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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Thanks - I was going to say the same thing - we can disagree about what the industry guys say
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    Yes, definitely Lewis should be full time SS. I saw enough of Correa in 2022 to think he was good but overrated at the plate (without the trash can lids etc /obligatory) Plus the other stuff, like being a mid-market team, WAR per dollar, vision of what the franchise should look like, and so on. Lewis was the answer, and if not Lewis, Lee. Where is our revenue poster when I need him to back me up on this!
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    That’s just the usual Hot Take industry, if you ask me. So down the road, if Lewis is struggling, you move him to third. why close the door on it before you need to. Heck, I would have still had Polanco at short last season and early this season. Anyway, Radcliffe loved Lewis.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Irrelevant. We are talking about Correa and Lewis.
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    As long as we are drifting into draft talk, one of my biggest disappointments is that here is Royce Lewis, the front office’s very first draft pick, future leader and all star and cornerstone of the franchise, finally on schedule and ready to take the reigns at shortstop. and then they sign Correa. I understand the argument for having good players and moving them around, but the long term plan was for Lewis to play shortstop for the next half decade. And by signing Correa, I kind of feel that they gave up on the plan just when it was ready to bear fruit. Even if Correa had been hitting, still not a fan of the stinging. Because Lewis. All Ye Abandon Faith, or whatever that saying is.
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    Agree. You always hear that the trail runner needs to be watching the lead runner and go if he goes, but that seems like a lot to process in a short amount of time. Then again, these are guys getting 100mph pitches thrown at them from 60 feet.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I do think Kepler is checked out, mentally. Has been for a while.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Well that’s the thing. I agree and I wouldn’t have Kepler in right, but I also don’t think any other RF (Larnach, Garlick, Wallner) catches that Franco fly ball in the 8th.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    If anyone here from the “Lessons Learned from the 2022 trade deadline” thread is looking for insightful commentary, this game tonight provides plenty of chances for that. Go ahead and make an observation or ask a question. I will start by asking if Twins baserunners on second base have a sign they give to the trailing runner that they are going to steal? Taylor steals second base, then third, but Kepler the trailing runner after the walk stays at first, and Kepler probably scores on Lewis’s single if he’s on second. anyone shed any light on it?
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I had no opinion of Mahle-Steer-CES, and I did not like the Arraez trade. I thought it was giving up way too much offense. I'm not ready to revise that judgment.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You can use your google searching skills to find plenty of criticism here of these trades at the time the trades were made. If you want to read insightful commentary, be an insightful discussion partner! As far as who should be running this front office? Yeah, someone else, if you ask me. My narrative hasn't shifted on that in years. None of us know the names of potential candidates any more than Joe Pohlad knows the names of potential candidates, but with a little bit of time and work, we could get up to speed. I'd be interested to know who else were the candidates in 2016.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Less than an hour before first pitch, and no corresponding move announced and no lineup posted. This is not normal.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    No one is going to mention Late Night LaMonte in this thread?? 🙂
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I tend to agree about Correa, but disagree about the everyday player being traded for a good pitcher not making sense. Sometimes it does make sense. However, in this case I think people were overappraising Lopez and underestimating Arraez, I definitely agree with that. We see the front office do a move, and we want the move to work out, obviously, and we try to make sense of it, so we call Lopez a borderline ace, we call Salas a top prospect, and we call Arraez a huge risk with bad knees not likely to continue hitting, and we say we are selling high on him, even though I don’t think most people really believed that. In general terms, trading a middle infielder for a starting pitcher can be a good thing to do, if the right players are involved. but anyway.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    A very nice start, a so-so middle, and ending with a loss and your most important players watching from the bench. Kind of like the whole 2022 season too, come to think of it.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Today would have been the day Carlos Correa was eligible to come off the IL, if he had gone on the IL right away.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Should the Twins end the Buxton DH experiment? The front office will have to run that idea past Carlos Correa https://www.mlb.com/news/carlos-correa-convinced-byron-buxton-to-be-twins-dh
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    For his next trick, Royce Lewis will take a 200 million dollar pile of money, light it on fire, and make it magically reappear
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Imagine where the Twins would be if the front office optioned Lewis to AAA for one more week! yay Pitchforks!!
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  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Yup, could be Triston McKenzie’s season debut— Guardians are getting their #2 starter back.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Thanks for bringing those comments in, @Mike Sixel
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Confession: I and I alone possess the proprietary data for how many pitches a pitcher can throw — the inflection point for every single starter in the league before they risk injury is exactly 100.0 pitches!!
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Provus and Atteberry wanted to see Varland come out for the 8th.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    This board is also obsessed with ERA again, too. Despite the prevalence of the advanced metrics nowadays, the traditional stats still tell the story well enough.
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