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New GM - Andre David. Talent abound. Seriously, he did hit a homerun in his first major league at-bat after all...

I agree with Seth. Furthermore, I would think the Twins have the inside track as they know him best and Baker would need to prove he can pitch again to bring in another big dollar contract.

You've obviously never seen any super-league...

Everybody here assumes that teams actually want Morneau at this point and time. What has he really proven since coming back from the injuries? About 2 weeks worth of decent play at 1B. There is NO team out there willing to trade a bag of balls for Morneau at this point in time. The Twins, who know him best, were unwilling to put him at 1B full-time until their hand was forced (Parmalee being atrocious). They may be able to move him if they ate most of his salary (which they won't). Folks, let's have this discussion in mid-July, assuming he stays off of the DL, plays 1B regularly, and continues to show improvement offensively. Also remember that good offense, decent defense 1B are not that hard to find in today's league. Look at the league averages for 1B...

Ummmmm.... No.

You must be playing in the beer leagues or the coed leagues. Move up to the big boys and you will see diamonds that would have held this ball.

Managers can't even let go of the notion that they need to save their best reliever for the ninth inning and not use them when they really need them (ie the save fallacy). God forbid they try something that makes their pitching line look like a preseason game.

Before Span was locked into CF, he was a Gold Glove caliber LF. His CF play has been average to maybe slightly above. Everybody knows that Revere can't play RF with the pea-shooter arm. Span needs to take one for the team, move to RF, and let Revere et. al. handle CF. This decision should be easy.

I love this. Anybody who says they would not want AJ back in a Twins uniform does not know a thing about baseball. Let's see: - Durable - Will do anything to win - Loved by his teammates, reviled by his opponents - Hits for decent average and power - Has not shown any massive signs of slowing down (slight ones yes) Finally, who is the Twins backup again? oh yeah...DREW BUTERA!!!!! Seriously folks, if he could be had on a multi-year deal for a reasonable amount, get down on your knees and thank the stars. But the bottom line is that virtually every contending team would overpay have him, even in a backup capacity. As much as I would like to see him as a Twin, it is not going to happen.

What about all of the gestures to the sky for dead relatives or love of God? What about initials on shoes or wristbands? Hell, I guess we need to do away with all of the pink stuff on Mother's day. Why pick on one thing when there are hundreds of other examples of essentially the same thing. This is just stupid. Why am I even commenting on it?

Sano continues to tear it up in the minors. Scouts are calling him the best power threat in all of minor league baseball. When do you expect to see him in a Twins uniform? My guess is shortly after the arbitration cutoff in 2014.

Not a huge shock. MLB has always rewarded new stadiums with an all-star game a few years after they open. I wonder if we will see Sano before that game...

Jim Bowden has yet another "wonderful" article over at ESPN discussing 5 players who could be traded before the trade deadline. Of the players he has listed is Justin Morneau. He talks primarily about Morneau being a risk and hurt, but has still slugged .490. Let's review: 1) The Twins were leery enough on Morneau to try to keep him out of the field as much as possible this reason. Only when Chris Parmalee totally stunk did they start moving him back to 1B. 2) Morneau has already spent time on the DL this year. 3) Morneau is owed about $10 mil left for this year and $14 mil for next year. 4) He is one awkward movement away from being out possibly forever. The Twins will not eat any of Morneau's salary for the sake of moving him. Without the Twins eating salary, no team would trade for Justin Morneau, even for a marginal prospect. While I agree that the team is in rebuilding mode and would trade almost anybody on the team for the right price, nobody will make that offer for Mr. Morneau. Please ESPN, give us somebody with something intelligent to say.

Jim Bowden has yet another "wonderful" article over at ESPN discussing 5 players who could be traded before the trade deadline. Of the players he has listed is Justin Morneau. He talks primarily about Morneau being a risk and hurt, but has still slugged .490. Let's review: 1) The Twins were leery enough on Morneau to try to keep him out of the field as much as possible this reason. Only when Chris Parmalee totally stunk did they start moving him back to 1B. 2) Morneau has already spent time on the DL this year. 3) Morneau is owed about $10 mil left for this year and $14 mil for next year. 4) He is one awkward movement away from being out possibly forever. The Twins will not eat any of Morneau's salary for the sake of moving him. Without the Twins eating salary, no team would trade for Justin Morneau, even for a marginal prospect. While I agree that the team is in rebuilding mode and would trade almost anybody on the team for the right price, nobody will make that offer for Mr. Morneau. Please ESPN, give us somebody with something intelligent to say.

No problem with moving Butera to a reliever. He could be like Bugs Bunny in the old cartoon: pitch and catch at the same time. Seriously though, if we did move him to catcher, he would need TJ surgery within a month.

So much for Bark's mia culpa the other day about having fun on the website...

Really? We really have to ask this question? What possible reason would the Twins have for spending money on him while they are in their current position? Why in the heck would he even conside coming here?

There are actually teams worse than us at 1B and 3B! Well, we have that going for us...

