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  1. Bodie
    CAREFULLY check the local sandboxes. Often found bear leavings there when living in Montana.
  2. Bodie
    I'll never respect Rocco as he is either a) utterly ignorant, or b) a flat-out liar. EVERY time a player leaves a game, the post-game press conference includes a "not as bad as it looks", or a "probably a day-to-day thing" report on the injured player before the next day's "official" report of said player needing major surgery and a 60 day DL stint. I realize he isn't a doctor or even a trainer, but adding this to his history of baffling moves (esp. pitching, and weekly days off for position players beyond travel days) and strict analytical adherence, I see nothing to recommend him at all as a manager. He'd likely make a good babysitter. Assuming your child is bulletproof...
  3. Bodie
    No, but he IS the only "very good, smart SS" on the Twins roster. And the fact that he doesn't have a Kingman-esque approach to hitting (unlike 90%+ of Twins developed hitters) and he is worth his contract just for providing an alternative to the all-or-nothin approach that is so prevalent in baseball today. LET HIM LEAD!!!
  4. Bodie
    Not all of your roster needs to be all-stars, and Castro is a fine example. Somebody needs a day off? Plug Castro in anywhere on the field. Farmer fits that mold also. Either will almost assuredly give you solid defense, and with a spot of luck each can be your star of the day! Are either the sort you build your roster around? No. Are either an integral part of a quality roster? Undoubtedly. Randy Bush, innumerable "piranhas" and now Castro and Farmer are probably in the 20-24th range on the roster, but proved themselves invaluable by filling the (reduced) roles given to them on winning teams. Just ask a Tigers fan if they'd like Castro back for next season. Then ask a Twins fan the same question. Simple (!) as finding the right role for your players...
  5. Bodie
    I will gently remind you of the then-unhittable Jacob deGrom a few years back when he was a Met. 10 wins versus 9 losses, with a 1.75 ERA. The Mets were so bad that 2 consecutive starts (both CG shutouts - if I remember correctly) were won by deGrom at bat as he drove in all the runs scored in those two games! At the season's end, people said he wasn't Cy Young material because he only had ten wins/wasn't much more than a .500 pitcher!
  6. Bodie
    Hear, hear! (or here, here - never can remember) Suck the Fox!
  7. Bodie
    Over reliance on analytics has hurt the Twins (and all of baseball)! fixed that for you 😉
  8. Bodie
    We can dream...
  9. Bodie
    The pitching staff - at least the starters - indeed might be built for an October run. Unfortunately, the lineup is performing in a manner that will lead to a very disappointing September. (not to mention August, July, June...)
  10. Bodie
    Hopefully done by a new front office.
  11. Bodie
    Funny thing... the same people who believe that "swing and miss" pitchers are an absolute necessity for a quality staff don't seem to think that an offense that does little but swing and miss is an acceptable part of a quality team! We have a staff that will assuredly break (more likely shatter) any and all Twins strikeout records. And an offense that will have even more Ks (and shatter MLB strikeout records). And a front office that thinks that what last year's strikeout plagued team needed was Joey freaKing Gallo! Fire Falvey and Baldelli now. Not at the end of another hugely disappointing season, but now. No heart, and no willingness to adjust are now the hallmarks of the Twins, and this starts with the decision makers both on (Baldelli) and off the field (Falvey). Bring in fresh eyes to see what is salvageable, what HAS to go via trade, and what just has to go into the old circular file cabinet.
  12. Bodie
    5 hits and 9 strikeouts (against some pretty average- at best - pitching). Either a) the "promise" is worthless, or b) the offense in that hog-confinement pit wasn't even close to floating! Pretty sure the actual answer is "c)", all of the above. Truly sad to see. Almost as sad as it is painful to watch... Been a Twins fan long enough to remember rooting for Roy Smalley in his prime. Long enough to actually be able to compare the Buteras. Long enough to have seen Killabrew at the old Met. This year's team is simply the most unwatchable team I can remember. Not the worst team, just the worst to watch. The worst part? No one seems to care enough to try to improve their performance. Case in point, an unnamed 9th year vet, career sub .200 hitter, doing NOTHING to cut down on his universally acknowledged mega-weakness. And if he has done something, it has been nothing positive as he is hitting worse than his career average AND now striking out over 40% of the time for this season. (and approaching 50% over the last two months!) And he is about as close to being an everyday player that we have, judging by the lineup cards being turned in every day by Mr. Roboto... Can't even imagine how bad this would be if they had an average Twins pitching staff.... but it'd likely provide solace to this year's Royals fans. The old adage is that a fish rots from the head. Unfortunately, that rotting head has spread throughout the entire fish since about 2016. November of 2016 to be more precise...
  13. Bodie
    You may be correct. Except for one small point: he really doesn't get enough outs any more! He isn't on the 40 man roster, isn't really much of a threat to anyone on it, and might be a good example to the Saints' youngsters. Not a bad "reach/reclamation project" signing. If he shows signs of life, great! If not, you can just sign next year's former star and try again. It is not like signing some overhyped, one-dimensional "player" and handing him a roster spot for one productive at bat a week like, ... not to say Joey Gallo, but... Joey Gallo!
  14. Bodie
    I can't think of a WORSE signing by the Twins in many years. Anyone who shows even an occasional pulse with the Yankees is touted as an all-star (at worst). Don't pull a Canseco in the field, and you are a gold glover! Just show potential with one tool and you'll be a prospect into your early 30s. He is very expensive Kingman or Adam Dunn. A black hole anywhere in the lineup, utterly overrated on defense, and worst of all the exact opposite of what you want as a veteran leader (the lesson he shows is that you'll earn the yearly salary of a small town while producing next to nothing while doing NOTHING to adapt your game to improve yourself). I thought coming into the season that he was about as bad of a FA signing as the Twins could have made last off-season. Now, halfway through the season, he has been even worse than I feared. If the front office is serious about being a contender this year, there is simply ONE option: eat half the contract and DFA him immediately. Basically anyone can replace him as an overall player. Leave it to the Twins to find a way to somehow get rid of a lineup albatross (Sano) and replace him with the Bizarro World version of said albatross...
  15. Bodie
    Learn to play defensively at any position...
  16. Bodie
    Thanks! I didn't realize that I needed a laugh until I utterly lost it reading that any position player from the Twins was a possible all-star.. When you put out 7-8 Dave Kingmans out there every night, worrying about who is an all-star is pretty low on the list of things you want to worry about!
  17. Bodie
    Even mentioning Gallo as a possible leadoff hitter is a sacrilege! Actually doing so should be grounds for firing. From a cannon, al a the First False Dimitry! True, the Twins lack anything approaching a leadoff hitter (Buxton is probably closest- he of the career .245 batting average- based of his skill set - but having multiple bad choices doesn't mean you need to make the dumbest f####### choice available!
  18. Bodie

