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  1. rv78
    I have seen enough of Duffey that he can be DFA as well. Hilde is starting to struggle because since the departure of Pressly he has become the favorite out of the pen by Molitor and is being used too much. I agree that Berrios should be shut down. He's looked rough the last 3 starts. The season could be wearing on him. Let's go with a rotation of Romero, Gonzalvez, Mejia, Stewart, and Gibson. A bullpen of Busenitz, Hilde, May, Moya, Rogers, Odorizzi and Thorpe or Curtis. So, like stated above, no Belisle, McGill, Reed, and add Duff and Drake.
  2. rv78
    I really find this hard to believe. How can he have the best average in the league with RISP and still only have 39 RBI's? Yeah 39! I mean..... evidently it doesn't happen very often or he'd have more! So, you now what they say about small sample sizes.... It's not very indicative of how he really is.
  3. rv78
    Was a big fan of Mauer early in his career. Since then I've come to realyze he's just a really good player, not great. I know he was a catcher and the toll on the body is tremendous but if you look at the numbers outside of his BA and OBP he's never had 200 hits or more in a season. Never had 100 RBI's or more, never scored 100 runs or more. Never carried his team to a Championship. All things Puckett did more than once. I cringe when people consider Joe better than Kirby. Will he make the Twins HOF? I'm sure.... Is he deserved of Cooperstown? No!
  4. rv78
    Can we keep Berrios and just get rid of everyone else? I have no hope for anyone else on the roster. Even Rosario doesn't give you a good at bat everytime up. Let's blame Molitor and the FO for not doing their jobs but most of the problem is that these players just simply stink.
  5. rv78
    You have all 3 players over-valued based on a small sample size of performance. I highly doubt the Yankees will miss Cave or Austin yet you think they were great pick-ups? No one else could find a place for Drake but he miraculously becomes a fixture in the Twins pen? Sorry. When other teams castoffs are the better players on your team it only tells you what the current condition is of what you already have. Why do you suppose it is that certain opposing players always perform better against the Twins than they do against other clubs? Because of the level of talent they are facing. Period!
  6. rv78
    Agree with the comments about Adrianza messing up the play. It was an easy out at 3B or at the very least just tag the runner. As for the headline "bats slump in loss" don't you have to have HOT bats to have a slump? This team hasn't had hitting from more than 2 bats all season. The whole year has been a slump.
  7. rv78
    I agree with this even though I fully expect Escobar and Machado won't happen. The organization will let Joe do whatever he wants and I'm 99% sure he will want to return for another season.....Unfortunately. He really needs to retire in dignity and the time is now.
  8. rv78
    He's been pitching with a bad knee? Well that explains it! I thought he maybe had a bad elbow on his throwing arm. Geeze I could've swore he was throwing with his arm, not his leg! Maybe I need glasses!
  9. rv78
    Grandal? Won't happen. The Twins have Castro coming back and they're in love with weak hitting catchers. That's why Bobby Wilson gets in as many games as Garver does. For a team desperate for offense it still favors to play the defensive guys over the guys that can hit. This Team is backwards and won't win another Championship until it gets players that can hit. We need the 2nd coming of Kirby Puckett!
  10. rv78
    I laugh at you guys that think the Twins can't afford to be burdened with long-term contracts to top free agents that go beyond the expected productive years of those free agents. If the front years of those contracts lead to a Twins Championship or 2 are we better off with that or would you rather continue with the current state of affairs of being a second rate team or worse, and never, or taking forever, to getting back to where this Team makes it's fans proud once again? I for one, would welcome a big dollar investment in a couple of top free agents if it gives the Team a chance to be truely competitive again, even if it means that for a few years afterwards we are dollars short of doing it again for a while. Isn't that why Target Field was built in the first place? To be competitive $$$ ???
  11. rv78
    "There’s no denying that the Twins shed a lot of talent at the end of July, but the reality is that in September that same talent would have left and there’d be nothing to show for it." Totally wrong! They leave with nothing to show for it only if you let it happen. Re-signing good players (like Escobar) or extending their contracts before they expire is the way to build and keep a strong team every year. Doing that is NOT the Twins way.
  12. rv78
    He was a good player for the Twins, not great. I consider him a stubborn hitter that had only one thing on his mind at the plate and that was to pull everything to left field, hoping everything he'd hit would somehow end up over the fence. "Doubling down" with that kind of mentality doesn't make you a good hitter. He would have been way more valuable to the Twins and any other team going forward if he would have learned to use the whole field, driving outside pitches to right. 10 homeruns less a year but 50 to 75 points more on his batting average would have made him a more productive hitter. Especially since the Twins had him hitting in the leadoff spot for so long.
