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  1. Platoon
    And when did money purchase maturity? He may be paid to play baseball, but his salary will not dictate personality. For an example, see Moss, Randy! As for the youth in general, many think 1500 PA is the leveling point. These guys are a long way from that.
  2. Platoon
    Which Dozier do you want to keep? Or for that matter trade. His long length slumps are becoming not an abberation, but a trademark. I watch a lot of the Twins games. I see a Dozier who has gotten better at laying off 2 strike away stuff. But also getting an inordinate amount of mistakes on the inner half, from a string of mediocre pitching. Good pitchers, the kind playoff teams see in Oct. don't make those mistakes. Good pitching always negates good hitting. And Doziers large hole in his zone, makes it even more so. I
  3. Platoon
    Murphy had a lot of help from the FO. You can't keep Plouffe if you expect Park to succeed, and if you don't expect Park to succeed, don't sign him. Sano is a generational talent, Plouffe is not. Hedging all your bets makes mediocrity guaranteed. The Park signing was insanity for this team. But once you did, Plouffe just plain had to go. It was the first domino tipped, towards Mr. Murphy. I won't go into the SP, that is such a jumble, I don't think a coompetent GM could fix it in less than a year. One last thought. The Twins expected a group of average players to all be at their peaks at the same time. Dozier to be first half BD, Plouffe to be a main stick They expected a guy who hit AA pitching in Korea and struck out at an ABW rate to fill the power gap, Suzuki to be AS Kurt again, etc. That's not Mr. Murphys Fault, it's that other Irish guys fault.
  4. Platoon
    I was against the Jepsen trade for the simple fact I thought our playoff chances were an illusion. But that's just me. May has broken down twice as a reliever and has been clear in his opinion that it's due to lack of normal rest. I guess we are going for the trifecta. There is only one good thing to come of this miserable year. It has made even a waffler like Ryan see some need for expediency. That said, he butchered the Plouffe situation, and now is stuck with him until he is off the DL. And he will butcher the Dozier thing also. The real proof in the pudding will be if he starts eating contracts, because there is no other way to unload any of that driftwood pitching staff, Santana being the exception. Don't be too easy on the manager though. Good grief the things he has done this year could fill a book on how not to manage any baseball team, yet alone a MLB one. The most recent stealing second with Sano up and two outs? And please don't tell me they ran on their own. That's what either signs, or the bench is for. That was three times as stupid as Rosario taking that open base.
  5. Platoon
    not as bad as stealing yesterday with 2 outs and Sano up!
  6. Platoon
    What aggravated me about the Jepsen acquisition was tha it was in pursuit of an illusion. The Twins were not a playoff team in 2015. And they weren't chasing one team, they were chasing two or three. It's a shame that the combined desperation from the previous 4 years, and the bizarre May, 2015, caused the FO to make so many short term decisions in a long term situation. Arrrggghhhh
  7. Platoon
    Did you get any decent pictures of you? Duh, that was a silly question. :)
  8. Platoon
    Noah at least responded to the flood by building an Ark, not just patching the hole in his canoe!
  9. Platoon
    The rebuild I welcome, and I understand the mistakes by younger players. But playing for one run with this pitching staff? In what inning? ...... Arrrrrgghhh. Molitor is what I think all bad managers are, i.e. I don't think a good manager raises the level of the players, but he doesn't lower it. Molitor lowers it.
  10. Platoon
    There is little in anything Brian has ever put on digital paper to make me believe a thing he writes. But I do have to wonder if his point #1 pertaining to Ryans cloned pitchers, has some merit. It's by far the best explanation yet for the past 20 years of Twins pitching.
  11. Platoon
    True story. I went to the local small PO to buy a few rolls of forever stamps. When told they had went down 2 cents per, I jokingly said I was bringing my leftovers in for a refund. . She said, don't laugh! Some woman came in last week with two rolls, and wanted her $4 back. I said, let me guess, of German ancestry? I asked what did you feel the angry kraut? She said she told her, "Forever is Forever at the PO"
  12. Platoon
    Dozier has had three major slumps in the last two and a half years. And he will return to one as soon as they go back to pitching him outside. This spring he crowded the plate and you could get him out jamming him. Now he's off the plate and still gets an absurd number of inside pitches. Some are missed spots and some are just plain stupid. Our renewed offense is also because we went through the some pretty weak SP opponents. That said, they are hot now. Red hot. Suzuki will definitely return to a pumpkin. Dozier will definitely slump big again. Look at their ages, it's not like they have no history. One last thing about Dozier. His attitude is blatantly selfish, and if anyone wonders why this team has no mojo, no apparent drive, they might look at the team leader. To paraphrase the old saying, 'all for one, and one for me too'! BD has made it clear he only cares about BD, and while Molitor and Brunansky either ignore it, or kiss his butt, the other 24 guys are fully aware of the way him, and Plouffe, are handled. There are a myriad of players in MLB who could hit 20 HR's if given the green light to pull everything with no repercussions when it fails for months. It's not talent that allows Dozier to do this, it's gutless management.
