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  1. TheLeviathan
    Sure you do, the problem is not consistency vs. competency, it's what degree of competency you'll accept from a player on your bench. Would I be totally opposed to Aaron Hicks the 4th OF? No, but I was arguing against the suggestion that Aaron Hicks is more than that. I also would prefer a significantly better Plan B for Buxton than him. The Twins could've signed someone capable of playing CF and played them in RFuntil he was needed. Now this required adding someone like Fowler (who I said all offseason would've been my top priority) and it would've required dumping the asinine idea of moving Sano to RF by trading Plouffe. However they did it, the point was that no one on the roster was a sufficient Plan B for Buxton including Hicks. They needed to go outside and avoid the mistake they made when they rushed Hicks, instead they doubled down with Buxton.
  2. TheLeviathan
    For me, I think Polanco needs to take primarily Escobar's at-bats. We should see if the kid can be our shortstop. I'd rather test him there first and find out he can't do it. Kepler-Polanco-Mauer-Sano-Park-Arcia(or Rosario)-Dozier-Murphy-Buxton. I'd like to see that by no later than August 1st. That's the group that needs to be invested in at this point. Berrios-May-Duffey should all be in the rotation too.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Yup, this is the path back to contention, it's also the only thing to hold on to for positivity. I hope we can be seeing this going in the right direction in August.
  4. TheLeviathan
    "Where are the prospects" doesn't require a literal answer. The question is really "Why aren't they helping if you've kept telling us they're so good" That's the question that needs answering. Or, perhaps, if you like these guys so much...why do you keep bypassing them for organizational filler?
  5. TheLeviathan
    No, it's not. My opinion of him is based on him being a bad baseball player and there is ample evidence of it. We're talking about a player that came back in July last year and was pretty good - other than that one short stretch of the season he was considerably below average. A guy who hits 10 homeruns in a week and then absolutely sucks for 5 weeks may normalize into a semi-competent player but that didn't change the fact that he was a black hole of terrible play for 5 weeks. That's what Hicks is. He can't do anything consistently enough to be a competent player you can rely on.
  6. TheLeviathan
    If that's the extent of your bar for backup plans than you must have liked Danny Santana and Jordan Schafer? I guess my bar is "be at least competent baseball players" - of which we've had no one who qualifies for about 5 or 6 years now. And Aaron Hicks would've been no different.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, he might have been better than Clete Thomas or whomever, but if we are going to keep calling up raw AA center fielders we should have a much better plan B. Hicks has been putrid, again, and wouldn't be doing this team any more favors than Murphy did.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I wanted them to deal Plouffe and sign Fowler to play RF and be an option in CF. So, yeah, I agree that he's better than those two horrible options.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I think he some value as a bench player, but his defense is overrated in CF (IMO). He'snot good enough for a plan B for a risk like Buxton, not for me at least.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I actually like that lineup if you just pick up Brian Dozier and Trevor Plouffe and replace them exactly with Park and Arcia.
  11. TheLeviathan
    You know who he is a lot more like? Jason Repko. Let's stop polishing Jason Repko into Torii Hunter. He's still Jason Repko. Plan B shouldn't be Jason Repko. Did saying that name four times plant it firmly enough for some of you to take real stock of what Aaron Hicks actually is and not what you want him to be?
  12. TheLeviathan
    We should hold ourselves to a slightly higher bar for CF.
  13. TheLeviathan
    There is a lower scrap heap than "traded straight up for John Ryan Murphy"?
  14. TheLeviathan
    Look, I admire the amount of turd polishing you attempted here, but Aaron Hicks is just not good at baseball. I'm not sure how many hundreds of at-bats you require to demonstrate this, but we're at 860. And he's been putrid. We appear to have targeted another putrid player, but let's not pretend we gave anything up. The problem was that this was the solution to C and nothing was done to insure CF. Aaron Hicks and his god awful play wouldn't have sufficed as Plan B either.
  15. TheLeviathan
    No, they aren't THIS bad, but at that point we're splitting hairs about how bad is bad. Even if half the things on your list were suddenly sunny side up we'd still be a bad baseball team. The point is that if you're going to blame this all on "under-performing" you're giving the roster construction a pass.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Perhaps all these "slumps" and "under performances" only look that way to an inflated set of hope-fueled expectations rather than reality?
  17. TheLeviathan
    Give the Twins of the 2000s credit for this - defense doesn't slump. The fundamental problem with this team has been a rejection of defense in lieu of offense. If you field a competent defense you can generally avoid being god awful but this team has insisted on the notion that you can just move guys around any which way you want and still field a fly ball pitching staff and things will be fine. The "Twins Way" has lots of problems, but an emphasis on good defense was not among them.
  18. TheLeviathan
    And sometimes the game passes you by. Phil Jackson, granted in a new role, is finding that out. It's possible he's just not the right guy any more and it's time to move on. Unfortunately, I think the only man who can really make that decision is Terry Ryan and not his bosses. But it's time to move in a different direction as an organization.
  19. TheLeviathan
    I'd argue not understanding their place in the rebuild process is THE fundamental problem for this team.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, his results weren't good....do the Twins bear some of that responsibility? I'd say so. Let's put it this way, would the Twins jerk Hughes or Santana around like this? The answer is no and the reason would be because it isn't fair to the pitcher to expect them to be at their best without consistency in their role and expectations and yet we routinely do this to young pitchers and then sit around talking about how they didn't immediately pitch an amazing game. I don't see why young players should have any different expectations for their role or usage than veterans, if anything they should get MORE understanding. Yet the Twins have had this backwards for a long time.
  21. TheLeviathan
    It's not a mistake if you gambled another bad player to get him. I'd like to see him get a good, long run as the starter this year to see what we have. We know Hicks is awful, let's see if we can still win this deal.
  22. TheLeviathan
    If only there was a collective period of time in which players were free to be signed or added. If only such a thing existed we might have been able to fix our depth issues. Alas, it appears such a thing does not exist. Or so I'm lead to believe.....
  23. TheLeviathan
    Was fun to see him last night and the game of adjustments and learning begins. I hope we get to see it the rest of the year.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Yup, invest innings in these kids when you can. The team needs to stop letting Milone get in the way of the future.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, let's hope the young guys do force some hard decisions. And let's hope the FO actually considers a decision should they do so.
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