Riverbrian

MAUER

No If you are at a place that serves wings. You are amongst the people at the point and anything can happen.

Just hold the score where it is... Get the Cobb out of the game and we can come back in this one.

I wouldn't because Sano has been off for two days in a row because he has struck out 8 times in a row and 11 of his last 14. With no hits or walks in that stretch either. Molitor pinch hit Sano for Vargas yesterday and whiffed for the 8 straight time. Vargas is more likely to make contact.

Well Vargas hasn't helped us much today.

Alright Kennys... wait on the curve... Look fastball.

I understand what you are thinking and I understand your desire to fill the club with youth at all positions. But... They ain't pretending now. Winning the Central Is competing and saying that winning the Central isn't competing is... pretending. You are pretending that they are pretending. It's like you are saying... It doesn't matter what is actually happening... I don't believe it should happen so it isn't.

If he goes right away... he has a chance. But he didn't

Alright Buxton should steal But Not Rosario!!!

Slow delivery to the plate... GO ROSARIO

Rosario should steal here

Love seeing Mauer Pull the ball.

Typically... They Don't. (Injury) is usually the mother of invention.

You make some good points. I only question the "clearly superior" part. Good AAA numbers don't automatically become decent MLB numbers. We won't know until Garver plays MLB ball and shows us. For example... Gimenez had similar if not better minor league stats than Garver. How do we know Garver AAA numbers will translate upward when they didn't for Gimenez and they didn't for Buxton and they didn't for many many others? Maybe it's going to take awhile for Garver just to get to Gimenez level production with the big club. If you cut Gimenez for hitting like the majority of catchers in baseball (including Jason Castro) and you call up Garver and he hits .120. You have just decreased your depth for no reason at all. And when Castro gets hurt after you release Gimenez... You have to bring up Murphy to join Garver who might be hitting .120 and that pair now handles all of our catching. You have created defensive questions to add to the hitting questions. And we might be 3 games up in July when this happens. So out of desperation... Lavine is trading Kohl Stewart to rent Alex Avila because Catching went from decent to critical. After the season is over... Avila signs with the Tigers as a Free Agent and returns to his Dad's team for the 2018 season. While in Lakeland Florida for Spring Training. Avila is catching Kohl Stewart during a bullpen session and he says... "Hey, Why don't you try this" and it works for Stewart. He goes on to torture the Twins multiple times a year until he retires at 41. Disclaimer: The scenerio above is not taken seriously by me and was invented by me.

I don't know what Garver is or will be but I like reading the positive reports. Garver isn't going anywhere and Castro is our starter. Gimenez has done a decent job back there... I don't like the idea of tossing capable ball players a side on the possibility of someone being capable. Garver serves as needed depth... He will get his chance this year most likely. IMO... When a DL stint is needed from Castro or Gimenez... That will be Garver time. Just gotta wait for it a little.

Encouraging start and we need encouraging starts.

DOZIER

I really try to respect the Manager's instincts since he can only manage like he does. It would be hard for a manager to manage like someone else. However... Sano had struck out 7 times in a row and you just needed contact with a runner on third. The worst result is a strikeout and you went with the guy who is perhaps most likely to do that. He takes out his hottest hitter and puts in his coldest. (not a slam on Sano... He's amazing but he is struggling right now). When he does things like that... It seems to say... I don't trust Vargas no matter what he does.

The thing a struggling pitcher needs. A big fat ole' break.

I have the transcript Gimenez: Dude... Don't walk Weeks Mejia: I wish you would have told me that before I got behind him. Gimenez: That's OK... My Bad.

Remember when Rickie Weeks was... talented. He had about 3 years of being one of the best... and then... he was not that anymore. Not sure what happened.

That was a beautiful slider for a big K

Most pitchers pitch out of the zone. Grossman just seems to be good at letting them do that.

Should be easy enough. They have been good at re-cycling players.

My TV just has a shift problem. It won't capitalize because of it.