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  1. gman
    After 4 years he has not proven he is the correct man for the job. I think that is the answer.
  2. gman
    After almost 10 years of mediocre to bad baseball its difficult to get excited about what might happen. They had a good month last year and a good one in 2016. Anything other than that is hard to remember. Yep they may trade some people next month or get some guys off the injured list or pigs may fly, but I've seen too much of this kind of baseball. Judging by the crowd sizes at the games so have alot of other people.
  3. gman
    Nice to see that Griffin Jax made a couple of starts for Ft Myers this past week. Nothing spectacular, but just keep moving up 1 level per year in the time he has available.
  4. gman
    Depends on how the front office and manager see the team. If they truly see this as a playoff bound team, which seems to be the case, they go north with the 25 best players to help them win from game 1. Why give away 5 or 6 games whatever time of the season? If they are not 100% confident this is a playoff bound team, maybe they keep more options available for questionable players. If they plan on giving pitchers 5 or 6 games with potentially negative results, I would prefer they give those to their top pitching prospects later in the season than to very questionable short term pitchers that would cost them games now. In any case 2 weeks from now we will have a better idea.
  5. gman
    Just like this year, I expect many free agents will learn that the market next year won't be what is was in the past. Seemingly last winter we tried to trade Dozier and the best offer apparently was DeLeon. Other teams don't seem to value him as much as Twins do. Will he really be the Twins best second base option for the next 3-4 years? What other position value does he have? Firstbase and DH type players don't seem to get paid that well unless they are the top super stars. As a firstbase/DH, I think Dozier would be placed in just above the Morrison category and we know what he got. Based on these factors, he may become a very affordable option to be retained by the Twins.
  6. gman
    Once Morrison signed, there was not a spot for either Grossman or Vargas. To me, Vargas has shown enough to at least demonstrate an ability to have a typical Morrison type season. Morrison never came close to hitting 38 homers prior to last season and with regular AB's Vargas could probably have at least one 30 homer season in his career. Obviously the value of a potential Vargas 30 homer season is not that great and for the same reason Morrison won't have a real long career in Minnesota.
  7. gman
    Of the top 10 teams in baseball in scoring in 2017, 9 made the playoffs. The Astros led baseball in scoring and won the World Series. Interesting the Dodgers were way down at number 12 in scoring. Seems like scoring isn't so bad.
  8. gman
    The 10 day rule becomes a new way for pitchers (as well as position players) to breakin to the bigs. A couple trips back and forth getting the feet wet and confortable and maybe the big league staff becomes more confident in what the newbie has. The optimistic position is that besides trying to find spots in the bullpen for 2018 for pitchers in waiting is that the list seems to add 3-4 pitchers a year for at least the next several years.
  9. gman
    Maybe it's something simpler. Maybe all the statistical analysis used to managed results on the field has also crept into the management of team salaries. As noted team have seen that big contracts for one player rarely pays the length of the contract. As we saw last year when the big boppers didn't get the contracts previously handed out to big homerun hitter. Stanton got his big contract a couple years back. But it doesn't appear he generated a lot of trade interest and so even at his young age trying to unload that contract was very difficult for the Marlins.
  10. gman
    Sano. I'd like to see him be that 40+ homer, 120+ RBI guy. Put the monster in the lineup.
  11. gman
    Certainly spring training (not soon enough) will provide some interesting battles. Instead of whose the filler while watching for other teams discards, we actually should have battles between good and better with other teams watching us. No doubt there will be someone sent to Rochester who pitched 8 innings with no earned runs given up and 10 srikeouts. I expect a spring training trade or 2.
  12. gman
    With a stable bullpen and long on potential support at Rochester the days of cringing when the bullpen call is made hopefully will be over. The starting pitching may improve by just not having so many innings blowup once a reliever is called in. Some starters may be on shorter leashes, which won't be so bad either. Although for a pitcher like Mejia, he will have to pitch longer to be on a short leash. Also hopefully, the better pen will allow our hitters a chance to come back when the starters fail early and some of those 10-8 losses will turn into 8-6 wins.
