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  1. nicksaviking
    I like the move a lot. One year deals with options are really nice. I would have preferred a RH bat but there's not a lot available and Morrison did hit lefties pretty well last year. The fact that he bought into and succeded with the new flyball/launch angle phrnomenon is very encouraging. We'll have to mark down 2018 as the year the Twins signed a guy to a low dollar/no commitment deal who hit 38 HR the prior year, and it was largely met with "Eh" from the league and the fan base.
  2. nicksaviking
    Both of Hughes' off speed pitches are emphatically his worst. He only picked up his change again last year after shelving it for half a decade to try to work in more off speed stuff. If he doesn't get his velocity back he's cooked, which is too bad.
  3. nicksaviking
    What year is it again?
  4. nicksaviking
    The Cape seems to be the showcase league for amateurs looking to put a mark on their draft forecast.
  5. nicksaviking
    That doesn't seem to be uncommon with 24-year-olds. I've been saying for a couple of years that hopefully he sees the light if he struggles, fails and finds that life isn't going to be quite as easy as it appeared with youthful eyes. I took awhile to learn that lesson, I'm guessing many other young folks have too. I was hoping this off season would be the year for him, but with the off field stuff and the injury, it may not be.
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    Moderator note: Let's keep this on topic. Leave out the prognosticating acumen of other posters and of ourselves.
  7. nicksaviking
    Right, but I was refuting that the current moves have anything to do with judging their "enlightenment". I'd think failure to get better pitchers more likely stems from tentativeness, frugality, an unfavorable destination for free agents or other reasons. I don't know that it has much to do with enlightenment:
  8. nicksaviking
    But it doesn't mean they were their top choices.
  9. nicksaviking
    Man, go get Archer too before the Rays sober up.
  10. nicksaviking
    Zero WAR is still better than -2 WAR. I'm just baffled how this conversation even started. Was the front office really brainstorming and thought, how about Anibal Sanchez? Let's give him a call!
  11. nicksaviking
    You mean Falvey, Levine and Jim Pohlad were fooling themselves. The fans optimism stemmed from repeated comments from all of them that they were trying to get Darvish.
  12. nicksaviking
    I know many don't agree, but I find this all very exciting. Back in the day I could have recited every member of the 3000 hit club, the 500 HR club and the 300 win club and rank them in order; I have always loved the history of baseball. But change isn't good or bad, it's just inevitable and I'm thrilled that the Twins are now emphatically and without reluctance jumping on board with the game's evolutions. The next step is to not just get on board but be pioneers of whatever is coming next. You don't have to like the team's on field moves to appreciate the behind the scenes progress this organization is seeing.
  13. nicksaviking
    I thought he was talking about Kyle Schwarber who can't play any position. Rooker's going to play RF or 1B, it's not like either are demanding positions. His ascension would/should have no relation to his defense.
  14. nicksaviking
    That #1 in the title of this thread looks a little crooked, it could almost be viewed as a #7. Want me to edit that for you Seth? Rooooookerrrrrr!!!!!!
  15. nicksaviking
    But if you get an actual #1 than that fixes the hole at the top and beefs up the bottom by pushing Santana/Berrios/Gibson/et al down. I don't know why finding a #5 for the short term would be a priority over finding a #1 for any length of time.
  16. nicksaviking
    I can predict that if the WC game is Chris Sale or Corey Kluber or Justin Verlander or Luis Severino vs Colin McHugh, that the Twins are once again going to find themselves as gigantic underdogs.
  17. nicksaviking
    I'd rather have a team that's capable of winning it all but could miss the post season than a team that will make the post season but isn't capable of winning it all. There's no rule that the Twins have to go into the playoffs as the plucky, try-hard underdogs. That chip-chair-and-a-chance bit is so damn old and those long odds have yet to pay out for the Twins. This organization has to stop this business of hoping for the best. They need to PLAN for the best. Don't rely on luck and good fortune, make it yourself by stacking the odds in your favor.
  18. nicksaviking
    But he doesn't make them better where they actually need to improve. The Twins already have middle of the rotation arms. Their deficiency is the top of the rotation. If they have a hole they need to fill at shortstop it's not going to get filled by signing a third baseman even if he makes the team better.
  19. nicksaviking
    He only got a minor league deal though and the Twins don't currently have a 3rd catcher. I'd think re-upping him would have been just fine even had he not swung Darvish in their favor. But possibly swinging Darvish in their favor would have definitely been a reason to do it.
  20. nicksaviking
    I agree and have refuted those that said we know the Twins offer and that they lowballed Darvish, we don't know. But Lavine was quoted in Berardino's piece basically saying they would not offer the opt out and Berardino implied that the Twins would not offer 6 years. I don't care how Lynn, Cobb or Arrieta pitch in the next six years. I don't even care how they pitch this summer. Find me the pitchers who can legitimately square off against the best pitchers the AL has to offer come October. It ain't those other guys.
  21. nicksaviking
    I just don't understand how Lynn, Cobb, McHugh or Odorizzi get this team a WS trophy. This team can't get to the top until they figure out the very top of the rotation. Pass on these guys, the middle of the rotation isn't an issue. Save the prospects and the money, maybe the team could walk into a Justin Verlander situation again mid-season. This team has to figure out who's going up against Chris Sale or Corey Kluber in game 163. That should be the only goal right now.
  22. nicksaviking
    He's a starter, and a decent one at that, I think he'll cost more than expected. But I also don't think taking Houston's number six starter and making him the Twins number two starter is a great way to surpass Houston.
  23. nicksaviking
    https://www.twincities.com/2018/02/10/whats-next-for-twins-after-falling-short-in-yu-darvish-derby/ Berardino's piece regarding missing on Darvish. The quote that I don't like: “By definition doesn’t a player stay with you if he’s performing at a value less than what you’re paying him and he’ll walk if he’s performing at a value above it?” Levine said. “So I don’t know where the benefit is to the club. It seems to me very, very advantageous to the player and would have to take something unique in a negotiation to feel like that’s the right move.” The benefit to the club is that you got the player you wanted. I was really hoping with the new regime we were over the idea that the team had to "win" every trade and free agent signing.
  24. nicksaviking
    But they've always known that they'd have to pay more than the glitzy teams to get the same player. So why make a spectacle all off season if they werent planning on making the significantly best offer?
  25. nicksaviking
    I don't know, I think if TB wants Kepler as a main part of an Archer deal they're the one's overpaying. The guy can't hit lefties, he's almost certainly going to be a platoon player. But no interest in Cobb, the guy can't strike anyone out which is this staff's biggest problem. Unless the can get Arrietta on a one year deal, pass on the free agents, none of them have the ceiling to be what this team needs.
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