Everyday Eddy
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If your scouting staff leads you to the worst farm system in baseball you get a new scouting staff. I can't begin to guess how the team might change had a different scouting staff been brought in. Could be better, could be worse. But there's this thing called accountability that should come into play. Giving the twins scouts/GM credit for making an easy decision drafting buxton and another no brainer to sign Sano is stupid. Any person on this earth could have made those simple decisions. It's the years that the twins were decent and hitting on no draft picks that they should be judged
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I fire my scouting staff
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And who's fault was that?
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I'm sure they will be on the roster. So will Nolasco, Hughes and Santana. Also nothing about Ryan's track record suggests he's not going to sign a couple more Robinsons, Pelfreys, Nolascos, Stauffers, etc. He has rarely made a good signing or trade, which is why I have no faith he will suddenly figure out that aspect of being a GM.
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The twins do not deserve to be a .500 team right now. And TR will figure out a way to avoid the common sense you just used to fix the roster for next year
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Those players are more similar to Mauer than Nolasco, Hughes or Santana. At least Mauer and those guys earned a big pay day and were good for some of the contract. We rewarded the others for being old and average.
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If Ryan makes the changes necessary to win 89-91 games I'll give him all the credit in the world. He won't though
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Every single one of those guys was an all star. Also those teams aren't afraid to get rid of bad contracts
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My problem is that TR has sabotaged the rebuild with the bad contracts. He sells fans that we're in win-now mode when we aren't really. He then proceeds to sign veterans who cripple the whole org by creating log jams. I've pointed out major issues that many people just decide to brush aside (almost the same way TR does with any big issue). I hope we win soon, but I can't sit here and realistically say the future is as bright as many make it out to be.
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Are you serious? Giants, Cards, Tigers had their upswing but fell short, Angels are always good, Rays had their strong run. Clearly no team can be perfect evey year, but there are definitely methods to put together championship organizations. Most GM's probably laugh at what TR has done with his implementation of awful veteran contracts .
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I do not disagree on our big three. However, I bet every decent organization has a plan to deal with all of the issues stated above. The very few teams that have all of those pieces are going to win championships and we will continue to have decent pieces and glaring gaps. We will eventually fill these gaps only to come to the realization that Dozier, Perkins, etc. are now not good any more and therefore we have different gaps. This is the twins way... an unending cycle of gaps. The twins need to figure out that you have to have no gaps to win championships. Some GM's have figured this out, TR has not.
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All of those teams you mentioned have done a better job than the twins. Do any of them have Hughes, Nolasco, Santana and Mauer sitting on their roster while they expect to win? Some of you people are feeding everyone that next year and the year after are in our window to contend. That is a pipe dream. You don't win anything with 3 average at best starters being paid big bucks and a below average first baseman making 23 million. I blame no one for Mauer's collapse and contract issues but himself because he was paid fairly at the time. We're well past the first 36 months of this poorly attempted rebuild, so not sure where you came up with that number. Everyone is so caught up in the positives of the twins that they fail to see the underlying issues that are going to expose themselves in the next few years: no elite pitching, overpaid veterans, no C, no SS, no BP, and TR still running the show.
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Being this is like the third time someone has said something about this, let me say that I'm new here and I guess I wasn't aware that Joe Mauer is considered taboo. I was crazy for mentioning a twins starter on a twins forum about twins trades. Being it's a forum on mock trades (not real life) I didn't realize the atrocity I was committing. I'm so sorry I mentioned him and I beg for forgiveness.
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Does anyone see any way we could put together a deal with the mets that gets us one of the catchers and either cecchini or reynolds at SS? They seem to have a surplus of talent there in the minors
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Because they hate Sandoval. They get a better and affordable 3B and two pretty good outfield prospects. They also make a splash with Mauer, something Boston likes to do. But Mauer has to want to do this so who knows. If I'm the twins I keep Mauer and take on the Sandoval salary if that's what it takes to make the deal happen. Maybe throw in one of Hughes, Nolasco, Santana instead
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Swihart and Sandoval for Mauer Plouffe Rosario Arcia and Pinto. Outside the box a little bit
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I don't think you can trade May with how good his stuff looks now
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This is why I don't understand what's wrong with trading Perkins and Dozier. The supposed rebuild we've been in the last few years was not done properly. Five years is plenty of time to have every single position solidified with good prospects or young major leaguers. TR didn't do that. We have Sano, a few pitchers, and Buxton, Rosario, etc. in the outfield. No SS, C, 1B, or bullpen. We also have a surplus of 4-5 starters who are not going anywhere. We have Dozier, Plouffe, and Perkins who are good players, but will be good while the team is not (which to me is useless, but some may want an all star on the team at all times). Trade all 3 and continue building for '18 or '19. I know the thought of being bad for a few more years sucks as a fan of the twins, but if we really want to stack young talent together and make multiple deep playoff runs the rebuild should continue and that could start by moving Dozier, Plouffe and Perkins.
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We can just agree to disagree. I don't think my view is absurd as some make it out to be. May, Gibson, and Berrios could be solid I agree on that. Just curious what move would you make with any of our outfielders? I don't know of any team that would trade a worthwhile catcher or shortstop for flawed outfield prospects like Hicks and Arcia. I think Kepler is going to be good so I'd keep him, but maybe you wouldn't. He's the most likely to bring in a solid piece. I really don't trust our front office to go one way or the other because they've proven time and time again to just ride the fence and accomplish nothing.
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I've stated that I don't believe this team is in win now or even win next year mode. I seriously don't get anyone who sees the twins as a serious contender anytime soon. The bullpen and rotation are not going to magically get good by adding just berrios and assuming other young guys just create a lights out bullpen. There are still multiple years left on this rebuild.
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Suzuki is skeptical of stats that say he's not very good? Shocking!
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I will be thrilled if Dozier is a 30 year old all star with the twins, but I also know that sometimes teams get better by selling high on players. I would at least be checking around and seeing if there is a good deal that could be made for him this offseason while (hopefully) his value is still high. The Donaldson trade was an awful attempt by Billy Beane to try and look like a genius, so that isn't the type of example I'd use to gauge Dozier's value. If a team sees Dozier as a guy who will be an all star going forward and is pretty cheap plus under club control for a few years, then yes I do believe he could bring in a worthwhile return
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Sorry, 20 or so teams missed. Imagine the Nats with Harper and Trout. That would have been fun
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You got me there. It's hard to belive 24 teams wiffed on him
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I won't be surprised at all if we make the playoffs in the next three years. To me making the playoffs doesn't mean we are a serious contender.