  13. gman
    I agree we should trade Sano when he's "39". We've waited what, 45 years to have a hitter like this in the lineup. Heaven forbid he hasn't made the hall of fame after 2 whole seasons. One of which he played half a season with a severe leg injury. Third, first, DH or whatever you bat him cleanup just as much as possible. Is there a bat with comparable potential in the Twins minor league system. I don't think so. I would take him everyday over a starting pitcher who plays maybe 30 games a year for 5 or 6 innings.
  14. gman
    1. As already pointed out, Joe's offseason home is in Florida not Minnesota. For a discounted 2-3 year contact, I see him prefering to go home every night and be with his family. 2. Firstbase is usually a position assigned to a power and production bat. Joe has never been that. Unless he suddenly rediscovers a 900 plus OPS, with RBI ability, his playing time would greatly decline over the life of an extension. 3. With 13 men pitching staffs, bench roles are at a premiun and not usually allocated to part time firstbasemen/DH's with little power. Joe was a great catcher, but I don't see him continue to risk his health to hang on for a few more years. That is, I think he retires.
  15. gman
    Final record for 2018 of 84-78 and don't make the playoffs. While they don't make the playoffs, they get closer to the team that will be a constant playoff contender for 2019-25. With several World Series pushes during that time. Upside - the pitching staff continues to grow through constant introduction of minor league starters and relievers. Gonzalves, Romero and Littell make starts and Jay, Chargois, Curtiss, Moya and Anderson show up in the pen. The lineup and defense continue to mature. Granite moves into the leadoff with more than 30 steals.as a 4th outfielder/DH. Buxton, Polanco, Rosario, Kepler and Vargas prove to be a solid core. Gordon puts in a second half appearance. The downside - 2017 proves to have been Mauers sunset season. Dozier is traded. Santana begins to regress and Sano plays less than half the season recovering from off season sugery, suspension and lawsuits.
  16. gman
    The Twins will very probably have an 8 man bullpen in 2018, with I think Pressly being the longest tenured member. A 50% or more turnover in the pen over the course of the season because of poor peformance, injury or hopefully pressure from improved minor league pitchers seem reasonable to expect. Since its not very likely they sign even 3 good free agent relievers, nor do they have 3 "known" dominant relievers on the roster, the bulk of the bullpen will be in development stage. In other words, I think wait and see is the story.
  17. gman
    I think 1&2 have to be Dozier and Santana. Other teams shouldn't expect the Twins to trade certain players not if they really want to trade.
  18. gman
    Kinda makes you feel sorry for the Yankees coming problems. Two 50 homerun hitters in the lineup, plus Sanchez etc. To beat them in a playoff series will take elite pitching and defense, or hope for them all to hit a slump at the same time.
  19. gman
    Lots of potential here. With most of these players more than 1 year away, it will be interesting to see if the recent changes to system admin, coaches and I presume processes bring out a higher return on the minor league system than we have been used to seeing. When I look as this list, I have a hard time not trying to squeeze 30 players into the top 20 slots.
  20. gman
    I don't make a major trade of prospects until I know the Twins are a major WS contender. I don't know that. So I don't think 2018 is a go for it season. Hopefully they are a surprise and added a couple more wins to the 2017 total and continued roster development. But still too many question marks on what we have.
  21. gman
    I hope we are coming to the end of 30 years of failed pitching development, which starts with who you draft.
  22. gman
    So is the rule 5-er who doesn't get picked a minor league free agent? Can he then sign with anyone he wants?
  23. gman
    Obviously the trade for the Twins would not only be the top prospects cost but the current rostered players they couldn't or wouldn't sign while paying his contract. I agree with other posters who also have concluded that this is not necessarily the Twins window time.
  24. gman
    No and No. They are simply not good enough any more to take up valuable roster spots on coming Twins teams.
  25. gman
    Like most number 1's, I don't think it matters much who is. Could be 6-8 different players. I see a lot of talented players rising to the major league roster over the next 2-4 years and looking forward to their impact on a 85 win team.
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