking will actually help long term. Gibson clearly has learning to do. That isn't bad, but he's taking his lumps. Seeing Plouffe, Parmelee, Hicks, and Dozier all establish themselves as regulars can all happen while the team loses games. That's especially true of the losses are coming at the likes of that awful rotation and a few mid season trades.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd be careful in calling this statistical noise. Statistical noise involves what is essentially a small sample size coupled with the randomness of what is being measured. Players routinely struggle when being promoted to AA, which tends to mean they have to adjust. That's not random, and while sample sizes can come into play, Sano has routinely shown through his career that strike outs are an issue. He was clearly able to adjust from Beloit to Fort Meyers, but his promotion to New Brittian has shown that he still has some issues to work on. I'm not terribly worried about it just yet. He's 20 (the youngest in his league, in AA, and still keeping an OPS around .800, which to me at least is the measure of a good hitter. That said, major league pitchers are much better than AA pitchers at exposing the holes in his swing. He either needs to fix the gaps in his swing or learn to lay off the pitches out of the zone (or both). Given his progression in the area this season, I suspect that those numbers will improve at some point. That said, this is a does of reality to people who think he's going to be in Minnesota sometime before next September.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    The season is lost. Tanking intentionally isn't a good idea, but at this point, the 2014 draft position is going to be one of the biggest highlights of the season. Given how deep the draft is, the Twins should be able to have an elite guy with their first pick and a pretty decent one with their second.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    Rodon Rodon Rodon Rodon Rodon. Gibby is doing his part.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    You are missing out. Game of the Thrones rocks.
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  25. diehardtwinsfan
    Indiana Jones and Battleship.
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