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  1. HarmonK03
    So it sounds like Jeffers in Iowa with the Saints. Why is he not up here, we have plenty of catchers, he doesn't have to catch every day. Someone take Zoll's dartboard away so maybe he will make a decision on his own.
  2. HarmonK03
    They will probably go down the line of who was next in voting. Clemens is not an all star, keep the hopes down.
  3. HarmonK03
    When will we have some in the front office?
  4. HarmonK03
    So why didn't they do this week when he was first out. Rather than sit him out for 4 games and play 1. A lot of people predicted this and they need to be more decisive. It looks like the same thing with Culpepper.
  5. HarmonK03
    He is out of the all star game.
  6. HarmonK03
    You think Fedco will play?
  7. HarmonK03
    This is the culture Falvey built and obviously Zoll agrees with or he wouldn't have accepted his promotion to GM 2 years ago. Nothing has changed with this front office, so many here seem to think they are going to change how they operate because Falvey is gone. I am sure he did not sit at his desk and decree all his decisions like a king. The staff believes in this philosophy and it won't change until Zoll is gone and a new head of baseball operations is brought in.
  8. HarmonK03
    What does he do that the Twins see that make them think he will be an answer to the bullpen woes. Is it he is breathing and has an arm. If he doesn't throw hard and can't throw strikes, which I thought were attributes they were looking for in bullpen arms. At some point roll with the arms you have developed and see what you have. The only positive about him is he is younger, so maybe they can turn him around like Gomez. But your strategy can't be hope which seems to be what they are thriving on.
  9. HarmonK03
    Other GM's have worked with the same budgets as ours and shown better results. Even Ryan did better in his first stint as GM in a different era. Last offseason Falvey had at least $14m to spend and he chose not to invest in even one bullpen arm other than the bottom of the barrel. Don't look at the results from June, look at the time the signings were made, they were both questionable. Falvey never was able to construct a good roster with the resources given to him and player development especially on the position side has been abysmal. That is not on the owners. They need to find a competent person to run the baseball operations like the Wolves have done with Tim Connelly.
  10. HarmonK03
    I am hoping we can get somewhere in the middle of the Caratini between May and June. Can he handle the load behind the plate and keep up the hitting over the course of a season. He has never started more than 87 games behind the plate and that was five years ago and he will be 34 in a couple of months. Hopefully Jackson can catch more than 60 games next year if we don't extend Jeffers. Or we could be in the market for catching help next year at this time. Diaw and Tait hopefully will be ready by 28 but can Caratini be that bridge. I want to see how he does the rest of the season.
  11. HarmonK03
    But what does Zoll think, he is the one that should be proposing moves to Pohlad to let him say yes or no to. Or do we want Tommy P. to pressure him into a move for the sake of making a move that may set us back. Again we need a plan and it shouldn't just be about this year. The White Sox in the same position a few years back decided to become sellers because they knew long term that was the best path forward. I don't really trust Zoll or the talent evaluators i.e. the analytics staff in the front office to make decisions that will more help than hurt this team. Other than trading Jeffers so he doesn't walk for nothing and maybe Larnach and Bell, I wouldn't be disappointed if they didn't make any other moves. They need to clean house in the offseason and determine a direction for this team.
  12. HarmonK03
    Someone by the name of Byron Buxton may have something to say on this.
  13. HarmonK03
    How are you wasting Roden's service time by having him up here over Fedko. You need 13 players that can play. And he was not called up to spell Buxton because he didn't play when he was out. This issue is more about roster mismanagement than one player.
  14. HarmonK03
    And this is the problem, when you are playing with a shorter bench vs years past you need 13 players that can contribute. The roster construction and the philosophy behind it keeps putting the team in a tough spot. Yesterday was a great example, you asked a player who hasn't had an AB in 12 days to come in and try to contribute. It doesn't matter the name, that is not putting the player in the best position to be successful. There was no reason not to play Fedko a couple of the games Buxtpm was out, Kreidler does not show a clear advantage defensively over Fedko in CF and it weakened another position. I thought they moved Luke off of 2B because of defense. They are not consistent in this regard. I am trying to enjoy the weekend series win because it was great. But I want more, I want a team that can consistently win. And this team is no different than years past right now, they are going to struggle to be anything other than a .500 team at best with the flaws they have. I feel the front office is influencing a lot of these decisions and until Zoll is gone or a new head of baseball is brought in we are not going to have a clear consistent plan of what this team wants to do to be a winning team.
  15. HarmonK03
    If he can't contribute to a winning team then he should not have been called up. He had no chance ever to earn playing time. I am not saying he could be a productive player or not. There are countless stories of players with similar coming up and having some success even for a limited time. So just to write him off because he spent six years in the minors then again why call him up. You need to use your whole roster, this is not a team of stars, there were opportunities to get him some playing time. They played Gray ahead of him, don't tell me he couldn't have started a couple of games in CF with Buck out. It seems awfully like a knee jerk reaction to write him off after 17 plate appearances. This team will try anyone with a pulse on the mound but on the position side, I am not sure what their criteria is.
  16. HarmonK03
    I think Kreidler was adequate in CF but by putting him there you had Gray at SS. So what is the better defensive alignment Gray and Kreidler or Kriedler at SS and Fedko in CF. I am not necessarily a proponent of Fedko but I do feel his production in St. Paul earned him a call. And if you bring somebody up they should be given some opportunity. And the opportunity was there with Buxton out for a few days. And it's not like we have All Stars at every position that you can't give somebody a day off to give him some AB's. My main frustration was asking him to go into yesterday's game basically unprepared. He hadn't had a plate appearance in 12 games. That is poor roster management and you need to keep all players sharp. This is something TK did really well.
  17. HarmonK03
    There were opportunities to play him in CF when Buxton was out. That was a real missed opportunity and now moving forward who knows where the opportunity will come from. But a good manager keeps all his players sharp and can find playing time for everyone.
  18. HarmonK03
    He hasn't had an AB in 12 games, of course he is pressing. And in a total of 17 plate appearances you can conclude he is chasing garbage. I actually thought he had some good AB's until yesterday.
  19. HarmonK03
    I am curious how you came to this conclusion. He has started 3 games in 3 weeks. He has come into the game primarily in the 8th inning usually as a pinch runner. How does he earn playing time in this scenario. This to me isn't about Fedko about the usage of a roster spot but to say he hasn't earned playing time when he hasn't even been given any kind of shot is really unusual.
  20. HarmonK03
    If they are not going to use him then yes he needs to go back to St. Paul. I am not sure if we know anything about whether he can play up or here not. He started 3 games in 3 weeks and hadn't had a plate appearance in 12 days until today. Why do you use up a 40 man spot for him and then not even use him. He did deserve some playing time, whether he would have flopped or not no one knows. This is just poor roster management, this organization really has no plan.
  21. HarmonK03
    There were no outs, the runner on third doesn't typically go in that situation.
  22. HarmonK03
    So if he plays you tell him to jog around the bases and after every fly ball. It was the first inning, you are trying to score runs, I am not sure why this shouldn't have been done or why it is so careless. If a player plays they have to play at 100% effort.
  23. HarmonK03
    I agree, I want the goal to be to get or develop a closer. I am not expecting it at the deadline. I am not sure that Zoll wants this as I don't trust him either. My fear if he sticks in this job is he will continue the bullpen nonsense we have seen this year.
  24. HarmonK03
    Or a good shut down closer and set up man regardless of what side they throw from.
  25. HarmonK03
    That is not factually true.
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