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  1. nicksaviking
    Fantastic and encouraging. Hopefully other teams drag their feet and don't get up to the Vikings class in this stuff right away.
  2. nicksaviking
    I'd like to see him, but if he only managed 6 innings despite allowing only 5 baserunners and no earned runs, his 99 pitches should have lasted him longer. He's still throwing way too many pitches, he needs to cut that down considerably or he's just going to be a drain on the bullpen in the majors. Despite his excellent numbers, he's only made it past the 6th three times this year. I think at this point Stewart is more of a non-prospect so the team isn't overly concerned with how he shapes out.
  3. nicksaviking
    Good news on all fronts. Still, I'd guess the fact that Gonsalves only went 6 innings despite allowing no runs and only allowing five base runners probably means he's still throwing way too many pitches.
  4. nicksaviking
    Could be, but I guess I'd still tend to lump him in with the likes of the players I mentioned above. I don't think a guy with a .688 career OPS tends to last long these days. But above I said his positional flexibility may help him survive. I take that back, it's his salary that'll do it. Ouch, two more years of 13+M/year for stolen bases? He'll be around through 2020 at the very least.
  5. nicksaviking
    I agree that Gordon would still be attractive at least in some capacity to most teams. However, Revere was drafted in a time when guys like Juan Pierre, Luis Castillo, Eric Young, Chone Figgens, Tom Goodwin, Scott Podsednik and Tony Womack were still having long careers and batting at the top of the order well into their 30's. I don't think that happens much anymore with these kinds of hitters. Like Revere, I'd guess in today's game most of those guys would have had a nice moment or two, find themselves a couple of nice bench gigs after a few seasons before fading out of the game with little fanfare. I'll bet that path is right around the corner for Gordon as well. His IF/OF flexibility might help him stave off extinction more than his bat.
  6. nicksaviking
    The Giants didn't elect to put him on their 40-man when they signed him either, nor did the other 28 teams for that matter. I'm sure the Twins would have welcomed him back as a MiLB free agent but he instead did exactly that with SF. The Twins seem to have a pretty high retention rate with MiLB free agents, this one just didn't happen. League-wide there wouldn't have been a GM, a pundit or a fan who would have advocated putting him on the Twins 40-man roster. It's only easy to hang this one over their heads with hindsight and without logic. There are plenty of things the front office has gotten wrong, this isn't one of them. Unnecessary swipes take away from the legit problems.
  7. nicksaviking
    Maybe then you offer him $3M for a year with a team option.
  8. nicksaviking
    If he keeps hitting I'd consider him for next year, but not until I explored other options. I wouldn't worry about the Twins exclusive negotiating window. Even if he stays hot no one is going to forget his disasterous previous year-and-a-half. He's most likely looking at a contract more similar to Neil Walker's MiLB deal with the Yankees than what Eduardo Escobar will get next year. He'll probably still be waiting for a phone call come January, if options A, B and C are gone, sure, go get him for a song. Or still go get him for a song even if the team does snag option A, B or C.
  9. nicksaviking
    As long as he's still throwing in the upper 90's I'm still excited. So far this front office has been cutting most minor league pitchers with control issues, yet they traded for Alcala as a centerpiece. I'd guess they think they can correct something; I'd also think a change of any significance wouldn't happen until the offseason though.
  10. nicksaviking
    If I had confidence that Molitor would bat a guy like Dozier 7th or 8th until he perks up, I'd have more confidence rolling with extreme players. Though not having confidence in Molitor tends to be the root issue with most of my Twins criticisms.
  11. nicksaviking
    Dozier's extreme unpredictability probably had plenty of impact on the Twins extreme unpredictability. Good teams don't fluctuate between being competitive and being a laughing stock every month, every year. Sure, I'd take Dozier now but if this team wants sustained success it's got to find more regularly reliable players even if it comes at the expense of having a player perform at superstar level for two months. Reliance on Dozier in part contributed to the Twins being out of contention in June.
  12. nicksaviking
    I don't know why he's not already in the pen in Rochester. If they want to stick him in the pen in the majors I guess I don't care at this point but I don't think I care to see him start for the Twins.
  13. nicksaviking
    It probably depends on who's making the call. If it's Molitor, yeah probably Austin gets two starts and a couple of pinch hitting appearances. And since they're adding another hitter instead of a reliever, maybe he gets a relief appearance in a blow out also.
