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Part of the reason he was added was that he was on the taxi squad and travelling with the team when they somehow found out they would be without Simmons in Toronto. Of course, the knowledge was 100% that this move would be temporary with Simmons being added back as soon as the team crossed the border. Of course, it would've been nice to have him start a game (see J.T. Riddle) or come in during a game (Tzu-Wei Lin). Both of these guys got a moment to become a true Twins alumni. Maggi joins a few guys who have been on the team roster and never played. First was Chuck Schilling, who was on the expanded rosters coming out of spring training and sat on the bench for the first month and called it quits rather than go back to the minors. Another was Alejandro Machado, who was a Rule 5 pick, got to sit on the disabled list for a season. Juan Minaya almost made this list, being on the roster briefly last year but not getting into a game. Now he is a Twins alumni. Tomas Telis was called into the dugout earlier this year but never got past the steps. Maggi got three days pay, he is also on the 40-man for the rest of the season (maybe) and gets more pay because of that. And he could still drift over. Did I leave anyone out? I'm sure there are a couple of more folks, as there are many that only played one game (Jamie Garcia, for example). But, yes, would be nice if the guy could've lived the dream, getting the photograph of himself with bat in hand at the plate in a Twins uniform, or fielding a ball during a regular season game. Used to be fun to see whom a team would add just for this reason when there was no limitations on September call-ups.

It is just the pain of arbitration. The Twins didn't feel he was worth the increase, but looking back he would've been a tradechip and we didn't have anyone who really filled his spot. Be interesting to see where Rosario goes from here.

I'm counting some 54 players on the FCL roster, and 35+ on the Ft. Myers team. A helluva a lot of players already on the complex grounds. Where do they all stay? Do some come over from the DSL league. Now if it will only stop raining down there.

First, the Twins thought they were going to be competitive, so they went after some minor league free agent bullpen arms as possible reclamation projects. Instead, they should've kept Wells, but in all likelihood felt he was going to start in the minors and that no team would open the season with him. Same could be said for Baddoo. He was behind like six outfielders. Even Celestino was considered ahead of him for advancement to the majors and Celestino only made the jump beause of so many injuries. That the Twins ended up with Refsnyder and Garlick as replacements for Rosario for a good aprt of the year, because Larnach needed much more seasoning and Kirilloff went down. The Twins would've started Baddoo at AA ball. The killer for the Twins is that they watched three pitchers: Colina, Balazovic and Duran. All three sit on the 40-man and out for part or all of the season. All considered possible contributors to 2021. Now we wonder if and when they will contribute in 2022. Doubt any of the three will open the season on the roster. The joys of baseball is that you have to make hard decisions. Yes, the Twins made some hard decisions, but, again, they were thinking of being in play in the division and could only allow x-amount of spots for unproven rookie talent. If they knew they would lose, perhaps 90-games, they might've taken a different trak. Be interesting to see what this off-season brings.

So sad he didn't get in a game, although he still is on the 40-man (and getting an increased paycheck for the final two weeks in St. Paul).

If you wish to have a pitcher give up multiple runs in an inning, why didn't you plan on Strotman to come up, take some lumps, and learn. Or maybe he would've shined. Farrell IS NOT an opener. An opener is a distinct pitcher. Just like some starters ARE NOT relief pitchers (*out of the gate). Of course, we have 11 bullpen arms right now, so the Twins are deciding who NOT to carry on the 40-man.

Why not start Maggi? Will he be a Twin still this coming week? Great story, but right now he is with Telis, Schilling and a couple of others as Twins that never played a game!

Who would you consider the last of the Twins aces? Berrios. Before him Gibson and Hughes. Before that we had Baker. SLowey, Blackburn, Liriano? Santana and Silva? Radke, Lohse, Milton. Mays. Tapani? Erickson. Blyleven??????

The Twins are in a great situation for pitchers like Moran. They can let them see how their stuff work, come out and give some advice. The pitcher sees that maybe the coaches and team knows what is going on. Then the pitcher can continue to work and learn. I'm sure it has been a great learning experience for Griffin Jax. Charlie Barnes, too, as well as Bailey Ober. Trevor Larnach also got the experience, as did Gilberto Celestino. The Twins have had to rely on Ryan Jeffers learning and performing on the job. It is what the players do in the off-season now, and how they come to spring training and go from there. I would also like to see Drew Strotman get his chance on the mound against major league competition. That is what the month of September should be all about for future Twins. Miranda, can he come out and play, too? Move Cabbage and Balazovic up to pitch with the Saints if need be. Advance some guys from Cedar Rapids to Wichita. Then Ft. Myers to Cedar Rapids. Yes, minor league w/l totals or playoffs are important, but also experience for potential major league players in the long run.

Hey, here it comes. Low and outside!

Well, let me just say that after reading this, I no longer long for a piece of pie.

You love it when an organization does this. Griffith did it in the old days, give the oldtimers looking for one last chance a few more games towards a pension plan. The flip side, it is still a 40-man spot. Or a 28-man roster spot. Will Gant, Refsnyder, Garver, Thorpe still come back for one more harrah! Plus, Simmons is on his temporary leave. The Twins still can use a fifth official starter. I hope he starts Sunday! Get him that one game. Then can decide if wants to return in 2022. We forget that minor league free agents do get decent pay most of the time, as well as extra pay for every day on the 40-man roster.

