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  1. Cap'n Piranha
    The spirit of the IL rule is to keep teams from constantly trading out players who are only slightly injured for a day or two at a time. Without the rule, teams could essentially have 40 man rosters, and every game would have 5-7 transactions after it to trade out BP arms, platoon bats, etc. The calculus is that when a player is too injured to play, but not too injured to guarantee an absence of 10 or more days, a team has to determine where equilibrium falls (is it better to play short-handed for 9 games to get a game, or just give up 10 games for the injured player, but get those 10 games from a different, healthy player). As I mentioned before, the calculus of the Gallo IL move was altered when Correa needed multiple days off. Without that, Gallo probably stays active, and plays in Yankee stadium the past 2 days. With the Correa injury, the Twins were critically short on bench players, and needed to put someone on the IL. Since Correa is far more valuable, and was probably deemed to be on track to be available sooner, the obvious choice for the IL stint was Gallo.
  2. Cap'n Piranha
    How pray would he get on the field pregame without crossing the white lines? Are those only chalked down as the home 9 is preparing for the imminent first pitch?
  3. Cap'n Piranha
    Oh, I’m sure Gallo would be allowed to take BP or fielding practice at a major league park any time before the 18th.
  4. Cap'n Piranha
    The Twins needed help with their roster. When they IL’d Gallo, Correa had also been out multiple days, leaving the Twins with only 2 bench players, one of which was the backup catcher. If everyone else had been healthy, they probably let Gallo heal on the active roster; but since everyone else was not, they needed to do something to get another body up, and Gallo will lose out in that calculus v Correa every day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
  5. Cap'n Piranha
    The hidden issue here remains the Twins' struggles with keeping day-to-day injuries actually day-to-day. Yesterday, for example, with both Gallo and Correa unavailable, the Twins had a 2 man bench (Buxton and Jeffers). This was only day 2 for Correa and day 3 for Gallo, but the direct result of having 2 unusable players is that Buxton more-or-less had to PH in a less than ideal spot, in order to keep a center fielder in the lineup. If Gallo had been put on the IL right away, either Garlick or Lamarre could have been brought up; Garlick would have been a great option to bat against Bummer, leaving Buxton available to PH for Taylor (either with at least one man on base, or leading off the 9th). If Lamarre was up, you could have still PH Buxton for Taylor, and used Lamarre to play CF in the 9th forward.
  6. Cap'n Piranha
    Good thing Solano batted 5th then.
  7. Cap'n Piranha
    Seems to me there is an easy solution here—if Miller is considered more or less a lock to stick at short, reps there are less important than for Salas, for whom finding out if he can play at short is imperative. Put Miller at second, Salas at short, and see whether Miller’s bat or Salas’ glove merits a promotion to AA first.
  8. Cap'n Piranha
    Because winning a game on an HBP, a balk, and then two groundouts is so much better?
  9. Cap'n Piranha
    I agree with what seems to be the consensus here--the Twins should wait for the deadline to add talent via trade, unless they can somehow pull off a steal on the AJ-for-Liriano/Nathan level. The farm system actually has a pretty nice collection of potential top-end talent (Lewis, Lee, Prielipp, Salas, and Rodriguez all have all-star potential, and all of them could be in the bigs by 2024/2025 if things break right). As such, I think the Twins should let the current roster start the year, and re-assess in early June as to what the true needs for 2023 are.
  10. Cap'n Piranha
    Agreed that the plan is to buy time with some combo of Kepler/Gallo/Gordon/Celestino as the CF backups until Lewis gets back. With Correa here for the next 6 years, my guess is that Lewis is no longer going to be thought of as an IF within the org, but will transition full time to the OF as hopefully a gold glove caliber guy in RF/LF and a high level Buxton backup in CF. Miranda will be at third for the next 3-4 years, with Lee either replacing him or Polanco, and Martin/Julien taking the role of super subs. At least that's how the FO wants it to play out, I imagine.
  11. Cap'n Piranha
    Unless in jest, this is a breathtaking misunderstanding of baseball statistics.
  12. Cap'n Piranha
    You again miss the part where, despite appearing in a lousy offense (as you yourself pointed out), Arraez was top 30 in all of MLB for runs.
  13. Cap'n Piranha
    That would be Nelson Cruz. I’m sure the Twins would have no difficulties in signing him.
  14. Cap'n Piranha
    This is particularly hilarious given your stance in a different thread that the Twins should bring back Miguel Sano, based on the production he’s had IN THE PAST.
  15. Cap'n Piranha
    Yes, Sano's .345 OPS would have been quite the boon in pushing Arraez around the bases.
  16. Cap'n Piranha
    Which was 29th most in all of MLB, and represents 12.6% of all the Twins runs. Perhaps Arraez would have scored more runs with better hitters behind him.
  17. Cap'n Piranha
    It's a lot easier to score runs when there are guys on base. Guys who hit for average tend to be on base a lot.
  18. Cap'n Piranha
    Why not sign Kent Hrbek? He also has a career OPS above .800 (.848 to be exact), so we've seen he can do it too.
  19. Cap'n Piranha
    Why would we put hope in Sano, when we could go get a freely available righty bat with the below 162 games average? 37 HR, 87 R, 105 RBI, .859 OPS? He also had an OPS above .800 more recently than Sano, and drastically outperformed Sano in 2022.
  20. Cap'n Piranha
    Cal Ripken career OPS+ by month, with each month having at least 1700 PAs Mar/Apr--101 May--101 Jun--106 Jul--108 Aug--95 Sep/Oct--90
  21. Cap'n Piranha
    I never implied he wouldn't be healthier. I implied it's silly to think, as you said, that Byron Buxton's injury history has no bearing on his injury future.
  22. Cap'n Piranha
    I believe in Byron Buxton. I do not believe in Byron Buxton’s health. Unfortunately, the impact of the former is controlled by the latter.
  23. Cap'n Piranha
    Good point. Everyone knows that humans get less injury prone as they age.
  24. Cap'n Piranha
    The Twins should do in essence a 3 part contract with Correa; Part 1: 3 years, $120M, followed by a player opt-out Part 2: 2 years, $70M, followed by a team option with a $15M buy-out (payable across two years, disappears if Correa signs a deal in excess of 4 years, $100M, or $30M in AAV) Part 3: 3 years, $90M Correa gets another shot at FA (if he wants to), while the Twins max their investment at $205M ( in the years Correa should be healthy/producing)
  25. Cap'n Piranha
    MLB will not find the parity most posters seem to desire until one thing changes. Unless a method for ensuring the same amount of money is made whether a team wins or loses, teams will always find ways to make money by losing (unless of course teams make more money by winning).
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