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I have seen him pitching with the twins one of his good games and he gets taken out. it's like you doing a great job at something and then you get replaced. while you're doing a great job. the guy had his high walk rate in the beginning. I'm sitting there. you keep putting the ball 6 in off the plputting the ball 6 in off the plate every pitch. he couldn't get it moved over but then he did and even with it how I walk right. he ends up with a 3.34 era. his earned run average was one of the best we had on the mound and he got sent to AAA something I don't know here. his injuries the history of that was pretty astute. you could see you were gaining a possible great player, but as the twins seem to do all the time, we'll take a chance we can develop this and he won't be injured anymore. when does that ever happen? some guys make improvements like Kremer A young man with a great attitude. I thought it was going to be a bust but he did good. but still there's the injury side of Rojas and being so young having these injuries like he does. if some physical therapist doesn't get him straight, he's not going to last as a major league player. everything going well? I see a superstar somebody that's fun to watch, make you want to turn that TV on. but you should not give away somebody like varland for a guy who has a known history of issues physically.

clemmons is a very good player. you can put all over the field and he'll do well with defense everywhere. put his bat in average I think was .236 maybe? hopefully a major league baseball team's improved player will hit better than that.

festa has yet to have a good season. here's her and run over just high. it's not Major League level as of yet, but his potential looks good.

I did not mean to insinuate that Bell should be the MVP. I was just saying nobody's even considering the guy and when you have 96 RBIs well batting 5th something like that you're not going to be the leader in run scored but he's batting in those runs. I have not seen festa have very many good games. he continues to have a very high era so he's not ready to be a rotation piece injuries aside. Keaschel is fantastic. in the outfield buxton's still going to be playing center? yes I think Keaschell should move to left. then you have Jenkins in right field and Rolen needs to to see what he can do at first base. when it comes to Rodriguez, he's not a major league hitter yet so he will not be one of the three starters but has to make the team. you can't let go potential like that. Diaw might I'm not sure be the choice for the second catcher without Jeffers. I like ober as a long relief guy, not a starter. I foresee Jenkins and Buxton if these two pronged injury people can play the whole season. 80 rbis each. I don't think trading any of the starting pitching is a good idea. hopefully Houston can come up sometime during the season. moving Culpeper to second base where I think he will do better. but I say that reluctantly you can boot a ball at second just as easy as you can at short. he looks very major league ready at the plate. you get all these guys together in 27. get some time under the belt then 28. the twins could be looking really good, not just so so players. Abel if he comes back being well, he's going to show MLB how to be a true left-handed pitcher. it's going to be incredible. then you have Lopez. Ryan Bradley number 5 anybody. lots of choices but I don't think Matthews is one of them. when it comes to DH to go out and get 100 RBI guy it's going to cost a lot of money and maybe Bell can do an 80 RBI season making it worth what he's being paid. lots of people trying to get those defensive positions in the infield so let him just DH.

Josh Bell received one vote. I thought the object of the game was to score runs. now somebody will write back. well there's a lot more to it than just scoring runs. you have defense. he doesn't play defense. he put 96 runs on the board. I'm not sure but I think second to that was 81. most valuable player is Josh Bell and please sign him for next year because this team's not going to replace 96 runs batted in that easy.

also, let's not forget those 50 stolen bases. That's 50. wow.

That's Guerrero move to first base and evidently he didn't do very well with his offense. evidently rhoden has played some first base, but first base is usually a power hitter of which we don't have any of those types to me. that means plus 30 home runs. of course Buxton would do that if he could play.

what was the problem with Arcia? I saw a 300 batting average gets sent down. I didn't think his defense was all that bad. no I think he got released and then he wasn't picked up. so maybe I'm just stupid since nobody wanted him. caratini I thought played pretty good first base but he can't hit very well and when you look at him statistically how do we give that $7 million and then be willing to do it 2 years in a row?

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we could have Houston at shortstop Culpeper at third base Arraez at second. I would be excited to watch the game every single day. would bring some decent pitching and Clemens the same. these are above average players so you just you can hold out for a decent return. A lot is expected of Lee next year. be kind of hard to give up on that. does anybody care to say what type of pitching could be acquired or a first baseman?

thank you for clarifying

Ron Gardenhire said at an all star looking around I see 7 guys that were with us.

