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  1. Platoon
    The Deduno thing puzzled me from day one. The one guy who really needed a low ball blocking veteran catcher and they give him Pinto. I have always believed there was an ulterior motive behind that idea. I say that because once you eliminate common sense, all you have left is an ulterior motive!
  2. Platoon
    Can I borrow $80? :)
  3. Platoon
    I absolutely have not given up on Buxton. He will be a stud! And should be going north. And frankly the worse Sano looks in RF, the more likely it is he goes north. Someone will have to cover that gap. That might impact the decision as much as Buxtons ST performance. If Arcia was not out of options, I would guarantee one of the "Usual Suspects" would go north. I still think one will, but Arcias status is the wild card. It's remarkable that a team with this many set positions, and arguably a contender, has a roster with this many kerfuffles!
  4. Platoon
    He probably thinks they're still going to trade Plouffe?
  5. Platoon
    Being a sub par FB hitter and having poor stats in the later innings is related. And not good. The obvious trend in relief pitching will only excarbate that deficiency. Discussing Plouffe is like chasing your tail. He is a decent enough player to argue for. But to me, a meh player. His HR's negated by the endless DP GB, and lack of foot speed. His decent glove mitigated by his lack of range. On some teams I might agree with the need to keep the veteran presence. And while the Twins are trending younger, they aren't exactly berift of vets. Plouffe may be a more solid 3B than Sano now, but I bet Sanos range would have made the extra errors a wash. Especially with EE at SS. But where keeping Plouffe will really hurt is in the OF. And instead of the camera panning the player after the misplay, it might be better to point it at the GM in his perch. That's where the mistake was really made.
  6. Platoon
    The Park and Plouffe decisions and the Sano Experiment, will ripple through the lineup. Kepler is gone for sure. Buxton will have to earn it, they still have Aaron Hicks engrained in the brain. I fear for Oswaldo. I can't see them starting a Rosario, Sano, and Arcai OF. And the Twins haven't been big on bench bats. I would hate to see him go. Really. Hate. To. See. That. What intrigues (aggravates) me is to see who will be the "mystery" veteran retainee. Benson, Mastrionni, Sweeney, or Quentin? There is no way the Twins go north without one. It's The Twins Way!
  7. Platoon
    I think Suzuki might be the poster boy for my FO frustration. Everything about the first half of his first season screamed regression/abberation. And while Ryan is on record about not trading FA signees because it would cause other potential FA's to pass on the Twins, that does not mean you have to extend a guy at the top of his market. Many posts have been written lately regarding a belief that "no GM would be foolish enough to (fill in the blank)". This is generally pointed out in an attempt to prove that if we, of the day jobs, can figure out something they certainly will also. Not necessarily true. Kurt Suzuki found a GM who valued veteran leadership and stability above career production. This allowed that GM to use Suzukis unlikely first half 2014 as a rationale for an even more unlikely contract extension. It's a lesson to be learned before throwing up ones hands and saying "aw heck, no one would ever make that trade"! Someone, somewhere just might!
  8. Platoon
    They do, and I bet his name is Danny Santana. As for me, Buxton would have to be injured not to come north, but it's not me, I'm just a guy with a day job!
  9. Platoon
    I have never saw Vielma play. But all I hear about him is he can pick it. I also hear he can't hit, but his numbers at A ball aren't that terrible it seems. Given a choice I always want a elite fielding SS and CF over an offensive one. It makes your pitchers better, and allows you to hide that corner OF power guy. As for Polanco, I was surprised at the choice. His knock has been poor defense. That's not saying he could not replace Dozier, who I think gets style points on defense which camouflage his deficiencies. And his offense is at a crucial stage. He is either going to have to start going the other way, and give up trying to hit 30 HR's or he will end up the second half version of BD all year. I look for him to be the offensive disappointment of the year for the Twins.
  10. Platoon
    If I had no intention of gambling the season on an Arcia or Vargas at DH, or a Sano at 3B, my insurance move would not be an unproven 30 yr. old from a soft foreign league, which then resulted in not gambling the season with Sano at 3B, but instead in RF. That's kind of like drawing to an inside straight, but discarding two cards.
