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  1. Only Here in Negative
    I want the Twins to trade with the Royals for Ian Kennedy and Jake Diekmann, with the Twins taking on all of Kennedy’s salary. I'd like to see a package built around Javier or Gordon with some of our prospering recent mid-round draft picks and guys we traded for last year attached (Steer, Celestino etc.) I just don't think it’s worth trading the big prospects this year, the market is too wild. None of the high-end guys shift the Twins chances that much since the Stros and Yankees are both really good. I know that not all prospects will turn out but I think they're likely to have more value next year. The Twins have a 5 year window here at least, let's not close it by tweaking out in year 1. And Ian Kennedy and Diekmann solve the Twins needs. They can pay Kennedy's salary as ownership shows its willing to spend. Kennedy can be paired with Rogers as a late inning guy that Rocco can match up. Diekmann is the lefty that the Twins need for the 6th. A pen of Rogers, Kennedy, Harper, Diekmann, Duffey, May and two of Stashak/Thorpe/Stewart/Romero/Smeltzer/Litttel isn't lights out but it can get the job done. This team will go as far as its hitting takes it.
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    Agreed. Not first ballot but I think he gets in Year 3 or 4. The lack of a clearly superior catcher during his playing career helps. Posey looked like he might be better and take some of the shine off Mauer but he's faced his own injury issues. Yadier Molina is likely better all around due to his longevity but that's really it for catcher comparisons (and even then it's a fun debate: Molina's durability vs. Mauer's peak). Mauer will get in. Hopefully the haters have the decency to quietly disagree. Probably not. Sigh.
  3. Only Here in Negative
    Perhaps you should look them up rather than just being curious? I imagine they're not much different. This argument never made any sense. It reminds me of my college roommate's father. Every time they played games he'd keep track of rolls to show how the dice were favoring or not favoring him. Only issue was he routinely forgot to mark when they were in his favor. So every game the dice were against him. Moral: If you saw something in three games over a weekend and then extrapolate this to a definitive statement about the whole season, you're probably going to be spewing biased nonsense.
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    Mauer's career first pitch strike percentage was 55.4%. The MLB average is around 57%. So contrary to your completely made up stance, even though Mauer only swung at a first pitch 9.6% of the time (compared to a league average of 27.6%), pitchers still threw him balls on the first pitch at an above average rate. Does it bother you that you posit theories that are so easily shot down by anyone who bothers to actually look it up? Like Tom destroyed your "The Twins don't take enough pitches" theory and so you pivoted to Mauer and it turns out that's made up too. Does it bother you? Does it make you pause and think about your approach to life and this site? Or is it just full speed ahead? Honestly interested. I've been called out on here before and slunk off with my tail between my legs. It seemed like the natural response but maybe not?
  5. Only Here in Negative
    Oh! Now I know why Scott Brosius is in the Hall of Fame! We decide it based on walk-offs! Baseball is a team game. Mauer's TEAMS underperformed in the playoffs. Ernie Banks never even made the playoffs.
  6. Only Here in Negative
    If you broadcast an opinion about a team, you have to expect people to disagree with you. Telling them how they can and can't respond to you (outside of hate speech or threats) is ludicrous and evidence that you're trying to control the narrative. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Don't want anyone to criticize your opinion! Keep it to yourself.
  7. Only Here in Negative
    The ball is by the ground, the runner can't see if the ball bounced or not readily. The reaction is to go home, if he hesitates or goes back and its on the ground, its an out without the runner going. Absolutely handled the right way, no way anyone said "My bad" in the dugout. More like "**** happens"
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    What are you talking about? Guys get picked off on that play all the time. I can remember (but not specifically) the Twins doing it twice this year. It's one thing to say a guy should be more cautious but to say that there's no excuse is laughably ignorant of actual baseball. Taking a normal lead and then moving another 2-3 steps towards home with the pitch means that Kepler is likely 5-6 steps from the bag. That was a hard smash and Olson was immediately up and throwing. An entire infield away is like 125 feet. MLB players make that throw in an instant. Kep had no chance. Ironically, the only people in the league who aren't doubled off on that are probably your pitchers and slow plodders who don't take much of a lead because they aren't going home on anything but the most obvious wild pitch anyway. Any player with any speed at all is too far from the bag. That's just bad luck.
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    The Arraez and Sano errors were also pretty soft errors. Yeah they should get those but neither was a particularly simple play. Sano's was a smash that he didn't scoop right. It's an error but not one to complain too much on. Arraez hurried a throw after a bad hop. The throw probably needed to be hurried and I want him going for the out on that one. Arraez's move to third was bad though. No upside to moving to third, wait for the call.
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    I'm sorry but no way that Cave being doubled off on Kepler's smash is a baserunning error. With the normal lead he's taking and the momentum towards home on the pitch so as to be ready to score on a wild pitch, there's no way he's going to get back before Olson throws the ball to third. I have no issue with him breaking for home on that one - if you're not getting back you might as well score in case the ball hit the ground. That's some insane nitpicking.
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