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  1. Riverbrian
    As Twins fans we watched Trevor Plouffe hold down the every day 3B position for 6 years and produce a career OPS lower than what Gio dropped down to last year. Yet Gio has some of us concerned? Plouffe was 3B only so Sano was moved to RF to accommodate Plouffe blocking up one spot. Gio is better defensively and can be moved to a utility position to accommodate Miranda or Nolan Arenado when we trade for him at the deadline. ? Gio can play a big role on this club by both playing 3B and by not playing 3B. Gio is the least of any concerns that I have. He's the Big Lebowski rug that ties the room together. Welcome to Minnesota.
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    It will be hard for me to wait an extra day. My internal baseball clock buzzer has been going off for awhile. I'm ready to go now
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    I haven't bought in yet but I have money put aside for the purchase. I'm waiting to see what the farm produces.
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    I worry about both of them for many reasons I will be pulling for them will all might. Hope they both have sub 3's this year.
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    If Train A leaves home plate at 100 MPH and Train B leaves CF at 8 MPH. How long will it take for the two trains to collide and social media to find fault with the trains.
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    I agree... if they skillfully manage things, having a 40 man full of solid choices is a good problem to have. Trading excess value gets more value in return and the system can hum along. My concern with the spillage is going to be the current crowding of the SP gate. We can only commit X amount of spots to the SP position on the 40 man and we are SP plump full now with guys who need to build up yearly inning totals and at least 3 more quality young arms that need to be added to the 40 man next year. If we don't graduate some of these arms into the rotation this year for next year it will cause spillage: Trading of players who haven't developed full value yet. Trying to get players through waivers, risking R5 exposure. If Bundy and Archer types stay healthy this year, eat innings and perform average to below average, it will limit how many of the young arms get a look see for Ober type MLB qualities or better. Without the look-see for Ober type abilities(or better)... it will be hard to trust fall with a young arm cold next off-season just to relieve the 40 man crowding. which keeps SP over stocked on the 40 and under stocked on the 26 which leads to more Bundy type 1 year deals just to be on the safe side and the cycle repeats itself. The can gets kicked down the road. I wish I could say that my scenario could never happen but... I've been watching this scenario play out for a few years now. There is large crowd of people waiting to get into the nightclub... if the bouncer doesn't open the door... someone is going to get hurt.
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    When they answer that question... please pass it along because I'd really like to know that answer as well. The only answer that makes sense in my head is that Baseball does promote too slowly and I assume they promote slowly because you CAN... because the service time rules allow you to and the 40 man roster limitations force you to. The system kinda keeps you chugging at a pre-determined pace unless you are a Spencer Torkelson type that is head and shoulders above. Those guys get sped up.
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    NIck Gordon is a 26 year old baseball player. Max Kepler is a 29 year old baseball player. At age 16... as a High School sophomore. I knew at that young age that you called for the ball. I knew that the CF called off the corner OF's. I knew that the OF called off the IF on balls hit behind the IF. I knew what "BALL" or "GOT IT" or "Mine" meant and I knew who was yelling it when it was yelled. I knew that you keep going after the ball unless someone calls you off and I knew that you should always play hard meaning if you can get to the ball... you get to it and I also knew that calling for a ball and not getting to it is a no-no. I knew the entire cut system and I knew who should back up what base. I knew a lot at age 16. I have not come close to the amount of games that these two have played at age 26 and 29. The coaching that they have been exposed to, I would assume is multiple times better than the coaching that I received. The Narrative that this collision was because of inexperience instead of hustle and the ball landing exactly between two players trying hard to make a play... well that's trying too hard to make your point that you don't like IF's playing OF.
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    If they don't manage this skillfully. There will be spillage off the 40 man. Lots of people don't worry about this type of spillage but I do. In the past 3 years, our farm system spillage has produced for other teams... nearly as much as our farm system has produced for us.
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    Options... the players you list have options. Too my knowledge... Celestino is the only player that will run out of options and force a put on the 26 man roster or risk losing him scenario. However, there will be some 40 man roster decisions that need to be made this off-season with Centerino, Richardson, Varland and Wallner (I'm sure I'm missing others) that could produce some spillage, It's the hopeful continued progression of Centerino, Richardson and Varland being players that we don't wan't to lose via R5 that could produce spillage. That is the main reason why Bundy and Archer gobbling up innings instead of Winder and Balazovic can cause a chain reaction bottleneck... IF EVERYTHING GOES AS PLANNED. We really have to start getting some major league miles on the mound out of our 40 man candidates this year.
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    Please Delete this post. I struggle with simple tasks.
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    Great post. You are 100% right. I don't know what the percentage is between Right Handed and Left Handed pitchers in the majors but it's a pretty significant short side. Accumulating more AB's against left handers than right handers is hard to do unless you are being utilized for that exact purpose. The Giants, Rays and Dodgers are the three teams that I consistently mention as examples of how to utilize the entire roster. I really really want the Twins to emulate them. However, during the regular season... in the name of development... the platoon is something that I'm not a fan of. Ruf, Slater and Garlick are a little past the development stage but the roster spot that they occupy is never past the development stage.
