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  1. jimbo92107
    All I can do is speculate...imagine that... If Jorge's knee problem is a long-term recovery project, then other teams don't want to take a chance on him. The brief time he pitched in the majors, clearly there was talent in the young man. I thought his smooth delivery reminded me of Erv Santana, minus a few mph. If the Twins saw that potential, they might not be ready to give up on him yet.
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    Top-shelf starting pitching is the most important element in building a contending baseball team. Because the Pohlads consider the Twins a mid-market team, they will not spend Yankee money on hired guns. That leaves developing arms from the farm. It has been quite a while since the Twins had so many promising arms in their minor league system. Berrios, Romero and Gonsalves could be the nucleus of a good pitching staff for half a dozen years. Add a few more guys like Thorpe and Graterol, you might just have a contending staff, developed at an affordable price from within. Realmuto may be a great player, but lots of teams get by without a great catcher. Develop or buy a good defensive backstop when the rest of the team is ready to make a push. Let's not sell the cows before they have a chance to play the fiddle. You know what I mean.
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    Hey, the Twins got Felix Jorge back! I hope he gets back on track after...whatever!
  4. jimbo92107
    At least we know Buxton's got the speed to stick at short.
  5. jimbo92107
    DFA Wilson, LoMo and Belisle. Bring up Navarro, Rooker and Busenitz. Then play musical roster spots with half the pitchers in AAA, plus Gordon and Wade.
  6. jimbo92107
    Might do well to DFA Morrison, bring up Vargas, then go 1. Polanco 2. Rosario 3. Escobar 4. Vargas ... At least that looks like a starting four.
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    I would exercise some options to bring half a dozen fresh arms up from AA and AAA.
  8. jimbo92107
    Tom, you have perfected your writing style. Good stuff!
  9. jimbo92107
    Who would you like to coach you in all the fine details of professional baseball? Hands down, Paul Molitor. Unfortunately, that's not his job today. The Twins elevated Molitor to a position above what he's best at, which is coaching. Managing is an entirely different skill, and Molitor has not shown the same level of proficiency in that role. Terry Francona was the guy that should have been hired to manage the Twins. My own second choice was Terry Steinbach, and then Jake Mauer, just to see him ordering around his brother!
  10. jimbo92107
    Good comment by Rosterman. I'm usually all in favor of bringing up the kids and moving out the veteran place holders, especially in a situation where it looks like the team isn't going to get significantly better with the guys we have. The Twins have several guys in the minors that could become part of their dominant wave. Gonsalves and Mejia should come up and replace Lynn and Odorizzi. Slegers should replace Belisle. Moya should replace Duke. I would also trade Dozier and bring up Gordon, ready or not, he can learn on the job. I would also move Morrison and replace him with either Vargas or Rooker. Move Grossman and replace him with Wade. I'm not actually too concerned what you'd get for these place holders. More important to get the new kids a half season of seasoning.
  11. jimbo92107
    Best news of the day is Polanco clubbing a homer. Can't do that if your finger is badly injured. Must be pretty close to healed. Maybe we'll see him up not long after the break.
  12. jimbo92107
    Whilst dragging refuse to a dumpster today I listened to a podcast about advanced kinesiology. They spoke of finding ways to compensate for the body's natural tendency to wear out and wear down over time, with the goal of maintaining top performance well past the age that we expect athletes to lose top performance. I wonder if Rodney is doing that sort of training. Or maybe he's just pumping steroids into his butt-tocks. Whatever it is, Rodney does appear to have Bo Jackson thighs. He must spend a lot of time pumping iron. I hope he's doing it the legal way. I didn't trust his stuff early in the season, but now he's on auto-snuff. I wonder what he did to cut down on the walks...
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    If Magill keeps snuffing out innings, Molitor will learn to trust him. I too can't see exactly why Magill is so curiously effective. Maybe it's the illusion of a "normal" looking pitcher that throws some slightly different stuff. He does seem to quick-pitch a bit, surprising some batters. He also works at a very quick pace. Magill minimizes the time a batter has to adjust to his stuff by working fast and having a quick delivery. He also attacks the zone relentlessly, further reducing the time batters have to see what he's doing. It's also possible that Molitor thinks that Magill is a guy that can stop a rally, but if you show him too often, hitters will adjust to his average stuff and start pounding it all over the field. The odd thing is that Magill seems to go three innings without hitters adjusting. Maybe he's better than he looks.
  14. jimbo92107
    Bring up Bert Mejia as a long reliever, say buh-bye to Belisle.
