Just wondering what a brewers fan would want for JJ Hardy. There has been a good amount fo talk about targeting him from a fan perpective. Deals from our end have ranged from Perkins and a lower level guy to people saying we don't have the guys to get him.

I always feel like fans think guys will get you more and cost you less to get then they do so it would be nice to have a prepective from the other side.

Thanks Ted.

This diary Caused quite a bit of stir last year I'd like to Revist it a year later.

Mauer put up this line

.293/.382/.426/.808 in 406 at bats. With a 57/51 BB/K ratio his ISO power went form .160 to .133 with only 7 HRs this year he was injured a lot and supposedly played with a Hernia for at least part of the year but it's still not a great sign that he power went down when it should be going up.

McCann put up this line in 504 at bats

.270/.320/.452/.772 with 18 hrs and 38 2bs for a ISO power of .182 down from .239 last year but he to battled through injuries during the year but still managed to get 100 more at bats than Mauer.
McCann's BB/K ratio also suffered this year going from 41/54 to 35/74.

Both players regressed a bit and the high expectations that we put on them after last year have probably been tempered some to say the least. What is the future for these 2 catchers are they still going to be the 2 best catchers in baseball long term or have they all ready been passed by Russell Martin?    

http://www.startribune.com/509/story/843659.html Lots of stuff the most serious Jason Kubel had surgery on his other Knee to repair some damage I guess playing Winter ball would have been a bad idea.

It also sounds like LEN was hinted something that TR might be willing to go with a Santana Bonser Garza Baker Sliva rotoation which wouldn't be such a bad thing in my mind.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/whither-bill-hall/

That hardball times article basically details how Bill Hall has been pushed out of every Role on the Brewers Except for CF which their Gm doesn't see him as.

This is probably the 5th or 6th diary about the twins trading for him or that has ended up talking about how we should trade for him. By this point we all know him He hits for great power can play all over in the infield and is a very good 5 or 6 hitter and could hit 3 or 4 for a bad team. He would most likely play 3B for us and provide some much needed pop.

This is a move I would try and make he's not going to come cheap in terms of Prospects but I would offer Brian Duensing and Zach Ward for starters and then move it up to a offer of Anthony Swarzak and Sosa and see if that gets it done.

Although that may not even be what the Brewers want right now. They seem pretty set right now.
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As has been discussed here a couple of times Durbin is out of options this year and cannot return to AAA for another season. JD is a power arm that was once a top prospect that has fallen off considerably much like Boof Bonser had with the Giants.

The Twins will have quite a Decision to make this spring on what to do with him. He posted a 2.33 era this year although the walks that have plagued JD during his whole career were still there as he walked 50 in 89 innings. JD seemed to in line for a call up with all the ineffectiveness and injuries in the Twins rotation but he suffered an injury of his own and was out for the season. So now lies the question what would you do with JD Durbin?

My course of action would be to stick him in the number 5 spot in the rotation and see if he can get major league hitters out give him about 8-9 starts and see if he gets it done. This provides time to see how Slowey and Perkins are progressing and depending on what happens with Sliva, Baker could also get some extra time to build confidence in AAA and learn how to pitch.

I was wondering If you guys and gals think we should keep going to 20 or stop here. I planned on going to 20 at first but just wondering. Well, with that out of the way our #9 prospect was Denard Span. Our list So far.
                            1. Matt Garza
                            2. Kevin Slowey
                            3. Alexi Casilla
                            4. Anthony Swarzak
                            5. Glen Perkins
                            6. Matt Moses
                            7. Alex Romero
                            8. Chris Parmelee
                            9. Denard Span
                             

Twins First Round Draft pick Chris Parmelee was voted prospect #8. I'll be adding David Winffee and Oswaldo Sosa on this time and Brain Duensing gets the Boot. Our list as of now.
                            1. Matt Garza
                            2. Kevin Slowey
                            3. Alexi Casilla
                            4. Anthony Swarzak
                            5. Glen Perkins
                            6. Matt Moses
                            7. Alex Romero
                            8. Chris Parmelee

Well After a Week Of Working in Towns Like Rose Creek And Clarks Grove I'm back and Ready to Continue the Community Prospect. The RunOff saw Alex Romero become Community prospect #7. I will be gone agian next week so I'll put up the new one then. Our List now Looks like this.

