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  1. Platoon
    But there is a race to sell tickets! .
  2. Platoon
    "Slightly"????????
  3. Platoon
    That would be youthful, offense oriented baseball for you.
  4. Platoon
    I keep seeing it but not believing it. your better off bouncing the ball 4 times.
  5. Platoon
    I would hope that no FO would even remotely consider trading Buxton. He is what? 23? He is already one of the top defensive OF in baseball. As for sending him down to AAA, I wouldn't. He has hit at that level already, there are very few SP on the Twins staff who do not need an elite CF.
  6. Platoon
    Pitching, pitching, pitching, then defense, lastly hitting. We still got it backwards! Offense comes and goes. The guy who coined the phrase "good pitching beats good hitting knew of what he spoke. They will be better, and entertaining, but I doubt consistent. I just don't see the SP or defense to allow that to happen.
  7. Platoon
    Vielma. By all accounts he can pick it. I am seriously waiting for a SS who is judged more so by his glove than his bat. Lord knows we have enough bat first players.
  8. Platoon
    He seems to always end up with two strikes. The difference lately is he fouls off a lot of those two strike pitches. He also swings and misses at enough up and in stuff, but it has to be UP and IN! During his slumps they pitched him down and away relentlessly. Now he fouls off or takes a few walks, and the occasional reluctant ball to RF, so they have crept back inside. He truly is a hard guy to figure out. Sadly, by the end of the season, the Twins will have no idea whether Polanco can play second base at this level. So we are either going to lose him, or relegate him to a sub role.
  9. Platoon
    I liked Meyer also, and agree with your thoughts on him. Meyer still has a chance, but I didn't see it here. But I fear the Twins will never completely revamp the orginisation. One never knows about Pohlad, but he has laid out some pretty big roadblocks for an agressive GM. No new manager, and no complete tear down of the existing system. I have been wrong before, but I won't believe it happens until it does!
  10. Platoon
    The Suzuki situation is classic Twins. They have someone they are going to lose, they aren't in a position to benefit from his remaining the last third of the year, yet they sit on him. There can only be two reasons. Meaningless wins to placate the masses, or they want to convince him to stay for a few more years, which they could have bid on after the season. I do hope they move on from Kurt, he is a tough sucker, but it's time to defensively upgrade the position. As for Meyer, I liked him. But I don't think the Twins gave up anything for this reason. If you have a tool that you can't, won't, or don't know how to use, it has no value to you. If someone else can use it it does, so while it should have a level value to each person, it really doesn't. And that's Alex Meyer. Maybe no one can, but the Twins were never going to figure him out, so get what you can. I don't know what next year will bring, but this team still says away from true power pitchers. On almost no other team would a Chargois still be in Rochester.
  11. Platoon
    All I know, or at least think, is that this team has WAY to many guys who are corner/DH style players. Somehow, somewhere, sometime, they are going to have to trade or move someone, somewhere. While I know that's a lot of ''somes', there is one more. Someone has to be able to catch the ball. That said, Sano should stay just where he is, and that includes well into '17, to determine if he can at least play adequate defense. (Assuming he doesn't add 20 lbs.). This team doesn't really need to win a another baseball games, to needs to sort itself out.i
  12. Platoon
    I like the Nunez trade, and while I don't know if Antony talked and talked the Giants into it, or whether the Giants really wanted Nunez. The bottom line is it seemed a no brainer. We sent a position we did not need in the future, for position we do need. As far as impacting Antony's future as a Twins GM, he has been around for years. If they haven't formed a solid opinion as to his viability in that position in that time, a few common sense moves at this time aren't going to make any difference. Antony is sort of like Nunez. As the late, great Denny Green would have said, 'they are who we thought they were!'
  13. Platoon
    It will be nice to see some of these guys up here, and see some power arms in the pen. I don't know if Antony will survive the fall, frankly I hope he doesn't and they make some major changes, but the selling high of Nunez was a breath of fresh air. Maybe more breeze will follow. I know this piece is about pitching, but the Twins need to do something about basics. Last night, yet again, no one was covering second base on a throw. This operation seems to operate in an alternative universe from the rest of baseball.
  14. Platoon
    I agree, numbers are objective. I completely agree with your analysis and compilation. My point was not to dispute, but to agree by pointing out that the quality of the players in this orginization back your work. We are not getting high end results from the draft, and really haven't for quite some time. Basically, there are no exceptions to the rule.
