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  1. High heat
    I don’t think a total shift ban is necessary but I think forcing all infielders to play on the dirt. No more second basemen in shallow RF. Or maybe forcing a team to designate before at bat if you want to play 4 outfielders they have to stick with that throughout the at bat. Guy steals second you are still only allowed the 3 infielder or guy attempts to bunt or changes his approach with 2 strikes you can’t change.
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    How about we talk about the Saints potential opening day roster. (minus the 40man guy) That looks like at the moment to be the only professional baseball in town in 22.
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    Gordon is now out of options and can’t go to AAA. Last season the Saints had Maggi and Riddle on the roster for the saints. I’m sure this is a depth move and also allows the saints to fill out there roster if MLB doesn’t come to an agreement anytime soon! Between AA and AAA they don’t have enough middle infielders to go around as currently structured.
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    The current system distributes the revenue sharing to teams and the bottom teams arent spending the $ on player salary as it stands. This system would put $ back to the players directly insuring a percentage of $ made would be distributed to the players who havent had the opportunity to reach market value. It would also encourage small market teams to sign extensions with players developed in there system as a cost curtain and would still incentives the player to sign because they would be able to get closer to market value. The players union issue with the luxury tax is it places a cap on the teams who are willing to spend large dollars and the bottom spending teams still wont spend on players. The bottom spending teams are currently receiving more $ in revenue sharing then they are currently spending on player salary. In terms the revenue just going into owners pockets. How do you force the distribution of $ to ALL players while still allowing teams to rebuild through player development and allow teams to spend big on the great players without the small market teams to just be feeder systems for the large makret clubs.
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    Distinct possibility! I would compare him more to a Travis Snider out of the Blue Jays and later the pirates organization. because he athletic enough to play the OF and has shown some patience at the plate in the minors and the majors. But like Arcia didnt spend much of anytime at AAA before getting up to the big leagues. With Arcia pitchers found that Arcia couldnt lay off or even make contact with the high fastball and it spend him up to try and catch up to it that the breakingball made him look silly. Also hope that sometime at AAA making some adjustments with breaking balls helps him get things right and can come up and contribute. I believe Morneau raved about his work ethic and willing to learn and thirst for hitting knowledge.
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    I think the easiest solution to this is to change the competitive balance money and a portion of the revenue sharing money and instead of paying the teams the league pays the players who have not reached free agency directly. This would be divided up based on performance. This gives young players more $ before free agency and can be easily divided fairly though out the league. You could even take a portion of that and give incentives to players who sign or extend with the team that drafted and developed the player. Say any player who signs an extension with a team before entering the final year of arbitration if that player had logged 150+ minor league games with that organization would be eligible for $ from the revenue sharing. This would given incentives to players to sign long term deals earlier in the arbitration process and would also incentives teams to reach out and bargain with younger players to sign extensions and put and incentive to teams to keep and develop players.
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    I think the Twins look at guys before drafting them and say, we can see some mechanical adjustment on this guy play A but not this other guy, player B. We will take plaer A and add velo with him, maybe they miss or dont prioritize looking at the secondary stuff tweaks. I like the change up especially as a lefty and can better get away with a single breaking ball. Maybe he will be able to combine the curveball and Slider like Taylor Rogers or Chris Sale did and be able to mix and match. That slurve seems to be devistating to lefties. He will be another interesting one to follow in 22
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    I agree with the article 100%. You let Selig in who lead the organization and benefited from the steroid era all while knowing and promoting what was going on. Yet now the writers want to vilify the players who did or didn’t do steroids.
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    Would be interesting to approach on a 3 or 4 yr deal, if it was to pay a little more now to pay less later. Like people have said he hasnt made much $ yet in his MLB career and isnt set to make a significant amount the next 2 yrs in arbitration and at 31 already catchers dont age well. What would you think of a 8 million AAV for 3 or 4 yrs. paying a little more now for a little less later and cost certainty.
  10. High heat
    So Seth just curious why you have Duran @6 but Canterino @1? Both are the only 2 with top of the rotation stuff, both have limited inning with injury concerns but are dominate and have big fastballs. Both 24 but Duran did it at AAA and Caterino at A+. I am on the Winder bandwagon, adding to that fastball has changed his game. He gets a little more on one of his secondary pitches something Wes Johnson may be able to do. he is a guy who reminds me a bit of Bieber.
