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Well...... I will consider it not happening when it doesn't happen. Minor league contract..... call up......... just because the option isn't picked up, doesn't mean Perkins will retire, and not be around in some fashion, yet.

The confirmation of this silver lining will be no more Perkins or Hughes. Sentimentality may still raise its misguided folly.

Does anyone know if Kevin Slowey is still MLBPA special assistant? http://mlb.mlb.com/pa/releases/releases.jsp?content=060215

As much as I hated how Militor often chose to bunt, I like it a lot in the right spots. There is no excuse for a major league batter, every one of them, to not be able to lay down a bunt successfully 75 - 80% of the time. With the excessive shifts these days, a good bunt should be an automatic base, at utilized to break the shift. Do the stats used here include attempted bunts? Like bunts attempted and fouled off twice and then the batter proceeded to hit away to finish the at bat? The Twins had so many failed bunt attempts.........

My bet.... No problems. My tib/fib horrible complete fracture healed great, and the intramedullary nail/rod is still living harmoniously in my tibia going on 28 years, with a couple of marathons finished. I was 34 when it went in. My bet.... No problems.

Can we put a pink line through Phil Hughes' name, yet?

I keep trying to get the pathetic look on Darvish's face from the mound during the World Series out of my head....... and how the rental totally screwed the Dodger's. Not once, but twice. It really was a nightmare. Trusting game 7 to a visitor. Positive the "ace" couldn't pitch so poorly twice in a row in the Series......... Ouch.

He will me my MOY when the Twins win in the postseason, and my MOD (decade) if they win the World Series. You say the vote is before the Postseason? Not in my world. Looks like whether one likes it or not, he might be around for at least a couple three years to get a chance to have his players make him look good, and he truly may improve, be a quick study, embrace the new world and get lots of help form the FO. So Congrats just the same. It may be the less one sees someone work, the better they seem. Knowing too much might not be helpful in considering who one votes for.

Ocean. He has said that he wants to play in a city that is near an ocean. That is one reason.

I wonder what it would take to get a fine 4th outfielder, Aaron Hicks, in a trade from NY?

Once again, the GG award is all over the place. Another award in baseball for which the criteria is on a "need to know" basis, and a true mystery.

Carlos had a pretty good July - August, but he was toast April through June. Sure, it can happen to anyone, but my bet is that last half year was his last hurrah. I think his slide is coming hard.

No reason to not get a more productive vet, if one is needed. I guess Mauer and Dozier and Santana aren't enough? Why not? I am relieved that Colon will be gone.

AJ Hinch gets my vote. Francona gets my 2nd place vote. I am in the 2 game improvement from 2015 to 2017 park. Molitor is like the relief pitcher that totally blows the save in the top of the 9th, gives up 4 runs and the two run lead, and then the team bails him out in the bottom of the inning, scores 3, and he gets the win. This team never should have had so much to come back from. Maybe I know and saw and remember too many things about how Molitor manages. The total mismanagement of what pen we had, the bunts, the blown double switch in LA that we all sat in the stands for 20 some minutes of WTF..... It isn't just won/loss record. A man that is still struggling so much with learning how to manage is not the manager of the year in my book.

Cahill is the only one I would give a shot.

I sure hope they have better plans for the bullpen than Buddy Boshers. He is exactly what the pen doesn't need.

Mine is stainless steel. I carry a card from my surgeon just in case, and he told me I wouldn't need it, and the rod would not set the alarms/sensors off, and it never has. I always felt they went on the cheap because I didn't get titanium! The two titanium/ceramic hips from last year haven't set off the bells and whistles either.....

I have an intramedullary rod/nail (it was called a rod then, now a nail) in my right tibia since 1991 (at 36). It was from a complete tib/fib break. Never set off a metal detector, but it does show up on the body scan. It wasn't a compound fracture, as the bones never came out of the skin, but it was quite severe, and the tibia was a clean complete cross sectional fracture, with the fibula a spiral fracture. The foot was twisted 180 degrees and pointed backwards. I was walking (kind of... the start of the rehab - bearing weight) in a week, and had a full leg cast for about 3 weeks, used crutches for a day, then one, then a cane, and was walking and rehabbing with no props in a month. It has never given me any problems, fully healed, and I was very active and a professional Hang Glider and Skydiver for years after, with no restrictions whatsoever. It surprises me that for a stress reaction this is being used, but it should have a relatively quick healing time, especially since Sano is under 26, and the osteoblast/osteoclast dance is more active, and the bones don't have to actually heal a severe break. The rod allows for weight bearing very quickly, and the weight bearing even helps it heal. The locking screws must be a newer addition, as I don't have them at all, and have not had any migration of the rod. Sano will be limited on cardio movements, for sure, and it will be a challenge to find a routine to keep toned and not gain weight, especially if he has not learned to eat a little less than he needs to maintain. If he lacks self control, and pigs out, he will skyrocket, as we all will.

....... but not better than in August or September..... regardless of the defense then, and coming, for again suggesting it should have been done right away, for Sano's sake and the Twins....

Looks like Verlander made a great decision.

Stop rubbing his history, or lack of it, in, please. I am talking myself into being hopeful!

Kenley Jansen is doing a fine Joe Nathan impersonation this World Series.

Kershaw has had some problems in the playoffs, and now World Series. After Game One, it seemed like it might be on a different track. But let's take a look at Verlander in the 3 World Series he has been in to date....... 4 games, 0-3, 6.43 ERA, 21 innings, 18 runs, 15 earned, 6 Homers, 8 walks, 2 wild pitchers, WHIP 1.333, with 21 Ks. He has been quite good, even great, in the ALCS and ALDS (11-2 in 16 starts with ERA about 2.30 and WHIP about 1.000)...... but in the Series....... not so fine.

Apparently the strike zone is now on a need to know basis.

There certainly must be something more convincing that is seen in his (Alston's) results than this. Surely. I hope. Must be. Work with me baby... work with me.