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  1. nicksaviking
    Hmmm, I'm guessing those folks had a couple other names in mind.
  2. nicksaviking
    This may end up being a problem where the answer simply is that there is no good solution and we have to suck it up and live with it. We're talking about a position in which we are jealous of the Royals, who's All Star catcher can't even manage a .290 OBP the past two seasons. And this is a guy that is often cited as the best catcher in the AL, all while posting sub .700 OPS. Only 9 Catchers have a WAR over 2.0 and that's despite the position being given the highest positional adjustment based on difficulty. The position is a black hole in today's game. Basically there are two types of teams, those that have Buster Posey and those that don't. I want an upgrade, but I'm not going to stress about it this offseason as 20 some other teams likely also want an upgrade, and half of the ones who don't, should.
  3. nicksaviking
    The Twins would probably have to throw in more. Maybe Gibson? I don't think it would be wise though. A 30-year-old catcher with concussion issues? I think I've seen that movie before.
  4. nicksaviking
    Only 29? That's not exactly young for a catcher, his days behind the plate are likely numbered. I'd take him on a short term deal and only if he doesn't get a QO. He hasn't been all that good offensively this year and he wasn't very good in his last full year in 2013.
  5. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I'd look to move Gibson and he should have more value than Milone. He's young and conrolable, which is something the Twins should want, but the Twins are stuck with vets Santana, Hughes and Nolasco, and Gibson's profile as a high floor/low ceiling possible number 3 pitcher with good control but poor strikeouts is very similar to the vets. Need to make room for the guys with higher ceilings and Gibson would be the easiest to move and would probably bring back the most. Also, if Plouffe's value isn't as high as hoped, I'm all for packaging some minor leaguers, middle infielders and/or Milone with him. Gibson seems like he might be best packaged individually.
  6. nicksaviking
    The best thing about Nolasco is that's he's been so terrible the Twins should have no issues keeping him out of the rotation, hell, there's an off chance they could cut him next year. No chance that happens with Shields, so the team really wouldn't be replacing Nolasco with Shields, they'd be replacing Berrios, May or Duffy with Shields. Yeah at first blush it looks like a Shields Nolasco swap would upgrade the Twins. I don't think it does though if it actually costs a spot for a young power arm.
  7. nicksaviking
    I didn't like the trade because I didn't like Jepsen. Declining velocity on a 31-year-old is not a good look. It looks like since he came to Minnesota, he has dropped his 2-seamer and gone to his 4-seamer exclusively, meanwhile he's reduced the usage of his curveball and doubled the usage of his change-up. Maybe Allen in short order refocused his repetoir? Hope the results stick and the velocity doesn't drop much further.
  8. nicksaviking
    I'm more comfortable losing Plouffe as I think Eduardo Escobar is an everyday player, and in his time as a starter, perhaps even an offensive upgrade over Plouffe. As the team seems pretty intent on giving chances to the other young SS in the system (and rightly so, there are some intreguing options), I'm more than happy keeping 3B as a possibility for the underappreciated Escobar.
  9. nicksaviking
    Sorry, I didn't realize that was actually paraphasing a Ryan comment. I would agree, and would be a bit disheartened if that's what he's implying. It also doesn't bode well for any kind of quick ascent for Tyler Jay who is decidely slight.
  10. nicksaviking
    Yeah, these guys just seem to feel more relaxed and confident. Perhaps it's a cultural thing because Vargas and Arcia always seemed to give off the same vibe as well (OK, maybe confident, not so much relaxed for Arcia). Meanwhile Hicks, Buxton, Gibson, May and Meyer all seem(ed) much more anxious and much less confident, at least at first.
  11. nicksaviking
    I also don't like his very poor OBP for a guy who is supposed to bat in the middle of the order. I don't think that gets brought up enough.
  12. nicksaviking
    My preferrence is your first two sentances in the opposite order as I think three years of not playing 3B will probably doom Sano to DH for life. Maybe he should, but I'd like to find out if he can play the field, even at the expense of a usable player like Plouffe. The Twins haven't had an honest to goodness viable trade piece since Span and Revere left town. Though to be fair, I probably like speculating about trades more than the trades themselves. I put that on my resume too and it's probably the reason I still haven't landed a GM job.
  13. nicksaviking
    He's less hittable than Pelfrey and Hughes who keep getting passes, and that first part is pretty huge considering the Twins haven't had a starter with strikeout stuff in a long time. Also, May is 25 and was on the cusp of becoming the best starter on the team when he was demoted. For the most part, the other starters have already reached their peak potential and are well into their decline phase of their career.
