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  1. Riverbrian
    The lesson of the story was obvious. If you don't let the cat in the basement, The cat can't do what it does best. The cat not utilized to full potential will eventually end up living with your son in college, who is also not at his full potential and the cat will then spend the rest of it's life eating spilled Cheetos off the floor. Geez
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    There probably is... somewhere.
  3. Riverbrian
    I think I understand Kinda like this: You have mice in the basement. You have a cat but you don't let the cat downstairs so you settle for a box and string. Your wife asks if the mice are still in the basement and you tell her "that the box and string is in place but after crunching the data it appears that the box and string has only produced a spot where the mice can safely eat their cheese, while in the shade because the tipped up box blocks the sunlight out of the ground floor basement window. Of course... as long as the mice don't tug on the string. The wife listens to the story and says that the cat could get the job done if you would consider opening the basement door so the cat can reach the basement. She then suggests that the box and string could be placed upstairs where she can use them to box up basic necessities to send to your son in college, because he never buys things like shampoo or finger nail clippers for himself. You consider your wife's suggestion but conclude that the only way the box and string method will work is with more time... you decide to keep at it long enough to eventually catch mice. So... you leave the box and string in place, remain hopeful while you bring the cat to your son in college, letting your son take care of the cat because he has always been responsible in the past.
  4. Riverbrian
    If we get the 2018 version of Sano... we will be better off without him. If we get the 2015 version of Sano... We will be worse off without him.
  5. Riverbrian
    Polanco plays a passable defensive SS so I'm not screaming for an upgrade. Love his bat and love his potential so I'm glad he plays for my team. However... there is something that I am miles from understanding. If Polanco was a 2B in AAA before being called up to be a SS in MLB. If Polanco has bottom of the pile defensive metrics at the SS position. If Adrianza has better defensive metrics while also looking better at SS defensively. Why did Molitor or the collective group think conclude that Adrianza would be the guy who played OTHER positions when both were in the lineup?
  6. Riverbrian
    Once you look at his injury history comprehensively. There is no reason to assume that he will be back by May. Sano seems to have his own special diminished healing capabilities and I'm not stating that to be a jerk toward him. There is just very little else that can be assumed when you review his entire injury history. Tommy John Surgery that knocked out an entire year... A foul ball that advanced from shin soreness to a titanium golf club in his left leg. A grade one hamstring strain that took a month. A bad slide that led to a clean MRI but a puzzling knee that knocked him out for the rest of the season. And now a laceration has turned into immobilization and more significant time on the DL as a result. I'll be shocked if he is back by May and if he comes back in May... I'll be shocked if the laceration doesn't come back after two games and we end up reading Lavelle E. Neal explaining that he will be under going a skin transplant. If you squirt him with a squirt gun... it'll turn into Jennifer Beals in Flashdance. Uff Da
  7. Riverbrian
    We will see but I assume Adrianaza gets the first shot at the open roster spot. If Marwin handles 3B. Gonna need a SS
  8. Riverbrian
    Exactly how I feel
  9. Riverbrian
    That’s exactly the result I’m hoping to avoid. No more Logan Morrison walking past the lineup card without checking to see if his name is on it.
  10. Riverbrian
    Small sample size to small sample size to small sample size to small sample size.
  11. Riverbrian
    I hope they never stop trying to do that.
  12. Riverbrian
    I hope Marwin is kept in the role that Baldelli says he is going into... Everyday Utility Player. A player like this can be utilized many ways to help the manager with matchups, hot and cold streaks... you name it. Yes he is insurance at many positions and I have been asking for insurance at all positions since... I don't know... forever. However... my hope is that IF Schoop or anyone gets hurt... instead of just jamming Marwin into a permanent position... My dream is that Marwin can remain in the everyday utility player role and we are able to call up someone from Rochester to take over the playing time. That's when we call up Gordon or Arraez or Wade or Lewis or Rooker or Kiriloff. Call them up and give them a legitimate chance to stay up. I guess I feel that sliding Marwin into a permanent position out of necessity lessens his value a little. I hope he can remain a swiss army knife throughout his two years here.
  13. Riverbrian
    Do away with the draft. Watch what happens.
  14. Riverbrian
    Two spring training starts for Tyler Austin. Both at 1B. I've been holding out hope for some OF work.
  15. Riverbrian
    Well Good... I'm glad the floor is rising... because I'm tired of finding the floor every year. I'd love for it to be a shorter fall. Anyway, Projections are just projections and methodology is methodology. I'm pretty sure they didn't project the Rays, A's and Brewers to do what they did and I'm pretty sure they didn't project the Nationals to do what they did. The Rays got actual performance out of those guys fangraphs thought would get 50 AB's and with the methodology... a 50 AB guy isn't going to make a dent. This is a systemic flaw and it will under value the raising of the floor. Competent front offices would get better options... Like Marwin
  16. Riverbrian
    Maybe I’m not following. Who Knows. You seem to downplay adding another 2 WAR player to a bunch of 2 WAR players. You mentioned that adding Marwin upticked our win projection 1 win. Brock stated that he doesn’t think they probably are not truly representing the replacement level player. You replied that the replacement player doesn’t play enough and the players who play are the ones that do the damage. I agree with you and I’m saying that’s the problem. If removing a Ryan LaMarre type from the roster doesn’t increase our win projection. They are doing it wrong in my opinion. Having 12 2 WAR guys increases the odds that one of them become a 5 but more importantly it provides the option of not playing 0 WAR Logan Morrison because of Taylor Motter wasting space. If you can’t or won’t sign a 5 WAR guy. Your best option is to flood it with 2’s. I agree with Brock. I’m not sure this properly calculated.
