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  1. laloesch
    EXACTLY! The Twins just don't get the rebuilding concept. It could be a feeble attempt at posturing for a better deal, but reality is reality with this organization. This team IMO has no hope of contending next year without revamping the rotation. If Santana were 2 or 3 years younger i'd say hang onto him as a building block for the rotation, but the truth of the matter is that he's 34 this December. His UCL could blow at anytime and the PED issues in his recent past are of grave concern. It is very likely he starts to decline soon. I think you have to seriously consider dealing him for anything decent. Remember too that we are also burdened with the Hughes contract . More importantly the Twins apparently feel obligated to start Nolasco, Hughes (when healthy) and Santana because of their contracts no matter how poorly they pitch. The time to wheel and deal Santana is now. If you have to dump Nolasco, fine. That will clear space in the rotation for Berrios, May and whomever you wish to try out from AAA. Sometimes it's addition by subtraction.
  2. laloesch
    My gut feeling is that with Terry Ryan gone Berrios will be up soon. However insiders have noted that Molitor and his staff are trying to change the approach of many of the younger batters (including Buxton) as well as the pitchers instead of letting them play to their strengths. Perhaps Molitor isn't the right guy for a rebuilding team when it comes to these young pitchers and hitters. Who knows how many of the yoyo rosters moves back and forth to AAA were on TR or Molly.
  3. laloesch
    HOLY BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP! Didn't see this coming at all. Wow. This is not the typical Twins way. Pohlads must be fuming over how this season is going. Now it's time for a Fire Sale. DUMP everything over 30. I fully expect to be rid of Nolasco, Plouffe, Milone, Santana, Suzuki possibly more in the next two weeks. WOW!
  4. laloesch
    Glad to see they are pushing Jay up the food chain. Maybe AAA next season with a possible mlb debut in 2018?
  5. laloesch
    You don't have to tell me that. I had a concussion as a kid on a motor bike were i lost a WHOLE day to concussion amnesia. My mother said I couldn't remember my name, age, anything. I had some lingering symptoms for about 3 - 4 months. I am not taking a shot at Mauer. I am stating that athletes often make excuses (which they do) and blame slumps on lingering nagging injuries. You can't deny that. And by the way Brad Steil, the Twins' Director of Minor League Operations basically confirmed as such saying the broadcasters where "bantering" and that it was entirely inaccurate. READ AGAIN "Park does not have a hand injury and he didn't have a hand injury (or anything else) in spring training," Steil noted. "He does have some wrist soreness at the moment, but it’s not something that prevents him from playing. Players deal with bumps, bruises, soreness, and general fatigue throughout the course of a six month season, and we will occasionally give them days off to help manage those things." Sometimes a slump is just that a slump.
  6. laloesch
    Your words not mine.
  7. laloesch
    My thoughts exactly. Let's be honest the Twins aren't competing next year and likely the year after. By then he's almost 36 and close to the end of his deal. If you can get something decent back in a trade that will help in the future you have to consider it.
  8. laloesch
    meh....I don't buy it. Every time a player slumps it seems to be some kind of an injury. We see this over and over again and the fans buy it. Why can't a player slump and take responsibility for it anymore. Inevitably it's blamed on a concussion from 3 years ago, an achy hammy, tired arm, bad eye sight at the plate, blah blah blah
  9. laloesch
    Okay so Hughes is done for the season and the Twins will stubbornly stick with the rotation they started the year with minus Hughes. Santana Gibson Nolasco Duffey Milone Berrios stays in AAA and May stays in the bullpen. I hate it, absolutely hate it. And to think we could have drafted Giolito (who debuted yesterday for the Nats) and hung onto Ramos who is hitting .343 this year with an .948 Obs. I think i'm going to go puke.
  10. laloesch
    Good. He is hitting well and positioned at 3rd. Time for the Twins to move Plouffe. Simple as that. Also time to call Berrios and Chargois back up.
  11. laloesch
    All of these questions are legit, but it doesn't matter what I think. What matters is how the Twins have consistently used these pitchers up to this point. Santana, Nolasco, Hughes, Milone, Gibson have all been used as starters. The results, putrid.
