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  1. HokieRif
    I'm legitimately mad at the front office for this. They've overloaded the outfield, now the starting rotation is overloaded, and we just lost an MVP-caliber player. WTAF.... Great, we got Correa... who in the hell is he going to turn 2 with all season long? Who the hell is he going to score from 2B? This offense was already anemic and it just got a lot worse.
  2. HokieRif
    The only thing I can add to this thread is that I had the privilege to watch Taylor a lot while he was with the Nats. He's an above average defender with speed, but his bat is just mediocre and I'll be surprised if he's batting anything higher than 8th, and I would not expect him to be a regular unless the injury bug bites us in the arse again this year. Taylor is going to quietly go about his business and wont be a spark plug, but he'll be a great 4th OF to help keep the starters mostly fresh during the season. Now with that said - I have to expect that Kepler is going to get unloaded. We have too many outfielder's,
  3. HokieRif
    So I was originally excited about this announcement, particularly the part where the Twins didn't kneecap their spending ability for the long haul. After all, he's relatively young and the Twins should know better than any team at this point what the true nature of his ankle is. Then I remembered that this is the same medical staff that couldn't keep anyone healthy this year, and has taken 4+ years to figure out how to keep Buxton on the field for more than 81 games. I still like the deal and I think this will work out well for both parties. I just dropped in to say that anyone claiming the Twins staff knows this ankle better than any one - I call BS.
  4. HokieRif
    Regardless, Correa better be telling himself that he’s ready to see this contract through. Boras (I think he’s his agent) too. Back tracking on a contract will make every GM hesitant in the future, and Correa just did himself some PR damage. EDIT: That comment was under the assumption that Correa and Boras were back-tracking. I didn't stop to consider that this was a change brought-on by the alleged issue with his physical that came up. If that was the case and SF wanted to renegotiate then I can see why Correa went elsewhere to get something comparable to the deal he had on the table.
  5. HokieRif
    I’m not sure what the tax situation is like in either state, but San Fran isn’t exactly the cheapest place to live. The financials are probably pretty comparable, the difference is NY is ready to win right, and SF has several parts that need to be addressed.
  6. HokieRif
    This was the first thing I thought of when I read the news. I'm sure we'll know something soon and whether or not the "accidental" needs the quotations. I'm hoping he was playing clean while he was in MN.
  7. HokieRif
    Didn’t we just not re-sign Sano for this same level of performance? And we added an outfielder which is exactly what we didn’t need. The only scenario I can see him filling is a DH role but just that - no more platooning parade of who needs an off-ish day.
  8. HokieRif
    Keep him for now. Maybe ink another team friendly extension in the off-season. Worst case is that no extension is signed and he's a summer rental trade chip next season in the event we are sellers. There are worse situations we can be in.
  9. HokieRif
    On a competitive ball club these two have the traits of guys that help make a good team great, and make the lineup great from 1-9 in the order. On the Twins though, they are the marquee players. But just imagine for a moment where the entirety of the Twins stayed healthy this season*. I think we stay a lot more competitive throughout the year, and given the strength of the central we probably win it by 10-15 games, easy. Guys like Arraez and Miranda become the anecdotes in the season that help push this team to the division championship, and not the reason we hope to stay competitive... If I'm in the front office there are of course things I'm looking to change / pick-up in the off season to re-tool the pitching staff. But I'm also taking a very hard look at the strength, conditioning, and the medical staff. The amount of injuries that happened this year, and the way many continued to find themselves hampered by those injuries (not playing up to expectations, heading back to the IL, etc) tells me that something is really not right with the way the players are being handled. I'm also focusing on off-season conditioning so that these scheduled rest days that Rocco loves so much don't have to happen in the first place. * Except for Buxton. I honestly believe he's always going to find a way to get injured and miss extended playing time every season. At some point you have to look at the history and know that this is a predictable pattern and not some unlucky trend. In 8 season, he's only managed to play more than 92 games ONCE, and that was 5 years ago. If he can just get to the first tier of his plate appearance bonus next year I'll take that as significant progress.
  10. HokieRif
    This collapse continues. The team already made the point that they weren’t a contender but now they are really trying to emphasize it.
  11. HokieRif
    Now we can clear our heads and start complaining about the Vikings! Yay new season!!!
  12. HokieRif
    So this is basically it for the Twins this weekend. A strong showing (wining 4 or 5) is going to make the last couple weeks really watchable. Anything short of that pretty much eliminates us unless there is a monumental collapse in Cleveland.
  13. HokieRif
    I don’t think anyone is complaining about the current defense. During the last 3 series (10 games total, excluding tonight) we have scored 3 or fewer runs in 8 of those games, and 2 or fewer in 4 games. In the games we lost, the average run difference was 2.5. I don’t see Hamilton saving 3 runs a game by himself while contributing next to nothing on offense.
  14. HokieRif
    Low risk move, but what does he add to the actual squad? We already have a speedy outfielder with great D that’s struggling to hit (and injured, again) and two others that are floating around the same batting average. If they add him to help platoon with Buxton and Kepler that’s fine I guess, I’m just concerned more about who would have to be sent down to make room on the roster for the moment.
  15. HokieRif
    im not sure which is more shocking: the Twins scoring 9 runs, or Pagan pitching not one but two scoreless innings.
  16. HokieRif
    Twins' bats innings 1-8 When the 9th inning rolls around after its too late
  17. HokieRif
    If he stays, fine - but he better start playing like he's worth the money he's being paid. If he opts out - we still have a full compliment of a starting IF assuming Lewis is healthy (Miranda, Lewis, Polanco, Arraez). The money freed-up by a Correa departure gives the front office more to play with to overhaul the outfield, the entire pitching staff, and getting a DH that's worthy of the title.
  18. HokieRif
    Its really, really hard to just say that the performance of these veteran players hasn't been impacted at all by the coaches. Is it THE ONLY problem? I doubt it. Is it a major contributing factor? Absolutely.
  19. HokieRif
    This is something I was wondering about after I heard it happened (I didn’t see it live). Who’s responsibility is it to make sure the indication is received? Basic communications 101 tells me that both the sender and receiver need to be involved for proper communications. If the ump indicated there was a mound visit but didn’t get an acknowledgement in return, shouldn’t that mean the ump needs to send the message again?
  20. HokieRif
    So not only are we slumping offensively, but Rocco now apparently can’t count to two, and the highlight was not getting no-hit. Staying the obvious but we are trending in the absolute wrong direction.
  21. HokieRif
    I'm still very likely to tune in, but we've seen enough of a sample size to know what this team is. Cleveland is going to do little/just enough to keep this interesting, but I'm not even hopeful for a wild card spot at this point.
  22. HokieRif
    That stat on Ryan being the first Twin to get to 100, and the Twins being the last team in baseball to get a pitcher to 100 innings just has be shaking my head. With all of the glaring problems we've had with the bullpen I absolutely do not understand why we haven't stretched pitches for one more inning more frequently.
  23. HokieRif
    That makes too much logical sense… and that speaks to Rocco’s style. Everything is always shuffled around and we wonder why the players can’t produce consistently. Maybe if they played consistently there would be some consistency in the fielding and the hitting. I would rather see everyone grinding under a division title is locked up, then we can look at some rest days to get prepped for the playoffs. Instead, we’re squandering our chances of making it in.
  24. HokieRif
    Pagan is in the same boat as Duffey. He’s a/another bad outing away from being demoted as well
  25. HokieRif
    There goes my Duffman posts
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