Falvey sat in the booth during a game saying we love Varland but it was an offer we couldn't refuse. How did we let this guy have the job for 10 years

sands just isn't what he was, which you know happens and can't say for sure but I just don't think he's going to be because he wasn't there that long where he was doing well. Funderburk suddenly found it in the second half. you know his wife has been sick. looks like a very nice family. he's somehow pitched through that and did well. I say he's a keeper. Matthews might transfer to closing since he's non-predictable when he's starting from one extreme to the other. Bedner is one of those star closers? so if we have $60 million for 3 years something like that? honestly I take the twins point of view when it comes to closing pictures. not going to put money like that out there. and there are some in-house players who could switch from starting to relieving like Rojas. just get the ball over the plate. well that could exciting or run to the hills. hopefully he can get it in order. I mean I think the kid is fantastic. baseball talk is kind of fun because lots of differences of opinions.

I think last time the players wanted to move the 6-year thing to 3 years with the club that drafted you and his response was highly correct. that would kill any chance of a low-market team ever to be a winning team. unless you are Tampa maybe they could. what that says to me the players generally don't have a home team persona. loyalty well if you're Joe mauer that's loyalty and he's not the only one but most of them just aren't

The person writing this. it's the choice we have now and for a number of decades. it's not the original choice. once you drafted your players, they are with you until you release them or trade them. you didn't have to worry about getting nothing for Jeffers with a draft pick, but that draft pick thing might not be there much longer either. The one that started this as far as signing somebody he didn't start free agency was the dastardly George steinbrunner. before free agency. Jim Hunter was the Oakland A's player. suddenly he's in New York playing for $350,000. New York was the kingpin of signing free agents and this was the beginning of not fair play in baseball because some teams have more money than others. no salary, cap and salary. caps and football can give you enormous incomes and to the high millions of dollars like $70 million to play 20 football games. what kind of salary cap is that? but in baseball for me, the players are being tested. if they can't play with a salary cap to hell with it. you want to have a larger percentage of the population being able to entertain themselves at a baseball game. and the talk of money not that much. just $5 million. what okay yes again who do you know that makes $5 million anybody that writes that that it's not much. it's relative of course to the business. meaning major sports is out of hand drastically and the people are willing to pay. I'm not not going to and of course like I've been told that's my choice so the person who it is his choice. they're not worth that much money if you're buying a close to the field seat. let's thank Mr. George steinbrunner for starting it and he himself said this will ruin the game, but he didn't realize that the fans don't care how the players got to the field in their City. if you drafted them or traded for them. wonderful, but if you went out and bought them instead, not using your noggin that's okay too. it's like legal stealing and I don't like it. All right tearing to me all you younger people so.

I did say a little bit. I talked about some of them. keep and Culpeper and Rodriguez and Jenkins in the outfield along with Buxton until he gets hurt again and Clemons can be moved around. I don't think he should be permanently in any position which means he'll get to play still almost everyday but no Lewis. we can't keep letting that falter got to put somebody in there. we need more of a power bat at first base in place of Lewis. there's been a review today on possible first baseman you may have seen it and it really doesn't give us a lot of good choices. there are AAA players like Gonzalez that might can handle it in a little bit or you just put Keaschell there.

what do the saints cost? I've only been in Minneapolis for 4 days in 1992. I'm from the state of Virginia. very close to where the Minnesota twins started at in 1900 as the Washington senators. I think that AAA was Rochester New York and whenever Rochester was in Richmond, Virginia. I would go see them and you could sit behind home plate for $11. now there's a San Francisco Giants AA team there 3,000 miles apart and you can easily spend $40 for minor league baseball. I tried a close by lowest level of minor league ice hockey and the lowest price I could find in that 10,000 seat center was $83. most tickets were $100. the lowest form of minor league hockey and people waste their money doing that. at least that's how I see it. it's just absurd. nobody can say anything to make me think any different because I've seen the changes throughout my 74 years and nothing's even close to how it's been in the last 5 or 10 years. You're paying what you used to pay for national hockey League game for the lowest form of matter league hockey. oh yeah just for fun. I was a Minnesota North Stars fan also like the Vikings and you had a guy named Gump Worsley 49 years old. I think being a goaltender with no mask on the last hockey goalie to not wear a mask. he was kind of scraped up looking so they changed her name from the North Stars to the lone Stars for Dallas. my gosh

