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  1. RpR
    He hit two home runs in 2018. Maybe he can pinch hit for the rookie outfielders the Twins are using now.
  2. RpR
    Depending on how the day ends, right now 2021 looks like the Twins management is fully committed to returning to the glory years of the 1970s, when mediocre plays came and went.? They can change their name to the Minnesota Rookies , 100 losses here we come.
  3. RpR
    If you want to see Sano improve, best way is to trade him,?
  4. RpR
    LOL, I remember well when all the talk to put the Twins back in the play-offs were the wunder kindt of Buxton, Hicks and Sano. It seems talk of wunder kindt never stops, it just changes names. We need veterans for at least two full years, so years like 2019 last more than one year, then the dreamers will know if their wunder kindt panned out.
  5. RpR
    Larnach is not as good as any one who came before him, slow afoot with a weak arm -- IF, if Kirilloff and Rooker do not turn into flash in the pan rookies as Cave did, they have a good future. Willie Mays Hays Gordon is Willie Mays Hays Gordon, they can use him as Kansas City did in the past, a quick base runner when needed. I do not know what happened to Simmons batting, but watch he lets SO MANY down the pipe go by without swinging makes me think he has vision problems but without his fielding ability the Tw(ins will be in a world of hurt and NO ONE they have is even close to as good at that. The more raw rookie the replacement outfielders were, the more like raw rookies the looked like; keep Refsnyder and Garlick and get rid of Cave. (Trade him to Detroit for Grossman.? Pitching, sell , trade or dump all but Maeda, keep Pineda and shoot craps, cannot be worse than this year.
  6. RpR
    He could be a Ricky Henderson type, who had 66 stolen bases at age 39 and while not being a bomba home run hitter still had 14 home runs the same year, plus even at age 42 he had 25 stolen bases and 42 rbi.
  7. RpR
    Were you around for the BLAH seventies, I was. They had TV adds hyping the new rookie Twins while for a full decade they had a hard time exceeding .500. I am assuming many of the posters have no idea how crappy that can be for a fan.
  8. RpR
    Too many posters see the real season through the rose tinted glasses of Fantasy Baseball or really more like Fantasy Island. I am with you.?
  9. RpR
    We shall see; what is left of the Bomba group -- Garver, Sano, Kepler. Gone are C.J. Cron, Cruz and Schoop; had they remained perhaps the Twins would have put up enough runs to not look like 100 losses is possible. Cron as a 1st Base alternative to Sano would have been dozens of less strike outs and better fielding.; Schoop at either 2nd Base or 1st Base, would have been far better than Arraez's lack-lustre fielding ability or Sano. Astudillo as part time catcher would have been far, far, far better than a constant Rortvedt or even Jeffers, ( his ERA this year is 3.00 ?) So now they have Donaldson and Simmons both extremely good fielders, though Simmons bat is not what it should be but still far better than any thing else the Twins have -- Polanco is not bad at second base and his bat is coming on. If they can pick up some veterans to replace those they let go, leaving the Twins playing Minor League learning camp for rookies, next year , even if the pitching is not a great improvement, will be far better than this year.
  10. RpR
    I often think had the 1970s Twins not traded away Craig Nettles.
  11. RpR
    If you were around in the seventies, do you want to go through another ten years of barely .500 ball; THAT is what bringing in all the Minor League maybes vs. know how veterans did to the seventies. It was not Minor League wannabes that made 2019 good, it was 4 veterans that came in a gave the team an offensive boost, they are all gone now. Rooker looked good today but Cave looked good three years ago, and then went pfft. So you want to wait till 2031 for a team that gets above .500 while playing Sandlot ball for ten years, your perrogative.
  12. RpR
    That is what the Minor League is for.
  13. RpR
    Yes, I want a team I want to see, not a lot of minor league players; if not, it is an insult to those attending.
  14. RpR
    And wonder why the stands are empty.?
  15. RpR
    Right now he is nothing more than Pie-in-the-Sky till he improves vastly.
  16. RpR
    Cruz said not long ago the only reason he might leave would be for a real chance at a World Series ring, other wise he had no intention of leaving.
  17. RpR
    Well maybe the 100 loss season will help get rid of Baldelli.
  18. RpR
    Losing Simmons means more losses for the Twins, period. His throw to first yesterday without being set and both feet in the air is some thing the Twins need BADLY to not be even worse than they are now. They are fools if they lose him.
  19. RpR
    Stealing nothing; if they are good enough to make the big league, they will. If they do not make it it is their lack of talent and nothing more.
  20. RpR
    Had he given up 1 run, he would have lost, blaming him makes no sense.
  21. RpR
    Gordon should be sent down NOW.
  22. RpR
    If they cannot excell in Minor Leagues, they will be lousy in the big show. Fans DO NOT pay to watch players get their butts handed to them.
  23. RpR
    The get rid of the veterans and it will be an insult to those who buy/bought tickets. I wonder if any team has been held hitless for two games in a row, if they bring up the wonderless kids from AAA the Twins may be the first.
  24. RpR
    Nelson Cruz, in the Minneapolis Tribune: ... "I don't see any reason why we can't bounce back and do something magical," Cruz said of the Twins' postseason chances. "I think we all feel that way." Cruz said his opinion coalesced last weekend, when he and his teammates swept four games from the Tigers, erasing multi-run deficits in the late innings in three of them. "We should feel pretty comfortable, the way we're playing," said Cruz, for the moment overlooking the team's seven losses in the nine games before that series. "The pitching was there, for the most part, and the offense was definitely there. … We just need to keep that going."... ... Jose Berrios, Josh Donaldson, Taylor Rogers and even Byron Buxton have reportedly been inquired about as well, transactions that would signal a more serious reset of the team's future. "I cannot predict the future, but I hope that's not the case," Cruz said. "I hope they keep me around." Even if a trade meant a return to the postseason and another chance to pursue the championship that has eluded him in his 17 seasons? "That might make a difference," Cruz said after a pause. "But I'm not looking to go anywhere." Neither is Rocco Baldelli, who said his approach won't change, even as he experiences his first disappointing season (though not first disappointing postseason) as a manager, after back-to-back division championships....
  25. RpR
    What happened to Morneau and Mauer had more to do with that than analytics.
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