  11. High heat
    Was really excited about Sabato. im hoping the Twins we’re trying to make some swing or stance adjustments with him early in last season and that accounted for the early struggles. With the high walk rate and strike out hoping he was just missing pitches due to adjustment. Steers reminds me of Brian Dozier. the 2020 high school picks are very interesting, the lack of scouting and competitive ball makes there draft locations almost irrelevant. We’ll see how Rosario develops.
  12. High heat
    Duran is the only guy with top of the rotation stuff and could contribute next yr. Sano having a complete season like his second half. He has been totally written off by most. I like the 3 guy you wrote about. Get back to having 2 really good Catchers would be a huge addition.
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    Duran is the guy on this list. He has to stay healthy. The other 4 are a long way out and 3 of the4 likely will fizzle out but glad to see guys with high upside potential.
  14. High heat
    His only hope with the Twins is he can go to the bullpen get a tick or two on his FB and can turn himself into a guy like thielbar.
  15. High heat
    If MLB is locked out into spring training and the season is MILB going on as scheduled? Are the Saint going to play minus the guys on the 40 man roster? Baseball can’t lose any more development time for its young players.
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    I think 2022 is going to be a year of figuring out what the Twins have in the upper minors. you have a lot of guys in the upper minors and on the40 that have a lot of talent and need to be productive and fill in at the major league level. Celestino and Gordon have to be the plan early and Martin later in the yr.
  17. High heat
    I like this flier deal for a bullpen arm. I really like that he was taken off the 40 man and signed a minor league deal and willing to work with Twins coaching. If this lockout goes into February when pitchers and catchers report im assuming coaching staff is going to be required to show up at ST. This would give a lot of close watch hands on coaching he likely would not get otherwise. Big fastball and good slider pitchers can be extremely successful in the bullpen!
  18. High heat
    Here is me putting on my rose colored glasses...........but if as an organization you believe that many of these young pitchers who were injured and hurt in 2021 are close to big league ready and going to be difference makers why spend a bunch of $ in free agency when you have young cheap talent at the top of the minor league system creating a log jam. I dont want the Twins to spend $ just to spend it. I dont think the 2022 Twins season is all doom and gloom at this point. The CBA i believe is going to change a lot of the trade land scape and i hope the picking prospects are closer to the big leagues then we think.
  19. High heat
    I think the free agent # should come from years as a professional. The second you sign a professional contract your clock should start. Then a big financial penalty paid to the team losing said player maybe some kind of salary exception for teams who sign free agency away from current team. Say the Yankees sign a player away from the marlins for 300 million over 10 years. Yankess would have to pay the player agreed upon amount and pay a percentage each year to the Marlins who had to use that on player salary.
  20. High heat
    This could work only under a few conditions. 1. New CBA allows for larger roster expansion. 28 or 30 on active roster/travel with big league club like what happened in 2020. 2. Lots of decent young controllable arms who can be call up and sent down and recalled with St Paul Saints being so close. This would decimate AAA though. 3. You use this method as a try out for 3 guys early in season if one guy gets hurt or ineffective and eventually finding a 5th starter.
  21. High heat
    Jax is Duffey 2.0, convert Jax into a full time reliever. His fastball hopefully will increase in one inning appearances can use the “sweeper” 2 pitch pitchers work out pretty well in the bullpen. HR killed Jax in 21
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    I’m on board with what many of you have said. He needs to continue to develop offensively adjusting to heat and a break ball not getting caught in between. Like him defensively as a decent CF and a right handed bat to supplement all the left handed corner outfielders. his biggest concern is he has to compete with Martin and possibly Lewis if he can’t develop quickly and falls behind those 2 top prospects. Not a big fan of trading him now, likely doesn’t have a lot of value with struggles at MLB level. If he plays well the first half of 2022 either in the majors or AAA his value increases astronomically. Will be a good insurance policy for needed Buxton injuries and missed time to come.
  23. High heat
    The only one I would remotely consider, only because the price may fall dramatically is Javier Baez. We are night in a position to spend big on a long term SS. Our only hope is Martin or Lewis develop. this article should really focus on the next tier free agent SS, that’s where our market likely sits.
  24. High heat
    Griffin Jax reminds me a lot of Duffey coming up. A solid pitcher but really only has a 2 pitch mix and doesn’t have a dominate fastball. If going to bullpen may help give him a couple mph
  25. High heat
    Does everyone just want to watch a 90 loss team for the next decade? We aren’t the Pirates! 3 to 4 million is nothing for a reliever, he has been good to great the past 2 seasons and this yr he has been ok. Give him his $ go into next season with him in the back end of games reliever mix. If we totally fall out of contention next season relievers with a half season left have decent value at the trade deadline. I’m not ready to just punt on the 2022 season already.
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