  11. Platoon
    That's a possibility, but several things beg to differ. The timing is odd, without a single same of MiLB experience nor winter ball. The signing of Park. I saw Sano play third, he ain't Brooks Robinson. But he is very quick, great and accurate arm. But if they thought he couldn't play third, wait till they see him in RF. They could have easily used him at DH, and as a fill in at third, first, and if they wanted him to play OF, throw him out there. If they couldn't do it for a game, why a season. I don't think they ever expected to end up with Park. And lastly the history of this FO regarding beloved veterans.
  12. Platoon
    I posted this, and hell, I don't even disagree with you. I think the interest shown is not just driven by this topic, but a general frustration with the FO, and a series of seemingly confusion ing decisions.
  13. Platoon
    Well if I would have known there were this many solid examples of Twins players changing positions in recent history I would have not spent that many sleepless nights pondering the Sano Experiment! If Michael Rand had published this earlier I could have spent my time more productively, like solving global warming or figuring out why squirrels are not afraid of heights? Rand, whose tongue is normally planted firmly in cheek might have gotten it stuck on the pump jack handle this time. Either that or his humor has gotten too subtle for even my sophomoric tastes. http://www.startribune.com/let-it-sano-twins-lineup-is-full-of-players-who-switched-positions/367546051/
  14. Platoon
    "Twins pitchers better"? I don't think I ever heard those three words strung together before? At least in several years. Secondly, if the current crop of pitchers are better than the offense, then it's gonna be a long year.
  15. Platoon
    A note to those who use the RF corner ricochets as a benchmark to judge players. I have not seen anyone do it with any success. That corner plays weird. I used to think it was Arcia. Until I saw Hunter out there. And visiting RF'ers are not any better. I don't know if the bottom of the wall is a little further off the ground than other corners? Or if it's the angle? But more guys end up standing out there waiting for a carom that doesn't come, and looking foolish. And if you take a chance and chase it into the corner, you might look even worse. It just does not play consistently.
  16. Platoon
    It would be hilarious if he hits .318 and 4 singers in ST, and comes north. I would laugh, until I cried!
  17. Platoon
    . Plan?
  18. Platoon
    I will check with Nunez, EE, and Willingham, and get right back to you on that! :)
  19. Platoon
    One reason I tend to agree with Bob S on this is Sano did not want to move from SS to third. He wasn't shy about it either. There is no reason he would want to move to the OF. This better go "well", or I am concerned we will find that our new superstar is not going to be quietly unhappy.
  20. Platoon
    The other side of this coin is that when we are on defence someone had better be hitting a lot of balls where our new OF can easily coast under them!
  21. Platoon
    That's an interesting visual! I umpired behind a catcher that big a few times, needless to say the bottom of the strike zone was strictly a guess!
  22. Platoon
    I loved Harmon, likely my all time favorite Twin. But the game has changed just a bit. Maybe not the dimensions, but the criteria that determines "fine". Plus, I doubt Harmon got to the ASG as a defensive specialist. I can live with Sano being "fine". But I wonder if he will reach that lofty defensive plateau?
  23. Platoon
    Without being derogatory, the most interesting thing you mentioned here is the chance that Polanco could become bored on the farm! This is a topic seldom acknowledged by "civilians". We seem to take the "well if you are lucky enough to play ball everyday, you should be grateful" tack. But if you are sitting there for an extended time, blocked with no real path to the majors, it is not unrealistic for boredom to set in. A guy like Polanco can read. He know the Twins will not use him off the bench, they are not trading Dozier, and they just anointed EE as the SS. He isn't going anywhere in the foreseeable future. Regardless if he hits .250 or .350. I think the same thing happened to Arcia last year. They made it clear he wasn't coming back after he recovered from his injury, and he went into a funk. It's nice to say he shouldn't have, but then again I ain't riding a bus in Rochester.
  24. Platoon
    I am not sure if this is meant to convey that Sano is his best option in RF? If it doesn't, then it means that the rationale for Sanos move is not talent related. And as bad as Arcia can be defensively, no one has ever looked more out of place than EE did in the OF.
  25. Platoon
    The old party game, The Limbo, comes to mind. "How low can you go"? The other thing that comes to mind is that Sano seems to march to his own drummer. While it's unclear from this story if the weight loss goal was his own, the clubs, or a combination thereof, somewhere along the line he deviated from that plan. Nor did his and the clubs story on how he came to leave winter ball blend seamlessly. The RF experiment will be interesting, maybe in more ways than one.
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