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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd be happy if they got anything for him.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't get the promote Sano thing... everyone was on them for not doing it when he got off to a hot start (forgeting the whole SSS issues)... and they still say it even though he obviously has some things to work on. He's 19 and holding his own in that league. I woudln't be surprised in the least if he repeats it next season. He is taking a ton of walks to go with the Ks which tells me he's being pitched around to an extent... the fact that he's taking the walks is a good thing as I'm guessing he's letting a lot of called strikes go by... Time should cure some of this as he gets a better batters eye.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    Me thinks he needs to pass his "supplement" around to the rest of the team.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    It's insane and stupid because the Rays would not in a million years trade Sano for Price... and the Twins should not in a million years trade Sano for anyone else on that list.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    you are going to win and lose some in FA. Cuddy was overpriced, and Willingham was the right move, as was Doumit. I didn't like everything Ryan did, but he hit the picks that mattered most, so in that I'll give him pass. I do hope that he's looking hard in free agency for pitching for 2013 if the plan is to be reasonably competitive....
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    this is certainly encouraging... would be nice to trade Liriano for a Randall Delgado type pitcher and then trade Span for another starter plus a high ceiling A ball kid who is also (hopefully) a pitcher.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    me thinks Vargas needs to pass around whatever supplment he's been taking.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    1. You have a point here, though Hicks and Arcia are sitting in AA now and doing quite well, so you can argue they are much much more likely to succeed. 2. Hopefully, that is Hicks, Arcia, and Benson. It's speedy, and certainly not low power. Arcia looks like the real deal, and both Hicks and Benson will likely be 10-20 HR guys who might have a couple of 20+ seasons. 3. Span needs to be flipped for a pitcher (which I think you agree on) 4. I doubt anyone takes on Morneau this year and gives us something good... Morneau gets traded next season.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    4 panned out (and a few more had some decent careers)... therefore, let's trade him for an overpriced pitcher on the downswing of his career... yeah, makes a lot of sense.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    wonder what tonights line just did to that SSS.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    Rocketpig, can you do word filters like you did with BYTO? I'm requesting that the world Butera forever be changed to The Latino Whisperer. oh, and bookit needs reinstating too if you are up to it.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    I was, and I'm not sure I agree with what you said in bold. Sano could (and quite possibly will) repeat in Beloit and would still be a very good propsect. The fact alone that he smacked 20 home runs there will have anyone drooling... Oh, and on a separate note, the Twins should absolutely not trade Sano for Buerhle... Ryan should be dragged out to CF and summarily hanged if he tried to pull that off.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    mlbtraderumors intrerestingly enough basically said that Willingham is not on the block. I'd certainly be listening to offers for him, though admittedly my asking price would be very, very high.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    You might have a statistical anomoly, except that you really are only dealing with 10 starts, but I'm not sure that the word incredible should be attached to this at all. He has 2 years worth of data that you have repeatedly ignored. He's had the luxury of catching Liriano during his resurgence, which might be on Drew, accept for the small problem that Liriano has had long stretches of dominance not unlike this stretch... and not surprisngly, the big corresponding peripheral changes when Liriano dominates is increased velocity on the FB and decreased walks. No reasonable person would argue that Drew can somehow coax and extra 3-4 MPH on Liriano's fastball, and no reasonable person should be suggesting that Drew is the reason Liriano finds the plate more consistently... It's Liriano's job to hit the target that the catcher sets... I'm fairly certain the catcher has little if any control over the pitcher's ability to hit the catcher. Drew caught a ridiculous number of games last season. If he was some magic worker, than the Twins wouldnt' have had the second worst record in baseball... their pitchers would have kept them in every game, and while the offense was bad,it wouldn't have been 99 losses bad.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    and his success has hardly been bad... granted, he was a bit better in the lower minors, to be expected, but he still struk out 8.44/9 in 21 starts at AA and had 10.3/9 in 4 starts in AAA that same year. The ERA wasn't quite there, and his AAA numbers are definitely in SSS territory given that he's had 5 starts there in his career. His HR/9 rate has gone up at each level though his major league line is not that far off from his minor league career line. And he's 22. Most pitchers experience some bumps when they come up. I guess I don't see why this is a bad prospect. Could the Twins find better with a supplemental pick in the first round?
