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  1. mikelink45
    I want Kiriloff, Larnach, and Buxton to be the OF and I want someone other than Cave at number 4 - Kepler? Celestino if we need a CF. I would love to see Miranda, Gordon, Polanco, Sano, Donaldson in the IF and DH and Arraez as U. Jeffers is C. Is Garver back or do we have Rortvedt? Not the strength we thought we had. Who else is on the bench? Astudillo? SP I would love to see Ober, Ryan, Winder, Pineda and FA. Next three - Balazovic, Sands, Jax RP Rogers, Thielbar, Not Colome, Alcala, Duffey????, Moran if he gets his mojo back, Cano and who knows? Coaching - a real bench coach with a little old school savvy.
  2. mikelink45
    We were the team that put the value on him. Pay and play rather than pay and trade. It makes no sense to eat part of his salary unless it gains us an amazing pitcher.
  3. mikelink45
    In this era a strikeout record in nice, but does not have the same meaning as it used to, I do agree with all the comments about Miranda. He belongs with the club. Don't ask me where he would play - just sit any of the players on the big league team except Polanco. He can get plenty of ABs. Since Rooker is now a forgotten player he can take that spot.
  4. mikelink45
    Bring up someone, This selection of pitchers other than Ober and Ryan does not look like next years rotation - Barnes, Gant, and Jax belong in the BP or the end of the rotational options. Let's see some more arms in this last gasp of a terrible season.
  5. mikelink45
    A SP giving us length would have been a complete game in a seven inning DH. 4 innings from a starter is not enough. Lucky to have 7 inning games - that is what saved the BP. The justice of MLB is that we won this game with a mediocre SP performance, but lost the first game with a good performance.
  6. mikelink45
    Here is the good news - Ryan might be okay! Yes we need him. Here is the bad news - the objective of creating a better defense did not work. The Twins bats do not work. We did get three hits- one from 163 BA Rortvedt and one from 224 hitting Simmons. And one more thing - Coloumbe is not really the answer. And who really wants the DH to have more than 7 innings? I am happy to get these games over quickly. But we still have one more game to go.
  7. mikelink45
    Hard to have a good comment here. Nothing against Jake, but he is not what I want in a fourth OF. I will wait to see Gil in the future before saying who won or loss.
  8. mikelink45
    I do not see anyone under rated this year. Underperforming yes, underrated - no way. Arraez was supposed to lead the league in batting, Ober is supposed to be a starter who goes more than 5 innings. Thielbar is doing what he did before. The reason that we have a losing record is that we do not have anyone who truly outperformed their expectations. Ober is a good story and close, but that is it.
  9. mikelink45
    "But some terrible ball-strike calls helped the Yankees to rally back and walk it off in extras." A quote that is symptomatic of losers! We were great except for the one inning when they scored all the runs. The umps hated us. We were robbed. The Yankees have beaten us for the last ten years - it is not fair. BLAH, Blah, blah. Stop whining. We lost again.
  10. mikelink45
    I agree with you, but in reality we have had to lower the bar - things that would have not merited comment in the last two years become significant now. I am really pleased with Ober and see him with a fine future as a #4, just as Gant looks to be a #4, and Jax a #6, and Barnes a #8, Pineda is a #3 and will probably resign, But that leaves a lot of rotational concern going forward. I do hope Balazovic or Winder can step in, But without AAA this year what is their chance? Berrios is 11 - 7 with a 3.52 era and 2.4 WAR so I cannot compare any of the current Twins with him and wonder how we will afford a pitcher as good as him in FA. Polanco has been a great batter and would rank high no matter what year, But we are playing Refsnyder and Cave and they are not the future - I know Larnach flamed out and I hope he comes back, Celestino needed AAA and has done well there and Kiriloff seems like another injury plagued star. But our current nine have batting averages of 195 280 214 225 249 279 210 203 292. We used to talk about the Mendoza line - I guess it is now the Sano line. We rank 9 in BA out of 15 teams, 8 in OBP, and 4 in SLG. We are 9th in hits - HR or nothing. It is not a critique of a really good summary that you wrote, but rather an overall disappointment and desire to try to see the reality in our situation. Thanks for the response.
