Game Thread (8/26): Twins vs. OAK, 1:10 pm CDT

[ashbury]

All defenders, even the very best ones, make bad judgments on plays.  Hunter was a GREAT CF for us and at least twice during the playoffs, he made HUGE errors in judgment on balls he thought he could get to and couldn't.  Didn't mean he wasn't great, just meant he made some bad calls. Never been a perfect defender.

All I demand is perfection in the games I pay for a ticket to see.

[ashbury]

Meanwhile, we've seen the opposite of perfection from the offense today.

[jimmer]

 

All I demand is perfection in the games I pay for a ticket to see.

Cave is relatively inexperienced, his judgement will get better.  He has the ability to be a great defender.

[ashbury]

Loooosah. No chicken dinnah today.

 

[ashbury]

Cave is relatively inexperienced, his judgement will get better.  He has the ability to be a great defender.

I'm willing to cut Cave some slack, but "great" seems to be off the table by now. We have a great CF to compare to as a benchmark. And Cave is a year older than him, and has nearly 1000 more innings of minor league experience in CF. I mark him down as potentially "adequate". The bar is set high, in center.

[jimmer]

 

I'm willing to cut Cave some slack, but "great" seems to be off the table by now. We have a great CF to compare to as a benchmark. And Cave is a year older than him, and has nearly 1000 more innings of minor league experience in CF. I mark him down as potentially "adequate". The bar is set high, in center.

well, there's great and then there's what Buxton is.  If HE is the barometer, there's might only be one great CF in the game :-)

 

Remember when KC had Cain and Dyson available for CF?

[jkcarew]

His homerun last night is his only hit in his last 21 AB. 9 K, 2 BB in that span.

Well, he looked like a MLB hitter for about 2 weeks anyway.

Sometimes the box score doesn’t tell the story...today he hit the ball all over the yard and will end up with about the same box score as the DH, who didn’t get a ball out of the infield in 5 trips. But do agree that he had been K’ing too much again.

[ashbury]

well, there's great and then there's what Buxton is.  If HE is the barometer, there's might only be one great CF in the game :-)

This starts to get into the semantics that plague every discussion of "Ace".

[jkcarew]

well, there's great and then there's what Buxton is.  If HE is the barometer, there's might only be one great CF in the game :-)

 

Remember when KC had Cain and Dyson available for CF?

Let’s all bow our heads for a moment and pray that Buxton stops being like Dyson, and starts being like Cain.

[ashbury]

Let’s all bow our heads for a moment and pray that Buxton stops being like Dyson, and starts being like Cain.

I also don't want to belabor the point, but this raises the angle that while Buxton is amazing in center there are other teams who have players making amazing plays there too. TB has Kiermaier, Boston has JBJ, Cincinnati has BIlly Hamilton - three who come to mind, I'm sure there are others. If Buxton is the best of these, it's not head and shoulders better.

 

Cave on his best day will never be on a par with these great fielders, IMO. He would be there by now, if he could.

 

 

[Platoon]

All I demand is perfection in the games I pay for a ticket to see.

Being perfect is extremely wearying! Anyway, I'll be right back, I need to take a nap!

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Has anyone claimed the next thread of games?

[Squirrel]

Has anyone claimed the next thread of games?

We’re not scheduling game threads to the end of the season. Some have signed up to do them. If it’s within an hour of game time and no thread has gone up, go ahead and start one. That goes for anyone. You want a thread and one isn’t there already, start it up.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Done.

 

Did i do good?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

And sorry i did not contribute any bulb light jokes..

 

A fine genre it is...