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  1. RpR
    I suppose Jose Abreu and Andrew Heaney weren't on their radar? How about the new Red Sox pitcher Kenley Jensen? You may not agree with my examples, but every needle-mover that signs elsewhere is another step towards this team retooling. Pohlads see fans in the stands as no.1 priority, Twins cannot afford retooling as lack of fans in the stands during the seventies forced Calvin to sell, Pohlads are not baseball first like Calvin was, so a return to the seventies type teams will not be tolerated. plus beyond Buxton Twins have no Rod Carew caliber player to keep talking TV sports heads mouths flapping about the Twins.
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    It seems Sanchez does not want to be with the Twins (I wonder why) and Jeffers should be catcher no. 3 as even if his bat improves, I truly doubt his defense will ever be even average. They need a top line catcher, so opponents know that in at least x percent of the games it is not run-at-will. All the so-and -so out of the minors will be just great is bloviating; ten or so years ago , Buxton, Hicks, Sano were going to save the Twins, yeah right. One problem the that no quick fix will solve, even when the Twins were well in the lead this summer, the talking heads on news sports, treated them as a side note; mention of the Vikings got near as much blah, blah, blah all summer on the channels I watched.
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    The head coach has been a problem since Tom Kelley left; he had bad years, but during his good years he made the most of it, he did not get blown out by the Yankees and lose all play-off games.
  4. RpR
    What makes a winning team (I am leaving out pitchers) an often close knit group of players who year after year know what to expect from each other. Go look to see how many Twins from the 1987 team were still there in 1991, a goodly number. How many Twins from the 2019 team are still there now? Team fans have favorite players who they want to see, year, after year, after year; when a gaggle of strangers show up each year, fans stay away.
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    If the Twins are going put their future in supposedly up and coming rookies, they will be treading water for a long, long time from what has come up in the past ten years. At that of the boys from the Twins wannbe Minors, Larnach and only one other seem, at this point, of maybe being the read deal, due to hard work on Larnach's part, and simple talent for the other.
  6. RpR
    For a team that needs pitching you are probably correct.
  7. RpR
    Not sure why you left them out but: 1961 Killebrew 46 1962 Killebrew 48 1963 Killebrew 45, 'Allison 35, Hall 33 1964 Oliva 32, Allison 32
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    IF Correa starys with the twins, Miranda will have a mentor just as Sano did with Cruz; the way Twins rookies are playing with the organizations coaches, I feel bad for Miranda if Correa leaves.
  9. RpR
    Never thought I would be advocating for Arraez but , yes, his range is below average but his runs above average per year are 9 at first base and 17 at second.
  10. RpR
    Eddie Rosario with the Twins
  11. RpR
    Then you think it was stupid to dump Rosario, his batting numbers were very good and they still dumped him. You have to if hitting is so important plus if hitting is that important then the rookies who have put up lousy numbers should go back to AAA till they prove then deserve to be up, not floating around the Mendoza line, or traded for veterans whoes already have shown what they can do . The latter is how they got a top line team in 2019,
  12. RpR
    I was not an Arraez fan, but he has earned my respect, and I believe what he does next year will show what to expect in the future and he should do it here. Players also decide to come to a team, and how well they do, by how a team treats its players; I believe the Twins have had a reputation of treating most players as a person who is part of a family; If the Twins start acting like a seraglio , whose players are viewed as demimonde little wonder why a player would not come here.
  13. RpR
    It is either poor defense or poor pitching, you take your pick, but then the MINUS runs per game/year number on a fielder point to defense , not pitching You do not believe them , fine; I do.
  14. RpR
    NO, just NO
  15. RpR
    One run games are often due to poor defense; Twins have lost a LOT of one run games. Also, I remember well when some here were moaning about TOO MANY home runs, and no small ball, they should be happy now, the bomba squad is gone; other teams beat the Twins with small ball, defense put the brakes on small ball.
  16. RpR
    Twins have lost far, far too many games due to amateurish defense.
  17. RpR
    Go from a -1 Rdrs/yr to a -9 Rdrs/yr not wise or needed.
  18. RpR
    If the Twin lose Polanco and Kepler and rely on Jeffers, they are no where team, with 3rd place at best.
  19. RpR
    The potential you speak is at this point wishful thinking, at the same point in his career Cave greatly outperformed Celestino; Cave's injury put a big divot in his career, Celestino has no reason to be at the level he is, particularly lack of base running speed shows no desire to excel , Most who enter the Big Show and do meh , remain meh, wishful thinking rarely comes true.
  20. RpR
    Caves batting numbers were similer and actually better than Celestino's this year; Cave had his best fielding numbers ever and the two were actually quite similar. To trash Cave as an excuse for Celestino's neither here nor there results, makes no sense; Cave was the better of the two.
  21. RpR
    Old Jake the Knife is learning more about the functions of baseball than he probaly wants to.
  22. RpR
    I do not follow rookies but did he come up for one game , did really well and was sent down again?
  23. RpR
    Just how? 'His -34 Rdrs/yr., his fielding is as good as Jeffers' throwing out base runners while his batting averaage was tanking the more he played. Contreras had one more home run, only 4 less RBI, and is a very good fielder, he would fit better than Wallner The boy may have big potential but he has a LONG way to go .
  24. RpR
    Contreras played 24 games in the outfield , his Rdrs/yr was 24 Wallner played 16 games in the outfield, his Rdrs/yr was -34 Wallner belongs in the minors, probabaly AA.
  25. RpR
    LOL, ?
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