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He was one of the top three Short Stops the year he was with the Twin; for what ever reason his ability with the bat is what finally failed for him. He was still an amazing Short Stop.

The point of the majors is to win games, not be a little league for rookies not ready for prime time.

That is called Minor League.

Let's shoot for the moon -- the next Ted Williams.

It would be fantastic if he could be the next Jimmie Hall or Tony Oliva but not get injured.

His bat went away, odd how that happens, but his fielding was still among the very best in the whole league. With his arm, he should have pitched when the Twins were hopelessly behind.

Andrelton Simmons Retires - MLB Trade Rumors Four-time Gold Glove winner Andrelton Simmons is retiring, his representatives at ISE Baseball announced on Instagram earlier this week. The defensive stalwart last appeared in the majors in July 2022. Simmons was a second-round draftee of the Braves in 2010 out of an Oklahoma junior college. There was some thought he might be better suited as a pitcher at the time thanks to his elite arm strength. Atlanta stuck with him as a shortstop, where prospect evaluators projected Simmons as a plus defender. He exceeded even the loftiest reviews of his glove, quite likely becoming the best defensive infielder of his generation....

OF the gents, Duvall looks the best; not a gaping hole in the Out Field and a pretty good bat.

His numbers at Baseball Ref. show he would be a gaping hole at Center, and not even close to the bat Taylor is. It would never happen.

They may or may not have a noticeable dip, such is life in the sport. If pitchers adapt and adjust to their style faster than they can respond to pitching changes, that could show a true regression. Unless Julien can learn how to hit left hand pitching, he will be a platoon player, always.

Wishful thinking.

There are NO unlucky turn overs; there is faulty or incompetent play..

Sounds just like Dobbs.

Or leave them where they have been for the past 47 years, no better, no worse.

RBI only come in quantity if there is some on base in front of a batter. Not a one man show. His attitude counts greatly.

He is no longer with the Twins.

82 games in Center Field and 30 home runs.

Many professional baseball players that faced him have said his pitches were in a league of their own, NO ONE, else ever could duplicate what he did to make the baseball do what it did. You can throw numbers out there but I will take Ted Williams word over any theoretial numbers -- to each his own.

IF, if Mahle does well next year, it will look worse.

In just Doubles, Triples and Home runs, Julien had 33, Gallo had 31, with Julien getting more Doubles and Gallo Home Runs. In singles, Julien had 56, where Gallo, had 29; it was Gallo's late season collapse, especially the last month that totally destroyed his numbers. It seems like after Gallo whent four for four, he fell apart.

LOL, really now. Was Satchel Paige the best pitcher ever? His legacy was best summed up by baseball greats Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Dizzy Dean, and Bob Feller, who all proclaimed Satchel Paige to be the greatest pitcher ever.

I was Ten the year the Twins became a team There were neighborhood baseball teams; we would ride around on our bike with a baseball glove on the handle bars. One of the ball fields was next to the Coke Plant; in awhile the ball would get hit on top of the Coke Plant and fortunately there was enough clutter, old pallets etc. along the building one of us could clime up to get it. Last time I ever played there I hit a long fly ball that landed right next to the plant cooling unit, and bounced up and into the unit (the small opening would make a chance of ever doing that again a one million to one shot.) By the Grace of God, one boy was small, very small and thin and squeezed under the lip and down into the well to get the ball and was able to climb up and squeeze out again. The Coke plant is now a brewery and the field finally disappeared approx. twenty years ago. I/we would walk downtown, 9 blocks from home to the State Theater, which had a goldfish pond inside the theater, and pop came out of a machine with 7 ounce glasses, but pop corn was 5 or 10 cents depending on bag size. Crazy Days was a new item in the early sixties, and I still have yard light on the house I got on a 25 cent grab-bag. In 1962 Dad drove us to the Worlds fair in Seattle, in a 1957 Chevrolet 150 car with a large home made box on top to hold camping gear. (we camped 90 percent of the time, but stayed at relatives place in Washington) Do not remember firt game details, dad got free tickets from 3M, but shook Lenny Green's hand at a church gathering that Fall. Shot illegal firework every year, and picked up some real good ones at a Indian Reservation on the way to the Seattle Fair. A tall Indian gent. showed us what a Silver Salute was when he blew-up and empty oil can with one. I remember Dad pulling up to the edeg of railroad tracks and dumping old car oil there while changing oil on the trip every 1,500 miles. Did it at gas station once. It was amazing back then how many places, ususally gas stations had Dry Ice for travelers coolers. The family took trips to California, again there were relatives on the far end, in 1967-68. (Camped again most of the time and learn what a blessing cold winters are compared to heat down by Yuma, where we slept outside of a campground cabin as it was miserably hot inside. Ranger told Ma, who slept on the ground outside in a sleeping bag , NOT, to do that again as rattlesnakes will crawl inside with you. The gents. at work told dad he should get some Tequila in Mexico , so we drove to old Tijuana , down small mostly empty streets till we found a bar. Dad went inside and the bar tender spoke little/no English, but dad signified he wanted a bottle of Tequila. Well the gent brought out a gallon jug of Tequila, which dad said was too big. Fortunately the only customer inside spoke English and said we would have to go to a liquor store for a small bottle, and told us how to get to one. Different world back then. Addendum: I bought the Topps Baseball packets for the gum as much as the cards; 1992, the last year they put gum in the card pack, I bought some just to go back to the grand old days once more. -- I wish I had saved the card now; I/we chewed a HUGE amount of gum back then. We used to ride around with strings of baseball shaped gum in a continuse pack; each ball had a different baseball term on it, hanging around our necks ----. (when I was a teenager, there used to be a matchstick firecracker, you lit it on a match box, and I/we rode around on our bikes setting one off every now and then.)

The mound was higher and there were genuine Knuckle Ball pitchers. There are no Satchel Paige quality pitchers now.

Depends on the team. Fear of change and change that results in minus performing players, fingers on the same hand.

Inaction, you know what you have -- Action can be a Pandoras Box that cannot be fixed.