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Park in a vacuum is one story, and one speculation. Park on a team with this many DH/corners is another one. While his contract is leverage, there are a lot of people for not enough spots. When he hits it, his power is real, all over the field. But he still looked like a serious guess hitter to me. I hope the new regime gets either a solid DH year out of him, or trades him for something we need. Of course, if your manager sees Suzuki as a DH, and Grossman as a 3 hitter, Parks next year will not be that important.

That seems all so long ago, in a world far away! .

And as all thing in TwinsWorld, Grossman goes away from his strength, working the count, and it surprisingly doesn't work.

Maybe you could help the Twins find a nice home for Plouffe?

Hopefully Kitty is going to a Cubs household!

Have you told him yet?

And a bloop double to VMart

I didn't see them. Were they from one of our relief pitchers? . That was hilarious, I liked the local flavor, woth Smalley getting a shot out! .

I didn't see them. Were they from one of our relief pitchers?

Omg, I just got to the called third strike on Maybin. And D/B lauding Kurt for pulling the ball up. There must have been another memo from the public relations dept. A friend of mine who umped a lot told me when a catcher would pull a ball and question the call, he would ask the catcher, "if the pitch was so good, why'd you pull it 4 inches"? Normally that ended the conversation?

Could we be onto something here? So our pitchers are in name only, and they don't hit either. So we load up on big beefy long ball guys, like one of them All World slow pitch teams, and we go for the 28-23 win. If you can't beat em, beat em!

I thought so, he has bypassed numerous opportunities with men on base, waiting for the perfect moment!

Naha! They had players identified as pitchers.

And in honor of BD phenomenal season of power, he chose to hit it with the bases empty!

Is it an actual league rule we have to have pitchers and catchers? Couldn't we just fill the rest of the roster with more 1B/corner guys?

First off, in a normal orginisation the GM makes the trades, Molitor would have little input in whether his job is "saved" by BD or not. But if I was Molitor, and I did have some say, and wanted to save my job, I would see that Dozier goes for the best pitcher he could bring. That's how you win games, not by hitting 25 solo HR's. That assumes he knows that pitching and defense win baseball games, not offense!

My point on Wilf had nothing to do with money, it had more to do with moving to people who would win. Mediocrity, and whether the team made money was not a factor. Winning is! And Iilitch is another proof point, just spending money doesn't cut it. It helps fill in the holes, but it's player evaluation, in baseball consistent development in the minors, and roster construction. Of the aforementioned list, I cannot think of one item that this orginisation excels in, nor has for years. Using that time frame as a benchmark, this is our one and only chance to get this right. And I might add, one of our seemingly ongoing habits in Minnesota is to compare ourselves to failed orginisations, instead of striving to be compared to elite ones.

Since the Saudis decided to implode the crude market ND has tons of idle tunneling equipment. Rumor has it that Pablo Escobar bought some of it, but the rest will work nicely for "The Great Escape" on 11/9. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if Pablo joined us? Hmmm maybe he thinks Estevan, SK is a Hispanic community?

They were going to but Oklahoma wouldn't pay for it.

"When it comes down to it, the Twins won't have much to hang their hats on as the 2016 dust settles. The first overall pick is definitely an exciting and welcomed consolation prize, but it will be in the hiring of front office executives, and the retooling of the organization that the true forward progress is felt." >>>>>>> I truly hope your are correct. I hope that it works out. But mind these two cautionary points. 1. Many, myself definitely included, thought it was time to move on from Gardy. What could be worse. Well now we know. It's not even the fact they aren't winning, I have coached enough to know players win most games, not managers. It's the sloppy way the players play the game, the inconsistent handling of players based on what appears to be favoritism, and a seeming lack of any kind of an idea where he wants to play people. 2. We seem to be totally disregarding who owns this team. What the past has shown of the Pohlad evaluation process, and what level the bar is set for success? And those items are not encouraging. Remember this simple fact. These hires, and I mean both of them, will be made by and/or with Jim Pohlads input, and blessing. His view of a successful baseball franchise has, at least up till now, not reflected what most would hope and expect, unless you are an accountant. Let's use the Vikings move to Speilman and Zimmer as a reference point. I don't put the odds at 20% JP makes a hire that will positively impact the Twins to the extent that those two have impacted the Vikings. Ownership counts. Ziggi is a lot of things, but he wants to win, of that there is no dispute. I would doubt that you can find one person in MN who could justifiably quantitate that trait so far in the operation of the Twins by the Pohlad family!

Your post points out some true and valid points. But Molitor makes his case against it at the same time as for it. Dozier plays every game, giving them no look at Polanco at 2B. He pulls Berrios yesterday. He continues to drag the overused Pressley out in critical situations. He is the yoing and yang of coaching. Two years of watching him, and we have no idea, other than bunting, and bats come before gloves, what his philosophies are?

There you go again, mixing science and Texas! That never comes out well!

While I had not considered that, it's a tough decision for me. KC ain't bad either. Keeping Texas is an awful lot to expect just so I can eat fine beef. I still think those guys at the Alamo should have split!

Does this include Texas also? (Vanimal excluded of course)

Would it be fair if I was to use that comment in my evaluation of the Twins FO? Or is that what we call a SSS? I guess I was wrong. If Nunez, Sanatana, and EE is the criteria we use for the SS position, then I don't have enough tin foil after all!