  12. laloesch
    Is it illegal to disagree with your previous post? "There seems to be a lot of people in this, and other threads that want to trade Ervin Santana. I'm not a big fan of his, and understand he might have some value (at least compared to the Plouffe's, Suzukis, etc.).. but if he is traded, who in the hell is in the 2017 rotation? I count 7 pulses by the way (Milone, May, Berrios, Gibson, Nolasco, Hughes, duffey). Not counting Dean or Darnell. And with the exception of Nolasco and Hughes the rest are a heck of a lot cheaper than Santana.
  13. laloesch
    Why wouldn't the Twins trade Santana if the right offer came along and they could get something of value for him? He's been busted for PED's, he's 33 and he's only under contract for two more years. The Twins aren't going to extend him beyond age 35/36. This team is a 100 loss team with or without him.
  14. laloesch
    A hint of sarcasm.
  15. laloesch
    I would. Opens the door for Polanco or Rosario at 2nd base.
  16. laloesch
    Or they should trade him, while they still have time to do so.
  17. laloesch
    He (Ryan) won't. It's not his modus operandi. Never has been. Now one would think at the very least that Plouffe would get traded making room for Sano at 3rd, but some folks here forget the FO love for Trevor Plouffe, Brian Dozier, Joe Mauer and Glen Perkins. These guys have wormed their way into the inner circle and are now Twins for life. I think that Park gets demoted at or shortly after the all-star break and Sano shifts to DH for the rest of the season. This allows Ryan to keep Plouffe around. Now whether or not he's offered a contract (via arbitration) this off season is debatable. I think that if his number is upwards of 10 million (which it could be), I think Terry might scoff at that, but we'll see. Regarding Polanco. I hate to say it, but the Twins kinda made their decision when they bought out Dozier's three seasons of arbitration and signed him through 2018. Polanco is clearly not a shortstop based on his fielding stats. Now the FO has been trying to force him into that mold but it's clear he's not SS material at this point based on errors alone. With the emergence of Escobar at SS and Nunez as a bench bat / spot starter he's even less likely to receive playing time.
  18. laloesch
    My mistake.
  19. laloesch
    Does anyone think Tyler Jay get promoted to New Britain this year?
  20. laloesch
    Perhaps the Twins have plans for him to play some shortstop in the near future.
  21. laloesch
    Oh that's right he was drafted 16th. So no Buxton. My bad.
  22. laloesch
    I said that a couple of years ago. Twins could have taken Giolito but it would have meant we wouldn't have gotten Berrios.
  23. laloesch
    Yep. The only thing i can think of is finally cut bait with Nolasco when Gibson comes back. It is LITERALLY POINTLESS to keep Ricky on the roster anymore.
  24. laloesch
    I have sobered up to the fact that Ryan will not shake things up and continue to bang through this miserable season without any significant changes. Molitor will still be manager by seaons end along with bruno even though this offense will set many Twins records for futility by seasons end. On the pitching side of things, we will continue to see short stats from Nolasco whose struggled mightly his WHOLE career with the Twins despite the fact that we have younger options that will be immediately better because of FILTHY FREAKING MONEY! They will continue to sign AAA retreads for the bullpen and OF in a futile attempt to save face and avoid 100 losses instead of calling up youngsters for extended tryouts. Guys like Buxton, Berrios, Polanco, Meyer, Chargois, etc. Not all of them will be ready (see Buxton & Berrios), but you have to give them extended looks to see what hand you've been dealt. Plopping them on the bench for 5-10 games and then demoting them at a convenient times is not how you handle top prospects. This is the growing body of evidence that Molitor is impatient and not willing to go through the pain of losing in order to grow. What's needed is a manager that will mentor these callups and allow them that initial experience so that 2017 is not a total loss either. My vote is Doug Mientkiewicz but there are other candidates too. Shakes head. This FO is utterly clueless. Time to blow this organization up, top to bottom. The question is when will Jim Pohlad realize that or care.
  25. laloesch
    Absolutely true.
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