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  1. nicksaviking
    Starting to look like I'll have to walk back from this one. It's probably going to be hard to trade Santana if Gray and Darvish are going to go down to the wire. Damn A's, just make a deal already! I wonder if it's possible that Santana can be moved in August.
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    Geez, what a tough problem to have. I'd like the Twins to be in that position soon. Of the Astros starters all but McCullers and Musgrove were of the "Hey, look at what I found here!" variety. There's definitely a knack to finding diamonds in the rough, or at the very least seeing their flaws and turning them into diamonds. I have to think there's a way to quantify and identify.
  3. nicksaviking
    I agree, partly because most teams are willing to give up those types of players which are so far away, and partly because the front office probably is already going to have their hands full with 40-man decisions next year.
  4. nicksaviking
    I bet Santana gets moved but for a return most folks here are underwhelmed by. The front office surely sees his peripheral stats indicate he's much closer to being a liability than he is a front of the rotation guy. If he pitches to his stats the 2nd half, this is likely the last chance to deal him.
  5. nicksaviking
    Good, both could pass through waivers and perhaps moved prior to September.
  6. nicksaviking
    At the very least he's at the Swarzak, Duensing, Manship threshold where the time has come to toss him into the fire to see what he's got.
  7. nicksaviking
    I like the players this team is getting but they are starting to take on quite a few 2018 40-man responsibilities. With the ensuing trades ( if there are any) I hope they consider "sweetening" the offer with guys like Vargas, Park or Vielma.
  8. nicksaviking
    Litell looks like Tyler Duffey with a change up.
  9. nicksaviking
    Littell's 11th round draft selection should be of note as well. Since the bonus pools are all based on the first 10 rounds, the 11th round pick is very often the HS kid with signability concerns meaning he almost certainly was much more highly regarded as a draft pick than his round would suggest.
  10. nicksaviking
    I disagree as no one has asked to make this strategy continuous, only when you have a bad team.
  11. nicksaviking
    But that's not the point of a tear down. You don't hold on to veterans who have just had a career year, you move them to restock the system. No one has to agree with a rebuild, but to do so entails trading vets at their peak.
  12. nicksaviking
    For what it's worth, if the Twins do sell I really don't think it will have a huge impact on the W/L record. Heck, it's possible the young guys will loosen up feeling less pressure to win now.
  13. nicksaviking
    Lots of people are excited to flip vets for prospects; I too am quite curious as to who may go and who may come. However I hope everyone can recognize that it pains other folks to throw in the towel on the 2017 season regardless of how one sees the Twins odds at this point. It might be helpful if we treat whatever transpires more like a glass-half-full situation and not like a gigantic celebration. Just throwing it out there as the trade deadline is dividing us a bit even though the big picture is the same for us all: World Series trophies.
  14. nicksaviking
    He's a lefty with four good pitches, I'd guess the only reason he hasn't been given another shot at starting since Rookie League is because of his size. I wonder if the Twins will consider this. Not that I don't love his numbers as a reliever. I like this guy already. Also if memory serves, the trade of Chris Herrmann for Daniel Palka originally had us a bit perplexed because we didn't the Murphy/Hicks deal hadn't been publicly disclosed. The time the trade for Recker was perplexing because this one hadn't been leaked.
  15. nicksaviking
    Or that what Molitor's lineup card said was different than what he was telling the umpire. Or that Molitor didn't understand that his lineup card was marked wrong. The umpire could have blown it, we don't really know what happened. But it seems like a huge coincidence that a screwup of this magnitude occurred with an AL team. Not that this is something that I'd put any weight on when deciding Molitor's future, I don't care about an honest mistake. It happens.
  16. nicksaviking
    When a double switch screw up happens in the uncommon instance of an AL manager playing by NL rules, and the AL manager was a player who never played in the NL, it's a struggle to think it was the umpires fault.
  17. nicksaviking
    Is this Giminez talk just speculation? Because I was really hoping to see if he'd finish with more IP than Colon.
  18. nicksaviking
    It will also give the player and the agent a lot of leverage to demand where they want to be. The elite HS kids would be demanding to go to their desired markets.
  19. nicksaviking
    I didn't realize that Steve Singleton was the Ft Myers bench coach. I assume that's the same Steve Singleton that played MiLB ball for the Twins last decade?
  20. nicksaviking
    With the long arms creating leverage it would seem like the tall pitchers would fall into the Randy Johnson/Alex Meyer high velocity but wild category, but then you have the Chris Youngs, Mark Hendricksons and Doug Fisters who seemingly defy physics and don't throw hard and do have good command. Slegers definately looks like the Chris Young type.
  21. nicksaviking
    I was and still would be interested if the Cardinals would listen on Michael Wacha. He had a poor year last year and his numbers mid-June also weren't pretty, but he's got good velocity and lots of pitches. He's also still young and controllable. ?(Un)fortunately? He's pitched much better the last month so he might be harder to buy low-ish on.
  22. nicksaviking
    I guess I'm in the minority, but with his record of poor strikeout ability, poor walk rate, poor velocity, an NL only starter going from the worst division in baseball to the AL, I'd actually trust Gibson and Santiago more. And I don't trust them at all. For what it's worth, I've always had an aversion to soft tossing lefties who don't miss bats, not just Garcia. I've also had a strong aversion to NL only starters for quite awhile now. Those wells have been poisoned for me.
  23. nicksaviking
    I suppose my disagreement is with the pitcher himself and not the actual move. They can make a move or two if they want, that's fine by me. It's just that to me Garcia looks like a guy who half the board will be screaming to DFA after a month and the other half will be screaming about losing Prospect X for nothing. If others think Garcia looks like an honest attempt at improving the club I understand why missing out on this trade is frustrating.
  24. nicksaviking
    But trading for Jaime Garcia isn't aggressive, he's not a very good pitcher. He would be more half measures; I'm so tired of these kinds of putzy moves which are more PR than substance. If they aren't going to make serious moves to contend this year, I don't want them to trade for a pig, put makeup on it and try to sell that as an honest to goodness attempt to win.
  25. nicksaviking
    Maybe, but it seemed to me this site has been deriding Santiago since his first start in a Twins uniform.
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