  14. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I'd think it's unlikely to happen, but when bullpen guys pick up a new pitch and turn their careers around, it's usually the slider. But those guys are also typically lefties.
  15. nicksaviking
    I have little interest in seeing Duffey again either, but I might guess this is just a perfunctory move before he is removed from the 40-man soon or in the offseason. Looks like his strikeouts are up and his HR are down even compared to his prior minor league numbers though. Maybe he has made some changes. He was dabbling with a slider when he was up earlier this year, anyone know if he was throwing it at Rochester? If it's become a usable pitch he might be a completely different pitcher, that is, not a one trick pony.
  16. nicksaviking
    I'd think Rooker and Wade would be able to compete for corner spots allowing Kepler to man CF should that be a need. But with a 6th ranked system that runs pretty deep, I'd probably be interested in packaging a bunch of prospects for a difference making bat or two. Bottom line is the Twins have so many more options besides status quo.
  17. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I'm a believer in that but I guess the Twins are now going to make us start adding the caveat ...'assuming the front office cuts him or the manager benches him if he stinks.'
  18. nicksaviking
    If there's a stop gap year I'd much prefer to take advantage of it by using Sano, Austin and Kepler at 1B. Doing so would allow them to sign or trade for a corner OF or 3B which presumably would be an upgrade to Mauer offensively. Though if there's a roster spot and need I don't think Rooker will spend another full season in the minors. Or even most of one.
  19. nicksaviking
    A warmer spring would be nice to get the players up to speed quicker, but a colder spring maybe helps acclimate them to Target Field. Or maybe not, so far no one seems to have acclimated to Target Field in the early part of the season.
  20. nicksaviking
    Maybe I'm alone, but I'm operating on the assumption that there's no way that Mauer would agree to or the organization would allow Mauer to be a bench bat. If that assumption is wrong, I'm Ok with him coming back and primarily riding pine.
  21. nicksaviking
    Loyalty and gravitas might put people in the stands, but they don't win championships. If you have a player who puts up subpar offensive numbers and you can't bench him should better options emerge, either due to the player's status, the manager's loyalty or misguided fan demand, you shouldn't have that player on your team. This organization needs to do what's best for the team on the field, not for an individual player and not for ticket sales.
  22. nicksaviking
    Yeah, had Joe learned a corner OF spot in addition to 1B, as 80% of posters on this site were clamoring for upon his move from behind the plate, there'd be much more incentive to keep him now. Joe as a 1B and 4th OF would have been preferable to Robbie Grossman, that's for sure. As such, I think the Twins can do better with that spot in the lineup. He's got too much status in this organization to be a bench player. My vote is for Sano, Austin and Kepler to split reps at 1B until they call up Rooker. If you bring Joe back and Rooker is raking, Rooker is blocked. If Austin finds his way, he's blocked. If Sano is struggling defensively at 3B, he's blocked from playing 1B. Joe's not good enough to guarantee a starting job, but pushing him to the bench would never happen, even for the betterment of the team. If the team was going to go with a subpar offensive 1B it needs to be someone they don't have to risk alienating. Unless they're more concerned about PR, they need to take sentimentality out of this decision.
  23. nicksaviking
    It's easy enough for us to say the decisions are easy, but Morrison, Forsythe and Belisle are the only free agents, with Santana likely joining them. Everybody else is cheaply controlled beyond this year. None of the non-free agents listed above are guaranteed to be gone, and even so, you listed 7 guys, that doesn't leave much room for new internal additions and free agents, they're going to have to whittle it down past 7.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'd love to see Rooker, he's been my guy since before they drafted him, but considering how many tough 40-man decisions the team is going to have this offseason I have a hard time seeing them adding anyone new to the roster that doesn't need to be there. If the team was going to dip down to AA, my money is on Lewis Thorpe getting some bullpen action in September, which would still be exciting. Though, the odds are likely still against it.
  25. nicksaviking
    I think it's become pretty clear that as far as minor league relievers go, the front office has drawn a line in the sand with high walk rates or control issues - ERA, strikeouts and velocity be damned. I've always been mesmerized by big arms and hope they can work around the other issues, but it's starting to look like there's a clear pattern with the releases, DFAs and non-promotions. Chargois, Bard, Burdi, Melotakis, Curtis, Reed, Wimmers and Zack Jones all have been lost or passed over with some degree of consternation. I guess I can accept that there's a method to the madness even if I'm not in complete lock-step with it.
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