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  1. nicksaviking
    Yeah, it's brutal and I don't think it's about the speed. They run when they shouldn't and don't when they should. Seems to me a major issue is either the players aren't listening to Tommy Watkins, or Tommy Watkins is making very poor decisions. I don't know why they don't try something new at the hot corner.
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    I won't give up Winder for Castillo. I like Winder, but not so much that I wouldn't trade him. The problem is if Winder is traded for Castillo, the Twins are committing to two of Archer, Bundy and Smeltzer in the rotation the rest of the year. I don't care who the top three arms are, that's just not acceptable. But, if the Twins could get both Castillo AND Mahle, I'd be interested in a mega deal even headlined by Royce Lewis. Lewis, Winder, Larnach, SWR? Maybe another lower prospect or so? That'd have to get the Reds attention.
  3. nicksaviking
    What if we trade for him and he blows out his knee? Every other GM is thinking when considering him a “rental” player.
  4. nicksaviking
    Yeah, now we're in for the normal deadline feet dragging. I'm not going to place blame since I tend to assume it's the selling teams, who have zero impetus to start the process, that are holding things up. Demanding a Royce Lewis, then settling for Michael Helman and a bag of PTBNL flavored potato chips. It is fortunate this year that the Twins wonky post-AS game schedule has them playing fewer games until the deadline. Fewer games for us to worry about them losing without the added talent anyway.
  5. nicksaviking
    It's actually Twins, than White Sox, than Guardians: https://www.sportsbettingdime.com/mlb/division-odds/#ALCentral But I mean, what do the bookies know anyway.
  6. nicksaviking
    Yeah, Mooney looks really under-the-radar. Still plenty of season left for Headrick, Prato, Gibson-Long and Lawyerson get hot and make us sweat too.
  7. nicksaviking
    Unless Alex Isola absolute cannot catch, the 29 other clubs would be crazy to let him survive the Rule 5 draft. I'd not count out any of that 2019 draft class that reaches AA either.
  8. nicksaviking
    What signs are you hoping for? I mean, singing him in the first place was a bigger sign that they wanted him more than any of the other 29 teams. And knock it off about this not wanting to improve the team nonsense. People's jobs are constantly on the line in this regard. This is just petty, petulant and clearly untrue.
  9. nicksaviking
    Bard is having a good year, but he wasn't good last year and his walk numbers are ugly. His hits/9 innings is a ridiculous 4.8, most years it's 8-9.5. If you get that Bard with the high number of hits and high number of walks, you just got another Emilio Pagan.
  10. nicksaviking
    For sure. Eddie Rosario's 33 games and NLCS performance with Atlanta just crossed my mind prior to posting. If Sano pulled that off, the Twins would at least consider his option.
  11. nicksaviking
    Sure seems like a last stand for Sano; barring becoming a post season hero, it will soon be over. Should be good work for him next year though, plenty of NL teams still haven’t figured out this DH business yet. I know he’s not popular in many fan corners, but as far as “bust” prospects go, he was a pretty dang good one.
  12. nicksaviking
    The pitching pipeline is thin at the top BECAUSE Ryan, Duran, Winder, Ober and Jax have all recently graduated to non-prospects. God forbid Balazovic or Canterino underperform or get injured. Fire the front office, the next two guys in line are struggling! Let's just call the whole thing a bust and pretend the guys right behind them in the pipeline aren't pushing their way right past them. Enough with this pet project of yours. There are other things to discuss on this site and this tangent is completely off topic.
  13. nicksaviking
    What does it matter when he was drafted? He's arguably the Twins third best starter. Trading your third best starter would impact most teams. Ryan, Ober, Winder, Duran and Jax, have all debuted in the last two years and have been among the team's best pitchers. Much better than most of the vets in fact.
  14. nicksaviking
    Sands really needs to be moved to the pen. He can't help the big club in the rotation this year, let's see if he can help the bullpen though.
  15. nicksaviking
    Did Ted break the news that he's signed? That's fantastic if he did. Though, just submitting the Q&A back was probably a good sign that he wasn't going to walk away I suppose.
  16. nicksaviking
    You're comparing a rookie pitcher to a 1st ballot HOFer who has two decades of built up stamina and arm strength. If you want Ryan to be conditioned enough to make noise in the post season, you'll probably want to pace him now. And if you think that's a new "stat head" idea, I guess Tom Kelly's a computer nerd too, because while 36-year-old Jack Morris had free reign to go as long as he wanted into Game 7 of the 1991 World Series, Joe Ryan's analogue, Scott Erickson got pulled after 4 innings in his one ALCS start, 4 2/3 innings in game 3 of the World Series, and then went all the way to a full 6 innings in the do-or-die Game 6.
  17. nicksaviking
    Except Syndergaard was not an ace in 2019 and hasn't been since. In fact, he was a below average pitcher in 2019. No one's asking you to prove they would have won the World Series with him, but can you explain why giving away a player like Buxton for a below average starter was going to solve the Twins problem? There would have been a good chance he never even took the hill for that playoff series. Berrios and Odorizzi would have started ahead of him.
  18. nicksaviking
    I doubt option #2 is actually an option until the season is over. Unless Correa can somehow sense a long term injury happening, there’s no reason for him to talk extension until he can better predict what the off-season will hold. Hold tight for now. Once the season ends, let Correa and Boras know they’d like to keep him around and they have tons of salary space to sign him, but they will not be left empty handed, so if Correa isn’t willing to make an early decision, the Twins will instead throw the cash at Turner, Bogaerts or Swanson. No hard feelings.
  19. nicksaviking
    Uh what? Ryan, Ober, Winder, Jax and Duran have been the problem? Here this whole time I was thinking the problem was Archer can only go four innings, Bundy couldn’t sneak a fastball past his grandma and the recycled bullpen pieces have been as expected.
  20. nicksaviking
    Prielipp hasn’t signed yet, has he? I probably agree with him hypothetically at the top, though I think Canterino’s and SWR’s “struggles” are overblown. The “prospect” list here is probably accurate, but if I were to be asked who will be the best pitcher, one of these five or the field, I pick the field. No slight on these guys, there’s just so many guys looking really, really promising (outside of St. Paul).
  21. nicksaviking
    That's got to be an error. Even if they wanted to use Duran as an opener, Archer pitches the next game, which means it's all hands on deck. Followed by Bundy who's been getting shelled. If Duran was going to be an opener, why wouldn't he do it in conjunction with Archer, not Gray?
  22. nicksaviking
    I will predict another big 2nd half from Polanco, that seems to be his MO. I think Jose Miranda takes off and cements himself as a top offensive player going forward. And this team needs a veteran bulldog on the mound, so I'll say Sonny Gray.
  23. nicksaviking
    I could see the Twins dealing for a Cubs catcher, but Yan Gomes seems more likely to me. He's the defensive back up with experience everyone seems to like and he's affordably under contract next year. Dreadful offensively this year, but normally he's been average. Obviously it wouldn't be a needle moving trade, but could make sense on the smaller scale for this year and next.
  24. nicksaviking
    I have no interest in rental pitchers either, but Castillo would be here next year too.
  25. nicksaviking
    I think that might be looking at things from a Twins fan perspective. Looking at the Reds top prospects, three of the top six are pitchers, including Chase Petty who got Sonny Gray all by himself. When selling MLB talent for prospects, sure, the TWINS should be looking to get pitching prospects back because this team has had a rough couple decades developing their own. I don’t know that that’s necessarily a universal view for the rest of the league though. The Reds for instance have done well developing their own pitchers, but have been pretty dreadful with developing bats. Including several very well regarded hitting prospects.
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