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  1. Rosterman
    I worry about Arraez staying healthy. He needs to bat leadoff. Wish he was a "taller" guy at first, but...we need to play him somewhere. All the players mentioned above are trade chips if they stay healthy. I wished that Kepler was on the tading bloc this summer, but he went and got himself injured. Sigh. I now know why I am not a baseball general manager. You can't win in the job!
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    Let's Help! How much do you think a GoFundMe could raise!?!
  3. Rosterman
    It will be a loooooooooong off-season!
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    Cave in, former Twins prospect Jake Reed out, but got a pick-up by.....Red Sox. Remember Jake Reed?
  5. Rosterman
    I would consider Ryan, Duran and Miranda once spring training breaks, and maybe talk during the early months of next season.
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    The Twins Need Hitters

    Rosterman commented on Greglw3's blog entry in Greg Allen

    Give me a good, solid right-handed bat who can play the outfield well and also be a designated hitter, and ahs the ability to come off the bench. Also, let's get a catcher who can also be a bat option, although I would settle for a dynamite throwout arm. We also need a stopgap shortstop and could sign a more "utility" like guy just to be on the bench.
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    Wander Javier will be the stopgap!
  8. Rosterman
    I would have to think the Twins would be looking at #10-20 in the 2023 shortstop available class.
  9. Rosterman
    Cave was getting better-than-a-major-league-contract to play for the St. Paul Saints. Twins signed him for $800,000 back in November and removed him from the 40-man sometime thereafter. His choice, to play for the Twins somewhere or not get paid, unless another team also saw him as the bargain. We could question the Twins wisdom for this as the baseball season started to wind down come September and Cave was still playing, on his major league contract, in St. Paul. Jharel Cotton signed a similar deal with the Twins, thus why his up-and-odwn continued to happen. The Twins were paying him far more than a minor league salary to be a part of the organization, high enough that NO other team (until the end) wanted to take him off of the Twins hands. Granted, many minor league free agents get a tad better salary than the minor league base, and that also accounts for them staying with a team rather than walking, if possible, and returning to the minor league home, if the team will still have them. I give Cave points for hustle. He wants to play ball, especially major league ball. But considering that he ended up #8 in the depth chart, and would now be behind Wallner at #9 - but still ahead of Billy Hamilton - tells you how bad the Twins outfield situation was in 2022. Hey, he would even be once notch lower if Royce Lewis wasn't injured and played more than his game in the outfield. And, wait, the Twins even advanced Tim Beckham before Cave and felt the need to play him in the outfield. Cave is an arbitration eligible player, so you have to approach him in that fashion if you wish to keep him, otherwise, be interesting to see where he ends up...and continues his career shades of Robbie Grossman and Rob Refsnyder.
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    MLB TRADE RUMORS PREDICTS: Twins (12) Gio Urshela (5.127): $9.2MM Emilio Pagan (5.091): $3.7MM Tyler Mahle (5.018): $7.2MM Caleb Thielbar (4.131): $2.4MM Jorge Lopez (4.102): $3.7MM Danny Coulombe (4.008): $800K Chris Paddack (4.000): $2.4MM Jake Cave (3.137): $1.2MM Luis Arraez (3.121): $5MM Cody Stashak (3.064): $800K Jorge Alcala (3.014): $800K Kyle Garlick (2.163): $1.1MM Last season they signed Cave and paid him big bucks to play in the minors. Will they do the same with him and Garlick for 2023? Coulombe and Stashak will be interesting decisions. Both can remain good depth pieces.
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    No Enlow. No Balazovic. Glad Henriquez made it (and he is still young, folks). Glad we had room to give shots to Chi Chi, Aaron, Davis, Thornburg (what, no Peacock?), Hamilton as well as a couple of past subjects. All those minor league free agent pitchers that didn't pan out...especially for the Saints. Shame!
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    Interesting to note that this was pretty much it in the minor league pipeline. Otherwise, it was grizzled old AAA guys: Beckham, Cave, Garlick, Hamilton, Soto (who never got an at bat, shades of Maggi), Godoy, Leon. The Saints roster was pretty much all minor league free agents at one point, on the offensive side.
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    There is a good chance that could happen! I mean, who wouldn't want to play for a team that seldom beats the Yankees!
  14. Rosterman
    Yes. Garlick is a minor league depth signing. Celestino should start the season again at AAA, as backup for Buxton. The twins have to make hard decisions out of spring training on Larnach, Kiriloff and especially Kepler. Wallner may not be ready. So nice if they would sign, at least, a worthy right-handed bat who can play the outfield and DH.
  15. Rosterman
    Pagan is the perfect example of arbitration failure. SHould he get a substantial raise after two seasons of sub-par pitching? Why! Bad enough that you can't cut a player's salary, but must offer a modest raise.
