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I might not be the smartest guy in the world on this, but Jackson hits the baseball very well and is an adequate catcher unlike his past. somehow he's doing well when he gets the chance and he rarely gets to chance which means his average should be very low but it's not. we see constant articles. advocating players moving to the major leagues because they're mentally. statistics are so great. then they get to the major leagues. come to find out those pictures have a lot more movement on them and the batters with the 400 average in AAA find it real difficult to have any sort of adequate average of at the major league level. we all love Mr. Jenkins. he wears those his nice t-shirt with Jesus on it. a great young man, but it's back in average so far is .130. I feel 100% sure he's going to be a great major. leaguer but trying to put Mr. lackey on the major league team next season by what he's doing in single A I mean who is writing this stuff?

I am looking at a team of average to above average hitting. two people who might reach low 80s to upper 80s in rbi this year they can put some excitement on the field. like and Clemons. lots of bonehead mistakes on the field though. Culpeper looks like a great future player but he really has to work on that defense. correct. we lost some good pitching especially Abel on the new pitching group. a little more healthy going on next year with the starting pitching we could have an excellent group of five. I feel we gave too much for Hoffman. it was like this was our lights out closer. well he's not exactly that. rating each position for offense and defense. how many star guides do we have on the field? we have some sort of adequate guys on the field. we need more power in the lineup. we're not hitting 307 homers anymore. I would like to see Rodriguez come up for a couple of weeks who goes down well since we have been Ross up maybe real good guy kriedler just because he's he's no hitting but please dfa our third catcher Alex again. he had a chance to play a little bit and got another hit over 300 hitter. I don't think we'll have Jeffers next year, so this guy is sorely needed until one of the new catchers is ready. I love watching him come to bat. 24 million a season is probably low. crazy money baseball for Jeffers. I do not believe that kind of money should be spent. plus it would need to be several years. at least then we can't play the new guys because we're not going to put $24 million plus on the bench. Yes I realize you need two catchers but at that money he needs to be a guy that plays about 65% of the time. I seem to be seeing a much better situation next season. there is a lot to like to put around Buxton in the outfield and when he's hurt there is good replacement people. what did we see? four guys from AAA on the field came before last? I looked at that as a better representation of what this team has available. there are so many Major league ready outfielders that bat left. you can't just leave them sitting down there and you can't play but three at a time. so what you have to do is get some pitching for some of them. I think a lot of great improvement can be made with all that left-handed hitting. okay got to go

I made a comment about Culpeper that he just wasn't getting much of a batting average going then he took off. hopefully Jenkins can do the same thing because he's finding Major league pitching to be a bit more difficult. everyday. he's killing the ball at AAA but right now it's average as well under .200. like Culpeper that's just a few games. give it a little more time. let's get a little more lift on the ball.

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baseball used to be four starters. trying to remember the orio's head. Dobson cuellar Palmer I can see his face the fourth one and the all were 20 game winners all on one team. so we're worried about a starting pitcher throwing over 100 innings at that time. 300s was possible. let's say he gets $10 million because he has a winning record and throws 100 innings and wins seven games. as it is now you can have some 200 inning people and they're paying 20% of the team's games and they can make $25 million at 20%. this is crazy. so if you're lucky real lucky the guy picks up 20 wins but we play 162 games. how is that worth all that money? they need to be able to do something else on the field and some of them can. Go back to high school level. they're pitching great games and might be the star hitter on the team also and play shortstop when they're not pitching then they might be worth the money at the current market. but if a guy can't pitch 100 games without having a sore arm, maybe he needs a different profession or take a salary of $50,000 for the year.

I cannot come up with a place for Luke to play at. that can be tolerated if he can hit 330. on the Jenkins first night, I think it was the walk. you know the pitching is going to try to get a batter to chase and he was offered a pitch that was outside but close and I think a lot of guys would have swung at that but he did not. for first day in the major leagues. that was quite impressive.

I think they gave up too much for a Hoffman. look who took his place with Toronto because he just wasn't getting the job done that well. he gets the batter to chase a pitch that's not exactly in the zone. I haven't seen him do a lot of that since he entered the twins dug out. this was supposed to be our big catch for the bullpen. earned run average around 4 is not a big catch and you don't give up a possible superstar for that.

