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Hicks had a couple nice catches today, and his team has won 7 straight! If we had him still we certainly would have won these last two games at the very least.
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Game Thread: Twins vs. Indians 4-17 @ 7:10 PM CT
DaveW replied to glunn's topic in Archived Game Threads
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So you won't bet me for a pair of Twins tickets? Got it. Lot of absolutes being spoken by someone who won't make a friendly wager with a guy he has known for 10+ years. Hicks will have a .740 ops or higher, if not I will donate a pair of Twins tickets to charity in your name.
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#fakenews Check against LHP lolol
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Meanwhile nobody taking my bet that Hicks will get a .740 overall or higher OPS at end of year. Lot of talk, no action. Hmmmm
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July 1st on. The real 2nd half.
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I do a lot of things to dump that dead weight -4.0 WAR over a full season player.
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What about Aaron Hicks: 98 ops+ 2015, 102 ops+ second half of 2016? While playing great D and providing nice speed. What has Murphy done again? Ever?
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Also anybody complaining about Rosario's defense from a corner OF can't be taken seriously. Or has never seen what most teams roll out in LF/RF lolol
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The decline for most players absolutely does not start at 28, at least in baseball. Also he is only 27, 6 more months til 28 lololol. 27-30 is when POWER begins to peak, thus the 20 HR pop (already has 3 in 22 at bats fwiw)
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Well he has walked 9 times. Was he supposed to swing at a bunch of ****ty pitches? Also I'm not so much up on hicks as I am down (and always have been!!!!) about trading him straight up for the back up catcher best case scenario Murphy. I said it then and I say it now. Terrible trade, period, dot com, dot org, end of story
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/checks to see if Santana is still on roster Yup, we messed up by not releasing him for literally ANYONE on the waiver wire. There is not a more pointless player in baseball for this club then Santana. At least Juan Castro made a tiny bit of sense
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Santana is a stud. If he keeps this up he certainly needs to be traded unless the Twins literally find themselves within 2-3 games of the DIVISON lead on July 31st or in a WC spot at the time IMO. They need some live young arms for the future, a guy like Santana should be able to bring a couple back.
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Hicks is a plus plus defender, has 20-25 hr pop potentially and has speed as well. Grossman is a disaster in the OF and is a DH type. Grossman needs to have a .780+ ops to be worthwhile as a DH. Hicks needs a .720 OPS to be a nice asset to his team, and a .780 ops makes him a 3-4 WAR player with his D and speed.
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Hicks had a 98 ops+ 2015 and a 102 ops+ the second half of last year. He's a better hitter than you give him credit for, but keep bringing up his swing rate out of context brock. I know it's your New found favorite stat and all...
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So that post made April 16th is fine when he started out slow, but people say my thread April 17th when he started out white out is wrong? Hmm
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31 PA, those walks count for his high OBP fwiw
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Time will tell. 1.257 ops isn't a fluke IMO. Dude looks great at the plate, seen nearly half of his at bats thus far (and witnessed his bomb in person last night at the game)
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19 points actually. He has a .721 for the Twins in 2015, a 19 point raise at age 27 isn't out of the question. Esp when you start out the season with a 1.300 ops nearly! How about a friendly wager: pair of twins tickets to the winner? I take .740 over you take under, deal?
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Also fwiw Hicks had a 98 OPS+ his last season with this club. This nonsense about him being a 70 OPS+ guy moving fwd no matter what is as silly as if I claim he is going to be a .850 OPS overall guy moving fwd.
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It's not set in stone that he is a .617 ops player for the rest of his career. There is a good chance that the Yankees hitting coach team are everything is better and help "fix" him (sort of like what happened with Kepler and Reggie!) Hicks is only 27, plenty of players don't figure it out until 27-28. If hicks was 32-33 I would get your point, but still, Hicks looks like a much better player (I watch a lot of Yankee games) at the plate and even the field. I guess we will see though. I do bet that he ends up with a. .820 ops against LHP and a .740 OPS overall this year.
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I think the Twins made the same mistake with Hicks, they prematurely traded away their CF depth and rushed him. Ditto to what they did with Buxton. All that does is waste a year or two of service time while both were clearly over matched early on iMO.
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That's the thing: there was no reason for Sano to be blocked at third. Not trading plouffe (even in season) was a complete failure. Hicks at the very least would make a pretty damn compelling platoon guy with Rosario at this moment. That has plenty of value IMO, there still is the chance he can figure it out and reach his potential as well as an average to above average overall CF. The fact that the Twins back up Of currently is Santana and Grossman is all we need to know to see they have plenty of space avail for someone who can hit lefties and play gray Defense.
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Grossman, Santana and Sano all got a ton of games in the OF last year (Santana already has 3 this year) How was Hicks blocking a bunch of great OF again? The idea that they just HAD to trade Hicks is false.
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Yup re: Hicks and Buxton, Both were rushed and it messed with development. I really think this team lacks some good hitting coach(es) at the major league level. Always knew that the Twins gave up too early on Hicks, and I never understood why. It's like when they traded Span before they needed to as well. Lord knows I would have rather had Hicks in the OF then Grossman and Sano.... that was what the worst part was, trading Hicks and then putting Sano in the OF. Which set sanos development at 3B back and forced us to rush Buxton
