Friday Forum: Byron Buxton's Defense, Louis Varland Would Look Pretty Good Right About Now, and Narratives Fly Forever!

With Buxton it's a matter of what are you going to believe - the stats or your own eyes.  He's stopped trying to make plays that got him injured - to keep himself in the line-up, while still picking his spots and making some outstanding plays.  IMO, he's playing the best all around baseball of his career.

The Varland trade was awful on many levels.  Varland was a proven ML commodity while Rojas and Roden may never amount to anything.  The value of a starting pitcher versus reliever is blurred like never before with shorter starts for starters.  And the trade without a doubt proves the lie of the Twins' stated goal of competing THIS YEAR.