  14. nicksaviking
    Ouch, just looked at his game logs. 7 for 45 in his last 15 games and no XBH in his last 16. I'd think the 14 BB to 7 K kind of points to the dip being flukey though.
  15. nicksaviking
    I agree, this year's Detroit team looks a lot like the 2010-11 Twins. The only accomplished vets are on the backside of their career and the what's left of the pitching staff doesn't look pretty. Detroit can spend, but this team has real potential to be real bad for quite awhile. If Avila doesn't have the same knack for trades and free agency that Dombrowski had, we'll be laughing at the Tigers for a decade paying $180M a year for a 75 win team. Dombrowski's track record in free agency and trades was unbelievable.
  16. nicksaviking
    I don't understand how the Twins are going to be able to bring back and stretch out Phil Hughes after a month off but not Trevor May who at least has been pitching. As for the pitching coach comparison, I don't know that I have much to compare at this point. I don't like all the vets in the rotation, I want them gone in favor of the young arms. I'm not going to judge Allen on a bunch of 30+ year-old vets, those aren't the guys who need coaching up and he has little control over the physical decline that comes with that territory. If he's had anything to do with May and/or Duffey's unexpected successes, that's where I'd put most of my weight. However I would like to know if Hughes' declining velocity and strikeouts have anything to do with any changes Allen has suggested. He'd get a pretty huge strike against him in my book if he's promoting those out of date philosophies.
  17. nicksaviking
    I assume that's just the narrative around here based on conjecture then? I think Berrios should have been called up and placed in the pen back in July, but I'd guess his height didn't play a role in the decision. He didn't shrink since they drafted him. I chalk it up to the very conservative nature of the men in charge and less than ideal planning regarding workload earlier this year.
  18. nicksaviking
    Good call, the biggest problem with Sano's hammy is not having that flexibility at DH. I'd like to see more Vargas also. As it turned out, there wouldn't have been much playing time to add Kepler, Pinto or Arcia. Not that I'm giving credit to the front office for predicting Sano's hamstring injury when those guys didn't get recalled.
  19. nicksaviking
    I'm with Chief. It's better to have it than to not have it, but for the corner OF spots, I'd prioritize offense. Hopefully you can have both. Playing RF at Target Field is almost like playing racketball anyway; there's hardly any ground to cover, you just have to know how to play the bounce off of the wall.
  20. nicksaviking
    Did Ryan make a comment that I missed?
  21. nicksaviking
    I like Gonsalves and think he can overcome his struggles at Ft. Myers, but that large jump in walks was only topped in concern by his even larger drop in strikeouts. I'm going to want to see those things corrected before I get as hyped about him as I am Barrios.
  22. nicksaviking
    I'm not sure they have one. Dombrowski would be considered "Old School" which is why it was a bit surprising that SABR friendly Red Sox went after him. Detroit was one of the few fits for Gardy. Though I'm not sure how they'll react when Gardy pulls whoever happens to be in their workhorse rotaion next year after the 6th because they hit the magic 100 pitch count mark.
  23. nicksaviking
    The organization has a lot of foot soldiers, I'm guessing the GM doesn't do a ton of ground work. My completely uneducated guess is that Bill Smith was simply more likely than Ryan to say "Yes" when one of his guys proposed an idea to him. Smith being a "numbers" guy would logically tend to defer to his trusted "baseball" guys, while Ryan, who is conservative in nature and has the equity in the league to work in his comfort zone, tends to say "No".
  24. nicksaviking
    I don't think the Twins have yet figured out the best way to use young arms but there were stuck in a pretty odd situation with Sano, 3B just aren't supposed to have TJ surgery. I would have liked to see him up earlier, but Plouffe and Hunter were playing pretty well then and his bat was less needed. I do wonder what the team would look like today though had Sano come up early in 2014 and did what he's doing now. Would Plouffe have been moved last offseason and if so, would it have been for someone to help the 25-man?
  25. nicksaviking
    Rosario does have a nice arm, but if we are measruing it based on his outfield assists, we have to take it with a grain of salt. Many years, the guys with the most outfield assists are the ones with the weakest arms. Teams know they can run on them so they do, and often. The high number of assists stems from the high number of chances to make one. Not that I think Rosario is one of these kind of guys, he's just inexperienced so the book likely wasn't out yet that you should not run on him.
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