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  1. Twodogs
    I was wondering when all of the hate is going to start to be directed at Byron Buxton? I mean by no means am I defending Kepler or Gallo, but. Through 164 AB's Kepler has 10 HR's and is hitting .207. Through 218 AB's Buck has 13 HR's and is hitting .206 and Buck is now incapable of playing defense. So who's performance and salary are really weighing the Twins down? I remember people complaining about Joe Mauer and his empty .300 batting averages, his salary and inability to play catcher was the doom of the Twins. Now we have a guy making a Butt load of money and can't even play 1B? Don't get me wrong, I love all of the Twins players and would love to see them all hit 30 bombs and hit .300. but it's not happening. It just seems like Buck gets a pass while these other guys get crapped on and these other guys really don't make any money, so easy to move on from. Carlos Correa needs his fair share also, again making a truck load of money and has completely stunk.
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    What's interesting to me is that I totally understand all of the Kepler hate, but in 164 AB's he's hitting .207 with 10 HR's. in 217 AB's Buck is hitting .207 with 13 HR's and Buck can no longer play in the field. So I don't quite understand how Buck gets a pass and Kep gets all of the hate. I don't live in Minnesota, grew up in that area, but I live in Cali and everyone I talk to, (who are obviously outsiders looking in because they know I'm a Twins fan), say the stupidest thing that they all think the Twins did is resign Buck to a big contract. None of these outsiders, (non Twins fans), even talk about Kepler. They all talk about how Buxton is holding the Twins back, now he's a DH who hits .200 and can't cant play the field. These are reputable baseball people too, many of the people I deal with on a daily basis are college baseball coaches. So yeah, Kep has not been good this year, but neither has Buck, but I don't really hear any negativity towards him from this board. But people who are not from the Twins area are saying that Buxton is sinking the Twins ship? Most of the people I talk to say that Correa was a dumb signing too, especially with Lewis in the fold, but I get that Lewis is from Cali and many of these people are pulling for him.
  3. Twodogs
    Well if I had unlimited money I'd pick Carew for sure, but I had to save money somewhere. Carew actually played most of his games at 1B, that's why I took the liberty of moving Harmon over to 3B so I could get Morneau in. Plus Dozier actually won a gold glove at 2B once so that helps too. But yeah I'd much rather have Carew in my lineup over Dozier. For that matter I'd rather have Nathan over Reardon and id rather have Mauer over AJ. But I had to get it to 33 dollars. My best attempt at putting together a winner. Personally, I think it's an ok lineup
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    At what point do the Twins get back to total system failure and start over? I know he was supposed to be the pitching pipeline guru because of his tenure with the Guardians. But it seems that they keep producing pitchers even with Falvey gone? So I'm guessing there is someone else in that organization that is producing the pitching, maybe they are being coached better at the lower levels? Nonetheless, how long do we let these guys run this out? I mean everyone who are looking for Baldelli's head have to realize that if Falvine is left in charge that they will hire another Baldelli type and really nothing will change. Hopefully the Twins turn this around, but they will need a player to be a clubhouse leader and light a fire under this team, like Torii used to do.
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    C AJ 1 1B Morneau 3 2B Dozier 2 3B Killebrew 5 SS Guzman 1 LF Hunter 4 CF Puckett 5 RF Olivia 5 DH Winfield 2 SP Santana 3 RP Reardon 2
  6. Twodogs
    Although Lewis and Kirillof both started the year in the minors. So maybe those guys left them alone a little bit down there. I guess there is no way to prove that this is caused by a team hitting philosophy, but just like you said, some of these guys have hit differently for different teams, why does it seem like everyone has the same or similar approach at the plate? Now I'm not even going to say that the approach is always bad, for certain hitters. I think these analytic nerds only get it wrong when they try to make everyone do the same thing. I have always felt that when you do things or coach that way you make your team really predictable. When you are predictable, then other teams can employ strategy that counters that predicability. My feeling is always that you need different approaches within the same lineup. Having a Gallo or two in a lineup surrounded by a couple of Arraez types I think takes advantage of both the pure power guys and the on base guys. I mean how much more of a problem is Gallo when he comes up with guys on first and second all of the time? But when the two guys before Gallo punch out or hit a solo bomb and Gallo comes up with no one on base so frequently then pitchers don't have to be afraid of him when they pitch. I think the problem with the analytic nerds is that they think everyone needs to do the same thing all of the time in order to be good. I think when everyone does the same thing over and over again all of the time they become predictable and that's when teams can better plan on how to beat them.
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    It's definitely an organizational philosophy. It's really not working and everyone needs to be fired who are responsible for it, batting coaches, etc .... Everyone who is responsible for it, this team is wasting a great pitching staff overall.
  8. Twodogs
    It's definitely an organizational philosophy. It's really not working and everyone needs to be fired who are responsible for it, batting coaches, etc .... Everyone who is responsible for it, this team is wasting a great pitching staff overall.
  9. Twodogs
    To me, part of Buxton's overall value is his ability to change the game from the defensive side of the game. So I really believe the twins wouldn't have signed Buck to a long term deal as a DH only. So when Buxton was struggling at the plate, he would always provide value on defense. Now that's not happening so as a result people are looking at him as flawed. Or negatively affecting the game sometimes. Whereas in the past he could hit and when he wasn't he was still positively affecting the game. That can't happen DHing 6 times a week.
