No worries, he and the rest of the bullpen crew will be shipshape in the second half of the season... http://www.burnpit.us/sites/burnpit/files/blog-image/mchales_navy.jpg
So are the rest of us, uhh, like in trouble for reading it, or... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kcDpD-QD6vg/TOYWQA-hM6I/AAAAAAAAHw4/QQKuZOy4tJQ/s400/groening.png
4 hits for Suzuki. The extension of the extension is just a given. Now the only question is how far the Twins will go to extend Suzuki's career with purchases on the human replacement parts black market.
Who goes out in the top of the 8th? Jepsen brand Instant Save OpportunityTM ? (Just Add Flop Sweat!) http://appbalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/InstantSave-for-instagram-150x150.png
Getting a mix of radio and TV for the game tonight, and it's the kind of game that, if you saw it in spring training, you'd be like "Well... at least we're out in the sun with no coats on instead of freezing back in Minnesota".
Well played. On a related note, I imagine that Buxtion and his agent are thrilled beyond words that Byron will no longer be patrolling center field next to a guy whose name probably translates in some language to "charging bison".
So now Sano is going to play the position he's been playing and improving at since his professional debut, instead of the position where the Twins had arguably the only logjam of actual present and future talent in the organization and where Sano looked entirely out of place. And all it took was a discarded journeyman hitting like Frank Thomas for 30 games and the sudden maturation of a 23 year old player who grew up in a country where baseball is only a little more commonly played than it is on the moon. The Twins WayTM! I can be happy with how the Twins played this one in exactly the same way that I can be happy with my dog for randomly darting across a busy road without getting hit: by focusing only on the result.
Same for me, for the most part. Put another way: it seems that it's not subtracting an Arcia that's hurting the Twins as much as the lack of a rational, repeatable math that can reliably tell the Twins that subtracting Arcia is the right answer.