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  1. TheLeviathan
    At the very least Morgan needs lots of playing time. I read Tracy Claeys say Seth Green would be his QB this year....did that man ever see him throw? How was he ever a QB for anyone? Nice win, need 2 more of them this year.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Buxton's injury issues are often blamed on his mentality. He might just be brittle.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I eagerly await his every decision to be hated by 50% of hte fan base, supported by the other 50% of the fan base with no rational basis. It's a sweet gig.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Embrace analytics, steady personality. (What type...I don't care) Beyond that...throw a dart.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Haunting Hill is good. Daredevil is probably among the last of the Netflix Marvel shows (One more Punisher and Jessica Jones too) and it's ending with a bang. I haven't finished, but Fisk is still the best villain in any Marvel property and Bullseye has been well done too.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, there are some serious coaching issues. Coughlin looks like a possible talent on Sunday though, man is he good. Also....the Wildcat needs to go. Running the same option dive to the left every freaking play is just stupid. That's ridiculous.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Playing guys at random middle infield positions in case of a worst case scenario sounds like a good way to create that scenario. If you believe defense matters, throwing guys randomly around the field is very contradictory. Kepler should play 1B when it creates an advantage for the Twins. Which could happen in splits opportunities when deciding between a Cave and Austin. I could see that being beneficial at times if the Twins don’t upgrade 1B.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I think 95 wins is very plausible. For one, Cleveland is about to lose their two best players from an already weak bullpen. Their starting staff is still awesome, but they can be challenged. For two, the team has the trade assets in the minors to supplement any signings with trade value. In fact, of the additions they make to improve, I hope the majority come from trade. The FA signings should hopefully fill in the gaps/bullpen.
  9. TheLeviathan
    Jake Cave would be another. And in the recent past - Dozier, Pressley, and Escobar. Good things can happen when you give upside an opportunity. Sometimes that means cutting loose a marginally better player to create the opportunity.
  10. TheLeviathan
    There is a wide gulf between "Yeah, we like you well enough to not cut you" and getting his level of production. It absolutely was a fluke, the kind of flukes teams get when they offer opportunity. Dozier was a guy like that for us not that long ago.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Milwaukee definitely had some flukes help them too, as in the case of Aguilar. He was a waiver wire pick-up and a guy they had no intention of playing (as evidenced by the Thames signing) but given playing time he had a breakout year. It's why it's so critical to give long looks to players on the bubble. You never know what you might have.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I hope the Twins are active with one big trade this offseason. This is a good time to leverage someone like Nick Gordon into an impact player on the 25 man roster.
  13. TheLeviathan
    He is a year and a half in, his recruiting class is pretty much all freshman on the field. They've had a good win against Fresno and a bad loss against Maryland. You can see that there is more talent on the field, more explosiveness, and more competitiveness than the previous regime. I don't mind looking at a freshman group playing well in Ohio St. as a moral victory. You are all over the place on the very idea that people might be happy with that because they haven't won enough Big 10 games, 3 games in. I guess I prefer to judge the growth of the season at the end of hte season, especially if I were using Big 10 wins as my barometer considering there are still six more of them. Maybe just chill a little bit. I'm not going to award Fleck a 10 year extension for a moral victory, but I can appreciate that it's a good sign for the program. Now he has to build off of it, if he doesn't - than I'll be critical for it.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Or you could just wait and see how things play out? No one is crowing about the moral victory here, but you are dismissing progress this season only halfway in. That's not fair either. I'll wait to criticize/praise them as things happen I guess.
  15. TheLeviathan
    You've also dismissed any growth in the program with 6 games left in the Big10 schedule. Perhaps you should save some of the hyperventilating until season's end? Moral victories like this one, can be building blocks for exactly the kinds of wins you're asking for.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Fresno St. was not a creampuff win. They have to go 3-3 to "show improvement" in their record and they'll get a chance to have a few Big 10 home games too against the softer part of the Big 10. No one is saying actual wins don't matter, they do. But moral victories can matter too.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I would say after the coach has had 3-4 years. I think their start has earned them the ability to take credit for moral victories. I hope they also regret leaving a chance to win on the field. If they go 3-3 over the next 6 games they will have improved. And I see a much better product on the field each week compared to last year. Personally, I don't like Fleck's schtick, but things do seem on the uptick. And when they are, I can recognize moral victories. I think you're being far too harsh.
  18. TheLeviathan
    When you are transparently building from the ground up.....moral victories are just fine. The key is learning from them.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Same for me, but it is on FS1 if you have access to that.
  20. TheLeviathan
    You're taking a top 8-10 hitter in the middle infield to downgrade him to league average....and have him play a position he hasn't played defensively. I don't see the upside Mike. In general, I can't ever see a scenario where I'm moving a middle infielder to a corner unless the guy is 40 and can still hit like a machine.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I'm not sure he'll be an equal defensively and he's not a better hitter than Rosario. Plus...now you have two infield spots open. And those are harder to fill.
  22. TheLeviathan
    And they're likely to lose Corbin this year as well. I see them dumping Grienke and trading Goldschmidt as a full rebuild signal.
  23. TheLeviathan
    I agree, though I don't think you could do that with Goldschmidt. But maybe Jake Lamb?
  24. TheLeviathan
    I guess it depends on what they end up doing overall. But yeah, I don't think it will take much to add him.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Moving Polanco's bat to the corner OF reduces a lot of my interest in keeping him. I don't see how the Twins get better in that scenario.
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