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  1. nicksaviking
    It's not about his age; I don't think he's going to 'grow into' much more power if this is his MO going forward: "I think we can see where the plus hit tool prognostication came from. Gonzalez uses the whole field beautifully. In his emerging Double-A sample, his batted-ball events find the pull side, center of the field, and opposite side 39% of the time, 23.2% of the time, and 37.8% of the time, respectively. You can’t live out the ‘take what you’re given’ hitting adage more aptly than that." Lots of people still wish we were watching 1980's baseball, so there is some attraction to that, but there has to be some power; can't just be a slap hitter in today's game. While he is short, he does look more put together than Luis Arraez and Austin Martin, and unlike them, he does have a past history of putting the ball over the fence. Quite often guys who have a tremendous hit tool won't risk that and adjust to add the needed power element (resisting, resisting, do not speaketh his name......) but there is a difference between can't adjust and won't adjust. So maybe.
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    Should be interesting to see Addisons DD suspension vs Rashee Rice’s street racing suspension. Not in any way condoning a DD, but Rice’s actions were more dangerous, howevee, the NFL also won’t want to condone DD, so I have to think they’re going to want try to make them similar.
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    I have to assume that's a term made up for California's rich celebrities. Celebrity assault is called "zealous wrestling".
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    Oh, they'll find a way when it suits them.
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    The Wilfs own a team in a league with salary caps and salary floors and in a league with full revenue sharing that makes all the owners a billion dollars every other year, not every other decade. What we would consider a 'good' owner, that will want to chase championships will buy a big market team, not the Twins. This isn't an apples to apples comparison.
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    Because if you trade for guys like Joe Ryan in AAA or established guys like Lopez, Gray, Maeda, and Odrorizzi you take most of the guess work out. Even if you're talking about using your first round pick, that guy is still years away from the majors and still extremely TBD as to whether he'll turn out.
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    I have zero faith that new owners will be any better than the Pohlads long term. But I am confident that they'll want to make changes. And this team is so stale right now, any change to front office, manager or players is desperately needed. The organization needs a wholesale shake up, even if it doesn't amount to anything better than we have now. This ain't working.
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    Why would MLB help out the Pohlad's by facilitating this debt scam? Isn't this just going to encourage the Pirates and Marlins and Royals to ALSO pass off other business venture debts on to their MLB clubs LLCs, knowing that the other owners already gave the Pohlad's this farewell gift?
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    I thought the prior pitching plan was probably the best thing the Twins had done with these draft picks; instead of trying to improve command, use science to improve velocity? That was a fantastic move. "We're going to take high velocity pitchers with injury and command issues, and fix the injury and command issues" has been a draft mantra since the draft began, and it fails just about every time.
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    For as much as I'm burned out with the current leaders of this team, I can't deny that increasing Ks and velocity is absolutely in their wheelhouse.
  11. nicksaviking
    HS kids in rounds 2 and 6 for the Twins which is unusual. I'd guess that would hinder their ambition and ability to go for over slot tomorrow.
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    Yeah, obviously this has always been how the wealthy operated; they break every rule they can because their only priority is to get as much money as possible. To me, the crazy part about the NFL and other billionaires these days is that they make such little effort to hide the fact that they break the rules. They don't hide anything, they just lie about it and everyone is supposed to take their word at face value.
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    Agreed that they've done great turning former starters into relievers. However, they blew a year of service time on Jax and Sands trying to force them into the rotation despite it being clear their stuff wasn't going play to there, and they blew two years on Varland.
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    I'm not writing them off, I'm just advocating that the Twins make the switch early if the evidence starts piling up that this is the most likely spot on the team. But with some command concerns and lack of innings, I'd say these two have the look of a reliever more than most of the Twins other recent draft picks.
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    I'm guessing there's way more to it than that. The MLB Umpire Association and old school fans who can't stand anything even resembling change are going to make a scene about this.
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    "Extensively Scouting" huh? So, you need a real good look at them, and MAYBE if you like what you see you'll make an offer? Come on Philly, you're talking to Twins territory, we can run circles around you in terms of passive aggressive phrasing. Everyone in the league is familiar with these two pitchers, you already know what you're willing to give up to get them.
