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  1. Greglw3
    Julien has now been playing well at 2B. Improving rapidly. No need for a move.
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    I have to agree with you about the offensive part of the game and Polanco of Julien should probably bat leadoff. I have no insight aside from the plantar fasciitis but wonder if the defect to the right ankle area that the Giants and the Mets were so deeply concerned about is affecting him. He’s chasing a lot, just showing no command of the strike zone. Such a contrast to Julien. The only thing I’d submit is that Correa’s defense has been superb, back to platinum glove level (I don’t give any credence to the new wave defensive metrics, I trust my observation of the game and the observations of baseball people that I trust). I think Correa has saved numerous base hits with his defense but then basically completely offset that value with he meager offense. Maybe in the playoffs behind a Pablo Lopez and Sonny Gray it will swing to his defense doing far more good than his offense bad.
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    Except Gladden is far better than Gallo, Puckett is worlds better than MAT and Brunansky is light years better than Kepler. I maintain that aside from Buxton and Correa, the Twins OF construction coming into 2023 was a colossal mistake and misjudgment and is the weakness on the team costing them from going 10 games over .500 and higher. The FO blew it in the offseason and now blew it again. I’d rather them play Andrew Stevenson or DaShawn Kersey than Gallo but there he is and now Rocco is starting to have to hide him to help the team.
  4. Greglw3
    AGree with calling up Stevenson and putting him in cf.
  5. Greglw3
    It's great when you can pick out one number to take down a player. Are you aware that OPS+ unfairly heavily favors power hitters like Gallo with a .183 average. Castro is hitting 60 points above that, has 21 steals and can bunt and bring home crucial runs that win games. You can have Gallo’s 20 extra OPS+ points but Willi Castro is more athletic that Gallo, gets many more hits and steals infinitely more bases. He can bunt, squeeze which Gallo can’t. Plus Castro is super versatile and plays very good defense. Speed never slumps. I’ll take Willi Castro every day of the week, OPS+ be damned.
  6. Greglw3
    I think there are 3 players not including Larnach in the lineup that could help the Twins and one of them plays cf and is having a monster season.
  7. Greglw3
    Really good thoughts! A functioning Buxton in CF, a returned Lewis, a Polanco at 80% and importantly the bright, emerging hitter in Julien, would be like making a trade. I still think Wallner or Stevenson or Williams or perhaps DaShawn Kiersey should get a shot but we’ll see.
  8. Greglw3
    Whether one thinks Stevenson can’t do well for the Twins because he’s 29 and therefore not a prospect. Facts: He is hitting .321, 100 points above Taylor, He has 31 stolen bases in 274 AB, half a season, or an MLB pace around 62 SB. He has 63 runs in half a season, a .400 OBP and a .907 OPS. What more do they want a guy to do to earn a chance? Are we keeping guys like this and Wallner down because the front office screwed up ROYALLY in going into the season with Gallo and Kepler as full timers. Its just inexcusable to me and why the first firing would be Falvey. Where does the buck stop? Anywhere?
  9. Greglw3
    That's the most right on response I can think of!
  10. Greglw3
    Good article Seth, make that great article! Lots of good tidbits and the one from Doug Mientkiewic (sp?) is really fun. It just sounds like a killer first three picks. Can’t wait to start following them! Walker Jenkins sounds really exciting and I saw footage of him driving the ball to all fields. It sounds like all 3 could make it to the majors!
  11. Greglw3
    Here here!
  12. Greglw3
    I totally agree. To go through the offseason and eschew so many good hitters and assemble what may be the worst hitting OF in BB history .192, .215, .198 represents gross incompetence. I would change the FO, the manager and several players right now. That Falvey has allowed this to drag on this long is a complete disgrace. .192, .215, .198. Maybe they should have been forced to look at their Strat-O-Matic cards to see just how lousy they were in comparison to a normal player.
  13. Greglw3
    Yes they should let Gallo go, it was another J.A. Happ/SHoemaker failed experiment and don’t look now but Andrew Stevenson is hitting .321/.395/889 with 26 stolen bases right now at St. Paul.
  14. Greglw3
    Don't forget Chris Williams at AAA and Andrew Stevenson, Matt Wallner plus DaShawn Kiersey. I’m old enough to remember a struggling Orioles team that called up two speedy rookies and gave them full reign. And Al Bumbry and Rich Coggins both hit in the .330s and everything changed.
  15. Greglw3
    Something got mixed up, I’ve long had trouble with lag times and freezes with this editor. My argument, which I tried to erase, was probably not directed at anything you said. You probably don’t agree but my only point was to agree with whoever said they believe in batting average, In my lifetime, I’ve seen .388 and .189 and I like the .388 guy quite a bit better. I wish they’d release the .189 guy. I never saw the post about nerds.
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  17. Greglw3
    Actually very intellectual and the opposite of the They've done it twice. Rod Carew and Luis Arraez!
  18. Greglw3
    Front Office Malpractice. Ever since 2019. Horrendous player evaluation judgement. That’s why we have so many players with absurdly low batting averages. Kepler .189, Gallo .188! What front office comes out of the offseason with the conviction that they have assets in 2 of the most important offense positions in LF and RF in Gallo and Kepler when all the signs pointed to poor offense from both. But not this poor! I think it was today’s game where in addition to that FO induced debacle, there were three players with .205, .206, .207. A grand recipe for low scoring and an absolutely putrid offense. And guess what, in true Happ-Shoemaker fashion, they don’t seem to have the slightest urgency to do anything about it. I suffered under the Clavin Griffith mass cheapness induced exodus of staggeringly talented players in the 70s and early 80s so I must be tough enough to endure this.
  19. Greglw3
    If .202, now .196, is league average, then I’m the King of Funk. I don’t value the new SABR stats, especially because OPS+ favors those who hit with a bit of power and undervalues a guy like Luis Arraez. .196 now. I guarantee you They won’t win anything with that player taking up one of the prime offense spots. Plyers that should play over him are the .260 - .270 or higher hitters like Farmer, Castro, Solano. They started 7 guys <= .226 yesterday and scored no runs. The idea should be to chip away at the 7 poor hitters and get 2,3,4 more hitters that are content to good hitters. I also think Gallo has hurt the cause with his long slumps devoid of homers and full of strikeouts.
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    Agree, that doesn’t get talked about much but is important.
  21. Greglw3
    Kepler's hitting .202 for the season and has carried low batting averages from 2020-2023. How does that warrant being ahead of Wallner? Kepler makes an out ~ 8 times in every 10 AB! Yuk.
  22. Greglw3
    I think a full go with Lewis, Wallner and Julien would beef up the offense.
  23. Greglw3
    I completely agree with you, I was thinking those two and Rocco’s poor handling of them has cost the team around 7 wins. Time for a big shake up.
  24. Greglw3
    Shake it up! Never change a winning game, always change a losing game (old tennis quote)
  25. Greglw3
    I like the idea of Maeda as a reliever! I’ve lost confidence in Jax. I also like the idea of bringing up Balazovic as a reliever. I like Henriquez from watching him late last season. Thielbar would be a big boost. Personally I’d pursue a trade, maybe for Chapman. I’d send Jax to AAA but they’re not gonna do that. So how about Duran, Lopez, Chapman, Maeda, Stewart, Moran (or Funderburk - no relation to former power hitting Twin Mark Funderburk), Balazovic and Henriquez?
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