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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Great post. I agree nearly 100% on all points. The only addendum being I'd add to #7 moving May into the rotation. The club has claimed all along that they havent closed the book on him starting. Well, if there is ever going to be a golden opportunity to move him back, it's now.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    Nunez won't have much value in the off season. Meanwhile, Polanco could be a starting caliber player. This is his last option year. I'd prefer we go into the off season with a decent sized sample of what he can do at the mlb level so we can plan our 25 man roster accordingly.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    It's to soon to say if they sold high on Hicks, I'm not convinced we've seen the best of him yet.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    You shouldn't transition to development over results in a losing season? I know that the two times in my lifetime that the Twins finally crawled out of oblivion, they did so both times by finally acknowledging it was time to hand it over to the kids and suffer through the growing pains that go with it. He can maintain his trade value by playing 3 to 4 times per week. I think most teams around the league have probably made their evaluation of him, and a few good weeks of high babip SSS play isn't going to change that. Lastly, you have a very high confidence in a front office that, frankly, doesn't deserve it. When was the last time this FO sold high on a player? If you want to trade him, it should be now, while his numbers are unsustainably high. What will they get for him in the off-season, after he's regressed to the mean? Mediocre bat, awful glove utility players aren't highly sought after commodities in December.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    I would prefer to keep Polanco too, but I guess the argument for trading him is that if he can't get in the lineup on an 8-26 team with its starting SS on the DL, when will be ever??
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Why does Nunez need to play regularly? Sure, he's playing well, but we are 8-26 and know what we have in him. Yes, I would prefer Mastroianni or Beresford rot on the bench, how is that even a question? We have a half dozen guys who can come off the 40 man. Polanco and Kepler need to play every single game, I don't care where.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    It depends on what your objective for the rest of the season is. If you still think we can make the playoffs, then sure, Murphy should stay down. Personally, I think they have no chance to compete this year. So, stats really mean nothing from here on out. Give as much playing time to the youngsters. We need to start the process of finding out who can sink, and who can swim. There are things you just can't learn about a guy at AAA.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think anyone is disputing that the position players are young. The pitching staff is not young at all though.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    Well the problem is, we don't know what, if any things Kepler needs to work on, since Mollie refused to play him when he was here. He's been very unlucky at AAA this year, he's hitting much better than the numbers suggest.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Seth, You didn't answer the first question, so I'll ask another. What part of the plan is playing a whole season with basically a 24 man roster to carry a rule V guy, only to PTBNL him a month into the next season for no apparent reason? No, this FO has no plan. It's all from the hip.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    You claim that firing Molitor mid season won't fix anything, but later say we should trade Polanco because Mollie refuses to play him. That is contradictory. We could fire Mollie so that a new manager will play him.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    He probably "battles his tail off", and "gets after it".
  13. Mr. Brooks
    And another prospect rots on the bench.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    Seth, What part of the plan is calling up legit prospects to rot on the bench? First Kepler, now Polanco.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Thibodaux and Boudreau, and that's just in the last 6 weeks.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Isn't there a college catcher who could be a top 5 pick in 2017? If we really want to draft for need, let's get him.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    POTY Nominee. Well said.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Sano leads mlb in line drive percentage. The only thing Sano needs to work on in AAA is his luck.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Is that the one where he thought FIP was first innings pitched?
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Not if they don't make changes. The current regime will NEVER return to even an illusion of success. 6 awful years will turn into 9, which will turn into 15. The game has passed these guys by, and they have no idea what they are doing.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    I think the takeaway is that catchers are really, really hard to find and develop.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    To the casual fan, which is the bulk of the financial base, we were competitive.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    The Twins won't continue to make money with this product though. There is a difference between the Twins, and Walmart or McDonalds. Walmart and McDonalds customer base is getting exactly what they want and expect. They want a subpar, but cheap and convenient product. They don't go into McDonalds expecting them to turn it around any day now and serve a 5 star menu. I think most Twins fans expect an eventual return to a competitive product. And, I think when year 6 turns into year 9, then year 13, Target Field will turn into a ghost town.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    How many companies would do that if their product had turned into an utter disaster?
  25. Mr. Brooks
    And Terry Ryan hand picked Mollie as his field manager, so that all comes back to Terry. That's the responsibility of being in upper management. You are responsible for the hires you make, period.
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