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  1. Bodie
    Couldn't be happier for Paddack. Had to feel great- maybe great enough to forget years of rehab and frustration, at least for a bit. See ya again in 5 days Chris. You've set some higher expectations...
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    No MLB/Twins.tv feed means one night without "baseball zen". Going to drive me to violence!
  3. Bodie
    Still looks like a Marlins jersey... like if they were sponsoring a beer league softball team.
  4. Bodie
    I often wonder when these sorts of articles (i.e. Lopez for reclamation project), if the national media has heard that this isn't the Minneapolis Millers, and it isn't the 1950's.... the Twins play in the same league as the Yankees, Dodgers et al.
  5. Bodie
    You can get a projected AAA relief pitcher or 4th OF I suppose Tidied that up for you... but agree with your point. Any interest in either would be something in the area of "sign him to a minor league FA contract after he clears waivers" as opposed to giving up anyone they see as having a real future. In other words you're "trading" Edouard Julien for another team's version of Eddie...
  6. Bodie
    Liked the Bader signing when it happened. Thought we'd get quality defense and acceptable bat. Got that and more so far. Add in a bit of flair, and you've got a potential fan favorite. At least for the people willing to get off the "Twins too cheap" horse for every signing that isn't the number one free agent in that years class... As for France, he has saved close to another half dozen throwing errors by simply being an actual major league glove at 1B. Don't think any one thought we were getting prime Morneau, but looking at some of the posts here you'd have thought they'd signed current day Morneau! Adequate, which is more than I'd have expected from Larnach, Julien or Kirilloff (before his retirement announcement) all of whom were posited as "anyone can play 1B" solutions to the Twins having no viable 1B on the roster after Santana's free agent departure.
  7. Bodie
    Luis Arraez.
  8. Bodie
    It would be nice to see Morris cut down on the base runners. One hit away from a really messy line at AAA far too often results in a really, really ugly line in the majors. Simply (and so obvious that it hardly needs to be mentioned) put, he will face hitters that are much more likely to punish him for allowing those hits. That said, he shows the mental toughness to face adversity head on, and successfully. The next step needs to be to learn/adapt to keep himself out of some of those lesser situations. Easy to get excited about guys breezing through the competition and utterly dominating. It is intriguing to see guys progress with less than dominant stuff who show that they can "win" without being the obviously most talented guy on the field.
  9. Bodie
    A "star" being a .260 hitter??? With no other discernable baseball skills.. Welcome to to 2020s Twins!!!
  10. Bodie
    If he is mainly a DH going forward, this would have to be considered an abject failure in development.
  11. Bodie
    I can't even imagine how painful it would be to see a collection ("team" is still a dream for this bunch) of .230ish hitters with no understanding of hitting wearing number 29...
  12. Bodie
    Fair enough take. But you cede your rights to complain about him being serviceable/good at his next stop. Or further down his career road, ala Brent Rooker. I posted recently that I see him as almost irretrievably broken right now. Not (only) as a ball player, but as a human being. He needs to be somewhere other than in the Twins bullpen - for his litteral sanity. Get his head right, and then worry about the rest. Goes for the Twins or wherever he ends up.
  13. Bodie
    Heck, I was sure that Maeda, and then Gray needed to be resigned (one or the other) to provide that fabled "veteran leadership" for the staff, ensuring that last bit of coaching that might be the difference between a Joe Mays and our Joe Ryan. At the time either of these deals were possible, either would have been cheered as proof that the Twins were serious about competing, and/or that the days of the "cheap Twins" were over. Maybe they could have filled that role - the respected elder statesman. But, I'm glad in hindsight that they aren't taking up a roster spot. Or sucking up payroll after a DFA.
  14. Bodie
    He emphasized fundamentals overall. Things most players first learned in Little League. The ability to field your position. The necessity of making contact to make an offense "work". Running the bases like you'd done it before! Not making the same mental errors again and again (ad infinitum). If Kent Hrbek (for example) was asked to put down a bunt and executed like he had no idea what to do, TK and Hrbie would have an early date the next day to ensure that the next time he'd be better prepared to do it right. And everyone on the roster understood that that was how it was. He molded his players into a team. Generally that team was better than the sum of the parts. They didn't regularly beat themselves. Was the talent level as high as the "big spenders"? No, but under TK that wasn't an acceptable excuse. Not for the players or the coaches. They were seldom outworked. He also recognized that players have limits. He didn't try to male Greg Gagne into a Killabrew clone. He used Gagne in line with his talent/production - bottom 1/3rd of the order hitter who will give you MLB quality defense at SS. Worked out ok (to say the least!). Nick Punto types had a place on the team, not as a jack-of-all-trades (master of none) super utility player needing regular at bats (and starts!) to keep him ready. He was a defensive replacement. A pinch runner (almost typed pinch hitter! Oops). He could fill that role. And the team could trust him in that role. Could TK "fix" this team? I don't know, but I doubt it. He would however limit the mental mistakes- even if he effectively left himself with an almost unusable bench (assuming that there aren't better options in the organization). There would be consequences for poor performance. Two thirds of the current roster would need to drastically alter their approach to the game as a whole. Those who worked to improve would get a new shot with this "new" regime. Anyone saying any variant of "Trust the process" would be executed at dawn... or outrighted.
