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  1. gunnarthor
    I'm probably ready for Kepler to be a platoon but if the Twins want to give him a bit more time (or trade him away), that's ok. I just don't think he's going to get it against lefties and maybe Granite or Wade could eventually be a better fit + whatever the trade piece is. I love Rosario and Buxton. I've said many times that I think Buxton will be an all-star this year but Rosario is really underrated. His bat really makes our lineup deeper.
  2. gunnarthor
    The Twins have nice depth so they should be ok. The offense will lead them so the pitchers just have to be adequate and they look like they can pull that off. If Lynn or Ordozzi fail, we have Romero (who I like a lot) in the wings as well. It'll also be fun to watch how Thorpe handles AA hitters. He's close and has some big upside.
  3. gunnarthor
    If Morrison's break out last year is legit, than our offense is going to be very, very good. I like Diaz in the minors more than most but he's a long way away. Rooker will get DH at-bats at some point as well.
  4. gunnarthor
    I honestly didn't think he'd get suspended for a number of reasons. But I'm glad it's over and hopefully everyone can move forward and hope he leads the league in home runs.
  5. gunnarthor
    So who had a good stock day today? No one? Thought so.
  6. gunnarthor
    The sample size is too small to say really anything.
  7. gunnarthor
    Not a huge deal since April rosters are rarely the best 25 players. What's the plan with Duffey - is he a starter? Swingman? Reliever? It'll be interesting to see how the play him in AAA.
  8. gunnarthor
    Is that from last year or how he's predicted to be this year? I think Mauer is firmly in that third tier of first baseman now but another .390 obp year is good enough with the rest of the offense around him.
  9. gunnarthor
    Here's a bunch - AL Central final standings: Twins 92-60 Tigers 81-81 Cleveland 80-82 Royals 68-94 White Sox 62-100 I think the Twins have three all-stars - Buxton, Sano and Dozier. Rodney finishes #3 in saves but no one trusts him in the post-season Buxton finishes top 5 in MVP voting. Sano finishes top 5 in HR. Sano, Morrison, Dozier all top 35 HR Kepler is traded as part of a package for Archer during the season. Kiriloff is minor league comeback player of the year. Baddoo has a huge jump in prospect rankings. Twins draft Tristen Pompey in the first round.
  10. gunnarthor
    Again, Nick is the one that is suggesting that "people are cheating but it's not fair for the DR players because they aren't as good at cheating." I certainly never made that claim. As for the claims you're hyping, yes, I think we've seen with BALCO and a few other large scale doping like Biogenisis that America is far ahead of the DR in terms of places where players can get masking agents and designer PEDs. A disproportionate number of PED suspensions in baseball have been of Domincan ball players. There could be several reasons for that but very likely one of them is that they are not getting the highest level PEDs in the DR. Yes, MLB's testing procedure is a joke unless you think only about 20 or so players have been using PEDs since 2014. The NFL, in the same time frame, has caught many more players despite having a less rigorous testing plan. The reason for such an ineffectual plan is either mlb is incompetent or that the league wants the good PR of drug testing without actually getting PEDs out of the game. Or, I suppose, you can believe that players policed PEDs out of the game themselves. I'm not sure where you think I said no one thinks the players are to blame. I've pointed out that they are not the only ones to blame. A bit of a difference there, chief.
  11. gunnarthor
    If you wanted to, you could build quite a few bricks with all the straw men you created there.
  12. gunnarthor
    I think the masking agents in DR aren't as good as the agents the players in the US are using.
  13. gunnarthor
    The penalties are unfair and the testing is a joke. MLB has set up a system that will catch a handful of players a year while letting most get through so fans can pretend that PED use isn't still part of the game. According to wikipedia's list, only 19 ML players have been caught since the renegotiated system in 2014. I'm not sure if 19 is the exact number but it feels right. I'm pretty confident a lot more than 19 ML have been using PEDs in that time frame. Masking agents have improved greatly which is allowing athletes to use more and better drugs. We've seen that in the Olympics (where Russia essentially put all their athletes on something), we've seen it in chess, football, horse racing. But, yeah, baseball is super duper clean. Baseball teams are investing millions to figure out how to have players perform better are completely ignoring drug use b/c AJ Preller and Thad Levine are virtuous guys.