I can't seem to get these videos but to answer the question in my mind he was given minor league picture of the year with an end-run average over Four. The talk is on TV he has all this outstanding potential and he does get some strikeouts. the strikeouts aren't going to win you every ball game. you have to be able to get outs other ways and he can't seem to do that. so has he slept no because of injuries. he was brought up too soon to pitch on the major league level when he's not ready for that. so let's not fault him. injuries happen quite badly for this team when it comes to pitching. in other words, don't ask for so much from a Madeline pitcher when his run average is well over to do well in the major leagues.

Yes, that brings up a point that I've tried to make in my own mind. so let you a nice gentleman. get me started. we are overloaded with left-handed hitters who can hit really well but who is scouting these guys? we have the second basement who went to rightfield and when boxing's not there. sometimes he's in centerfield and the ball just goes over his head or he just can't field the ball very well there are a number of examples of poor defense in the field. didn't are scouting people notice that before they drafted these guys? or were they just looking at someone who can bang the ball hard? and don't worry about the defense, we'll teach that to them later? I just don't understand because the Minnesota twins used to be known for great defense. how many games has the team lost this season because of the defense? might be tied with Chicago for first place or a little better if they could play their positions.

I do not know where Keaschall can actually play on defense to be successful

without Jeffers next year we need to keep Jackson. I think he's a great teammate and has batted 300 and not that bad behind the plate to be with caratini because no one else is ready. most guys sit on the bench that much and still hit 300 that's something to be aware of people. Rodriguez can get MLB experience coming up after the first day of September when two players can be added to see if he's going to be good for a spot next year. Jenkins can come up now. just don't play him more than 130 times at bat if he looks like potential rookie of the year. most likely Buxton will go on the IL but if he doesn't who you going to send down? I would say Roden. Martin is a favorite of mine but maybe he goes to AAA or something. of course, if Rodriguez is brought up after the 1st, he would not be eligible for the postseason, but it doesn't look probable being four games behind Cleveland. we can't even beat Oakland, especially when Mr. Keaschell simply keeps proving he can't play the defense. both of those balls last night were catchable by most outfielters. The one that went over his head look like me and a slow pitch Church softball League. That's why I took the ball at pitcher. we are overwhelmed with left-handed hitters that can actually play really well. pitching if any sentence is true in this life, you can't get too much pitching so doing that a little more when picking all those outfielders. and also the first two pics were catchers and I was was going to be okay with the guy that got picked. fifth he was pitching lights out baseball but this catcher is very needed and the second catcher might be good too. but I would have gone with pitching. maybe that's why I'm not running things. since we have so many great outfielters that's going to have to be some trades actually to do these gentlemen Justice. very few matter. league players make the major league level and when you have them down there ready to play and you have no place for them. get them a place by trading for where you most need is, but definitely don't trade Jenkins good gosh and Rodriguez might be worth holding on to if he can learn how to not hurt himself.

I think when Lawrence went down it was because he still had options. the guy was pitching phenomenally well and bullpens changed personnel by the day sometimes. so let's make some changes here folks.

I couldn't agree more. I don't think but there's a possibility of The very popular Taylor Rogers who has been giving up about five runs per nine innings all season. I especially Anderson could start a game. have it be a semi bullpen game with him going about three innings. maybe give Prielipp The first three then Anderson until he needs to come out because the first name dude doesn't need to be in any fourth inning on. I think Adams went nine games in a row without giving up a run. anyway, any suggestion is better than what we're doing right now.

what it is to me currently we have two viable starters that can be dependent on most of the time and that's Bradley and Kremer. we have a lot of dependable starters who can't play right now and the loss of Rojas is a disaster. there is Jack Anderson who I think can do the job of given the chance. he was pitching very well when he was demoted. if the playoffs are made and you get past the first two out of three, you have got to have three good starters that are dependable. well we definitely have them. they're just on the IL. I really loved watching Abel. pitching is a unnatural thing for your arm to be doing to begin with. so here's a sport that knows this. he had determines you need at least twice the amount of starters you had when the season started knowing the arms are going to falter. The team has a nice ops and now our relief fishing is well elevated from the beginning of the year but the starters I'm just not seeing the twins make the playoffs anymore because of the starters currently.

thank you for taking it deeper as to how all this works. I simply thought that a 235 batten average wouldn't fly very well into Major league level.