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Is the red line gross revenue or net revenue. And if net revenue, how was the net amount decided? What expenditures were figured? .Many costs have gone up. The salaries of the players are just a part of the total costs of running a baseball team. Do these figures take into account revenue sharing? Many other questions about these statistics. I don't have near enough information in these statistics for me to accept them as proving anything.

You are not the Lone Ranger, my friend. My wife and I are still going and we will enjoy the sunshine and Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge, a day or two at the beach, the "orange store" with fresh orange juice, Mission BBQ restaurant, some good seafood at a place on Sanibel Island, I really do enjoy wandering around the different ball fields watching the workouts. Plus I'm getting together with an army buddy who lives there. But I doubt my already purchased tickets to see the Twins vs. the Yankees, Phillies and Red Sox will be used for their intended purpose. I think I will try to get some interviews and pictures for TD with some minor leaguers. Of course my "interviews" will not compare with Seth's outstanding interviews. Hey, if any of you TD writers and readers want to meet and greet, I'll be there March 5 - 12th. When I'm at the ball parks, I'll look for suspicious looking characters who may be TD writers and readers and I'm not shy about asking if strangers post or write for Twins Daily, I'll be the old guy walking slowly wearing an olive green Second Infantry Division baseball style hat. Just yell out Tarheel and I'll know you read this post. I hope to meet some of you there. Now that I think about it, this week in Ft. Myers will be better than going to work in North Carolina. So thanks, I feel better now.

Good points. Both sides are to blame in my opinion. I have spent over $400 for spring training game tickets in March 2022 at Ft. Myers, plus I have rented an AirBnB for a week. I am not a happy camper.

You got that right.

Can anyone please explain to me the value of not hitting where the shift is located? Is it because you get extra credit when you have high exit velocity, no matter where the ball goes. Is velocity > location on long fly balls against a shift? I'm not trying to make a point here, I just want to know why any player would not try to hit differently against a shift? Maybe they are trying but just cannot do it. I really don't understand it, which makes at least two things in this time of statistically preventable covid deaths, which I can not understand.

There will never be another Willians Astudillo. I hope he somehow finds his way back to the Twins organization.

I vote for Joe Ryan. He qualifies as a fun guy who marches to a different drummer. But it is only natural since he grew up in the great State of California and attended college there too. .

I know there are some reasons for optimism in Eric Samulski's article about Bundy, but there are also some reasons to worry. I wonder if Josh Donaldson might have some insight into whether any of Bundy's lack of success after June 2021, had a relationship to MLB cracking down on pitchers using sticky substances? Hmmm.

Nice summary. Now I remember Ricky (cough Shoemaker, Nishi, Bang, cough) Nolasco. I had forgotten him.

Not The Duffman..

I agree with RJA's summary.

3 good prospects. We shall see how they progress. Thanks TD for keeping up with the Twins' prospects better than anyone, except the Twins organization itself.

Thank you for TD. A 10 year anniversary celebration is appropriate. Cheers.

Thanks Ted for writing about a painful subject.

I hope so many of the current Twins prospects, who were left off this list, do so well that Keith Law realizes he doesn't know what he is doing as a predictor of the success of baseball prospects, causing him to quit his day job and go to Law School and become an attorney. What a great name for a lawyer..

Trade Sano now to an NL team for young flame throwers . Let Arraez and Donaldson DH. Put Miranda at 3B. I assume he has a good arm.

Based solely on what I have seen on mlb.com in watching games, and watching interviews, and reading TD religiously, which certainly does not make this statement that I'm about to make, have much validity, if any, however I'm going to write this anyway: My gut feeling is that Donaldson is no Nelson Cruz in the dugout or the clubhouse. At times Donaldson appears to me like a spoiled child. That type of "fire" does nothing to motivate me as a human to achieve a goal. I feel most of us reading this would agree that Kirby Puckett had positive leadership fire. He was a positive motivator and a team leader. He was loved by his teammates. I certainly could be wrong, but I don't get the impression that Donaldson, as gifted a player as he is, is a team leader. Just because a player is a veteran and has been a very good player in the past, even an MVP, does not automatically qualify him as a positive leader. My definition of a positive leader is one who leads by example. He plays the game the right way. He does the little things. He hustles. He puts his work in every day. He cheers and encourages his teammates (like Cruz was constantly doing). He puts team before self. I do understand the risk in my writing this based on my lack of real knowledge about what goes on behind closed doors, in the clubhouse, in the dugout , in spring training, etc. And maybe I've just failed to see what really is Donaldson's positive leadership, which the rest of you who have written about Donaldson's value as a team leader, have seen or know about. Maybe it goes on in private, behind the scenes, but I would be surprised if Donaldson is a "behind he scenes" guy. I just have not seen leadership in Donaldson like I saw in Puckett and Cruz. But then they were exceptional leaders. HOF as leaders as well as players. When was the last time the Twins had a captain? If the players elected one, who do you think it would be? If I had a vote for Twins captain, I would vote for Byron Buxton to be the positive team leader.

I agree. Thanks.

Nice. Thanks. I am hopeful.

Yes. I do. But then I am optimistic about the Twins beginning in late January and all of February and March this time every year as we start planning our 10 hour drive to Ft. Myers for early March spring training. Is it time to load the equipment trucks for Ft. Myers yet?

Michael Clair wrote a great piece yesterday(1/25/22) for MLB.com about those players whose names were on the 2022 HOF ballot, but who were one and done. He pointed out how good those particular one and done players actually were. He included Justine Morneau and Joe Nathan. Did you know Nathan had the 8th most saves in major league history. He was a consistently dominant closer and led the majors (including two Hall of famer closers, Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman) in saves between the years 04-09. And Morneau won an MVP and an NL batting title and Gold Gloves and was a feared slugger for years with the stats to back up Morneau's reputation. He also include AJ and mentioned he was known for having a big mouth and for being part of one of the most one-sided trades in ML history. I loved this article.

This has been one of the most "fun" posts I can remember. No disagreements are possible for one's favorite player. Not the best, not the most value, just who is your favorite. Nicely done guys. And thank you.

Congratulations to David Ortiz. In hind sight, of course the Twins should have kept him. . So be it. It's not like a curse or anything has been placed on the Twins. (cough, cough...18 straight cough, cough playoff losses...cough, cough).

After watching Cotton's interview when he was promoted to the Texas Rangers ML ball club, I will be rooting very emphatically that Cotten makes the Twins club after spring training.

I still live in Statesville. Since you used to live in Mooresville, you know that Statesville is about 40 mile north of Charlotte, which was a Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins' farm team from 1937 to 1942 and 1947 to 1972? Many Senators/Twins got early experience playing in Charlotte. My father used to take me to Charlotte one Saturday a month for my monthly orthodontic appointments when I was a boy. One Saturday we were at a sporting goods store in Charlotte and the owner and I were talking. I told him I was a Senators fan. He told me that the Charlotte team used old Washington Senators uniforms from the prior season. They sent the uniforms to his store and he removed the red "W" from the uniforms and sewed a red "C" onto the uniforms. He then went into the back of his store and gave me a red "W" from one of the prior years uniforms of one of the Washington Senators' players. I always pretended it was from either Roy Sievers or Jim Lemon or Camilo Pascual.. I still have it 60 years later.. It was quite a treasure for a small town North Carolina boy.