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  1. jkcarew
    BREAKING: Twins Extend Arcia
  2. jkcarew
    I don’t think that’s legal.
  3. jkcarew
    What’s the latest on Olivar’s development at the catcher position? Seems he’s always hit.
  4. jkcarew
    So DFA the 25-year-old, who you’ve really never given a chance in the bullpen?? It’s not like there weren’t several other perfectly acceptable DFA choices if you had to clear a roster spot. SWR is younger than Matthews, Festa, Bradley…a few months older than Prielipp. No idea what his future holds. Still, this feels like a short-sighted choice. Typical of this organization.
  5. jkcarew
    Two ways to look at this one… It’s not good when you have to use guys like Taylor Rogers (at this stage of his career) to close one-run games. It’s not good to go 6 straight innings without scoring one measly run after you’ve taken a one-run lead through 3. If you’d told me the Twins wouldn’t score again after the 3rd, I probably would’ve been happy with a one-run loss.
  6. jkcarew
    Twins one of 4 teams who are at least 10 games under 500 against teams with winning records (500 or better)…Twins, San Francisco, California, Colorado. Winning percentage against winning teams they’re 3rd worse. (Yankees having played only TB and Mil are the worse in an anomaly, Colorado is 2nd worse, then Twins, followed closely by KC)
  7. jkcarew
    Both can be true. Larnach can be the 3rd or 4th currently best performing position player on the team, and still not be very valuable. He’s on a bad team. There’s nothing that he does particularly well for a maybe-average defensive corner outfielder…maybe better OBP (this year anyway), but almost no power. More Larnach’s will bring more mediocrity. Yes, he’s not near one of the clubs current top problems. Still, in the longer term you gotta aim higher.
  8. jkcarew
    Perhaps most encouragingly, he has continued adding more game power… Huh? 2 home runs in 102 AAA PA coming into this year. 2 in 111 PA this year. Where is this added power? I 100% think he CAN develop good power. But the approach he currently employs doesn’t necessarily add up to future plus power.
  9. jkcarew
    They don’t have to trick themselves. The annual objective is to trick the fan base. And that’s pretty easy to do in these parts, apparently.
  10. jkcarew
    “Top” prospects?? The way I read this, the only TOP prospects where there’s a decision in this regard are Culpepper and Jenkins. Jenkins may be moot. (Yes, there’s a chance he’s healthy and ready sometime this year, but with him it’s far from certain.) To me, it’s a reason to bring up guys on the 40-man (at least) sooner rather than later. You need to know what you have. I know we all have our favorites and there’s always a reason to “stick with the veteran” when you’re kinda, sorta, competitive…but more than half the active roster…position-player and relievers…are at or below replacement level.
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    I’ve yet to see someone swing without their hips and shoulders heavily….no violently involved. (I know you’re just the messenger here)
  13. jkcarew
    Don’t know if anyone saw the replay view of Lee’s double last night from behind the 3rd base coach. Buxton was an absolute blur around 2nd and 3rd. And then literally skipped and danced his way past the dugout. And yet he can’t play CF? Things that drive me crazy. Couldn’t care less about “playing it safe”. From what? We’ve seen time and again there’s about 20 ways he can get injured beyond plays in CF. Please just put the best lineup on the field and in the batting order.
  14. jkcarew
    Huh??? Numerous players hit them with regularity. James Wood hit 4 in one homestand recently. You can look it up easily. Lots of players.
  15. jkcarew
    Here’s how it works with Twins prospects…. The org won’t really say, they’ll hedge, they’ll hint, they’ll suggest, they’ll insinuate, but always disclaim. Whatever timeframe you can discern from all this…multiply by 2.
  16. jkcarew
    Don’t exactly want to give this a thumbs up 😉…but, I don’t think you’re wrong.
  17. jkcarew
    If he remains mostly healthy the return would be, without question, substantial. But, moot if the offer isn’t from a team for whom he’d move.
  18. jkcarew
    Exciting to see the club win some close games. The boys look like they’re having fun. And Martin is just a baseball player. On a really good club he isn’t close to being the most talented player, at anything. Not baserunning, not hitting, not fielding. Probably not a starter, at least at any one position. But he’s gonna find a way to beat you if given some chances. Nick Punto with the benefit of more talent than Nick had.
  19. jkcarew
    Can you count on any prospect? I’d take a DH or 1B or even a slightly below average corner outfielder (with a plus arm, btw) who mashes, gladly. It’d be one thing to field a team with 5 Gonzalez’s, but one or two isn’t a problem if they can hit. At some point you need to play them and find out, or trade them while the value is still relatively high.
  20. jkcarew
    Good point.
  21. jkcarew
    If they had lost the lead in the 9th, all the talk would have centered on Morris’s outing. But 2 earned runs scored on 12 hits plus a walk?? Ish. Contreras’s blunders were the deciding factor, although they shouldn’t have needed to be.
  22. jkcarew
    The idea that Gonzalez will be a platoon player if/when he’s here for good is completely misguided. His full-season OPS last year against righties was 869 against over 400 PA. His poor split this season comes with 134 PA and a microscopic BABiP way below his minor league norm.
  23. jkcarew
    Jenkins and Rodriguez are more hitter-of-the-WEEK guys. Maybe once a year, hitter of the MONTH candidates.
  24. jkcarew
    It is “just a taste” scenario probably. Still, congrats to him!! I don’t think he is “ready” in the sense that he’s improved much on his biggest weakness…chases too much…but I do think he has the bat-to-ball talent to succeed when he learns to reign that in even a notch. The talent is such that it doesn’t really manifest in horrible K numbers, instead it’s more soft contact than you’d like. Regardless, I welcome a little opportunity to learn at the MLB level given the state of things.
  25. jkcarew
    Fans/bloggers/media embracing a team that almost annually “competes” in this context are the exact reason why the organization never improves. They don’t need to. They rely on the ridiculously low bar that exists in Twins Territory to obfuscate from the absolute and perennial meaningless this organization holds across the MLB landscape. Enjoy the games…it’s baseball. Such that it is, they’re overachieving. But don’t pretend this is a competitive club for anything meaningful. Don’t pretend that they’re close. They aren’t. It’s another year of exhibition games, made notable only by the possibility of the debut of a number of the next generation.
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