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  1. gil4
    Solid yes for Plouffe. Weak probably not for Suzuki.
  2. gil4
    Once teams see his on waivers, an interested team might call the Twins and work out some trade parameters and then make the claim, but if they were unable to get a deal they probably would recognize the Twins received a better offer and wouldn't make the claim (unless they wanted to set themselves up for retaliation.) So someone might claim him, or they might be no deal in place and no claim to allow the Twins more time to work a deal once he has cleared. (Like the rest of baseball, there seem to be a lot of unwritten rules and gentlemen's agreements with these things.)
  3. gil4
    I suppose some team might claim him with the hopes of having exclusive trade rights to negotiate a better deal, but if there weren't some parameters for a trade set in advance, the Twins probably wouldn't look to favorably upon that claim.
  4. gil4
    They are put on revocable waivers, so the non-contender isn't going to get the player unless the team that waived him (most likely in the same boat) is happy to let him go for nothing. All they will accomplish is annoying the other GMs Teams will put more players on waivers than you would expect, although it wouldn't be the untouchables like Kepler, Buxton, and Sano. I'd bet Dozier, Escobar, Mauer (just in case he's willing to waive the no-trade), Suzuki, and Plouffe all clear waivers. Santana and Milone also will probably clear, and a couple of relievers might, too, just in case someone is willing to pay a premium. We'll just never hear anything about it unless they actually make a deal.
  5. gil4
    I can't say I wasn't worried.
  6. gil4
    Unless things have changed, teams usually don't put in claims to block a trade unless they have an idea that a specific rival is the intended recipient. If teams get in the habit of making claims to block trades, other teams will start retaliating.
  7. gil4
    Big groan
  8. gil4
    At least they didn't trade JJ Hardy to get him.
  9. gil4
    "I can't complain but sometimes I still do" Joe Walsh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngkQVOt8GEM
  10. gil4
    This one could last as long as the Knoblauch trade.
  11. gil4
    If they are 22 and struggle for a year at E-Town, it's probably time to play indy ball or go put that degree to good use. Maybe make an exception for a college guy with a good pedigree who's just getting started (although he really should have been in a full-season league to start.) If they are 22 and rake for a month, they need to move up and find some competition, because the clock is definitely ticking and most of their peers are in hi-A or above.
  12. gil4
    Going back 55 years for an example tends to support the opposite point. The age of the prospect and the age of the competition are very important for player evaluation, especially if a young prospect is succeeding against older competition or an older prospect is struggling against young competition. Tearing up the Appy league says something different about a 19-yr-old than it does about a 22-year old. At 19, it says "good prospect." (For Kiriloff, is says SSS, but so far, so good.) At 22, it says "get this guy to an appropriate level of competition so we can find out what we have here." The Twins really didn't do that for Oliva until age 24 in 1963, which is part of the reason he didn't make the majors to stay until he was 25. I think his defense also held him back some, but the MiLB landscape was quite a bit different in the early 60s, and Tony O's path to the majors was unusual enough at the time to make it difficult to use him to make any general statements about prospect evaluation today.
  13. gil4
    I'm not sure we would have projected Dozier to be as good as he has become (although I would have expected a higher BA and OBP, but not as much power.) They are tough to compare because Dozier was a college guy who tore up AA (OPS .885) at age 24. Polanco won't get the chance because he will be out of options next year at age 23. He has never approached what Dozier did that year, but then his .725 OPS last year between AA and AAA at age 21 is good enough to make it hard to compare with a 24-yr-old.
  14. gil4
    Oh well. All your chicken dinner are belong to us.
  15. gil4
    I just hope he starts learning where the wall is before he kills himself running into it.
  16. gil4
    I guess Plouffe plays better when his spot is threatened. I'd say that's a good reason to keep sending Sano out there. (There are plenty of better reasons, but we can add one more.)
  17. gil4
    I hate seeing guys throw opportunities away, and definitely like seeing them turn it around before it's too late. If Matt Bush can do it, there's hope for Johnny Manziel.
  18. gil4
    Let our pitchers get back out there. They'll show you how to produce runs.
  19. gil4
    It should have crossed him up. No hitter in his right mind would be expecting that.
  20. gil4
    I think he was pointing out that their strength and weaknesses don't really line up. Tim Raines was a poor man's Rickey Henderson. (OK, not a poor man's. The slightly less wealthy man's...) Usually the "poor man's" description is used for someone who has similar strengths and weaknesses, but the strengths are not quite as strong or the weaknesses are a bit more pronounced. Nunez and Zobrist are so dissimilar that the comparison doesn't work.
  21. gil4
    It's like Venezuela - plenty of willing shoppers but nothing on the shelves. Twins have struggled with the low-pressure part of the auditions. It's been good to see Buxton start to hit some. We've had way too much deep introspection the past few years - still not sure how it has been a benefit.
  22. gil4
    Plouffe has been pretty consistent. (You didn't ask for good, just consistent.)
  23. gil4
    This just in? It must have come via Pony Express, because he has been on the DL for the past week. Maybe you're confusing him with Kepler, who has been out there most (all?) of the time since Sano got hurt. It's an easy mistake to make - they look so much alike.
  24. gil4
    I think it was the holding your breath that did it.
  25. gil4
    I know that was at least somewhat sarcastic, but there is some truth behind it, too. Even in that at-bat, he didn't look completely hopeless like he did earlier in the year.
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