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  1. nicksaviking
    Wow. This club is really going out of its way to not call up Prato, Williams, Severino or Lee.
  2. nicksaviking
    Sorry, but I would NOT have been satisfied with a low wattage move or two. They need an elite bat, that can hit righties and lefties, for the middle of the lineup. Anything else would just be a band aid necessitated because of a terribly constructed roster aimed at “depth” and defense, sacrificing needed chances for a higher offensive ceiling. This front office has been very aggressive. This is abnormal for them. My guess is still that ownership told them no, they’ve made enough poor decisions and now they sleep in the bed they made. They’re not giving up the next GM’s equity so these guys can try to fix their own mess.
  3. nicksaviking
    He seems to be whom lots of people wanted last year. Which probably speaks more to the expectations everyone should have for this caliber of player.
  4. nicksaviking
    I have no interest in any of these platoon righties, but I understand why others do. I'm just really, really frustrated that this team keeps looking at below average veteran bats to jam onto the roster. If you need two players for half of your positions because neither hits same sided pitching well enough, you've done a terrible and inefficient job of building a 26-man roster. I'd rather they just stop, wipe the slate clean of these vets in the offseason, give the young guys practice at hitting same side pitching and see if you can build an actual functioning regular lineup from there.
  5. nicksaviking
    When Kepler is gone, I think RF will be a great spot for Wallner, just like Cuddyer. Learn the nuances of that wall and anyone can play RF in Target Field. It's really small comparatively to other stadiums.
  6. nicksaviking
    Gray's not looking so hot lately, and he won't be here next year. Maybe you could trade Gray to recoup much of the prospect loss the team would give up for another controllable starter like Eduardo Rodriguez. Still, I think the front office has been told they aren't allowed to make any more major moves.
  7. nicksaviking
    Fulmer was a rental player. Hernandez and Finnegan have many years of control, they'll probably require closer to the Mahle deal than the Fulmer deal. And really, the Royals are already starting a lineup made up largely of players they probably think are part of their long term future. Hernandez is quite possibly part of their long term plan as well.
  8. nicksaviking
    The only trade the Red Sox made was a guy they were almost certainly going to DFA. I don't think they're sellers. I also don't think the Mets trade controllable players unless it's a really stupid offer by the buying club. Hernandez and Finnegan will surely be too expensive. It's been my guess for awhile now that ownership has already told the front office that they've already squandered all of their magic wishes and they'll get no more. They need to ride or die with the thus far unfruitful decisions they've already committed to.
  9. nicksaviking
    I agree, but I'd call up Keirsey straight from AA instead of Stevenson. Unless this team thinks Buxton or Lewis is going to be playing CF next season, they need to start having internal auditions for next year or they're going to be in the exact same position they were last off season. The free agent CF options are flat out awful after you get past Bellinger, who is a year-to-year wild card and probably going to command more than he should.
  10. nicksaviking
    Why is it so hard to escape Wichita? Does the club have an agreement with the new affiliate that they'll make the good players linger there longer than the other stops? Severino, Lee, Keirsey and Isola should be in St. Paul prepping to help the big club.
  11. nicksaviking
    What about last year when they traded for two of the best relievers available at the deadline?
  12. nicksaviking
    I'll never trust relievers coming from other teams, but I wouldn't protest getting one. The Twins have quietly been building a groundball heavy bullpen, which contrasts with the flyball heavy rotation. Honestly, Dallas Keuchel out of the pen might be exactly what they are looking for.
  13. nicksaviking
    Also, I think we took a bit of a tangent here because we're debating things other than the actual topic of this thread currently. It seems like we all think Larnach could still produce, thus still has value. Which is why he could/should be traded.
  14. nicksaviking
    But LaMonte Wade was the Chris Williams/Anthony Prato kind of prospect and the Twins traded him because they intended to give at bats to the more heralded guys like Brent Rooker and Jake Cave. Would have been better to trade high on Rooker/Cave. In the end they lost all of them because the best guy had the lowest pedigree, which shouldn't have mattered, and they moved on from the other two after they had next to no value.
