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Everything posted by jokin
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Yep. I held off for this year because of his slow start offensively. But, I'm making book that youth will be served starting in 2018. Short of Mike Trout, we may very well be having this same debate next year about Buxton- but as league MVP, not just Twins MVP.
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Buxton actually is transcending what is considered Gold Glove-worthy at the CF position.
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Impossible to leave Buck out of top three.
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Yup. (But his reign probably ends in 2018, giving way to Buck).
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Not convinced. It's still Dozier by a whisker over Buxton.
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Heh. Good write-up, good finish. I concur. As we all know, Rosario was horrid at the plate out of the gate. At that time when he was regularly hitting in the 8 or 9 slots- and through June 11 his OPS+ was 74- (since then- OPS+ 142!!!), I predicted that he eventually would be the key guy to move up and hit behind Sano and push the middle order to peak potential production. Ironically, Sano's not available now, and Eddie's production rate has actually increased, while hitting between Polanco and Excobar, of all people (that would have been a tough one to predict!). Good that Mollie stuck with him, and tinkering, instead of completely revamping his unorthodox plate approach. With the array of the budding stars now beginning to meet and beat their own lofty projections, I actually think Rosario is going to somehow continue to be "overlooked"- hopefully that will just be more incentive for him to ultimately earn his just due.
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I concur on 4th place, with Ervin being 4A. I would concur on everything else, except I'd flip Dozier and Mauer. Dozier's actually coming pretty close to duplicating his 2016 season, except he's a more disciplined and complete hitter- improved BB rate, K rate, hitting to all fields, career high OBP. Besides that, it seems pretty clear that he's THE team leader- and by all accounts, THE prime factor in motivating both the vets and the young guys to really pour it on over the last two months, especially his presumptive intervening move when management were sellers at the deadline. Buxton IS a close second, and I have no doubt in my mind that he will take on both the primary leadership and perennial MVP mantles in the next couple years.
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Similar sentiments here, except I feel that the ride is going to last even longer than that.
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What should have been soul-crushers turned into team-bonding features. The best part? Win or lose the WC, it's only going to get even better from here going forward!
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How about some motivation for the Kiddie Korps that Kould? Play all of that A-Rod FS1 WrapAround Twins/Yankees WC forecasting crap before, during and after every game through Sunday.
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That sums it up perfectly. I've surprised myself at how close I felt like this dude when Delmonico's shot left the ballpark down in Chi-town. Like the weight of the world turned into a pair of 5# dumbbells.
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Seven long, painful years. I was good with just Regime Change as my 2017 highlight . Can't properly express how good that 1987 "giddy" feeling feels once again. Crushing the Yankees will just be a cherry on the top.
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Agreed, it's great to see a little of the Old Joe back and somewhat resembling his previous form from his batting championship days. Seeing him pull that Grand Slam deep to RF makes me hope for a Renaissance Joe in finishing out his contract out with a flourish through 2018. But no matter how it ends up playing out, he's as much a hitter out of sync with the traditional production at his position as Wade Boggs was @ 3B for the Red Sox.
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Engelb Vielma lost on waivers to Giants
jokin replied to Bob Sacamento's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
Vielma was a "prospect" born of the mind-set of the past regime, in the hoped-for image of "Gardy over-acheiver", ala Lil Nicky, Pedro Florimon, Drew Butera and JR Murphy. -
Literally, yes, he's still on the roster, but in the figurative terms around which I was writing, he's only up here out of sheer desperation for intact arms good enough for Chris Gimenez duty. Highly unlikely we'll ever see him in a Twins uniform after this year.
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Actually, he used to be a terrific player for the Twins for many years- as a catcher. Mauer was ranked one of the worst at his position for the three years previous to this season- according to Fangraphs, 25th best @ 1st base. While he is clearly having his best season since 2013, and his defense has greatly improved over the years, he's still only ranked around 16th best in terms of fWAR @ 1st base for 2017.
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Nit-picker
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At this point, Tonkin has used up all of his chances- forever- and.... (sadly) Perk is a gimmick wrapped up in an afterthought inside of a nostalgic novelty.
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It doesn't matter so much in September, but they certainly should have scoured the waiver wires in August and come up with a name that might have been a difference-maker in a few of those one-run losses over having Perk hog a spot for no apparent reason.
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I think I'd prefer in a day or two, anyway.
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Yep. I'm convinced, short of a World Serious run, Molitor has already been determined by Falvine to be a dead man(ager) walking.
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Partially, it still is.. Addition by subtraction is one way to mitigate a bad bullpen. (SP threw only 94 ptichers, pretty easy to see scenarios where the Twins win the game, with only one or two RPs used to finish off the game- Rogers and/or Busenitz).
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Game Thread: Twins @ Royals; 6:15 CDT, 9/9/17
jokin replied to IndianaTwin's topic in Archived Game Threads
Agreed on Kepler. No argument with Gimenez's poor numbers, I acknowledged how bad the options were. But that wasn't the question posed. The question was why Molitor went with a raw rookie over a proven major league RHB. Moloitor appeared to be saving Adrianza for possible PR duty (another mistake). But, among poor RHB options (thanks to Falvine), Garver was undoubtedly the wrong choice at the wrong time, and I'm guessing the probability of outcome analysis backs up that premise.
