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  1. jorgenswest
    Thanks for the detail. You listed many intriguing options. I hope they get a long enough second look at Wallner and Julien before any deadline decisions. I would do that before making any moves now. They also have Lee and Rodriguez as options. I wonder if there will be an opportunity to look at David Festa also. Stewart is throwing from the mound. Will we see him in July? It is never too early to deal for an everyday hitter that you put in the middle of the line up or a starter that fits in at the top of the rotation. I think it is too early to make a deal for the players that aren’t as impactful. They need to give an opportunity to their in house options first.
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    They need a pitcher that has been consistently solid a healthy over the last three seasons. That leaves out McFarland and Moore. Moore’s velocity has ticked down and his peripherals are not very good this year. I would also take issues with Cleavinger being a force the last 4 years. How can you be a force when your innings totals are 18, 23, 12 and 29? Rogers is the only option of the 4 and the Twins will have to pay up. Otherwise I would go with Funderburk and hope that Stewart and Topa return.
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    At the end I was trying to address your very valid concerns about the challenge system. If it is a 2D system it will be a disadvantage to pitchers with more movement whose balls either fall out of the strike zone prior to the selected 2D plane or enter the strike zone after the 2D plane. I don’t think it would be good for baseball to disadvantage pitchers with such good movement and pinpoint control that they can capture a just small part of the 3D zone.
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    Willi Castro is amazing. Someone brought up Cesar Tovar earlier and what a great comp. Tovar was picked up from the Reds organization at 24. He played all over the field playing over 200 games at 5 different positions in his career and another 77 at SS. He bunted. He stole bases. He was a league leader in getting hit by pitch. He hustled. Tovar was a favorite of mine. Castro has become one also. Fantastic pick up originally signed by Cleveland and then traded to Detroit. Those two AL central teams lost out.
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    Santana is valuable to this team. He hits lefties well. He is a very good with the glove. He shows hustle routinely. We saw yesterday his value pinch hitting. I appreciate watching him play baseball.
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    How would it help? It sounded very similar to the quotes about Ryan last year. I suppose if they come down harder on Ryan in the press or in front of his teammates then maybe Kirilloff is up front earlier. They also may have burned some bridges with Ryan in doing so.
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    I don’t care about the look. I hope he gets healthy and starts hitting again. I saw the article on MLB. I don’t think there will be any lasting tension between Kirilloff and the team.
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    The ABS wasn’t perfect and not a 3D zone but I wonder if can come back in some form. There is an area on the edges of the zone where ABS isn’t reliable. Most of the calls that don’t match the zone on TV are pretty close. Leave those be. There are a few that are not close. It would be nice if the tech could inform the umpire to reverse those calls. That doesn’t need to take much time. There is no one to get even with. The emotion of the batter doesn’t play a factor.
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    Is this a step backwards from the full ABS that some have hoped would bring consistency or a step closer to having a limited challenge system in the majors? Maybe both. It is probably an acknowledgement that the full ABS as implemented in AAA was not working as hoped. It would be good to fix the obviously bad calls assuming a team utilizes their challenges well.
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    From ESPN
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    They scored 46 runs in 6 games against the Louisville Bats. Their only effective starter Carson Spiers was promoted to the Reds earlier in June. The top three in games started have ERAs 9.85, 5.02 and 7.74. Two of those have nearly a walk an inning. They did face Graham Ashcroft last week. He has had a hard time getting major league hitters out this year but did calm the Saints bats after they had scored 34 runs the previous three games. The Saints have shown they can score runs against the Louisville Bats. I am not sure how many major league pitches they saw last week though.
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    How would we know? Readiness shouldn’t be evaluated by a small sample so forced can’t be measured by looking at slash stats in AAA. I also wonder whether the AAA schedule a make readiness even less clear. The Saints play the same team for an entire week. A lot of players put up nice numbers against the Louisville pitchers last week with the Saints averaging nearly 8 runs a game. How close were those arms to a major league arm? I don’t see how we could measure whether a player is forcing there way up or simply feasting on minor league pitches in a small minor league strike zone. I do hope to see Julien and Wallner return soon.
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    In 1968 Cesar Tovar started 10 games at the same positions that Castro has played. He also played 11 games in right field while starting 8 and was the starting pitcher in the game he played all 9 positions.
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    In the outfield Gavin Sheets is a career -20 DRS and -11 OOA across 1506 innings and at first base in 410 innings it is -4 and -3. Larnach is +8, +1 in 1473 innings. Kirilloff -3, -8 in 758 (-10, -7, 939 innings at 1B). If you scale to the same number of innings I see little difference. Neither Kirilloff or Sheets has been a good fielder. Sheets is a year and a half older and better than Kirilloff in the too small sample so far this season. I don’t think there is anything in the data to suggest that he will be better the remainder of his career.
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    Listed in Bowden’s 5 trades he would like to see before the deadline. “Twins acquire 1B Pete Alonso from Mets for 1B Alex Kirilloff, RHP David Festa and 2B/OF Luke Keaschall”
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    How much more likely is Sheets to have a better career going forward than Larnach, Kirilloff or Wallner? Sheets: age 28, free agent 2028, .703 career OPS Kirilloff: 26, 2028, .721 (about 1.5 years younger than Sheets) Larnach: 27, 2028, .710 Wallner: 26, .813, 2029 or 2030?
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    Kepler is not a better hitter against left handed pitching than right handed pitching. Any rest should be against a left handed pitcher. If they happen to see to left handed pitchers in a series he probably should start in one if those games.
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    Do you think swelling is going to make it more difficult in the next week? I don’t know. If he was not healthy enough to be in the line up today due to swelling I would wonder. We saw how he did at the start of the season after he was injured batting game 1. We also saw him try to play injured two years ago without success. Maybe it is minor. If he needs a second day off tomorrow due to pain or swelling I would IL him.
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    If Kepler is out I would put him on IL. He doesn’t play well injured. Call up Wallner for his spot and call up Julien for the extra. Calling up Varland isn’t needed and won’t be utilized well. They have a day off Monday so the starters who already just had an extra day will be on track. If they do call up Varland they need to be willing to let him go deep in the game to avoid relying too much on the pen in one of the games.
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    Change is hard. If true changes were necessary it was irrational hope that it would take place quickly. Sometimes steps backward happens before being able to move forward. They really need Wallner’s bat against right handed pitching. It is encouraging that a return looks feasible now.
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    I suspect the decision to rest Lewis frequently coming out of his injury is not on Rocco. I have no idea if it is a necessary decision. I would have pinch hit for Vazquez in the 9th with Jeffers. The organization may also have been intentional about full rest for the catcher in this long stretch of games. I don’t think that is necessary. The Twins also have managed to keep both Jeffers and Vazquez healthy for a season and a half but that could be a coincidence and not due to their usage. If the organization chose to make those two not available short of injury that leaves a bench of Martin and Farmer. Martin was utilized well. The other spot for Martin would have been to hit for Margot in the 8th but they are both pretty similar in putting the ball in play. Do the Twins need to be more transparent when they are giving players full rest in a game day? That would be foolish. It would be better to take the ridicule from the fans. They don’t need to let the A’s know that Lewis is not an option on the bench.
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    Before they trade assets for position players they would be wise to see how Julien and Wallner do back in the majors. I should add to that list Lee, Rodriguez and hopefully Kirilloff.
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    The Twins should be able to utilize the mystery of his handedness.
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    I did my ranting about short sided platoon in the winter. I hated the roster decisions. As for the three players it is more likely that the league adjusted and they need to adjust back. Major league pitching exposed their weaknesses and now they need to overcome them. In Julien’s case I hope the demotion is a short one.
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