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Berrios? Duffey? Nah. Last time I checked, there is a guy who is pitching better than both, any way you cut it, in Rochester, and he has much higher upside than both. Alex Meyer should be in the Twins' rotation way before Berrios or Duffey. Milone needs to go and the already pretty mediocre at best Twins' pen will not improve with someone like him. Plenty of other arms to do mop up duty.

Nah. Dozier and Gagne have one thing in common. (check Dozier's twitter profile, if you care to see what I am talking about...)

Dozier is kinda polarizing figure in the clubhouse, same way that Greg Gagne was back in the day, and I will leave it at that.

My take is the same that it was this off-season: For the Twins to compete, they need at least 2 arms better than Perkins and Jepsen. Chargois and Burdi could be them. I'd take Chargois over Fien right now. 5 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 9 K should be rewarded. Fien has an option. Matter of fact, I trust Chargois more than I trust Jepsen. Melotakis should not be down for long either. He is pitching way better than his .700some BABIP-inflated stats suggest. The other thing is bad use of pitchers. Molitor should write on a blackboard 1000 times: Do not use O'Rourke against RHBs. Doing so is purely inane. Is this the bullpen of a contender? No way. But at this point the Twins are not contenders but have the worst record in baseball. No wonder Ryan is at Rochester trying to get help ASAP

Nolasco has practically been lights out. I don't want him to get traded, want him to continue doing what he is doing. Santana (the older one with the longest contract of the bunch) should go second. Of course Milone should had been out last night. Pitching same day as Meyer, so that one is plug and play.

Comparing modern era numbers with those of the 20s makes absolutely no sense. In 1927 the league average slash line was .292/.354/.411 whereas in 2015 was .254/.317/.405. I just find it hard to believe that they both have the same OPS+ with such different baselines. Or likely, OPS+ fails when comparing eons apart Yes, Mauer was a better hitter in his time than Cochrane was in his...

Not sure where the hey that myth came about, but he is not. Kelly won 1,140 games, Gardenhire 1,068. Billy Martin ended up with 1,253 (of course not all Twins) and Bucky Harris (Senators) with 2,158. Any way you count it, he was not that

Let me count the ways: - The Twins finally showed that they can hold someone accountable for a team that went 99+96+96+92, by firing him. However, they did not fire him apparently, they just gave him a year of a paid sabbatical before they welcomed him back. (It was all Jerry's and Stelly's and Bobby's fault...) - The Twins have won a single post-season series since November of 1991, even though in several occasions (like the season they had both the MVP and the CY winner) were the favorites, and the number one reason for this, this millennium, was Ron Gardenhire. - Gardenhire's attitude for a while was that of accepting losing, tossing his arms over the dugout railing and practically allowing his team to quit on him. Not something you want to install in the minor leaguers or something that you want to allow to propagate in the organization - Gardenhire was the master of favoritism of his buddies and of alienation of players he did not like (most of them college educated and smart). Not something you want to propagate in the organization or reward. - Proven clueless about player evaluation, hating on Garza/Lohse/Gomez/Hardy. On the record about wanting more speed and Nishioka over Hardy and nothing to do with Gomez. On the record about the "proven closer" situation. - Inability to communicate with Latinos. Multiple quotes of the kind "I don't know what he is talking about"; and feeling proud of it, like the 22 year old kid should be the one that bears the burden of learning English. - this team is way inbred. They need some new outside thinking sooner than later, otherwise they will perish. Hiring Gardy is the epitome of inbredness ....

Now with Polanco up, Dozier needs to ride the pine for a few days to clear his head...

I think that the Twins should do what is better for the Twins a season that they are competing. It will be good for Dozier and Escobar to take some breathers and Nunez will not be hot all the time. As he cools off, Escobar can play third and Polanco short. Polanco's bat is better than those three's...

Tonkin and O'Rourke together make a great pitcher. 2015 Tonkin MLB: vs RHB: .154/.254/.231 vs LHB: .361/.400/.611 Tonkin MLB career: vs RHB: .217/.292/.287; 2.81 FIP vs LHB: .290/.350/.516; 5.54 FIP 2015 O'Rourke MLB: vs RHB: .231/.354/.410 vs LHB: .171/.292/.268 O'Rourke MLB Career: vs RHB: .231/.354/.410; 7.01 FIP vs LHB: .167/.286/.262; 2.80 FIP I want Tonkin to face lefties as much as I want O'Rourke to face righties. Both of these guys are/should be situational OOGYS

O'Rourke can strike out lefties (career MiLB split around 18 K/9 against lefties,) Rogers not so much.

Hopefully that will mean some butt on the pine time for Dozier who has been stinking up the place lately...

If rewarding the manager of 99+96+96+92 with a tenured job is not a sign of a losing culture, I don't know what it is...

Glad to see the Twins doing their best to help keep unemployable former managers from finding out what it takes to earn a buck in baseball's free market. Welcome back to the Country Club Gardy

Losing culture? Sure. But the list in the OP is a bunch of symptoms. Winners set the bar high. Here is where TR set the bar before the 2015 season: (from here) "Early on in Spring Training I told people who wanted to listen we had a chance to be pretty decent here, and we got off to that very difficult start and it made me look foolish," Ryan said. "But then we regrouped and got back into the thing. So overall, I had some expectations we were gonna be pretty good and battled into September and all that stuff and it came true. So that was rewarding. So I don't think inside the organization it was a shock." When your goals are for your team to be "pretty decent" or "pretty good" and not "winning it all" or "going to the World Series", you set up a losing culture that feeds on mediocrity. Simple.

deja vu all over again give them a week with a short bench (and at a time that they should be trying to win every game, since they are already 5 games behind) and then they will put him on the DL retroactively..

Someone like Garrett Williams might fall in the Twins' lap and they will be crazy if they do not go after him...

He is playing at a .385 BABIP. He finished 2013 with a .383 BABIP and 2009 with a .373, but his average has been around .340, so he will likely regress to this. Still, regression and all, he is on the pace for a high .800s low .900s OPS. A bright point for this team that without him would had been 6 games under .500 now or something Bruno should be handing out Mauer sunglasses left and right...

Hearing Bert trying to do that, will be enough

Totally. Chargois looks like a cold-blooded killer out there. Got the Mariano Rivera composure. Fien who? He was never anything when BABIP approached MLB norms.

Meyer has 4 pitches, including a high 70s curveball. Here. With radar pictures. Back then he did not have a changeup, but was throwing a 4- and a 2-seamer. I suspect that the bull talk is Meyer wanting to play it the "Twins' way" and be a corporate guy. The only pitcher in the organization with Ace stuff. He should start. Period.

The jury is not out on that one. Shoulder issues minus 5-7 mph; remember a guy named Santana? Put a fork in him. Perkins is done. Pressly was one of the best RHRP options last season and it was expected that he will be good this season. Still the Twins need a couple good arms or three. JT Chargois should be packing his bags

Nope. This is like saying that Jason Marquis is better than Sidney Ponson...

Typical Ryan dumpster diving half baked move that means nothing for the Twins, other than blocking youth. They will move Perkins to the 60-day DL for the spot.