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    Stock dropping, really? He's 19 and is holding own in a pitcher friendly A- league. He's hit 20 home runs already. Yes, he's striking out a lot and isn't going to progress through teh system quite as fast as the optimists had hoped, but this hardly means his stock is dropping. I'd also note that despite the .050 point drop in BA from Elizabethon to Beloit, his OBP has remained the same, which means he's taking A TON more walks... My guess is that he's probably letting a few too many called strikes go by, which is far easier to improve on than simply flailing away at pitches out of the zone. I could see making a case that Arcia moves into the 1 spot simply because he's performing quite nicely at AA as a 22 year old, but that isn't because Sano is less of a propsect as much as it is that Arcia is becoming a nicer one, but let's be sensible. This kid has Miguel Cabrera potential, and that hasn't changed. Would I trade him for the right package? Sure, but those deals never happen.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    I haven't seen the kid pitch, but he's 22 with a career k/9 in the minors of 9.47 with a career BB/9 of 3.42. Those peripherals are pretty nice, even though they haven't translated to the big leagues... That seems like some pretty nice cost controlled upside. Woudl we be able to draft better with a compensation pick, because this seems like a pretty nice pickup for the Cubs.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    this is the point where time is on Ryan's side, and the closer you get to the deadline, the more likely someone will overpay. Ryan certainly could overplay his hand here and not trade Span, but in a way that's something that he needs to do from time to time. Remember that it was his predecessor that basically said "I'm going to trade so and so" and then proceeded to trash his product and trade him for peanuts. You don't want that either, and not trading a guy establishes that you won't do a Hardy for Hoey or a Capps for Ramos.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    There's one big thing, what valuable asset can be replaced easier? You can argue that Span will be replaced sooner than later, whether that be by Revere now or by Hicks in a year or so, but Span is much more expendable to this team than anyone else. Willingham is a bit different. He's harder to replace now and there's less options to replace his production in the system. With Liriano, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the Twins have tried to tie him up, but at this point he's not tied up and at this point there's no way he accepts a cheap deal, nor should he. He's going to be a commodity this offseason and if he wants to return here, there is no doubt they will sign him. But it is clearly in his best interest to wait it out that this point, and given history, it's in the Twins best interest to get something good for him... that could be a draft pick or a prospect. At this point, I'd bet a prospect or two as too many teams need what he is doing.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    cause it's a small sample size? and because everything is working, so why disrupt things? Because most teams 25 games in aren't necessarily ready to sell, and so you overpay even more? There's good reason to be risk adverse that early in the season
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    Price maybe, but in all seriousness, for the other names you mentioned this would make Capps for Ramos look tame. I could see if it if Sano was blocked or something along those lines, but at this stage of the game, it would have to be an unbelievable offer to send him packing.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    If you want to go SSS, let's see what Butera's numbers are when he's not catching Liriano... If you want to be intellectually honest, you need a mult-year sample size and should probably compare it by the pitcher, and not by a ridiculously small season sample size.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    ouch wimmers.... Buxton is back today.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    wow, college pitcher in E-town? I'd have thought they started him in Fort Meyers.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    Not just Span, do they leave Parmalee in AAA all next year? The guy needs a spot and doesn't seem to have much to prove in Rochester... SSS I know, but the kid is ripping the cover off the ball. While he is not a RFer, he has played there, and letting him play there during what will likely be a semi-competitive season might not be a bad option at all. But if that spot isn't his, then where exactly do you put him? I'd probably dump Butera and keep Doumit as the backup C, but that apprently isn't an option.
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