  13. Platoon
    I will preface my first comment by saying I was a fan of the new Target Field. And one of the loudest selling points from the Twins was, "we need the new revenue to compete". The money arguement should be off the table. Secondly, I did not know the Twins weren't allowed to draft college players, i.e. Chicago and the Twins made choices.
  14. Platoon
    My absolute best ole and Lena joke involves a mouse, ole, Lena, Sven, and shall we say, an uncompromising position. If I told in on here I would be put on Double Secret Probation. Even worse I'd get another terse 3 word PM from a mod, and I quote. "Knock it off" End quote.
  15. Platoon
    I go into Ole and Lena mode. "Yah vot du you vant"? One guy tried to sell me 4000# tie down straps for $59. I tout dat vas a good price, but I cout neffer lif dem! Who Dah hell can lift four tousand pouns?
  16. Platoon
    Who would a thunk that by the end of 2016 the Timberwolves would be a franchise on the ascendency, and the Twins after having 2 or 3 of the top MiLB prospects for a minimum of 3 years running, are sending Robbie Grossman and some guy named Boshers? unto the field. And your cleanup hitter rotates between Dozier and Plouffe! Arrrrrrrrrrrgh
  17. Platoon
    What makes me sad, despondent, and depressed is the almost certainty that IF Ryan falls on his sword (he won't be fired), your new GM will be the much sought after Rob Anthony. And the Twins incestuous orginisational lifestyle will continue unabated! I don't know if they know it or not? But they are becoming irrelevant in the Twin Cities sporting hierarchy. Not just down at the bottom, but irrelevant. A far worse fate. If the Gopher FB team has any success at all, and the Wolfies youth plays like expected, you're going to have to go to pg 6 to find coverage of ST next year. I have been a fan since Pedro Ramos, and I have ever felt such apathy to this team. So why am I writing? Never confuse apathy with peed off!
  18. Platoon
    Well he has certainly achieved mediocrity, or worse. Snark aside, I fear he truly is in denial, and we will find moves made at the trading deadline far short of either expectations, or common sense. The pervasive "we are just a couple pieces short" will continue to permeate,and cripple the orginisation.
  19. Platoon
    Buxton should just stay where he is. Why torment MiLB pitchers any further. Robbie G. does not belong in the long term plans. Rosario should return, and the OF should be him, Buxton and Kepler. You put Sano at third until he proves he can or can't play there. I would bring Polanco in at SS, not because I think he can play there, but to see if he can force Dozier out at second. There is no need to comment any further on the 1B situation. Give Suzuki the AXE, and bring up Ryan and see what you have or don't have. If you don't, then bring up Turner, who we have been told for two years is MLB ready defensively. It won't change the offensive side of the position at all. Start slowly moving in the arms in MiLB to the pen. As for the SP, short of Berrios, I got no idea.it truly is a cluster intercourse!
  20. Platoon
    Leaving him in the pen is silly. He has made it clear, crystal, that the lack of days off make it physically difficult for him. He's been down twice already for that reason. While I realize ho difficult it is to break into this stellar rotation, they need to figure out something,
  21. Platoon
    I think Jimbo has a definite point. He has seen an inordinate amount of mistakes. And if you go back and look, at least on tv replay, he is getting a large amount of pitches in his sweet spot. We also have not been exactly facing this years list of Cy Young candidates lately, as the teams recent overall hitting seems to show. He also seems to have hit an awful lot of foul GB which used to go to the third baseman. A lot of hitters have a hole in their zone, let's say 35% of the zone. With Dozier it's likely reversed. His hits in about 35% of the zone, and is virtually an automatic out otherwise. While he has been able to foul off some good two strike pitches, good pitchers are going to keep eating him up with that amount of a weakness.
  22. Platoon
    I was surprised Tanaka did not show some mercy to his fellow countryman! At least the Christians had a chance.
  23. Platoon
    I was surprised Tanaka did not show some mercy to his fellow countryman!
  24. Platoon
    Just catching up, 11 straight strikes. It is sometimes better to leave sleeping dogs, sleeping. As for Milone. It's a great idea to attack the strike zone. But it would also be great to have so,ethic to attack it with.
  25. Platoon
    How could we know? They don't even seem to have any idea!
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