  13. rv78
    Another lost season and lost assests. The Twins have become the AAAA for the big market clubs. Contending and competing are 2 different things and the Twins are only competitors. When the competing is over by July they trade away their assets for hope and prayer prospects that have proven nothing at the major league level they need them to perform at. Contending in 2020 will only happen if current prospects like Royce Lewis, Alex Kirilloff, Brusdar Graterol, Nick Gordon, Stephen Gonsalves, Brent Rooker, Trevor Larnach turn into what we hope for and progress enough to get to the majors by then because the current roster is incapable of doing it without a monsterous amount of help.
  14. rv78
    Well, Gardenhire was all for playing catchers in the outfield and that didn't work very well. Sure, a middle infielder is usually more athletic than a catcher. Sano to RF was a disaster. I often wondered why they didn't try Plouffe to RF instead. He was definitely more mobile than Sano, but was was never tried. One could take the argument of different positions in the Twins organization 1 step farther.... Why is it when they move a Starting Pitcher to the bullpen they never give him the chance to be a Starter again? Are they THAT SURE the move to the bullpen is correct forever? Just like they are THAT SURE that moving players on the field is correct forever? Oh, and by the way, Dozier "could" have been good enough at 3B. It is a shorter throw than from SS, but of course we will never know since they never tried him there.
  15. rv78
    Who really thinks this team can compete with what it has coming back in 2019? I don't. In fact, if they don't add significant pieces they won't compete for a long time. They can't even get their 2 main hitting pieces for the future (Sano and Buxton) to stay out of the minors. How long before Lewis, Kirilloff, Rooker and Larnach get here?
  16. rv78
    Woulda Coulda Shoulda......... yeah hindsight isn't fun especially when big market teams like the RedSox and Yankees land prospects that turn out to be stars when other teams pass on them. Then when the guys you draft like Buxton and Sano, who are suppose to be the heartbeat of your team by now, can't even stay in the majors makes it that much worse to bear.
  17. rv78
    What would it take to get Realmuto? Answer? TOO MUCH!
  18. rv78
    When your offense is struggling and a player gets hot, hits a Grand Slam, why does he get benched the next 2 games?
  19. rv78
    It looks like they are secretly working for Cleveland.
  20. rv78
    Did I miss something? Did Gardy take over the team and get his 3 catchers back so he can play one of them in the outfield? Holy Crap....... now if we can only find Nick Punto!
  21. rv78
    This is a tough one. He's a leader in the clubhouse. Has gotten better each year he's gotten more playing time. Do you trade 1 of the few guys that this team has that has proven he can hit when pretty much everyone else can't? I'd trade but the return would have to be really good. Otherwise he's the kind of guy that you would build around.
  22. rv78
    I will admit I was one of the NO sayers when it came to signing Rodney. He is currently at the top of his game or real close to it. It's an excellent time to trade him for a good prospect. The Twins are toast this season and even if they would somehow miraculously overtake the Indians they won't make it past the Red Sox, Yankees or Astros in the playoffs. Let's keep building!
  23. rv78
    One can only wonder if the last half of 2017 and making the playoffs did more harm than good for the young players. Did they go into the off-season thinking we have made it? We are good and don't have to get better? Or was the last half of 2017 a fluke and these guys really aren't that good? It is safe to say Rosario, Buxton, Kepler, Sano, and Polanco are the cornerstones of the Twins rebuild offensively. Right now, it is in deep trouble. This is a good article on Sano, but Sano is just part of the problem.
  24. rv78
    If they can get all the pitchers to throw shutouts this stinky lineup of hitters has a chance to look good. 2 runs off of Colon is pathetic.
  25. rv78
    Another game of mistakes and missed opportunities. Molitor never played like this. Why does he have his team playing like this? I would have Dozier and LaMarre both on the bench today and I'd tell them why they aren't playing. Sometimes you have to set an example. When you're struggling to score runs you just can't lose runners on the bases. Playing smart is better than playing dumb. We've seen enough dumb already for the entire year. I'd really like to see Gordon getting some playing time instead of Motter, Adrianza and Dozier. Not one of the three are relative to the Twins future, why are they being used over Gordon? Especially when none of the 3 are producing? Makes no sense. Hey Belisle, look out, I hear Matt Crapps is available!
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