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  1. mikelink45
    No one is worth that amount of money, but it is not real money to me and I am not paying it so I do not care. I just want both of them to continue with the team and in particular Berrios. I think Buxton might have reason to sign a good but shorter term contract to establish that he can stay healthy and get the really big contract. Of course there is the Mike Trout case where he "earned" the excessive monster contract and had stayed healthy all these years only to go IL when he got the big one.
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    While I am more old school, I am not ready to give up on the team. I would hope they might make some adjustments in their thinking, like raising the bar from bad to mediocre dumpster diving in the BP to getting the pitching machine in the minors pumping SP into the rotation. I am not sold on Rocco so I do not know if he is their reflection or if there is another tweak in the managers office. I know that measuring the FO is really difficult. Terry Ryan had some good qualities, but got stuck in linear thinking instead of adjusting. But who do we bring in? What do they do or accomplish?
  3. mikelink45
    Rooker is the big question mark. Have we given up on him? Do we have a trade partner for him? He is being wasted in AAA.
  4. mikelink45
    So far these are boring. The Blue Jays are interesting the other two are not even close and the White Sox are never ever to receive a good player from the Twins unless they give up Roberts or Jiminez.
  5. mikelink45
    The injuries throughout the organization make this a very difficult year to judge. Who to keep, who to advance, who to trade, who to count on and when? This is a particularly hard year to look into the crystal ball.
  6. mikelink45
    If I had to chose one player from your graph for my team it would be Bostock. A tragic end to his life does not diminish what he could do with the bat and in the field. He and Larry Hisle were a great tandem. Four years 13.1 WAR
  7. mikelink45
    I read the transactions and wonder what can be done to protect pitchers arms. At the rate things are going every team will need 30 - 40 pitchers to make it through a season. Something has to be figured out.
  8. mikelink45
    I just feel sorry for him. No one tries to get injured, no one expects their body to break down, it just happens. And over time the impact of each injury sets up the possibility of more injuries. Good luck Byron.
  9. mikelink45
    Well the BP is consistent. It blew games in the past and now that we are past the 60 games of last season they are starting over to blow games again. Is there any hope for Colome? I know a lot of people like Robles, personally I hope he is traded and we start over in the Pen. The bats are looking great and these young hitters are here to stay. Maybe Celestino will see his bat wake up, his fielding is picking up and he is our Buxton replacement, not Gordon. Gordon is good as a utility man and back up.
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    I have added that to my life notes!
  11. mikelink45
    Wait! We are now picking up waiver claims that are cut by THE DETROIT TIGERS? This will not offset Akil Baddoo or even Niko Goodrum. Oh well, good luck.
  12. mikelink45
    Like all the rest of you, I feel just terrible about Buxton. What an unfortunate event on a string of terrible injuries that have marred his career. I know he must feel frustration shifting to depression. I cannot fault the pitcher, in this game of high speed pitching the batters have a dangerous job. We the substance issue rearing its head there are going to be a lot more uncontrolled pitches. I just wish it did not have to start with Byron. Like most of you I had to look this up - "A boxer's fracture is a fracture (broken bone) of the hand. More specifically, it is a fracture of the neck of the fifth metacarpal (a bone in the “pinky finger") (Figure 1). It is referred to as a boxer's fracture because, most commonly, it occurs when people punch something." Boxer
  13. mikelink45
    Nice summary. It is great to get the vets back (although I agree with rv78 that I have no enthusiasm for Kepler). But I wonder if our little streak against a bad team is enough to get the FO thinking maybe this was a fluke and we actually have enough going forward? We don't. I like Ober and Dobnak starting, but not Happ. Try Barnes and keep trying young pitchers we have nothing to gain with Happ starting. He has already established who he is.
  14. mikelink45
    That was fun. I know that Texas is a bad team, but does this give us hope and therefore we don't sell, or do we just accept that we can beat a bad team and try to rebuild on the fly?
  15. mikelink45
    I like the young players in the rotation, but the BP looks really weak and I have no confidence in Smeltzer and Thorpe (very little in Dobnak either). As usual I prefer young players and home grown when possible. Approaching this mid season trade deadline I would love to see them move Donaldson and I think Garver is a really good trade chip in a league where catchers are so valuable. I am happy with Jeffers and Rortvedt. I never get into the actual dollars - not my talent, but I am hoping Berrios and Buxton get extended and shedding Donaldson would really help doing that.
  16. mikelink45
    That was as fun as the Twins win, but Charlie Barnes was the best news - lets hope he jumps into the rotation and gives us a lift.
  17. mikelink45
    How nice - I will take this as a fathers day present or a fans day present - whichever you like.
  18. mikelink45
    I understand that, but I could go on with mediocre arms still in the system. They can sign all of these that they want if they would just sign some really quality arms too.
  19. mikelink45
    .270 .357 .486 .844 That is LaMonte Wade's line with 0.6 WAR for first place SF. Shaun Anderson has -0.5 WAR and a 9.35 era for the Last Place Twins.
  20. mikelink45
    Buxton will always be a mystery to us as well as a player of great promise. I did not mean that he is a minor leaguer, just that he is rehabbing in the minors and I wondered how comfortable he is there. He came back for a few games and just blew away the AAA pitchers. But I have likened him to Pete Reiser who could have been a HOF inductee except for injuries. Pete Reiser I keep hoping for better, but so far his is a tragic story.
  21. mikelink45
    I know he did not play today, but a question about Byron Buxton since he is currently a minor leaguer. He is playing in the Twin Cities, he has done great when he plays there, just like in the minors. Maybe he just likes it there. If Ruesse is to be believed he is upset with the Twins.
  22. mikelink45
    I really liked this short essay. Yes we can say it is one of the first signs of throwing up our arms and admitting mistakes. But we have also had Tzu-Wei Lin DFA'd April 29 and everyone said - who cares, April 29 we also DFA'd Mr Riddle and got a league wide yawn again. May 7 we had a DFA for Brandon Waddell now with the one team worst than us - Baltimore. Derek Law was DFA'd May 18 and now he is a star in St Paul - leave him there. He was outrighted there May 20. Dakota Chalmers DFA May 29, a minor leaguer we could not develop. June 5 Minaya DFA and once again, no one cares. We have a lot of chaff. We need quality.
  23. mikelink45
    I am fascinated by all the contract amounts that the posts put out. They are so out of line with my life I cannot relate so I never put dollars in my posts. Baseball is a fantasy league even in MLB. Reality is suspended, worth is measured in velocity, speed, distance... Even with my old economics degree I could not begin to speculate on salaries. Pay him in bitcoins, they don't seem real to me either.
  24. mikelink45
    Nice summary. Looks like none of these starters is ready to rescue the Twins staff. But we do have some hitters that are looking good and if Donaldson continues to have calf issues Miranda looks like the man to take his spot.
  25. mikelink45
    Even though I did not use the names you suggest I still have to respond to your warning. On a site where your readers have a lot of emotions the ability to express them is important. I am against names that have racial, political, ethnic, and bully connotations I do understand the need to clamp down, but when I read your note about "Mr Spreadsheet" I do not see it hitting that category. I know there is a lot of angst between stat heads and non-stat heads, but that is part of the beauty of this site. My gut reaction to your warning is be careful, censorship is a brush that must be wielded with great caution.
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