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  1. mikelink45
    I have been in Alaska for three weeks - one more to go. No games, no streaming, just an occasional internet. I have been hoping to see a big change, but a win over Detroit after stinking in Chicago is not the uplifting beginning of the second half, but if Happ gets it together, the bats wake up it might be fun. I think the best thing for all of us is to just wipe the slate clean and hope for a good finish. If trades happen I will wait to see what the brain trust does, but overall it has been a good year to be out along the coast. So hear are my second half desires - I want to see Jeffers, Larnach, Kiriloff make the next step forward, I want to see Gordon get more playing time. By the end of the year Miranda should be rewarded with a MLB appearance. One or two minor league starting pitchers come up and succeed giving us hope for next year. Some of the young BP arms in St Paul push our the chaff that is our BP this season. Buxton goes a month without an injury, illness, or personal set back. We retain Berrios. We make one trade that gets us all excited.
  2. mikelink45
    I read that Ober is back of the rotation as a starter and yet he is ahead of Sands who is described as an exciting pitching prospect. Does that mean that Sands is also end of the rotation and Enlow is 3 or more in the rotation? Just trying to see how the rankings work. Rooker seems to be sliding over the years. When you write of him taking over for Cruz I have to imagine that Sano fits in that slot first.
  3. mikelink45
    Excellent news, although Robles is one who still does not have my trust and I think his stats overstate his value. It is a strange season when we celebrate that the KC ROYALS did not sweep us.
  4. mikelink45
    I went to the MLB hitting leaders on mlb.com today. I only looked at the top 25 - OPS, Slg, AV, OBP, HR - Cruz is on every list. No other Twin is. That is sad.
  5. mikelink45
    Perhaps you can help me understand. I keep seeing us sign players and assign them to upper levels of MiLB. Where are we getting them? What is the impact of the minor league contraction and realignment? How has it changed things? Can you see the differences that it created besides team names?
  6. mikelink45
    Nelson Cruz has this award - every month. We can name it for him. But I really like Larnach as next in line.
  7. mikelink45
    This is very sad and it falls on the Twins who have failed to take Sano, Kepler, Polanco to the next level. They were the building blocks and we did not coach, lead them to their potential.
  8. mikelink45
    Please have these guys solve our BP - no more random signings
  9. mikelink45
    Running out of comments. This year is too confusing on all levels. Steer and Miranda look like real prospects. No appearances for Rooker, Astudillo raking in St Paul, Barnes looking much more promising than anyone the Twins put out there. What am I missing.
  10. mikelink45
    I am starting to understand the Baldelli logic - take out Ober before he can get a win because he is young and we need to save his arm, leave in Jax too long because he is young and obviously his arm is fine??? Okay, then I read the Rocco quote - " MNTwins skipper Rocco Baldelli: "We needed to tack on some more runs in the middle of that ball game." What a concept. Next he will tell us we need to score more than the other team to win.
  11. mikelink45
    Trade him. The Twins do not need to keep paying for a hitter, we need the money for an arm!
  12. mikelink45
    Berrios - he saved the pen, he pitched the innings, he did what a great to good starter is supposed to do.
  13. mikelink45
    I am so pleased that the Saints are back to the fun in the stands. Actually the team was supposed to be our rock - so much talent ready for MLB, but the bus back and forth between the Saints and Twins has actually taken away a lot of their potential. Time to just laugh and enjoy the whole experience again. Bring in the pig and and the massages. In AAA a lot of rehabs happen and the fans get to see the big leaguers. It seems different this time. With some like Byron splitting time on both sides of the river. Was it exciting to see Pineda? No. I really appreciate the report because the lower levels have a lot of interesting players and story lines.
  14. mikelink45
    Pitching has always been the key to the game - WS wins are usually about pitching. But signing them is not that easy, would you pay $40 million for Bauer - I would not. Where this team really failed was the BP and staying with Shoemaker when it was obvious that his arm was gone. Thorpe, Dobnak, Smeltzer are just names, not real options, but the team did not seem to realize this. The BP was poor and then with the 4 inning starter they were over taxed. So much needs to change. I do not know how this will change unless the minor leaguers come in and blow us away with their talent and somehow the BP finds magic arms that can last for way too many appearances.
  15. mikelink45
    I like Steer - the rest, not so much. I prefer many of the almosts to Soularie (prove something before being listed), Colina (I want to see the arm in action before putting you back on the list).
  16. mikelink45
    I have no idea. I have a difficult time judging how nice players are. I am not sure it matters. There have been some terrible individuals in the game since the beginning - Cobb and Cap Anson are two of the worst and they are HOF. What is our definition of worst?
  17. mikelink45
    There are two good things about being in Alaska - the games are over early and the second and perhaps best is that I am most often unable to get internet so I only suffer every few days.
  18. mikelink45
    Please - no more Shoemaker, You are not going to fool anyone into trading for him. Just DFA! Do not think about it, just do it.
  19. mikelink45
    Love it when a real prospect on the mound does well. Nothing against Ober or Jax, but Balazovic and Duran are our hope for the future.
  20. mikelink45
    I will wait to see - based on the history of Twins signings my optimism is slipping. I speak from the perspective that the old cliche's about birds in hand are still applicable - as a bird watcher I can work with that.
  21. mikelink45
    Aaron Sabato went 3-for-21 (.167), though he did walk five times. - he might be the most disappointing of prospects for me this year. "It was another rough week for Keon Broxton. He played in four games and went 1-for-15 (.067) with 10 strikeouts in 16 plate appearances." It is time for the Keon Broxton fans to move on - he does not have what it takes. Who are the next 10 players on the prospect list?
  22. mikelink45
    How wonderful to have some good news! I know prospects can fail, but this is too exciting to think about anything else. Especially when the Twins need something special. Let's see - Kiriloff, Jeffers, Larnach, Miranda - sounds like a really good base. Add in Arraez and an occasional Buxton, a sometimes hot Sano and things look up. Maybe Rooker at DH and Celestino with a little seasoning in CF. Now there is something called pitching! A request - the prospect list is getting stale - time to update, also can we have you name 30 prospects so that you can move the IL players off the list and onto a prospect reserve listing so we can watch the active stats of players who can really move up and down? Today there were six out for the season/IL players and with the did not play, did not pitch it is short on details. Then there is the fact that Larnach, Jeffers, and Kiriloff must be ready to move off the list.
  23. mikelink45
    I too think we underestimate the value a good player - especially a good pitcher provides for a year and a half of service. Half the FA pitchers last no more than two years. The prospects often don't make it in two years. Big deal if we get good value and lose him for nothing. All those great prospects floating around in MiLB are not moving us to a pennant. Players come up, get injured, go as FA. that is the way it is. But we have a good player and we want to move backwards because in two years we might not get value. The value is now and anything else is speculation.
  24. mikelink45
    I am in agreement. Look at the record we have of keeping and promoting minor leaguers. I want Berrios to stay. Figure it out Twins. This is MLB. If he is valuable to others he is valuable to us. All our ranked prospects keep going on IL or floating up and back while marginal vets fill the BP roles. I want real value. I know there are stats out there, but none of this makes sense to me. I do not want a full rebuild, I do not want another decade of mediocrity.
  25. mikelink45
    Soft hits are still hits. In this era of exit velocity the Sox are demonstrating that getting on base is what counts.
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