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    You are right... replacement players are not given the opportunity to be bad... and this makes them bad. Actually worthless. If they can’t replace Morrison... they are the very definition of worthless wasted roster space. The team may easily move from Motter to Petit to the next guy without thinking twice about it but that combination of expendables becomes a collective and Morrison is still killing us. 25 players who can play and 25 players who the manager trusts to play is more important than Harper by himself in my opinion.
  18. Riverbrian
    I watched him play Catcher last year and I came away with no concerns. I can't speak for Molitor or the front office but the first call up for Astudillo was a different role. He didn't come up as a catcher and I am of the opinion that Molitor has trouble blurring those lines. He came up as the utility guy and he only did utility things and ended up sitting on the bench watching the team not hit the baseball while Bobby Wilson became the primary catcher for some very tough to explain reason. When he came up the 2nd time... Wilson was gone... Castro and Garver were hurt. So, Astudillo did the bulk of the catching. Anyway... He looked fine.... He looked better than Garver did defensively in my opinion. All this did was shake my faith in the evaluation process. I am now of the opinion that they make decisions and sometimes those opinions might be based upon antique ideas of roster management or because the player made an initial impression that stuck to him unfairly but most of all, those decisions are often made with razor thin margins. I am now of the opinion, that major league clubs (not just the Twins) get things wrong and they get things wrong frequent enough that any blind faith that they get it right because it is what they do for a living would be a mistaken evaluation of the process on my part.
  19. Riverbrian
    Both Garver and Astudillo have options. One should be on the Twins Roster. The other should be on the Red Wings roster. Both should remain on the 40 man roster with smiles on our face.
  20. Riverbrian
    https://www.mlb.com/video/hinch-altuve-on-marwin-gonzalez-c2522974983
  21. Riverbrian
    If I was A.J. Hinch... I'd hate to lose Marwin in his Swiss army knife role. I would also never forget that Alex Bregman is a natural Shortstop no matter how many times he lined up at 3B with Correa playing SS. I would also have in my notes somewhere that Yuli Gurriel was a SS, 2B and 3B with the Cuban National Team before Astros team context forced him to 1B. With Altuve out, I would certainly take the opportunity to give Gurriel a look someplace that isn't normally available. I'd also be very happy to give Tyler White a chance to play 1B by moving Gurriel to a different position. Flexibility is a natural by-product of depth. If you have depth and yet you still ignore flexibility... then you no longer have depth because you killed it and did so willfully and for no practical reason.
  22. Riverbrian
    Baseball has been putting players into boxes for decades. This is our SS, This is our LF, Starting Pitcher, Closer, Set Up, LOOGY. Utility player are guys who couldn't get a regular gig and so forth. It's been going on so long that... I'm sorry to those that this might offend but... Some(seemingly most) just can't see it because of an overwhelming need to place everyone into these same boxes. If teams can't acquire a player like Marwin... they need to create their own version immediately, not only do teams need one player like Marwin, they need two. If they have three of them... better still. You can do it with players who hit much much better than Marwin does. Any thought that a utility player isn't allowed to be a hitter is just plain wrong. Also keep in mind, that as people say that Marwin provides insurance in case any of our players get hurt... Marwin could be the guy who gets hurt. Dear Twins, make more of these guys... please. Marwin might take our 21 million in go right into the tank but I'll applaud the signing now and I'll applaud the signing afterwards if he goes right into the tank. Signing a player like this is exactly the right direction this organization needs to go and needs to keep going with stopping. Players like Marwin allow you to sign players like Cruz and Cron.
  23. Riverbrian
    Exactly This Twins team has managed to find the floor many many times and like Butch Cassidy said "It's the Floor that'll kill ya".
  24. Riverbrian
    The Twins need to get bullpen serious. It’s easier said than done but it has to happen. 7 or 8 guys in the pen... whatever it takes but the manager has to believe in all 7 or 8 guys. If the manager or front office doesn’t trust a guy to Hang zero... get him off the roster or on the DL so you can try someone else. No one can afford to burn a roster spot and I will no longer tolerate a manager handing the ball to a guy who is failing just because it was determined previously that he was supposed to be better. That is simply putting your food in a broken microwave over and over again hoping it will cook the food this time. There are moments in life when you have to build a fire to try something else or go hungry. We went hungry because we kept thinking the microwave would start working again.
  25. Riverbrian
    Ahh... Well... No telling what the future holds . A 26 man roster will be a political football for both sides to fire out of cannon at each other. Last CBA... The Owners were willing to go to 26 if the players would allow a cap of 28 on September Rosters. They couldn't agree, tabled it and this next go round... I don't think anyone will be agreeable. I think the GM's will have to figure out how to make the constraints of a 25 man roster work for the time being. Personally... as I stated earlier... I believe the answer is too have your good relievers go longer instead of the LOOGY one batter at a time approach.
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