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  1. Linus
    Ooh I forgot about Nolasco. He's been so meaningless he slipped off my radar.
  2. Linus
    Each season is an uncertain story with lots of surprises. So I would like to hear what people think are the biggest positive and negative surprises so far this year. On the positive side I will start with honorable mention for Pelfrey and Rosario but my choice is Trevor May. For a guy who couldn't throw it over last year he is having a great season. On the flip side, a surprising number of choices given the Twins good season to date. Honorable mention goes to both Santanas,Vargas, Mauer and Suzuki. However my winner (loser) is Oswaldo Arcia. The Twins need left handed power in the worst way and he has done nothing. Pretty much terrible on both sides of the ball. Who are your choices?
  3. Linus
    I see the twins scuffling from time to time but not collapsing. Their starting pitching will keep them competitive all season.
  4. Linus
    His throwing is an issue and seems to be due to arm strength. He also has to clean up his fielding before he will succeed in the majors.
  5. Linus
    The irony here will be that if Pelfrey continues to pitch this well all year he will have earned the $15 million the Twins will pay him.
  6. Linus
    Did anybody think he was going to be the second coming of johan?
  7. Linus
    Except for the fact they are 6 games over 500 as we approach July. that is what we know for sure about this whole question. When you are in a playoff chase, you pursue it, period. Doesn't mean you become buyers but it sure as hell doesn't mean you don't put your best 9 out there to win today's game.
  8. Linus
    I would think by now, people would realize that you don't have 5 starters for 5 spots. Things always happen and may happen again even before Santana comes back. This is not a problem: too many starters? Doesn't our bullpen need a bunch of help? Any one of those starters could go to the pen right now and help. And it wouldn't hurt any of them (including Gibson and May) to spend a couple of months in the pen in order for us to continue winning. Even though he has pitched so well, I could see Pelfrey being our Wade Davis. Nolasco is definitely in the pen - he's not been reliable and frankly is now number 7 in the pecking order.
  9. Linus
    This is funny? Really?
  10. Linus
    Who cares? The money us spent and he can go back to the rotation next year. Do what you have to do to chase the playoffs
  11. Linus
    Interesting. Thought Robinson might go and keep the speed
  12. Linus
    I like and appreciate Plouffe but the love is a little over the top I would not trade him until I was confident Sano can stick but once I decided that I would trade him in a heartbeat for a catcher
  13. Linus
    For a short period of time why not? The starting excess needs to be used to fix the pen
  14. Linus
    I was having fun. I don't think it is a problem to have his bat in the lineup when we are struggling to score runs. Get back to me when he makes an error.
  15. Linus
    We don't have a shortstop problem anymore....
  16. Linus
    No more infielders in the outfield. I don't care if your name is Harmon Killebrew, my favorite player of all time.
  17. Linus
    Good then, I'm out.
  18. Linus
    To you and the others: my point was clearly stated if you read my posts. If you are playing a short term stretch of critical games, say 15 that could determine whether you slip out of contention or not, then calling up prospects is not likely to give you the magic boost everyone is anticipating because it is going to take them longer than 15 games to acclimate.
  19. Linus
    Yes, I think that the injury situation played a big part in it. I also want to clarify that I am only talking about the short term - everyone is in agreement that Sano and Buxton are the best options over any other timeframe. Let's see how Buxton does these first 15 games and see. In the first 3, he's proving my point.
  20. Linus
    I think my point is valid for any point in time in which the Twins might be slipping out of contention, especially with Sano as it also implies a trade deadline boundary for trading Plouffe. In other words, if the Twins slip to 5 games behind the wildcard, they pretty much have to be in win now mode no matter what the calendar says. If they are realistically out of contention, then they can go ahead and call people up willy nilly.
  21. Linus
    All I'm saying is that nearly all prospects struggle when they first come up. If you have to win 10 of the next 15 to stay in contention, you won't take the chance of calling someone up and not having them hit their stride until after it is too late. People assume that Sano is going to come up and hit a dozen bombs and lead the Twins to the promised land. That could happen, but a more likely scenario is that he struggles a bunch, strikes out a bunch and that for that same 15 game period, Nunez would contribute more offense.
  22. Linus
    He doesn't have a "track record of hitting". When you throw him a cookie, he can hit a home run. Other than that, the only consistent "track record" he has is striking out a lot and playing bad defense. I hope he is successful for the Twins as much as anybody else but it may not happen and we can't be blind to that.
  23. Linus
    That was..........frustrating, bizarre, confusing. That wasn't Joe getting squeezed as it looked to me like all three fastballs had the plate. Plus, they appeared to be 4 seamers that were pretty straight. I can only guess that this whole thing is in his head a lot more than it appears.
  24. Linus
    A Swede walks into a bar in Norway with a colorful parrot on his shoulder. Bartender says "hey that's a beauty where did you get it?" Parrot says "Sweden, there's a million of them"
  25. Linus
    I hate to say it but I see Rosario as very similar to Santana and won't be surprised if he still has some struggles ahead of him like what Santana has gone through this year. Doesn't mean that you don't let him ride it out and hope the other shoe doesn't drop. I also think they both will make it eventually but may need another stint in AAA before that happens.
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