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To clarify, I think you mean six guys in ADDITION to the projected starting five? And I agree.
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Yeah, it sucks. Rooker was a casualty of MLB's reaction to the Bomba Squad. Rooker was likely drafted with that style of baseball in mind, then in 2020 with the deadened ball and the lackluster offensive results for the Twins, they shifted to signing and drafting up the middle contact hitters. This team is missing run producers at the moment though.- 80 replies
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Agree with most. Between Bader, Castro and Martin, Baldelli can find a no-bat righty to plug in two OF spots when he feels like it. Also, while I don't like the Bader signing, I do like that they're putting him in LF. With all the accolades Max Kepler got for his glove, I always thought it was either a poor decision by the club or a stubborn decision by Kepler to plug him into RF all that time. Yeah, a good arm is best in RF, but RF in Target Field is one of the smallest in baseball. It requires next to no range, particularly if there is a rangy CF next to you. 38-year-old Torri Hunter had a -8.0 UZR with a -7.8 range factor in Comerica park and then as a 39-year-old somehow found his gold glove again improving those marks to 3.5 and 3.4? Right. Another example of why defensive stats are too flawed to rely on, but also another example of how RF in Target Field might be the easiest position in the game to play.
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Probably mostly a manager who tends to dwell on the warts of all of the players he knows but buys into the agent hype of all the players he doesn't. There's got to be a Desclafani we can find to plug in there!
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I frankly put little stock into prospect rankings, as they don't take a practical approach to these evaluations. I understand the real world value of high contact, but the player market does not. Every team in the league can afford to pay Luis Arraez. Or Denard Span or Luis Castillo (Marlins/Twins, not Reds/Mariners). If you have a guy pop up on these lists who looks to be an 1980's archetype hitter, good for you, but he's not nearly as valuable as the guys you'd otherwise not be able to afford should they hit the free agent market. And I'm not overvaluing Lee, I have also been the low guy on this site on him as well. I was always just that much lower on Martin who not only can't hit it out of the park, he rarely hit doubles either.
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I remember, and it was frustrating. He'd already dropped 30 spots or so in the national prospect rankings and TD still had him #1 some how. I think most people here still had shiny new toy syndrome. He was always and only ever going to be a slap hitter, and that was clear even before the Twins traded for him.
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Martin's days as a top prospect were over when he was still in Toronto. These aren't the same caliber of potential and never have been. I've never been as high on Lee most of the rest of the board has been, largely because he doesn't look like he'll have enough power to justify his prospect rankings, but he has exponentially more power than the offensively one dimensional Martin.
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I think everyone is doing Prelipp a disservice if they try to make him throw more than 80 innings a season. With guys you are more than 50% sure will end up in the bullpen, I would err toward the side of a fast promotion; that being, move them to the pen now, not until you've exhausted starting options and are up against the service time clock.
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Yeah, the 'bomba squad' drafted replacement guys. They stopped drafting those types of players, but based on 2019, it's understandable they wanted more Nelson Cruz, Miguel Sano, Eddie Rosario types. I don't get your nine year comment, it's been four years. Look at their drafts prior to 2021 and after. They drafted completely different styles of hitters before and after. Obviously the prior 2021 players were less likely to produce, as their 2019 counterparts on the MLB roster ALSO stopped producing due to the change in the game.
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The Twins had to make a significant philosophy shift after 2020. The team had success with the bomba squad and their drafts reflected the plan to keep it that way with big corner bats and questionable defensive positions. Then when the league deadened the ball and the 2020 results were lackluster, the organization changed both the plan for the MLB roster and the draft picks. So from 2021 onward, most of the bats were contact guys who played up the middle and a LOT of pitchers. We haven't had time to see the guys from this new philosophy much, only because they're too young. And they've traded the only two bats they drafted in the top six rounds from 2021.
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Yeah, I'm not sure Headrick will pan out, but I wouldn't have traded him straight up for the ghost of Ty France.
