Comments on: Twins Notes: Perkins, James, Hughes, Thome, Revere, Capps, and Mauer

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 25 May 2011 04:19:28 +0000

The decision to trade Hardy to Balt. for those two puds Hoey and whoever the other guy was?(I think he’s in AA) was the worse trade of the offseason. Whats worse is that our “prospects” are crap. Revere is not gonna be a good everyday player. Wimmers, our #1 last year is a mess. If we have a top 5 pick next year, we better get either a probable #1 Pitcher w/gas not the Baker/Blackie/Slowey type…or a fantastic 2B-SS-3B, C or OF who has some power.

Hopefully, we sign some GOOD free agents this offseason, I expect us to do something. We have approx. 35 million coming off the books (24 mill just w/Nathan and Cuddy) and who knows what they plan to do w/Liriano and DY.

I’m not renewing my 40 game package w/my bro if they drop their payroll to 75 Million w/half the team being minor leaguers..they sucked in AA and AAA, I’m not watching that crap.

By: mike wants WINS

mike wants WINS — Mon, 23 May 2011 21:06:42 +0000

Matt, agreed, though I do think the trades to acquire hardy and rauch were good trades for sure. The follow ups, not so much.

By: Matt in SoDak

Matt in SoDak — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:30:47 +0000

mike,

That is an excellent point. I certainly do not know who is evaluating, but obviously they are not doing too well.

By: mike wants WINS

mike wants WINS — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:04:27 +0000

Do we think Smith is actually evaluating the talent involved in trades? I don’t know we know that one way or the other. Now, that said, he is responsible for hiring the people making those assessments for sure and he may be involved in the actual decision making. We just don’t know.

By: Matt in SoDak

Matt in SoDak — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:54:46 +0000

If the season continues this way and we start a fire sale, is anyone actually convinced that Smith can get a SINGLE top prospect? He has shown over and over his ineptitude in player evaluation and trade management, and now his “stars” aren’t really even performing well enough for other teams to get too excited anyway. The only decent prospect this disaster of a season will result in is a top 5 pick next year. Hopefully the Twins just take whomever Jim Callis ranks in their draft slot and don’t go on their own personal evaluations.

Just realized that I may be being too harsh, but wow, our front office has really hurt our team. The last few years, they have made questionable decisions and the overall lack of MIF, power arms and catching is tough to swallow.

That said, we’ve had a good run of great teams (even with the poor playoff appearances, it made for fun summers) and I think I can handle a poor season, just as long as some good comes of it.

By: mike wants WINS

mike wants WINS — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:36:05 +0000

No one is going to boo Selig at a tribute.

By: JB (the original)

JB (the original) — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:32:06 +0000

1. Make Slowey the closer. Then he can warm up to his heart’s content knowing when he’ll be getting used on a consistent basis. It gets rid of his “excuse”. $$$ or not, it’s not like Nathan and Crapps are getting it done. Sending him down to AAA to stretch him out to be a starter again is just doing some future team’s job and using a roster spot we’re in short supply of.

2. After reading this in the PP: Minnesota Twins: Selig, Carew, Molitor to speak at Killebrew tribute; can someone start a petition to get Selig to stay home? He’s going to get booed out of Target Field, and is that what we want at a memorial?

By: Abe

Abe — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:46:07 +0000

Enough with the Gleeman for GM comments. He’d have to leave his mother’s basement.

By: Twins Fan in Milwaukee

Twins Fan in Milwaukee — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:31:49 +0000

The Brewers are going for it all this year because players like Prince Fielder are free agents at the end of the year. They had some initial struggles but are playing hot baseball right now. The team’s biggest problems beside having Carlos Gomez on the team is no bench and their bullpen is weak. Target their top prospects and make some trades. The Twins are just going to suck this year. If you are going to suck, might as well go all in and get something out of it — like lots of good prospects, high draft choices and some salary dump.

By: Whistler1217

Whistler1217 — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:55:53 +0000

We all need to pray to God, Allah, Buddha, whoever you like personally, that we continue our current win rate. As, mentioned above, the only way to gain anything from this season will be a top 5 draft pick and hopefully something decent in return from deadline trades. Please don’t make the push to mediocrity. Learn from the Wild and their string of .500 seasons.