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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    The Sox have one of the worst farm systems in all of baseball. I'm not sure the Twins shoudl be looking to them for cues in how to develop players.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    I hope he craps the bed for his next 10 starts and keeps Chicago out of the playoffs. I hope that Cuellar teaches this pitcher we got a decent cutter and improves his changeup and we have Santana part 2 on our hands...
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    You will pay this regardless.... but if he continues to move towards his former self, what you get back will be much, much better... if he stays the same, what you get back will be the same as what you would get now if you paid 14M for that haul... Like I said before, I don't see Justin moving unless someone is willing to severely overpay for him.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    In that scenario, Vargas skips AAA alltogether, and that assumes he doesn't start the year in Beloit again, which he very well may...
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    Parmelee continues to rake with a 3/5 night tonight.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    Revere over Benson? Vargas going from Beloit to a DH? and Keper from Elizabethon to AA? Vargas is having a decent season, but he just started playing.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    RocketPig needs to port that thread over...
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    You are correct, it was a guaranteed contract. The Twins could DFA him, but they are still on the hook for the contract. I'm guessing the "counting it" comes from whether or not it still applies to the payroll numbers.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    there's some quality snark brewing in this thread.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    He's a 20 year old pitcher in rookie league, he should excel here.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    that coach already worked with Sano... lest you forget, he put up video game stats in Elizabethon...
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    If there was no plan to offer him 12.5M, then they had to trade him. Here's the question, would Liriano accept 12.5M for a one year offer? That right there is half of the FA budget for pitchers, several of whom could be had cheaper and were far more likely to succeed. The Twins' FO pretty clearly thought that playing chicken with Liriano on a 1 year deal was flushing 12M down the toilet, so trading was all they could do. And extending him... exactly when? He clearly didn't want to do it now, and you cannot blame him. Do you do it after the 2010 season? 2011? There's risk there, and it's clearly risk the front office wanted nothing to do with. I do agree they need to be abit less risk averse, but I'm not sure that Liriano is the poster child example for this. I highly doubt that there were better offers on the table for Liriano, and if 12.5M wasn't an option, you take what Chicago offered...
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    if you are in the mood for some autocorrect humor.... www.damnyouautocorrect.com
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    Historically, I think you can make a case for Neshek, Slamma, and Bartlett, but even in those cases, it's hardly a slam dunk. Neshek and Bartlett were left in AAA longer than they should have for various reasons. Slamma was moved through the system slowly because no one believed he could replicate his success at higher levels.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Like others, I don't see how they will get much value for Justin this year... Next, not so much as even if he replicates his season to date, he's worth quite a bit more without 1 year attached to that contract. Someone is going to have to severely overpay to get Justin this season, and I have a tough time believing teams will do it.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't know about the last statement. If 2014/15 is their target, they are going to need some decent pitching for that team. I don't see how they can do that without going into FA. With the FA pitching market being reasonably strong this offseason, it might make for a decent time to add a long term option.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    3 months until the eventual Tommy John surgery....
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    you'd have thought the "in front of everybody" comment would have tipped her off to the mistake, but oh well...
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    I pulled my info off of Sickle's site...
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    maybe there's some sort of unproven link between pujols and plouffe... In all seriousness, Pujols has started out slow the last couple of years... it seems each year he starts out slow and picks up... the problem is that it's been taking longer each year for it to happen... Me thinks the Angels are going to be hating this contract in 3 years...
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, from a value standpoint, it makes no sense to dump him now... If his improvement continues, I'd bet he'd fetch quite a nice haul next season at the deadline.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    Parmelee went 2/4... Gurerra struck out 2 in his one inning. Vargas homered again.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    Morales is one of those guys that put up video game stats at Elizabethon but never really did much after that. He's been a lost cause for a while as he's never put up anything close to those numbers since. He has some power there, but never really put things together. I'm not sure I'd send him to the AFL. They can only send so many guys there. Gibson is definitely going, and I could see them sending Hendricks there as well.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    I remember reading somewhere that it works 50% of the time, though I agree I haven't heard of many examples... I do know there are a couple out there, but none come to mind.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    Last I checked, Santana was playing single A ball and Florimon just got moved up to Rochester. If the kid plays really good defense, at the very least he's going to take the utility role when Casilla/Carrol leave this team, and I'd guess both are gone by 2014. Given his age, it's possible (albeit slim). I'm a bit more interested in the pitcher. He's a harder throwing lefty that can keep it around 92 but dial it up to 95 on occasion... that isn't bad. Per sickles his changeup is average and his curveball needs work. He's young enough that he could figure out some of those secondary pitches, which if he does, he becomes a decent back end of the rotation guy... again, not bad. I'd prefer upside, but I'm guessing there wasn't much upside available for Liriano.
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