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    If an organization decides that you are only going to face left handed pitching. Bango... Zippy... Just like that... You are a platoon hitter. Once an organization decides that you are a platoon hitter, the organization is telling you that your value is very limited especially if you are on the short side of the platoon. Once an organization determines that your value is limited to this, Start the Egg timer... the buzzer on the career of Kyle Garlick will go off soon. His minor league stats don't suggest that he should be a platoon hitter but he is because the declaration has been made. He needs to mash lefties (also small sample size) to stay alive. Garlick won't be allowed to see right handed pitching so he has no chance of proving he can hit the Right Hander. Therefore no chance of getting used to the right hander at minimum and therefore stabilization of the MLB small sample split would be impossible. Clearing a 40 man roster spot for a 30 year old platoon hitter who won't be around as a 31 year old would be incredibly short sighted.
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    This is the type of solid practical advice that can only be found on Twinsdaily. How many pages is the instruction manual?
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    There are degrees to how disappointed a given individual is over individual circumstances. The degree of disappointment can be similiar regardless of having control or no control over the circumstance. On a scale of 1 to 10 Having Chinese Food when I didn't feel like it... is about a 2, The plastic bag in my tree... is about a 2 The Twins carrying three catchers... is about a 2. I'll sleep OK tonight but I am open to suggestion on how I can get that plastic bag down. Players will be called up and players will be sent down. Come May things will be different. This is how the season begins with an opening day roster.
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    Kinda surprised that it would be necessary to be this specific to try express my level of my disappointment... but OK. Since November, I've got a plastic bag that has gotten stuck very high up in a tree in my yard. When it's windy... it's makes this flapping sound that makes me look up at the bag and it disappointments me. I have no control over the wind that put it there and or the wind that makes it rustle. And there isn't really anything I can do to get it down. I'm going to continue watching the Twins and I'm not going to sell my house. Better? Yeah I meant Sanchez.
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    Yep... Just change the names and this article can be cut and pasted for the other 29 teams.
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    I was sitting in the living room with a freshly opened beer on the end table... I want to be clear that I was using a coaster because I'm not a cave man. I reached for it... knocked it over and it spilled on to the floor. Now my wife doesn't want me having any drinks in the living room because she worries about the carpet. I presented the argument that my beverage consumption in the living room typically goes without incident. The next day, I heard her tell my mother-in-law on the phone that I spill all the time.
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    Sure looks like 3 Catchers is the plan. Unless you have a Cruz type talent... I'd prefer the DH spot be spread around to get some AB's to the entire roster. It sure looks like we will be disappointed because Garcia is most likely not Cruz and I worry that Godoy will be under utilized and therefore a waste of a spot. I'm with you when it comes to my level of disappointment. My wife wanted to go out for dinner and I said "Sure... Wherever You'd like to go". I didn't really have a preference but I didn't feel like Chinese Food at that moment. She chose the China Garden... and that was a comparable disappointment. I had the Cantonese Beef Chow Mein and now I'm getting 3 catchers.
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    I Agree with the sentiment. 3 catchers with a 26 man roster is the last thing I want to see. However, if you think about it... I actually may be more disappointed with the 28. With the quick spring training ramp up... I am hoping that the two extra slots go to pitching. They will need the extra arms. I think it would be a little on the risky side asking arms still ramping up to produce 100 pitches out of the gate. The bullpen is going to be utilized early and often. Therefore, giving one of two extra spots (that are only being provided to teams because of the quick spring training) to a third catcher, a catcher that just ends up being a roster causality when the roster tightens back. Well this would be an incredible waste of the emergency provision and the reason for the provision in the first place. So... if you are going north with 3 catchers... you'd have to assume that 3 catchers would also be the plan for the 26 man roster. So if 3 go North. 3 catchers for the season is the plan. Sanchez spending a large portion of time at DH would be the plan. One less roster position player slot for someone just to accommodate Sanchez and the Sanchez shortcomings would be the plan. Using the DH to provide AB's for Sano, Arraez, Rooker, Larnach or Miranda is less of an option would be the plan. I'm not going to like that plan. ?
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    I'm already saying I told you so... just not publicly. ?
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    Who they pick is who they pick... it won't be permanent with adjustments forthcoming. However, I will be disappointed if three catchers come North.
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    There are a lot of people who feel the way you feel. However, if you are willing to dedicate exclusive playing time to a selected few based on very very very small margins. You have to be right... I mean you haaaavvvvve to be right... because the wrong will keep being wrong like a church bell while you have been injecting pentobarbital into the right player, When that happens... we never really know what we lost but that's ok because the continued playing time of the failed chosen player is always justified with the standard "Well... there is nobody else to play anyway". ?
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