Yes tonight is Correia's last stand. I can understand the feelings about ditching Deduno also, though I think he's quirky and barely effective enough to keep in the rotation a little longer. But he doesn't belong in the bullpen in anything other than a long man, mop up role.
This is could be a valid point. Whether or not Deduno is effective at holding runners. Or maybe the coaches in the dugout aren't sending Pinto the right signals at the right times.
An overwhelming majority of young catchers in other organizations are already playing full time by age 24 or 25. It's great and everything that Pinto has Mauer Steiny and Suzuki to mentor him, but you learn to catch by catching. Doumit caught quite a few games last year, now this year Suzuki. Goalposts again.
Welcome to the Glass Half Empty club. There are plenty of open chairs for us to sit. I still see a management mindset that favors veterans at the end of their careers over youth. The Morales signing is ok, at least it's proactive, but there's so much else to do.
It can be interesting to read the out-of-market commentary on what the Twins "should do" with their team; the proposed 1B-C-DH rotation being an example. Morales will be full time DH within a week and that's that, no guys rotating around those spots. Meanwhile the FO probably feels like we here on TD are imposters with no clue on how to run the roster.
You got it. Here's another variation: "The same fans that demanded Hicks play every day in the majors to get experience, are now complaining that he wasn't sent to AAA to work on his fundamentals." um, no. Those would be different fans, bud.
I assumed you had Correia ahead of Deduno on the De-Done-o list. however I could cut Deduno a little more slack, a couple more starts maybe. He's got so much movement on his pitches he's nice to have around. Unfortunately not a lot of movement today.
Good effort by Santana. His instinct (from what little I've seen) has been to turn and play balls off the wall but the jumping catch at the wall is part of the CF repertoire, and he's started to do that.