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  1. Lindor: average at .311, 14 homers, 64 RBI. (And a booted ground ball tonight.) All cynicism aside, I would love it if Gordon showed up in a couple years with those hitting numbers.
  2. Four innings, no balls to Sano. And to think, I came to see him make a great play or boot an easy one
  3. No. This has been another edition of Short Answers to Easy Questions. Come back later for the next one!
  4. Molly shoulda challenged Sano beating it out. Oh well.
  5. If Centeno could block pitches he would be my choice for full time catcher next season. Hopefully he takes that on as his winter project (I'm sure he has in the past and just can't get it, but still)
  6. meh Plouffe is hitting well and they are a wash at third IMO
  7. Agree with your post but not the little dig at Rosario. Upton was being waved around before Kepler even kicked it away. Rosario had zero chance. (at least that's my interpretation from the replay)
  8. They could have let him pitch in relief. I still don't understand why they didn't consider a temporary stint in the bullpen for him last September and now this season.
  9. Agree. Berrios is just part of the larger pattern. Poor kid.
  10. I doubt Berrios needed any fixing when he was called up, though I agree he needs fixing now.
  11. Dozier is the closest thing to a leader we got. I couldn't trade him. Should have traded Buxton or Sano when those guys still had value.
  12. Thanks again. Haven't seen Park mentioned lately. Is he slumping? Is he being taught to stretch forward for low throws instead of backing into the base path?
  13. By 50/50 do you mean either it will or it won't? If so, there is also a 50/50 chance that I will win the lottery this weekend.
  14. Sorry, but I am less and less impressed with Plouffe as a piece moving forward. He's just not that good and he doesn't appear to be getting better with age. Keeping Plouffe at third base pushes Sano to DH, but the plan is to get Mauer more of that DH time. This extra DH time might be what is accounting for Mauer's mini-offensive resurgence. Defensive stats are not perfect, and in a few years StatCast data will make Fangraphs data look primitive, but Fangraphs shows Sano to have really good range. Sano is 6.8 runs above average as measured by RngR, which is second best in the majors. Plouffe is 6.6 runs below average in this stat, which is near the bottom. Plouffe was also in the bottom quartile of third basemen in this stat last year. Plouffe has better hands than Sano, but won't get to nearly the number of balls Sano gets to. Is that a trade off you would accept? http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=3b&stats=fld&lg=all&qual=200&type=1&season=2016&month=0&season1=2016&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=21,d&page=1_30 If we attribute Plouffe's poor fielding this season to injury, then why can't we attribute everybody's poor fielding to injury? Also, what about the other infielders? Just some thoughts.
  15. On the surface, some combination of Escobar, Sano and Polanco on the left side makes for a weak looking group of fielders, but I've made my peace with the error statistic, and those guys make up for it in other ways, so it doesn't really bother me as much as it bothers the next guy.
  16. I'm happy limping along with Escobar for another season or two. Going into 2017 my Plan A would be: Sano 3B, Polanco at SS, Escobar as Utility. Plan B if Sano cannot play third: Polanco 3B, Escobar SS What are your thoughts?
  17. Another note about Tate: He has already been part of a trade. His value has already been maximized by the team that drafted him. For better or worse it's hard to picture the Twins trading a Jay, Stewart, or Gordon or whoever while they are still raw and fairly unknown quantities.
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