  15. jimbo92107
    Hitters need to read trends the way a card player does. Guys like Buxton and Sano should content themselves to hit outside pitches oppo, until they start seeing the pendulum swing back inside. That's when you pounce for a couple dingers, and then the pendulum swings back outside. For Sano, he should still be able to hit dingers oppo. Dozier probably is the likeliest to get hot soon, followed maybe by Kepler, who seems gradually to get better and better at everything. We'll be lucky to see Polanco get hot right away, but he is a very hard worker.... Adrianza has been showing signs of life at the plate, maybe he's more than a defensive sub. Grossman looks like he has topped out at mediocre hitting and so-so outfield. Other than that, you could still try calling up Gordon, Rooker, Wade and a catcher, maybe Willans Astudillo. They can't be much worse than the rake waving bunch we see today.
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    It's the age-old story. Velocity x Command = Effectiveness. As V goes down, C better go up, or E will go down rapidly. Unfortunately, over Time, both V and C tend to go down, unless you add a new pitch, Pn. This gives ((VC)Pn)/T = E Clearly Reed's V and C have been suffering, along with over-use, U+. Thus ((VC)Pn)/(T+U) = E Age-old story.
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    Last time out Lynn pitched an extra inning, getting by with less heat and a so-so curve ball. This time it looks like the opposition was ready for Lynn running out of gas, but the "exposure" theory also works. What is Lynn's main weapon? Low- to mid-90's heat in the early innings. After the third time through the order, two bad things happen: Opposition has seen his heater, which is slowing down, and Lynn's off-speed pitches are mlb average at best. That spells a hard 100 pitch limit. Lynn has neither the stamina nor the alternative offerings to survive after that.
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    I like Jeremy Nygaard's analysis best - go with a pitch limit, not a innings limit, assuming an average of 16 pitches per inning. Next, re-emphasize getting ahead early, get that first strike to get ahead in counts. That should help reduce pitches per inning. This is the time in Romero's career when he finds out what he can do with his heater and his slider, and keep working on the change, which could save him some pitches later in games and later in the season. Finally, try to get him to add and subtract with his fastball. He already does that some, but the more variability he achieves, the more he screws up a hitter's timing. Love, Captain Obvious
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    Santana might not even make it back to the show. If that finger doesn't heal up right, he'll never get back his mid-90's heater, or his command of the slider. I wouldn't trade any farm arms until we know if Santana, Pineda, and May get back to 100 percent. Plus injuries, of course. Meanwhile, Gordon should be up right now and stay up to the end of the season. If somehow the Twins sneak into the playoffs, we know that Polanco is ruled out. Apparent pitching depth can disappear in a heartbeat, or a car crash, or a suspension, or a hundred other things that can go wrong when you try to throw thousands of baseballs over 90 miles per hour.
  20. jimbo92107
    Then I guess we know what Wade needs to work on. Kepler figured out how to hit lefties, so why not?
  21. jimbo92107
    Good point, but there's still more R/H pitchers in the league, and if he can hit a lick against lefties, then it's not much of a knock.
  22. jimbo92107
    Listed as OF in his profile, speed 55. They're calling him a fourth outfielder, so he's competing with Grossman and LaMarre. Should be a better hitter and fielder than either. Also Wade should have more power than Granite, but less speed.
  23. jimbo92107
    Sano came into this season like a guy that doesn't care, overweight and nonchalant. He has played like it, tisking after strikeouts, injury prone from the extra weight. Buxton looks like he forgot every lesson he learned last year about hitting. Rowson's fault? I doubt it. He still steps up to the plate looking like he doesn't have a plan. Dozier is the worst disappointment, as mentioned elsewhere. Playing with little apparent motivation. In a contract year?? Really?? LoMo also has disappointed, but it could just be a bad luck acquisition. My fix remains the same. Bring up Navaretto (or a AAA C), Wade, Rooker, and Gordon. Move out Wilson, Grossman, Adrianza, and LaMarre. Get those better bats in the lineup. Even if they sputter, they're no worse than than the guys in the lineup today, and all of them have higher ceilings than the current placeholders. Right now is the time to make these moves, before the current group drags the team deeper into this hole. If the Twins are out of contention by the All Star break, then 2018 will play out like I predicted, another year for testing new players. This team still hasn't pulled together, which also should bode the end of Molitor as manager. I wanted Francona so bad...!
  24. jimbo92107
    Brian Navaretto. I'm a fan, I think he's going to be very good.
  25. jimbo92107
    Gordon and Gonsalves for a league average catcher? No. Freekin. Way. Not even one of those two. I would much rather call up Navaretto from AA and see what he's got. 2018 has become a testing ground for talent ready to harvest from the top two levels of the Twins minor league system. Guys like Pettit, Grossman, Wilson, etc. are placeholders, not future everyday players.
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