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  1. Dantes929
    Well, his strike outs/9 is somewhere around 24.5. The hitters fouled off a lot of decent pitches and certainly he had some bad luck. His stuff looked good but his command was poor. I am guessing he was too amped to slow down the change up and the location of the change up was pretty high. Definitely looking forward to a few more starts for him.
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    Mauer still leads the team in OBP and is 40 points better than league average. I haven't been as disappointed in his season and like him leading off. This lineup definitely was diminished when Mauer went on the DL. He might not be the best hitter on the team but he is still one of the best.
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    Ok, that argument sways me. Another homer (3 run shot) and a double tonight for Dozier though. 21-5 Dodgers. Should have traded him on an incentive basis. OPS+ from time acquired of 90 gets us their 19th best prospect and every 5 points above that we get our pick of their next two best instead.
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    The Ddogers missed out on what were perceived as more desirable trade targets. Forsythe was the option they went with last year instead of Dozier because he was a reasonable alternative at the time. Since then he had a poor 2017 and has been horrible in 2018. If Forsythe was more in the 85 OPS+ area instead of 52 I would agree with everything you say because Dozier would be just slightly more desirable at this time than the alternative for the Dodgers. If I am the Dodgers decision maker on Tuesday I would really, really want to upgrade the worst spot in the lineup and would be dancing for joy if I got Dozier in the deal that was made. If the other team is dancing for joy at what they gave up to get what I had I would conclude that I had gotten the worst of the deal. I would have been fine with keeping Dozier for the next two months. The Dodgers were not in the same spot they were the last two years and I would have been content to walk if they did not up the ante. Its ok that you wanted to get something out of the deal and maybe the guy will be great. I just think the Dodgers played their hand well and we did not.
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    Well, its your 2nd paragraph that is my entire focus. If the Dodgers got a deal, no doubt then we got fleeced. If I have a golf club that I no longer need or use but someone else needs it to complete their set and is way better than the club they have, do I sell it to him for next to nothing because I have no use for it or do I try to get the most for it because I know the buyer really wants it. To maximize my return I would be willing to walk away without a deal because if I do I have really lost nothing. Its the other guy that has lost a big opportunity. Its not about what Dozier's value is to the Twins. Its all about Dozier's value to the Dodgers. When all the other teams passed on Dozier because they had better alternatives it left the Dodgers who did not have a good alternative. Forsythe has been terrible and Dozier was a clear upgrade. It should have hurt them a little and helped us more even if he is a rental because the Dodgers are in a close pennant race and they went from glaring weakness to at worse competency and at best an explosive hitter. Dozier could literally be the difference in making the playoffs and having a shot at the WS. That should be worth something more than what we got. imo.
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    Yeah, Dozier's ok but he's no Punto, Nishioka or Lombardozzi.
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    Kind of what I have been saying all along. Its not that Dozier had a huge value to us but the Dodgers were stuck with OPS+ of 53 with Forsythe. I just have a hard time believing the Dodgers wouldn't have given up more if the Twins hadn't blinked. IMO they needed Dozier. In the broadcast last night the Dodger announcers kept referring to Dozier as an all star gold glover. In one game he may have given them more value than what they gave up. They had him batting 5th. They had Forsythe batting 8th in front of the pitcher. Tells you what they think of the two respectively and I just have to believe they would have parted with more for that kind of upgrade at their only glaring weakness.
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    Like so many guys, there is nothing wrong with being a pull hitter but its when they try to pull everything they open up too soon, step toward the left side and are really vulnerable to the outside breaking pitches. Dozier's home run tonight was to center on a really nice swing where he stepped toward the pitcher and hit it where he could get the good part of the bat on it. Always a supporter of Dozier and he was not alone in being pull happy over the years but you can see where he could have been better still.
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    Maybe the concept of rent a player has been watered down or I just don't get it. Forsythe has an OPS+ of 53. Utley has an OPS+ of 82, is horrible against lefties and is 39 years old. Dozier has an OPS+ of 91. Dozier has had his usual slow start and I believe is way more likely to get hot and his hot is really hot. His July OPS+ was 105. Twins probably don't need Dozier for the rest of the season but he could be a real difference maker for the Dodgers. That should be part of the equation. It should hurt the Dodgers a little bit more than what is on the surface a remote lottery pick to get an all star GG player and a significant upgrade. If I am a Dodgers fan I am loving this move. As a Twins fan I am in the meh category. I would hope the Twins could have gotten more in the 10th prospect at least. Connor Wong at #16 as a catcher might have been a better get and LA is loaded with catchers.
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    Well, with two outs in the 7th for the Royals a guy got on first, the next guy walked and Butera hit a 3 run homer so you really don't know what is going to be a game changer. If Cave gets on it is way more likely that Mauer walks and Rosario hits a home run than A. Escobar walking and then Butera hitting a home run. Plus, did you really think it was an iffy play? I listened to the Royals broadcast and they certainly thought it was a trap and would be over turned.
