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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Can someone expand on their thoughts on why Mauer managing Mauer would be a conflict?
  2. Mr. Brooks
    No it doesn't. Assuming they knew already that Pohlads would be open to eating salary, he could always be flipped. It wasn't a hard buy, it left flexibility to go either way.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    Well, I understand catchers value is probably the most difficult to measure. That said though, Gimenez has 0.1 bWAR on the year. Cutting/trading him is unlikely to affect our w/l record the rest of the way.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Are you sure it was only based on that one week? Could it have been based on the losing record in the 40 games prior to the deadline?
  5. Mr. Brooks
    I can't pretend to be qualified to say who would be best, so I'd just hope they hire whoever will do the best, regardless of where they come from.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Except we don't know that. We can assume the FO likes Gimenez, but it wouldn't shock me if he was traded tomorrow.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    Well I'm assuming the idea of him platooning with Castro would include Gimenez being cut or traded.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Well I guess they are gambling big that Wiggins develops the defensive side of his game. Hope it works out.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    Well ERA alone tells me almost nothing, especially for a relief pitcher. Im guessing they are also looking at his 15 bb's to only 40 k's in 54 innings and realizing that he's probably been pretty lucky. And also that he's not really a prospect, and the minor leagues are about developing your actual prospects, not worrying about results from your filler.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Adrianza doesn't have close to enough PA to qualify.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    I'll be pretty disappointed if Gordon isn't in the picture until 2019.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    The Twins are not a small market team. The Twins cities are firmly a middle market.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    Miguel Sano was not a diamond in the rough.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    Do you honestly think that calling him up now would be setting him up for failure, but in 3 weeks it won't?
  15. Mr. Brooks
    I mean, the FO decided to buy initially and the team responded by completely going into the tank. It would have been foolish, IMO, to throw good assets after bad once it went from long shot but doable, to microscopic shot. It surprises me that Dozier doesn't seem to have the self awareness to realize that, he seems like a bright guy. I get the frustration, but if he must, he should focus it towards himself and the rest of the locker room where it belongs.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    In my opinion, with that embarrassing lineup Molitor had to run out there in this game, he's tripping over himself sprinting to fill out a new lineup card the second Joe says he wants to play. I guess I don't understand why every opinion has to come with a disclaimer here. Nobody here thinks I have access to Mauer or Molitor. Of course my comments you quoted are opinion and not meant to be passed off as fact. In fact, the second post you quoted was a question, so by definition can't be accusatory. It gets cumbersome having to always attach a disclaimer to every post, but I guess it has to be done. As for Mauer, I get why you are sensitive, but A) I'm not someone who goes around nitpicking everything Joe does. I'd say I'm close to 50/50 on him around here. So it's a little insulting to me to invalidate my opinion here as Mauer bating and nothing more. And To whom much is given, much is expected. That might not be fair, he shouldn't turn down the money or apoligize for taking it, but nothing ever is fair and its natural that he's going to be more scrutinized as both the highest paid (by a mile), and longest tenured Twin.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think anyone is blaming Joe Mauer just because we wonder if he could have been more aggressive in voicing his ability to play despite a tough lefty on the mound. It's also not unusual for EVERY poster on this site to speculate and form opinions without knowing 100% if they are right. I mean that's kind of the point of the message boards. Why is speculation about why Colon is still in the rotation, or Dozier trade rumors not castigated like this? Nobody in this thread took a personal shot at Mauer. Leadership is a perfectly in bounds criticism of a pro athlete.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Is Mauer not capable of telling Mollie that he's available despite the tough lefty?
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah Colon won't get an exciting return, but if he keeps pitching like he has his last 2 starts or better, he's tradeable for sure.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    And people wonder why Joe's leadership gets questioned. An embarrassing lineup because our 23 million dollar veteran doesn't want to face a "tough" lefty.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    The person you are quoting didn't say anything about the manager, or imply that anyone other than the FO was responsible for not having another bat here.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    I didn't see that said, or even implied, anywhere in the article or replies.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think Slegers would be taken. Every team already has a Slegers or two at AAA.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    I don't agree that's tough at all. The manager fills out the lineup card, players play. Dozier can have all the insistence he wants, Molitor doesn't have to listen to it.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Yep, he's only statistically the BEST hitter in Twins history through his age and number of games. Better than Killabrew, better than Puckett, better than Mauer and Morneau. But, for some people, nothing Sano does will ever be enough.
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