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  1. jokin
    They've been sending quite a few of those in the month of May. Not sure how many of them are being received. (IE... If you recall, starting the message flurry... it was about one year ago at this time that the Twins sent down Vargas, who for the month of May was the Twins hottest hitter- Vargas has never recovered)
  2. jokin
    Wow. If only that were still true...
  3. jokin
    You and me both. Sanchez career opponent OPS- v. LHB .768 v. RHB .453
  4. jokin
    Especially playing at home against a team that is almost as inept as our guys.
  5. jokin
    Not exactly a confidence-inspiring lineup. What is the insistence on maintaining Dozier at the top of the order? Why not give Dozier the night off, DH Sano or Arcia and get another left hand bat in the lineup versus Sanchez? Two infielders and yet another AAAA waiver castoff manning the OF... management "sending more "messages"?
  6. jokin
    We can't separate out the position change. By all accounts, being informed of the move to RF did not go well in the Sano camp- like "literally out of Left Field". And the distractions thereby entailed toward his hitting prep can not be ignored as a big piece in the puzzle concerning his sub-standard plate productivity.
  7. jokin
    Pretty fair post all the way around. And although I myself would place a slightly higher percentage blame at the top of the organization, I would also surmise that the overriding concern for the failure to address the bullpen was closer to 99.99% among all informed Twins fans. The pen situation is nothing new. This has been an obvious gap in strategic planning black hole since a year ago in June- when if two solid arms had been acquired to solidify 2015's bullpen mess, it could very well have been enough of an upgrade to have propelled the Twins to a playoff spot. For the organization to publicly state their intentions to correct the situation in the offseason, and then- INSTEAD- compound this glaring pitching upgrade omission by weakening the defense, should be sufficient grounds for the GM's dismissal. Short of all this, the premise that what's happening on this board and among informed Twins fandom since this disaster got underway is some sort of revisionist history or simply 20/20 hindsight is wildly inaccurate.
  8. jokin
    Are you representing your opinion as that of a huge majority that is far more objective than "a few" who are incapable of objectivity? I would demur at your rather subjective assumption on this point. ie, How many, if any, used the term "idiotic", with respect to the retention of Plouffe? Is that what you consider a "fair-minded" characterization of those with whom you disagree?
  9. jokin
    Strictly based on your own specific math criteria... even if the two moves that worked were sheer genius on the part of the GM- that means Terry is still batting .100 on the season. Not perfect
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  11. jokin
    In a nutshell... THIS
  12. jokin
    While it's difficult to make definitively valid comparisons with a finely tuned professional athlete's injuries to injuries incurred in high school glory days and by weekend pick-up basketball warriors, I doubt that Buxton's supposedly delayed return from back spasms (which was incurred on his incredibly ripped body while record cold was sweeping vast swathes of the northern United States) is in any way related to his supposed "softness."
  13. jokin
    Nah. According to at least some on here, it's a soft Buxton who is supposedly embarrassing himself.
  14. jokin
    Over-reaction?
  15. jokin
    Yeah... but he only had one K! Clearly... slumping- given his 24.92 K/9 coming into tonight's game. In all seriousness, why did the Twins even bother sending him to AAA? He needs to be in the Twins hemorrhaging pen, yesterday.
  16. jokin
    Any word on the seriousness of Garver's concussion? He's now been inactive for 8 days.
  17. jokin
    Bare Bones, indeed.
  18. jokin
    I think the stat cited referred to Vargas having a wRC+ of 161 in AAA and 163 in AA- with a combined OBP of .414- that's someone's numbers, who with options remaining, you just don't dismiss out of hand, even at age 25. To go back to 2015, there was a major disagreement/misunderstanding/miscommunication on Vargas' plate approach that played out when Vargas was up with the Twins. He was summarily demoted in mid-May by the Twins, even as he was the hottest hitter on the team for the month of May, a month in which he was slashing at: .366/.395/.561/(.957)... with a wRC+ of 164. His public comments in reaction to being sent down at the time were confusing, and demonstrated his own personal confusion to what the Twins wanted from him, to say the least. Of course, he struggled mightily in spot duty during two subsequent call-ups- his performance suggesting continued confusion on his part with respect to Twins expectations...; and with the subsequent offseason signing of Park, it's pretty obvious that the Twins came to the conclusion that his days with the Twins are numbered.
  19. jokin
    Pitcher?
  20. jokin
    I'm not exactly sure what you're saying here- Is it the trend of "failed prospects continuing" that you fear- 0r- That you fear that TD posters are in an overstated heavy-bleeding trend about failed prospects.
  21. jokin
    My guess would be that teams already might have made inquiries and Ryan is (temporarily) overvaluing him as critical DH depth and doesn't like what teams might be offering. And also, other teams know that Vargas is soon out of options and can be had for free as a FA.
  22. jokin
    As the weather is warming up, so is Vargas' bat. Here's his May slash: .346/.471/.615/(1.086) with 14 walks and 10 Ks. I think in this hitting starved world in which we live in that more than one team would put a claim in and take a risk-free chance on Vargas.
  23. jokin
    It seems like Terry Ryan has the market cornered on filling rosters full with "AAAA quintessence".
  24. jokin
    So do you mean he's going to retire just as Terry Ryan is about to promote him to the Twins?
  25. jokin
    Methinks you're going to hear some dissent on that 'ick".
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