  15. nicksaviking
    Larnach's career AAA OPS is only .737. Obviously it's possible to improve on that at the majors, but there are other players they can start trying, I don't see why the best option isn't to cycle through these players until they find the right ones. They don't need to keep going back to Larnach. When you're a college player, 1st Round Draft status five years removed shouldn't be of any consideration when evaluating young talent. If Larnach has value, even as a complementary piece, I don't see much harm in moving him now.
  16. nicksaviking
    Funny, I complain about the Twins roster, then I see a trade like this and am thrilled that neither of these guys are on my team.
  17. nicksaviking
    I'm not giving up on Larnach, but now is the time to trade him. His value is still tied up in his draft equity, and at this late point in development, I think pedigree is an unwise metric. Normally I'd give a young guy a longer leash, but the Twins have plenty of unheralded players like Chris Williams, Anthony Prato, Jair Camargo, DeShawn Keirsey and Yunior Severino who are all hitting as well or better, mostly better, than Larnach ever did in the upper minors. When there are open spots on the 26-man, I think at this point the team should be seeing what the other guys can do.
  18. nicksaviking
    Trading Larnach in a package sounds like a great idea to me. Just not for a platoon right handed bat. Try to make meaningful moves, not half measures simply because you’ll face a left handed starter a couple times a week.
  19. nicksaviking
    I think there’s a broader issue here, because basically ALL of the the Twins league-wide known names are streaky. Not just Buxton, but Correa, Gallo, Kepler, Polanco and Vazquez. There’s no Kent Hrbek, Joe Mauer, Torii Hunter or even a Michael Cuddyer who for their careers basically hit the same all year long. Seriously, look at these guys’ career splits by month, it’s a roller coaster ride. Maybe you could use this to plan ahead, but these guys all run somewhat predictably cold and hot.
  20. nicksaviking
    It’s how they, and most clubs build sustainable winning teams since this game began. Even the top 1/3 teams. I think the actual production gap between average vets, and unproven young players is almost entirely a mental construct built on fear of the unknown.
  21. nicksaviking
    While I'm with you and would like to see them spend the money, I can see a couple of near term and long term issues with them doing this. As for the Jenkins situation, that could have been a Catch-22, or perhaps 2 Catch 22s. First, if they'd have gone against their organizational prerogative about not spending it this time, Boras would most certainly make them do it every time they sign one of his clients. And honestly, waiting until the last minute instead of paying more is surely something I'd do. Heck, I'm doing it right now biding my time waiting for some tickets to go down at a later date. Second, if they'd opened up that can of worms, would have they been able to give that money to the HS kids? Or would Jenkins and Boras said, 'Nah uh, if you're opening up the wallet, I'm going to want it all.' Not a Boras critique at all, for anyone thinking it was.
  22. nicksaviking
    Yeah, the Orioles clearly won that trade, and Cano is helping them this year, but he never looked like someone who was going to have sustained MLB success. I don't see this being a trade we rue for long. The only caveat to that would be, why are his walks so significantly reduced? If that's permanently fixed, maybe he'll be a guy who bounces around for years. But if there was a fix, it appears to have crippled his strikeout numbers, and as a reliever, that's certainly going to come back to bite him later.
  23. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I don't know why they don't try. Seven of the nine pre-arb batters the Twins have used this year have an OPS over .800. Miranda has unexpectedly been the one to struggle and Larnach is merely at .715. Except for Jeffers, they've all been shuttled back and forth from St. Paul regularly, so it's not like the promotions and demotions are doing any kind of psychological damage. I don't understand why going back to that well until it dries up isn't their first choice..
  24. nicksaviking
    I'd be more than happy to take a scissors to the 40-man to make my cuts should the front office find it too hard to stomach.
  25. nicksaviking
    If they don't find any RH bats they like at the deadline, and so far I haven't seen much to like, hopefully they turn to Prato or Chris Williams. Though looking at splits against left handing pitching, Prato would be the clear choice of the two.
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