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  1. Platoon
    Please NO! His arm is pathetic. There's a good chance Ben Revere could have thrown that guy out last night. He runs lousy routes to balls. And it's becoming apparent that he thinks of every AB as a walk waiting to happen. He is the mirror image of Rosario at the plate. I have never understood how he even draws a walk. He is not a good enough hitter to strike fear into a pitcher, so make him hit the ball. That's a .250 OBP, tops. Walking him is borderline ridiculous. I know DanSan is toxic on TD, but I would take my chances on his upside over RG any day, plus he can fill in in the IF if needed.
  2. Platoon
    I am not as versed in the abilities of MiLB catchers as some are here. But I always hear that Turners defense is MLB ready? If so, could we not have a good defensive catcher, and let our 6 corner IF and DH types carry the offense. I am far from a Suzuki fan, but watching Centeno whiff on the low balls over and over, mitigates some of my Suzuki angst. It's hard to throw the low breaking ball late in the count, when you have no idea if your catcher will block it.
  3. Platoon
    Twins Daily is either for the better, or for the worse because of that teacher. Everyone will have to form their own opinion!
  4. Platoon
    I am just catching up on the GT, but if I find anymore posts of this nature I am notifying a moderator! . if I find a need to speak in a foreign tongue, I will speak Canadien!
  5. Platoon
    I too have dreaded the return of the Plouffe! Not so much because of Plouffe the player, but of Plouffe the position. His injury did stymy whatever chance there was of trading him, but the fact remains this team is no closer now than it was on April 1st over what to do about our plethora of DH/corner guys!
  6. Platoon
    After.a few more comments like Par. 2, you might want to add a third time frame........ After Marriage! As to road trip food. If you are into Chinese food, best Egg Foo Young ever at a sad looking little place in Prairie du Chien, yet another reason to trust the locals when they tell you where to eat!
  7. Platoon
    But there is a race to sell tickets! .
  8. Platoon
    "Slightly"????????
  9. Platoon
    That would be youthful, offense oriented baseball for you.
  10. Platoon
    I keep seeing it but not believing it. your better off bouncing the ball 4 times.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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!
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. 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!'
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Platoon
    .............and now you know the REAL reason TR got sacked! Apathy! Or is it apauthy!
  24. 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.
  25. 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!
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