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  1. nicksaviking
    I don't see that there's much to lose. Castro is now injured and Taylor has an OBP of .246 since April. There is next to no scenario where replacing Taylor with anyone in AAA is going to actually lose you more games. Regardless, this team needs to identify a CF for next year, and it's not Taylor. The Twins are in an extremely rare position where they can both win the division and evaluate young players without much fear.
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    Yeah, I had missed the memo he'd been playing CF since his return. Martin works for my agenda too. I'm in favor of giving him a look at the MLB level, but I'd rather get to it soon so there's time to evaluate.
  3. nicksaviking
    Sorry, hard pass on giving Vazquez more at bats.
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    He plays a premium position though, he's likely going to have enough suitors to be able to choose his destination. I wouldn't want to go into the off season pinning all the team's CF fortune on one guy only to find out it's not going to happen. I'm also quite leery of players who were terrible right up until their contract year.
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    I dislike the fire breathing theatrics of some fans who are always unhappy, but overall, this did seem like Souhan was just chumming the waters. Again. His entire article about fans being "snooty" for not being happy with a division champ was completely undercut by his last paragraph: "But go ahead, Minnesotans, turn up your noses at a potential division winner. When your state is awash in championships, you have every right to be snooty." Yeah, Jim, are you blind to the rub? We are starving for a championship, most of us don't care about an empty division winner. Most fans are simply pointing out and asking for what they think would put this team over the top.
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    I still think whether they want to or not, this team needs to put Kiersey on the 40-man roster and give him MLB action to evaluate him, unless they are near certain the Buxton or Lewis will play CF next season. The CF market is not great next year: Unless they think they can get Bellinger, or think a 35-36-year-old Adam Duvall will cut it, they're going to be in the exact same situation as they are now with the position, which from my view, is not good.
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    Cleveland has given the Twins the ultimate gift of being able to win the division while still experimenting with the young players to evaluate next year. The Twins need to take advantage of this. And not just with Julien/Wallner/Larnach/Kirilloff/Lee/Martin listed above. Get the chaff off of the 40-man, particularly those that will have no chance at making a playoff roster, and start trying out everyone who's been hitting well in AAA or AA ball this year.
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    Sounds like Cook is going to the Jets. I’ve been wondering about how this will play out for a couple weeks now. Unless Hall is out longer than expected, the Jets probably have no need for Michael Carter. With the NFL clearly colluding to keep RB prices down, he could be a cheap trade target. Zero rumors or speculation as far as I’ve heard, but my hunch is he’s moved to Dallas, Washington. Arizona, or Minnesota. What’s it take, a 4th round pick?
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    Agree with all points. I wouldn't be surprised if Chandler takes Mattison's job first chance he gets, Mattison has NEVER been an explosive back and I think the disparity is going to be clear as day to everyone once Chandler starts subbing in for him. Also your last points are spot on. Seemed like last year Booth and Cine originally may have had their spots on the depth chart just been deferred to vets. But Evans was the same draft class and it should not be hard to justify taking Cam Bynum's job. Bad sign. And along with WR, DBs are the positions that just cannot play injured. At least not lower body injured, and both give great concerns on that front.
  10. nicksaviking
    Not sure what happened early in the year in Wichita, but Prato in St. Paul, looks pretty much the same as he did last year. I don't have much faith that Celestino will ever be more than the 26th man on the bench, I think we can be pretty confident his bat won't help. I'd honestly rather see Keirsey at this point. Also, if Joey Gallo is getting the 1B work now, Chris Williams should 100% be on this list.
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    Two.
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    Since July 1, Gallo has had 7 hits and 37Ks in 28 games. And he's only sat on the bench for the entire game three times. Wow.
  13. nicksaviking
    This team just wasn't built to support ground ball starters. The outfield defense is solid, but with a sinkerball pitcher starting, now you're going to have to choose to run out the better offense at the expense of getting outs the way Keuchel likes them, or you're going to run out an offense that will force Keuchel to win a bunch of 2-1 games.
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    I've seen Pace listed as an "OLB" but I think that was in reference to a traditional 4-3 scheme, so what was formerly the Will or Sam LB. The Chad Greenway or Ben Lieber spots had they been playing 3-4. The depth charts I've seen have him behind either Hicks or Asamoah I can't imagine anyone thinks he's big enough to be an edge guy.
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    You didn't happen to show this to Brian Flores before he accepted the job did you? Pretty sure he would have ran away screaming.
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    Hopefully he's as good at digging them as he is at throwing them.
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    To their credit, they've been much better about this lately.
  18. nicksaviking
    That BA is only through four games. I'm fine being patient with him, because there are other, non-heralded prospects who should get extended looks but won't if Lee comes up and stays, but the team can and should still win this division even if they do start doing their homework on these young guys to build next year's 26-man roster. I do not think they can win a championship by continuing to sign and trade for these low ceiling vets to fill up half the roster. I would like to see done to the offense what was done to the rotation last offseason, but the free agent bats are terrible next year. Try to find out which ones can be strong contributors next year, and which one's should be traded for strong contributors.
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    Yeah, I'd guess Williams will strike out too much, but I also had that opinion about Wallner, so I'd give Williams a shot before I write him off. Both have strong BB%, which should help offset the strikeouts. If we want to limit the strkeouts, Prato is obviously the guy this team should be trying to fit onto the roster. Or I suppose there'd be few objections to Brooks Lee. Other than those that want to manipulate service time.
  20. nicksaviking
    I don't think I'd want Alcala returning even if he was able to. A rusty reliever who already has sketchy control sounds like a bad addition for the stretch run. But as far as DFA's go, I'd probably do Jovani Moran. He is the square peg in a bullpen comprised of otherwise very good control. I'm also on board with removing Henriquez. I wouldn't necessarily give up on him, but his transition to relief came a year too late and his struggles this year won't allow him to contribute. Oliver Ortega looks like the current taxi-squad reliever du jour. Of course if it was my call, none of those guys would be DFA'd before Gallo or Luplow.
  21. nicksaviking
    I hope so, someone's going to need to make tackles. But going from Hendricks to Greenway to Henderson, seems like this club has pretty much always had pretty big name to anchor the middle of the field this century. I'd be happy if Asamougha or someone less expected grabs the spotlight.
  22. nicksaviking
    Looking at the depth chart...... Yeah, LB looks like the easiest path for a UDFA to make this team. Eh, maybe it's tied with CB. Man, it's been a looooong time since this team didn't have at least one standout interior LB.
  23. nicksaviking
    Seems like Wichita gets to hang on to players way longer than the other levels. Lee, Severino and Keirsey were there longer than they needed to be. Wallner and Williams had to play 2/3rds of the season there last year despite destroying the league and some how Julien never got promoted.
  24. nicksaviking
    This organization sure doesn't have a ton of transparency, that's for sure. I'm not even sure if the beat writers know of the job differentiations, because they seem to lump everyone together as well. And obviously the opaqueness is by design.
  25. nicksaviking
    You'll have to be more specific as to which of the two lineups you mean......
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