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  1. RpR
    To 98.6 percent of the fans, winning is every thing, or they would not go.
  2. RpR
    Because if fans want to watch the Saints, they will go to Saints games, not pay big league prices to watch rookies prove they are still rookies.
  3. RpR
    Because he has made fielding plays that none of the others would even attempt, maybe Arraez and he would throw the ball into right field. In his worst year, Simmons made 14 errors at shortstop, in 2019 Polanco made 22 errors at shortstop
  4. RpR
    His defense numbers at Baseball Ref. say you are wrong; you are blaming him for a team that is under performing as whole and while too many think the Minor League Rookies are some sort of miracle cure.
  5. RpR
    Let us hope he just gets better and better.?
  6. RpR
    Simmons bat has gone South but then so has most of the entire team; lose Simmons and his fielding ability will make a bad team look worse.
  7. RpR
    Pitching was/is a disaster, most any thing is better than what they created. Outfielders -- Buxton, Garlick, Refsnyder all OK, even the veteran rookies, AAA boys not ready for big show -- Celestino, Gordon, Larnach, Rooker -- it seems they kept Cave because his first year was not bad but since then he has played like a AAA rookie. Catchers -- Rortvedt, not ready for Majors, although Jeffers is doing better than Suzuki the former Twins veteran who blossomed after the Twins let him go. Even the worst of the vets are above .200 , do not know why Simmons is in such a slump but his fielding is 500 percent better than any one else on the team at his position. 1st, 2nd and 3rd have not been a problem when veterans played, hopeful exception Kirilloff; Arraez can hit but is a lousy fielder and Gordon as I have said is like watching Willie Mays Hays from the movie.
  8. RpR
    But, but numbers don't lie....? ?
  9. RpR
    That is the reason he was removed from SS and replaced by Simmons; he is far from league top 2nd basemen but much better at 2nd.
  10. RpR
    Because Arraez gets the yips very often.
  11. RpR
    Well Larnach did not join Rooker and Cave in being the worst new guy and kinda-sorta newer guy but his fielding ability and speed just is not what the Twins need. Trade him for a competent veteran. Rooker should be sent back to the Minors unless the Twins want to pull a Billy Bean on him and have destroyed by Major League pitching to the point he never recovers. Cave -- trade him to Detroit for Grossman.
  12. RpR
    Our prospects are miserable failure at this point, why pile on the misery.
  13. RpR
    14 Ks and only 3 walks. How the season was supposed to go.
  14. RpR
    When I see all the current Twins who have played in the big show this year, I think of Mike Hessman who has the most home runs in Minor League ball. I read an in depth article on him a few years back that one reason he never made it full time big league is not a lack of talent but at that time there were too many , not average, but good players in the minors and there are only so many positions available on any big league team and they were already taken. Refsnyder, Garlick and Larnach made me think of him.
  15. RpR
    From the results I have seen Cruz is probably not too happy where he is and he already has stated he would like to come back. 2019 had some short terms veterans that truly bolstered the team, maybe they will do that again and then play the rookies on and off to see who has a future.
  16. RpR
    If Happ and Robles do quite well with their new team, in my opinion that shows the Twins coaching staff is a detriment.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. RpR
    It was a win, they did not gut the team for wishful thinking.
  21. 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.
  22. RpR
    BRAVO!!!
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. RpR
    Yah sure, they can move the Twins down to the AAA league, that is what it is starting to look like.
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