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  1. Old Twins Cap
    Three lousy hits. Playing KC, worst team in baseball. May as well tank, for a draft pick. Pick Benintendi this time. * Haiku for this moment.
  2. Old Twins Cap
    A good team, a team that makes a playoff run and into the World Series, you look at the numbers for position players, and there are multiple career high players on that team. That's the way it goes in MLB: your team succeeds, it's because of players having great years. The Twins in 2018? It's all about who has let us down. And the list is long, starting, alarmingly enough, with our best young players -- Sano, Buxton, Polanco, Kepler -- and including our best veteran players, Dozier, Mauer, Santana, Castro, Morrison, Lynn, Reed. So, are the Twins still in this? No. No way. Can they make it interesting and have meaningful games. Maybe. That would be a great achievement at this point. But they can't pretend to contend for anything of substance. And there are many, many players who have contributed to their lackluster play. Sure, there have been worse years for the team, but, one could argue, that, individually, and based on potential, this team has been, pound for pound, the most disappointing team in Twins' history. And, that's saying something.
  3. Old Twins Cap
    Little sexy. Unless that undermines the metaphor?
  4. Old Twins Cap
    Trade Rodney and Belisle is your closer. Because, you can't lose enough games to get the draft pick you need for the future.
  5. Old Twins Cap
    Joe is on a run, and is now up to 27 rbi's on the year.
  6. Old Twins Cap
    Really excited about these young players coming up. I hear we have a young buck in Rochester who can really run it down in CF, and a monster A-baller who hits it a mile and can spell Escobar at 3B. ....... sigh.....
  7. Old Twins Cap
    Too bad about Dozier.... remember all the hand-wringing over the potential Dodgers' trade a couple years ago? But, Twins' fans need to recognize that Dozier over-achieved relative to his draft position and Minor League numbers: i.e., he was a rare success story for the Twins minor league system. So, we take that with gratitude and turn him loose on the plains of MLB and feel good about his career. And, then move on. Find the next Dozier in our system. No qualifying offer, no extension, no crying over spilt milk. Good luck to him.
  8. Old Twins Cap
    I think they intend to deal Rodney, so the veteran Belisle to close in August and September. Wouldn't you? If you want a draft pick next year.....
  9. Old Twins Cap
    Buxton, geez. No answers. There goes the entire paradigm of Twins' rebuild. Another five years of mediocrity. At least. I may not live long enough to see another Twins' team in the playoffs.
  10. Old Twins Cap
    Respectfully disagree. Still very young, without a lot of upper level minors time, and nearing a realistic innings limit, you put him in AAA, give him things to work on and pitch him one day a week with a strict limit on pitch count. He's an asset, he will be in the rotation next year, the best place to prep for that is AAA, under supervision and limits. 100%. Do not abuse this guy. Berrios, recall, has his rough moments and was also sent down and limited and fenced and everything else. You measure this by results. Baby Romero for the future.
  11. Old Twins Cap
    I agree, Molitor is surprisingly cerebral. But the AJ Hinch's, the Madden's, the Martinez's, the Lovullo's, the Cora's, all those guys are about relationships with players. I have no window into the Twins' Clubhouse, but you wonder, given that the Twins' core is now young, Latino players, if there is enough connection there to carry the team forward.
  12. Old Twins Cap
    An excellent review of a truly execrable mess the Twins find themselves in. Kepler is perhaps the most perplexing of all. Hitting lefties better and improving his K/BB rate, but average plummeting and XBH on the wane. Just don't get it. What looked like a very deep line-up in April is now as shallow as a kiddie pool. So what if Escobar and Rosario are on base, there is no one to bring them home. Garver is a statue, Morrison a mummy and Dozier a zombie. If this were Halloween, people would line up to see these guys.
  13. Old Twins Cap
    The way it works over the course of a season is a team needs three, four, maybe five guys to have career years if you want to make a run at the Division, or even to the Series. Others can have average years and you still turn out okay. Twins have Escobar and Rosario laying down track. No one else is even close to their career norms, maybe Adrianza. We ain't going anywhere special.
