Morneau for Gov

Way too early to be cutting bait on anyone. Baseball is a game of ups and downs. Sano has traditionally had streaks more on the month-long cycle, not series cycle. They're paying him $10 million or so and he's put up better than average WAR by the end of the season. So, unless others burst onto the scene such as Larnach taking over LF, Kirilloff moving to 1B, and Sanchez (or maybe Arraez) taking over DH, all three having career years...I doubt we'll see Sano out of the lineup much. It is easy to see that we were all expecting more from Sano being a top prospect and breaking into the majors with a 149 OPS+ which he hasn't achieved again in his career. From Baseball Reference Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards 8 Yrs 678 2804 2455 385 580 123 6 161 415 4 3 327 1023 .236 .328 .488 .816 118 1198 52 12 0 10 10 162 Game Avg. 162 670 587 92 139 29 1 38 99 1 1 78 244 .236 .328 .488 .816 118 286 12 3 0 2 2 2015 22 MIN AL 80 335 279 46 75 17 1 18 52 1 1 53 119 .269 .385 .530 .916 149 148 4 1 0 2 1 D/53H RoY-3 2016 23 MIN AL 116 495 437 57 103 22 1 25 66 1 0 54 178 .236 .319 .462 .781 108 202 8 1 0 3 1 59D/H 2017 24 MIN AL 114 483 424 75 112 15 2 28 77 0 0 54 173 .264 .352 .507 .859 126 215 12 4 0 1 5 5D/3H AS 2018 25 MIN AL 71 299 266 32 53 14 0 13 41 0 0 31 115 .199 .281 .398 .679 83 106 7 0 0 2 0 53/DH 2019 26 MIN AL 105 439 380 76 94 19 2 34 79 0 1 55 159 .247 .346 .576 .923 139 219 5 3 0 1 0 5/3DH 2020 27 MIN AL 53 205 186 31 38 12 0 13 25 0 0 18 90 .204 .278 .478 .757 105 89 3 1 0 0 1 *3/D 2021 28 MIN AL 135 532 470 68 105 24 0 30 75 2 1 59 183 .223 .312 .466 .778 112 219 13 2 0 1 2 *3D/5H 2022 29 MIN AL 4 16 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 .000 .188 .000 .188 -39 0 0 0 0 0 0 */3

What SS and 3B? Do we have our starters yet? I'm hoping for Miranda (backed up by Urshela and Arraez) and Story, but they still need a couple more Gray's and half a bullpen for this to make sense.