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  1. Alex
    I think Leviathan's approach is dead on here, and I really don't get the people that simply want to let go of players that have had success (because they are out of options and had a bad year last year) when they are younger players with more upside. Especially when some of the young players we're talking about have had more success than a pitcher or two under contract. If that's the case, we should be cutting bait on most of the team that started last year with the exception of a few. I appreciate making the rotation better through FA and am glad the Twins have done so to some extent. However, the key is to actually make the rotation better both immediately and in the long term. We'll see if they've done that, and when these players are let go, we'll see if they could have helped the Twins and are players that end up being ones we complain about because they have success elsewhere. Either way, it's very tough for me to see the way these players have been handled as a mistake in some way. Maybe they mishandled their option years and placement on the forty man roster. Maybe they didn't give them enough time in the majors to show what they had (or didn't) and thus couldn't even move them in a trade. Maybe they just did a poor job of developing these guys or drafting them in the first place.
  2. Alex
    My larger point was that letting a young player play isn't necessarily a scholarship if that's what his development needs. Signing free agent pitchers and signing "good" free agent pitchers are two different things. I think that most people are happy with two of the three (one way or another), but the third doesn't sit well. While he wasn't a pitcher, the Doumit extension shows exactly what can happen when you don't have roster spots. Doumit wasn't really deserving of playing time but he was stuck holding a roster spot that would have been better served by Arcia, or even Parmelee (to at least give him one last extended look). This could apply to pitching this season. Heck, we're acting like Deduno was terrible, but he's actually been good and barring injury seems to deserve a spot more than Pelfrey. Now, though, the Twins have decisions about him, Worley (who has had success and they traded a decent player for), and Diamond (who is probably not as good as his first season and is probably better than his second).
  3. Alex
    I agree completely with this, and certainly their handling of him has affected his trade value to some extent (of course, if he was terrible that woudn't have helped either) but by handling him the way they have, there's no way the get anything in trade for him.
  4. Alex
    Out of option guys, especially on a team like the Twins, have little value. I mentioned this in the Parmelee thread. If a team could wait to get a player for free, they're not going to trade anything significant for him. If a player is out of options and can't make the active roster as bad as the Twins have been, there are very few, if any, teams they'd be useful to.
  5. Alex
    Let's not act like they haven't gone against this statement multiple times after it was made. In some cases, giving a guy like Gibson a shot is more valuable and important to the team long term than having a guy who might pitch better on a one or two year deal.
  6. Alex
    He's basically there in case of injury at this point. If he isn't going to play ahead of Kubel, as it appears, then he has no trade value. No one is going to trade anything significant when he'll likely be available for free at some point before the season starts. The bottom line is, though, that if a player can't find his way onto the punchless Twins at this point, he's really got no value.
  7. Alex
    -whoops, somehow missed the two posts above.
  8. Alex
    I think he still needs at bats everyday and it's not a good idea to have him struggle out of the gate.
  9. Alex
    I wouldn't be so sure about this, but I hope you are correct.
  10. Alex
    I agree that right now the offense isn't looking much better than last season unless we get development from some players Hard to complain about the signing at this point, though, as they needed to address pitching first and this fills a need. I'd still like to see them upgrade an OF position and move the Hammer to DH, but I haven't kept track of what's out there.
  11. Alex
    Maybe, maybe not. I think there are places he could be valuable and a decent signing, but I don't think he's "only a possibility" because of sabermetrics. I mean, he's a 5 WAR player over 7 seasons (BR, 8 by Fangraphs), so not sure anyone would argue he sabermetric friendly. On the other hand, he's going to be thirty and it's likely his bat speed is dropping, leading to more Ks and fewer HRs. We'll see. Either way he's not a fit for the Twins as they stand right now.
  12. Alex
    It's more palatable if they trade or release Doumit, but Thrylos sums up the current situation nicely. Willingham should probably be a full time DH, Pinto might also be more of a DH than C, but I think he needs to get a chance to work that out. So, I also think that signing a more versatile OF that pushes Willingham to DH and backup OF (and Doumit out) is the better way to go than to sign a guy who would only be used as a DH against LHP and can't really field.
  13. Alex
    Having a committee DH,which is where it looks like the Twins are headed, is different that platooning. A platoon at DH, ie taking up two players for a spot there, is a great way to end up with an incredibly inflexible bench. It would leave the Twins with two spots (assuming 4 bench spots and one a catcher), essentially one iF and one OF. This team is flush with only bat guys who have, so Reynolds make no sense. They need to upgrade hitters that will also play in the field.
  14. Alex
    I guess that's true, but for running I was thinking of above average for position. Not sure why I had that stuck in my head, especially since I wasn't thinking that way for the other two categories.
  15. Alex
    And it isn't who you might think..... Based on Fangraphs and from Beyond the Boxscore https://twitter.com/BtBScore/status/411595734715076608/photo/1 It's actually a pretty exclusive list, with only 21 players in the majors making it.
  16. Alex
    Great summary from a cost/value analysis.
  17. Alex
    Nothing lost here on a minor league deal. If we open the season with Willingham, Arcia, Doumit, and Kubel all actually on the active roster, then I'll be more concerned with overall flexibility (lack thereof) on the roster.
  18. Alex
    I know a lot of people didn't really care to about Hendriks being waived, but I think that if the situation were reversed and the Cubs had waived him and Twins claimed him, we'd think it was a smart move.
  19. Alex
    Johnny Bench on it: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/13/johnny-bench-is-a-big-fan-of-the-new-rule-eliminating-home-plate-collisions/
  20. Alex
    The reason baserunners can go harder into home is that oversliding the base doesn't matter, as long as they touch it. At every other base a slide has the additional effect of slowing momentum as much as it is about avoiding a tag (see also: Ron Gant?). I really like that they are looking at the play that is the highest risk of injury baseball. It's not about making sure no one gets hurt ever -- it's about taking out a play/plays that are high risk of injury and don't make a lot of sense within the context of the game.
  21. Alex
    I don't get it either. Like I said before, I've been critical of a lot of what the Twins seem to value in players but I don't see them completely being ignorant here. I think this is a case where we probably need to give them the benefit of the doubt. IE if Mauer would better defensive third baseman than other options, be they Sano, Plouffe or whatever, they've evaluated the risk reward. That is unless we really think they are complete idiots, which I don't. As to how much more you need at 3B than at 1B (a previous point), I think it's obviously significantly more. The most common 3B transition you see are previous SS. If it were that easy. I think you'd see a lot more good defensive 1B moved there. For example, Morneau was considered by many to be an excellent fielding 1B for a long time yet he never played 3B.
  22. Alex
    Jokin, I love the idea in principle, but do you legitimately think the Twins are completely ignorant of this possibility and haven't even discussed or evaluated it?
  23. Alex
    Absolutely agree.
  24. Alex
    Or at worst, 2015. Good point, too.
  25. Alex
    I really think that if the Twins thought Mauer had the range to play third, they'd have tried that out. Even though I'm critical of the Twins front office often, I do think they are aware of the idea of the defensive spectrum and that moving Mauer to third would have been far better than moving him to first.
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