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  1. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Buxton needs to shut it down and get that hip right. Even if we somehow get into the playoffs, we'll have done it with Jenkins in CF. Playing through it has not worked. Since the move to 3B, Lee has been much closer to the player I was hoping he'd be. The defense is so much better. The bat has shown up. A sub .300 OBP is not good. Not someone I'd be batting 2nd. This seems to be how Jenkins operates. He's a little slow to adjust, but once he figures it out, he goes on a tear. Either way, this is great experience and will give him some stuff to work on during the off-season. The defense looks good in CF. Larnach looks awful in the field. If Ross and Gonzalez are mostly riding the bench, why not get ERod up instead and put him in LF? It seems odd to me the team doesnt want to see him at Target Field before he's out of options.
  2. soyouresayingtheresachance
    What a 💩 show
  3. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Houston, Kendle, and Diaw all seem ready to start next season at AAA. Maybe Lackey gets a taste of AA after the Kernels season ends?
  4. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Nice win. Let's do it again tomorrow.
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    Kendle has been on fire for a couple months now. Seeing the stats laid out like this, Jenkins really forced the issue for his call up. What a month. He was doing well with the Twins until he hit that HR off a position player. May not be related, but thats when the struggles seem to have started
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    Another lifeless effort.
  7. soyouresayingtheresachance
    To be fair, I'd imagine Jenkins would've been up much sooner, probably last season, had he not been injured so much. I dont see the Twins as a team that fast tracks a player. Theres a 1st time for everything, I guess. But it seems very unlikely Lackey will get the call next season.
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    Sano was so good for a while and then he just fell off a cliff. Where would Buxton, and the Twins, be if he didn't have all these injuries? Lots of development issues here, too. Is this league wide, or just a Twins problem? Kiriloff, man. He's one I would've liked to see without the injuries, too. He never got a chance.
  9. soyouresayingtheresachance
    A healthy and effective Pablo would be great. But how many pitchers come back from his kind of surgery pitching like he did beforehand? And this is his 2nd go around with it. Not many past examples of effectiveness and success under these circumstances. I love Pablo on the team. Great teammate and a great person. I dont know if Festa can be counted on at all. He seems to be injured every year. Even when he was healthy, he wasnt very effective. Abel had 2 good starts in an otherwise underwhelming ML career to that point before injury ended his sseason. There is no guarantee he "figured it out". Could've been just a couple good starts. Ober is injury prone and his results haven't been good for a couple years. Kremer is what he is and likely doesnt make the rotation if any 5 of the other options are actually healthy. Zebby sure took a nice step forward in August, didnt he? He has shown flashes for a while now, but never really put a stretch like this together until now. Will it continue? Prielipp has potential, but the overall results aren't there yet. Its been an encouraging year from him coming back from his own injury history. Im looking for another step forward for him next season. I assume he'll be in the rotation. Ryan continued his 2nd half struggles. This time there was an injury potentially behind it. Obviously he's in the rotation next season. Does he have another gear or is he a nice #2 or high end #3 starter? Taj has taken a nice step forward this year. A few slip ups here and there. He is a nice #3 starter at this time. A bit more consistency is needed. Hes is also Obviously in the rotation next season. IMO, this team absolutely has 4 of the rotation spots covered. 2-5 can be filled and perform well. We need a true Ace that can be counted on 100%. We have a couple guys here with the potential for that, but its not 100%. I'd love to say Pablo will come back and be that guy again, but there are zero guarantees that will happen. I truly hope he can come back and be that Ace we need. If we dont sign or trade for any other starters, there are enough quality arms to make a formidable rotation. We can be competitive with these guys.
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    All Culpepper had to do was get that sac fly and we'd have won 7 - 6
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    I think LF is the last chance for Keaschall to have a defensive home. He'd probably be there now if Larnach wasnt even worse in the field. Heck of a bat though.
  12. soyouresayingtheresachance
    ERod showing his displeasure with not being called up, responding in the best way possible Houston has really cooled off
  13. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Zebby has looked like the pitcher we all hoped he could be. Would be nice if it continues. Minter has been great since coming over. Very underrated trade imo. As other have said, I think resigning him would be great and would solve the need for a good LH reliever. Nance has been exactly as advertised. Not flashy but consistent. Not mentioned in the article, but saw his name in the comments...i didnt like the Hoffman trade when it happened and I like it even less now.
  14. soyouresayingtheresachance
    What a win.
