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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm not sure it makes sense for Morneau... He might do it if he wants to be a Twin for life, but that comes with a NTC...
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    kyle gibson goes 1.1 (relieved a guy in the 3rd) struck out one and gave up a hit.. Derek Rodriguez has returned.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    agreed... it's just an example. I would have said Bedard except that he's had a decent season and should be rewarding accordingly.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    Have you seen what he's doing in AAA? Morneau is my favorite player, and I'd love for him to stick around, but where exactly is he going to play? The DH spot is locked up with Mauer and Doumit. Parmelee needs a place to play. Unless you move Mauer to 3rd on occasion and have Plouffe play more in the infield, so that Morneau can DH, there's no spot for him come 2014. I'm guessing Morneau's improvement continues and he gets traded for something of value next July.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    The Twins have 5 million reasons for Blackburn to stick as a number 5... and performance isn't one of them.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    I would be willing to put the claim in on him, but also understand that in so doing, this would drain the entire free agent budget for this team, so it's a big risk. My gut says Philly wouldn't give him away, but if they are serious about rebuilding, then they just might if the teams cannot work out a trade. The problem with that scenario from the Twin's standpoint is that they need at least 2, if not 3 pitchers... not 1 really expensive one. They might be able to get a prove it contract signed for a Rich Harden type pitcher, but you cannot rely on this, so unless Terry Ryan has an excellent DSpan trade lined up, getting Lee will help, but wouldn't be the missing piece.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    RocketPig, can you so a search of the minor league forum from BYTO? I believe a few guys went so far to predict Tommy John in August...
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    Parm was a first round pick with a Morneau type ceiling when he was drafted. He didn't get the results early on. It was well documented that the Twins spent a couple of years tweaking his swing, because as he developed he was looking more like a Rob Deer type guy that could hit 30 home runs but bat .220-.240. That resulted in higher averages, but very little power for a couple of seasons. The power really started coming back last year in AA, and it seems to be for real. I don't get why people are down on him. He's 24, and putting up an absolutely ridiculous line in AAA after doing the same thing the second half of the season in AA in 2011 and last September in MLB. He obviously struggled a bit in Minnesota when he came up this spring, but to write the guy off at this point is kind of foolish. He's looking more and more like a cleanup hitter. I'm looking forward to seeing Parm and Arcia hitting 4/5 in our lineups a couple years from now.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    This. He wasn't quite ready before his injury... and he's having success in the GCL, not AAA. I'd imagine he will spend a good chunk of next year working the rust off in Rochester... It isn't unusual to have people increase their velocity after Tommy John. What is unusual is to have their command suddenly improve. That takes some time, and I'd rather he figure that out again in AAA as opposed to Minnesota.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, that's why the front office shouldn't have traded him for crap. It is obvious he's improving, and if he continues to do something he should fetch a nice price this offseason. The question becomes what his ceiling will be going forward. Even if he doesn't, I'd bet he is a prime chip to trade next July.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't think I'd count on him.... Keeping him on the 40 man and seeing if he can hone his control is certainly worth it... sometimes guys just figure that out... If cuts his walk rate in half, he's an effective starter.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah it's been brutal hot this summer. I live in Indy and it's been a while where I've seen this many 90+ degree days and 100+ degree days.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    No, but he did get help from the concrete under the metrodome turf.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm pretty sure the toughness dichotomy comes from Gardy more than anything else He has his guys. Pavano and Capps were quite clearly his guys and were treated accordingly. It didn't matter that they were ineffective.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    The Twins will probably put their whole roster on waivers (as will the rest of the league) for no other reason than to mask who it is that they are trying to move. The hope is that a guy like Span gets claimed by the Reds and a trade is worked out, or else falls through completely.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    or the Phils give him away... How many years does he have left?
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    He's shown flashes of talent... It's probably a bit early to give up. I don't remember anying saying plus defense... or .890 OPS, but he could top out above average with the bat and play average defense... He has the track record, and it isn't as if he's blocking anyone. Let the kid play.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    guys like Zumaya are an exceptable risk... I seem to remember a lot of clamoring on BYTO about getting Erik Bedard and Rich Harden. Harden went the Zumaya route. Bedard signed for a little more than Marquis and has turned out to be a great get for the Pirates.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    Oswaldo Arcia spent 1/2 season there.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    Glen is quite the charritable guy I take it...
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    The problem with the Young trade was that they overpaid to get him and sold low... The problem with selling high, as has been suggested here, is that it is going to be very unpopular at the time. The Twins didn't have a good replacement for Young in 2010, and he was finally showing all that promise. They were also coming off of a 94 win season where fans had every reason to believe that they would repeat again in 2011. If everyone knew it was a mirage, then absolutely you sell and bite the bullet for popular backlash, but as Parker and others pointed out, Delmon made some real mechanical adjustments and it showed very nicely in the results. The nice thing about dealing Span right now is that there are decent replacements for him... Revere is a stop gap (I suspect), but there's 3 guys in AA, any one of whom could step up and produce at some point come 2013... And all of them have much higher ceilings too.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    THose contracts are guaranteed... they still paid them. The real payroll is nothing close to 85-90M as you have suggested.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    you are right, I've never sampled the night life in Rochester... I've never made 3M+ per year either, and I'm guessing I woudl be more than happy to put up with living in that dump for 3M too...
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    Are you making a case for grading Santana higher? this was Levi's first taste of pro-ball, which also includes dealing with things like using a wooden bat for the first time. The fact that he's been better since June could be that he's more used to it, or simply SSS... who knows. This far down, I'm not really concerned about who is higher than who on the depth chart, though Santana is going to be a 40 man roster decision soon... Levi is not.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    I didn't realize that the pitcher whisperer qualities went beyond teams... It's almost like there's some sort of ESP going on here...
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