Yes, I have thought of that letting the DH position be interchangeable depending on the situation. the manager wants to put on the field for that particular day but then I think about it's also about winning the game. 96 RBIs wins a lot of games. I want to see these young guys play a number of them from AAA and Houston from AA real soon. I'm really fond of Aston Martin but once he got to play everyday his bat and average went to well. very bad he was hitting 333. Lee has become much better at third base and he's a bit of a mystery at the plate but he is hitting better also. to speak of pitching a little bit I read where Skubal could get 40 million per season. here's another one of my money. dilemmas. if you are the top starting pitcher in the league and you start 30 games, you're not going to pitch the entire game. so every five games you're going to be playing in about 15% of the team's games and yet you're going to make $40 million or even $10 million. it's only 15%. think of any business you come to work 15% of the time and you make the top salary in the corporation. it doesn't work like that but in baseball it does. you know Jim Kaat wanted to play first base when he wasn't pitching well he didn't get to. that way he'd be earning his money.

Yes and I think that if you cut the ticket prices in half the owner's not going to make as much money because the ticket prices are half what he was receiving before. not everyone can afford whatever the owner wants to charge. looking at some of the single ticket prices in the lower sections wherever stadium it is that could run about $100,000 to watch baseball. it kind of means that all the four major sports in this country only rich people can go to them and sit close to the field of play. if the reserve clause and the free agency had not been changed, we wouldn't have high ticket prices right now because players would be playing for a lot less and they would be fine with it because of their making half a million dollars a year. most occupations if you even qualify for them isn't going to have that high of salary. then the players that you wanted to see their whole entire career like the three I have mentioned here. Harmon killerbrew Tony Oliva and rod Carew that got traded. they'd all have still been there in a twins uniform. there would be no talk of who we can pay for to put a better position player at first base. That's telling ownership. we're willing to pay a whole lot more money to improve that position per ticket to each game. remember when the Chicago Cubs won the world series, their tickets went way up as if it's worth more it's not worth more well watching a game. I am unable to get to most of the replies that I receive. sometimes it's only one then they're gone.

okay, let's do that then. keep Bell one more chance as DH how close can he come to 96 runs batted in again and put Jenkins and Rodriguez out there. and yes, there are people like Gonzalez who had a little bit of time in left field in Minnesota. also, Rolen

how much longer to wait on Lewis? he is way past any more wait time. are we thinking a miracle might happen at this point in his career? I just don't think so but it's all a bit of a guess when it comes to baseball but still I don't think so. he has got his body in fantastic condition but it has not helped his hitting. Yes, I think it's time to look and see what another team might think he's worth before trading him. see what's out there. maybe a good reliever could come of it, but I'm not even sure that would happen.

That's very good. I just don't see many responses towards keeping Bell. maybe the slump he had during the season for God's sakes baseball players are going to have slumps.

if Joe is pitching his usual fantastic way in the first half and he looks like he's regressing before you get to the trade deadline if he's not going to offer a second half other than a earn-run average of over six then that is the time to possibly trade him if that's going to continue. but the twins need his pitching on the mound. his right-handed my gosh. he's got a unbelievable slider. you can't even hit it. also, when you look at the lack of depth, the picking staff is going to have most likely as usual by the trade deadline. then you can't trade that you'll be decimated as a pitching staff, even if he doesn't exactly throw an in earned run average of three.

Josh Bell finish 13th in baseball with runs batted in and 5th in the American League with his 96 RBIs. this very nice gentleman writing here is speaking of Kody Clemons with his 81 rbi's. that is believed to be in this article a very successful season which it is but 90 Bell got 15 more so I'm still having a hard time understanding why people don't think Belle was a good idea for the twins team. clemmons plays a lot of really good defense. not the best but much higher than average and Bell doesn't do that very well. being fifth in the league in runs batted in is certainly worth another look-see before he gets too old. we hit 707 runs batted in as a team.