  14. gunnarthor
    You're missing the point. The player and the team both want the same thing. They want the player to use PEDs. If teams didn't want this, there are concrete actions they could take to stop it. This isn't "babysitting." It's an investment.
  15. gunnarthor
    I'm not even sure what that means unless you're suggesting players aren't roiding as much as 10 years ago which of course you have no evidence for.
  16. gunnarthor
    Poor multi-billion dollar owners. If only they could have done something about the PED problem in the sport. Oh, wait. They created a system that completely blames the players and gets fans to side with them. Great job, victims! If you think baseball teams are ignorant of the PED use, fine. There isn't a lot of concrete data out there but we have several examples of the Yankee and Red Sox front offices knowing of PED use among players on their team and on other teams. I'm sure as front offices have gotten smarter, they've decided not to keep tabs on those sorts of things. The Twins could easily set up their own training compound in the DR and fill it with their own trainers/medical people/dietitians if they wanted. Teams didn't do this at the height of the PED era for a reason. They wanted plausible deniability. They aren't doing this now for the same reason. They want the benefits that the drugs can give their players to help the team.
  17. gunnarthor
    I hope that the players will insist that PED penalties affect both the player and the team in the next round of the CBA - even if it's just making the lost salary get donated to charity instead of staying in the owners pockets. And no one is saying Polanco shouldn't be blamed. But he's not the only one who should get blamed. MLB has created a system that pushes PED use. The Mitchell Report even said that. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that both sides - not just one - should be penalized. The Twins knew (or should have known) who their players are training with in the off season. And they also knew (or should have known) where these guys are training and the risks that might create.
  18. gunnarthor
    This take puts all the blame for PED-use on the players despite no one in baseball thinking that is true. We saw in the ARod fiasco that the Yankee owners were begging MLB to suspend him so they would get out of paying his salary while at the same time people in the FO were emailing ARod asking him to get Cano some PEDs. Drug testing in MLB is a joke which is why their catch rate is so low. MLB pretends that they are stopping PEDs and occasionally they'll catch someone. But their aim in PR, not actually stopping PED use. If they really wanted to stop this, they would put penalties down on teams for violations which would mean teams would stop letting players train with the Angel Presenal's of the world. You are right that the players bargained for this, which makes it fine. But it's still stupid and unfairly penalizes one side and ignores the bad faith work of owners and teams. sheesh.
  19. gunnarthor
    I think Buxton will finish top five in MVP voting this year. Should be a fun year to watch him.
  20. gunnarthor
    My main problem with the punishment is that it only punishes players and actually gives some benefits to the owners (not paying salary). The Mitchell Report (as crappy and owner-favored as it was) made note that PED use was a problem caused by both players and teams. Any punishment should affect both, not just the players. But baseball doesn't really want to get PEDs out of the game, it just wants to pretend it's doing something.
  21. gunnarthor
    You don't think agents and teams know which players are juicing? You don't think teams and agents are helping/condoning such behavior? You think players are roiding up all by themselves?
  22. gunnarthor
    I suspect a lot of front offices know/suspect that their players are doing this and are ok with it so long as they don't get caught. It's hard to imagine why front offices let players continue to train with Angel Presenal back in the day if they didn't think PEDs were in use.
  23. gunnarthor
    I like the trade since Vargas wasn't part of our future but man, we certainly are collecting LH OFers. I agree with others that our AAA OF should be pretty good but I'm not seeing how they move unless we're trading Kepler or Rosario sometime.
  24. gunnarthor
    Yep. Broken legs aren't really suggestive of future injury. He'll be really good this year.
  25. gunnarthor
    Molitor is a very bad manager.
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