Twins Have A Decision To Make On José Miranda

2 hours ago, Old fox said:

The stats indicate Miranda has earned this opportunity in 2022. I believe prospects are just like baking cimamon rolls. if baked not long enough they are Dougherty and if the baker isn’t paying attention and burns the rolls, then, the rolls aren’t good and lose value quickly. It’s a very delicate situation. 

Rookies are like Sixth graders moving to junior high, Seniors heading for college, they think they are on top of the world, then reality strike; if they accept that they are not the brightest bulb in the string but have the desire to be one, they will succeed.

Most do not but still manage to burn brighter.

It seems extremely highly likely that Miranda is ready. ~.345 at AA and ~.345 at AAA with 30 HR in a shortened season may be unprecedented in Twins history.

Barring further trades, I’d see him playing 3B, 2B, 1B and DH and possibly even some LF. The Twins need to give a full chance to this special talent. I believe that even though the Twins need pitching, there seems no way they’ll have a championship caliber staff at this point. As Nick Nelson mentioned, the Twins could sign Pineda and one more and then rely on Ryan, Ober, Sands, Duran, Balazovic, etc.

The one thing I’m convinced of is the Twins likely can’t win with that kind of pitching staff and not significantly improving the offense. The offense has question marks in LF, RF, SS, 1B, C. LF is the highest priority. Castellanos would fit well. If not, bring back Eddie Rosario. He never should have been booted out of town. RF is a problem too with Kepler stuck in a looooong spell of too much pulll, pull, pull and very low batting averages. I’d put Kirilloff in RF and Sano at 1B with Kepler 4th OF. I’m quite sure Kirilloff would have a better season than Kepler’s last 2 seasons.

So Miranda could be very important since you don’t like having 4 or 5 question marks in an offense. One mitigating factor could be if Sano clicks from the start instead of a prolonged deep freeze.

That swing reminds me a lot of Albert Pujols............

You've got LF, 1B, and DH to rotate Kiriloff, Arraez, Sano, and Miranda through.  Throw Larnach in there potentially, too.  That's roughly 2,000 AB's to split between the four of them.  Throw in some spell days for Donaldson, and you can probably add another hundred or so to that.  There are plenty of opportunities to get them all ABs. Plan on a bench of one of those guys, whichever catcher isn't playing, a true extra OF, and a utility IF who can play some short, and let's go. 

With Donaldson around there really is no spot for Miranda. The 25 man roster for a team is 99% determined before ST begins and how players perform in ST rarely changes that. There are exceptions of course but usually not in the players favor. It is much easier to lose a spot on the team than it is to make the team.

2 hours ago, jjswol said:

With Donaldson around there really is no spot for Miranda. The 25 man roster for a team is 99% determined before ST begins and how players perform in ST rarely changes that. There are exceptions of course but usually not in the players favor. It is much easier to lose a spot on the team than it is to make the team.

Rooker showed how trusting Spring Training performance can bite you in the butt because you show you are NOT ready