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  1. Platoon
    The last time I saw a player point at second to see if he was supposed to steal was in 9 yr old ball! Oh wait...........
  2. Platoon
    I saw this in a Rand column today. He quoted Rueuse and ESPN, saying its been since 1930 since a runner was thrown out at third, down a run with 2 out in the ninth, ala Sano. That seems almost impossible to believe. On a sad note, I also heard his manager was so upset with said player, that he is no longer in organized baseball!
  3. Platoon
    I wonder how Hugh Glass would have handled the news that O'Rourke was optioned? Crawling to Target Center on 94 to seek revenge on TR might have been iffy! And using the North Star line takes some of the intensity out of the trip!
  4. Platoon
    It makes no difference what you wore to mow dads lawn, the fact you mowed it is all that counts. You can always get other clothes, dads are hard to replace!
  5. Platoon
    Add Smith to the fall guy list.
  6. Platoon
    Everytime I think of Taylor and the woofies, and want to commend him on his recent decisions, I think of how many years it took him to make one. And I go back to the corner of moms basement.
  7. Platoon
    I agree, it's important to keep the two issues separate. In most organizations the FO sets the roster, using many different criteria than strictly talent. The manager manages what given. When the two views don't meld, chaos can't evolve. But, I should remind you, before you give Molly a pass, remember it's him who writes Plouffes name on the lineup card!
  8. Platoon
    The only possibility of change is that Ryan would announce his retirement after 20 very successful years in Twins management. The team will have a huge promo next May, and give him the keys to a new Road Glide! As for an in public dismissal, Catholic priests will be getting married before that happens. Molitor? First off he still has 4 90 loss seasons to pile up before the ax swings. But in reality, if he was Jims guy, he isn't going anywhere, and if he is Ryans guy, Pohlad has not seemed the type to force that issue. And all to what gain? Anthony for Ryan? Ugh. Molitor for interim Gardy, with the surprise announcement in Oct, that due to the remarkable turn around, Gardy gets a new 3 year extension! Change here is minute. Even the blockbuster announcement of the Fien and Milone thing will really still have little impact.
  9. Platoon
    Well put, and in fewer words than I could have. Sadly I still think nothing will truly happen, players will eventually change, the culture will not.
  10. Platoon
    Well put, and thank you. I totally agree on the knee jerk reaction issue, and I might add injury initiated reaction also. I do think if you go back in time, many Twins promotions are injury related, and few are performance related. If you are a "behave yourself" veteran who is not actually completely in the tank, there is almost no chance of losing your position to another player. And I cannot believe minor league players are not aware of the fact that their future is not in their hands, it's in someone else's knee or elbow! I remain convinced that the actual players are not as bad as shown, but the roster construction is. You just cannot take a defensive team of this quality?, and put them behind such a non dominating staff. And the idea that you will make up the difference offensively is a fools errand!
  11. Platoon
    Park has pleasantly surprised me. I do think there is another chapter to be written. He feasts on hangers, and while they are inevitable, I still think he will see more and more hard stuff. I am pleasantly surprised by Arcia. He has changed his hitting style quite a bit. The results are subtle, but evident. He is never going to be a gold glove OF, but the effort is there. Last night on Altuve's (?) double he was covering backing up second base. But since the Twins don't believe in PH as a rule, really believe that Sano is an OF, and think Platoon was a war movie, I do think his future lies elsewhere.
  12. Platoon
    Nothing gets a manager in more trouble than playing favorites, and holding a grudge too long. Not even discipline or language or game decisions. I don't think Molitors doghouse is too deep, but either he plays favorites, is trying to show up Ryan, or is the most stubborn manager around. Not being in the clubhouse, I don't know if we can tell. But something is amiss. And if Molitor is a veterans manager, hired to lead a young rebuilding team, that would be just another example of the Twins Way. Insular to a fault!
  13. Platoon
    Well said. This whole thing is becoming almost humorous, in a sad way!
