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  1. Monkeypaws
    Watching him leg out a triple made me laugh out loud yesterday. Made an excellent play at 3rd as well.
  2. Monkeypaws
    In 9 years of minor league ball, Astudillo has 76 whiffs in over 2000 at bats. Garver and Wilson have 56 this season in 212 ABs. Yeah, minors ain't majors, but this guy has bat control. In the year of the whiff, go for it.
  3. Monkeypaws
    If I ran an organization, I would reward good players with market-level contracts. I would weed out deadwood. I would not reward success with trades. You'll never have a cohesive team if you ship out good players like potato chips. Trade at deadline is a pure loser mentality. Even if they are going to be free agents. You make an honest effort to keep such players.
  4. Monkeypaws
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JG-ZnnqSWw
  5. Monkeypaws
    The Twins were 7th in all of baseball last year in runs scored, 4th in the AL. They added a guy who hit 38 home runs to DH. With a young core of up and coming players, I don't think too many people expected the team would drop to 23rd in runs scored at this point. I do suppose if they had foresight they would have traded Buxton, Sano, Kepler, Santana, Castro, Dozier, Polanco, and Mauer for better players. Yep, clearly their fault....
  6. Monkeypaws
    The Twins made the Wild-card last season. Everybody agreed that their pitching needed a major boost, and the front office delivered. Hard to say Lynn, Odorizzi, Duke, Reed and Rodney are the root of the Twins problems this season. They've all been performing about where they were expected to. Can't blame them or the front office when the offense does a 180 into the gutter.
  7. Monkeypaws
    College World Series Champion Trevor Larnach! Joins Mark Redmond and Todd Walker in that club, and perhaps others.
  8. Monkeypaws
    If the Twins go full sell mode, I'll be looking forward to my $5 stub hub seats right behind home plate
  9. Monkeypaws
    Syndergaard is only 25 - can't imaging why the Mets would even consider trading him. Still young enough to be part of a quick rebuild.
  10. Monkeypaws
    Long-term, in an ideal world, Sano comes back and retakes 3rd, Polanco locks up short, Gordon slides into 2nd, and Adrianza continutes to play the way he has lately and locks up the utility role. In this scenario EE becomes expendable. However, in this far than less ideal Twins team, getting rid of the most popular guy in the room and one of a handful of productive players would leave a large void on and off the field.
  11. Monkeypaws
    There's a video of the dinger and the rest on this page. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2783336-arkansas-misses-final-out-before-oregon-state-takes-lead-in-game-2-of-2018-cws
  12. Monkeypaws
    He just won game 2 tonight for OSU with a 9th inning 2 run homer.
  13. Monkeypaws
    Thanks - forgot him
  14. Monkeypaws
    Was just gonna post this. All I can say, is drug offenses and gambling don't look so bad in this light.
  15. Monkeypaws
    Escobar - give him a new contract that pays him his worth - he is the 3rd baseman for now and the foreseeable future. Dozier - he's playing his way out of the golden payday and into a cheap extension, if the Twins want to keep him around. Mauer - can't imagine he'd fetch much in trade. Not looking at much money to keep him around. Morrison - redundant, and with little value. Rosario - the one who gets the big extension. Odorizzi and Reed - the phone won't be ringing off the hook. Keep em. Rodney - ironically, probably their best chip. Dont see much opportunity here but to sell low or stand pat.
  16. Monkeypaws
    Well, look at the bright side - neither were given an extension when they were looking like the next big thing. They have it all to work for.
  17. Monkeypaws
    He's the first closer the Twins have had since perhaps Nathan that actually has closer stuff.
  18. Monkeypaws
    Lynn Ks Abreu with 96 mph gas. Wow.
  19. Monkeypaws
    Hah, noticed as the were treating Moncada that he had the Yankees logo tattooed under his ear.
  20. Monkeypaws
    Spot on - folks be eating their words. His stuff is still top drawer.
  21. Monkeypaws
    Well he just got knocked out in the 5th. Thought it would be a funny thread title. Am enjoying seeing Larnach play though - he has a great swing.
  22. Monkeypaws
    I belive the fit hit the shans after he started at OSU. It would be a huge leap of faith, and the fact nobody spent a pick on him, in spite of the pre-draft interviews that likely took place, well.... He is a great lefty pitcher tho. BTW, Larnach just set a CWS record with 5 doubles, even tho it was a lucky lost in the sun job.
  23. Monkeypaws
    We all heard the sad story of Luke Heimlich: https://deadspin.com/mlb-prospect-luke-heimlich-denies-molesting-his-niece-1825831942 Watching this kid deal in the college WS. Filthy lefty stuff. I know people at Oregon State, good people. If he's good enough for them, why not the Twins? Sure, reprehensible stuff. He maintains innocence in spite of the guilty plea. I know it came up before, and I'm not necessarily advocating a convicted child molester to the team, but I am also extremely skeptical of the legal justice system in this country. BTW Larnach just ripped a double to start the 2nd.
  24. Monkeypaws
    That average includes lots of 2-3 inning duds. Remember the idea of a "quality start"?
  25. Monkeypaws
    Romero needs to pitch more than 4-5 innings if he wants to be an MLB starter. I would like to have kept him in the pen, but that isn't gonna help stretch him out into a legit starter.
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