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  1. Old Twins Cap
    Very high quality article. Thank you. I'm glad that someone is actually writing about the new season and what is happening in Florida.
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    Bad luck for sure. One of these times when the player chooses the most conservative approach of rehabbing, over the course of 7 months, it would be great if that actually worked. I understand why they do it that way, I just am not seeing much luck with rehabbing. And, it does set the player back on a longer clock to full recovery. I would bet at some point in the very near future, players and doctors will move ahead with preventive TJ surgeries, at a young age, once a kid commits to baseball.
  3. Old Twins Cap
    Weak draft? Strong draft? Looks like there are definitely options at Number One.
  4. Old Twins Cap
    Like the looks of Buxton and Polanco at the top of the lineup. God, I hope the Twins have a decent year....
  5. Old Twins Cap
    With injuries, lack of depth and unproven players rife throughout the system, why the Twins didn't give Polanco some reps at SS proves just a single salient point that Twins ownership have already addressed: Total System Breakdown. There will be additional instances I'm sure.
  6. Old Twins Cap
    Like the optimism. I think their HR power is for real, but not sure about average. The most critical thing though is OBP. Especially Rosario. If he and Kepler and Buxton start to show plate discipline, it opens up all kinds of possibilities. We know about Buxton and Rosario in terms of speed, but I watched Kepler last year, and once he is in full stride, he eats bases like a bad bag of chips. Bring it. that's what I say. One of these years, the Twins prospects are going to over-perform.
  7. Old Twins Cap
    Pirates saw the light; Twins not so much.
  8. Old Twins Cap
    Read Breslow's comments in the links. There is something more here than Breslow himself. He has recognized that Falvey and Levine are honest, transparent, positive builders of a team culture that will, in the end, self-perpetuate itself, attracting players who want to be a part of it. This is the most impressive view of new management that I've seen. This bodes well.
  9. Old Twins Cap
    My elbow hurts just seeing that picture. All the best, but keep the Tommy John Doc's number on speed-dial.
  10. Old Twins Cap
    Never hurts to have plus defense on the left side of infield for the late innings. They are serious about Sano playing 3B, at least until the 8th.
  11. Old Twins Cap
    So, phonetically, should be: A -- ee -- ray when the "A" is the true letter A. {"H" is silent of course in Spanish.} Adrianza is pedestrian, though the A is the "ah" as it always is in Spanish.
  12. Old Twins Cap
    What year was that, they brought back Kubel, Bartlett, one other guy, like "Hey, we don't have a competitive team but, we got these familiar faces". Gardy/Ryan = pathetic. Morneau no.
  13. Old Twins Cap
    Well, the Twins won't be winning the World Series in 2017. Can they win 75-80 games? Can some of their young pitchers develop? Can the young outfield and infield hit and play defense? Will they be fun to watch? Over 40 years now of watching the Twins, you learn to enjoy the little things, especially when the big things don't go well.
  14. Old Twins Cap
    No panic. Last I checked, Dozier is a pretty good player, cheap enough over two years, and can be dealt when and if needed. Twins got plenty of young talent coming up. Someone has to take it to the next level, with or without Dozier, so nothing has changed. Yeah, off-season was a yawner, but I am major excited about the young crop and who wants to take the next step.
  15. Old Twins Cap
    Especially if the Twins peruse Bautista instead of pursuing him.
  16. Old Twins Cap
    Yeah, I get that, which is why I said at the beginning: They are not good comps in terms of stats. I'm talking physical, statuesque, RH swingers who pull the ball. That's all. They don't grow on trees, with the strong top-hand. If Dozier could hit homers with men on base, bat fourth, and play first base, I'd call him Killer to my friends.
  17. Old Twins Cap
    Killebrew and Dozier may not be good comps in terms of lifetime stats, or F-wars, but I tell you what: I saw Killebrew play, and not many people realize he was only 5'11'. How tall is Dozier? And, really, if you watch their swings, what stands out is the twist in the lower torso. Not a lot of movement, but sudden twist at the end, and of course, the strong top-hand. Pull, pull, pull. Out of the park to left-field, high and long and deep. I've been saying it for awhile, so I will say it again: Dozier's closest cousin on the Twins' club's long player list is Harmon Killebrew. And sure enough, he is the next player after Killer to crush 40HRs. You don't trade that for some jazzy LA maybe's. Not ever.
  18. Old Twins Cap
    Falvey and Levine find a good help-mate in Woolfson. Put that out on Twitter, up the heat on the Dodgers. Likelihood that any of this is true? Pretty low. But, gotta like the new guys' moxie. Use whatever you got to get the best deal, and journalists are certainly a willing and low-cost alternative.
  19. Old Twins Cap
    Every player Sano's size in MLB history (okay 99%) of the sport has been a 1B. But because of Joe Maurer, Sano is basically being shoe-horned into 3B. That might work for awhile, it might not. But, it definitely flies in the face of basic baseball common sense. Hopefully, Levine and Falvey see this for what it is and will plan player development and acquisitions accordingly.
  20. Old Twins Cap
    Anything can happen, but for the Dodgers, reality starts with this: the Cubs will be damn good next year, the Nationals may be better, then there are the Cardinals and San Francisco, two teams that could beat them in the playoffs. If you have Kershaw and go out on the limb with Jansen and Turner and you have Corey Seager and Adrian Gonzalez, at some point, you have to make a big move to get over the top and validate all the talent and work that has gone into making the team. That's why I think they go after Dozier.
  21. Old Twins Cap
    The point here is that signing a player represents investing in an "asset". That asset can go up or down in value. If and when that asset increases in value, you have the ability to cash it in against some other currency, i.e. younger, high upside prospects. I don't like the house flipping metaphor myself, because that is just about greed. But acquiring baseball players as assets, then seeing how the pieces fit, how they appreciate and when to deal is just the reality of being a GM in 2016. You place a bet on someone and hope it works out.
  22. Old Twins Cap
    What I heard from Falvey is that they are going to be open-minded, data-driven, far-reaching, but then measure and hold everyone in the organization accountable to outcomes. That's it. That's your rebuild right there. No more, nebulous "Twins way", "getting after it", "working their tails off", kind of a lazy manager/front office hope that things will work out. Cliche driven, episodic, chancey bets on a bunch of guys. The new Twins way is about accountability to a organization-wide plan that is based on real outcomes as measured by specific metrics. No more sacred cows. You measure up or you measure out: clear, accepted norms of what constitutes a measurable trajectory toward success. For once, the Twins will stand for something that constitutes forward movement. The old boys' network, they will be in the stands watching real baseball for a change.
  23. Old Twins Cap
    Answer: No. As over-hyped as Yankees catchers are, they would never trade Sanchez. And neither would any other team. But, good to think big.
  24. Old Twins Cap
    No one ever says it, but at some point, we have to consider trading Sano. Why? He took a step back last year, and his natural position is going to be 1B, where Twins have a monster logjam. Head case? Fielding liability? Strike-out percentage? Clubhouse cancer? Everybody talks about his high ceiling, but what if there is no helium in the Sano balloon? Kid had a movie made about him at 16. That could be peaking early, or really, peaking prematurely. Will make last out of game at 3B, miss cutoff men, and generally look confused.
  25. Old Twins Cap
    To the extent that Falvey was involved in putting the Indians' staff together, up 3-0 on Toronto, averaging 1 earned run a game, after sweeping the Red Sox and Royals and not trailing in a game in like 50 innings, after having lost Salazar and Carrasco, let's get him in here and see what he can do. Of course, on the flip, it didn't take a genius to know that trading for Andrew Miller would be a good move.
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