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  1. mikelink45
    Thanks - I did not realize that.
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    Suggestion - put a link to the top of the page and to the front page on the bottom of the comment area. Otherwise I like the format.
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    I hate to say it, but the Twins might want to call up young Cano - all their BP arms look like low A pitchers right now, Randy Dobnak's story seems to be crash and burn. Just bring up fresh arms - they all burn out anyway so forget the super two and arbitration rules. Might be fun.
  4. mikelink45
    I am not ready to trade yet. Most trades are at the or near the deadline. Lets see where we are and how they are playing in June. The article made me think about a lot of different issues. Buxton and Berrios not extended but Polanco, Kepler, Sano were. Seems like we missed the boat in the sea of extensions. With Buxton you pointed out a possible replacement. We cannot trade him until we get Celestino knocking down the doors. With Berrios there is no possible replacement. No one is close and no one with his quality and age will be affordable on the FA market to replace him. We can argue Ace status all we want, but Berrios is our number one pitcher and we cannot afford to lose him. Maeda has shown that one short year can be a SSS. Pineda is a FA after this year. Shoemaker will be gone, Happ - ??? Duran and Balazovic are not pitching yet - injuries. Dobnak will be back, but never above a #4. Cruz gets traded only if we find we are totally out of it and we want to do him a favor - but where does he go? Taylor Rogers subtracted from a bad bull pen? Who do we get for him? How does it help the team?
  5. mikelink45
    Goes right along with an 18 game post season losing streak. Boy do we know how to put our name in the record book.
  6. mikelink45
    Thanks for the summary. It is hard to write positive when the teams gives you such terrible performance against the worst teams in the league. I do not know the way up. Hrbek and Puckett were so energetic and so positive. Astudillo and Cruz seem to be the only ones with life since Buxton and Arraez went down. Rocco is not going to provide the energy so who is? Sometimes it is not just talent. Gladden was not great, but he was not willing to settle for losing. Knoblauch could be an ass, but he also did not want to lose. We need players like that. Kepler goes through the motions, Garver does too and Cave does not even know what the motions are. Simmons seems to have fun, but is too new. No one on the pitching staff can push the envelop and challenge the others to perform. Where is Billy Martin when you need him?
  7. mikelink45
    Thank you for the article. Too many times Astudillo makes it into the rants and I do not know why. He is fun, hustles, and hits. He is the attitude we want. I used to love to watch Kirby Puckett because he smiled and loved the game, Astudillo is the one player who truly loves what he is doing. I think Arraez and Buxton have that too if they could stay healthy.
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    I had the good fortune of watching this team in the New Orleans airport and having the plane take off while we were 2 -2 in the fifth inning. Then I could not get reception. I think the plan for the season is to watch games until the starter comes out. Then go outside and take a walk while out relievers issue a walk, a hit, a run... Don't blame Berrios. I was impressed, when things aren't working a good starter still finds a way and he did. Now some thoughts - my daily why the hell is Cave still here question. Broxton, Celestino - I want a real CF when Buxton is taking one of his IL vacations. Keep playing Larnach and put Astudillo or someone else that walks through the clubhouse on first base instead of the strikeout machine. Bring up the minor league starters and pair them with the rotation and junk this whole BP. Jeffers has hit in his ST Paul games, time for the Rortvedt experiment to end. Bring up Jeffers and let him play in 4 out of 5 games so he can get reestablished in MLB. And that means letting Garver sit out the majority of games.
  9. mikelink45
    call up Celestino - put a real CF out there.
  10. mikelink45
    We needed the win and so did Shoemaker, but I have to temper my enthusiasm when our opponent had only one player hitting more than .222 in the lineup and the majority hitting under 200. Stashak really disappointed. What a season. At least we have one team below us in the entire MLB standings and we are playing them. Actually the win gave us 1/2 game over Colorado! Keep climbing boys the Pirates are only 1 game ahead of us.
  11. mikelink45
    Good news! Move forward - no more washed up vets.
  12. mikelink45
    The first two summaries shocked me - we are preparing the minor leagues to follow our MLB example and lost in late or extra innings.
  13. mikelink45
    What I do not know is the Twins team strategy. In ST Larnach hit, Wallner did not. In regular season Jake Cave has not hit and Rooker seems streaky and K prone like Sano who is quickly falling out of fan favor. I want to see Larnach in LF, Buxton CF, Rooker/Kepler platoon in RF, Kiriloff at 1B.
  14. mikelink45
    Another stat that means nothing - run differential. Yes it is interesting and there are some correlations, but this needs some more examination. We had a 15 - 6 game at Detroit, 10 - 2 at Seattle, lost 13 - 12 at Oakland and won 13 - 4 at KC. Remove those 4 blow outs and what is the run differential for the other 26 games? We are averaging 3.8 runs per game in those 26 games.
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    I call for Larnach too. What do we have to lose? Cave has a 494 OPS! His line is .160 .241 .253. He has played in 27 games and has the fourth most ABs on the team. This team is going the wrong way and stubborn roster decisions will not right the ship.
  16. mikelink45
    I agree with everything but Astudillo. All year writers seem to want to say something derogatory about him. But he is a bench player and a utility man. If we want to jump on a bench player - take Cave. Astudillo has 0.4 WAR as a bench player. He is 288 with a 758 OPS. As a bench player who is number 6 in WAR on the team he is contributing and has spirit. When someone is better they can take his place, but I am happy to have him on the team.
  17. mikelink45
    Nice exercise - I like the Liam Hendricks, Hicks, Grossman additions as well as Curtiss and the other RPs. I would trade what we have in the BP for what is in these posts of ex Twins.
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    My theory is that when you use BP for 3 - 5 innings a game you wear out their arms, they tire, they regress and thus we have this thought that BP are unpredictable. If we are going to have 4 - 5 inning starters we will need BP of 15 - 20. Forget position players. Maybe Ohtani is the answer - we need to have a team of two way players. But even if it is one inning, the warm up, the exertion of each appearance is too much. We know Rogers cannot go two days in a row, can he now go every third day? We need a rotational BP - and more than anything we need pitchers to go multiple innings so we do not use the whole pen every other day.
  19. mikelink45
    Excellent - thanks for all the work that went into this.
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    If we cannot have good relievers to shore up the BP how about a different strategy. Piggly Back starters all the way. Have a second starter ready every game - drop the relievers, call up good arms and see if we cannot fill the game with two pitchers rather than the assembly we have now. Sorry Saints but you would get the BP arms and we will steal your starters.
  21. mikelink45
    Thanks - after the Twins game I needed something refreshing.
  22. mikelink45
    I cannot comment on the BP - that has been covered - but isn't it time to say thanks for the memories and bid Jake Cave adios? Couldn't Larnach, Rooker...do as well or better than cave? And I have seen snippy comments - yes I said snippy - about Astudillo, but look at what he has done this year. He is actually one of our bright spots! Lets hope Arraez is better quickly, that Polanco is moved to Utility, that Cave is sent down, that Kiriloff starts every day - some where.
  23. mikelink45
    The real question is why Cave continues to play and get ABs
  24. mikelink45
    Nicely done. For a team with such a bad record that is a great list! Now if we can just get back to 500. Jason Stark made the comment that no team that started as bad as we have ever won the pennant - time to change history.
  25. mikelink45
    Let's hope next week's summary is uplifting. There are too many storylines right now. And you didn't even get to Cave who looked bad in LF last night and still hasn't found his bat. Rooker down so does Larnach get a chance? Will Sano come back and give us a boost or continue to be the opposing pitcher's Best friend? I like Arraez at 2B and Polanco at U.
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