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  1. Trov
    First, it is still very early, but the early returns on Ty France is encouraging. He was scooped up for 1 mil. Santana, was let go and signed for 12 mil, twice what he got last year. Due to budget issues that required a shift. France was the guy. Many, including myself, scoffed at the signing. He was coming off 2 terrible years and not a good defender. Now, he is not lighting the world on fire by any stretch, but he is playing at decent level. Santana is putting up similar numbers. I hope France can stay at or exceed his current level, but for the 1 mil dumpster dive, the early returns are good.
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    I think part of what the comments have address is how the team has changed to a slower three true outcome type team. I personally find that style of play boring. When I feel the was most exciting to watch was during the early 2000's run, I was too young for the WS years to really pay attention. I loved watching the highlight defense that Hunter and others would put up. We were on web gems on a daily. Then we would score runs by hitting the ball in play for hits and not just hoping for HR out of the whole line up. I get what is determined as winning baseball has changed, and the players and manager job is to win games, not create an entertaining product for fans, but the purpose of the game is to entertain us. Winning will get more eyes on the team, but winning ugly still is ugly baseball. Watching the team throw the ball around for errors, and having terrible weak at bats over and over just gets old.
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    Sounds like the wrist has been an issue all season so far, finally hit point he said no mas.
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    No team will have 3 deep at SS. Few teams will go that deep at 3b as well. OF are much easier to fill, outside CF. If CC is down long term we will need to get someone up that can fill in at 3b minimum. If not, Lee and Castro going to have to stick there for awhile. Lewis, Miranda and Martin all on IL hurt the depth a ton.
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    The team is ranked, by ESPN, as one of the most unwatchable teams. Right now I fully agree. I love baseball and used to watch just about every game I could. This year though, with real life stuff going on, to go with the terrible product they are putting on the field is making them not really watchable. I got free tickets, great seats in a week, but outside of that I have little plan to go to any games and will not go out of my way to watch them. Their offense is terrible. Their defense is terrible. Their pitching is good overall, but when you cannot score any runs, like last September, it will not carry the day. Watching guys just make dumb mistakes over and over the few times I do watch just makes me not want to watch. Even when we lose if the game is entertaining I am okay, but watching the team get no hits with RISP and really no hits at all, mostly striking out. Sadly, there is no top guys knocking on the door right now to look forward too. Our stars are not doing anything either. I am hoping they can turn it around but dang this is getting crazy.
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    Pretty sure Martin pulled a hamstring the other day and expected to miss several weeks.
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    As the post pointed out, it is still very early in season. We have plenty of time to turn things around. The teams that fired those managers clearly were bad teams. This team has the talent, but lets not forget there was an illness floating around the clubhouse. The fact that just about every hitter has done terrible to me gives some hope because not everyone will hit like that all year.
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    Keaschall very well may jump E-Rod. I think on offense he already has. The fact Keaschall defense home is most likely 2nd or 1st limits his prospect status, in my opinion. Additionally, being more ready to hit at majors does not make you a better prospect just makes you more ready. If E-Rod can adjust to hitting the lefties and not striking out as much at AAA then he will keep that spot, and will get a call later this year. If though he continues to struggle against lefties and strike out at the rate he is, he will start to fall down the list and fall out of favor. He will get a chance at some point either way, but his leash will much shorter. Many highlighted the risk of this happening as E-Rod moved up the levels facing better pitching. Hopefully, now he knows adjustments he needs to make and will make them. Hopefully Keachall keeps raking and forces his way up to majors.
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    I get that bWAR may be a little defense minded, but I was more getting at his lack of consistent offense as an issue for him long term too. The price 37 a year if it was for say 7 years would be great deal. However, he has all the marks of falling off the cliff when he is in his early to mid 30's. I am saying the length is a huge risk due to his up and down hitting. He very well may be a great signing, but unlike others that sign their mega deals, he has not had the long term consistent years, or also being an elite defender to go with being elite hitter.
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    Both are the perfect example of not getting too hyped over a rookie. Both had huge rookie years and were essentially given jobs out of a spring the next year. Both fell flat on face in second year. Miranda had a short bounce back in his third year where he helped carry the offense for a month plus last year, but after the break he fell flat on face again. Eddy is getting a shot again and so far doing enough to warrant more time. It will be most interesting when Lewis comes back, as long as Lee is doing well what happens with Julien.
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    Will the Twins ever extend Raya pitch count? I get there may have been a reason in this game, but if you cannot pitch even 5 innings on average in a minor league game, how could you expect he ever do that in major league game? I think it is time to just say he is a pen guy and do that, or let him loose and actually try to pitch. The whole plan of trying to keep him healthy by pitching 50 pitches and 2 innings will not help us long term.
  12. Trov
    10 for 28 with RISP is actually pretty good. That is like .357. You cannot be upset if a team is hitting .357 with RISP.
  13. Trov
    Twins saying Lopez has hamstring injury and will go on IL. They expect he will only be on for the 15 days. We will be dipping into the AAA pitchers already. My buess Zebby gets the call. They could go Festa though too. I would not be surprised if either do well that when Lopez gets back Paddock may become a pen guy if he continues to struggle going deep into starts.
