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  1. saviking
    Kepler, Pagan and dare I suggest we add Jorge Lopez to the list? Well, maybe not yet but he better get out of the gutter soon.
  2. saviking
    We need a competitive rebuild 😜
  3. saviking
    If they don't then they need to be damn sure they only use him to mop up games we are either way ahead in or way behind. His brain goes numb in high leverage situations.
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    He'll have to wait out Vasquez contract but is young enough to do so. But if someone gets hurt it's good to know he's available .. What intrigues me is he has hit two homer runs over 475 feet ..
  5. saviking
    Each pitcher the Twins face has one or two pitches in his arsenal designed to get you to chase the ball off the plate. Once the batter knows those pitchers he needs to not swing and force the pitcher into a high count and strike. You are playing the probabilities. But it takes players with discipline and the willingness like Arreaza to not be afraid to have two strikes. Who remembers Castro's game ending bat against Cleveland. He face a pitcher that struck him out by throwing a ball knee high that dropped out of the strike zone. Un hittable. So he graces the same pitcher with the game on the line and what does he do. Swings at the same pitch over and over until he strikes out. Might be one of the more pathetic abates I have ever seen. Let's look at pitches certain players should NEVER swing at: Correa ,, inside on the hands Buxton .. Slider on the outside of the plate that ends up foot outside. Not being able to stop swinging at that pitch is the reason Sano isn't in the bigs right now. Even if he recognized it after the start of his swing he could never stop in time to keep from breaking his wrist. Kepler .. high and tight resulting in week ground balls to the right side. MIranda .. can't lay off the high hard one Gallo, any ball out side the place whether in, out, up or down. They should send that guy up there and tell him not to swing until he has two strikes. They need to stop being so swing happy ..
  6. saviking
    So much for eliminating the shift and Kep's average going up 20 points theory. The Twins need to forget about the sunk cost and make a move. Even if they get nothing for him. The problem is that he's standing in the way of Wallner, who appears ready. Because of this, waiting for an official trade deadline in hopes of getting a little something doesn't make sense if he costs us 2 games in the win volume. The 2 wins could be the difference between making the playoffs or not.
  7. saviking
    Agree one hundred percent, Mike. I'd call it an early trade-away ..
  8. saviking
    Agree, Seth. Your second comment was my main point. Let's not get over excited about an older player playing against younger players.
  9. saviking
    Maybe they should have made Buch a first basemen and not signed Gallo,
  10. saviking
    Mathew, what a great article. It articulately says what I have been feeling for several days now.. I think Buxton is a better hitter when he's in the field. If they feel Buxton's knees won't allow him to play in the outfield anymore, they should have made him a first baseman and not signed Gallo
  11. saviking
    If Wallner back to STP for Kepler was a trade, the Twins got fleeced!
  12. saviking
    He had one hell of a month but at 24 years old they better start moving him up the rung ..
  13. saviking
    Luck of the Draw ..
  14. saviking
    Saints get Wallner Twins get Kepler. If it was a trade the Twins got fleeced
  15. saviking
    I understand they had to send Waller down but by next year I want Lewis Krilloff larnach Wallner julien up at the same time with Lee joining them by mid season. Obviously we need to keep Correa, Buxton and two catchers but other than that everyone else is fair game to dump to make room for the young guns.
  16. saviking
    I really like how selective our younger players are at the plate. Guys like Wallner, Julien and Krilloff have more discipline at the plate than Buxton and even Correa. Larnach needs a little more patience but I'm betting Lewis and Lee will have patience. Miranda's problem is he has no patience at the plate at all. He needs to get that fixed if he plans on making it.
  17. saviking
    Good point on age but they are young in terms of experience in the majors and are younker than our older guys. Due to the fact they have options left and we are committed to some new un optionable players like Castro and Solano it hurts the chances of guys like Wallner who's ready.
  18. saviking
    Castro is on a hot streak and good for him. Bottom line is there is not enough room for Castro AND Gordon when Gordon returns. Our young guys like Krilloff, Larnach, Wallner, Julien and soon to be Lewis are pushing hard and if Miranda figures out how to be more disciplined at the plate and how to deal with how the league has figured him out he could be back later as well. Then we have Kepler and Polanco coming back sometime as well. Basically, what I'm saying is we are going to soon have a log jam. Knowing the Twins management it will work to the detriment of the young guys who still have plenty of options left but I don't see Krilloff or Lewis going down. But next year, and with Lee being ready, I could see at lot of veterans gone ..
  19. saviking
    I'd just say due to budget restraints they they are big on reclamation projects signing them on the cheap and gibing them one year contracts. No teams want to swim in this pool but we don't have Yankee money. but those are low probability moves. Sometimes I wonder if we are better off giving those innings to young up and coming prospects from our system who are way less costly. Where I get nervous is when we give a big long term contract to Donaldson where a mistake is magnified both in dollars and years. Which leads us to Correa ... I'm not going to say good or bad move. Simply if he doesn't return to his normal output and or his ankle goes could possibly be an albatross around our neck. I'm just brining this up from a risk factor perspective. What makes this move more risky is we may have had just as good an answer with either Lewis or Lee with a lot less financial outlay. So to sum it up, the retreads are cheap and we can easily move on if they are wrong but the big dollar commitments are the ones I worry about ...
  20. saviking
    You say that but if I remember correctly two years ago they were horrible when the basses were loaded as well. At this rate a regression to the mean would be getting a base hit every time the bases were loaded all next year .. LOL I'm really starting to question Rocco's in-game discission making skills. I have no clue what he's doing with how he manages when to pinch hit and who to substitute for and have never liked how he changes the batting order constantly. That, and I think he rides with relievers who are struggling to long. If they don't have command that day change them after 3 batters already. I think this is a make or break year for Rocco. If they fold again down the stretch I think he's a goner.
  21. saviking
    I only have two words: Basses Loaded 😒
  22. saviking
    Easy decision to swap Bacanovic with Sands for a stretch to see what he's got ..
  23. saviking
    I'd like to say yesterdays grand slam was the final straw for me but I'd be lying. That happened about half way through last season ...
  24. saviking
    Only issue is the injury bug ...
  25. saviking
    That's a really good point about Jeffers starting when Gray is pitching. I also would like to see Jeffers more because he has shown more power throughout his short career. I still think Jeffers can develop into a significantly better hitter over time.
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