  15. soyouresayingtheresachance
    I agree with most of this. Lewis needs to be replaced with a big bat 1B that can play a little defense too. That is the biggest weakness in our lineup now and in your projection. Sign a true #4 hitter to play 1B and the lineup looks a lot better. Love Keaschall batting leadoff and DH. His defense is questionable at best. Jenkins in RF works great. Strong arm. Can easily move to CF if (when?) Buxton gets hurt. CFer of the future, I believe. Buxton in CF. This is obvious until he's hurt. When healthy, he's among the best players in the league. That big bat 1B I want to sign bats 4th. Which allows Clemens to bat 5th. Very good defense and solid bat. Culpepper at SS until Houston is ready. Really liking Culpepper. Brooks Lee batting 7th, playing 3B. The team seems to absolutely love him. I dont see them batting him even 7th, but hes not the top of the order guy they seem to think he is. ERod in LF batting 8th seems like a good starting point. Could easily see him moving up the order, especially if he forces the issue. Caratini at C, batting 9th. Not a huge fan of Caratini. His defense and game calling are fine, I guess. He just doesnt do anything for me. But with drafting Lackey and Tinney, I really dont see them upgrading the position unless Jeffers surprises us all and accepts a QO. In theory, this lineup should score some runs. Another possibility that would cost less and still make the lineup better would be still trading Lewis. He should be traded. Period. Move Clemens to 1B and sign Arraez. Doesn't give us the big bat in the cleanup spot but it does give us a high batting average that puts the ball in play. With all the stranded runners we have, someone getting a base hit to drive some of them in would be a huge boost right now. We've been pretty good at getting guys on base this year. Just haven't been driving them in since the All Star break. Arraez wants to play 2B and his defense has been average or slightly above this year.
  16. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Ive said for a long time now, trade Lewis. People replied saying he was looking great and getting comfortable at the plate and on defense...still waiting for that. Just trade him. He's underperformed for years now. How many seasons do we need to accept this? He is a HUGE reason the team is struggling. Being late to his defensive position is just another example of why. 1B is supposed to produce high end offensive results. If we had that, we'd likely have won a few more games. Kremer is what he is. A #5 starter. We have those. If we sign or trade for a top end starter over the offseason and he is a casualty of that, so be it. Id much rather see a guy like Zebby or Prielipp get a rotation spot over him. Morris and Gomez look to be getting a tired. I dont think theyre used to pitching this much in a season. Jeffers has been rough. Makes me wonder if he aggravated that hand injury and is trying to play through it.
  17. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Someone needs to be displaced when Ryan comes back. The guy on an "innings limit" would make sense. Its very clear to anyone watching that he seems to get tired or hit harder around the 4th inning or so now. Ober has been getting the shorter leash and its mostly worked well for him. I'd imagine the decision would come down to one of those 2. Maybe they pitch them both in a piggyback type situation after Ryan returns? Let Bailey go 4 or 5 inning and have Prilipp finish the game. If Ryan is fully healthy upon returning, he is better than anyone in the rotation except maybe Bradley, so whichever guy is taken out of the rotation, it will be better for the team. Since Prielipp is on an innings limit, I suppose he would be my choice. Send him to the BP and let him take it easy the rest of the season.
  18. soyouresayingtheresachance
    I like his offensive profile. His bat has been much better since he broke out of the slump. Baserunning still needs some work (tripping on the way to 1st base comes to minc) but hes quick enough to make up for some of it. Where I worry is his defense. He seems to be prone to some odd mistakes. Hopefully an offseason of work in the OF will clean up those mistakes. Hes a good player. I definitely like having him on the team.
  19. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Should've been ERod called up. Last option year, we need to see how he fares against some MLB pitching. His defense would be a big upgrade over Larnach, too. Just let Buck get that surgery and get his hip right. He's not doing himself or the team any favors by trying to play injured. Will Gonzalez even play? Or did he get called up to sit on the bench? Atleast it wasnt Gray called up again.
  20. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Culpepper got caught lifting his head on that error. Gotta make the play first. I was happy when we traded for help at the deadline. But the players didnt respond. Atleast not yet. Still a little time, i suppose, but its running out fast.
  21. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Very rough night for Kremer. He just could not find a rhythm. Clemens and Lee with HRs. Kind of a fun little back and forth they have going on. 22 HRs apiece. Since moving to 3B, Lee has really turned his season around. Jenkins getting his 1st ML hit and walk. The moment most of us have been waiting for finally arrived. He sure looked like he belonged out there. Im hoping ERod is, at minimum, a September call up to get his 1st taste of the Bigs. More than deserving of a promotion at this point. Let him take over LF. Jenkins in CF. Keaschall in RF. Shut down Buxton and let him fix his hip. He hasn't looked right since July when he first got injured. Even if he plays, his bat has been terrible. Honestly, im ready to see a daily lineup of the future. LF- ERod CF- Jenkins RF- Keaschall 3B- Lee SS- Culpepper 2B- Clemens 1B- Lewis C- Jackson Thats a lineup I'm ready to see.
  22. soyouresayingtheresachance
    We are right near where people figured we should be. A weak AL has us in a playoff hunt and instead of selling expiring contracts and calling up young guys at the deadline, we were buyers. Delayed some arrivals. Its been a fun year
  23. soyouresayingtheresachance
    He shouldve been traded.
  24. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Id much rather see Acton or Anderson
  25. soyouresayingtheresachance
    Glad we didn't get him. Awful Awful teammate. Terrible attitude. Clubhouse cancer.
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