  14. Trov
    The only cure for poor attendance is winning, but you also need entertaining baseball. The game is about entertainment. Sadly, this team has lacked that in recent years. Even when they were on winning streaks, I have not felt all that entertained by the team. I personally think it is the lack of balls in play in the past. I know this year they are trying to get more balls in play, but watching your offense just sputter every game striking out a dozen times with no scoring threats just gets boring to watch. Also, our defense is not know for making highlight type plays which is also entertaining. In terms of what it means to the sale, personally I do not care. I am not trying to buy or sell the team. Teams are now mostly investment tools for rich people and not about being fans and winning. Unless we get a rich fan of the game the new owner will not be much different from the current ones.
  15. Trov
    What is the story on Jenkins? Is it a long term issue or just a few weeks? This is sadly becoming a trend for the superstar prospect.
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    Jeffers is using one, has been all year. The Yankees do not have some exclusive right to the bats or anything, they just got most of their players to use it. There is nothing wrong with using it. If it was say the A's or some other small market team no one would care and say things like good for them way to think outside the box. But because it is the Yankees people are mad. I hate the Yankees about as much as anyone, but I got no issue with the bats as they are legal. Good for them in thinking outside the box to get an edge. I remember when the axe handle bat came out it got some press, but because the HR numbers with torpedo bat it went crazy. You still need to put the barrel on the ball.
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    I just saw this and my thought was dang that is crazy. I figured he would get a decent deal, but that is crazy long and high pay. I read it does not include opt out either. First, Vlad Jr. has had stretches of one of the best hitters in the game, but he plays no defense well, even has negative value at first. He has never had a bWAR over 7, with 6.5 being his highest. He will be entering what should be his prime years, and it is possible he could still be good hitter late into 30's but I have a feeling the Jays will be regretting this deal for a long time. What is worse, is players will be looking at his deal as the new market for players and make it even harder for mid to small market teams retaining their FA long term. Hopefully players will just see as a one off situation.
  18. Trov
    Can someone say small sample size. Wow 5 games into a season and you already say they need to change how they are doing things. Sure they were 4 very bad offensive games, and as point out just 1 good offensive inning, but lets give them some time before we declare their offense fully busted.
  19. Trov
    So far our stacked rotation is living up to their potential. Only 1 trip through so far, but all our starters have yet to give a up run.
  20. Trov
    This is how the CBA decided to do it. If the players wanted it different they could have fought for it. I doubt anyone feels bad for Dobnak getting 4 million to pitch in AAA again. He does not even have to get a new place to live, one benefit of having AAA in St. Paul. He knows how it will go. They will continue to pick up his contract and taxi him between AAA and MLB as arms are needed. If he wanted to be stable he could give up his 4 mil. I doubt he will. For guys in his position that is not making 4 mil they normally get picked up all the time. Pitchers get shifted around the league like passing cards around. Maybe the CBA will get changed, but until then it is the life of a fringe MLB pitcher. They changed the rules to prevent IL manipulation that a pitcher has to be on it for 15 days, position players still only 10. Back when it was 10 so many pitchers had IL stints to prevent being sent down, because you needed to wait so many days to shuttle between minors and majors after you sent them down, but if there was an "injury" a player would not need to stay down in minors for so long. For the players making league min, they may choose to opt out and try to find a team that will keep them at MLB level. If Dobnak wanted to do that, he could. He won't, because he would need to move, give up 4 mil, and most likely deal with the same issue at new team. I do not feel bad for a guy getting paid 4 mil to play at AAA. If he was upset choose to walk.
  21. Trov
    Slim Reaper very efficient. Pirates have few top hitting prospects at AAA level not too many, but still very good to see him average just over 11 pitches an inning.
  22. Trov
    I personally am rooting for Eeles just because he is the true underdog. No one expects anything from him, and he will never get the benefit of the doubt like some prospects but he has shown nothing but an ability to hit. My guess he will get the Kearsey treatment though and sit in minors all year while other guys get called up.
  23. Trov
    This might be the deepest starting rotation on a AAA roster. I do not know much about Adams but the rest all are expected to be MLB starters at some point. It will be fun to follow them and see who gets the first call up. Sometimes it is about timing on who is on the right rest though. The offense has a few big names, but the pitchers are who I will be watching.
  24. Trov
    Not sure why MLB never did this. It reduces the collisions, stepping on the first base foot/ankle, and reduces the runner interfering with the throw to first from catcher. It only makes sense.
  25. Trov
    So if I get the all MLB team streaming that will not cover the Twins? I thought they said they are not "blacking out" local games if you had the MLB streaming? My wife was going to sign up anyways to watch her team, not the Twins, but I assumed I would be able to watch the Twins. So to watch the Twins you need to pay an extra fee. Wow, just wow. I will refuse to do so. If I cannot watch most games, whatever. I used to be a watched just about every game fan, but this whole thing is BS. I do not care that the price is like 75 cents a game for the extra fee. This is not what they claimed when they went to streaming. The claim was no blackouts anymore, meaning if you had MLB full team streaming we should be able to watch right. Guess not. I was also told they would find channels on local cable. Well looks like in southern MN Spectrum does not have Twins. I knew this would be a S show, but it is worse than I expected. Opening day, and I will not see any of them I guess.
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