Doctor Gast

Twins are giving Gray a warm welcome!

Here we go again! Larnach blasted another!

Pablo is fighting!

I 've seen Martin make that play

That pick-off by Vazquez has kept the base-runners honest

Dang it the ump blew it again, then Miranda got robbed of an extra base hit & RBI.

Just what the doctor ordered! Great job Larnach!

Great AB by Castro! Let's go Twins

Love that hussle! Great job Martin!

Great job, Vazquez!

I saw that coming!

Great job Miranda!

Ump stole 2 balls from Kepler bad call

Great job Pablo, let's go line-up!

I like Miranda at 1B

So far so good. Let's go Twins!

It's good Jeffers is hitting. It's good to see that Martin has perfected his swinging bunt to score our only run. What I could see, SD &STL have been pitching Julien & Wallner inside part of the plate with plenty of FBs. Instead of painting the outside edge with off-speed pitches which AL pitchers do. Which gives them a hard time. Looking forward to see Lopez/ Gray match up. Hoping for a favorable outcome. Go Twins. We are better than this.

It's understandable when Festa & Matthews have nights like this. SWR has already passed his previous innings record. The rest of the rotation IMO could use a breather once in a while. The BP is limited. Paddack & Ryan are already gone. We are treading on very thin ice. Once the bleeding starts it'd be very hard to control. We need to bring in the 1st Aid (long relief/ spot starter) to take the pressure off the short relief & rotation before things get any further out of hand. We need to bring up Varland & Winder right away & extend Sands innings. Whenever we use these guys we always have positive results in these roles. Be creative in how to use them. We don't need Richards & Okert, get rid of them bring up those who can contribute.

Gray & Maeda were big name SPs, where in FA demand big money. IMO FA most of the time is waste of money. I had no faith in Maeda & Gray wasn't going to give you a lot of innings for what you're paying for. Even if we had the money, I'd rather spend it on extending our younger talent. Gray started out well with STL but have no idea what's he doing now nor care.

Thank you Stringer, I respect your opinion. The idea of platooning Kiriloff & Santana was only in the mind of the fans because Baldelli made it very clear before the start of the season that Santana was the primary 1Bman no matter what. That was the marching orders. Kiriloff played 12 games at 1B, 14 games at DH primarily in the beginning of the season according to the program of keeping him at DH/1B. At this time Kiriloff was perfectly healthy batting .271/ .325/ .471/ .796. On April 25, Kiriloff was stationed in the OF, which became his primary position. On April 25, Santana was batting .143/ .238/ .213/ .451, prior he was as bad as (.098/ .196/ .122/ .318) on April 13, At the same time Kiriloff was batting (.324/ .381/ .649/ 1.030). When Kiriloff was stationed in the OF for good on April 25 IMO he far exceeded Santana's production. I don't think that Kiriloff wasn't working out at 1B, he was excelling, during his time at 1B. Santana may be our best defensive option at DH but should that be the governing factor to start him there? Absolutely not (sorry for being sarcastic, but I wanted to drive home a point). Unlike catching, defense isn't the deciding factor to come up with a primary 1B. Besides Kiriloff, Miranda has been well out-mashing Santana, that tandem would be awesome, especially looking at Santana's difficulty against RHPs . If Santana hadn't monopolized the time at 1B our other younger & more productive options would have become better. Now if Santana regresses to prior levels or gets injured (which is very possible) that lack of playing time of our other options just puts us in a much less desirable situation. $5 MM isn't much by today's MLB standards but if you're at your limit it's a lot, especially if it keeps you from filling a desperate need.

Santana can only play 1B & he has played there for years. He should be good after all those years. What counts is his bat at 1B. Miranda has a much better bat, Kiriloff is when kept healthy & Julien can be when he adjusts. Why are the Twins afraid to give these guys time at 1B, if they gave them a chance they could be better than Santana at 1B. 1B should be an option for a player like Lewis. Why block that position with a more expensive FA from better & cheaper in-house players? So my answer is absolutely not! Why make the same mistake twice? 1B isn't a place of need it's a place of extreme abundance.

Go Twins

When especially at AAA you have a player that shows he deserves to be called up at the start of the season, & you have a need, you rewards that player. Keirsey has been that player & 2/3 into the season still Twins refuse to call to call him up. That has to be very disappointing. Even he's not on the 40 man, a serious team would find a way to bring a player out of the lurch. He has nothing else to prove in AAA

Kepler was Mom's favorite Twin, Mom would have been sad to have seen him go. Besides all the new faces she had difficulty to remember. Good luck Kep & thank you for your time with us & being Mom's favorite.

I'm pretty much with you Seth. Griffin Jax- most trustworthy Jhoan Duran - hope he can regain his domminance 3. Jorge Alcala - I'd rank Alcala right up there if he's limited to nonconsecutive & 1 inning outings to maintain his quality innings Cole Sands- Very satisfied with pitching & think he could go multiple innings whenever needed 5. Louie Varland - He's been proven as a quality long relief/ spot starter that can take the pressure off the rotation & BP. 6. Caleb Thielbar- Hope he has adapt his FB to compliment his curve ball. 7. Josh Winder- Could be a valuable long relief piece, 8. Ronny Henriques- I haven't seen enough of him to rank him any higher but I'm willing to put him up to your ranking if he continues his preformances. 9. Scott Blewett - With a name like that you wish him the best. I wouldn't fool around with Funderburg, Okert or Richards. I don't know who Dobnak is? Is he the old Dobber or the new revamped one. Seems like they are purposely not playing Richards, Could Richards be hurt & Twins don't want the possible blow back? Just a way out there assumption. Hope to be able pick up somebody on the waiver wire better than my unranked ones. Maybe Paddack or Cantarino will show up?