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  1. farmerguychris
    I've been reluctant to push to have Buxton play in the field if he's not physically ready - BUT, with said I think you have a great point. Either let Buck rest until he can play CF, or admit that he is simply now a DH. Too many other talented (possibly) hitters on this roster are being blocked by having him in that DH role, and while our CF play has been adequate, it is time to bring up both Lewis and Miranda and then can send down someone like Castro, or DFA Kepler or even Pagan. Season is 40% over - time to make some internal moves to know if we should be buyers or sellers very soon.
  2. farmerguychris
    Heck we had conflict on our beer softball league team - I would expect some conflict where things actually matter to happen. Conflict simply shows people care and are passionate about doing what they feel is best for the team. Its ok to have conflict as hopefully the compromise is better than either individual idea.
  3. farmerguychris
    We try to be patient, but for the 4th year in a row - we simply can't hit. Different hitting coaches don't seem to make a difference. Time to change that philosophy somehow.
  4. farmerguychris
    I think we have to move on. Next year neither Kepler, nor Polanco will be on this team as we have younger (and cheaper) options available. This is not unique to us, most teams have these same decisions to make as talent ages and new talent emerges. We have some good talent waiting in the wings that need a place to play.
  5. farmerguychris
    He would be a great fit for a team where they have a pitcher who can hit and the DH bats for the Right Fielder - maybe the Angels. But - can they even do that?
  6. farmerguychris
    Yes if we could trade Kepler and Pagan for some random reliever. This would allow one of our younger corner outfielders more playing time, and I feel pretty safe that any random reliever would be better than Pagan.
  7. farmerguychris
    Glad he's doing well - Good job. BUT, I'm afraid now this will only support the FO belief that they don't need to invest in the pen because they can just find guys like this. They obviously do, but not as often as they think they do.
  8. farmerguychris
    I would bet the Twins are hoping Celestino is ready to take over CF next season.
  9. farmerguychris
    You're giving examples of things Rocco is not in charge of. Pagan cannot be sent to St. Paul as he has too many years of service to be sent down to AAA without passing thru waivers. This is a F.O. decision, not a manager one. Same with Jax - its not Rocco's call, that goes to the F.O. of who stays in the bigs, and who gets sent down. Same with injuries - Rocco never went to school past high school - you think they let him make medical decisions? You can be upset with the F.O. for giving Rocco God awful players like Pagan (I agree he should never have been resigned, also not a Rocco role), but Rocco plays who F.O. gives him. The Twins deserve some heat from fans - but it needs to be placed on the people making the poor decisions, not blaming Rocco for choices that are not his to make. Is he perfect - of course not, but know what he controls, and what he is not allowed to when assigning blame. One last note - given the pitchers Rocco has been given to select from in our pen (again, by the F.O.)- who would you send out instead? There are NO good options because the F.O. admits, the pen is not something they feel needs to be invested in.
  10. farmerguychris
    I have no problem with Rocco. Managers in baseball get too much credit when things go well, and too much heat when things go poorly. The manager doesn't get to pick his roster, the manager doesn't decide who to call up or send down (hopefully does have influence), the manager is not a doctor and can't decide who is too injured to play. He simply puts the best possible roster together of the players he is given. When given a poor BP, he can only send out poor quality pitchers he is given. He's not the one who keeps striking out, or the one who decides Buxton should only be a DH. I know a lot of Twins fans will disagree with me, but he is part of the process of using advanced analytics that this Front Office has chosen to use to try and win a championship. Since that is the philosophy they are going to go with (which I support), then better to have a manager who also believes in it instead of an old school, rub some dirt on it type of coach like they could bring in.
  11. farmerguychris
    I disagree - The team DOES have faith in him. Thats what most of us don't understand. They shouldn't have faith in him, but by resigning him, and then as they keep sending him out. Why could they possibly have faith in him to keep doing that is the question.
  12. farmerguychris
    Wasn't this the plan -for him to be really, really good?
  13. farmerguychris
    I'm ok with Buck being in the DH role as long as Taylor is healthy and playing well. If Taylor gets injured, I feel thats the time to put Buck in CF instead of any other options. For now, things are going fine.
  14. farmerguychris
    Between this, and the earlier Houston series I believe this proves that IF we can stay healthy - we can play with anyone in the AL. Long season ahead, but we belong with the teams trying to make noise in the playoffs.
  15. farmerguychris
    Sounds like he's having a good rehab to get back to driving the ball. Any word on how he's feeling? Seems like he was pretty vocal last year about things not 'feeling right' - hopefully he's feeling ok now and hitting again. Would be good addition when Salano is our other 1B option and can have struggles.
  16. farmerguychris
    I'm just starting to really get into the draft stuff overall - mostly I do look at SS, CF and SP as figure those players are often the best players on an individual team (like I said, I'm learning), but I have to think we seriously need a stud C in this draft. Hope there are some out there as our long term cupboard for the future of this position is not great.
  17. farmerguychris
    Can we please start by winning a playoff game? Then a playoff series?
  18. farmerguychris
    Simply meaning that because of so many left handed corner outfielders in our system - Larnach may indeed get traded. But - I also feel that when all is said and done, Larnach will have a better MLB career than Gordon - maybe just not with the Twins.
  19. farmerguychris
    I agree partly with your comments - it is a no brainer that Trevor should go down, but only because he does have options left and Gordon can play a bigger variety of positions. I feel pretty strongly that if we didn't have a ton of left handed bats in the system - Larnach is going to have a better long term career than Gordon. But you're right, for the time being need to keep Gordon's ability to play multiple positions and hope he hits his way out of this slump. Its only a matter of time before Larnach is back due to a different injury.
  20. farmerguychris
    When did they 'promise' to be more aggressive? As others have stated, you have to have the players to be aggressive with. Do you even WANT to be aggressive with players like Buxton (injury), Gordon (never on base so far), or Kepler (inablity to get on base).
  21. farmerguychris
    You're right in your comment - but today Taylor is nearly as good in CF, and a better hitter so far this year.... So..yeah. Sure long term Buxton will be better....he has to be, and Taylor will cool off and come back to his career average numbers, but for the time being - makes no sense that putting Buxton in CF will do anything to improve our hitting because we have no bench players who would go into the DH spot that are hitting better than today's version of Taylor.
  22. farmerguychris
    Does Moran remind anybody else of Pagan where I'm worried that as good as his stuff looks analytic wise - it just doesn't pass the real life game test? Hope we don't keep throwing him out there like they have done with other relief pitchers who can't generate results.
  23. farmerguychris
    I think it will be Castro before Gordon as Gordon doesn't have any options left while Castro does.
  24. farmerguychris
    Should we be concerned - sure. But - so far we've been able to take advantage of the depth the FO created during the off season and its working out. No team has unlimited depth, so hopefully we'll start getting guys back sooner rather than later. Most concerning for me are the ability for either Polanco or AK to play a significant role this year.
  25. farmerguychris
    As long as Taylor is healthy, I see no reason to put Buxton there other than a day off for Taylor. Our OF is almost as good, and it keeps Buxton from being in position to get injured as often. His production in the batting order is more important than any slight upgrade he gives us in the field. The only thing I don't like about that idea means that Taylor needs to be in the batting line up as well. I'm pretty sure this will work itself out without any decisions needing to be made - people always get injured, and thats when he'll start playing in the field more often. I have no problems at all with the plan they are taking at the moment. It was time to try something new because just putting him out there has always resulted in injury - why would that change?
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