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  1. SoDakTwinsFan
    Yes. A #1 or solid #2. Brooks Lee for Kyle Gibson won't cut it.
  2. SoDakTwinsFan
    We really have no idea if he is a high end bat though. He MIGHT be one but until he proves it in the bigs it's all projections. I would take the proven controllable MLB starter versus a minor league player that SHOULD be good someday every time.
  3. SoDakTwinsFan
    I'm sure you thought that about Buxton and Sano too, right?
  4. SoDakTwinsFan
    Prospects are always an unknown commodity. IF you have the chance to take a good prospect like Lee and flip him for a proven starting pitcher you pull that trigger. Once upon a time Buxton was the #1 prospect, I wouldn't say he has lived up to the hype. Lewis was a top 10 prospect and he can't stay healthy. For all the "can't miss" prospects that live up to the hype, there are plenty that do not. I've always been a believer in taking an unknown, which is what prospects are, and flipping them for proven players especially pitchers.
  5. SoDakTwinsFan
    Beat me to it.
  6. SoDakTwinsFan
    Sign Trevor Bauer.
  7. SoDakTwinsFan
    "Buxton has rebounded from injury time and time again." Ahhhhhhhhh...are you serious?
  8. SoDakTwinsFan
    What on earth are we talking about here? The Twins played their best when Buxton when on the IL! To say IF he could do this or IF he could do that might help the team is nuts. Go by what happened this season. Buxton sucked and the Twins were flirting with coming in second in the worst division in baseball. Without him they played really well and swept the Bluejays and have a good chance of making the ALCS. Open your eyes. As was stated above, he couldn't get through one game in CF at AAA without getting pulled. The dude can't play there and has 0 value as a DH.
  9. SoDakTwinsFan
    Does anyone else just hate with a passion playoff baseball games being played during the early afternoon? Or is it just me?
  10. SoDakTwinsFan
    The title of this article should be nominated for the preposterous statement tournament. "Big bench bat." lol
  11. SoDakTwinsFan
    Maybe it was mentioned on here but didn't Lewis say he doesn't want play in CF? Can someone say if that's true and if it is what is the reasoning behind it? Part of me says Lewis is looking like a perennial all-star at 3B, why change? The other part says if he is is more valuable to the team in and the team can win more games with him in CF then that is where he should be.
  12. SoDakTwinsFan
    Unless this was discussed somewhere else on this forum, I am surprised this was meeting wasn't talked about more as it seems like a pretty big deal.
  13. SoDakTwinsFan
    The only question left is does he enter the HOF with a Twins hat or a Yankees hat when the Twins won't resign him.
  14. SoDakTwinsFan
    Spot on. IMO he was incredibly overrated. Someone posted earlier that he was a 5 tool player. Was he though? Speed and defence 100%. I would put a giant ??? with the hit tools. The amazing thing to me over the course of his career is that he is a career .239 hitter. He was one of the fastest dudes in the game. Who knows how many infield singles he was able to beat because of his speed. And he is only a career .239 hitter. That to me shows just how bad of a hitter he is. And if he can't play CF anymore, then he is absolutely worthless to the Twins.
  15. SoDakTwinsFan
    Absolutely not. However it is the Twins way that they will try to.
  16. SoDakTwinsFan
    I honestly didn't think there would be this much debate on this as I believe it is a no brainer. Some of you want to be "competitive" every year with not guarantee of a WS. The Twins have had some really good teams in the last 20 years and have won nothing. Not even a playoff GAME! You would honestly take that versus a world series? But this also brings up a bigger issue with the Twins to. I believe the Twins organization field teams to be competitive and not win it all. Which is why when the Twins are legit WS contenders they NEVER make the big trade to get the final piece because they do not want to mortgage their future. I get it but when you have a chance to go for it, you MUST.
  17. SoDakTwinsFan
    100% in a heartbeat. Winning the WS is the ultimate goal. Not winning the division every year. Not being competitive every year. Not losing in the WS every year. Winning it. If that means I have to put up with 9 abysmal to competitive and everything in-between then yes. The Twins had some good teams in the 2000s but never won a WS. I'm tired of the "just get to the playoffs and anything is possible."
  18. SoDakTwinsFan
    Hopefully the manager is taking notes so when everyone comes back to full strength he doesn't trot out the same lineup in July as he is doing now.
  19. SoDakTwinsFan
    If you're argument is that playing CF is too much of a workload for him on top of hitting then the Twins need to work on a buyout . He is obviously not a good enough hitter to justify his current contract. As far as the people on here saying he is a streaky hitter...I mean he shows flashes of being a good hitter followed up by much much much longer stretches of being putrid. I look at as "a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while." His K rate and OBP have never been good.
  20. SoDakTwinsFan
    Kind of seems like it?
  21. SoDakTwinsFan
    We are here because the Twins thought it was a good idea to sign a very injury prone player who only had one good season to a long term contract.
  22. SoDakTwinsFan
    He was a extremely talented player. I think he is HOF bound. What a treat it was for us to see the greatest hitting catcher of all time play for the Twins. But isn't ok to ask why the power surge in 09 and then like a fart in the wind it just disappears? Outside of his 28 HR year which came in his contract year he averaged 8 HR/year. In my opinion that can not be merely a coincidence. His contract wasn't for him to be a Wade Boggs. It was for him to be a run producer. Especially when he moved to first base. That's a run producing position. As far as the "boring" personality that doesn't bother me at all. Some people want more firey leadership but that just was not who he was. Morneau wasn't all that much of a fireball either and no one says much about that.
  23. SoDakTwinsFan
    The Twins needed to sign him and coming off a 28 home run mvp season it looked like a no brainer. But I think his career after he big pay day is fair to criticize. How do you hit 28 home runs in your contract year then not hit more than 11 after that? That’s not a coincidence. A #3 hitter constantly taking first pitch 92 mph heaters right down broadway was so maddening. Why could he not adjust? While he needed to be signed by the Twins, he was being paid to be a run producer. He absolutely never did after 2009.
  24. SoDakTwinsFan
    Standing pat was a mistake. We did nothing to help our team this year and worse nothing to help our team next year. We have an overabundance of LH hitters. One of them being Wallner who needs to see playing time. Not making room for him is a huge mistake. Not trading Sonny Gray is also a mistake. Yes we will probably get a first round comp pick but the Twins' window to compete is the next 4 years so chances are if the player we draft defy the odds and could contribute, our window will be closed or almost closed. We could have traded Gray for someone to help us next year or the year after.
  25. SoDakTwinsFan
    We will probably make the playoffs with or without Gray and Maeda. If we do we will probably get bounced with or without Maeda. So why not get value for them before they hit free agency? If we were legit WS contenders then trading them would be asinine and we should be big time buyers. But we are WS pretenders. Not contenders.
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