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    Only twice in his career has his OPS been above average. And only barely both times. He has been demonstrably below average with the bat his entire career. He's going to 32. He isn't a hitting coach from being an asset. He's more likely an even worse liability than he already is as age saps his defensive abilities.
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    So our plan, from someone who keeps harp on winning as the most important, is to give a 32 year old, who has never been a good hitter, a hitting coach and he'll.....magically not suck anymore? Good lord.
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    This team isn't good enough to have crappy special teams.
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    This argument is bulletproof. It makes zero sense what they're doing. 60 OPS+ players ain't helping you win a damn thing.
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    Ha! That's hilarious. Nice catch,
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    Nick Gordon batting 1.000 since his callup. If I use the RpR Law of Ignoring Sample Size.....we should get his bust ready for Canton.
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    Right now the only positional moving he's doing is between the bench and the gatorade jug. Inexplicable while Captain 60 OPS+ continues to play shortstop. We're literally playing the equivalent of a 30 something Pedro Florimon over a former 1st round pick in a lost season.
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    FFS.
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    It seems to me they've been bad pretty much all year except for our current stretch and when we got lots of Orioles games. Yeah, we dug a huge hole, but even a small hole would've been a problem for this team.
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    If Lewis is ready and our best available shortstop, then we can move Seager or Story or whomever to 3B and our infield defense is all the better.
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    Injuries or "Not ready" are defensible reasons, but not service time. I can understand why the club is in a bit of a bind playing younger guys with their injury situation, but then I look at the Nick Gordon situation and I have to wonder what the hell these guys in the FO are doing with this opportunity to let some guys play.
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    This team seems inclined to shell out for hitters and has done so with Donaldson. In general, it's the safer investment of money than in a pitcher. So, with that in mind - go hard after Seager. He could be a cornerstone for close to a decade and you won't regret the money you paid out. He's 27, he can hit, he can field, a deal that's 8 years/200M is probably what it'll take and this team can afford that. Plus, he plays and helps out every pitcher who is put out there every day.
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    Play and pitch lottery tickets. I'm with you Van...this doesnt make sense.
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    Well....you got one part of this right, but I got that feeling at the end of your post. I get that you think what you posted was well reasoned, but it was entirely composed of specious arguments. I suspect you might already be aware of that, if not you've consumed the misinformation intoxicant like a champ.
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    Offensively I'm seeing what I would expect from a rookie - struggles as pitchers adjust to him and he adjusts to them and sees more success. That's why you gotta let kids play.
  17. TheLeviathan
    There are other pros as well, streaming has less advertisements and more flexibility in how you watch at the most basic levels. I do think we'll see the streaming services start to consolidate or bundle. We're already seeing it.
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    Nick Gordon will not be as good a fielder as Simmons was/is. That's true for virtually every shortstop in existence. What Nick Gordon might be able to do is hit his way out of a paper bag unlike Simmons and his ghastly 60 OPS+. And he might do so for the next few years. Simmons will be playing (poorly) elsewhere. In a lost season it's foolish to hand at-bats to sunk assets. Play lottery tickets.
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    I've said it before and I'll say it again: the total lack of quality offensive linemen in the NFL is a massive (no pun intended) problem.
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    Now we're changing subjects? He's had 20 at bats and he struggled in two of the games, but if sample size doesn't matter he hit .400 his last game. Guess he's a Hall of Famer? Rob Refsnyder is not ever going to be a player we miss if he's let go. Nick Gordon might be. The kid should be playing every day. Sure as hell beats watching Simmons.
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    Honestly, sir, this isn't a coherent response. And, in addition to being month late, is demonstrably and obviously false.
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    Quick thoughts: *It's not fair to dismiss the turnaround they pulled off with this club two years ago. What they did remaking that team from a pretty uneasy future to instant success is a feather in their cap. *It's also not fair to overlook just how badly they mangled the moves on the pitching side coming into this year. Every single choice they made flopped. *It's also worth noting, excuse or not, that the pandemic hit this team's gameplan pretty hard. I'm sure it hurt all the teams, but it definitely hurt the Twins on the pitching side significantly. That should be part of the evaluation here too. *2022 had a poor path to contention since about May 1st and got substantially worse as every major pitching prospect went down for lengthy time periods and stunted their development. Trades or not, let's not pretend one dude somehow is the magic elixir between 2022 Twins as champs or not, that's being naive. This team was always going to need to do significant retooling to their pitching to fix it for next year. Impossible? No. Unlikely? Yeah. We just went from 20 to 1 to 25 to 1 or some rough equivalent. Some of you are spinning the Berrios trade as giving away Babe Ruth or breaking up the '27 Yankees all in one trade. *I need to see where we are in August of 2022, at that point I'd feel better about evaluating them. I'd hate to cut ties as their moves show fruit and I think that's a fair timeline to harvest.
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    Well, that generally goes without saying.
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    I'm not sure I agree with this. I think if we're going to comp Gordon and Baddoo, it seems more likely that Gordon IS Baddoo than that he causes someone else to be. Nick Gordon was frequently in the top 100 prospects or close to it throughout his development. High draft pick with pedigree. Was moderately successful in 2019 and then pandemic nonsense. If there is anybody worth rolling the dice on it's him. Especially when we are regularly fielding guys with significantly less upside right now and likely going forward.
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    That's just it.....pitchers are so much worse than hitters it IS like a hockey player without a stick. Gotta have a badass strategy for kicking the puck for a minute or so, so that makes it all ok! Also, I always like how the "I love the strategies!" argument quickly becomes "well...it's only a couple times a game" when pointed out just how inept pitchers are. Next step is when you realize it isn't strategy, it's just rote repetitiveness that everyone engages in. That's like calling it "strategy" that the QB lines up behind the center. Or that your basketball team wears shoes.
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