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  1. nicksaviking
    Yeah agree with the rest of the posters, Cleveland could be 10 back, but I don't think they're going to do anything to help the Twins win the division let alone the ALCS. But Bauer's stated goal of only signing one year free agent deals probably already has Falvey drooling. I wouldn't be surprised if the Twins are a top suitor for him once he gets to choose his own destination.
  2. nicksaviking
    Yeah, that trade was just what the doctor ordered. It had been fun watching Jacque Jones launch a lead off HR once a week, but he wasn't drawing many walks in 2003 and always was a quick out when a lefty was starting. While Kielty was a fun player, I didn't remember the trade dealing too much stress since he was still only platooning with Dustin Mohr, and Michael Cuddyer, Mike Ryan, Lew Ford and Michael Restovich were all waiting in the wings tearing the cover off of the ball in Rochester. It was a great trade, but with Morneau, Mauer, Todd Sears, Jason Bartlet, Josh Rabe, Terry Tiffee, Garrett Jones and Jason Kubel all with very nice looking bats*, they had lots of equity to deal with. *Editors Note: BJ Garbe no longer qualified for inclusion with this statement and needed to be redacted.
  3. nicksaviking
    Yeah that’s a pretty good ranking of the rankers. I’d really enjoy these more if I knew they were all done in isolation. Blindfolds on, no peaking to compare your answer to the rest of the industry!
  4. nicksaviking
    Kirilloff and Lewis are both heating up. Their early season struggles may have timed out well after all. If they end up hitting in the 2nd half more similarly to what they did last year, they'll probably get their one-level promotion, which based on how the MLB team is rostered, was probably going to be the case even had they been hitting well in the 1st half as well. Which means less frustration from us about not seeing them in the majors already, since it was never going to happen anyway!
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    I'm not worried about his defense, these guys always claim guys can't stick at short unless they are absolutely elite. Their evaluations never seem to leave any room for average to below-average gloves at any given position. I don't like the swing change bit for Lewis and it would be nice to know where it came from, particularly since most players are told to quite down their movements, not amp them up. But I'm also not too troubled by it; it's just tinkering after all. Nothing is stopping Lewis or anyone else from going back to an old swing or doing something completely new. Big deal, if it doesn't work, he won't stick with it. I don't much care for Lewis' drop, but I do like that KLaw is a bit of a contrarian in his rankings. Seems a lot of these end up getting pretty group-think-y.
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    There might not be any, but if that's what the team needs, why commit so many resources to a guy who doesn't come close to fitting the bill? I don't want to trade for a starter just to get one. I think much less of Boyd than others do, so I understand those others would go big for him. But I think this team can get another Pineda/Perez level starter much more cheaply than Boyd, and I really don't care about how much control a guy of his stature has left as I'd probably still be looking to upgrade from him sooner rather than later, and if for all intents and purposes he's done throwing off speed stuff, I'd be looking to move him to the pen as soon as this off season. I'd like to look at Anthony DeScalfani. His velocity is increasing, he's got a good mix of pitches and he's got a year and a half of control left. Of non-elite pitchers, he'd be the kind of guy who'd interest me, and he's probably got much less helium. And if we're doing the starter/reliever combo, the Reds have four relievers I'd very much like to get my hands on.
  7. nicksaviking
    I like the strikeouts, that's for sure. I also like how controllable he is. Maybe Wes Johnson can add some MPH (if actually needed) as Van suggested, but my biggest concern would be that he's throwing FB/slider 90% of the time. That looks like his biggest change from past years when he threw more off speed stuff; which unfortunately were not good pitches. It seems to me pitchers who only throw two pitches and have some success quickly find the league catching up to them; usually eventually everyone just sits on the more hittable fastball.
  8. nicksaviking
    I can't read that BP link that was provided earlier. Can anyone paraphrase why they think what he is doing is or is not sustainable? From the things I see, these early season results look like an outlier, but I'm always open to analytically persuasive arguments.
