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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. laloesch
    A hint of sarcasm.
  7. laloesch
    I would. Opens the door for Polanco or Rosario at 2nd base.
  8. laloesch
    Or they should trade him, while they still have time to do so.
  9. 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.
  10. laloesch
    My mistake.
  11. laloesch
    Does anyone think Tyler Jay get promoted to New Britain this year?
  12. laloesch
    Perhaps the Twins have plans for him to play some shortstop in the near future.
  13. laloesch
    Oh that's right he was drafted 16th. So no Buxton. My bad.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. laloesch
    Absolutely true.
  18. laloesch
    Nolasco starts. Never ending nightmare.
  19. laloesch
    Honestly, I've just about had enough of this. This FO is just stupid! Ownership, the GM and the Manager all in Denial! The evidence is all over the diamond. The continued starts by Nolasco, pointless yoyo callups & demotions despite the fact that we have several veterans hitting right around 200, the continued Sano outfield experiment which has failed miserably so far, stubborn lack of meaningful changes to the bullpen despite the fact that there are several high power options down there that could help right now.
  20. laloesch
    I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. Dozier, Pouffe, Perkins are trying to act like leaders in the clubhouse (Mauer is not trying and we all know that) and the younger guys are literally laughing at them and mocking them. Why would you respect those supposed wise veterans when they are producing next to nothing. And in the case of Perkins, a guy who has acted like a spoiled brat in the past and thrown young callups under the bus in front of the media. (Pinto).
  21. laloesch
    I'm much more concerned about the Hughes extension than Nolasco. Ricky is gone after this year. Twins will either cut him lose or match 50% of his salary in a dump & trade to a team desperate for a starter. Hughes on the other hand we are stuck with until 2019. Yikes! And I fully admit I was supportive of the extension. At least with Santana there's a team option for 2019.
  22. laloesch
    I think the immediate solution is to move May into the rotation along with Berrios and Meyer into a bullpen role or JT Chargois.
  23. laloesch
    I disagree on the ship has sailed blah blah blah. May is in the bullpen because there are too many starters right now and not enough proven bullpen arms. I don't think the decision long term has been made yet. May has 4+ pitches yet.
  24. laloesch
    I'm gonna take flak for this but now that I've watched him and his managing style he's not the guy I would have hired to work these young guys into the lineup.
  25. laloesch
    I don't think it has anything to do with confidence. Discipline and pitch recognition coaching is what Buxton desperately needs. The same goes for Rosario, Sano and Arcia (to a lesser extent). All these new callups have really struggled in this regard.
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