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  1. USAFChief
    Turns out not even people in Tampa are going.
  2. USAFChief
    Seriously? There wouldn't have been room?? Arraez wouldn't play 1st because of Kirilloff and Gallo? Kirilloff has proven nothing, and started the year on the DL. Gallo gets in nobody's way. How about RF for Gallo? Polanco started on the DL. Miranda stood in his way?? DH? Unless they had decided Buxton was the full time DH in January--meaning the Correa is the Buxton whisperer stories are BS--they had lots of DH ABs available. I mean, it's fair to justify the cost of acquiring Lopez. That's one thing. It's another to pretend the Twins dealt a spare part. They gave away somewhere between their best and third best hitter. He'd be in their lineup every day except for injury, and would have been from day one. Someone else would sit, not Arraez. I mean, in the same post you're arguing Arraez wasn't good enough to make the lineup AND he wouldn't help because the rest of the lineup is so bad. Doesnt compute.
  3. USAFChief
    If he can't help this anemic offense, why is a contender trading for him? There's no trade market for Kepler.
  4. USAFChief
    I think the primary problem is there's not much in the way of hitters to search through. I mean, Wallner has his warts too. But given that, yeah, Garlick was an odd choice.
  5. USAFChief
    My point is maybe they should actually platoon. They called up Garlick because of "all the upcoming lefties" yet he started against RH Triston McKenzie Sunday. And AFAIK there's all of 1 more LH stater scheduled against the Twins this week. Meanwhile, every other starter is right handed. Why not have the platoon advantage with Wallner in 7 or 8 starts and lose it for 2, rather than the other way around? They seem to be doing the platoon advantage in a funny way. We had Donnie Barrels at DH batting 4th last night ferpetesakes.
  6. USAFChief
    One player is part of the answer though. A .450 OBP and .900 OPS would absolutely help ANY offense. "Arraez wouldn't do it by himself" is a nice strawman, though. It's ok to admit we miss Arraez. Even if we understand the trade, or even liked it. And OK to consider the possibility the Twins, to date, would be better had they not made the trade.
  7. USAFChief
    It's worse: the explanation for Garlic wasn't "RH pinch hitter." It was "we're facing a bunch of lefties in the next week." "A bunch" = 2, apparently. And I'm a guy that believes strongly in the platoon advantage/disadvantage. And to be fair, focusing on Garlic is focusing on one small tree and ignoring the forest. The forest is, Twins management seems incapable of putting together a good, consistent offense. They had the blip of 2019, when a juiced ball combined with career years for guys they didn't draft, develop, or sign. Outside of that, their talent seems to be assembling players who K too much, can't translate whatever minor league success they showed into MLB success, can't stay on the field, or all the above.
  8. USAFChief
    Really difficult to take seriously a team putting Donovan Solano in the 4 hole. Against a RHer no less.
  9. USAFChief
    Game over.
  10. USAFChief
    You missed the point, though. The plan to DH Buxton needs a center fielder that helps win games. That's not MAT. There's a reason he could be had for nothing special. He's a good enough fielder, but he's long proven himself a liability in the lineup. I dont like Buxton at DH, but that seems to have always been the plan. Particularly on this team, which was always going to be offensively challenged, any plan to take Buxton out of CF needed a better plan than one that trades a real bat for MAT's.
  11. USAFChief
    With Mrs Chief.
  12. USAFChief
    ...temporarily. Ftfm.
  13. USAFChief
    Storybook return avoided.
  14. USAFChief
    Played terrifically, champ.
  15. USAFChief
    He gone?
  16. USAFChief
    "Partially torn (rotator) cuff" ... Or maybe "pick to click"
  17. USAFChief
    If there's some plan for Buxton to return to CF, then Lewis to 3rd makes a lot of sense to me. Otherwise...you're 100 percent spot on.
  18. USAFChief
    I said the same in the game thread. Every team in MLB has a CFer who catches that pop fly, with ease. Except us, who have Willi Castro in CF.
  19. USAFChief
    "Making Buxton's latest swoon even tougher to stomach is the growing inconvenience of his situation and its collateral implications." Some of us have been saying this all year. Making Buxton a full time DH hurts the team, rather than making it stronger. It has the effect of making MAT your full time DH. And it's made even worse when Buxton is turned into Rob Deer. One tool, rather than 5.
  20. USAFChief
    What, and lose Solano??!?
  21. USAFChief
    Coupla really nice ABs there from Buxton and Castro.
  22. USAFChief
    I can confirm. //pre-emptive age joke
  23. USAFChief
    Andrew Romine was the last to play all 9 positions in a game...against your Minnesota Twins https://www.mlb.com/news/players-to-play-all-9-positions-in-same-mlb-game#:~:text=Bert Campaneris%2C A's&text=The most accomplished player on,positions in an eventful game.
  24. USAFChief
    Every team in baseball has a center fielder that catches that pop fly from Kirk. Except us.
  25. USAFChief
    One of the worst trades in Twins history, and that's before you take into account the results. Murphy wasn't in the same talent league as Hicks. Not even close. Really awful use of resources. You can't be that far short on the balance of talent scale on a trade.
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