cmoss84
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My point is, you don't think we could find 9 guys who could pitch every 3-4 days that throw 93+ with 3 pitches (I'm not saying this would be their max velocity-I'm saying this is how they could be used) and throw 50-60 pitches per appearance? This would also allow 2 true closers at the back end and one long guy.
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Brock B-valid points. But I'm thinking you could have pitchers that throw 50-60 pitches with 2 days off in between that throw 93 mph+ and have 2 other plus pitches. You could still stash a 2 pitch closer or two so you can mix and match for certain situations also.
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Seriously, what do we do with Plouffe once Sano gets called up?
cmoss84 replied to kydoty's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
A lot of these guys being mentioned are nearly untouchable...Syndergaard, Correa, Urias. Not gonna happen for Plouffe. That being said, I think later on this year is the perfect sell-high time to trade him. Someone mentioned Pawlecki from the Mets-good idea since they have a couple catchers. I would also like to get Hedges from SD or Crick from the giants, but don't think those would happen either. -
Thanks for your opinions. Good stuff. I just want clarify-I don't think this will happen for awhile (maybe in 5-10 years), nor do I think the Twins will be the first to try I out. But I wish we would go to it sooner rather than later. Regarding a couple of your comments...I suppose one of the benefits of doing this would be (arguably) to take away the risk of so many Tommy John/season-ending surgeries that we've been seeing the last couple of years. A team could invest 30-35 million in the entire staff and continue to rotate arms and stock the farm system. I would rather spend my money doing this and stacking my offense as opposed to spending 30 million on an ace, even if it is Kershaw. Don't get me wrong, I loved watching Santana pitch for us. But the risk factor is just too great when signing these 27 or 28 year old aces to 6 year, $200 million contracts (or for the Twins case a little cheaper). Build the staff with power arms and maybe 1 or 2 "long" guys that can go 4 or 5 innings. Also, I know our pitching has been bad the last 5-10 years, and some of you are still a little down on our pitching to say the least. A lot of you are going to be surprised how good our pitching is the next 2-3 years with the arms we have in the farm (not even counting our rotation right now). Just my opinion, but we would have (along with signing a couple FAs) enough arms to do this.
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We are playing good baseball right now...hopefully we can remain in playoff contention until the very end. But if we fall out before that, I would love to trade any combination of Hughes/Santana/Nolasco/Pelfrey and be the first team next year to go with 3 - 3 inning pitchers per game. It's bound to happen eventually-let's start the transition party! Any takers? Anybody else a fan of this strategy or is everyone going to stay stubborn with the traditional "starter goes 6 or 7 then use 2 bullpen guys to close it out?"
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Hello all. New to the site but was wondering if I could get some of your opinions on this. Looking ahead to next year, it looks like there will be a lot of decisions to be made regarding who to keep and who to bring up from our ridiculous minor league system. This is my prediction for who we keep next year, along with some of the other potential prospects. Any feedback is appreciated. I know I'm getting a little ahead of myself, but some roster moves are going to have to be made very soon! Position Players: C - Pinto/Suzuki 1B - Mauer/Vargas 2B - Dozier/Polanco SS - Santana 3B - Sano OF/DH - Buxton/Rosario/Hicks/Brett-Walker/Kepler/Arcia (notes: no more Plouffe, and keeping 6 OFs is probably not going to happen, but I want to keep them all right away until the top 5 emerge) Starting Rotation: Hughes Santana Berrios Gibson Hu Pen: Meyer/Burdi/Graham/Rogers/Jones/Perkins (notes: very righty-oriented. Honorable mention and close to making roster: Reed/Duffy/Melotakis. No more Nolasco. 2 years away from Stewart/Gonsalves/Jorge.)
