Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Hosken Bombo Disco

Community Moderator
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    17,742

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    8

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Hosken Bombo Disco

  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Between 1B and DH (leadoff) and some PH, I see Mauer as a 3/4 time player. That's how he has been used in recent seasons so no need to change that. I really have no problem with that. I have come around 180 degrees on Mauer since 2013-2014 when he was not hitting and struggling to learn the position (more like 90 or 120, but whatever). If you insist he only be a half time player, then that works too. Mauer could be available to late PH and defense sub in more games. That has value. Mauer/Austin is the best platoon arrangement since Mauer moved to first. It's too much of a risk in my mind to confer 1B to Austin full time yet, or promote Rooker, or exercise Morrison's option and use a Morrison/Austin platoon. And we are talking one year contracts. I wouldn't fault the front office for balking at a multi-year deal request. Hope that helps.
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Feels too much like micromanaging. He's healthy, playing well, just bring him back up.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Is it possible you are ignoring numbers yourself? Refer back to posts 65 and 66 and let us know what you think.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Also I haven't heard any hints that he's not coming back, so not sure where that is coming from. It would be nice to know. Ted? Indications from Joe himself (after cutting through the "gee whiz-ness" of all his comments) I am confident he wants to play another season or two, at least.
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Piggybacking off the previous post, Fangraphs says Mauer is the 3rd best out of 28 first baseman for 500 innings in the field. Eyeball test agrees, and even if Mauer is slipping ever so slightly, he is still one of the best at the position across MLB. Without Mauer at first base, all the other infielders drop a notch, too. I also think continuity into 2019 is an important factor with this one.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    what are the hints you are hearing?
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Yeah I guess I'd put that about 99.9% on Garver. Maybe if Mollie would have yelled "throw!" he would have thrown it... to someone. Anyone.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Tim Lincecum made a similar play/nonplay in the first inning of the first game of the 2010 World Series, running a guy back to third base without making a throw. Really, you can only watch in disbelief.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    True, it's on the players first and foremost, but I would put the coaches third. It's inevitable that you'll see mental mistakes and half effort when a team is out of the race. Expect the follies to continue though it would be hard to beat a couple of the plays we saw this week.
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    That was a smaller point in the argument. Those have always been acknowledged. From the very start.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    They had a broken keyboard, we traded for the broken keyboard Cave is a good upgrade from Grossman, and Austin could be strong nice bat. Not sure about his glove or potential to platoon at 1B, seems doable.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Those four guys weren't acquired in the offseason. Other guys took steps forward. And giving the internal core a chance to play the full season, not 63% of it.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    We could go so many different directions with this post. We better be contending next year. The FO botched the offseason but they get a mulligan. They have plenty of money to spend on player salary. By the way, Oakland was under .500 and pretty much out of the race not too long ago.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Sounds interesting. I will check it out.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Well, shortstop was not an organizational weakness last winter. There was a credible report that Pittsburgh was asking for Gordon as part of the Gerrit Cole negotiation. I don't think that would have been a PR disaster.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Maybe a good compromise would be to call him up, but as a part-time player or sometimes DH.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Of my three examples, the Rangers were below .500 on Aug 13, the Twins were below .500 in September, and the Rockies hovered around .500 most of the season (last below .500 on July 15 but half a game above .500 on Aug. 23). Your condition that a team spend an unbroken period of time below .500 since mid-April is a pointless technicality. It only reaffirms my opinion that the Twins should have held and played out the schedule with their best players. At this point, and it's just a gut feeling, but I'd even bet that if Falvey and Levine could do it over, they would, and they would keep Dozier, Escobar, and Rodney in favor of a soft sell of Pressly and Lynn, similar to last year. They still get Austin and a solid minor league starter from Houston, they keep their fan favorites, and not as many empty seats once the Vikings start their season.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Glad they are taking a look. We lost several productive MLB pitchers from our system last offseason, so this is good.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm not trolling, and not singling you out, I just genuinely have no idea what to do with comments like this. I suppose I could let them go unanswered, but answering them could also provide an educating opportunity too, for people who just aren't aware or are new to following baseball. Who the hell knows. Most important to me is I don't want fans to think comebacks don't happen or that pennant races can't be exciting. 2015: Texas Rangers were 8.0 GB in division on July 27, third place in West, behind the Twins in the Wild Card, went ahead and traded for Cole Hamels, won division. 2009: Minnesota Twins were 7.0 GB trailing Detroit in September. 2007: Colorado Rockies epic win streak. We don't see this sort of thing every season, but really, the examples are numerous. Did the Twins have a chance? Yeah, of course they did.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I think what people will come to realize is that these guys are just another front office. There is nothing special about them. They are new to this, and full of ideas, ideas that probably aren't much different that other front office ideas. They want the public to withhold judgment on them until some date far in the future, after they have built their "sustainable, championship caliber" organization, which will be a date of their choosing, which will be after half of us here are dead, I suppose. And if they are looking to sell expiring contracts of favorite players at every deadline, it's going to be a long, long road for everyone. You are speaking as someone who is following the Twins, much like the national writers. I'm speaking as a fan. I wanted to see how this season unfolded with our key pieces coming back. Seven games back was a daunting challenge, but doable. It has been done. It will be done again.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I can, and will again! April/May/June was ugly, and the pieces weren't there. But once July rolled around, we had: Polanco returning from suspension;Santana returning from injury Sano and Buxton to recall from the minorsDozier's half season surge to hope forThe pieces were there. Basically the same team that made the surge last year, slightly different bullpen. The front office could have done a "light sell" of Pressly and Lynn and would have been praised just the same. Instead, they pulled the plug and are rightfully getting raked across the coals--not so much on Twins Daily where the loudest posters seem to be on board with the sell off, but in the community in particular, the sell off doesn't seem as popular. Again, heading into July, same lineup as last season. Same players coming back. Pieces were there.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I am fine with him answering the question that way. If I were in that locker room I'd be pissed too.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You're joking, right? Castro went down, and they failed to find a reliable catcher. Buxton was allowed to play on a broken toe. They ought to have stepped in and kept Reed from being overworked. Those are the ones that pop to mind. As far as Santana not "taking accountability" tonight, he said he missed his spots on those pitches that went for home runs. There was no sour grapes in that interview. I don't know what else he is supposed to say.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I wasn't. Was anyone?
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Disagree completely. Santana was asked a question and answered it candidly and professionally. I appreciate that. Isn't that what we say we want, instead of the canned answers all the time? As for the other players joining the team, they know what's up. Field, Drake, whoever, they know what's going on. I doubt they would be insulted by what Santana said. They are getting a chance to play. It is what it is.
×
×
  • Create New...