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  1. Dodecahedron
    I don't have a strong opinion on Larnach, but Kiriloff will be a nice fixture at first base. It will be a travesty if Kiriloff ends up in the outfield. I would say, ignore everyone on the forums who keeps trying to paint Kiriloff as an outfielder He will be at first base once the opportunity arises.
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    The angst is due to his feast-or-famine season. He is signed to a reliable-player's contract and he should be that reliable player. I agree, today his stats look like what we should be expecting from him. Before today, not so much. The baseline stats hide the fact that his numbers were very down for a long time. He closed June below the Mendoza line with .688 OPS. That's 3 months of overall crud. Smacking 3 home runs brought him back to his baseline. Have previous years been like this too?
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    Thank you for repeating what I said, but with more words.
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    You only unpacked half the box. Finishing the thought: 36 home runs is not very valuable, and thus, Kepler is less valuable.
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    Yes, I am aware of these things, but what you may not realize you are saying is that this means Kepler's 36 home runs was an anomaly. This narrative has the opposite effect you think it does.
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    OK, but take away those home runs and what happens to his wRC+? That's the question. We have to compare him to other players for that. It seems there are Kepler-like players out there, so he's not a complete anomaly.
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    Very good. Thank you for looking that up. Do those other players seem like empty power guys too? I admit I don't know.
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    If the Twins ever want to prove to me that they are not cheap by sending over a big check, they are free to do so at any time.
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    I'm not giving him flak. I agree he is a good baseline player and not a star. What do I expect? I expect a guy who hits 19/20 home runs to have a higher OPS+ than 95/97. For 2019, I admit I have not done the research, but 36 home runs with an OPS+ of only 124 seems improbable if not bordering on impossible. The rest of his game has to be sorely lacking to manage that! For what it's worth, Kepler's 2020 and 2021 are now statistically identical, which is to say back at a decent baseline player, but it's been very feast-or-famine to get him here. I think we'd all be a lot happier if he just showed consistency, we don't need him to be elite.
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    Chapman is hated? News to me. Soto and Chapman are two names people would recognize on a ballot, should that be how they got in.
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    Over the course of his career, Kepler's OPS has been too low considering the number of home runs he hits. He is all power. And, unfortunately, he doesn't have enough power to justify this being his hitting profile. Kepler may need to do more than turn a corner. Hopefully he is adjusting his approach.
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    Trading Donaldson is fine as long as the Twins don't use it to justify keeping Sano around. We all have dreams that someone new would man 3rd base, but we have to be prepared for Sano going back over there full time.
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    Easy solution for those with blacker hearts: Watch Miranda's contributions to Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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    Donaldson is a pussycat compared to Pierzynski. And of course, we can't forget Knoblauch. Carlos Silva made some provocative hand gestures along with some choice words after his first career shutout. I guess Silva is as bad as Donaldson, then? And what about Eddie Guardado, who liked to make gun gestures at the opposing team after getting saves for a short time? I had not seen anything around here about Donaldson's likeability until this week. What he did this week was nothing. We are better off focusing on the eggs the Twins are laying on the field.
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    Their silence is alarming.
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    It was unusually humid in Chicago yesterday, as in gulf-coast-style humidity. Balls were gonna fly. If I were manager, I probably would have made pitching decisions based on whether or not the pitcher can keep the ball on the ground. No worries about Ober. He is new, he was not expected to be on the roster this year as far as I can tell, and Chicago is just a tiny bit more motivated than the Twins are. There is nothing more to say about Shoemaker. His story has been told. For some reason, the Twins are holding the book open on the last page long after the rest of us have closed the book.
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    The front office has been eerily quiet throughout this year's fiasco. I know what my goals would be for the trade deadline, but I admit I have zero idea about what this team will do. I don't have a lot of confidence.
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    Donaldson's gesture was minor and it was not directed toward anyone on the field. If media had not picked up on it, it's possible the other team would not have even noticed. Honestly I am mildly offended that people on either side of this debate are making this moment into a big deal. What an utter waste of brain cycles. As for Gio's response, sure the Twins are in last place. The Twins also have the moral high ground. The Twins may not be in last place had other teams not been cheating. Gio's point is a backfire.
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    I'm looking at Arraez's history and I admit I don't come away with a belief that he is injury-prone. That same look at Arraez's history makes me believe that any team would be thrilled to have him. He might be the easiest person to trade on this entire roster.
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    I don't know if this is the worst Twins team ever, but they are minimally as bad as the "rebuilding" (rofl) teams in the early '10s. How those teams avoided 100 losses is only due to Gardenhire still being somewhat on his game. Those teams were worse than the "total system failure" team in 2016. The easiest comparison is the 1984 Vikings under Les Steckel, for those who are old enough to remember. As USAChief points out, this team fails at very basic things.
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    Yes, he was under the old regime. Yet his story is still what we see with this new group.
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    The numbers bear out the idea that Morris was better in the following situations: - RISP - Men on base - Men on 3rd, Men on 2nd and 3rd, Men on 3rd with no outs, etc. (This is when he put up his best numbers). - When his team was behind Now, what's not true is that "If Morris was ahead, he would let other teams catch up." That's the myth. He was near league average in most other situations. It is 100% true that Morris kicked it up about 5 gears once someone got on 3rd base.
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    The safer way to recoup their investment is to sell things. Remember, this is a business.
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    You're too fixated on GB. If the Twins are 6.5 games out, the Twins are under .500. Under .500 teams do not consider themselves in the hunt.
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    True, but one other problem.... At 7-3, the Twins still sell at the trade deadline.
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