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  1. USAFChief
    I think the gamble is assuming they are NOT real.
  2. USAFChief
    If Buxton and Sano, with the current MLB youngsters and high minors help, are not the answer, there is no window. If they are real, the window is now. The perfect storm of misfortune that is 2018 shouldn't cloud the picture of whether or not the Twins should plan on 2019-2020 as being the time to go for it. It's a no-lose situation. Either you added to a good team needing a catcher, or you added a good, tradeable catcher to a team that wasn't going to contend anyway for the foreseeable future and can be dumped at next year's deadline for a similar haul.
  3. USAFChief
    Not to pick on you or make this personal, but I feel like I could have read this exact post five years ago, speaking about 2016-2018 as "the window." When all that young talent reaches the majors and is dominating. And four years ago about 2017-2019 as "the window." etc etc etc I think the better option is to build your own window, rather than waiting for a window to build itself. Not to mention there's no guarantee you'll have trade opportunites available in 2020, or the assets to acquire such trade opportunities if they do exist.
  4. USAFChief
    Oh he'll return. But let's not pretend we can guarantee there will be no effect on a guy who makes his living squatting on that knee for 4 hours a day.
  5. USAFChief
    A catcher with knee surgury serious enough to miss almost an entire season, and health isn't a factor in 2019??
  6. USAFChief
    Prospects. We didn't need to add bullpen help for the last umpteen years, either, because we had all that can't-miss reliever talent in the minor leagues just waiting to be harvested. An overabundance, actually. There wouldn't even be room on the 25 man roster for all that talent.
  7. USAFChief
    Realmuto is the kind of deal that teams make if they're serious about winning. He's going to be traded. Might as well be to the Twins.
  8. USAFChief
    Concur. Could someone, somewhere, please ask Falvine "Belisle...WHAT is going on here??"
  9. USAFChief
    Well of course there's not much evidence if you literally ignore all of it. Few are pointing solely at Wins and losses in isolation, for example. But by all means, set up more strawmen to destroy. Molitor can't turn water into wine, we get that. Neither could Tom Kelly. But he could and did get the water to flow properly.
  10. USAFChief
    l cant wrap my head around this. Why? Unless...they're trolling us!
  11. USAFChief
    Infield single, plus error. No sac.
  12. USAFChief
    You keep saying this, but have never explained why MLB is the only team situation in the world where leadership and management has no effect on performance. Simply writing out the lineups every day and making pitching changes has an enormous impact. How could it not? And that ignores all the intangible stuff, which is almost certainly even more important. Keeping 25 people focused and working, over 6 months, is not something that just happens. Details matter, particularly when we're talking about the very best performers at a given task. And for my money, Molitor appears bad at all of that. He's operating at a talent deficit, but that's not an excuse for much of the poor execution, lack of fundamentals, and overall malaise we've seen way too much of.
  13. USAFChief
    I mentioned this in last night's game thread: to me, in a season of disappointments and failure, getting shut out over seven innings by James Shields, and embarrassed by the Chicago White Sox, seems like the low point. .... So far, at least.
  14. USAFChief
    1. He’s not the Twins best player. Calling him that is...inane. He may some day be, I hope so. 2. This thread isn’t about Dozier, or Buxton, or Mauer. 3. And you know what else it isn’t about? It’s not about race, or color, or ethnicity. Nobody has said snything about that, or implied any such thing, until you just did. And in doing so, you are implying that other posters are racists. That’s not fair, and it’s not allowed here at TD. This is for you and all posters: cease and desist with these kinds of unfounded allegations.
  15. USAFChief
    Too much drama?? He's in A ball, ferpetesakes. Not solely for baseball reasons. Maybe it's time some people apologize to Reusse and Souhan.
  16. USAFChief
    Just let him flail away?
  17. USAFChief
    Jake Cave’s upside is “limited role player.” He’s 25 with a career .760 MiLB OPS.
  18. USAFChief
    But your quote considered “MLB hitters all time.” I think a 16 pt BA drop is a pretty big thing. That’s 10 more hits for every hitter, not just one. Or 10 fewer to be more accurate.
  19. USAFChief
    I complain about Molitor leaving his starters in too long a lot, but in this case I had no complaint. And only one of the three hits he gave up in the 6th should have been a hit. Fair to say Lynn is not a gold glove candidate though.
  20. USAFChief
    It might be 1.6 percent purely per the math, but that’s really not the way to look at it. On a scale where .200 is utter failure, and .350 extreme success, 16 points from .262 to .246 is fairly significant, IMO.
  21. USAFChief
    Let's hope he and the Twins find a way to turn things around. Because without Sano and Buxton performing at near superstar levels, I don't see a way out of the wilderness in the foreseeable future.
  22. USAFChief
    In my experience, if the CQO identifies issues with quality, it's the COO who answers for them.
  23. USAFChief
    It's the grim faced double time march out to the mound to remove his starter immediately after the starter has coughed up yet another late lead that gets me to utter more than a few "golly gee gosh darn it anyway"s.
  24. USAFChief
    1. Not the CEO, for sure. The "COO?" I don't know how else you describe him. 2. No, but I see plenty of signs of poor quality baseball, and illogical pitching moves.
  25. USAFChief
    Jared Burton's mom hates you.
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