  9. nicksaviking
    But Samardzija had a track record of quality results with good velocity and could throw just about any conceivable pitch. Boyd has been largely terrible until this year, throws low 90's and only has two usable pitches. Would anyone be talking about him right now if his ERA wasn't under 4.00?
  10. nicksaviking
    Not sure I’m a big fan of Boyd, he kind of came out of nowhere and I don’t see much reason why he improved. He’s still only throwing 91-92 MPH and still doesn’t really have much of an off speed pitch. He feels like a soon to dissipate anomaly to me.
  11. nicksaviking
    I don't mind the more under-the-radar names, but maybe not this one in particular. I just don't like all the contact he gives up. I'd rather not rely on the Twins infield to have to make almost all of his outs for him late in games. I'm not sure I buy into his sudden strikeout increase continuing with such a heavy sinker usage.
  12. nicksaviking
    I agree, though my top priority is for the Twins to win. They seem to be good at this juiced baseball game, so until that stops working, I'm willing to see how this all plays out. It would be a totally Minnesota thing for the club to build up the system with big thumpers the last three years only for MLB to change course and pull the rug out from underneath them when it appears their plan might actually pay off.
  13. nicksaviking
    Well watching a decade of Twins playoff baseball has me convinced that come September, any ball the other team puts in play is going to find a hole. So I'd rather not leave it to chance, stick pitchers in there who will strike the batters out instead. Strikeouts > groundballs.
  14. nicksaviking
    I’d have some interest in Stroman, but come playoff time I don’t care about WAR, I care about keeping runs off the board, and I’m not going to trust a pitcher to do that in the post season against the Yankees and Astros if he can’t miss bats.
  15. nicksaviking
    I voted Kepler but after seeing Tanaka get chosen, I might have switched to Rogers. Tanaka, really?!?
  16. nicksaviking
    Both are strong prospects, but neither are hitting great. My point is simply that Toronto would be terrible at negotiating if they allowed the Twins to value both of them as top ten prospects in negotiations considering both players current struggles.
  17. nicksaviking
    I don’t think most scouts would say the Twins have two top ten prospects, and I’m certain they wouldn’t go by a publication to make their decision.
  18. nicksaviking
    I’d guess that Twitterer was a Twins fan?
  19. nicksaviking
    Surely the oft discussed Ian Kennedy and his unattractive contract should be available any time. I'd think lower tier guys (many of whom I personally like) such as Daniel Hudson, Roenis Elias or guys who could implode and tank their trade value at any moment like Mychal Givens or whatever dreck Miami will be trying to shovel out the door might be available at a slight overpay. If the big names are available now though, I'd be surprised, only because I'd think we'd have seen more of a history of these guys going earlier if that was the prerogative of clubs.
  20. nicksaviking
    With Davis, Rooker, Raley and Larnich hitting so well and with Kirilloff, Badoo and Celestino still having some steam, I sure hope teams looking to sell pitching this year are interested in outfield help. The Twins look to be OK in that department at the MLB level in the near future.
  21. nicksaviking
    I'd like some pitching now, but I doubt any of the top end guys can be had until closer to the end of the month. The sellers are almost certainly going to try to drum up as much interest as possible. Even if the Twins offered to overpay, they'd just use that as ammo to leverage other clubs to do the same. Also, the Padres are still a .500 club, they're not going to want to show fans the white flag yet when they still got a dozen or so games to sell tickets to between now and the deadline.
  22. nicksaviking
    MLB ready players anyway. Romero, Thorpe and Rooker could be likely as interested pieces in some capacity. I'd say Gonsalves but no one's been watching him pitch in Rochester recently.
  23. nicksaviking
    You should keep better company
  24. nicksaviking
    So a Twins pitcher circa 2014? Seems I would have remembered him. Though there were so many.....
  25. nicksaviking
    I hear this All Star Game thing tends to feature some decent players. Maybe they want to send some scouts even though it’s an exhibition.
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