  15. Bodie
    If Clemens was half as personable as a player as he was in the Twins booth for an inning, he'd be in the Hall...
  16. Bodie
    Agree on Alcala. He is utterly lost, and it is obvious to even such an emotionally "limited " person as myself. He is on the verge of "loosing his shi..." as the kids say. He needs to be sent down to save any vestige of hope for his future. He looks like he is one mistake/error/lucky hit away from a nervous breakdown. Literally. He is on the verge of being out of baseball if he doesn't get right mentally. I am serious, I am genuinely worried about him. Not as a baseball player, but as a man on the edge. I have never seen anyone looking more mentally fragile being run out regularly. It is painful to watch as a human being. That is saying nothing about watching he and his team mates stinking so bad I smelled the team flight landing in Boston...
  17. Bodie
    Maybe, just maybe, Johan could "deGromm" teams and drive in the run in a 1-0 game... Gotta have confidence in something Twin-related! It surely isn't this iteration.
  18. Bodie
    Ha,ha ha! Must be nice to be so trusting...
  19. Bodie
    Point - Jax has pitched himself out of "high leverage" innings and will have to earn those opportunities back. Rocco has publicly said so, so quit acting like him getting lower presume situations to right himself is somehow a great mystery. He's stunk individuality among this dumpster fire of a team. No mystery, no "controversy" in that. You want to debate who becomes the #2 in Jax's remedial tutorial, that is fair game. But he isn't trusted by his manager (rightly so, right now), and until he regains it (or gets it back by default- i.e. injury in the bp) by pitching better, expect to see him against the bottom of the lineup, relatively early in the game.
  20. Bodie
    He throws hard, Good thing. There are very few men who can throw 100 mph - no matter what. There are far fewer who can pitch at 100 mph. Louis Varland still sits in that second category. His control in the zone is poor. He pitches are seemingly easy to pick up. If he didn't have that magical 100 velocity (and wasn't a native son) this conversation would sound very similar to ones about Alcala. Don't give up on the arm, but work on the pitching. He isn't far away from being a quality bullpen arm, but the margin for error is small for pitchers, and smaller still without good control.
  21. Bodie
    There is talent, but compare it to an old Jaguar car. The car is undeniably classy, beautiful and downright sexy. But because of how it was built it is about a 50-50 shot it will break down backing out of the garage! You knew it when you bought it, but you think "this one will be different". Bu in the end, that beautiful Jag acts like it would be expected, not how we hoped.
  22. Bodie
    So, DHs who are old for thier competition. Encouraging!
  23. Bodie
    An organization once renowned for solid fundamentals, even on some bad teams, simply doesn't care about them! Bunts? Not a guy on the team is even asked to try. Hitting under .100 and need to advance a runner? Swing away and "trust the process". Someone bunting again you? Look like a bad little league team that had never heard of the concept, let alone defended one. Stolen bases? Pitching staff looks like they have never heard of trying to hold the runners. And catchers who by default have virtually no chance of throwing out runners, and who keep setting up the same behind the plate, regardless. They watch any team who tries run unimpeded, and do nothing. Not even trying to run themselves (though to be fair to the players on the last several years' rosters they were obviously not signed to steal bases. Or run the bases, play defense, move runners along....) Very simply, the Twins have come to believe that anyone can be coached up to fit "the process". The.simplest, and painfully obvious hole in their theory is that no one hits the ball hard on a swing and miss. And this team (several years on now) is a bad contact hitting team. They seem to think that everyone can get Puckett results by using an exaggerated power swing. Somehow they struggle to get Laudner numbers. Somehow...
  24. Bodie
    The."30 year old prospect" with a. batting average between 2.00 and 3.00 didn't give a hint to the quality of writing? (Or to be nice, the quality of someone's/everyone's proof reading)
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