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  1. nicksaviking
    Well the free agent class this year is pretty devoid of power, so either it's a player with "power" only to the Twins perspective, or perhaps a trade. I think I saw something connecting them briefly to Mike Morse once, he wouldn't really be a fit, but who knows with this club. Mark Reynolds as a bench bat or Plouffe trade insurance?
  2. nicksaviking
    I think perhaps I didn't quite understand your arguements. It sounds like you already want to throw in the towel on both May and Meyer. Signing free agent vets in their stead would make sense if you see the spots as a long term hole. I don't think most of us want to give up on them this early though.
  3. nicksaviking
    I'm more than confident the Twins don't want Meyer in the rotation April 1st. However there have been plenty of things the Twins clearly havne't wanted the last half decade that they should have. Meyer will lose a year of service time if he starts the year in the rotation, so perhaps it's not the best idea to shelve him for a month, how lucky for the front office to have that excuse, because fact of the matter is, Meyer should have been in the rotation when the Twins were functionally done last year, which was mid June. As forthe five pitchers listed above, signing free agents isn't going to allow Meyer or May to pitch themselves out of the rotation. The team also isn't going to let any level of performance from Nolasco or Hughes knock them out of the rotation. I really don't have that much of a probem with Santana, he'd be a fine addition, but I don't want him for multiple years, that UCL is a time bomb, and the fact that he couldn't get a better deal last year tells me every other club agrees. The real issue is the talk of the Ryan Vogelsongs and Dillon Gees, guys who likely at best would be 50/50 to be an upgrade and next to a sure bet to have no impact on any kind of postseason push. Those are the kinds of guys this team cannot keep signing at he expense of giving the younger(ish) arms MLB experience.
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    I would too but by the way they've drafted the last three years, that looks to be perhaps the only area of the game where they were ahead of the curve. I'm not interested in free agent bullpen arms as I'd prefer to let the organization's fireballers get up to the MLB level ASAP. Still the reason these guys are in the pen is because they aren't reliable enough to be in the rotaion. I don't know that there is any area of the game that is more volitile than the year-to-year performance of the players in the bullpen.
  5. nicksaviking
    I'd guess the Red Sox and A's would argue that Bill James won them plenty of games. If you're implying that it is impossible for a man not on the diamond to help win a game, then we might as well get rid of the managers, coaches and GMs too.
  6. nicksaviking
    FTFY Molly. I wanted the team to go outside it's comfort zone for a new manager mostly just to prove they had the stones to dip into the unknown, but I'll freely acknowledge that Molitor appears to have most of the qualities I'd most prefer in my team's manager.
  7. nicksaviking
    HIs strikeout numbers increased a lot last year which coincided 45% increase in the use of his slider. He dosn't throw much of a curveball and he uses his change up less than the Twins traditionally like, way less. I'm not sure if the Twins would be too interested in a guy that doesn't have/use much off speed stuff. Maybe they'd be right to have hesitations, though I do like his improving slider, he's bumped the velocity of it nearly 4 MPH in the last two years.
  8. nicksaviking
    But when it's the big money pitchers who disappoint, the depth does no good as the team isn't going to eat a large contract.
  9. nicksaviking
    What if the real talent happens to be in AA and AAA and a move like this actually prevents you from adding it? Ha, also the bit about Santana liking to pitch in the cold just hit me. If his idea of cold is Kansas City, he's seriously underestimating the differences between early spring between midwestern cities. All flyover country is not created equal. Still, it's nice to hear an athlete not imply that it's coast or bust.
  10. nicksaviking
    Also looks like the Giants too are getting sucked into the Dillon Gee scam the Mets are running. Vance Worley, er, I mean Gee and his 89 MPH fastball can stay in the NL where he belongs thank you very much. Why not just resign Yohan Pino? You can have the same level of frustration but save yourself the prospect
  11. nicksaviking
    Should shoring up the bullpen really be the top priority of a rebuilding team? Perhaps if they think that is the only hole they can't fill internally. Still, I'd not be happy if my team started blowing most of thier available remaining budget on guys who thow one inning every three games.
