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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    If this is the real Correa, and he keeps it up, then the pennant race this year is going to be lacking in drama. 🙂
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I found that other post and will share with you: “I think I have to turn my attention to how FalVine have constructed their roster. To make ends meet, our FO has demonstrated a willingness to assume more injury risk, in the name of acquiring top-tier talent. The Dodgers by contrast have the financial luxury to make all their decisions based on bang, not bang-for-buck. Or else, they've just done a great job at accumulating top-tier ironman talent, but being able to pay all April starters but young'uns Gavin Lux and Will Smith above $10M in 2022 couldn't have hurt. It occurs to me now that the Dodgers might not accept Byron Buxton and his injury history in trade, no matter how small the price. He doesn't fit their profile. It's hard to do an apples-to-apples comparison but I think the discussion of the Twins 2023 roster comes down to how would other teams deal with the individual players in question. If the Dodgers were forced to accept Buxton on their team, would they work him like a rented mule in CF, or let him DH and have an occasional day off during April. I don't know how to answer that because Buxton is a different player than it looks like LA would even choose to have.”
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I am pleasantly surprised at the percentage of runners the catchers have thrown out. I wonder if they are calling the right pitches at the right times, if catcher skills have improved, or if there’s something else at work.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Of course there is risk, and of course teams weigh risk differently. To spell this out every time before starting a discussion would be tedious. We can go back to what another poster said in another thread a while back: would the front office of a good team like the Dodgers even be interested in a player like Buxton in the first place? Likely not.
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I will assume you meant to stop after the first sentence, and I will call it a wrap.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Splendid. Maybe we get an update on Buxton’s ribs, soon. We all want a healthy Buxton, I’m hoping you can agree with that.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    “I underestimated how quickly Buxton would go from all-defensive CF to DH. I thought there would be a stop in the corner outfield in between. The guy can't keep his knees healthy enough to practice catching flyballs so he can prepare for an outfield spot.”
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Is there any recent evidence that his knees that are healthy enough to bat and run the bases are not healthy enough to start warming up in the outfield and ramp him back up to play center?
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I have no doubt that Buxton’s knee, or knees, bother him sometimes. No doubt at all. Same with Taylor’s back, Correa’s feet and ankles, same with Luis Arraez’s knees, same with pretty much every player out there, are dinged up to some degree. A few people here are speaking as if they have medically evaluated Buxton themselves. One poster just declared that Buxton’s outfield career is already over.
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    As soon as Buxton’s ribs are feeling better, yeah, I think he needs to start ramping up for center field. This is like the most popular and least controversial Twins take ever.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Yup, it’s time for Buxton to go play center field, and then maybe Taylor is a trade piece. At one point they were going to ramp up Buxton gradually. I don’t know where they are with that.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You mean a consigliere, like Tom Hagen? Wow yeah thats something 🙂 There’s nothing conspiratorial or scandalous going on here. In the offseason, Correa convinced Buxton to play DH, and they both went to the front office with the idea. The front office saw some logic in it, but pushed back by saying they would try it until mid-May, instead of all season. I don’t know what happened to the mid-May timeline, but whatever. Thanks to Hayes reporting, the pieces of the story all fit. Buxton is eligible to come off the IL any day now and we are all hoping for a healthy good Byron Buxton to return.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    True, it was an idea for this season, but if the idea/experiment would have worked, why would they end after this season, if it worked?
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    "We had a four-hour conversation. I said, 'I think we're a better team if you're DH-ing and taking 500 at-bats and just focusing on hitting 40 or 50 homers during the season and let Michael Taylor guard the outfield,'" Correa recalled. "He took it very well."
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Dan Hayes reported this.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Dan Hayes reported this.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    If Buxton retired, he’d be walking away from the rest of the contract. I don’t think you saw the news story from the offseason about his dinner with Correa. Buxton isn’t full time DH because he’s hurt, Buxton is full time DH because Correa convinced him to do this.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    What makes this more compelling is that it’s happening right now. We can go back and review the Buxton extension threads a couple years ago, to see if any posters were discussing a move to DH after season one of his seven season contract. I’d guess not. I think this board was split about 50-50 in 2016 on whether it was a good idea to move Miguel Sano into right field. Maybe 40-60 against. At least among the loudest posters (raises hand). For those in favor, at least to their credit, they were not so much in favor as they were willing to give it a shot. Articles were written, metrics were cited, pretenses were upheld, all to support the decision to move Sano to right field. Moving Buxton into the full time DH slot is at a similar level of decision-making, to me.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I really hope Buxton recommits himself this offseason to coming back in 2024 as a full time center fielder, aiming for 150 games, with something like what Nick Nelson proposed this spring: 75% in the field, and the other 25% DH or off. I think I got that close. @Nick Nelson People realize that Buxton is actually pretty bad as a DH, correct? Among the 12 qualifying designated hitters, Buxton is about mid pack in counting stats, and his rate stats have plummeted.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Great Win today!
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    There go the White Sox!
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Best not go there! (did you see what I did there?)
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The bunt single started this whole inning 🙂
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  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Leadership!!
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