Bodie

The Mayo Clinic is just over an hour drive for ya'...

Add a little Nolan Ryan pickle brine and you just might have something!

The pariah list has one name, one that should have been prosecuted at the time. Tommy Herr who promised to tank games, boasted of it and forced a trade because it. I would beat him with my cane if I saw him today. And feel pretty proud if I did! Chuck Knobhead can't even be starting pariah 2B!

Easy to confuse as, at best, his staffs were also full of whimsy!

Way too much for a backup OF who can't 1) play CF (or even RF) or 2) hit well enough to DH. And, if he isn't a backup next year we have way bigger long-term problems. He is a glove that profiles as a DH, and a bat that needs a premium glove to play every day for a nearly 8-figure one year deal.

He looks like a major league ballplayer. The last every day prospect that cleared that momentous hurdle was Ryan Jeffers. Read into that whatever you like.

Wallner proving he's nowhere near a ML hitter gets him an "honorable mention"? Well, there is no possible way to spin that into a positive.

It would be nice to have an ACTUAL prospect (so, NOT Wallner or our recent traumatic experiment at 2B that was so bad I can't/won't recall his lazy SEC arse's name!) roll into Minneapolis and able to be evaluated for a month or two. I know it's a lot to ask, but can we SOMEHOW get the new Camaro home, and let us pop the hood to see if its a puny 6 under the hood or a tuned V8 before slamming it into the garage and dinging it all to heck?!?!

Unfortunately true.

"Too short".. , ? Billy Wagner says "F##k you"

Let's see... This was a team, if you can believe TD, were expected to be lucky to only lose 100 games. And that was before Lopez was lost. To say these guys, playing sub .500 ball all season somehow "collapsed" to a ~90 loss team shows a lot more about the writers of these articles than about the actual product on the field.

I find it interesting that the only age old adage thatTwinsDaily writers seem too believe in is that a move to the pen is somehow going to unlock something extra in a "failed starter". 1) The Twins have specialized for almost a decade on taking average fastballs (velocity only!!!!) and finding increased (often significant) velocity. It is the reason no one compares Zebby to Radke despite similar ability to fill the strike zone, and similar profiles when Zebby signed. But move him to the pen and unlock even more? Doubtful, if not just plain unlikely. 2) He hasn't got a peg to hang his hat on. None of his pitches are very good. Individuality. He does well mixing pitches, location and sequence. Sometimes he looks like he'll be lucky to get through the lineup once, but likely as not he's out there yet in the 5th or 6th. As a reliever that day is now a 100% failure for him and the team. Every time. Time will tell if he is a productive, back end starter. My 50 plus years of studying this game says that the odds of that are much better than him being anything beyond a AAA bullpen guy. [Gr8 timing as always TD!!!! Take the Twins best starter for the last month or two and move him to the bp NOW!!!!! ]

Maybe, you put together a team that doesn't need 1/3rd to half the roster "hot" to play winning baseball. Most teams have players on the roster who can manage that!

My day is almost assuredly shot because of you! The rest of today (at least!) will be spent optimizing any an all strip club/MLB draft combinations to get the best results... thanks!

That "fight" is the biggest and most important change Sheldon has brought about. Not sure what the specifics are, but it is a DRAMATIC change from the previous two seasons in particular. As a TwinsTV subscriber, I approve. If only because I get more bang for the buck. No more youtube after the 3rd inning because "if the Twins didn't start a game hot, they basically never started". Not every deficit will be overcome. But, it's better when they at least try to adjust and overcome than surrender without trying at all. And I saw a LOT of no-effort (and somehow even less adjustment!!!) baseball over the last two seasons.