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  1. nicksaviking
    Celestino's bat was a bigger problem than Celestino's glove.
  2. nicksaviking
    The defense wasn't a problem last year, I think they way overcompensated with the free agents and trades. This team struggled on offense last year. That should have been a higher priority.
  3. nicksaviking
    Like Arraez, Kwan isn't a guy who can beat you on his own. Cleveland has one fearsome bat, with a second Gimenez, who you need to watch out for. Also, and I know this isn't going to be a popular sentiment, but if it comes to a second half push, the Twins have much more open ownership when asked to take on more salary midseason. Cleveland is more likely to not spend another dime or shed payroll.
  4. nicksaviking
    You're leaving out one of my favorite under the radar prospects! Anthony Prato knows how to draw a walk, steal a base and rack up every kind of XBH.
  5. nicksaviking
    Agreed. Though people can fault the current front office and coaching staff for plenty of things, it is hard to deny that they have made a really flexible roster; just about everyone can play multiple positions. I don't think anyone will be a full time DH.
  6. nicksaviking
    I don't think Kirilloff will be ready. And last year's team OBP of .317 tells me they shouldn't automatically defer to Nick Gordon who struggles to draw walks when there's a rookie who seems to do it at will.
  7. nicksaviking
    But he only hits singles. I just don't see how the new rules will give him XBH power again.
  8. nicksaviking
    Going from the MLB to AAA is a tough jump in competition. Seems weird though that those two in particular need to be all star caliber for the Saints to be .500 when most of that roster has MLB experience, some with quite a bit of MLB experience. Also, with apologies to the Saints die-hards, I don't much care what their record is. And as usual with AAA teams, the better the players are, the worse the record is because the players keep getting called up and the roster suffers instability.
  9. nicksaviking
    Great stuff and I'm now very intrigued, but you buried the lede! I was looking for this the whole time and there it showed up in the last paragraph!
  10. nicksaviking
    I know I got a bit hyperbolic, but really, I'm just disappointed in the offensive ceiling of this club overall. It was constructed safely, and I do understand the benefits, but it's so absent of firepower. They signed Correa and extended Buxton, but still, this feels like a super vanilla offense, and that might be a generous characterization. In particular, I really, dislike the outfield situation because of this. Gallo OR Kepler should be the FOURTH outfielder, not two of the three starters. And I don't like the team's outlook any better if Buxton goes down and a no-bat guy like Taylor is manning CF instead of Gallo or Gordon or Celestino. Those are still bathroom-break at bats.
  11. nicksaviking
    I understand the thinking, but the problem is that there is always depth. Nobody wants to scrape the bottom of the barrel for Ryan LaMarre or Jake Cave to be the depth, but seriously, it's not nearly the drop off people make it out to be when compared to Kepler and Taylor. From my perspective, rostering the young guys and being forced to go with guys like Cave and LaMarre as depth is much better than rostering Kepler and Taylor and making the young guys the depth and not contributing anything until someone gets injured or traded.
  12. nicksaviking
    Taylor and Kepler are just such bad offensive players. Defense wasn't an issue last year, yet they really seemed to emphasize it more this off season despite the fact that the offense WAS a problem last year. Free agency wasn't good for bats, so there was little to do about it on that front, instead they should have gone for the upside in the young players they already had. They won't all work out, but there are enough of them to cycle through until you find the right ones. In any case we have a long enough track record to see that Taylor and Kepler almost certainly don't have MLB caliber bats. Why even trade for Taylor? Why not trade for an outfielder who could actually hit, that was way more important. I like Farmer, and I wouldn't dislike Solano, it's just that this roster really should have demanded more than one spot for the young upside players. It shouldn't JUST be Miranda. There's just too many average to below-average players on the roster.
  13. nicksaviking
    It's certainly a reasonable roster, but I'm still pretty disappointed in all the spots given to lackluster vets instead of the hungry, more talented young players. Solano, Taylor, Farmer and Kepler? Ugh, it should have been two of those guys tops with the higher ceiling young guys fighting each other for the last two spots.
  14. nicksaviking
    Works for me. Though 2 innings deeper would put them levels no team has done since the early 1990s.
  15. nicksaviking
    Thankfully he has no more years of control. Dumping Pagan if he still stinks should be a much easier decision this year. I mean, it should have been easy last year too, but this year, it’s a layup.
  16. nicksaviking
    They’ve brought in free agent vets and traded for vets the past couple of years and they’ve been terrible. You want them to keep doing what hasn’t been working instead of using the internal options, which have worked well?
  17. nicksaviking
    Santana has pitched over 100 innings the past two years and has poor strikeout and walk numbers. Sometimes you catch lightning in a bottle with journeymen retreads, like the Rays do with most of their relievers, but that's really not what I want this team to chase. They've done well using their excess and questionable starters in the bullpen. Go with Winder or Sands or Henriquez when healthy. Hoffman as a former starter has my vote too. Though since he can be placed in St. Paul, (for a bit) I'd aim to do that first.
  18. nicksaviking
    I'd let Winder legitimately compete for an opening day spot in the bullpen, like he did last year. Typically, I'd be happy to keep rolling with him as a starter, as with that velocity, he does have promise, but since he's probably behind SWR, Varland and Ober on the enthusiasm meter in AAA alone, I'd probably make the switch to the pen as soon as the Twins find enough other starters to fill out the rotation in St. Paul.
  19. nicksaviking
    Whatever is going on, increased velocity was likely something the organization looked into once the shift was removed. Keep more balls out of play.
  20. nicksaviking
    I mean, I'd be good moving him, would the Dodgers really view Farmer as a better option than free agent Jose Iglesias + a prospect? Maybe. I don't see them having interest in Kepler though. I'd much rather have the versatile and more offensively sound Chris Taylor. Both had down seasons last year, but Taylor has been productive much more recently than Kepler.
  21. nicksaviking
    He should have been prepped as a reliever the minute the Twins acquired him. And I'm looking forward to seeing him in the pen once he's adjusted to being a reliever full time.
  22. nicksaviking
    Santana does nothing for me. Getting Hoffman on a MiLB deal is exactly the kind of bullpen move I was interested in though. And I really like the converted relievers one year removed from starting. If they take to the pen, it tends to be in year two of the transition
  23. nicksaviking
    Hand’s walks went up a ton last year. I don’t think he’s still the guy you remember.
  24. nicksaviking
    Yeah, unfortunate, but so it goes with MLB draft picks. Even if their dreams don't come true, at least Sabato and Cavaco still got paid well as 1st round picks. Balazovic did pretty well himself getting an over-slot deal in the 5th round for a major payday as well. Certainly their goal is to have a long MLB career, but those are pretty good consolation prizes. As for the Twins end, if they don't pan out, that'll stink, but thankfully there are plenty of other fish in in the depths of the minor league system, many of whom look really, really promising despite getting much less fanfare.
  25. nicksaviking
    Sorry, but I do consider Kepler and Gallo low ceiling guys. I suppose Gallo could go ahead and hit 45 HR to say otherwise, but I don't think Kepler has any potential any longer. Those two plus Solano, Farmer, Gordon and Taylor, there's just nothing there to dream on. Seems like there's just way too many guys who's best case scenario is 'average' and worst case scenario likely isn't much better than the prospects.
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