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    I don't love the Houston pick. Glove-first hitters don't tend to be more than utility players at the MLB level and the Twins desperately need offense. The guy is going to have to end up hitting, and not just singles. I like the pitchers, but if it becomes clear that they both should be relievers, I don't want the Twins farting around for years trying to force the issue as starters. Young's bat sounds like a huge boom or bust profile, but I'm all for rolling the dice.
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    I'm not giving Falvey a pass at all. But I suspect he only extended Baldelli because they can go year to year with him; a new manager is going to be a multi-year commitment and you can't do that with a pending ownership sale. Or at least you shouldn't. Falvey's problem is that he wants his cake and eat it too. I'm sure he WANTS to develop young players, but he doesn't want to make the sacrifices required to do so, that being taking the time, the at bats, fielding and baserunning opportunities needed to improve on a skill young players have not yet had time to master. Baldelli on the other hand I think would prefer to have a roster of league average 34-year-olds instead of schooling talented youngsters.
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    The wrong horse is Rocco Baldelli. And I'm not here to start a rip Rocco thread, but he clearly isn't a manager to develop young hitters despite this team cutting payroll necessitating developing young hitters. He pinch hits young guys for vets even as bad as Christian Vazquez. He will not let young left handers develop their skills hitting against left handed pitching. He is not getting any player to improve their defensive fundamentals and situational baserunning. This team has had soooooo many high end hitting prospects come through here lately and pretty much none of them have met their potential. Leaguewide, most don't, but rarely does a team have everyone miss. Gardenhire was good at this, Molitor was good at this, Baldelli isn't, and frankly, I don't think he WANTS to be good at this. He needs to manage a team with a big budget and loads of vet players he can let do their veteran things and basically let them manage themselves. Am I saying that because the Twins will never be that team? Maybe. But it's true. So to the main point of this thread: go year-by-year for all decisions going forward until a sale happens. Only give out one year deals and only trade players on expiring contracts, because I don't think there's currently leadership in place to make long term decisions and they've proven time and again there isn't leadership in place to develop young hitters.
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    Agreed they need to improve everywhere. But it's HIT, catch than run. The top OPS teams are always better than the top DRS teams. Plenty of overlap, and those tend to be the elite clubs. But it has to be bats over gloves because inconsistent offense gets you nowhere.
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    I know people love these new defensive stats, but this is way too deep into the forest to see the trees. This should sum it up: "he'll be about 5 runs worse than average". Five runs over a season?!?! Dear lord no!!!!! Way too much emphasis is placed on that side of the ball. As a hitter, if a guy scores 75 runs instead of 80, NOBODY WOULD NOTICE. For years now this team has struggled offensively and that needs to be the focus from now until they figure out that aspect of the game. If removing Correa from SS helps in that regard, go for it. I don't see the benefit to that at this point though.
  22. nicksaviking
    Mauer is the only snub, though he did only play 10 seasons at catcher. Santana should be in the HOF, but those other guys are 1st ballot pitchers. I don't see the snub there. Nathan was great but objectively, Wagner was a hair better. Meanwhile Kimbrel and Jansen have now lapped Nathan on the all time Saves list while being just as dominant at their peaks. As for Chapman, his resurgence means he'll likely also pass Nathan on that list while also being similarly (if not more) dominant.
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    Outside of Kyle Stowers, who is basically Trevor Larnach, all of these players range from bad to terribly bad. Having too many below average players is how the Twins found themselves in the situation they are currently in.
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    Yeah, they should trade the expiring contracts. I have no illusions that a sale is coming any time soon. I've already braced for the idea of a long period utter dejection for us fans and the players.
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    There are few players I'd object to trading, on the other hand, I'm not sure I want this current regime making decisions about any players controlled beyond this year. No one wants to hear it, but I think there should largely be a holding (sucking) pattern until a sale occurs. These guys could mess things up more, particularly if they are making decisions based on trying save their jobs instead of winning down the road.
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