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  1. TheLeviathan
    Are you there to defend him when he uses those guys and they blow games and the chorus is "why not use your best guys"?
  2. TheLeviathan
    Well said.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Sure, but there really is only so much you can do with depth. Competent major leaguers aren't eager to be Plan B or C. The Mariners are playing the corpse of Gordon Beckham for example. If you had said at ST we would lose Castro, Mauer, Polanco, and Buxton for much of the first half and sano, Dozier, Buxton, and LiMo would all be flailing....it wouldn't take a genius to expect offensive collapse. It's the healthy guys playing like garbage that hurts most.
  4. TheLeviathan
    And he is 25, probably time to accelerate a bit. He sounds like he will fit nicely as a forth OFer if he stays track.
  5. TheLeviathan
    It'd be easier to have a gameplay towards Realmuto if we knew what, if anything, the team plans to do with all the free budget room we have. I think we should aggressively acquire him and plan to continue to spend this offseason. Locking down the catching position would help tremendously. But if we are going Scrooge mode this off-season it may be wise to keep Gordon.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Plus, it happens in the NFL and NHL too. Why baseball is so weird about this never made sense to me.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Trading Sano for Realmuto is stealing from Peter to pay Paul. The aim is to get better, not swap parts. If you are getting Realmuto, you want him with Sano, not as a swap.
  8. TheLeviathan
    At various times the last two years people have wanted to drum Gibson and Rosario out of town. Maybe we should learn to just appreciate team control a bit with talented players.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I always thought there was so much potential if he could refine his approach, but this surge was not something I would've wagered on. But I was also adamant the team stick with him and believe in him. I hope he keeps rewarding the faithful.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Welcome to the Rosario bandwagon, those of us who never got off already called shotgun.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Time to start rooting for the "sell" candidates to succeed. Might not be the worst thing for this team to get some value for Rodney, Reed, Duke, Dozier, and others.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Is there any value to freeing him up off the 40 man or anything of that nature?
  13. TheLeviathan
    I just tuned in.... Gordon Beckham is still a thing? What?
  14. TheLeviathan
    Chief is right - he is a major defensive liability. Or at least feared to be (with some legit reasons for believing so), so what do you want the team to do? If we were throwing butchers out at other positions on the field I don't think we'd see a thread like this where people are so willingly dismissive of the issue. Personally, I'd like to see him playing more, but the manager is completely justified in being concerned about that too.
  15. TheLeviathan
    And not a single one of those things implies he doesn't "like" hitting. Which is what Thrylos said. All you restated is that Byron struggles more with his offense and it comes less naturally. That isn't the same thing as not "liking" or "liking to work at it". (The latter being the real problem, taking someone's preference and turning it into a question of work ethic) You should go back and read the original quote. You don't even seem to agree with what you're defending.
  16. TheLeviathan
    C'mon man. Picking your favorite thing is not a statement of devaluation of other things. Period. That's the unfair conclusion that was drawn and what my analogy was meant to show. If you want to say "Buxton should work on hitting" - ok. Say that. Dragging up some quote, making an unfair inference, and using it to go after him is just silly and indefensible. You're trying to defend it, but you have yourself in a pretzel to do it.
  17. TheLeviathan
    You can't take someone asking him to rank his favorite thing to do and infer from that he doesn't value the other thing. Quick tell me your favorite family member so I can then tell you how much you don't value the other members of your family. I can give more examples of that really unfair logic, but I'd like to hope it's unnecessary.
  18. TheLeviathan
    I've been critical of Buxton in this thread but I want to distance from this. I don't agree with taking personal shots at guys like Sano for what we assume to be their work habits and I won't do so about Buxton either. I'm not sure why he hasn't been able to build off success, but whatever the issue is....I won't assume it's because he doesn't care. I don't know the man and won't judge him that way. But I will continue to say he has to figure it out....whatever "it" is. The excuses are no longer valid, we're at about 1,000 ABs now and it isn't pretty. And there are no signs to be optimistic about either.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Well, part of leadership is producing on the field and coming through for your team. There are off the field elements also, but if you're one of the players the team is relying on....you sorta need to be reliable at the plate. Right now Dozier is going on one of his famines and the team needs him to feast. Part of being a leader is stepping up to fill what the club needs from you. It's a perfectly fair criticism.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I guess I'm skeptical he'd be used that way. If he became a 3-4 times a week guy who gives us 1-3 innings of high leverage relief....well alright then. I just have my doubts. Not necessarily because of Molitor or the FO or anything....I think I've just been beaten down on ever thinking the Twins will be ahead of the curve.
  21. TheLeviathan
    What if he could be more than an iffy starter? I'm not sure I'm sold on that characterization of his potential. (I know he's older, but he's also be foolishly yanked around)
  22. TheLeviathan
    June ain't much better. Drew Butera is a career .555 OPS player. That means Byron Buxton is playing about half his seasons at roughly Drew Butera production. I think I'm just done with the excuses until that changes.
  23. TheLeviathan
    His career OPS by month: April - .464 May - .600 June .546 July .739 August .818 September .853 I don't consider dreadful numbers for half of a season to be a "slow starter". The problems go well beyond that and the "slow starting" narrative really needs to end.
  24. TheLeviathan
    It's ok to be pollyannaish as long as you're also willing to eat the crow later. I'm not sure you need to yet, but there is no question that Buxton's continued inability to build his profile as a hitter is very alarming. And injuries are not an excuse - they're part of the problem. I'm not writing them off yet, this team is capable of playing better baseball. But the big dogs have to start barking or it won't matter and Nick is spot-on about that.
  25. TheLeviathan
    If I'm the Twins I pick one person, whomever that may be, and make that the only person Byron is allowed to talk to about his approach and give whatever tutelage is attempted a good, long try. But yeah, it'd be nice if he focused on being a line-drive hitter and not a boom or bounce-it-on-the-ground-and-pray swing all the time.
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