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Caratini is Vázquez 2.0. What a bad pickup for the cost. Could he turn it around and be respectable, sure but twins made their bed at the backup position by not drafting well at the position and development of who they did draft. enjoy Jeffers for a couple more months and he will be gone at trade deadline most likely.

Rays have to be laughing seeing this lineup. Has to be the slowest foot speed collectively with this group today vs all mlb teams. Yikes

Not the A lineup tonight. Clemens over Bell, he’ll Clemens over anyone is baffling

Roster construction is awful and has been since off season acquisitions. 40 man you have 6 LH outfielders to 4 RH guys. Outman is on 26 (LH) man for what reason have no idea. Larnach, wallner make up the other 2 in outfield. They missed opportunity to bring up Culpepper to generate a buzz, but played it safe with career .140 swinger at the plate, Kreidler. The illusion of a 1st place team with what we have, is just that an illusion. move outman and Clemens (even Wagaman) off 40 man if needed. Royce who I’m not sold on at all comes back, move Kreidler back down. Bring up Fedko and send Wallner down to figure it out, if that is even possible. Bring Culpepper up to play short, platoon Lee at 3rd with Royce and Lee when Culpepper needs a break. Culpepper and Lee can platoon at 2nd when Keaschall needs one Just give us something to get excited about is an easy ask but mgmt won’t do it.

Throw culpepper into the fire. Drop the dead weight of veterans that aren’t the future. Move Lee to third and generate some excitement with fan base with culpepper getting extended run. Detroit, pirates have bitten the bullet with McGonigle and Griffin. This type of move should be made but won’t be by twins.

Live in Pittsburgh and look what pirates are at least trying to do. Call up griffin and sign him to a long term deal. Tickets prices for home opener because of interest in the club with some good off season movement, trades, FA, etc went up 3x the prices last week before the news. Yes win “now” has fans excited at the moment and coming to the ballpark, good balance of youth sprinkled in with veterans and at least city believes the mgmt rhetoric they are spewing. Twins on other hand spend bad money on veterans, ignore the youth that that the fan base has interest in, will labor to win 65 games and sell off guys again in July. pirate will take their lumps more times then not, but at least the learning curve with young pitching staff and some you guys in the field feels more exciting than Twins dumpster buys last couple of years

Lewis is a Buxton 2.0, but less than Buxton. Mr,. Happy feet I don’t slump isn’t reliable. Batting 4th or 5th shows you just how bad this roster is

He has never been elite. Elite isn’t a 1 month stretch.

Uniforms across the board are fine for me, so no ranking changes needed. I don’t care what they wear as long as they can win some gains. So many wins might not be in play, so maybe I will have to care more on the look. I like the red top, city connect I lean towards liking, my favorite though is the cream look. That reminds me old school historical baseball

“In” on Valdez and Peralta is like me saying I’m in on winning the power ball. Spend money to make money and I decided no investment on the power ball. I was in though. I don’t see where mgmt has really done anything more than lip service about building around the core…some dumpster pickups doesn’t really mean investing or building the core. None of the 3 excite me

USA TODAY thinks differently

What will be his closer entrance is next question that needs to be addressed? My submission would be “Bombs Away” by Bob Weir from the album Heaven Help the Fool

Dumpster diving mgmt at their “best.”

Not only Jeffers when he gets moved, but play poorly as a team and we very well lose Buxton, Ryan and Lopez. There isn’t a clear vision of competing with those four this year and next 2-3 years. yes Buxton has a no trade, but he will want a chance to compete for a championship so he will look to go to a select spot he wants. Lopez and Ryan aren’t signing long term. As much as we want them to be here, same rational with Buxton twins mgmt slammed the door shut after playoff series win a few years back and blew up the roster last summer. Long season ahead

Mgmt “building around the core” on full display with these moves to date. This is another example of why Ryan and Jeffers wouldn’t sign a long term deal with Twins if offered. Championship contending team vision doesn’t exist. Bright side, spring training starts in <30 days.