  14. Old Twins Cap
    Yes, they are. Evidence: last year's run to the playoffs, using Escobar at 3B. Twins were better. This year's best baseball, played when Sano was out with a hamstring pull. They do need a RH bat or two, legitimate. But, do they need Sano? No.
  15. Old Twins Cap
    So, they bring up a veteran 1B with almost no power, who is experiencing vertigo and who hit 0 for 10 at AAA, and Motter, who is a career Mendoza Line guy and hitting .167. What could go wrong?
  16. Old Twins Cap
    Two "total system failures" in three years. Ya think the Pohlad's ever wake up in the morning and ask if they are in the right business? Muddle on.
  17. Old Twins Cap
    Seems like Twins will deal relievers here soon, and certainly at the deadline if they are not in it. Belisle is insurance. You deal Rodney and Belisle becomes an experrienced late-inning guy. Reed or Pressly gets hurt, you still have Belisle. No one has to like this move, but it is about getting through the season should the worst, or some kind of trade/injury happen.
  18. Old Twins Cap
    Season-changer? Sano checked his swing and took a walk before Adrianza's blast. Then doinked a hit to right his next time up to drive in a run. Will need more of that. Against good teams.
  19. Old Twins Cap
    You mention '06. That's a great year in Twins history. Yes, they stormed back from a poor start, and a few players, Punto and Morneau in particular, led the way. But, for me, the amazing thing was, the Twins played the whole season, even ended their last game, and had never been in 1st place, not once, and do you know what happened? The Tigers lost, and the Twins vaulted into first for the only time all season, after their season was already over. So, anything can happen, even a clubhouse pow-wow with an underperforming first-baseman who could eventually become an MVP,... but, history has no responsibility to repeat itself. And I sincerely doubt it will.
  20. Old Twins Cap
    The word on the street is that if Sano thinks you are doubting or trying to discipline him, then he takes it personally and goes the other way. That, the only way to "work with" Sano is to build him up and let him know how much you buy into the Sano narrative of "can't miss superstar". If true, and if coddling is going on while Sano is setting records for K's and trying to kill every pitch that is low and away -- and they all are at this point, why throw him a strike? -- then Twins' Manager and FO are, in fact, the real problem. As for Twins, they can get by without Sano. It's the high OBP of Mauer, the D-fence of Buxton, the pop of Polanco, and just needing a Catcher that is really hurting them. And where is Brian Dozier, the supposed clubhouse guy, when your team desperately needs leadership? Even making a Qualifying Offer on him at this point seems like a questionable decision.
  21. Old Twins Cap
    Dreadful. This is how we baseball.
  22. Old Twins Cap
    Molitor gets a formula in his head for negotiating the late game innings, it becomes a recipe which has to be followed, he lights the fuse and walks away. So happy that it is a World Cup year.
  23. Old Twins Cap
    Very good article, and a very sad season and series of outcomes for the Twins. I felt this way about Mauer and Morneau in the years after they both flourished. But that was injury driven, first Mauer and then Morneau, and they were never the same. One can still hold out hope for Buxton. We barely know what he can do and he is a huge asset on defense. Not so Sano, though he is better at 3B than I ever expected. Still, at this point, he does not show the professionalism, the ability to make adjustments, the maturity as a human being to be a leader. And in truth, as witnessed last year and this year, the Twins can win without him by inserting Escobar. And yes, the elephants in the room: Rowson, Alston and Molitor. Are they really making this team better? No way.
  24. Old Twins Cap
    Teams that win the World Series or even make a run typically are strong behind the plate. Salvador Perez-type strong. Twins have to find that backstop, that stud, that Molina-like fire hydrant that anchors everything. Find him.
  25. Old Twins Cap
    Looks big. How tall is he? Don't see any information anywhere on size and weight. Aaron Judg-ish?
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