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  1. dxpavelka
    Couldn't agree more--About the BABIP. Seems like one of those numbers that a whole bunch of folks parrot others on and when it goes the way they think it will they talk a whole lot of smack but if it goes the other way all we hear is crickets.
  2. dxpavelka
    Buxton's the best defensive option and, as such, should be the odds on favorite because of 4 little words: Corner outfielder Miguel Sano.
  3. dxpavelka
    He is after All-Star breaks.
  4. dxpavelka
    And neither of those things would ever happen. Right?
  5. dxpavelka
    So let me paraphrase here: Since video game developers don't think Mike Trout's offense would be affected by catching, Miguel Sano's bat won't be Affected by playing a different position? And you present THAT as evidence. A special kind of......
  6. dxpavelka
    I'll take a stab at this one. I was calling my shot for Eddie Rosario for a year and a half before the Twins finally dialed the phone. I continue to believe he is an extremely vital cog in the future of this club and am not totally convinced that future will be in the outfield. A thought that a certain second basemen who seems to be developing a penchant for hot starts and slow finishes might want to take note of.
  7. dxpavelka
    You need to look no farther than our own backyard for a solid example of a guy who never blossomed as a hitter until he settled into a defensive position he felt comfortable with-That being Michael Cuddyer who bounce around defensively and bounced out to the infield a lot before he settled on a single defensive position in 2006. If you want more ask any big league manager, scout or veteran player. You'll get similar feedback. Am I saying it is absolutely going to happen. No. What I am saying is that we need to put this guy in the best frame of mind to be a great hitter. Do we really want to take a chance of having to look back at some point in the future and saying we didn't to that?
  8. dxpavelka
    Maybe the reason you can't name a player whose hitting suffered because his fielding wasn't good was because if both were suffering he didn't last long in the bigs. The impact doesn't have to be that dramatic either. Can be as simple as a delay in his offensive progress. A month, half a season or even a year or more. Can be the difference between 50 home runs and 35 or between 35 home runs and 25. Bottom line is with his offensive potential I want to make him as comfortable as possible. Playing a new position does NOT lend itself to that. No need to take any chances with this guy.
  9. dxpavelka
    I could take fly balls in batting practice. Doesn't make me a big league OF any more than it does Sano. The guy has a chance to be a once in a generation type of talent with the stick in his hands. Why take the chance of screwing with his offensive confidence by moving him from a position where he's played over 90% of his minor league games to a position he's never played before? Move Plouffe to OF and let the perceived increase in versatility help improve his trade value for if / when we decide to move him.
  10. dxpavelka
    No guarantee of success for Kepler, Berrios or any other prospect. Bullpens around the majors a littered with guys who once had the same expectations as Berrios does now. See: May, Trevor. Some of those guys are even in minor league bullpens. See: Meyer, Alex.
  11. dxpavelka
    Hindsight.
  12. dxpavelka
    Polanco won't be "blocked by Dozier" for long if Dozier doesn't learn to hit after recess.
  13. dxpavelka
    Maybe we could throw in Berrios, Buxton & Sano as well. Seems like a lot to give up for a 30 year old catcher & a set up guy whose numbers would most likely suffer going from the NL to the AL.
  14. dxpavelka
    Those chances are also far less than 50/50 that he even gets in.
  15. dxpavelka
    Why rank Lewin Diaz as the # 2 overall prospect and not even mention him in the article?
  16. dxpavelka
    Would love to see how this stacks up against other teams, especially the Cubs & Astros, the two teams the Twins prospects have been most compared to since 2011.
  17. dxpavelka
    ALL of these guys are unknowns. That's why they're on THIS list.
  18. dxpavelka
    Move Joe down from 3. Been hearing it for years. What I have not heard is a realistic alternative to put in that 3 spot. Sano belongs at 4. Put him there and leave him there. Gonna put guy with ZERO big league at bats like Park there? NOT. Start him at 6 and hopes he earns the 5 spot and then leave him there for years. Sorry folks, Joe's the 3 until someone else earns it. We're not there yet.
  19. dxpavelka
    I was one of the few people who a year ago thought Milone would / should be the 5th starter. That view was based, at least in part, on uncertainty surrounding May. A year removed from that, I believe most of the uncertainty around May has been laid to rest and I have yet to be compelled by any argument as to why a team with contending aspirations would be better served by starting a guy with 4th or 5th starter potential rather than a guy with 2nd or 3rd starter potential. Contributions to the bullpen are fine and dandy but if your starters have given up 4-6 runs before you get to that bullpen guy you're looking at a 4th or 5th place finish.
  20. dxpavelka
    Opinions are like..... Research could fairly easily prove or disprove this theory.. Not that I have the time or inclination to do said research.
  21. dxpavelka
    That's a pretty underwhelming starting rotation to leave Duffy, May & Berrios in either the pen or Rochester.
  22. dxpavelka
    The difference is that a young player that struggles playing a foreign defensive position could very easily let those struggles get into his head and take that with him to the plate. Not many players struggle with the defensive aspect of being a DH.
  23. dxpavelka
    My point is that if he is comfortable at 3B I would do nothing that could even remotely make him uncomfortable. Think there's no chance that if he goes to a position he's never played and struggles that it might affect him at the plate. There are many guys who have suffered such a fate. See Cuddyer, Michael in the first half of his Twins career.
  24. dxpavelka
    Putting him in the OF is also a way of making a potentially once in a generation type of hitter overthink the defensive part of the game at the potential expense of his offensive game. Leave him at the spot he's comfortable at. If somebody needs to move let it be Plouffe. It would only increase his eventual trade value.
  25. dxpavelka
    EVERYBODY has questions at this point in the off-season. The key is to have potential answers by April. We're a lot closer to that than we have been most of the last half decade.
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