                            1. Matt Garza
                            2. Kevin Slowey
                            3. Alexi Casilla
                            4. Anthony Swarzak
                            5. Glen Perkins
                            6. Matt Moses
                            7. Alex Romero

With Span and Romero in a Dead heat i'm calling a Run off Span had 31% of the Vote and Romero had 29% Here is Span's http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/milb/stats/stats.jsp?n=Denard%20Span&pos=&sid=milb&am p;t=p_pbp&pid=452655 Stats for this year and Romero's http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/milb/stats/stats.jsp?n=Alex%20Romero&pos=&sid=milb&am p;t=p_pbp&pid=464900

Matt Moses is your #6 prospect. There are some More changes on the List. Thanks to everyone who voted last time. Here's the List So Far.
                            1. Matt Garza
                            2. Kevin Slowey
                            3. Alexi Casilla
                            4. Anthony Swarzak
                            5. Glen Perkins
                            6. Matt Moses

Glen Perkins was your number 5 Twins prospect with 31% of the vote. Thanks to everyone who voted last time agian. Well the Same names are there again Plus some new guys. So far the list looks like this.

                        1. Matt Garza
                        2. Kevin Slowey
                        3. Alexi Casilla
                        4. Anthony Swarzak
                        5. Glen Perkins

After a Run off we finally have our Number 4 prospect in Anthony Swarzak. Now it's time to move on to who you think is the Twins 5th best prospect. Every one returns from the 4th poll so far our list looks like this.
                        1. Matt Garza
                        2. Kevin Slowey
                        3. Alexi Casilla
                        4. Anthony Swarzak

Well it figures that as soon as I post my rules for close races that we have one as I type 3 people are within 2% of each other so there will be a runoff the vote will be called when I get home tomorrow night and prospect Number 4 Will be the player in the lead at that time no matter how close it is so as they say vote early and vote often for your favorite. The list so far
                          1. Matt Garza
                          2. Kevin Slowey
                          3. Alexi Casilla

Thanks to Everyone who voted in the last poll and another thanks to Seth Of Sethspeaks.net for linking to this. There Was yet one more landslide vote this time the winner was Alexi Casilla. Whit Robbins will make his first appearance on the list, as will Brandon Roberts. Also if the Voting ever is within 2% after a Significant # of votes (more than 40) I will post a run off of the Prospects within 2%. Here's the list so far.

                    1. Matt Garza
                    2. Kevin Slowey
                    3. Alexi Casilla

With Slowey winning in another land slide I'm ready to call the last one. Roberts will be on #4 as a tester Other wise there some new names on this one. I also added a Other so if you vote that let me know below. I want to thank everyone who has been voting and keep it up.

                        1. Garza
                        2. Slowey

With Graza Already winning in a land slide I'm Ready to Move on this is Where things should get interesting. I'm leaveing the every on thier from last time and Not adding anyone yet But I'd like some suggestions for people to add For #3. It looks Like I'll Add Doud Deeds Next Time and Maybe The Next best pitcher.  

                        1. Matt Garza

I've Been Lurking on Twinkie town for a while now and finally decided to sign up so I could comment on here. So hi everyone I enjoyed reading the vibrant discussion and hope to encourage some more with my first diary so here it is. I've been having a lot of fun voting on John Sickles minor league ball ranking the Top prospects and thought putting a Twins one together would be fun. I sure Graza will win the first in a landslide but i've got to start at the top so let it begin. If you want me to add anyone for the Next poll just tell me who you want. Anyone currently on the Major league roster will not be Included or anyone who has exhausted their rookie status.