DaveW

Except you didn't hear the Blackhawks making excuses like the Wild have, they went out, made immediate changes and have vowed this won't happen again. That is why the Blackhawks likely will win another 2-3 cups before the Wild even sniff a stanley cup final. One team demands winning, the other team shrugs.

Last 7 playoff series: Wild have won 2, they have lost 5. We can cry SSS all we want, the fact is the Wild have ultimately failed 5 straight seasons. Same ****, different year. At some point they need to stop crying about getting unlucky, winners create their own luck. Also Allen had an insane SV% because the wild took a lot of weak ass shots throughout the series, they refused to crash the net (and when they did, lo and behold they scored!) and refused to play with any sense of urgency in games 3 and 5. Funny enough, Allen gets lit up and turns back into the middle of the road goalie he has always been the minute he played Nashville. During this 5 years of disappointment, what are the constants? Parise+Suter and Fletcher. Parise and Suter are going nowhere, it's time for Fletcher to go for sure. At some point Boudreau is what he is as well, a guy that frankly can't get it done in the playoffs. Just another pair of Minnesota losers in a long long long line of Minnesota sports losers.

Yeah all of these "he can't stick at SS" things coming from the org didn't have a lot of legit reason to begin with, and now look even worse IMO.

The Twins messed up by not extending Johan early on. But yeah in general I agree that arms are much riskier. Sano though? No brainer. Power doesn't drop off until 34-35-36 Lock him up til 32/33. That still allows him another massive contract at that point as well.

Yup, and this is ultimately what sank them previously. They never ever ever ever showed the urgency (or even close to it) when they had Mauer, Morneau, Hunter, Cuddyer, Johan, Liriano, Nathan, Radke etc in their primes. UGH!!!!!!!!

"Yes, Wu, San Francisco **********!!!!!"

Sano is fine at 3rd base (which isn't that important of a defensive position at the end of the day anyways) CF SS 2B C are all more important. 3B/LF/RF/1B are all much less important.

I said Hicks would be the next David Ortiz. Few other things, unlike the others that you mentioned: Hicks actually had success with the Minnesota big league club! His 2015 was perfectly solid (not amazing, but we all saw the flashes) Pinto- Never had a real problem with that, Pinto's problem is he was never a "real" Catcher IMO, which basically made him a Matt Lecroy (ceiling) type player, so he wasn't going to ever hit enough to be a legit DH IMO. Meyer- I'll tell you what, I would rather see Meyer getting starts over Gibson at this stage. In 5 starts for LAA last year he showed decent results: 4.57 ERA (Which would basically make him a #3 on this team) and a nice strikeout rate. The Angels are still seeing if he can make it as a starter, which I give them credit for, you can't teach that sort of K rate. His BB/9 is going down a little bit as well, so perhaps they are figuring something out with him. Ultimately if that fails he becomes a guy who can become a decent bullpen arm as well. End of the day, on a team like the Twins with pathetic pitching depth throughout the org, giving him away for no reason made no sense. Should have just sent an extra million or two along with Nolasco in that trade. DUMB Arcia and Benson were both out of options (Hicks was not). I'd still have rather kept Arcia on the roster at the time over Danny Santana. I'm still more annoyed they didn't sign Liriano when Pittsburgh got him for next to nothing. At the end of the day though: Losing studs like Ortiz and Hicks for no reason are what help keep a team from winning titles. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

I said it when Sano was brought up the first time: They should have immediately signed him to a contract where it gave the Twins 2-3 team options (or just buy the first 2-3 years of FA out) At this point, there is zero reason for Sano to even consider an extension unless the Twins make him a great offer (spoiler alert: the penny pinching pohlad probably will never do that again) Sano has the bat, personality and game to be a bonafide star in this league from a talent and marketing standpoint (think of how many commercials you saw big Papi in once he put up numbers in Boston?) I hate to say it, but I'm 80% sure that Sano will be a Dodger, Yankee or Red Sox when it's all said and done. For now we should just enjoy the Sano show and pray that he can get us a title prior.

1. Hicks RF 2. Polanco SS 3. Sano 3B 4. Dozier 2B 5. Kepler 1B 6. Rosario LF 7. Grossman/Mauer/Park/Vargas DH 8. Castro C 9. Buxton CF That would be an amazing offense and defensive team currently.

They don't really save significant money though. (Like 1.5 million this year?) At this point I'd rather just keep him, seems to be a good teammate and can still put the puck in the net when put in the RIGHT situation on the ice.

Fletcher is a loser. Typical Minnesota sports "aw shucks, we can't compete with the big boys and aw shucks, we got unlucky, it was a fun season though right?" That press conference was a joke. They need to fire Fletcher and Boudreau. Boudreau had his whole "the better team lost this series" nonsense. uh, no Bruce, when you lose freaking 4 games to 1, score 8 goals in 5 games and only have 2 leads (for less than 60 minutes total) over those five games, the better team did not lose, you clown. UGH!!! This is the mid 2000's Twins all over again!

Hicks with a 2-4 day yesterday .324 BA, 1.161 OPS Most impressive is those two hits came off Chris Sale. Hicks is for real. JR Murphy MLB line 2017: .000/.000/.000/.000 and is 0-0 against Chris Sale.

Seattle got a steal in that trade.

Every once in awhile "brock" channels his inner RocketPig and it's pure gold.

lol it's even worse with the relief pitchers! Literally the Twins love themselves some crappy veteran presence for ANY spot on the roster other than CF. It's almost like they are like "this guy is the next Kirby Puckett clearly!" Sort of the same reason why they give Blackburn a 4 year contract bc "clearly he is the next Radke!!" Unfortunately it works the other way as well: Park hits 1,000,000 Hr this spring, "uh oh, this guy might be the next David Arias, let's bury him!"

I also find it odd that the Twins baby the ever living hell out of prospects, but when it comes to CF prospects they go "lol, they surely can come in and produce from day one! Let's trade everyone we have in front of them" Span Revere Hicks

You still don't get it?

I hope it's JR Murphy, and he goes 5-5 with 11 total bases.

The joke was that the Yankees and Red Sox were rained out yesterday! Thus his OPS, HR's WAR etc stayed the same! The other half of the joke is that Murphy still isn't on the roster!

Ugh, I have to walk you through this EH? Goto Yankees.com Look for results Goto yesterday's box score Check out Hicks line

Why on earth would Pominville want to go play for Las Vegas? Won't happen.

I think you missed the joke. Which means it would be impossible for me to miss the point. Go look at the boxscore from the Yankees vs RedSox game yesterday

I'm not talking about $50 million a year. Just in general.

Check yesterday's box scores....