    You could live in Iowa like me and have both a "winter storm warning" and tornado watches at the same time.

    Ahhh, spring in the upper Midwest!

  19. Bodie
    If he stays on the roster, the question isn't if he breaks the record, but if he does it by the all-star break...
  20. Bodie
    Anything that shuts up the Hawk deserves mega-bonus points!
  21. Bodie
    Next up - pitching machines in lieu of humans. But teams will get 3 "challenges" allowing them to use humans against a specific batter... It's bad enough having HAL as a manager, I have no interest in having it call balls and strikes. Baseball is a game played by humans, officiated by humans, for the enjoyment of humans (and the occasional super-intelligent dog). We'll never see a 27 pitch perfect game. We'll never see someone hit 1.000 for the season (even Kirby could only do that for a couple of consecutive games). No team will ever go 162-0. Would baseball be better if Earl Weaver never completely lost his mind arguing balls and strikes? I think not! Accept that perfection is unattainable and enjoy the best in the business striving for perfection, and failing every time.
  22. Bodie
    Duran wasn't available to pitch, according to HAL - I mean Rocco - "he slept pretty funny". HAL continued "We don't think it's going to be a long-term issue... We're hoping he wakes up in a significantly better place and that's what we anticipate." Well, that makes me feel real confident... I just hope that better place is still KC! Strange factoid - the Twins did something Saturday that they didn't do once last year. I am not talking back to back shutouts (very nice!), but they used the same lineup in consecutive games!
  23. Bodie
    The one to as that question goes by thr name "Rocco Baldelli"...
  24. Bodie
    I won't miss 4-plus hour 9 onning games. I have never once thought "I wish I could see another 7 minute Jeter at bat". ESPN's Yankee-Red Sox games were just plain brutal to watch, regularly going almost 4 hours ( one I watched was just shy of 5 hrs. for 9 innings of constant batting glove adjustments and pitchers getting their steps in... Complaints of a baseball junkie) I have no doubt that the next WBC will be just as good with the new rules enforced.
  25. Bodie
    Interesting idea - seriously. (Buxton @1B) At someplace like Oakland, with a lot of foul territory, he could have a 90% day off defensively, and still put that speed to use a couple of times a series. Then all we'd have to worry about is him displacing a hip running into the dugout railing...
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