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    Deanrd Span has killed us Wilson Ramos has killed us, Butera has killed us. I am pretty sure I am missing a few. Former Twins are putting up all star numbers against the Twins this year. As far as the replays go I was ok with them because I thought it was important to get the call right but if they are only going to get half of them right even on the review then what is the point? In this case the call was wrong, the replay review was wrong and almost certainly the game changing safe call later on was wrong but couldn't be challenged because they got the earlier calls wrong. Just a lot of wrong there. How about putting in a challenge to the replay call?
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    Replays don't seem to get it right as often as they should. Makes me wonder sometimes if this play would have been overturned with video replay.
  13. Dantes929
    I agree that Polanco has made this lineup appear more dangerous. Buxton on track could give us a similar shot in the arm and Sano back on track would be the final piece in making this offense the one we were dreaming about. Of course then something else will go wrong.
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    Didn't we beat 3 Cy Young's in a row this year and Snell certainly is on track to compete for one. Its's the soft tossers that give this team fits.
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    Orioles win 1 of every 4 games against the league. Winning a series against them is no great accomplishment but sweeping them is a good thing. Twins last 4 losses were by a total of 5 runs so it wasn't necessarily bad baseball. Polanco helps. Buxton playing well would be the same shot in the arm. You can't say KC is a sure thing so beating them up would be a good thing also. Not expecting to catch Cleveland but not giving up either. Shouldn't really even think about it. Have a really good July and see where we are then.
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    One year we had Brian Harper, Greg Gagne, Kent Hrbek, Gary Gaetti, Shane Mack, Dan Gladden, Kirby Puckett, Gene Larkin, Rick Aguilara, Juan Beurenguer, Kevin Tapani, Scott Erickson, Dave West and Allen Anderson. And took last place and finished 29 games out of 1st. I'm not saying this team will rebound next year and win the WS like that team did but I am pretty sure if there was Twins Daily back in the day there are plenty of fans that would have wrote what you did. I am very disappointed with the way this year has gone so far but where people say "wait til next year" and consider it a negative thing I say "wait til next year" because that might be the year it all comes together. I agree that there is talent there. Last year they may have over performed a bit but this year it has all just gone wrong.
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    That 5th inning blew. Bad error at third let in a run but anyone else think that challenged play should have been overturned and it shouldn't have gotten to that error in the first place?. Why do they even bother with the replays when they only get 50% of them right anyway? Sometimes I think they should be able to challenge a challenge and get them to look at more angles.
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    Buxton?
  19. Dantes929
    Buzzkill. Next you'll tell me my shoes don't weigh 5lbs each and my cotton shirt and Dockers don't weigh 7 lbs. Try to come up with an alternate theory for why the doctor's scale is so high and please try to avoid the ridiculous theories like that we weigh more.
  20. Dantes929
    Well, yeah but you still need to consider within the team concept. Santana wins all his games but the team finishes last he is still the best pitcher and deserves the Cy Young because he won all the games he was able to. How can you say Cy Young goes to the best pitcher but then say 3/4s of all pitchers don't qualify because their team didn't make the playoffs? Mike Trout can be the most valuable player in the league even if his value was on a team that lost a lot of games. You start by saying if there is one player you can have on your team who would you choose. Then you can say whose season that was just played would you like repeated on your team out of all those that played. If both of those answers are Mike Trout then you have your Most Valuable Player. The second part of that question ld eliminate his 2017 season for injury.
  21. Dantes929
    Agreed but lets not forget Gibson who has a better ERA than Berrios and also Rodney. I will be the first to admit hating that signing but he has been really good after a so so start. Funny that Escobar is giving us what we wanted out of Sano but if Sano had been giving us what we wanted then Escobar might never have been given the chances.
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    I agree with Jack Kemp though in that putting weight on winning teams for MVP and then using MVP for HOF consideration is ridiculous. Much like the Cy Young voting which might keep Santana out of the Hall.
  23. Dantes929
    I never assumed he was washed up but when you can't find the plate for a month I promoted the idea that he should fix his game in the minors. Probably would have been a good thing if he had started there. Seemed like he was walking more than one an inning and that everyone that walked scored. Very happy to see him turn it around.
  24. Dantes929
    I banking on Buxton being that spark. He was last year and he is our best chance this year.
  25. Dantes929
    Well some of that is true. The knock on Gibson (as I remember) was never that he was pitch to contact but that he was a guy that tried to peck at the corners rather than trust his stuff. Fell behind in counts and then had to groove one. My own knock on him was that he seemed to throw the same pitch over and over again when he appeared to have a really nice curveball that he rarely used. The pitch to contact failed because we didn't have guys who were good at it. Gibson's stuff now would have played well any year. Or do you think his stuff now is the same as it was in the past? I think he went whole games without throwing a ball that bends as much as he threw to nearly every guy last night. If the mantra of the past was truly throw the same pitch at the same speed every time so you don't walk anyone then I am with you.
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