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  1. Loosey
    What bother's me is that he even makes a deal if this is what he going to do. Hu isn't great, but Jepsen level could be found in AA or AAA for free. Terry Ryan needs to be more creative.
  2. Loosey
    Where is that should Terry Ryan be fired thread? I now have a more concrete answer. . .
  3. Loosey
    The Pohlads new mantra:
  4. Loosey
    I've been on the Kepler bandwagon for while now. I'm glad he is finally blossoming into something that could be a legitimate MLB starter. What I really enjoy is the fact he has been getting groomed to be a first basemen. Assuming not trades, FA pickups etc. This could be a future Twins starting lineup" CF - Buxton RF - Hicks 2B - Dozier 3B/DH - Sano 3B/DH/1B - Plouffe LF - Rosario 1B/OF - Kepler C - NOT SUZUKI SS - Polanco/New addition Depending on what year the future is, Mauer may be the most expense bench player in baseball, but I like this young lineup.
  5. Loosey
    That was the one time Terry Ryan didn't do a Terry Ryan thing and grab some cast off from the scrap heap. If I remember correctly those trades were both done about a month or 2 before ST started. TR had plenty of time to find a place holder CF. Instead he handed the job to Hicks who hadn't even hit well at the AA yet at the time. Hicks came in and was clearly not ready for major league pitching and that rush almost ruined him. After Hicks' confidence was a negative level, Ryan finally moved him back to the minors and replaced him with some weird combo of Clete Thomas and Darin Mastroani.
  6. Loosey
    I think "Red flags" is quite strong. 2 of those outings he had 4 walks each. So, yeah it would be nice to see a higher K ratio, but he will stay in FM the rest of the year and hopefully improve. He is 3 years younger than the average age in FM. The guy just had his 1st legal drink a few weeks ago.
  7. Loosey
    I am only on page 2 of the thread so maybe I am off track on this thought. I am in the camp that the team truly needs to evaluate the front office including Terry Ryan. I don't think you need to make a blockbuster trade to be a good GM. However, you do need to make tough decisions on who and when to make trades with guys that may be prospects, and guys who may have peaked and you know it but other teams don't. Terry doesn't do that. He reminds me of the guy in my fantasy football league. He is always offering trades, but they are always very one sided and won't do a trade unless it is 200% in his favor. I feel like Terry Ryan might be that guy. And that is what may be the problem. He is unable to distinguish if a trade is good unless it is overwhelmingly good. He can't see the small incremental wins a trade may have.
  8. Loosey
    UPDATE: Per "Off The Baggy's" twitter account @tlshwerz: Stephen Gonsalves Last Five Starts: 28 IP 26 H 5 R 3 ER 12 BB 18 K 0.96 ERA Clearly was ready for the move to Fort Myers. Continue to impress and improve.
  9. Loosey
    The reason I disagree with Trading Hicks and/or May is we don't fully know what they have in Berrios or Buxton. Yes, both a super prospects and could be franchise changing guys, or they could both plateau and be run of the mill guys that don't alter anything. We know May is good and hopefully will get even better and I think we are seeing more of Hicks true ability now than we did in his prior call ups. Look at the CF hole the Twins created when they traded Span and Revere thinking Hicks was ready and he wasn't. I don't want that again. My whole statement goes out the window though if the player they are getting in return could be a long-term difference maker, which I doubt they can acquire for any of the guys on the above list.
  10. Loosey
    I don't understand why the Twins don't Trade Danny Santana, Oswaldo Arcia and Rickey Nolasco for Bryce Harper and Stephen Strausberg?
  11. Loosey
    You can't go half-assed when you are trying to let May rot in the pen. You have to go full out to make sure not to use him.
  12. Loosey
    Is there a stat for PH's used? If so, the Twins may have the least of any team in the league. Seriously, they never bring in a PH even if a scenario says to do it.
  13. Loosey
    Jeez. At least pretend you're trying to win the game. Make a move to get a better hitter in there in that scenario.
  14. Loosey
    Why not put in May and tell him to pitch the rest of the game? Give the guy the ball in some aspect of the game. I know it's garbage time, but seriously, he throws about 20 pitches a week after being top 3 starter on this team easily. I don't get it and it's starting to drive me crazy!
