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  1. RpR
    Yeah Galvis would be so good, a life time batting average .246 and minus life time fielding numbers in Rtot and Rtot/y with his 2021 Rtot/y being a -57 now they could play him at second where the same number was a -70, shizzam!
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    Happ pitched well for St. Louis, I think a new coach is as important as new pitchers.
  3. RpR
    So would re-singing Simmons.
  4. RpR
    Here is Simmons' defense, -- that would be a foolish move' -- Andrus career BA is .272, after this year Simmons is .265.
  5. RpR
    Hmmm, in Rtot/y Rortvedt is 20 runs superior,' if Jeffers is average, most rookie catchers will not leave the minors.
  6. RpR
    At trading supposed top rookies for supposed top rookies else where, is like deciding whether to shoot craps with you left or your right hand. Twins need a GOOD left fielder and some pitching, not some crystal ball gazing about rookies who may be above average or pigs in a poke.
  7. RpR
    I hate to say it but Arraez IS a good back-up at second, and his numbers in Left Field look not bad at all but then the alternatives a Larnach and Rooker, whose numbers in left stink, not hard to believe they should keep him around , and I have ZERO love for Arraez.
  8. RpR
    Defensively he is lousy, dump him and bring up Rortvedt.
  9. RpR
    With the exception possibly of a few teams, till their rookies are called up, there is a BIG difference between the Minor League and the Major League; being a top player there often means little in the Majors. I read an article seven or eight years ago talking of people who were top in the Minors who never got a good shot at the Majors; article said it was to a large degree being on a team owned by a team with no spots to fill. The player may be as good as those called up but there is no full time room for him so they would get called up when some one was hurt but sent back when hurt player was able to play again. They were bounced around while they are still in their prime, but they were always in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  10. RpR

    MLB Expansion

    RpR replied to 21bdp21's topic in Other Baseball

    Too many teams already; gawdawful play--offs make the the regular season and farce and it will get worse. Hmm, lets see, World Series at Thanksgiving, brilliant.
  11. RpR
    I actually stumbled onto the Fanside site through baseball link last week and while checking search engine links to the Twins future this one popped up about free agents by Eric Treuden: Enter 32-year old Andrelton Simmons, one of the best defensive shortstops the game has ever seen. Last season was Simmons’ first season as a Twin and, while his defensive chops are still as sharp as ever (2.3 dWAR in 131 games), he struggled mightily on offense. Across 451 plate appearances in 2021, Andrelton Simmons managed to hit just three home runs and had a .223/.283/.274 batting line to go with his ghastly wRC+ of 56 (100 and up is considered good). The entire offensive line on the back of his baseball card is well below-average, but Simmons’ game has always been and always will be led by his defense. Since his debut in 2012 with the Braves, Simmons has won four Gold Glove awards and is a six-time Fielding Bible Award winner. That’s the most all-time at the shortstop position. With no clear internal options available behind a mixture of Arraez, Polanco, and Nick Gordon, the Minnesota Twins could certainly use Andrelton Simmons at the shortstop position for at least one more season. With exciting prospect Royce Lewis looming in the minor leagues, he could be ready to take over as soon as 2023. Now I do not know if this is just another dude or has inside connections but I like him.
  12. RpR
    New left fielder.
  13. RpR

    MLB Expansion

    RpR replied to 21bdp21's topic in Other Baseball

    NO!
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  15. RpR
    MSN puts, quick head-line links from odd sources and I cannot find it again so I will delete my posts.
  16. RpR

    Bring on the kids

    RpR commented on Franz's blog entry in Greg Fransen

    BRAVO! The Twins season ended for all practical purposed by the end of May last year; starting a bunch of rookies and keeping your fingers crossed they do not stink up the stadium will end Twins season a month earlier this year.
  17. RpR
    He won the two games he started for Cleveland.
  18. RpR
    Arraez is horrible against left-hand pitchers so stop with the pure hitter spiel, but I am surprised he was horrid at 2nd base his first year but this year was pretty good there, while at 3rd he was below average where he once was simply average. If they keep him, keep him as a back-up to Polanco at second. Putting him at third with some mediocre newbie at SS will have opponents salivating with chances to raise their batting average.
  19. RpR
    A blow-back from whom, how? The head office cares about attendance dollars, not on-line opinions.
  20. RpR

    Bring on the kids

    RpR commented on Franz's blog entry in Greg Fransen

    LOL, his ability put him, Twins do not play in the minor league THAT is where the rookies are supposed to learn or fail. Polanco at SS GOOD GRIEF, he failed miserably there, already. I wish I had the crystal ball so many here are gazing in when it comes to the rookies, maybe I can take it to a casino.
  21. RpR
    Twins catching defense has gone from 2nd best in 2007, to 5th to 19th to 11th to 7th in 2011 to 16th to 8th to 19th to 24th in 2015, to 13th to 11th to 19th to 12th to 19th to 19th again this year. Jeffers is a liability not an asset.
  22. RpR
    Arraez is as much like Oliva as Sano is like Molitor.
  23. RpR
    No an entire game without the same old, same old; of course no moronic penalty that cancelled a first drive that would have scored would have been the cherry on game. Whine on.
  24. RpR
    Simple just don't show up and forfeit the game, then a lot of boys here would have been happy.? If the Vikings had done some flea flickers last week that Detroit used to be Green Bay, instead of the same boring predictable stuff Green Bay saw coming, they probably would have won.
  25. RpR
    As much as I like baseball; how the season goes is not a priory of life. I will enjoy it as it goes and go about my life if it does not.
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