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    I don't think there was any intent from the Cleveland pitcher last night. Had there been intent with that pitch to Buxton then I would like to think the Twins pitchers would have defended Buxton, but I really think that one was just an accident.
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    Hopefully it's just a coincidence, but it seems like Pagan pitches better when the Twins are behind.
  12. Twodogs
    Looks like Pagan might be hurt for awhile.
  13. Twodogs
    This exactly proves my point. The OP said that batting average is the worst offensive stat in baseball. Everyone who is defending that point brings up the fact that HR's are so so so much more valuable than just being a good hitter. But when I bring up a guy who hit 442 HR's everyone is saying that he sucks. He was an All Star 3 times. He got MVP votes with the Giants, Mets, Cubs and A's. All stadiums except for Wrigley are pretty bad hitter parks and he still ended up with 442 home runs, but he ain't worth nothing when I compare him to an all around hitter that hit like a total of 90 HR's in a 20 year career. So being a good hitter is way more important than hitting HR's
  14. Twodogs
    What would Kingman's ops have been had he hit .300? Also, I'd say the opposite, most of Kingman's career was in non homer friendly parks. San Fran I think candlestick? Oakland, not really a hitters park, I don't think shea stadium was exactly a hitters park, and even I thought Yankee stadium wasn't that friendly to right handed hitters. He also played in san Diego and for the Angels. I don't think any of those parks are hitter havens. I mean had he spent his career in Boston like David Ortiz did Kingman probably hits over 500 home runs, especially since they could have DHed him more in Boston? Just an example.
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    But would Rod Carew been a hall of famer had he hit .209? Or even as good as Kingman, I think he hit like .240 for his career. Would Carew have been a hall of famer then? So, I'm saying batting average means something for sure. I mean people pick on Kingman, saying he wasn't good defensively, but he played a majority of his career in the NL with no DH so he was able to get on the field at least most of the time. Kingman finished in the top 10 in HR's numerous times, he finished top 5 in HR's numerous times. I am obviously not saying he was better than Carew, but Carew was definitely no defensive gem by any means. In fact he was actually pretty sketchy also. What I'm getting at, is a guy like Kingman, most of the young people on here probably don't even know who the hell he is. However, with today's stats, if Kingman played in today's game, especially with the DH in both leagues, and the shift over the last few years, no steroids/hgh they'd probably be talking about him being a hall of famer in today's game. Back then he was basically a nobody.
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    So the Twins would have been better if they had Dave Kingman rather than Rod Carew?
  17. Twodogs
    Wasn't he the MVP of the NLCS?
  18. Twodogs
    Especially Gallo, imagine he has a really good season, he will capitalize on that, most likely elsewhere.
  19. Twodogs
    Yeah, obviously he isn't out of the water yet with just a win over Tampa Bay, but I was at the Angels game and he was looking good. I mean his stuff looked nasty as always. He pitched good for about 3 innings and then the wheels started to come off. But the wheels came off slowly. I mean there was an infield hit where no one covered 1st, so it should have been an easy out, there was also a comebacker that Berrios fielded, threw it high to Vladimir, it hit Vladdys glove but popped out. I mean it was things like that, then Cimber comes in to relieve him and Trout take Cimber deep. So it unraveled, but not all his fault. I mean you can't give teams 5 outs and expect to pitch good. But like I said, his velo was mid 90's, had his nasty off speed stuff working, idk, just not getting it done I guess.
  20. Twodogs
    I think you are 100% correct with this statement. I'd also add in command. If he can throw wherever whenever then he will be hard to hit. But to the OP, I mean if Jax, Lopez and Duran are on fire why would you replace them with Alcala? I mean if one of those guys had a bad week or two I'm sure Alcala will get a shot then, there is no real reason to remove one of those guys from their high leverage spots if they are handling those spots. Let Alcala pitch in the spots they put him in and hope he does well.
  21. Twodogs
    Twins will keep Buck at fulltime DH until he gets hurt again. Man I'd love to see him back in CF again. I get tired of all of the babying of the professional athletes. Hopefully it helps him stay healthy though, I guess we will see.
  22. Twodogs
    I was wondering if any of you guys know of an easy way to look up the stats in our minor league affiliates? I know way way back when I was young that on the ESPN boards there would be links to the minor league stats. Just wondering if there is an easy way to look that stuff up still? Or do we need to dig in and go through the minor league websites. Just looking for the easy way out I guess.
  23. Twodogs
    Lead off hitters typically only lead off once a game. I know it's possible to lead off again later in the game but usually it's only once or maybe twice. I wonder how many pitches Max sees in his first at bat every game? I wonder if his approach changes depending on when he is due up? I'm not good at looking up peripheral stats like that, but I was just curious if he takes more pitches in his first at bat every game?
  24. Twodogs
    Yeah it's funny how things work out sometimes. I mean Cave never really seemed like he was a full time player with the Twins, so I'm thinking if he makes a roster that it would be as a backup on some last place team that doesn't have a ton of talent. But here he is on a legit team with world series aspirations. I wish him all the luck as he seemed like a good guy, hopefully he has a breakout year and we can all sit around and think dang what if we still had him,. 🤔😀
  25. Twodogs
    Looks like Jake Cave is the Phillies starting left fielder.
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