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  1. mikelink45
    Nice to see - but one game - if it has been too short of a sample to condemn him, it is certainly too short to get excited about him
  2. mikelink45
    It's nice to see him have a good month, but if we are to judge him by one bad month it's probably too early to judge oh for one good month.
  3. mikelink45
    I'm happy to see Hughes gone. Decisions like this are not personal and we shouldn't treat it like they are. Baseball teams need to put their best 25 players on the active roster and play to win. I don't care about option clocks and all the other nonsense that prohibits us from calling up a prospect I was ready to pitch and better than what we have. Lynn is a failed experiment so far. Hopefully he'll get better but even if he does will have lost two months of potentially good pitching. We have a slot in the bullpen know that he was is gone so put Lynn in there until he gets himself straightened out. But for the last month-and-a-half we could have used Gonsalves and Gordon and maybe we would have won a few more games have been up to 500 or over.
  4. mikelink45
    I appreciate your optimism. I just do not have that same sense. Your list of expectations is quite long. One or two I see. We are in the hunt because we are in a lousy division, but while I will continue to follow the Twins with hope, too, I am not there right now. Logan Morrison has averaged less that 0.5 WAR per year, he is not a great hitter and I am not enthusiastic about him. I do prefer him to Grossman. My hope comes with everyone we promote from the minors, but in the mean time, I want your enthusiasm to be the storyline for the rest of the year.
  5. mikelink45
    Despite all the good points in this reflection, I am really most happy to have the LaMarre question. He hit here, he is hitting in the minors. He has been better than Grossman. We sent him down and he continues to be hot so then we call up Cave. Now Cave might be good, but what more does LaMarre need to do and why aren't we riding the hot bat?
  6. mikelink45
    Somehow despite this well written essay, I am not feeling positive. We still have Lynn in the rotation, we still have Adrianza, Grossman, Cave, and, despite your optimism, Morrison in the lineup. Buxton is still wondering how far it is to 200 and Dozier's veteran leadership is still in the box waiting to be opened. Can you imagine a championship team with Escobar at clean up? He has done well, but still - clean up!!!!!!!!!!!!! ​Castro is down, but what was he doing before that? Please - Gordon and Gonsalves, just because we need something to hope for.
  7. mikelink45
    Someone on my Facebook added Marv Throneberry. I never thought about thrones. Another person had catcher Hal King - one of his childhood favorites. Considering Buckingham Palace we could add Fred Buckingham and his -0.2 WAR or Ed Buckingham who pitched three innings in 1895 for the Senators at age 19.
  8. mikelink45
    More Twins news from yesterday: Anyone catch the Aaron Hicks inside the park HR, his second of the year? Or Daniel Palka's triple? Or J. T. Chargois' 4th Hold? Finally some Twins to cheer for.
  9. mikelink45
    Sano is back in form - he got his K, but a nice surprise he walked twice, unless the minor leaguers just figured they would rather walk him and he had no choice. Gordon needs to come up and so does Gonsalves. I would love to see some more of our top prospects start lighting it up. This just does not seem like a very positive year so far and we need to have some new rays of hope.
  10. mikelink45
    With Mauer out Dozier is back in lead off and the veteran leader on the club. Do we have to wait until the second half for his good bat to appear again? Morrison and Grossman continue to play okay ball which means they are fine on a bad team, but not good for a good team. Adrianza continues to prove he is a bench player while some guy named Gordon languishes in the minors. Hurray for Escobar, Kepler, Rosario. And now Cave is our new LaMarre. If Buxton was hitting, if Sano was slugging, and Polanco was back it would change the dynamics, but all teams lose players and find a way. Will our FO start finding a way?
  11. mikelink45
    In honor of the royal wedding, I thought I would provide baseball fans with their own version of royalty and like all royal families some are not so great. But they are interesting. I welcome other suggestions! I do not have owners or umps. Do you know any that would fit here? I did consider Chief Bender for the rotation, but decided that the American Indian would still not make the official royalty list – I am sorry to say. There are some Hall of Famers and some that are hanging on by name only. Team – Kansas City Royals Starters Pitcher – King Felix Hernandez – Seattle, 165 – 117, 52.1 WAR Pitcher – Clyde King, Brooklyn – 32 – 25, 1.6 WAR Pitcher – Eric King, Det, WS, Cleve 52 – 40, 9.5 WAR Pitcher – Duke Maas, Yankees, 45 – 44, -0.7 WAR Pitcher – Duke Esper, 7 teams, 101 - 100, 18 WAR Bullpen Pitcher – Curtis King, St Louis – 6-2, 0.8 WAR Pitcher - Mel Queen, Cincinnati Reds 20 – 17, 6 WAR Catcher – Duke Farrell, 9 teams, .277 BA, 23.1 WAR 1B Prince Fielder Mil, Det, Tex – 319 HR, 23.6 WAR 2B Duke Kenworthy, 3 teams, 304 BA, 6.7 WAR SS – The Wizard of Oz – Ozzie Smith (sounds royal) 3B Jeff King, Pitt, KC, 425 Slg, 16.8 WAR CF Duke Snider, Dodgers. 407 HR, 66.3 WAR OF – Duke Reilly, .210 BA, 0.1 WAR OF King Kelly, 8 teams, 307 AV, 43.2 WAR DH Dave Kingman, 10 teams, 442HR, 17.2 WAR Manager – Clyde King, SF, NY, Atlanta 464 – 234 Radio/play by play announcer – Bob Prince 3 decades with the Pirates
  12. mikelink45
    I am still questioning the FO. We cannot just look at the team, we have to look at the actions of this FO. Where are the tweaks, how long do they hold back prospects, how much do we look at the waiver wires instead of the minors? When do they cut their losses (and the Pohlads money) and get rid of high buck failures? We cannot afford to have 33 - 44% of the lineup nearly automatic outs. This is still a good team, but it needs an infusion - and I do not want to hear about June and super twos or any other future status. Get the team going!
