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  1. Twodogs
    After reading the lead in I would have been cool with them hiring Torii Hunter!
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    Maybe if he spends a month in jail he will lose some weight?
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    As opposed to have been playing for a different team. Not too many big named players stay with the Twins, a la Torri Hunter etc...
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    Hildy just isn't a closer type of pitcher. I think he's a great change of pace type of pitcher that can come in in the 7th and fool some guys, but that doesn't seem to be working in the 9th??
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    Clicking on some of those other names like BJ Hermson was kind of interesting?
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    Yes, it would allow for the Twins to pinch run for their catchers late in games.
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    If he was great for the Twins why'd they get rid of him? Also I think it had more to do with Dougie baseball than LeCroy? Nonetheless both Ortiz and Dougie Baseball won the World Series for the Bosox. I think both of them kinda stuck their noses up at the Twins and went neener, neener, neener when they got those rings too. I'm kinda getting on board that I'd love to see Mauer go to one of those teams in a part time 120 game roll and win a World Series for himself while all of us Twins fans sit around wondering which minor leaguers are going to take over for the Twins in 2020.
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    David Ortiz wasn't good enough for the Twins?? Prob more along the lines of what each team needs. The Twins need a guy they can pencil into their lineup everyday which it appears as if Mauer isn't that guy anymore. Boston or another team could be deep enough to use a guy like Mauer for 120 games a year and get real value out of those 120 games?
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    Could you imagine Mauer in Boston's or New York's or Houston's lineups?? He'd score 90 - 100 runs in those lineups easy.
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    It's an extra year of control, but, he has also hit .156 for the twins this year. What if he came up in Sept and raked and was able to get his average up to .200 - .220 or so, how would that affect his arbitration case? When he does go into arbitration the team can say he hit .156 in 2018, of he had improved on that then they wouldn't be able to say that anymore?
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    Well he had MVP votes last year, so that puts him in some sort of an elite company. I don't think he's going to do well here, same as with Hicks, for Buxton to realize his true potential, for whatever reason it may be, I think he will need to be on another team to do it. I think if Hicks had stayed in Minnesota he would have been out of the league by now. Why it's like this I have no clue. I'm starting to feel the same about Sano too. I mean it could be something as simple as those guys are not leaders and they need to be on a team that has some leaders so they are not the primary focus or something. But whatever it is, they look to continue down this road of failure until they land somewhere else.
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    Berrios has had a dip in velocity. He used to be 94 - 96 and now he's 91 - 92. Poor strike ratio,a good number of walks and a ton of home runs. He's looking more like Gibson the past few years.
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    I think the central could be tougher next year. I believe the White Sox just swept the Yankees??9
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    What are you basing Austin and Cave with?? I mean neither of them has exactly lit up the minor leagues and with the amount of MLB experience that they have is soooo limited most of the pitchers out there don't even hardly know who they are let alone have made adjustments to them. I mean Danny Santana looked really great over his first 200 to 300 at bats too? Kepler is hitting like .235? So their hitting can't exactly be proven to be better than Mauer and neither can their defense. So how are they exactly better in 200 at bats worth of MLB production?
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    Time for what? So even if you don't have anyone to replace him get rid of him anyway? You might be right that the Twins record is what it is because of a lack of talent on the team, but getting rid of one of the decent guys with no real replacement isn't probably going to make the squad any better. Forsythe has been one of the Twins best players this month?
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    Yeah, and what was the Twins record with Tom Kelly as the manager? Apparently winning didn't mean anything to him??. For that matter, I'd like to see the Twins overall record while Kirby Puckett was on the team?
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    This thread? So are you telling me that people don't always talk about Joe's lack of home run power at 1B? Or is that something I just made up? Bottom line is he is one of the best 25 guys on the team. When that changes then the argument changes. As long as he is one of the best 25 it will be up to Joe when he is done, when he isn't one of the best 25 then it won't be up to him anymore.
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    There isn't 25 guys on this team that are better than him. No matter how disappointing he is to those that want him to hit 25 Hr's per year he is still one of the best players on the team.
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    Interesting how the minor league teams seem to be sitting in about the same spot as the parent club?
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    Logan Forsythe?? Hopefully the Twins can flip him too?
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    Yeah and that Boston record would probably be 4 - 3 in favor of the Twins had they still had Pressly in game 2 of that series. Nonetheless, it does seem weird how they have played against good teams and then they have just crumbled against the poor teams in the AL Central. Maybe they get all pumped up for Cleveland and then they go into KC and just assume they are going to win?? That's all I can think of??
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    Just a question, a qualifying offer is for 1 year if I'm correct, who is a better fit at 2nd base for the Twins next year?? Someone who hasn't even played there yet?
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    This actually does make some sense?? Especially if you are looking to keep your core intact. If you were going to unload Rosario and Sano, etc.... Then no it makes no sense. But if you are keeping the core together then adding pieces that would make the club stronger next year would make sense since it's a buyer's market. But Escobar has really no starting spot on the Twins team if they have all of Sano, Polanco and Dozier in the infield?? So trading him sucks but it was probably necessary so as to give Sano full reign at 3B.
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    Well I believe that the Twins have winning records against Boston, Cleveland and Houston so far this year?? They've just stunk against KC, Detroit, and the White Sox??
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    I was listening to the game last night in XM radio, so I had to listen to the Red Sox announcers. Before the game they made some observations about Lance Lynn. They were thinking out loud that Lynn's struggles could be weight related? (Maybe like Sano?). They observed that Lance was probably well over 300 pounds. They mentioned that when Lance was with St. Louis they had gotten him a nutritionist that worked with him and got his weight down and they think that's why he pitched better there. They were thinking that with his weight that he tires out more as the game goes on than other pitchers?? Then as the game advanced, they were talking like; he's going to walk someone here pretty soon, and then the 4th and 5th innings they were both saying someone in our lineup is going to start pounding him, it's getting to that point in the game and then when Nunez hit that double they both said, here it comes! Shortly after the Bo soxs hit that home run and those guys were talking like they knew it was coming against Lynn, it was a matter of time to them. The night before when Gibson was pitching they did not talk like that at all. It was interesting.
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