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But Miranda has been more productive more recently than France. It should be the other way around. If France can show he can be productive, there could be a place for him. This is the struggle with this front office and manager; they look at a Miranda and think that he hasn't proven enough to earn a job, but then they go and sign a vet who also hasn't proven enough recently that he deserves a job. For some reason they seem to think the number of birthdays you've had is meaningful counting stat.
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Ok, but why would you give France a job before Miranda? The thesis of the article was clear, the hand wringing is due to this front office's?? managers??? extreme and irrational aversion to pulling the plug in a timely manner on poorly performing veterans.
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All three were still decent hitters prior to coming to the Twins, us skeptics just didn't expect all of them to continue to hit decently. France hasn't hit well in three seasons.
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Do not like what Falvey is doing, but the owners are the ones with the money to spend, and they're the ones keeping Falvey and Baldelli. They're still steering the ship. Or would be, if they cared any longer.
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Yeah, that's what I'd guess. Not a good year to be a free agent RB with the hype surrounding this draft class.
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A 1M non-guaranteed contract says that 29 other teams don’t buy he’s ‘fixed’. Or else 29 other teams think a ‘fixed’ France is still not worth rostering. As expected with ownership in flux, our ship is currently rudderless.
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No, I'd totally want Becton. Maybe they can't do three free agent IOL, but they can do two and draft one early. They still have money for the secondary and DL too. But I wouldn't spend a dime on the RB free agent class. Jones was healthier than I thought he'd be, but just barely, I'd let him walk. I too am fine looking in the draft (and snagging a cheap, but still useful vet late in the season, maybe even Jones will still be there), but I still want the speedster who can make guys miss in the open field. Gibbs and Kamara almost NEVER blow a two down situation. You don't have to be big and bruising to run that game. And perhaps I'm wrong, but I distinctly remember someone on this board promoting the ever living hell out of Alvin Kamara before the draft, begging the Vikings to draft him. I could have sworn that was you. Maybe not, either way, it was an all timer call for a 3rd round RB everyone thought was strictly a 3rd down player.
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Sorry, but the IOL was awful. This team isn't going to win a championship if they have zero chance at picking up two yards in 3rd and 2 or 4th and 2 situations. You don't always have to do it that way, but it absolutely HAS to be an option in the play book. Also, I know we are going to disagree on Skataboo all off season, but if this team wants to be the high flying, high volume passing offense it thinks it should be, they need a RB who is electric and can make defenders miss in space, not a Jerome Bettis type who is just going to run people over. Those are just two different styles of offense.
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Yeah, and two women were shot. While celebrating a championship. The fact that the city embraces the perception that they are the worst and most violent fans in the country says all you need to know about that city. Awful people. The players need to stop reveling in hooliganism and call out these people for the scumbags they truly are.
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Out of these guys? I guess Coulombe by default as he's the only one I want to see on the 26-man roster. If the 'newbies' were expanded to the home-grown options, there are several I'm interested in seeing.
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****Moderator Note**** More personal attacks are going to result in infractions. Also, you don't get to claim this as a fact only true to your side of the argument and tell everyone else have to accept it. WE DO NOT THINK THESE BAD BASEBALL PLAYERS IMPROVE THE TEAM. Feel free to disagree that they are bad. Don't disagree that we also want to improve the team.
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I figured the negative tone of the paragraph that preceded that made it clear I was not on board with that train of though.
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WAR is such a terrible and useless stat. Michael Taylor had a !!!.543!!! OPS last year and had a .9 WAR. There is no amount of defense that could ever make that level of incompetence at the plate a net positive.
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Every move this franchise has made this century has been aimed at first raising the floor. Even the big scary contracts that did improve the ceiling, like Correa and Mauer, were there to keep the floor high with the side effect of raising the ceiling. There is zero apatite for risk with this organization. No perceived boom or bust moves, which is an absurd prerogative in baseball, because a century and a half into this league has continually shown us that even the guys you think are the safe bets can still spectacularly bust too. But higher floor equals higher job security, regardless of ceiling, so let's prioritize securing a .500 record over a shot at a championship.
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