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  1. RpR
    It has been 30 years since they have been in the World Series (20 years since they had a manager capable of guiding them to that point). Fans are money, the Vikings as lousy as they are bringing in fans, another decade of AAA level Twins will cost the Pohlads lots of money, and they realize that, but arestill too cheap to spend for, even two straight years , money to get there but then they are stuck with Baldelli and the current front office. Sign top veterans to two year contracts and get into the playoffs now, when they leave they will have a good idea of who, if any, in the farm leagues are worth putting on the team.
  2. RpR
    Gordon and Larnach are not ready for the majors and maybe never will be; Gordon in reality looks like the W. Mays Hays character from the movie in real life, Larnach has a weak arm and is slow. Refsnyder and Garlick have shown they can play in the majors so if Buxton can stay healthy Refsnyder or Garlick supporting Buxton and Kepler looks OK. Arreaz is NOT a good fielder he is more show than go; finding a veteran infielder with Simmons ability is extremely important if they do not keep him. Cruz should be brought back, period, there is no one on the team, that is as good as he was. Pitching, they need help badly, spend money there.
  3. RpR
    They have a solid idea of what Buxton and Donaldson can actually do; all the rookies so babbled about here are unknown hopes, at best, i.e. wishful thinking. So far only Garlick, Refsnyder and Kirilloff have shown there pro-level abilities, all the rest have shown they belong in the minors as of now. Fans pay money for a top line professional team, not a minor league training exercise.
  4. RpR
    It was a win, they did not gut the team for wishful thinking.
  5. RpR
    What promise I just watched the Cards game, 0,0,0. If being hit-less wonders is promise the Twins are on a roll. I don't assume, but unlike so many here, I do not believe wishful, (Oh gee this guy is so good in AA or AAA ) thinking is worth a plug nickle.
  6. RpR
    BRAVO!!!
  7. RpR
    The Twins are bad because the relief pitchers are a curse not a relief; dumping good bats, as a huge number of people here have suggested for rookies, is not going to make the Twins better. Keeping a solid defense and offense, is vital to winning but now the Twins just dumped there one decent pitcher and many want to dump the best of the rest for Pie-in-the-Sky rookies. Remember player in A league are rookies to professional baseball and they are rookies, not prospects each time they move up a league, people here talk like they are magic men whose deficiencies in the minors will magically disappear and make the Twins a winner. Refsnyder and Garlick were doing OK because they were minor league veterans, with one exception what came after them were raw rookies and play like them.
  8. RpR
    Buxton, Sano , Hicks the future of the Minnesota Twins, was all I heard 10 years ago, then came Rosario, Cave, Berrios, hmmm , we have beaten the Yankees once this year due to veterans added recently , those future of the Twins rookies were meh, even the best of them. One of the TV announcers said during game a last week that the Twins not having a steady team is not good for them as people , especially children come to see their favorite players; kids are not going to become attached to a team where player are here today and gone tomorrow which is what is going on right now.
  9. RpR
    Yah sure, they can move the Twins down to the AAA league, that is what it is starting to look like.
  10. RpR
    Better than becoming a worse team a driving spectators away for the next ten years. From 1971 to 1984 the Twins has One Million or more spectators for 2 whole years with a whopping 600 some thousand in 1974, yep, bring on the rookies and drive away the people who make the team money, Brilliant.
  11. RpR
    He hit two home runs in 2018. Maybe he can pinch hit for the rookie outfielders the Twins are using now.
  12. 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.
  13. RpR
    If you want to see Sano improve, best way is to trade him,?
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.?
  19. 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.
  20. RpR
    I often think had the 1970s Twins not traded away Craig Nettles.
  21. 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.
  22. RpR
    That is what the Minor League is for.
  23. 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.
  24. RpR
    And wonder why the stands are empty.?
  25. RpR
    Right now he is nothing more than Pie-in-the-Sky till he improves vastly.
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