  11. mikelink45
    Our standards have really slipped. We celebrate giving up only 3 runs no matter how many innings pitched. Our batters continue to miss in big opportunities - come on Sano - a K on 3 pitches!
  12. mikelink45
    I thought that Gordon had a good debut at SS and if Simmons is not back he might start next season. Simmons has such a high rating in fielding, but I see little things like messing up the throw into him from the OF in the previous game and I see too many moments of lost concentration that do not show up in fielding metrics for me to believe in him. I assume we are out of OF options if Cave is starting - he is not our future. Only 19 left to play. Who should be playing. Glad Moran is called up. Anyone else?
  13. mikelink45
    Too many decisions that were questionable. So hard to keep making comments without letting the frustration show.
  14. mikelink45
    I agree - but what you are discussing will be part of the narrative of Buxton as well, and hopefully not Kiriloff, but his minor and major league career is filled with injuries. Donaldson's next contract will be injury impacted too. The difference is that pitchers are the center stage for every pitch.
  15. mikelink45
    We are Twins fans - so why should we wait? We have been hoping for years and any glimmer of success is so exciting, we have to celebrate it.
  16. mikelink45
    As we know the smart can sometimes outsmart themselves. The sabermetrics can convince you not to steal, not to bunt, to swing for the fences, to replace starters before they lose their effectiveness instead of stretching them to save an overworked BP. Time to mix baseball experience and smart with the new tools and try again.
  17. mikelink45
    Thank you. I admit I watched Tom Brady come back against the hated Dallas team last night instead of the Twins, but the Vikings play only once a week - that leaves a lot of time for Twins fans.
  18. mikelink45
    I cannot decide what future he might have except to say that he has to be with Ober in next years rotation. Maeda will not be back so I hope other young arms emerge to fill out the rotation. What I like is his relaxed confidence.
  19. mikelink45
    I know it was a fill in game, but don't we have another young arm to try out?
  20. mikelink45
    I am with you - service time is a big mirage - good players get extended, others get traded. Just bring up the best players.
  21. mikelink45
    With names like Phil Hughes, Matt Capp, Mike Pelfrey, Rondell White, Kendrys Morales, and I cannot even list all the FA BP pickups that we made this year. I am not a fan of Simmons, but there is a lot to choose from.
  22. mikelink45
    Have you looked at their lineup - this is not the Yankees. Pitching yes, hitting no. Glad to win, just do not want to make too much out of it.
  23. mikelink45
    Astudillo has contributed in many ways because he's always ready to play. For him to have his war diminished for the relief appearances that he's made his ridiculous. You have to ask why he made those appearances. As usual he will do anything that is asked. Take him off the bottom five. Put on Jake cave who has contributed very minimal value to the team. Put on Kepler who just cannot even recover to his high from 2 years ago. Now Byron Buxton deserves consideration. He showed that he can make great contributions, but once again we are left with a man who can't make it onto the field. Then he spent considerable time in St Paul instead of Minneapolis. Other than Simmons, this list should actually be filled with pitchers. Whenever we diagnose the issues that this team has it always comes back to pitching Happ and Shoemaker and Colome are easy. Dobnak signed a contract and dropped out of the list of potential pitchers for the future. And if you need more Jax and a list of pickups that we put into the bullpen can certainly fill out the top five anyway you want them list them
  24. mikelink45
    I really like his story, but stories are not enough in MLB. I worry that tinkering with his pitches could have made things worse. I wish Randy could find his magic again, but I also hope the next wave is so good that there is no room for him, but please no more bullpen.
  25. mikelink45
    I am like so many fans, I want to see some of the minor league talent the last 25 games. I have seen enough of Pineda, he does not have to prove anything to me. Griffin Jax and Gant have shown their arms enough. I definitely have seen enough of Colome and I do not need any more waiver pickups. Give us young arms and bats - and yes, I do not care about service time. What does it really mean. If good we sign to extensions, if they do not sign we trade them a year before the end of service time. Just play the best players and move us forward.
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