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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I think "roll with what we have" is the plan, has always been the plan, like it or not. Twins just haven't messaged it very well. I'm not as pessimistic as some will be (yet). There's a misconception that young players must necessarily lose games simply because they are young. I think the 2001-2002 teams averaged 25-26 years old. Maybe a new coaching staff can reassemble the parts to get more wins out of the players we already have, and keep some other guys performing above their heads.
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    Wouldn't a second interview typically be a good thing, if you are the one being interviewed?
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    Yes. Reusse is an expert. I'm hot and cold with him and he's horrible at prognosticating, but there is no denying he knows more about Twins baseball than just about anyone still expelling CO2 (breathing, that is). EDIT: or maybe I should say, forgotten more than most people will ever know.
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    The Hunter Pence poster meme was one of the best things about 2014
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    This is my point, too. I definitely do not want to denigrate Twins employees who work hard every day all year at their jobs. The Twins have had a lot of moving parts pulled in many directions lately, with much time and effort being put into the ASG experience last summer, there is Terry's health, missed time last spring, Gardy being Gardy, and who knows what else the team was dealing with. I just don't think that excuses recent comments like "we will not drastically slash payroll!" and also "Sano? meh, unlikely you'll see much of that guy this year," and several other comments, take your pick. I think it's fair if people want to give upper management some heat.
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    I wish KC would quit sweeping series and give us a little more for our money.
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    Fair point -- it's hard to stay on message when you are interviewed no less than 5-10 times a week, year round. My bigger point is that this team doesn't even have a message. They have no public relations strategy. Nothing. They have a marketing dept but I don't think that's the same thing. They have no idea what they want to say about any particular topic, how to be honest about it, and they have no idea what the public wants to hear. This is not to question Ryan's scouting mind. It's to point out a plain-as-day deficiency. Someone needs to sit Twins management down in a room and clue them in. I don't know if Pohlad would be on board with this or not. Going into 2012 they hyped young guys like Dozier, Revere, but then they gave a heavy dose of playing time to downside veterans like Hammer, Doumit, Carroll. Then 2013, rinse and repeat. Everybody should be on the same page of where the organization is going, which was another problem the past few years.
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    I think Schafer has a great shot to make the team. If not a starter then the 4th OF, and at minimum as a role player in the way Kansas City has been using Jarrod Dyson, as a late inning pinch runner and OF replacent (likely for Arcia).
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    From the New York Times, March 2008: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/sports/baseball/03santana.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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    I wonder if these guys on the manager short list have told Terry that it's all or nothing. No more bench coaching or third base coaching. That would make this is tough call. I know some people would rather see the head coach have the final say on who the bench coaches are, but my gut tells me Ryan is trying to put together a staff with a good rapport as much as he is trying to hire a manager.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I have never had a dream about Doug Meintkiewicz.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Fine, but splitting hairs perhaps. If and when the day comes, I might be tempted to count guys like Meyer and Vargas as "homegrown" and not as trade acquisition and free agent signing.
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    Agree completely. This is how the Twins have done it, and will continue to do it, like it or not. Mostly this is how KC has done it, with the fortuitous trade for Shields. Even as teams like Oakland are undervaluing their prospects, I still have no problem keeping and developing our own prospects. The problem I had is that recently we started seeing situations like 30+ year old Ryan Doumit taking playing time from guys like Chris Herrmann. The declining veteran at the expense of young player with talent - that was how I saw it, though we can debate the level of talent in some of those earlier guys (Renee Tosoni and guys like that. Maybe even Herrmann in that group but we'll never know). By 2014 the Twins had lost their way with repeated decisions that didn't work out on the field. The good news is the Twins core that won the World Series in 1987 made a strong pennant run three years earlier, in 1984, before they were old enough to know better. So even if a serious playoff run for this group is still several years away, good baseball from young homegrown players could come sooner than we think. The frustration with payroll will evaporate if the team can start winning.
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    Another point that can be added to Seth's summary is that every player on KC has their role, and accepts it. It might be fun to see Willingham bat more, but he is nothing more than a pinch hitter, or an extra-inning DH if Butler has been pinch run for. In fact, Kansas City has used exactly one lineup since the postseason started. Think about that. Most managers would be tempted to "work other guys in" (especially Gardy) and fiddle with the lineup a bit, but not KC. Give them credit. Their bench guys have roles -- Dyson pinch runs for Aoki or Butler and then comes in as a CF replacement. Cain moves from CF to RF. Terrance Gore also pinch runs and that guy is fast. The bullpen arms know their assignments. No match ups, no splits, no platooning, no shuffling. No over analyzing. This is what is working. Although we will see some different looks as the series moves to the NL park. I doubt anyone is expecting KC to suddenly take a dive though. They are playing too well.
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    I mostly agree - I knowingly set the 87 team on a tee for you. But nothing about the 91 season was a crapshoot until the end of Game 6, so don't even try.
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    and its funny how I never see the 87 and 91 series described as a crapshoot.
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    Yeah, Kansas City is really getting after it this postseason. Their batters are making them throw strikes and their relievers can really pound the zone. They never give up The "crapshoot" idea doesn't come into play until later in the series. Like the late innings of a Game 6 or 7 or a funny bounce that breaks an inning open somewhere. A series sweep is not a crapshoot. EDIT: just trying to have fun with this not derail the thread or refight old battles
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    Though I am guessing guys like Pelfrey, Kubel and Bartlett do not meet anyone's definition of 'magnitude'…
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    Wake up, ChiTown. You are dreaming. None of this really happened.
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    KC leads game 4 by score of 2-1 after 8. Show time.
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    Home Box Office shall become Hand Box Office.
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    Not sure how many, but if there were 819 players who played for the Twins lifetime, I'd put Tommy Herr no higher than 818th. also Ron Davis would clock in somewhere in the 800's on my list, though I kind of feel bad for the guy in retrospect.
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    Agree. $3.6 billion dollars, the wealth of the Pohlads, is a finite number. Pro baseball teams are not family businesses, they are toys. Pohlads could spend 50% more in payroll and not really miss it. Twins could sign a top free agent arm this winter (Scherzer, Shields) and be just fine. Or make an offer for Price and let Detroit try to re-sign Scherzer. Price spent a few days of his personal time in the Twin Cities between the All Star Break and the Rays series after the break. Maybe Price is a guy who might like playing here. Find out. Another good PR practice is not to give anything away before you need to and buy time for new information, and here we find out that the idea of signing a good free agent for 2015 is being summarily shot down even before the 2014 season is over. They could have at least said "all option on the table" and then half-assed it again, without getting ticket holders unnecessarily ticked off. All that said, I think they are trying to do their best, and that next year will be better. And maybe they will change their mind on free agency. Not too late to do so. They just really need some outside voices in those TF offices, in my opinion.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm a Ryan backer in general, but I really wish the Twins had a better media strategy. Things Ryan and DSP are saying in the media are really, really, bumming me out. Also... "We're not rebuilding," Ryan said. …"we're going into this thing to compete." "I see it very much as a situation similar to [MLB TEAM] last winter. They were in last place…, then all of a sudden they win [the division]. So certainly there are instances where teams have turned it around in quick order. It's happened before; we're going to try to do it again." In what year did Ryan make the above comment? a. 2011 b. 2012 c. 2013 d. 2014 Yep, you guessed correctly. http://www.twincities.com/ci_19298159
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