  13. mikelink45
    I like your comment. Maybe if the Twins spent less time getting upset with the other team and how they play, they could concentrate on their own playing and perhaps start moving into a streak of winning. Play every pitch - the game is over after 9 innings. Their clubhouse leaders should speak up, but they were part of it.
  14. mikelink45
    D. C. Twins covered by thoughts in his two posts. Excellent. Dump the chaff, bring up the potential and lets look at the best Twins team we can have. Wasted money on Hughes, Lynn, and others does not matter. We are paying to lose, how about investing in winning.
  15. mikelink45
    I am sure they would not, but on the other hand we have no idea what the sales are in the last two innings. However, just think of how creative they could be for after game parties and events. The real question is how to change the game so I am not really ready to comment on sales of food.
  16. mikelink45
    This is not a real issue to me. I see both the future and the present tied together. Berrios and Romero are in the rotation and they will be the future. They need to stay! Berrios has some rough patches, but his 7 innings against St Louis showed the pitcher that he is. Leave him, leave Romero. Will Santana be as good as he was? Hopefully we have a double header and he takes the mound and shows what he has. If he goes further and looks like last year. He follows Berrios and Romero. ​Gibson, if he continues is 4, Odorizzi is 5. May and, do not forget, Gonsalves are six if the need exists. Lynn looks like he needs bullpen therapy, Hughes is out. Next up: fix the bullpen.
  17. mikelink45
    Relax. Garver and Wilson will work. Do we have anyone else in the minors that knows how put on the mask? Everytime something happens we look at trades and moving minor leaguers. Let's go forward and see what happens.
  18. mikelink45
    This is what good baseball looks like. No one at fault, just a great game.
  19. mikelink45
    Romero looked great and has a wonderful start to his career. I just hope it is a long career with the Twins. No complaints about anything he has done so far. Ohtani is the player we read about. It is hard to believe that he can live up to all that hype.
  20. mikelink45
    I am a believer that good players continue to improve in MLB - Polanco did - so why not Gordon. There seems to be stubborn pills that are being consumed in the FO.
  21. mikelink45
    Don't we have a pitching coach and a bench coach? When Molitor overuses a bullpen pitcher shouldn't one of these men earn their pay and tell him to use a different pitcher. I think Hildenberg is recovering from that overuse last year. Now Pressly is the favorite. With Hughes a nonfactor it does limit the bullpen options.
  22. mikelink45
    I just finished reading Jim Kaat's essay on ESPN - http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23474497/jim-kaat-says-mlb-adapt-7-inning-games-effort-improve-sport and I really liked it. I think it is well thought out and he strengthens it with some notes about how the game has already changed so drastically over the years. This is a good change and I would love to see it, but won't because it will be resisted by the union, the league, the traditionalists. ​But what is tradition? Is it a pitcher throwing half the games and winning 50? Is it one pitcher winning 511 games? Is it an era of 400 hitters? Is it the murderers row and the sluggers who followed (sluggers who could also get hits and not strike out all the time)? Is it the war years when a 15 year old starts for Cincinnati? Can we say it is when Jackie Robinson integrated baseball and changed the rosters and stars? Is it the Bronx Bombers who dominated the 50's? Maybe it is the expansion era when lots of new records were set and we went from 154 to 162 games but kept all the same records? Is it PEDs? Is it the era of Latin ballplayers? Perhaps we can say it is the era of wildcard teams. Is it the demise of starters and rosters of all relief pitchers? Is it the era of big Ks and lots of HRs? There is no true tradition. Each season stands alone. That's why we can argue about eras and great players without winning or losing. Its why the HOF is merely an annual pissing contest of my era was better than your era and your stats don't count because now we do not care about BA and ERA and Wins. The very discussion that games are too long is a reasonable topic and a serious one. Change is not going to come by the little things that have been done. Shaving 3 minutes off the game is not the answer. Go Jim. I hope someone else is listening. And by the way - I would put you in the HOF!
  23. mikelink45
    How about having the Twins read our minor league reports. Twins win their way to the WS with Gonsalves and Littell, They fill out their bench with Granite and Wade. They figure out that Adrianza is a utility player and bring up Gordon. They discover that their BP needs were right there in the minors! And the Twins trade some wily old vets for more minor league arms to continue building for the future.
  24. mikelink45
    I still want to see Gonsalves up and Littell too. Lynn is hurting us with his performance and these two seem ready. After all these years with May talk, I am not expecting much of anything. He has been out as much as he has been in. He has had talent, not results. If he does well, great, but expectations do not exist. Nice to see Granite come back and immediately get a hit! Fourth outfielder? Ready to give late inning defense when we PH for Buxton?
  25. mikelink45
    If Twins really want to win, they put Lynn in the BP and call up Gonsalves. Unless the FO just does not want to admit an error we have to look at performance and Lynn does not have it. 7.34 ERA, -0.5 WAR - it is now seven games and that is a good sample for a pitcher. 25 BB - 36 K. It is time we see if we have a better pitcher in AAA. Buxton and his 4 Ks in two games is not struggling, he is flailing. He is lost at the plate and so we lose his defense in the ninth. That is not good, especially since we have not called up a good defensive OF for the bench.
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