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  1. nicksaviking
    Does he know that opening day is in Minnesota?!? In March?!?! I thought all the pitchers would have been fighting for the 4th spot in the rotation!
  2. nicksaviking
    Excellent stuff, always happy to have celebrities stop by TD as well! Congrats on the success Niko.
  3. nicksaviking
    I agree, Marwin doesn't raise the ceiling much, but he raises the floor tremendously. This signing is taking away at bats from Adrianza, Field, Grossman, Petit and Motter. I'd think it would go without saying that this team is going to have guys hurt/terrible/suspended again in 2019. Who those players are is unpredictable, but now there's a league average hitter on the roster who can cover near any spot saving us from watching a 29-year-old batless journeyman who's been DFA'd three times in the last two months and has spent most of his last five season in AAA. This isn't a blockbuster deal, it's not putting anyone over the top, but everyone and their mother complained about the Twins lack of offensive depth last year, and justifiably so. This should shine as evidence that this team finally cares about establishing a MLB quality bench. It cost them 10M per this year and next? So what, good for them.
  4. nicksaviking
    If this team does find a way to have Astudillo and Gonzalez on the 25-man, it would also be pretty helpful when calling up prospects. If a starter gets injured, they could call up the best hitter period, not the best hitter who plays a particular position. Maybe now we get Kirilloff or Rooker instead of Tyler Motter or Gregorio Petit.
  5. nicksaviking
    We must remember last year differently then because typically each game there were at least three guys in the lineup who I didn't even want on the team.
  6. nicksaviking
    I think this would all be easier to digest if it wasn't viewed as him taking away plate appearances from the starters, but as him taking away some of the 1886 PA made by Grossman, Adrianza, Morrison, Forsythe, Wilson, LaMarre, Castro, Petit, Field, Gimenez, Motter and Graterol last year. There should be plenty of room for everyone who should be playing to play.
  7. nicksaviking
    Why? Last year the Twins had only one player play more than 140 games and only four play more than 110 games. Even if healthy, one of the starting nine will have a day off just about every day and this is baseball, they won't all be healthy.
  8. nicksaviking
    That's only because we as Twins fans have long forgotten the benefits to having league average hitters available on the bench. It seems like a good thing in theory, but we haven't gotten to test it out in decades.
  9. nicksaviking
    Well Adrianza played in 114 games last year and no one was intentionally trying to get his bat in the game.
  10. nicksaviking
    I want to see a game this year where the Twins do a double Caesar Tovar. Gonzalez AND Astudillo play all 9 positions in the same game.
  11. nicksaviking
    I think Drunk Uncle is going to have something to say about that bat flip too.
  12. nicksaviking
    I'm less confident in a bounce back from these two. Sidearmers in general just seem to have a limited window of success. Most seem to have a novelty about them which works for awhile until batters catch on. Hildenberger doesn't appear to have great command either. I think Reed needs to get back those 2 MPH he lost on his fastball or he's going to get shelled. He doesn't have an offspeed pitch and his slider has never been particularly effective, last year in particular. Not that I'm worried these two couldn't easily be replaced if needed.
  13. nicksaviking
    I’d like there to be better delegation than under Molitor, but if he goes INTO the season with equal confidence in Reed and Hildenberger, my confidence in Baldelli might take a hit. I want to see those two rebound before I trust them. Reed with his velocity, Hildenberger with his command. Currently I’d be OK if neither made the team if they didn’t prove those things in spring training, which would be difficult.
  14. nicksaviking
    I'm all for putting some of the starters in the pen, but looking back at the best starter-turned-reliever transitions, they almost all took a full season to get their footing and establish themselves. I wanted Clippard. I'll still take Norris, Madson and Warren, Kimbrel too. I'm not too keen on Vincent, I don't trust relievers who throw 89 MPH. I do like the Blake Parker signing, I think he would have been one of the higher under-the-radar guys I would have been in on had he been a free agent to open the year. But if he's not throwing a slider or changeup, he probably needs to throw that curve more. I'd think he'd need better diversity than running with a four seamer and splitter 90% of the time. I would be pretty disappointed if the Twins traded for bullpen help considering this near historic class of free agent relievers; that would scream of choosing money over prospects.
  15. nicksaviking
    Can't wait to see you guys down there some day. Not sure which day that is. I have three young kids and a wife, none of whom are terribly interested in sports (fingers crossed with the 20 month old). Asking if I could go to Florida and leave the family for a week sounds like a great way to find myself murdered in my sleep.
  16. nicksaviking
    Where is his pop coming from?!? He's doing the Denard Span/Byron Buxton no-step swing and it looked like he put about as much effort into that swing as a guy simply trying to foul off a pitch. I really like this guy. He might turn out to be a fad and someone who ends up as a a fun anecdotal footnote in the history books but let's ride this while it's hot. He might be someone you roll with, though perhaps not something you try to understand how it works.
  17. nicksaviking
    I'd like to see Berrios extended now, but seeing as the two contemporaries used as examples were a year ahead of him in service time, it will probably have to wait until next year. No idea if the Twins want to extend him (they better want to) but Berrios' camp will probably see that he should have more value this time next year.
  18. nicksaviking
    Max Kepler was projected to make 3.2M in arbitration in 2019. Polanco wasn't even arbitration eligible. So Kepler is probably getting about a 50-80% raise? Polanco will be getting about a 600% raise.
  19. nicksaviking
    I'd be more worried about them trying to shoehorn him into the lineup to justify his salary if he didn't show to be a pretty good CF last year. More often than not there will likely always be room for him even if he's just platooning. Also, if a guy can play decent CF, you can usually move him even if you have to eat a bit of the contract. If Polanco doesn't hit and his SS skills don't improve, I'd think he'd be the guy to worry about.
  20. nicksaviking
    Most guys struggle coming out to AAA too. They're going to have to learn at the MLB level no matter what route they take to get there.
  21. nicksaviking
    Redacted. Sounds like they may have done a bit of this with Kepler, so apologies and well done if the rumor is true.
  22. nicksaviking
    I'd like to see that as well, but if they did, it would pretty unique for a MLB team. I'm guessing owners prefer to hold onto that $25M and keep getting interest and dividends as long as possible. Future payroll is still secondary to future profit.
  23. nicksaviking
    I'm just fine with this deal, but I think a lot of people are over-estimating the flexibility of this deal in it's later stages. Assuming the pay is going to escalate, years four and five will likely be approaching if not above $10M and the option years will surely be higher than that. $10-12M per year for a 2B on the free agent market is about the max these days. I think this is likely a rather player friendly deal, which is just fine, but I don't think it will help with his trade value unless he turns into Jose Ramirez. In which case one would hope he's not traded.
  24. nicksaviking
    I don't know, are all change ups equal? I'd think it would be best to have an off speed pitch to keep batters honest, but it wouldn't have to have much movement or great locatability as long as it crosses the plate from time to time.
  25. nicksaviking
    When you have a 100 MPH heater, I don't think you have to have a good change up, you mostly just have to be able to camouflage when it's coming.
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