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  1. nicksaviking
    I like Rosario, but considering he has difficulty taking pitches and drawing walks, perhaps he's the one to move. It seems to me, the other young players who have had a hard time doing this tend to regress quite a bit, and Rosario must have some helium at this point.
  2. nicksaviking
    Pelfrey made a stink about being moved to the pen when he was under contract. How do you think he'd react at the negotiating table? Also, Milone is Twins property until 2019 unless traded or released. Let's hope the Twins will be able to trade him this off-season. A lat strain isn't too serious so he should be able to come back this year. I hope he doesn't though, as I'd guess coming off of an injury, his trade value (which isn't high to begin with) is more likely to go down than up.
  3. nicksaviking
    Yes, the Twins tying themselves long-term to vets in the rotation is a big problem going forward. None of them are of the caliber that traditionally leads a team deep into the post season either. This team needs to develop the young starters and hope one or two of them can. It's on Ryan to figure a way out of this veteran mess.
  4. nicksaviking
    His HR might stabalize, I don't know why his BB would though unless one was of the mind the BB is largely controled by luck. I didn't see any indication that his control was an issue that was being masked by something else.
  5. nicksaviking
    Unless you count Berrios or May. I think their development is pretty key to this club being actual competitors in the future. I'm also starting to worry that if Pelfrey keeps up his current production, he will be the first player the Twins offer a QO to. They may do so thinking that a guy with 180+ innings and a 3.60ish ERA would certainly decline it looking for a multi-year deal, as afterall, the Twins certainly would offer one if not for their current stable of veteran starters. Of course the rest of the league and his agent would look at the deeper stats and lack of strikeouts and know he couldn't de better on the open market and he'd be the first player to ever accept.
  6. nicksaviking
    I'm not so sure he's the guy hiding behind the hay wagon so much as the guy who brought a knife to the gunfight. I just don't think he's playing by the same guidebook as everyone esle at this time. That can either be really adventageous, or really put you behind the rest of the players.
  7. nicksaviking
    Based on how things are going, he'll probably be lights out the rest of the year, which will further cloud the rotation picture for next year. Of course, having enough good young pitchers isn't something to complain about. Unless they get squeezed out of the rotation by vets on unmovable contracts.
  8. nicksaviking
    Seems to me Johan Santana was pretty versatile but I doubt there would have been any talks about putting him back in the pen. This versatility thing really is just another way of saying that he has good velocity and a good repertoir pitches. These are the pitchers you want pitching the most innings.
  9. nicksaviking
    His bullpen numbers haven't been all that shiney despite his velocity and pitches, but again that's likely more to do with sample size. Still, even if May was the best option for the bullpen because he has the potential to be lights out, how would that be any different than every club saying their best starter would make the best reliever? Doesn't it go without saying that Felix Hernandez and Clayton Kershaw would probably be pretty good in the pen too?
  10. nicksaviking
    I think most of us were hoping that Meyer and May would actually turn out to lead the rotation.
  11. nicksaviking
    How will Duffy? I doubt they will trust him in the seventh or eighth if they wouldn't trust May.
  12. nicksaviking
    He's a nearly 40-year- old catcher, if he was actually a clubhouse cancer he wouldn't still be in the league. This organization has enough boy scouts, they could use a dbag or two to toughen them up.
  13. nicksaviking
    if May didn't pitch deep enough into games, that's on Molitor, May was the best starter prior to his demotion to the pen. Duffy is also young and inexperienced, meaning he also will be subject to the same organizational mistrust as May, probably even more since he's even younger and less experienced.
  14. nicksaviking
    Let's hope so, because the alternative for getting pulled in that situation is usually an injury. Or a top secret CIA South American cartel execution mission.
  15. nicksaviking
    When I have a definitive view at home, the kids must be in bed.
  16. nicksaviking
    Right, my impression was Plouffe wasn't happy that Ryan was largely inactive.
  17. nicksaviking
    During Plouffe's first AB, Morris said he talked to Ploufe today and implied that Plouffe didn't agree with some of his comments during last night's broadcast. I'm pretty sure Morris was talking about how not making trades was the right move last night. Morris didn't say what the discussion was about, but I'd guess if Ploufee didn't agree about a critique of a teammates defense or something else trivial, he would have been more open about the contents of the discussion.
  18. nicksaviking
    What were the "few things" Morris saw differently than Plouffe in last night's broadcast?! If memory serves, Morris was very supportive about the trade inactivity. Is Plouffe complaining about it to the media?!
  19. nicksaviking
    They're not 3-4 year deals, they are four year deals, and they are unmovable. So if the team actually wanted to get a front of the rotation arm, it now as to come at the expense of May, Berrios, Gibson or whatever hot prospect is in the wings because the vets are locked in worthy or not. It was knee-jerk. If Ryan wanted to appease the fans with these kinds of signings, it should have been at the beginning of the down phase, to bridge the gap. He was slow to acknowledge a rebuild was needed, he miss-timed his free agent approach and now the team is stuck in an unfavorable position if they need to upgrade the rotation.
  20. nicksaviking
    I'd rather watch a roster full of energetic sub 28 year olds than an aging mish-mash of declining vets.
  21. nicksaviking
    Unless a lefty leads off the 8th, the Twins still seem pretty set on their bullpen structure. If the team traded for him intending for him to be the set up guy, I'm sure he will usually be in 1st batter of the eighth no matter which part of the lineup is up, unless a lefty leads off, then he will get batter number two.
  22. nicksaviking
    I agree, but if the fans are being impatient, so was Ryan. He was the one who gave unmovable long-term contracts to a bunch of mid-rotation starters during the decline stages of their careers. He was acting as desperate as any fan.
  23. nicksaviking
    It's not because they've lost four of their last five and nine of 12? Though I'm not sure anyone is really talking "belly up" so much as coming back to earth.
  24. nicksaviking
    NFL-Olympic-MLB and the greatest athlete of all time Jim Thorpe.
  25. nicksaviking
    I guess my rebuttals would be: A )Ryan's first rebuild was actually 1995-1999, it was a disaster. B ) having the OK, not great starters might actually be the biggest problem, and worse than having awful starters. The 2016 rotation should include Berrios, May and Gibson. All these guys should be in the rotation for the sake of future development. Then there is Nolasco, Hughes and Santana. This team needs a better frontline starter, if not an ace, at least close to one. But this pitcher should be to supplement the young guys, not the old guys. Unfortunately, to get a quality starter, it would have to be one the young guys getting replaced because there's no way two of the vets with ugly contracts will get moved. C ) Ryan's second rebuild was a huge (regular season) success, but baseball has dramatically changed since then and now all the other teams do what he did best (hold on to the team's best prospects and trade vets for other teams best guys, build with homegrown talent, elite defense,,,) and he's behind the curve for the best new strategies (statistical analysis, stockpiling power arms, signing tradable veterans on tradable contracts). He's lost his innovative advantage.
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