Ahhhh [bill] Smithers. Go trade for that Roger Clements fellow...

The Twins will not put up any large amount of money for a starting pitcher, regardless of who it is. $10 mil per is as high as they will go. Look for more low dollar FA signings...

Willingham for sure. If Mauer isn't voted in, he could still play his way in (though I doubt he could be considered a catcher this year...)

For those of you too young to remember the Mick when he played for the Twins, let me take a few minutes to enlighten you: Mickey Hatcher was loved in Minnesota. Not so much because he was a great player (though he was decent enough to be a semi-regular starter), but because he was slightly crazy. Everybody loved him. There are a few stories about him I would like to share. On May 4, 1984, Dave Kingman hit a towering fly ball that went up through one of the drainage holes holes in the ceiling. The ball never came back down. After a few minutes discussion, the umpires decided to give Kingman a double. This is relatively known. What is not quite as known is that the following day, the grounds crew went up into the roof to fetch the ball out. Well, Mick wanted to be a part of this, so they announced that the worker was going to drop the ball and Mick was going to catch it "so it would be an out yesterday". Local news came to cover it and everything. Well the worker couldn't get to the ball, but they did drop a substitute ball. Good ole' Mick, waiting patiently underneath the hole missed the ball. It hit him on the way down, never got a glove on it. Classic. I had the fortune of being at the last game of the season in 1986. It was a home game, and the Twins were coming off a horrible year. Anyways, Viola pitched a shutout and thew Twins went out on a winning note. After the game, many of the Twins players came back on the field and threw used batting gloves, hats, and other items into the stands (I still rock my Kent Hrbek batting glove). Not Mickey Hatcher. Mick actually climbs up into the stands and sits with a large group of fans out by the left field foul pole. He's giving away his hat, jersey, shoes. Everybody's going nuts around him. Hatcher left the Twins after 1986 and went to the Dodgers. Though he missed 1987 here, he got his ring with the 88' Los Angeles team. That is where he hooked up with Mike Scioscia. Scioscia became manager of the Angels, Mickey became his hitting coach. Until today that is. The Angels let him go, needing a scapegoat for their currently bad offense and Albert Pujols' slow start. You can read stories today about how much the fans of Los Angeles like Hatcher because he is still a big kid at heart and still loves the game. He and Mike Redmond are very similar in that vein. If the Twins do decide to bring in a new hitting coach, Mickey Hatcher would be an ideal fit. Here's to hoping we see him back in the game soon.

For those of you too young to remember the Mick when he played for the Twins, let me take a few minutes to enlighten you: Mickey Hatcher was loved in Minnesota. Not so much because he was a great player (though he was decent enough to be a semi-regular starter), but because he was slightly crazy. Everybody loved him. There are a few stories about him I would like to share. On May 4, 1984, Dave Kingman hit a towering fly ball that went up through one of the drainage holes holes in the ceiling. The ball never came back down. After a few minutes discussion, the umpires decided to give Kingman a double. This is relatively known. What is not quite as known is that the following day, the grounds crew went up into the roof to fetch the ball out. Well, Mick wanted to be a part of this, so they announced that the worker was going to drop the ball and Mick was going to catch it "so it would be an out yesterday". Local news came to cover it and everything. Well the worker couldn't get to the ball, but they did drop a substitute ball. Good ole' Mick, waiting patiently underneath the hole missed the ball. It hit him on the way down, never got a glove on it. Classic. I had the fortune of being at the last game of the season in 1986. It was a home game, and the Twins were coming off a horrible year. Anyways, Viola pitched a shutout and thew Twins went out on a winning note. After the game, many of the Twins players came back on the field and threw used batting gloves, hats, and other items into the stands (I still rock my Kent Hrbek batting glove). Not Mickey Hatcher. Mick actually climbs up into the stands and sits with a large group of fans out by the left field foul pole. He's giving away his hat, jersey, shoes. Everybody's going nuts around him. Hatcher left the Twins after 1986 and went to the Dodgers. Though he missed 1987 here, he got his ring with the 88' Los Angeles team. That is where he hooked up with Mike Scioscia. Scioscia became manager of the Angels, Mickey became his hitting coach. Until today that is. The Angels let him go, needing a scapegoat for their currently bad offense and Albert Pujols' slow start. You can read stories today about how much the fans of Los Angeles like Hatcher because he is still a big kid at heart and still loves the game. He and Mike Redmond are very similar in that vein. If the Twins do decide to bring in a new hitting coach, Mickey Hatcher would be an ideal fit. Here's to hoping we see him back in the game soon.

Funny, I would say it is the exact opposite. It's hard sometimes to sift through all of the "fire Gardy, fire all the front office, promote everybody" garbage to find decent articles. I would have to say that Bark and Souhan must be related considering their comments and articles always have the same tone. I guess he needs another tree to "Bark" up...

Why not hire the "Where's the beef" lady from the Wendy's commercial? She always showed a lot of fire. Oh wait, she's dead. Still a better hire than Gladden.