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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Thanks!
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I get that the roster will change quickly, but... sheesh. The plan was for Mauer to DH more, and he's also a candidate to be pinch-run for occasionally. Not a lot of flexibility here the first week or two.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Thanks for the info.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Do the new rules allow for backdating the disabled list into spring training? If so, was there discussion of putting Vargas on the 10-day Disabled List instead of optioning him?
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Did anybody ask them who else besides Mauer will be playing first base? What was their answer?
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I come at it from the opposite angle. That it's the Twins brass letting Molitor do his thing. Falvey and Levine seemed pretty proactive at the start. They dumped Plouffe, tried to trade Dozier, and named Trevor May a starter. These are all things I was in favor of, though I did not care for the signing of Breslow. Then when the good will of Twins fest wore off and spring training started, it all seemed to fall apart. Almost like when they met the extended family, it was like the scene in Moneyball where Brad Pitt walks into the draft room with all those old scouts. Except Falvey is the nicest guy on the planet and doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. So he just turned most of the decisions over to the "old baseball men" one last time. Conspiracy theories beat the alternative, which is that Falvey is so incompetent at putting together a roster that he forgot to bring another player who can play first base besides Mauer, that there are 13 pitchers but two backup middle infielders on the active roster, and Danny Santana is the fourth outfielder. That is brutal and a recipe for failure.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Well, yes and no. Mostly no, but who ever knows. At least some of us are trying to make sense of this debacle! Better to guess that there are things going on behind the scenes than to appraise this as reasonable roster making.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Unless somebody is throwing a knuckleball there, there is less blur on that pitch to Kranson than the picture of Buxton running the bases.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    when did Vargas get optioned?
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Good question.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Does it get submitted on a certain day or what lots of speculation here and i've lost track
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Has the roster actually been set, or is it still up in the air?
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Having a different pitch caller might also help.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    That makes sense, though the Twins should have insisted on Pinstrips or maybe the old baby blue unis for the color scheme It's only a matter of time before a young kid takes a sip of his dad's Bud, makes a sour face, cries, and becomes irrepairably harmed for the rest of his life and a lawsuit ensues.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I saw a corn-potato bowl on Facebook that looked good. What's the deal with Budweiser in Coca-Cola cans?
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    That may be true, but consider this: Middle infielders going north: Dozier Polanco Escobar DanSan First baseman going north: Mauer
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Right out of a Cormac McCarthy novel. (note to Hicksie: run for your life)
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    This is what gets me, particularly with the middle infielder situation.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Nor are the recently-DL'd players key pieces: Vargas, Adrianza, O'Rourke.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Grossman and Santana? One of those guys will probably start Opening Day in left field, since the Twins will be facing a lefty and Rosario will be platooned. Oh and if we're facing a lefty that means Mauer will have to rest, Kepler comes in to play first base, so the other one starts in right field. Wait, what?
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Gimenez played a lot of outfield in camp. How much outfield will he play during the regular season?
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Good point. Who else plays first?
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Was it Falvey or Levine who said earlier in spring, "we will carry 12 pitchers." It seemed like a firm decision at the time.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    And to think. Guys like Andrew Miller and Dellin Betances were failed starters. I will throw down a bet on Tonkin at 30-1 to lead the team in saves by the end of 2017. He misses more bats than other guys in the bullpen (including Pressly and especially Kintzler) and with a new catcher and data-driven approach to pitching, maybe Tonkin has been a good pitcher all along.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Tonkin can get another shot. The home runs are concerning but among 2016 qualifiers, he has decent swing/miss rates going for him.
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