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  1. nicksaviking
    If he's not getting the vertical break on the heater, then he should probably just start cutting back on the sinker. Four seemers up and curveballs still probably work just fine when you're throwing 100+ MPH.
  2. nicksaviking
    *******Moderator Note******* This is obviously a big issue to deal with on a message board. This is just a pre-emptive notice, if someone thinks about playing the contrarian on this topic, don't.
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    It's hard to see the DR publicly and vehemently pursing these allegations against one of their most famous citizens if they didn't intend to enforce their laws. Dominican Republic said Franco is the subject of an investigation conducted by the National Agency for Boys, Girls, Adolescents and Family and Gender Violence Unit, which is a division specializing in minors and gender violence in the province of Peravia. I don't imagine you have a task force named this if they felt these kinds of crimes are something you sweep under the rug. Obviously we don't know the situation, nor the DR legal system, but I'd have to think the 'violence' part of that unit could possibly be something thus far we haven't been made aware of as well.
  4. 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.
  5. nicksaviking
    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.
  6. nicksaviking
    Sorry, hard pass on giving Vazquez more at bats.
  7. nicksaviking
    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.
  8. nicksaviking
    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.
  9. nicksaviking
    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.
  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.
  11. 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.
  12. nicksaviking
    Hopefully he's as good at digging them as he is at throwing them.
  13. nicksaviking
    To their credit, they've been much better about this lately.
  14. 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.
  15. nicksaviking
    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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. nicksaviking
    I don't care about outfielders and I don't care about August and September of 2023. This team does not need more Ramon Laureano's. Taylor, Gallo, Castro, Farmer, Solano, Luplow. There's never been a championship team that has had 46-54% of their offensive players a breath away from being DFA'd. Laureano will NOT improve this team's chances at winning the World Series. This has to be amongst the worst constructed rosters this organization has ever put together because they insanely thought they could get by with platooning half of the lineup. They need higher ceiling players and they should be rostering, and auditioning as many of the in house options as they have right now so they don't end up doing the exact same thing in 2024. That's the reality.
  20. nicksaviking
    There are way more than a half dozen player in AAA and AA that have higher upside than Laureano. Who's been better this year? The vets from other teams this club keeps sticking in the lineup? Or the guys they've been calling up? It's not even close.
  21. nicksaviking
    Why? This guy is more of an offensive black hole than Taylor. I just don't understand why the front office an fans are so interested in other team's cast offs who are unlikely to be any better than the half dozen players they could call up from AAA or AA who are already under contract.
  22. nicksaviking
    The number or players this organization continues to employ, who can't get a MLB deal the following year is stunning. Sano, Bundy, Archer, Sanchez, Leon, Hamilton, Duffey, Cotton and Joe Smith were just last year alone. Seven of those nine players were guys they signed as free agents or traded for JUST THAT YEAR! Either they have illogical expectations that aging vets will turn things around, or they are blind to the need of creating a roster that has a higher offensive ceiling. The continued reliance on these types of players, when the rest of the league is going with the younger, higher upside and cheaper internal players is exasperating.
  23. nicksaviking
    Kepler can. Chris Williams does. They've put Anthony Prato at 1B before. Heck, even Kyle Garlick has been playing 1B lately.
  24. nicksaviking
    Yes, this has long been my take. I don't know why we look at these two as doing the same job just because they came on board in the same off season. Presumably Levine, who is the GM after all, is the one in charge of free agency, trades and roster moves, while Falvey is the architect in charge of implementing and modernizing the process of running a baseball team. If this is accurate, Levine should be gone first, or long ago. Falvey could be gone, but mainly for being culpable in allowing Levine's poor roster management to continue to derail this club.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'm really not trying to rip the front office, but with Sano getting no interest and the all-or-nothing approach at the plate fading a bit in popularity league-wide, I had assumed Gallo would be a target for a MiLB deal with a spring training invite this PAST off season.
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