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  1. RpR
    98.6 percent of fans could not care less about the draft, in any sport. Remember Billy Bean.
  2. RpR
    That is what AAA is for, not the Twins. If fans in the stands want to watch might-be players then they will watch the Saints; they pay for ticket to watch major league pro-ball, not AAA pro-ball. Larnack is not that good, he is now striking out, a lot, and in the field he has weak arm and is slow. Kiriloff seems ready for the big show.
  3. RpR
    He is not ready for big league yet, but who else is there at this time. Larnach doesn't have strong arm but at that Gordon and Celestino are worse. When Refsnyder or Garlick come back send him back down.
  4. RpR
    Why is Rortvedt playing and not Astudillo?
  5. RpR
    Where is the guarantee that dumping good players for a crap shoot is going to improve the team. I will repeat, the good Twins of the sixties turned into the prospect laden, with a few veterans imported so they did not become bottom run every year, futility. Dumping , or retiring, known quantities for -- maybe this guy can be as good as X we dumped or retired,-- is a good way to go back to a decade of disappointment. It was 22 years from the Twins first World Series to their second; we are now 30 years past the last one, hmmm I wonder how many want to go through another decade of mediocrity hoping may in 2041 things will change. In the Two Thousand aughts the Twins had a good team with a manager that was pathetic compared to Tom Kelly, as was/is Molitor and Baldelli, who could not even beat the Yankees ( it was 2002 the year Gardenhire took over that the pathetic string started) in regular season, so you want to replace two years of -- Gee maybe this is the year -- with another eight years of -- well the Twins are rebuilding?
  6. RpR
    After the 2017 disaster they did not dump a bunch of veterans, they let few go and traded a few then added a LOT of veterans for 2019. Had they gone the newbie way after 2018 this would just be another mediocre season after the 2017 disaster, not high expectations following two good years.
  7. RpR
    If they trade them they will get -- nothing -- I'd rather see entertaining veterans than newbie nobodies , even if they lose, and they need players that can field the ball, BETTER, not more newbie slow weak arm Larnachs or throw the ball into right field Arraez.
  8. RpR
    100 losses, third time is a charm, he we come.
  9. RpR
    This Fantasy Baseball inspired trade shtick is weird except I imagine most of you were not around for the sad seventies when 85 wins was a very good year for a decade. I can still hear the Twins adds loudly hurrahing BOMBO RIVERA, CRAIG KUSICK. and WILLIIE NORWOOD. They were not as bad as bashers like to make the out to be but they are more likely what the Twins without the vets will look like. (Arreaz and Larnachs fielding reminds me of Norwood) I watch now to see Cruz, Donaldson, Simmons vets who know how to play the game well. I will greatly reduce time spent on a bunch of newbie disappointments which those who is more likely than 90 wins a season. Addendum: I feel bad that the Twins may be the one to put the hurt on Detroit, the way their play has made all snide comments god wannabe baseball experts said of them this spring asinine. They were only three games behind Cleveland.
  10. RpR
    Bring back Covid-reduced spectators, they might fill the stands. If they lose Cruz, I will probably listen to them on radio as no good reason to watch on TV.
  11. RpR
    Cruz wanted a two year contract, and said he wanted to spend some time this year playing in the field. Does he have to OK any traide? He likes it here, that is obvious and right now Cruz, Donaldson, Polanco and Simmons are the main reason the team is not challenging the Diamondbacks for the bottom rung. If he does not come back next year, this will seem like the good old days. Twins will get nothing even near his level of performance, and a gaggle of wannbes is getting less than zero.
  12. RpR
    J. deserved that win.
  13. RpR
    The Tigers swept the Yankees in New York but now they look like the Twins playing the Yankees.
  14. RpR
    Celestino may some day be OK, but with Buxton out they are really, really missiing Refsnyder or Garlick.
  15. RpR
    Happ got screwed the Twins should now be in the lead.
  16. RpR
    Good for Larnach.
  17. RpR
    Same pitch , one walks in a run the next one is called a strike, good grief. Happ got screwed on that one.
  18. RpR
    How well has Sano done this year, compare Schoop's current stats to Arraez, compare Rosario's RBI's, real numbers not pie-in-the sky computer game to Larnach. People do not pay the price for a game nowadays to watch school boys learn to play on a losing team. As I said, I have been watching the Twins for too many years, an entire decade of the seventies, of also ran mediocrity, which is what dumping the vets for more years of we cannot afford good guys crap it will be. Computer stats are like a bookies book , numbers never lie, yeah right.
  19. RpR
    For you and LA Vikes fan: I do not know if you were around in the seventies when excluding 1970 when the twins were as good as the 2019 team, the Twins never won more than 85 games. They won the World Series in 1987 but even at that it was not till 1988 that they won more than 85 games. They brought in a varied herd of players that were the next great thing but while some were pretty good the team was on the best years, mediocre. If they dump Cruz, Donaldson and Simmons they will be back to at best , the 85 win Twins and probably a LOT worse. Kaat commented that the White Sox were beating the Twins with simple basic baseball -- good base running, some thing the Twins do not have. If they lose the home run hitters and good fielding players, they will be worse than they are now. Schoop is/was far better than Arraez in fielding and he now has 16 HR, 49 RBI and .274 BA, / C.J. Cron has 11 HR, 32 RBI, .252 BA / Rosario -- I will say his bat may, may be similar to Larnach but his arm (fielding ability) is far, far better / only Gonzalez has gone down hill from that team. They were part of the reason the Twins did what they did in 2019; if the Twins dump Cruz, Donaldson and Simmons it will be the final nail in the coffin of turning the Twins into a .500 team on the best years, I.E. a return to the Seventies.
  20. RpR

    The Grand "Re-Tool" Experiment

    RpR commented on Tim's blog entry in Tim

    Larnach is to slow and has too weak an arm for left field. Jim Kaat said a fast left fielder is very important.
  21. RpR
    Why is Jeffers, easy out, still catching instead of Astudillo?
  22. RpR
    Walks, from any pitcher, any time, have been the death of the Twins this year. These were just as bad as any before. Some here sound like Baldelli ignoring the pissant play from his team during an interview with happy talk.
  23. RpR
    Three of the reasons the Twins did as well as they did in 2019 are gone; trade away what is left means another , or close to 100 loss season with next year being no better and the future amounting to pit-in-sky fantasy baseball pipe dream. Can the Twins owners deal with the money lost due no one in the stands, or better yet, will they?
  24. RpR
    How good are Larnach or Kiriloff really, based on what? Larnach is slow afoot and has a weak arm, stopping runs is as important as scoring runs.
  25. RpR
    Wow, Baldelli got down on Arraez for his bases loaded double play.
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