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  1. RpR
    He is tolerable at 3rd base but that is taken; he is a large hole at 1st base.
  2. RpR
    If Buxton can field like he did before he was hurt, he is a HUGE positive to the Twins that only a fielder with the skills of Taylor could replace. If both can/do not play the field next year, a giant hole is the Twins team.
  3. RpR
    Kirilloff is only a slightly smaller hole in the outfield than Hoskins is, where as Hoskins is a much smaller hole at first than Kirilloff is
  4. RpR
    And that is the entire list. Nine of Twelve summed up the answer quickly.
  5. RpR
    He also played 104 game in 2001. In one of those who would have thought it: his best year with a bat was in 2011 when he was 39. He had an OPS of .870.
  6. RpR
    Rose colored glasses or wishful thinking, but then, I suppose it is better than dissing the possibily Buxton will recover well.
  7. RpR
    But, but is he not going to be traded like Kepler and Polanco?😂
  8. RpR
    Well then their combine WAR is 3.4 so you statement makes no sense. He was not better a defender at the end than he was at the start; the only reason was that who ever scored the games babied some Twins by not scoring a LOT of screw-ups as errors. Even the announcers mentioned said same more than once. He is slow and awkward.
  9. RpR
    War doe not decide a players true value or Jeffers, Julien would gone. Juliens defense is a hole in the infield. You live by analytics,, I do not.
  10. RpR
    An article on line said that defenses against Dobbs now concetrate on stopping his running game. One reason he did not do better against Chicago.
  11. RpR
    With out Farmer and Solano, this year, the Twins would not have made the post season. Will they be replaced well enough?
  12. RpR
    I want a team equal or better than this year in 2024. I do not want a bumpy road where we find rookies you mention turn out to be replays of Celestino, Sano, Larnach, Cave, Rooker etc.. None of the gents you mentioned have faced Major League pitching which is a world apart from AAA (Unless they go against a Big Leaguer in rehab). Cave and Sano spent their first year in the Bigs looking like the latest best bet, yet from there is was mostly down hill. We waited 30 years, most do not want to go back to using the Twins as a AAA team again.
  13. RpR
    For 31 years the Twins were also ran or worse; last year they finally go to the post season and won. The question is does the Front Office want to keep the paying fans happy and in the stands or are they willing to put out more crap-shoot meh teams and hope the attendance does not suffer too badly. Letting top pitching go, it almost points to the latter.🤔 Bly.2011 Not every one wanted to dump Kepler, only some very vocal ones.🤔
  14. RpR
    What depth? With the exception of Lewis, none of the rookies has been good enough to not have to worry about ending up with some other team. I do not venture into the pitching morass but they have gone from very good to another crap-shoot. Defense is good with the people they had last year; if the Front Office is going to be as cheap as some here imply, Joey Gallo could be back for fielding skills (put in late innings when defense really counts). All the -- Twins should -- talk is -- If I were in charge -- so opinions differ and are neither here -nor-there. I would rather they pick-up, some how, a very good veteran for Center Field (Taylor is fine) and do the pitching crap-shoot, but that may not work for squat either.
  15. RpR
    Wallner is as close to an elite Left Fielder as Julien is to being an elite 2nd Baseman. Cannon arm that is far from accurate, while his speed helps make up for poor routes.
  16. RpR
    NO! Not now, not ever!
  17. RpR
    Yep, and don't forget Wallner's .000 Batting Average in the post season.
  18. RpR
    You said youth movement needs to continue, they were youth, simple as that.
  19. RpR
    Youth like Celestino, Refsnyder, Cave, Rooker, Blankenthorn, Kirilloff, Larnach, Rordvedt....? Put right in the middle between Kansas City and Chicago. Without Farmer, Solano, Castro, Kepler , Taylor the Twins would have been fighting Cleveland for the title, not run away with it.
  20. RpR
    Healthy Lewis is not moving, Jeffers is not as good a catcher as Vazquez and should not be primary catcher, Julien is a hole in the defense , Polanco is not. Unless there is a major veteran dump/pick-up that is not changing. Taylor in the outfield will be sorely missed unless Buxton can play there; Kepler's quality cannot be replaced and Wallner has been OK so far in left. Castro , Farmer and Solano filled a good team, what is left next year might just be a shadow and no place to see if rookies are good enough or best left to learn more in AAA.
  21. RpR
    THis is Major League, not AAA. Twins broke a losing string and showed a possible bright future; crap on fans hope now will show where Pohlads really care -- dollar signs.
  22. RpR
    For the most part I agree with you. The Twins had truly competitive team and right now it looks like that team is history. IF, just IF, they lose Taylor, Kepler, Vazquez and Polanco their playoff days are gone. Wallner is Gallo with out the fielding skills, while they do not have a First Baseman with Gallo's fielding skills or even who will be there most games. Julien at Second is a hole in the defense, so that leaves Lewis as the only fairly sure thing. If Maeda and Gray leave; the good pitching staff that writers wrote of is gone. A lot can/may happen but right now mediocre at best.
  23. RpR
    Wallner is 1/10 the player at any price.
  24. RpR
    Lewis is not going to center field.
  25. RpR
    LOL - 😂 - A clone of Joey Gallo without the fielding skills, maybe.
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