  12. nicksaviking
    He's a lefty, so barring injury he'll likely always have some use. I like him better than Scherzer over the next six years. Still, he already lost 1 MPH off his fastball just last year and has thrown over 1.4K innings over the last seven years. I wouldn't count on him being a front of the rotation arm much longer, he's going to be pretty average pretty quick. His IP and velocity decrease looks like he's on the same arc as Justin Verlander but simply two years behind him.
  13. nicksaviking
    Not unless he'll take 1 year, which obviously he won't. He's not a strikeout pitcher anymore, except in inter-league games it would seem, and while the Twins and everyone else think "eating innings" is of the utmost importance, it is not. The team has good young bullpen pieces and their potential future arms are knocking on the door, innings can be eaten by those fellas. I'm still waiting for that partial tear in his UCL to completely tear as well. Whoever decides to give him a four year deal is rolling the dice they won't be stuck holding the bag on that inevitableTJ surgery.
  14. nicksaviking
    Sure, but Chris Sale is worth more than all of them, likely so is Abreu. Quintana would be pretty high too. I'm not sure why we would look at each organization and only look at the prospects.
  15. nicksaviking
    I liked it but I couldn't tell if you were going for the pun or trying to be informational. Both likely.
  16. nicksaviking
    https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/542395887633186816 The Tigers are in the market for a proven LH releiver. We know how much they like the Twins pitchers, I think we can drum up a few Duensing trade ideas for a change.
  17. nicksaviking
    Like hire a manager who likes to play station to station baseball and a GM who likes everyone to hit the ball 500 feet.
  18. nicksaviking
    Tigers may be gearing up for another mega deal, this time to keep Scherzer: https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/542402481976647682 Good for them, as they'll spend to win now. Still, this guy's going to fall apart faster than Justin Verlander. My money's on no more than three good seasons left in the tank for him. Those innings are piling up and his velocity is already dipping. It's going to get ugly when the wheels fall off that one. Innings is probaly not the best way to measure Scherzer either, as his innings all seem to come with a very high pitch count. Many strikeout pitchers are able to get the K's and still limit the number of pitches per innings; not him. He's like what would happen if Liriano was allowed to go over that 100 pitch count limit and let loose for 7-8 innings every outing.
  19. nicksaviking
    You're right, I was thinking of Brandon Beachy, who also probably doesn't have the stuff that his peak numbers would suggest. Not sure where either are with their rehab either.
  20. nicksaviking
    Sign me up for the lotto tickest that are Medlen and Morrow. I assume they'll only get one year deals, and it's hard not to be see their upside if fortune should strike.
  21. nicksaviking
    Ha, that's quite the gulf between the items on your list.
  22. nicksaviking
    Yeah, 87 was not a great staff despite having a Cy Young Award winner and a HOFer. That was reflected by their meager 85 regular season wins. You can get lucky, few teams have recently but it's possible. However, I think to give your team a realistic chance, you need to put together an elite staff and hope it's enough.
  23. nicksaviking
    I do too, perhaps partially because I like the chemestry when your core guys came up together, but it certainly does look like the on the 10 year anniversary of their WS championship they are trying to copy the formula. That year they signed Jermaine Dye, Tag Iguchi and Aj Pierzynski, along with they back of their bullpen Dustin Hermanson and Luis Vizcaino while trading for Carl Everett, Freddie Garcia, Orlando Hernandez and Jose Contreras. Obviously some moves were better than others, but enough worked out.
  24. nicksaviking
    I think we're past the point where simple post season "entries" are something we place as our goal. I'll be happy to see the White Sox crash and burn, but they are putting together a pitching staff that looks like it may be capable of taking home with World Series. I doubt they will, but at least they recognize what their pitchers need to look like. They Twins haven't put together a pitching staff that looked like it could win a World Series in 24 years. The last time the Twins actually fielded a staff capable of winning a championship, they actually did. Three studs up front and a rock solid back of the bullpen and you give yourself a chance.
  25. nicksaviking
    Let's all pray there isn't a third one detailing what happened in the clubhoust after that passionate Hrbek/Morris embrace.
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