  14. Platoon
    But do the stats differentiate from someone who is taking the ball the other way, going with the pitch.or trying to pull outside stuff, and ending up with soft fly balls in the middle. It's a completely different approach, and generally yields completely different results. With the exception of one Izard game last week, where he had I think 3 RF hits, and looked like he was trying to do so, he seems to have reverted to pull happy. In closing, if this was only from April, I would be more inclined to take luck into account. But since the league started really seriously pitching him away, he has struggled.
  15. Platoon
    Sometimes metrics are useful to explain something that's a mystery. And sometimes they are useful to explain something that is obvious! This case is the latter. Dozier can be one of two kinds of hitter, but he cannot be both. He can continue to try and jerk everything into the LF corner, which likely will result in the BD you now see. Good for maybe 15 smiling trips around the bases, 12 of them solos. And a ton of pop ups, and blowing up the assist numbers of SS around the league. Or he can use his fairly decent eye, and plate presence to be a ok OB hitter, fair defender, and pretty good baserunner. Once in awhile someone will throw him a cookie, and he can hit another 336 ft HR. But he can't do both. He has no natural power. And if he keeps thinking he does, what you've seen, is what you wil get. And to that you can add what recently appears to be somewhat of a lacksidasical effort at 2B. Frustration? Who knows. Anyway, as long as he tries to cover the outside of the plate by pulling the ball to left field, those soft fly balls to CF, will not be turning into line drives anytime soon.
  16. Platoon
    The Mendoza Line? Is that when your three hits travel a total of over 200 ft?
  17. Platoon
    Famous last words! "Don't worry, the gun isn't loaded", "these oil rigs are 100% safe", and "bring in Casey Fien"
  18. Platoon
    No, and I am typing this AFTER the double!
  19. Platoon
    Spendimg the day in tears? Is that you Dick Bremer?
  20. Platoon
    Oddly given a choice, everyone would trot out May over Tonkin. Again SSS. Given this team, at this time, I would easily send Jepsen down the road before Tonkin.
  21. Platoon
    You don't try for bonus points by trading players who don't perform when they get there, but you do get wins by trading for players that perform when they get here!
  22. Platoon
    Thank you. I read the whole article and the comments waiting for someone to notice that he can't catch! If he can, it better be off the ground when it gets to the plate. I don't know if his ball blocking abilities, or lack thereof, are career numbers, or a fluke. But currently they are alarming. Another thing that is alarming, is concentrating on offensive numbers in defensive positions. Catcher, SS, and CF. no, they can't all be black hole offensively at once, but you can carry a glove, or two. Or at least you should be able to with a team loaded with DH style hitters. Ugh!
  23. Platoon
    Pitching and defense is what you preach and try to be the most consistent at,” explained Kernels manager Jake Mauer this week, adding, “hitting tends to be more volatile.” Words to live by! Maybe th FO should be listening.
  24. Platoon
    I for one would like to see the good Meyer, just to see what it is. It obviously exists, or he wouldn't have gotten this far.
  25. Platoon
    I have him coming to moms basement for coffee early Saturday. Mom is going to tell him, nobody messes with mom! FO and managers have been at odds forever. But in this case it would be somewhat odd. Unless of course Molitor was Pohlads personal chocie, then oy vea. There is obviously some friction, Molitor was not on the same page on Sano. Bringing up Kepler and Polanco to sit made the team look clueless, The Meyer call up up for "emergency" pitching, when at the time no emergency existed. It's all odd and seemingly contentious. I preferred Dougie to Molitor, but figured, well at least neither is Gardy. Brock or Seth pointed out that Dougie is even more of a baseball dinosaur than Molitor? I don't know. I do know he grew up in the ranks with these players and there seems an affinity. As for Meyer, he was somewhat mishandled, but he has to throw the ball better, period. He also deserves the chance to sink or swim, and if it isn't in this time and place, there never was one.
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