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2. Made me spit my dirty runoff water out of my mouth laughing.

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Well Yeah... if you are going to not be prudent about it. You wouldn't consider this type of thing for a 42nd round draft pick. You'd expect the 42nd round draft pick to do what it takes and if he can't get it together on his own... you move on because you have similar talent replacements waiting in line. But it makes no sense for the Twins to not consider an extra mile or two with a player of Sano's reported potential. His ROI is off the charts according to the scouts and when you consider the investment and potential return. If any organization just sat back and left the fate of that ROI to the hands of a misguided 24 year old kid. That would be just as much on the Twins as on Sano. Problem: You have a tremendously gifted player not taking his talents seriously. Solution A: Declare that it is up to him and hope he stops doing that. Solution B: Hire a personal assistant to help keep him focused. I'm going with B. Solution A isn't a solution... it would be like buying a plot of land hoping to strike oil. The geologists all issue reports saying that there is tons of oil and they tell you that you are going to be rich. So you drill down 25 feet and stop because you always only go 25 feet and you don't strike oil. Keep going... at least see if the geologists are right.

I'm not sure that it has been identified as an issue that has effected him adversely. Finely tuned athletes blow hamstrings. Finely tuned athletes foul balls off of their body parts. Finely tuned athletes have been considered injury prone from nagging to chronic. When it happens to Byron Buxton it can't be tied to weight so it never is but when the same thing happens to Sano... it seems that some just reach for the easy button and call it case closed. . I'm concerned that many make natural assumptions based on his weight, fixate on those assumptions and then leap to conclusions drawn from those assumptions. To be fair... it would also be an assumption to assume that weight isn't effecting him but I'm not aware of anything that clearly connects the dots from his size to performance. I watch him move... he can move. He isn't slow, he moves decently to his left and right, he gets down on grounders, he has a rocket arm, he hits the ball hard. He's 24 years old... 24 year old's can eat Styrofoam and process it. They can carry that weight but yeah... that will most likely change incrementally when his metabolism starts slowing down. Then it becomes a Beatles song... "Boy... you're gonna carry that weight... carry that weight a long time". It would be best for him over the long haul to get things under control but he's 24... I don't think he's on some sort of health cliff yet. His plate discipline on the other hand... that's what fell off the cliff at age 24. I'd like to see him spend some time in the film room, I'd like him to focus on contact and start a personal war against striking out. I have a suspicion that if stopped chasing crap that he just might explode into something we like watching.

Yes However it doesn’t mean it’s the cause.

That's a pretty big leap from where I am... I wasn't suggesting that they shower together. CEO's have a lot of responsibility... they require secretaries to help keep them organized. I'll bet that Falvey and Lavine have a secretary. Same approach here but tailored to the needs of a ball player. So instead of making phone calls, organizing a schedule, filing documents. It's organizing a schedule, making sure he follows the schedule, Working out with him, meal planning, practice routines and the like. This wouldn't need to be close to a right to privacy issue.

This is where I am. The biggest Sano issue is plate discipline. That has nothing to do with weight. The pitcher is trying to make you swing at crap. Sano has to learn to quit taking the bait. If he can do that... his walk rate will go up and his K rate will go down and at that point... you can take that exit velocity and watch it drive his good numbers up.

I honestly am not worried about his weight in the short term. I've seen Sano move... he can move. 25 year old's can physically handle these things better than someone who is 35. The weight issues will manifest themselves later and by that time he may be under contract with someone else. I'm just not ready to declare his DL time to weight without more information that connects the dots. A lot of the weight discussion is noise to me.

I did misunderstand a bit. I took it as something that had already been attempted. No idea... if the Twins would offer such a concentrated dose of devolopment but if they don't they should look into it... when you consider the potential return. If Sano refuses... then you got a much larger personality issue to contend with and things will happen naturally that the Twins will have to factor into their future plans.

I was unaware that the Twins already authorize these services beyond a liaison type position for all.

Well I can't get these 3 hours back.

And it shouldn't be a goal in hockey either.

It wouldn't just be weight related. Hiring one specifically for one individual is a little out of the ordinary but the company is already investing in training and development so you might as well keep investing. Smart organizations don't draw lines. Saying that you will invest this much but not this much is a good way to guarantee sunk cost.

Bunch of RH this inning.

Yeah... I get stared at a lot.

The worst thing that Molitor does is that he does not think like I do. It really drives me up a wall.

OK... He let Rogers stay in face the RH Engel. I officially retire from the Molitor prognostication business.

I have reached the point where I've gotten Molitor down to the nuance. He can't surprise me. I feel like Rich Little

In all seriousness... It wasn't hard to predict what Molly was going to do. We entered the inning with Abreu leading off and Odorizzi coming up on 100 pitches. 1. Sanchez (S) 2. Anderson ® 3. Abreu ® 4. Delmonico (L) 5. Davidson ® 6. Palka (L) 7. Thompson ® 8. Narvaez (L) 9. Engel ® Odorizzi was going to face the first three batters come hell or high water. R-L-R Rogers was warming up in the pen... He was getting Palka through Narvaez. L-R-L Hildenberger or a different righthander will come in and face Engel and remain in the game until Palka again R-S-R-R-L-R

That's a tough question. I'm normally pretty happy so I have trouble finding a comparison point for levels of sadness. If I were to guess... I'd say it is somewhere between: A Puppy being run over by a semi and I dropped my pez dispenser in the toilet.

Davidson will be his last batter. Rogers will be brought in to face Palka

Careful what you wish for. You just might get it.

And Morrison is also justified by his defense from the DH position.