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  1. Vanimal46
    Sorry Taylor! Too forgettable, even with his flowing locks of beach hair.
  2. Vanimal46
    They activated him from his rehab assignment 6 days early and optioned him to Rochester. It would have been 7 days of service time remaining before hitting 3 years instead of 13 today. They chose not to bring him up in September and Levine admitted service time was a factor in the decision. They called up every living, breathing human position player that played for the Twins this season except Buxton. I stand by my opinion. If you think Levine and Falvey just looked at his service time numbers on August 31, you're fooling yourself. They've thought about this all season. And their decisions reflect that.
  3. Vanimal46
    There are those types of players on all championship teams. Not specifically that position, but whatever position they play. Grandpa Ross, Carlos Beltran, Alex Rios, etc. Joe Mauer can still play a valuable role on a championship team. Part time role player and primary pinch hitter.
  4. Vanimal46
    I disagree. In my experience I watch games specifically for the starting pitcher. Jose Berrios is appointment TV for me. When I lived in Minnesota I'd look to see who was pitching that day and buy cheap tickets if Chris Sale was on the mound.
  5. Vanimal46
    There's plenty of reason to give up on the opener this season. The Twins don't have good enough pitchers to make it work. While the Twins are putzing around with this gimmick, good teams like the Astros rely on work horse SPs to get the job done.
  6. Vanimal46
    Nope. If service time wasn't on their mind this season they would have let him finish the last 6 days of his rehab instead of optioning him outright to AAA. They also would have called him up now if service time wasn't a factor since they called up literally everyone else that played out in the field for them at some point in the season.
  7. Vanimal46
    It is about the future. Those 3 won't be a part of it very soon.
  8. Vanimal46
    Great read. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully it's a hard lesson learned for the front office.
  9. Vanimal46
    Ah, thanks for clearing up the situations. I forgot what Perk's grievance was about exactly. I also don't fault Buxton for feeling misled this season. Every decision the FO made with him was systematically calculated to keep his service time below 3 years. It will take a sign of good faith (maybe raising his salary for 2019?) To get the relationship back on track. I doubt we'll see Buxton at any Twins related events over the offseason.
  10. Vanimal46
    Do analysts need to have a connection to the team previously? I'd like to hear an opinion outside of the Twins country club.
  11. Vanimal46
    It's possible to 'make amends' with a player they manipulated their service time... I mean, Glen Perkins spent his career with the Twins. It's going to take a lot of money to resurrect the relationship. If not, they gained that year of control for another team to use when they trade him.
  12. Vanimal46
    They did let him go. The Cincinnati Reds were going to remove him from the 40 and keep him on their AAA roster all year. So they picked him back up.
  13. Vanimal46
    Thank you to all of the contributors for another season of minor league reports. This season was fun reading about Kiriloff making a mockery of single A baseball. Looking forward to reading about him, Lewis, and Graterol in Chattanooga at some point next season.
  14. Vanimal46
    On an unrelated note, I hope this "opener" idea is a fad that goes away quickly... I believe developing good SP is one of the most important things a baseball organization should do. This "opener" idea feels like a cop out for failing to develop SP.
  15. Vanimal46
    Yes? Check out how many times Craig Counsell has used non-pitchers in games this season... He also uses their backup catcher and backup infielder to pitch. The Brewers are what others strive to be from a rebuild and analytics standard no?
  16. Vanimal46
    Digging into the data he sat out 8/15, 8/21, 8/23 now 9/2. Other than the time he sat out 2 games in a 3 day stretch he's played every day. Maybe he tweaked something, maybe he needs a mental break for a day. It's not like he's being egregiously mishandled during his time with the Twins.
  17. Vanimal46
    Regardless, the game was 13-2 when he was brought in. They don't need a real pitcher out there when a game is that lopsided.
  18. Vanimal46
    That's what the New Skool managerzz are doing. Saving an arm during s*** storm baseball games.
  19. Vanimal46
    Austin also started 5 games in a row before today. 4th time he's sat in the last 20 games since he's been called up.
  20. Vanimal46
    I am. September 2, 2018 isn't going to change my mind.
  21. Vanimal46
    Romero is starting for Rochester today. He'll be added to the Twins soon.
  22. Vanimal46
    IMO the argument shouldn't be about Molitor keeping Odorizzi in the game too long. The argument should be that Odorizzi isn't a starting pitcher.
  23. Vanimal46
    I watched for a little bit too. The walk on QB went to HS in my hometown so that gives me something to root for. This team is extremely young. Can't imagine they win more than a game after the conference schedule begins
  24. Vanimal46
    Odorizzi this year faces on average 22.1 batters per start. Yesterday he faced, what do you know, 22 batters. What I'm hearing here is he should only face 18 batters no matter the circumstance.
  25. Vanimal46
    I would take Machado for either position, frankly. There's enough concern with Sano's bat where Machado can fill in there. Polanco is decent at SS and probably better suited for 2B. As far as payroll, right now they have $32 million in committed salary. The commits already are Reed, Castro, and Pineda. In a couple of months MLBTradeRumors will release their arbitration projections and they're usually pretty accurate. I'm guessing it will take $30 million or so to sign our arbitration eligible players. So that leaves the Twins around $65 million. I don't expect the Twins to match this year's payroll figure, but they have the ability to do so. They should at least be at $100 million so that leaves $35 million to work with. Machado's first year figure of $60 million doesn't have to be as a salary. They could be creative and offer a portion of that as a signing bonus. I am planning on the Twins contending next year. They almost have to in my mind. Chicago and Detroit aren't going to be this bad forever. If the Twins expect to do anything with the current core of players, something needs to be done.
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