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  1. RpR
    Better team won.
  2. RpR
    Right now the Twins have no future; rookies/prospects are fire-crackers that fizzle. Good vets, in the past, melded with current team players that were not abysmal. Now the vets are gone and the only good players left are Buxton and Correa; Larnach, Miranda and Wallner are keep your fingers crossed player with lead gloves. There are two new older rookies who may be a surprise, but as of now the Twins are last years White Sox.
  3. RpR
    Cleveland, Chicago , Kansas City and Detroit are probalby hoping the Twins do that. Looks like another glass of Gallo wine next summer.
  4. RpR
    Injuries is an excuse it was just plain pee-poor play that made the team collapse; sadly not a rare thing with the Twins over the years. Twins stunk when the season started and stunk when the season ended.
  5. RpR
    They should give Julien an dose of Sano medicine, send down to A ball.
  6. RpR
    Julien should follow the path of Garlick , play some where else or as he is now stay in AAA. He never looked like more than an average player, at best, with holes in his glove. Miranda , like Wallner , I would bet, will be here for quite some time.
  7. RpR
    Would be better than it is as of now. Reality bites. Farmer and Castro at 2nd. They now have no one at second base who is not a liability, they Will miss Farmer.
  8. RpR
    Spring training will tell which old or newbie Twins May be a positive element. So far, AAA newbies have been worse than retreads.
  9. RpR
    Neither do the lousy rookies or quasi-rookies.
  10. RpR
    Martin, Lewis, Kirilloff, Julien, Jeffers and Castro were the only players with Defense Rtot and Rdrs being solid in the minus column, with Castro being worst and Castro's numbers making Margot look like a All Star Fielder. That was a problem larger than the one you were annoyed by. Lee was actuall good at 3rd base and Miranda was much better than Lewis.
  11. RpR
    That is what the minors/spring training are for, not regular season.
  12. RpR
    I believe pitchers/catchers learn unintentional signals by runners and learn when they are going to try.
  13. RpR
    Caught Stealing/Stolen Bases: 2023 -- 30/94 2024 -- 22/112 Both Jeffers and Vazquez were above average last year ; this year Jeffers was 7 percent below average in caught stealing and Vazquez was 8 percent. Vazquez fielding percentage was higher I imagine due to wild pitches and passed balls.
  14. RpR
    Too bad it did not end 4 or 5 years ago in Minnesota.
  15. RpR
    I am still waiting for a repeat of 1969 -- a 246 differential.
  16. RpR
    Hmm, the 1962 Twins had 185 HR and 33 SB, while th 2024 Twins had 183 HR and 65 SB yet the the 1962 Twins were 91-71-1 where the 2024 Twins were 82-80, seems '61 Twins were slower with only 2 more home runs but won more games with 32 less stolen bases. Odd as the 1962 Twins had a team WAR of 23.1 , including pitcher batting, but the 2024 Twins with a DH and all those team saving rookies, so many want called up to displace the veteran, only had a 17 WAR. I guess the plodding 1962 Twins just played the game better. 1st base Vic Power, only had a .421 SLG and .737 OPS but wait Carlos Santana only had a .420 SLG and .749 OPS, so First Base was near the same for hitting. Now maybe Early Battey's 44% caught stealing and 15 pick-offs and in the few games Zimmerman played haveing a 50% pick-off rate shows that a top defensive catcher is more than most here want to admit. The 2024 total team defense -- Caught Stealing vs Stolen Bases was 22/112; 1962 CS vs SB 32/42. I believe the Twins plodding on the bases, and going after hit balls is a problem, but far lessor one than it seems.
  17. RpR
    1 run can mean a win vs a loss; 1 game can mean the difference from going or not going into the Post Season. Chugging around the field trying to field a ball like a dray horse pulling a wagon, means more bases for the opposing runners and too often more runs for the opposing team. Your analogy does not work.
  18. RpR
    History looks a lot like a Pagan; not the good Pagan.
  19. RpR
    Diaz - as a catcher, much better than Jeffers; First Base - the creator of doubles for the other team. Wade Jr. - About the same as having two Mirandas on the team, but the manager might be foolish enough to put him in the outfield where he is a run maker for the other team. Casa - Twins would need a first rate glove at First to replace him, late innings, in every game; i.e. another Julien type glove. Waste of time to pick-up gents with Little League glove talent.
  20. RpR
    Santan'a only bad year was 2015, a long time ago, and outside of catcher , and the short time he was at Third Base, he was never nearly as bad as Julien, Miranda in general, and with the exception of one Bad year, was good to very good at First Base from the get-go.t The Twins have had too many mediocre to just plain bad fielders; they cannot afford to continually try to be a Little League training school.
  21. RpR
    Walker would be great but as much as I do not play with Twins finances, I doubt they could afford him, while so many seers here know Santana will fall apart any supposed gamble is far smaller than guessing Lewis, Miranda or any one with the Twins now can even be mediocre at First Base.
  22. RpR
    Trade him and bring up some other rookie wonder child. Same for Lee.
  23. RpR
    With the exception of Santana, and a few other players with hot streaks, for the most part it did.
  24. RpR
    Right now outside of Santana, Correa and Buxton and Vazquez, all the Twins have are mediocre players.
  25. RpR
    If they saddly get Rosario, they will be shopping in the not as good as Margot aile.
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