The Twins Have Finally Found a Stable and Productive Left Side to Their Infield

*Knocks firmly on wood...

YES! I agree! And great article @Nate Palmer!!!

Correa certainly has enough of a track record to give a person faith that there will be a bounce back offensively, and probably defensively as well.  It’s a beautiful thing to have a shortstop who is good enough to be at least OK while having the worst offensive year of his career.  That’s a pretty great floor level.  Lewis, on the other hand, hasn’t had that kind of major league track record.  All signs point to success, but you never know what will happen going forward.  I’m thrilled to be at the point where we can speculate about a situation like this.

One of the things that I hope is happening with the Twins is that we are developing players whose floor in their worst season is still more than playable.  Simply put, not everyone has to have a career year to go far in the playoffs.  A couple of people likely will have that career year, but it won’t take the whole team doing so in order to have success.  

My hilarious example for this is the 1965 Twins.  Harmon Killebrew, arguably their best player) was hurt part of the year and had arguably the worst year of his prime (and still managed a 145 OPS+ (!!!!!), over 4 WAR and MVP votes) but the team managed to win a bunch of games and make it to seven games against the Dodgers in the World Series.  There were plenty of other seasons that went extremely well for players (ahem, Mr. Versalles) but what an amazing team that was to sustain through an injury laden season for their biggest star.  

2 hours ago, chpettit19 said:

https://www.mlb.com/video/lewis-on-being-on-top-100-list?q=royce lewis&cp=CMS_FIRST&qt=FREETEXT&p=0

Greg Amsinger: "And defensive clarity has to help, right?...Knowing you're manning the hot corner...that has to ease your mind a bit, right?"

Royce Lewis: "I still don't think it's full clarity."

Maybe it's not just people posting here who think he may eventually move if that's what's best for the team. You seem to be more certain about it than he himself is. Amsinger didn't ask a question about him moving positions, he stated it as a fact like you are now that he isn't moving, and Royce volunteered the info himself that he doesn't even have full clarity yet.

I heard that too, it's well in character for Falvine or Rocco to leave it open to all possibilities even if the plan is third base for the foreseeable future.  I don't see them giving him a firm, you're at third forever answer.  Good problem to have but I'd rather solidify the right side of the infield rather than moving Lewis.  Unless he can make a platinum glove move to right field like Tatis or pure centerfielder I'd see it as a reduction in value and I believe his agent does too.