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    Players in the AFL always have a better than average chance of getting a 40-man roster spot, and I would beg to guess that at least half of them see major league service time at some point in their career. A great chance to showcase. It basically extends the post-season of your top prospects to face the highest level of minor leeague competition against others of the same rank (no minor league free agents with nothing left to lose). And usually a member of the coaching staff is from your own organization. Julien is someone to watch, as the Twins develop middle-infielders, but no one a surefire shortstop. Julien could be heir appaeant to Polanco, though. Be interesting to see the further development of Austin Martin. I would love to see him stick to one position in Arizona. Also, be interesting to see if he repeats, to start the season, AA again.
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    During the off-season, Rocco could do what Tom Kelly also hated to do...go out and meet fans, be it on question-and-answer talk radio, appearing with TC Bear and a player at some bigger events. An opportunity to really talk abseball philosophy, as well as spread the Twins brand.
  18. Rosterman
    Pretty good list. Expect six to be back in 2023, and hopefully for many eyars after. Remembering the Twins rookie pitchers since 2019: Smeltzder, Thorpe, DObnak, Romero, Hildenberger, Eades, Poppen, Stashak, Graterol, Alcala, Colina, and last year Ober, Ryan, Jax, Barnes, Moran, Humm, Barnes left and did well in Asian leagues.
  19. Rosterman
    I'm starting to wonder WHY we would need more than one of Kepler, Celestino, Wallner, Garlick, Kirilloff, Larnach. I'm not seeing anything outstanding there. Potential in Kiriloff if you believe his wrist is healed. Celestino could be the new Cave for a couple of seasons, the backup you need for Buxton, Will Wallner get better? Otherwise, nah, bah, humbug!
  20. Rosterman
    Twins competition in signing Correa? They would have to offer him significantly more than $35m for one year with another even higher option. I doubt they will do that, or tie them into anything north of $25m a year for five or mroe years, which will not egt it done. Any other team could/would do that. They lucked out on the Correa contract. Got a bit of p.r. value. But it could've beeen a bigtime miostake if he had been injured for a good portion of this season, which would've meant a pickup by Correa of next season. The pain is the Twins wish they were in a little better position with Lewis ready to step-in-out-of-spring with Lewis.
  21. Rosterman
    After a lost season of COVID in the cardboard stands and few people the following hyear, plus a shift to Bally Sports.....I think the issue is more how the new Twins uniforms will look and the branding the club does going forth. Who are the marketable players? The Twins have to start by supporting Minnesota (and Midwest) events. Better presence than they had at the Minnesota State Fair would've been nice. They have to do more than just the pre-season Caravan, as baseball suffered bigtime in this state.
  22. Rosterman
    Bases loaded. Again. Pagan was...brilliant! How did we lose Liam Hendriks? Well, no second place, no .500. A sad, sad end to what was looking like a surprising season!
  23. Rosterman
    5 days after the end of the World Series.
  24. Rosterman
    KEEPERS: Duran, Gray, Henriquez, Jax, Maeda, Moran, Ober, Ryan, Varland, Winder, Woods Richardson, Jeffers, Lewis, Miranda, Polanco, Buxton, Celestino, Kirilloff, Gordon, Larnach, Kepler, Wallner. (22 players) FREE AGENTS: Bundy, Archer, Fulmer, Leon, Correa, G. Sanchez, Sano, A. Sanchez, B. Hamilton ARBITRATION ELIGIBLE (I Think): Urshela, Pagan, Paddack, Mahle, Alcala, Stashak, Thielbar, Coulombe, Cave, Lopez, Arraez REPLACEMENT LEVEL: Romero, Megill, Palacios, Garlick, Contreras, C. Hamilton QUESTIONABLE PROSPECTS: Smeltzer, Sands, Enlow, Balazovic So, 8 free agents leaving, 6 guys that could easily be replaced thru by others or resigned to minor league contracts, maybe 2 of questionable prospect gone, and 3-6 that could easily not reach an arbitration decision (Coulombe, Stashak, Cave probably, possibly Urshela, Pagan, And Thielbar in limbo). MINOR LEAGUE CONSIDERATIONS: Helman, Sisk*, Severino*, Canterino*, Julien*, Headrick, Funderburk, Prato, Isola. Javier (free agent), Camargo* (free agent), Probably, at this point, only NEED to keep 3-4 of these fer sure. (*ones I would add)
  25. Rosterman
    I wonder what the team would've been like if Sano ws available for the entire season. The weakness was NOT having innings eaters in the rotation. But we got our current batch built up for 2023. Someone has to make outs, so I can live with a weakness in a catcher atr the bat. But they have to be able to stop the running game in return. And the Twins do have guys who should be able to run, sacrifice, make things happen.
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