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  1. Rosterman
    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!
  3. Rosterman
    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!
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  8. Rosterman
    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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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!
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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!
  14. Rosterman
    5 days after the end of the World Series.
  15. 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)
  16. 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.
  17. Rosterman
    Well, if Megill is injured, the Twins should be able to bring back immediately Henriquez. Get him another few innings. Or, bring in Evan Sisk?
  18. Rosterman

    High Marks??

    Rosterman commented on Doc Munson's blog entry in Fantasy GM

    You alwats have to be wary of over performance by young players. Remember when we thought we had a great nucleus with Sano, Buxton, Kepler, Polanco, Berrios? Sure, there is a fine crop, but we look no fuirther than the outfield. Is Kirilloff the real deal (and better suited for first). Is Larnach a stud? Can Wallner learn, fast, not to strikeout half-the-time? Will Celestino get better with age? We had Ober, Sands, Winder, Buxton, Moran, Henriquez, Jax, Jeffers, Arraez, Gordon, Miranda, Lewis, Kirilloff, Wallner, Larnach step forward as organization pluses. Names like Celestino, Duran, Ryan, Alcala, Coulombe, Woods Richardson, Henriquez all came from outside organizations. That's a pretty solid core going forward. Supplement it with a couple of real free agents, and hope names like Gray, Madea, Mahle, Paddack, Urshela, Lopez, Pagan can be upgraded, or further prove their worth from trade for the prospects we said goodbye. The Twins rotation suffered from arms not able to throw innings (no one reached 150 innings). The Twins left a bunch of guys on base, didn't push their base-running, started to see people run wild on their catchers (and pitchers), and the offense probably lost more games that the bullpen. The Twins fielded more coaches than ever, and their minor league system has more coaches than ever in the minors, and collegiate voices popping up throughtout the system. The 2020 draft class is still a disaster. They traded away alot of players (left-handed arms) from the 2021. There is promise in the Class of 2022, but we have to wait for next season to see most of them. We were at a high as the Twins were the only central team above .500 for msot of the season and in first place, still struggling with draws of only 22,000 average attendance. Well, St. Paul wasn't selling out either...and eventually a good portion (30 bodies) played for AAA Saints before coming to the Twins. 30! Whew! I can very well see the team just treadwater in the off-season, feeling they have enough to be competitive, and not spending money (kudos for giving away money to Carlos Correa, I guess). We want them to get better. To make the first rate signing of a real good free-agent pitcher, but no one really wants to come to Minnesota. Why is that? Well...........
  19. Rosterman
    The Brewers are still hanging in there. If they make it, Taylor Rogers would be closing games!
  20. Rosterman
    How do you get picked off of second base in a bases loaded situation. Matt Walner, we love you, and you will work hard to become and stay a major league player, but... When our bench is basically Caleb Hamilton, Ryan Jeffers and Billy Hamilton, we are in ntrouble......
  21. Rosterman
    Marwin Gonzalez is still on the Yankees bench. Tyler Duffey didn't pitch well enough at AAA to get the call! Chi Chi Gonzalez was just added by the Yankees.
  22. Rosterman
    You pretty much can live without Stashak, Coulombe, Pagan, Megill - all on the 40-man. And Fulmer will leave. I would think all but Pagan could come back on a minor league contract if you truly wish to keep them.
  23. Rosterman
    Pagan got to pitch!
  24. Rosterman
    I was not expecting Wallner to become a threat to crack the outfield until sometime in 2023. But right now, he could possib,ly do it out of spring training. The question is: what to do with Max Kepler. Do we trade, cut ties, whatever? Celestino still shows signs of being overmatched. Again, 2022 was supposed to be his time to get lots of regular play at AAA in centerfield. He is, right now, the backup for Buxton. So many of us hoped Kirilloff would grab (and hold down) first base. That is up in the air, and the Twins, if they resign Gio, has that bag covered with Arraez and Miranda. Lewis and Martin are also outfield candidates. But someone needs to play shortstop in 2023. The advancement of Brooks Lee will be fun to watch. Everyone else is up to three years away from beining added to the 40-man, so 2026 we could start seeing a whole new look in the Twins outfield going forth.
  25. Rosterman
    I would take the arbitration gamble for now, and consider rotating him with Miranda and Arraez at 1B/3B/DH, unless the Twins truly egt a BIG BAT for the DH spot. But I would monitor spring training carefully, see how Miranda does at third base, and use Gio as a trade piece and don't wait for his season to tank, as has Kepler's, which would make him untradable and then I guy you feel you have to play because of the pay. I don't really see much in the wayy of 40-man roster troubles. I just see the Twins having to make a few hard decisions, especially on outfielders, coming out of spring training. Do I like Arraez at first base? I was hoping it would be the home of Kirilloff, and then Miranda would be the fulltime guy at third. Where to play Arraez?
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