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  1. jkcarew
    I’m buying on the futures of Bradley, Abel, Matthews, and Prielipp. If you have to count on some younger-type guys that are “ready” but haven’t really established themselves yet, I think you could do a lot worse than those 4. Who knows? I do think there’s realistic, not imaginary, upside with these guys.
  2. jkcarew
    They were 8 games under 500 mid June, and made a mini-run to get to one game under at the break. Now they’re 6 games under. I don’t think that’s a collapse, it’s just being consistently not that good. The record with Buxton playing is also under 500…so…just not that good any way you try to slice it. And we added very little at the deadline…no needle movers…so, you just spin. Again.
  3. jkcarew
    I hope this sudden desire to try by Detroit doesn’t carry over to next week’s series.
  4. jkcarew
    Why are they pitching to Clemens?
  5. jkcarew
    Flashing red lights, Jim
  6. jkcarew
    Getting a clutch installed hopefully.
  7. jkcarew
    I think the SS did an extremely good job of not touching it. Against all odds. One of the better I’ve seen.
  8. jkcarew
    Detroit is supposed to be good defensively by the analytics. My eyes have been seeing something completely different this entire series.
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  10. jkcarew
    Clark with an OPS of 746 now. Jenkins sitting at 745. I guess Detroit was correct to take Clark at number 4.
  11. jkcarew
    It will not matter a lick what position Buxton plays regarding his availability. At age 29 he barely made 80 games as a DH. Next year he’s 33. There has always been SOMETHING. So the assumption should be exactly that wherever they plan to use him.
  12. jkcarew
    I care about all that stuff in the longer term. I think the only one that matters right in September is playing and staying fully healthy. After that, I do think we might learn A LITTLE about how he’ll look in center. All the hitting stuff mentioned are things he struggled with in AAA for a while, and then improved. I expect it will take some time in the majors, as well.
  13. jkcarew
    Classic doing something for the sake of doing something. Nothing move and likely to remain as such. If he’s anything more than a 5, you probably aren’t very good. And we have lots of options for a 5 next year.
  14. jkcarew
    It must be hard for him to not tell us the final score at the top of the game thread.
  15. jkcarew
    Yes. Already accomplished more than 999 out of 1000 that ever play even into college. Always a chance. It looked like Dobnak’s MLB career was over at least three different times.
  16. jkcarew
    I’m thinking he won’t get picked up. But, we’ll see.
  17. jkcarew
    Doesn’t help when the Mgr puts in a position player to pitch in the bottom of the eighth in a 9-1 game. Option someone and call up someone if the staff is that tired. Just completely uninterested.
  18. jkcarew
    Twins hitting the ball, and against some pretty decent starters the last couple of days. But, man o man, have Hinch and the entire team been barely going through the motions since they got into town. ISH. Came in 1.5 back of Twins, not like they had a lot less to play for.
  19. jkcarew
    Another 31 innings worth of development lost this week in Fort Myers relative to teams that train and play A- ball in Arizona/California.
  20. jkcarew
    Gonzalez isn’t the worst hitter on the Saints either talent-wise or by results. Particular against lefties. And it seems they’re fine with Gonzalez being platooned, as they were already doing some of that with him with the Saints. I’d have no problem at all if it had been ERod. And probably would have been ERod (or both) by now if they had been able to move Larnach.
  21. jkcarew
    I’d love to know the rationale for waiting…especially this time around.
  22. jkcarew
    We don’t know what goes on behind the scenes. I do agree he should never have come off IL. And, though I’d get frustrated with how Mauer/the club handled some of his issues, he was Lou Gehrig compared to Buxton.
  23. jkcarew
    I think they should have brought him up sooner. Seems obvious. But the club is 4 games, and behind multiple teams from a playoff spot right now. They’re much closer to 13th place in a 15 team league…a bad 15 team league…than they are to a playoff spot. Only a Twins fan/writer could call that “just short”. Unrealistic to think any one player could have fixed all that. But he should have been called up because he’s better than who you were playing, and from the back end of June, that included an obviously broken Buxton. Period. His status as the face of the future just made it more stupid.
  24. jkcarew
    Jenkins and Culpepper seem as advertised…judged not just by results. They seem not to be overwhelmed right from the start. They seem to belong…much, much more importantly, they themselves seem to think they belong. Step one. Still mainly interested in their ability to stay healthy, especially Jenkins. Meanwhile, Lee is becoming a decent piece that a good team could win with. If you can find a place for Keaschall….. Bradley, Abel, etc, maybe another hitting prospect or two…I’m not that pessimistic on the future. If I could just trust the org to build on this, I’d be downright optimistic regarding a window of, say 2028-2031.
  25. jkcarew
    Really has been on a heater for quite some time now. You never know. We need to develop or acquire a legitimate RH power bat sometime between now and being a good team one would think. The one we have isn’t going to be getting any consistently better/healthier at this point.
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