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  1. jud6312
    How is "White Sox fans drinking the Kool-Aid" any different than what people are doing on this site? It was a close race last year. Both teams have added talent, but I think the additions the Sox made were higher impact. They should absolutely be the prohibitive favorites to win the Central now in what should be another close race.
  2. jud6312
    Meh. If a guy is still a "project" at 26, is he actually a project or is this simply what he is? I know everyone is in awe of this front office and the "Magic" Wes Anderson, but the jury is very much out for me. Like it or not, they haven't produced any more results than the previous regimes have.
  3. jud6312
    I fear eventually his stuff will dip a bit and he'll no longer outperform his advanced stats. They get talked about all time on here when people underperform them and it gets chalked up to good luck, but rarely do you see it go the opposite way.
  4. jud6312
    Wasn't the one I had in mind, but at least they didn't scrape the bottom of the barrel.
  5. jud6312
    And a back of the bullpen arm.
  6. jud6312
    I would guess either Tortuga or Wade, probably in that order. My preference would be (in order, new pitchers excluded) Tortuga, Cave, Wade. If they don't view Tortuga as someone they'd be comfortable with as the primary backup catcher should something happen to Jeffers or Garver, then the rest of "positional flexibility" is trumped by Arraez moving into that spot and/or having Blankenhorn in St. Paul. If they like his defense behind the dish, then it could easily be one of the other two. With 2/3 of the OF set and 3 MLB-ready guys and another not far behind that could play LF, Cave and Wade are kind of redundant. My preference would be to hang on to the younger guy with the better defense and unproved bat.
  7. jud6312
    The bullpen is a plus department? I think that might be a bit of a stretch.
  8. jud6312
    I like this - given the pitching situation, this team is going to need all the defense they can find, and few do it better than Simmons does.
  9. jud6312
    That's a great list documenting the low-price signings and how they fared ... but which of them hasn't been cut loose, and which ones were trusted with consistent late-inning action. That's what this team needs, not more guys that are readily available like Gibaut and Waddell. Is the plan is to wait a few years for Alcala, Colina, etc. to develop the way May and Duffey did? The way it stands right now they have ONE "lockdown reliever" and that's Duffey. Rogers looked VERY regular last year. And the second half of '19. Is that the real guy, or is the real guy the one that was around for a piece before that? Stashak, Alcala and Colina are very much still developing. Is Robles cooked or was last year a blip on the radar? Did Thielbar really figure out how to get guys out in his 30s? (I sorta doubt it.) Waddell and Gibaut were available for a reason. Unless they go out and get a workhorse or two for the rotation, this bullpen is going to throw a whole lot of innings this year and who can you actually trust to get that done? I see one, maybe two guys that I'd trust to do it on a regular basis. Two impact arms is what this team needs to move forward, not a bunch of guys with one good pitch and awesome spin rates.
  10. jud6312
    I second this.
  11. jud6312
    The Twins in general, and this current FO, haven't really shown anything to make us think they'll do that though.
  12. jud6312
    How many pitchers have had career years at age 38? Unless he's going to be (probably) the first, that would absolutely mean that Maeda and Berrios took steps backward.
  13. jud6312
    If that's the case, they shouldn't even bother playing the season.
  14. jud6312
    And also ...
  15. jud6312
    They get me almost every year. Someday though, someday I'll learn.
  16. jud6312
    If this is the best they could do, just let Balazovic and Duran compete with Dobnak, Thorpe and Smeltzer - the two that suck the least win.
  17. jud6312
    You know what Thorpe and Smeltzer offer, which is basically nothing. Dobnak a little more than that. If they're too cheap to even take a flier on a veteran comeback, they might as well turn 4 and 5 over to Balazovic and Duran. At least they're unknown quantities. I've seen enough of the others to last me a while.
  18. jud6312
    So back to the dollar store. What a relief - it's worked so out well year after year with all of the World Series trophies piling up in Minneapolis.
  19. jud6312
    I said before last year that some of the people on here were overlooking the White Sox and I was soundly ridiculed - including by someone that said Giolito would barely crack the Twins' rotation. The FO better have a big month or two planned because the Sox young players gained more experience and they've added more solid veterans. When a season - even a short, weird one like 2020 - has a difference of 1 game between 3 teams and one of those teams adds pretty significant talent to its roster while the other two lose pretty big pieces (one, obviously, bigger pieces than the other), the balance of power can shift quickly. The fans were patient for nearly a decade waiting for this window to open and now we're expected to remain patient while other teams are closing the "gap" faster than expected.
  20. jud6312
    You may want to check the numbers again - they are virtually identical with the bat.
  21. jud6312
    And those pitchers are who, exactly? The only name I've seen them even kick the tires on was Colome and there are multiple holes to fill - most of them guys that contributed a lot to the success of that bullpen last year.
  22. jud6312
    Bradley was a name I definitely hoped they'd look at, especially given the apparent need. I suspect this weekend we'll see the same article with the names changed to Hand and Kluber. Then Rosenthal, Colome and the rest. Then it will be followed up by "Twins Look for Diamonds in the Rough to Fill Bullpen." When do we get the OK to stop waiting patiently to be wowed, or even "meh'd" by the front office?
  23. jud6312
    They better have interest in more than those three players. Those are the kind of signings that a team standing at the doorstep of a title make. That's not what this team is. At least not yet.
  24. jud6312
    I'd say it's still incomplete until we see what exactly Smeltzer can become. If, however, he ends up a AAAA guy riding the Green Line back and forth until he's cut loose, then it's a push. If getting Raley back was the piece that helped land Maeda, then it's very slight advantage Twins. But if they'd really dug their heels in and said "we're not adding him," I highly doubt the Dodgers would've nixed the deal. He was a sweetener to make it look like a bigger return for a recognizable veteran - just like he was to the Twins.
  25. jud6312
    Sign me up for Bradley. Him with Hand and Rosenthal or Hendriks would be a nice haul since I doubt Bauer will be calling Minneapolis home next summer.
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