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  1. tarheeltwinsfan
    Great question Sconnie.
  2. tarheeltwinsfan
    I am usually very impressed by 99% of your posts, however I would have to oppose your idea of trading Ryan. I'm no pitching guru, but I believe Ryan is a special player with a high ceiling. He still has room to improve, and he was good in his limited roles last year. He may be the Twins best pitching prospect.
  3. tarheeltwinsfan
    Based on this "not a rebuilding" plan, which I just read about here, I just called a bookie in Las Vegas and told him the Twins were not rebuilding this year, they were going for the gold, and I bet $5,000 on the Twins to make the playoffs and $1,000 that the Twins would be in the World Series. Thanks Derek and Thad.
  4. tarheeltwinsfan
    Why not Ryan?
  5. tarheeltwinsfan
    I must quote Roberto Duran and say: "No mas, no mas !". Thank you for your polite and decisive rebuttal to my comments about Josh Donaldson. Your informative rebuttal proved beyond a doubt what most TD readers already know, and that is that I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
  6. tarheeltwinsfan
    The Twins are way over-paying for the production by our current third baseman. The Twins will continue to way over-pay for Donaldson as long as the Twins have to pay the inflated contract to Donaldson. I'm sure there exist statistics which show how the production received from Donaldson (both offensive and defensive) has cost way too much for this huge contract. There has been , and will continue to be, to little bang for the buck involving Donaldson. This signing was not a cost efficient signing. The money should have been spent to extend Berrios.
  7. tarheeltwinsfan
    If Miranda can play 3B, and 2B, then he can probably learn to play LF fairly quickly. The Twins need his bat in the lineup in 2022 based on his minor league stats. The time is now.
  8. tarheeltwinsfan
    Eddie, Eddie, Eddie !
  9. tarheeltwinsfan
    Doc, I hereby nominate this post of yours for one of the top ten posts of 2021. I especially liked your part which mentioned his "determination and fire" being valuable to the Twins. I disagreed with Gardy every time after a loss he would be quoted as saying:: "It's a long season". The current Twins need some Kirby Puckett positive fire.
  10. tarheeltwinsfan
    Rosterman, you are so correct about Berrios. And you are correct that the Twins, even with the injuries, should have finished second. All in all, 2021 was a miserable season for us Twins fans, and for the whole organization. .
  11. tarheeltwinsfan
    This topic still galls me to no end. If true, this was malpractice.
  12. tarheeltwinsfan
    It didn't take a degree in economics to sign Buck. 99 % of us on TD was practically screaming at the FO to get it dome. The moving of Polanco to 2B was obvious when we watched him throw the baseball from SS to 1B. So I don't give the FO credit for these 2 moves. They were no brainers in my book. I am most disappointed in the steady trickle of talented Twins players and prospects lost for nothing gained. Finally, as much as I love the Twins and as much as I enjoy reading here on TD about all the prospects' successes, I believe some of us TD readers have a tendency to over value the Twins farm system, year after year.
  13. tarheeltwinsfan
    I'm not so sure. Try asking that question to those pitchers off of whom Bonds hit his majestic home runs and those batters whom Roger Clemens made look silly by striking them out. There is also a difference in robbing a bank and of shoplifting. Both criminal acts punish unjustly those of us who obey the law/rules, by causing higher prices for lost goods and insurance premiums and security costs. Similarly Clemens and Bonds cheated all those players who obeyed the rules. . I've got no respect for any of the wrong-doers in the examples I just gave, including Bonds and Clemens.
  14. tarheeltwinsfan
    Nice article. I enjoyed reading it. My first autographs were at Washington's Griffith Stadium in 1954 or 1955 with my grandfather and my brother. We were visiting our grandparents in D.C. and my brother and I had just discovered baseball, We actually rode the trolley to the ball park from 36th St NW (near the National Cathedral, where my grandparents lived). The Tigers were in town. The Senators lost,, thus starting a life-long journey for me as a Senators/Twins' fan who had to become accustomed to my team losing. Whose autographs did my brother and I get at that game, you may be thinking. You will never guess. We were sitting in front of some famous people: I remember Mrs. Clint Courtney, the wife of "Scrap Iron" . Yes we got the autographs of some of the Washington Senators players wives. They told us they had never been asked for their autographs before. It was a thrill for the wives and for two little boys from North Carolina at our first major league game.
  15. tarheeltwinsfan
    Let's just be patient and see what Lewis has this year in AA or AAA or with the Twins, This time next year we should have a better idea of what Lewis can do. No need to trade him now.
  16. tarheeltwinsfan
    What he said.
  17. tarheeltwinsfan
    Brock, I would be interested in your opinion about putting Lewis at SS and letting him learn to swim in the big leagues. The Twins aren't going to win the pennant in 2022 (alas) and the Twins need to find out if Lewis can cut the mustard at SS. Why not do it now?.
  18. tarheeltwinsfan
    I have not considered this arrangement. Has Donaldson ever played 1B?
  19. tarheeltwinsfan
    Megill may turn out to be a useful acquisition. He is very interesting. I want to follow him closely in spring training.
  20. tarheeltwinsfan
    As I posted earlier, it's good to see a 6 foot 8, 250 pound player running in from the Twins bull pen in the event of a fight when the opposing pitcher pitches Buck up and in too much.
  21. tarheeltwinsfan
    I hope the Yankees do gobble him up. I hate the Yankees.
  22. tarheeltwinsfan
    Would I want to sign Simmons again, you ask? I'd sooner drive from North Carolina to New York backwards.
  23. tarheeltwinsfan
    It's going to be a long winter; 68 days, 1 hour and 30 minutes until pitchers and catchers report..
  24. tarheeltwinsfan
    I really think the great baseball minds who work for the Twins, can tell if Lewis can physically handle the job of MLB SS during spring training and if he can, then give it to him. Let him learn on the job at the ML level. I feel Lewis is such a positive person and has his head on so straight that he will learn from each mistake he inevitably will make. The learning failures at the big league level, rather than in AA or AAA, will not destroy his self confidence. He is not a fragile person. I believe the 2022 SS job for the Twins is Lewis's, unless or until he proves he can't handle the job. I'm ready to see what he can do in the big show. The lessons there are magnified, but Lewis can handle it. He is special.
  25. tarheeltwinsfan
    The Twins signed Buck, What a great relief to thousands of Twins fans. It simply had to be done. Tony O. and Kitty and Buck O'Neil are going to the Hall of Fame, "The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven - All's right with the world.!" Thank you FO and Hall of Fame Early Baseball and Golden Days Committees and Robert Browning. download.svg
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