  15. Platoon
    Nice work, thank you. And if you take away the numbers, and look at the players? In those 7 years the Twins have developed what? If you go by AS, Dozier is it. Some of that was from a blistering half of a year, and some from "someone has to go"! The rest were pre '08 picks, or obvious "has to go". So while 7 years does not allow for many AS selections, what of the day to day product. So far Kepler is the jewel. Sano could/would be if he decides he wants to put in the actual effort. I think Buxton will eventually succeed, I would be stunned if he does not. CF'ers seems our specialty. Pitchers, catchers, and middle IF are largely absent. For years, a team which publicly stressed pitching and defense, has not fielded a team with good pitching, catching or middle infielders. And what are supposed to be the core of our youthful pitching languishes in MiLB. It boggles my mind. Almost all team sports are won with defense. Yet we seem to continue to value offense disproportionately.
  16. Platoon
    If on 8/1 Berrios is not at least on a plane headed to Mpls, then only one of two assumptions can be made. The Twins are convinced he is a AAAA pitcher, or they are incompetent. BF nothing's gonna happen until a move in the SP rotation is made. If they don't do that, then I have no idea what they are going to do.
  17. Platoon
    .............and now you know the REAL reason TR got sacked! Apathy! Or is it apauthy!
  18. Platoon
    This might not be a popular answer, but I think that a guy who thought, rightfully or wrongly, that he was going to be a middle of the rotation starter, ends up in a non defined role in the BP. That's what happened. And I imagine this happening while the SP was basically the worst in baseball made it worse. May isn't blameless by any extent, but he had plenty help.
  19. Platoon
    The first thing you learned on a farm was always unload the manure spreader into the wind. It only took one time going in the wrong direction for that to sink in! The second thing we learned is that it doesn't take a strong man to break a wooden fork handle, it only takes a stupid one! When my wife called me today, and told me she broke the handle on the potato fork I reminded her of what my dad told us. The third thing I should have learned from pa was don't tell your wife everything your dad said!
  20. Platoon
    I just wrote a pro Mauer post myself in a different thread. I wrote mine because I thought it was reality. Mauer is the least of the teams problems, SP with bad arms are far more of an issue. This isn't the NFL, players don't take cuts and there is no salary cap. It's a free for all. If a billionaire who got his money from dad, asked me to take a pay cut I would imagine I would find that hard to takes seriously. As for talking in the clubhouse, he doesn't have too. We do it for him! (I now return you to the original poster, lol)
  21. Platoon
    This is a one shot deal! It took 4 yrs of 90 loss seasons for them to change managers. It took a myriad of strange extensions, DH acquisitions, and one of the oddest roster constructions in history to change the GM. If the Twins promote from within, it will be another 20 years for a correction to be made. The standard for mediocrity has been set, and it isn't that hard to match. Thankfully I don't think JP will go within, he needs a marketing move badly. Every other sport in this town is on the upswing, and his team teeters on the brink of irrelevance. A fate far worse than losing. The only good that could come from Pohlad listening to his comments to the press is the realization he needs insulation, i.e. a baseball operations Pres. Heaven help us if it's Dave St. Peter.
  22. Platoon
    It seems every inside tidbit ever written has given the impression that Molitor was Pohlads guy. Even back in the Gardy era, I remember It said Gardy didn't want him as a coach, and the next year it appears Molitor was forced on him. Something is missing in this story, and I wonder if we will ever know? Here's another pleasant thought. After JP read all those team media guides, and discovered that a lot of teams have baseball operations Presidents, and he looks back at his own success dealing with the media jackals, maybe he will have the new GM report directly to DSP! That way Scoggins can call Dave up late at night!
  23. Platoon
    In defense of Dan San a) I would have run there also. b ) I would not have gotten too early a jump and got picked off since it was basically a hit and run. c) sometimes a catcher makes a perfect throw, and you are just plain toast!
  24. Platoon
    since I can't edit this, I have to correct it! How the hell did I want to type girl, and end up with cat! I hate cats in the house! Now I admit there were days I wasn't that happy with girls either, but my mom was!
  25. Platoon
    Scary don't cover it! and two of them is like a horror story sequel! 4. Watch other kids, and admit and remember that yours aren't really any different! My dad was one of five boys, and I am one of 5 boys..... My mother was tickled when we had a girl!
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