DH Garver / Sano / Donaldson C Jeffers 1B Kirilloff 2B Arraez SS Polanco 3B Miranda RF Kepler CF Buxton LF Larnach BENCH Gordon, maybe Rortvedt Starters: Ober, Ryan, Jax, Gant, Dobnak Bullpen: Colome, Rogers, Duffey Coulombe, Alcala, Farrell Minaya, Garza with Moran, Hamilton, Barraclough in the wings Lots of payroll saving for this year Willians Astudillo, where are you?

Sano Garver Donaldson floating thru DH duties. Miranda sharing time at 3rd. Kirilloff at first. Question is who is at shortstop, and who do we carry as catchers/spare infielders. Rotation is Thorpe, Jax, Dobnak, Ober and Ryan with Smeltzer in the wings with Barnes. I see 75 wins from this group easy! (If they pitch at least five innings a start).

Kudos to Jax! One guy I want to see succeed in the majors. He's taking a beating, especially with the home run ball, but I think of ALL the other Twins starters that had high ERA campaigns in their first season (most of them?).

Ah, wait. The other totals were when the Miracle were a High-A team. The record was broken by an A-ball team, now playing with a share of short-season folks that normally would've been with Elizabethton in the past, and facing similar players.

I know they want to see if Moran can get thru a batting order, or that's the only explanation I see having him pitch, sit, pitch, sit, then come out yet again. He's a lefty. Is he that good that he faces everyone well and cane have his routine broken by stretches between innings? At some point, the Twins need to think of a way to get starters to pitch five complete innings. That would be a major step in the right direction, and it just ain't happening with Ober, Jax, Barnes, Gant, Albers. Maybe it is time to see if Jax can be used in long or multi-back-back-to-back days of relief. Bring up Strotman is you wish to elt pitchers learn by getting battered and staying in the game. Surely this is the "learning experience" of the current field staff and front office calls for the team.

I just don't understand. Not happy enough that Moran go four outs over two innings, but bring him out for a third. He's a young lefty. You have a BIG bullpen.

If you look at the progression of Gil, he was Rule 5 eligible each of the past two seasons, but was still in the low minors. Even this year he started at AA and progressed to AAA. Nothing really outstanding there, but enough for the Yankees to looksee because they needed to add him to the 40-man come the off-season or he would probably walk elsewhere. If Gil had not lost a season of play so early, who knows. Now he ends up in option land. The fact that he is only 23 works well in his favor, and that the Yankees did push to see if he can contribute. Compare that to the Twins who have Balazovic languishing at AA ball, even when injured part of this season. This was a guy who was going to pitch AA/AAA ball and get a looksee by the Twins this year. The difference between the Twins and Yankees is that the Yankees tried a rookie in a positive year for their team (although looks like they are just missing the playoffs) while the Twins are running thru a list of old standards for some odd reason, rather than give big league time to a few more guys who might be on the roster, still in 2023-24-25. Is Jax a better pitcher, or Barnes, for getting major league innings out of the way this year? Even Ober. Plus getting a chance to work with major league coaches and try things in the majors. Cave gave the Twins a need, especially with Buxton going down each season. But at some point he becomes too expensive in arbitration. He will still find work (ala Grossman). Have to see what happens to Gil in the end. But at some point, he seemed too rough and too many years away to keep in the system, especially in a Twins system where they like pitchers to be much older before coming to the major leagues.

So next year we have Strotman, Balazovic, Duran, Winder, Sands and who else starting at AAA St. Paul? Barnes still there? Jax? Anyone else at AA deserving of a bieegr push?

Barnes will have to be returned, since there is no official roster space. The Twins got maximum use out of Barraclough before Rooker returns. Will Albers take the Gant start, or someone else. I still wish they would let Strotman come up and pitch brilliant or get battered, just to get major league willies out of the way.

It is always a question of how much you can afford to lose vs. overpaying for lesser production. Big budget teams can have tens of millions released, waived or on the disabled list. The Twins can afford to have $10-20 million not producing, and they bite-the-bullet when names like Mauer or Donaldson are getting overpaid compared to expectations, but at least they are on the field. I often have little problem over paying home grown talent, since you have gotten lower-payroll production out of them in the first place. It's why he Twins should've kept players like Cuddyer, Nathan, Hunter...even Santana and Koskie, when they went for greener pastures. You pay them because of their past, present and future worth as franchise people. It's why many of us hated Jack Morris and his one-year of taking a check, but the results were, in the end, more than worth it. Too often a franchise gets caught in a budget crunch, so to speak. But is it really a budget crunch? I go back to the 55%. I'm sorry, a team spending $150 million on payroll as 55% of their budget isn't paying the from office equal to a team spending 55% on payroll from their $500 million budget. And, the years you underspend vs. ... well, baseball is in a financial mess but somehow they seemed to weather the disaster of 2020 for dollars, and the lighter pocketbook of this season, too. In the end, franchises keep going up-up-up in value, something Carl Pohlad was fully aware as he always borrowed other's people money against his team. If players won't come to Minnesota unless we overpay them, and the players we are overpaying are not really worth overpaying to come to town, then why not overpay our own bright prospects who have been a aprt of the system and then the club for 4-5-6 years.

I am Spectrum and notice this constantly on any channel related to Fox, be it movies or news.

Everything with the Twins seems to...break! They don't get a break! Hope it isn't as bad as it...felt!

All four full season teams are winners so far. But the Saints have a challenge to stay that way now with two extra weeks of play.