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  1. TJSweens
    He needs to be up here too and playing every day next to Jenkins.
  2. TJSweens
    The Twins playoff aspirations were always a mirage. Whether Jenkins would helped is irrelevant. He should have been up here gaining experience and helping forge a new nucleus on this team.
  3. TJSweens
    I have a couple of friends down here in Florida who are Chicago transplants. They were telling me how much they loved that the Sox purged mediocre vets and went with the kids last year and this year. They are loving the results. We've been begging the Twins to do that all year. We've been waiting to see Culpepper, Emma and Jenkins together up here. It's past time to demote, Jackson, Roden and any other dead weight. There is only have 5 weeks to gage what Emma can do against major league pitching. They need to do it now! Bring up him and Jenkins and play them every day. Make room for Festa too.
  4. TJSweens
    In other words, he is a rookie adjusting to the major leagues. I'm excited until Culpepper gives me reason not to be excited. He isn't Kriedler and he isn't Gray. Those are two good reasons to be excited. Culpepper has legitimate talent. That's another reason to be excited. Quit digging into analytics to figure out if this is real or not or if you should be excited. That's just overthinking. Do what old farts like me have done for decades...watch the kid play and enjoy.
  5. TJSweens
    An all too small sample size trend, that I am none the less enjoying, is Culpepper getting late inning hits. He has plenty to learn about major league pitchers, but he hasn't looked to be in over his head to this point.
  6. TJSweens
    I'm for moving Buck to a corner spot for the mere fact that LF & RF are a lot less wear and tear on the legs than CF. Buxton's repeated labrum injuries are probably an indicator that the Twins should reduce his milage. Especially at his age. The farther north of 30 you get, the easier it is to get those strains and the longer they take to heal.
  7. TJSweens
    They will have about that many without Ober. If they pay him, that guarantees he makes the team out of spring training and takes a roster spot from a more deserving pitcher.
  8. TJSweens
    That's not a given at all. Trade Ryan and they still have Lopez followed by Bradley, Kremer, Prielipp, Able, Matthews, Rojas, ... With or without Ryan, there is no reason to keep Ober, who is about done.
  9. TJSweens
    A slow, conservative approach with Lackey makes no sense. He isn't an 18 year old, out of high school. Lackey is a 21 year old college junior, taken #3 in the draft. He is already an elite defensive catcher. As soon as his bat clicks, move him up to the next level.
  10. TJSweens
    If Keaschall's home was 2nd base, the Twins wouldn't have moved him to the OF. Luke is clearly a substandard fielder, but he is less bad in the OF.
  11. TJSweens
    Has anybody started a pool on how soon Emma goes back on the IL?
  12. TJSweens
    Thanks for the article. I feel much better about him losing the game last night.
  13. TJSweens
    It was good to see Jenkins first HR came off a lefty. That is the last remaining question on Jenkins. He has been able to get on base at a decent rate against them, but his slugging against them has been bad.
  14. TJSweens
    I'm sure the Twins will find something that will give them an excuse to put Ryan on the IL and shut him down for two weeks and hope that he bounces back with some rest. I've said before that Ryan will never have as much value as he had at last year's deadline. Since then he has experienced to more second half fades.
  15. TJSweens
    You're citing stats in which I place very little stock. Lee is trending down at the plate. He is defensively limited. He looks like a utility player to me at this point.
  16. TJSweens
    I'm not saying hold back Jenkins for Kriedler. I'm saying I would like to see more consistency out of Jenkins before he is called up.
  17. TJSweens
    Culpepper for Gray should be done immediately. Culpepper looks ready and Gray is as worthless as goose s*** on a pump handle. Since that frees Kreidler up to play CF, I would wait on Jenkins. Walker looks like he has a few things to iron out yet. I can't get excited about the idea of Wallner coming back. As has been pointed out already, Wallner has a serious hole in his swing. Major league pitching exploits it in way that AAA pitchers cant.
  18. TJSweens
    My response to each of those three NO! NO! NO! Bring up Culpepper. That RH option is a lot more exciting than any of Soler, Garver and Refsnyder. Not to mention, there is a place to plug him right into the lineup.
  19. TJSweens
    I'm pretty lukewarm on Fedko, but in his defense, he came up basically sat.
  20. TJSweens
    It would have taken a lot more than Culpepper to get the kind of pitcher you are describing. The Twins need a whole new infield. Lee is not the answer at 3B, Culpepper could be.
  21. TJSweens
    I'll second this. I'm very confident that Culpepper can give us everything Kreidler does at SS and more right now. Promote Houston to AAA and put him in position to compete for a major league job next spring.
  22. TJSweens
    I would argue that Tommy Nance, A.J. Minter, Dean Kremer and Jeff Hoffman are the epitome of half measures. Especially considering Cleveland added more. This was s show of being serious to sell tickets down the stretch.
  23. TJSweens
    He was quite good for two months. He was quite putrid for the other two months.
  24. TJSweens
    I have a friend who is a die hard Jays fan. He said he would have taken a roll of tape for Hoffman and anything beyond that is gravy.
  25. TJSweens
    I would still prefer the Twins make moves to clear the decks for Jenkins and Culpepper. They need to get the future core players up to the majors. Adding just to build a team good enough to swept in the first round doesn't interest me.
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