Brad.dahlen

This question would seriously hinge on the organization's current assessment of Julien's progress defensively at 2B.

Congrats to Dick on a great career! He has been the voice of the Twins my entire life! Will be curious to see what direction they go, and whether or not they continue to work with Morneau and/or Plouffe. Hot take - Dick Bremer could be a top 5 most recognizable member of the Twins in the time since he started. Puckett, Hrbek, Mauer above him for sure but he is up there. Dick is famously from Dumont, MN and when I played on the Amateur Baseball team in Dumont we made many attempts to get him to show up to a game, we never had any luck.

My wife and I were sitting a few rows behind the one and only John Bonnes

I expect us to get at least one night game - it sounds like we are getting the Michael Kay - Alex Rodriguez broadcast team. I think they will let A-Rod have a night game.

Being 26 years old I have some 2000s guys I miss. Lew Ford, Cuddyer, Dozier, Kubel, Thome, Denard Span, Luis Rivas, Alexi Casilla, Carlos Gomez. Ahhh, the under appreciated Twins of my youth.

I am going to go with exactly 90 wins for this club.

Right, but Plouffe has spoken at length about the Twins trying to basically make him a slap hitter before he ignored that and said he was going to swing how he wanted.

This sure is a stark difference from the Terry Ryan led Twins. Taking more natural power hitters like Plouffe, Dozier, Kubel, ect and asking them to be a piranha 🤣

I think after the Solano signing it is very likely that Trevor Larnach starts the season in St. Paul and Nick Gordon is the opening day DH. If you would have told someone in 2020 that Nick Gordon would be the opening day DH three years later I would have told you you were crazy. Although DH will be a revolving door of players, I think Opening Day will be the A+ lineup. Barring everyone leaves Ft. Myers healthy, this is a great opening day lineup. Buxton CF Polo 2B Correa SS Gallo LF Miranda 3B Kiriloff 1B Gordon DH Vasquez C Kepler RF

After thinking about it some this morning, I think it is more likely that Gordon would be the opening day DH, Larnach to AAA, and Solano as the 4th bench spot.

Someone make this make sense for me. Is Solano going to start the season at AAA? If he doesn't that probably means that Gordon is gone?

Hard to argue with this list. Certainly can't take anyone off. Who would be the pitching Mt Rushmore? Radke, Santana, Viola, Morris, ect?

Regardless of the circumstance, just not a good look for a young and struggling prospect. Just about ready to stop considering him an asset going forward.

I think one way that it helps out Kepler is with his attitude. I've heard that he gets frustrated with being shifted on so much. Hopefully he can now hit with a clear mind and just put the barrel on the ball. So many young MLBers have good starts to their hitting careers because they take a much simpler approach to hitting, HIT IT HARD. I have noticed over the last couple years that Kepler seems to be constantly tinkering with his swing. I think the shift ban could raise his batting average by 20-30 points, if he stays healthy and has a clear mind. I think it will also help that he will be asked to play CF much less than years prior.

Very interesting! Great research. He could be very valuable as a high leverage reliever. Even more so than an inning-eater middle reliever.