  15. Loosey
    I know this season has been a success from a wins standpoint (the Twins exceeded expectations to this point) but Terry Ryan has proven over and over this season he is not a good GM. It's almost as if the team stayed afloat until now despite TR's terrible management of the roster. For months they were playing with fire in the bullpen and didn't do anything to help. Now nearing the trade deadline the Bullpen has gone into a complete collapse and Terry just sat on his hands. He needed a catcher for this season and beyond, yet has done nothing about it. He also could use a SS, but again has done nothing about it. He hasn't addressed how to make this years team better or how to improve the team the next few years. I'm sure he is a great human being, but he really needs to go. He didn't take advantage of a season that came out of nowhere in a week league, he just signed old veterans to minor league contracts like he was trying to make Rochester and Chattanooga better.
  16. Loosey
    His argument actually may have saved the Twins a strike call later on. A few innings later (I can't remember who was batting) Nelson was about to ring someone up, but then deferred to the base umpire who called the check swing a ball. So, even though his original argument did nothing to help Hicks it did help later on. Also, Nelson almost seemed like he wanted to boot Molitor once he questioned why he didn't ask for help.
  17. Loosey
    Escobar is not an All-Star SS, but he is clearly the best on the roster and they never use him there. This move is confusing. I would have thought they would have gone Sano to third, Escobar stays at SS and Arcia comes up to DH. But that would have made sense or something and clearly nothing about this season has made any sense from the team actually being competitive to the roster moves being made.
  18. Loosey
    I'm not faulting putting in Perkins either. I just think from a bullpen management perspective it would have made sense to save Perkins and let May pitch more than 2 pitches. Also agree with not waiting until down 4 runs.
  19. Loosey
    Again, last night the usage of May was very strange. In the 8th in tie game they go to Fien and Duensing who blew a tie game. Then finally once they were down 4 runs they ran May out there who threw two pitches and and got his guy on a lazy fly ball. Now, if I recall, May was at one point a starting pitcher for this team. So I think it is safe to assume he can handle a work load of greater than two pitches. The Twins eventually go on to tie the game in bottom half of the inning. Why not run May back out there in the 9th to hold the tie game? In my opinion May and Perkins are the two best pitchers in the bullpen right now. So, they use one of them (May) for only 2 pitches and the other (Perkins) in the 9th and he gets hit hard and eventually loses the game. But what if Perkins pitches a clean 9th and the Twins go down 1,2,3 in the bottom? Who pitches the 10th? Boyer and Graham are the only arms left in there. I personally would rather ride May a few innings and then go on to Perk if needed later. Did anyone else have this same thought process? Or am I missing something.
  20. Loosey
    Related to between the ears, his confidence level seems to have grown leaps and bounds. Prior to this year he looked like every time he was at bat he assumed he was going to get out. Now when I see him at bat he looks locked in, like he knows he is going to hit the ball hard. And he does now. That double last night was fantastic. A really good pitch, but in a clutch situation he drove it in the corner for an RBI double.
  21. Loosey
    If Buxton becomes 90% of McCutchen I would be pretty happy.
  22. Loosey
    He's better than what the Twins have and has 3 years of salary arb left. My example may have been high on the Twins end, but if he could be had for what I put in my fake offer or some derivative of it, I would do it.
  23. Loosey
    I don't think you trade or let good players walk for nothing. What is the problem with having two really good third basemen? As long as you can find a way to have them both play regularly I call that a win. Lock Plouffe up, he is top 8 at least at his position and Sano we know can hit. If he ends up being a good fielder he will most likely be one of the best as well. They can each play 1st base I assume. So between DH, 3B and 1B you can play Plouffe and Sano every day if you want to and keep Mauer in there too.
  24. Loosey
    Someone else mentioned him earlier. And I heard his name come up in a discussion last week as well. He seems like a more realistic Twins move than Tulo if he is available. It's not like the Twins to go for greatness when mediocre can be had easily.
  25. Loosey
    I don't think Tulo is realistically on the table and if he is, the cost would be more than the Twins would be willing to pay (in prospects and cash). However, Jean Segura would be a huge upgrade and significantly less expensive than Tulo. Segura for Meyer, Polanco and Taylor Rogers.
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