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  1. dxpavelka
    The Indians don't hold the key to the Twins sucess or lack thereof. The Twins do. The Indians may have a say in whether the Twins are able to put that key into the lock, but the Twins hold their own key.
  2. dxpavelka
    Not sure about trading for a guy who obviously doesn't NOT want to be a closer. Yes, I understand there are some questions with our incumbent closer but if those are answered there is very little doubt as to who owns that role here. If those questions linger we also appear to have a second viable option. Not to mention potential option or two on the farm horizon.
  3. dxpavelka
    At the beginning of the year I think some folks thought Pinto could / would be part of the eventual equation behind the plate. Not sure why but he was viewed as such.
  4. dxpavelka
    Good article showing how you win with a TEAM performance. You can hope one guy steps up and carries a team on his shoulders but the reality is that such events happen very seldom. Yes, they can be legendary when they DO happen but you can't count on them. More often than not your best bet is to win as a team. If one guy struggles, someone else picks him up. If the bats are cold the pitching is hot. If the bullpen is cold the starters are on, or vice versa.
  5. dxpavelka
    Good point about Dozier's last chance to lead the team in home runs with Sano no onboard. Maybe if he had a few less meaningless home runs and a few more meaninful base hits the team as a whole would benefit. Just sayin
  6. dxpavelka
    I'm as big a fan of both Hicks & Rosario as you're going to find. I was calling for Rosario to be promoted for a year and a half before it happened and was one of the few folks around these parts not wanting to move on from Hicks the last 2 years. That being said, I think the need for bats will/should outweigh the desire for stellar corner defense over the next couple years. This is a team that ranks no higher than 11th in the big leagues in any significant offensive category and in in the twenties in most categories. We realistically have 1 guy who can be classified as a legitimate all-star caliber hitter at this point and he's got less than 200 big league at bats under his belt. Our 1B lacks power, our 2B would be ecstatic if he could hit .250, our SS projects to be a journeyman for the next few years, Neither Hicks nor Rosario drive in significant runs. Our CF has been compared to Mike Trout but has a LONG way to go to get to that point and most likely never will from a power standpoint. I love both guys and love having a great defensive outfield but if you can't score runs you won't win.
  7. dxpavelka
    I'm not disputing the need to bring in outside help but the results of such moves have not been great. We'd better hope for at least 2 or 3 guys from within who haven't been up yet making positive impacts.
  8. dxpavelka
    Agree with the need for a patient approach. I preached all off-season and well into the the spring & summer about the need for just that with Hicks. Sometimes you've got to give talented hitters a thousand big league plate appearances before giving up on or cutting them loose. At the time Hicks had less than 600 such appearances and Vargas has less than 400. As far as where he fits, he's your DH, unless Arcia (who also fits the under a thousand appearances mark and thus is still deserving of another shot) overtakes him. No need to jettison Plouffe either. Put the kid at 3B, Vargas and / or Arcia at DH with Vargas rotating in at 1B on occassion. Give Plouffe 5 starts a week between the 2 corner IF & OF spots & DH. Too many good bats is not a problem for this team yet.
  9. dxpavelka
    Not exactly true. If you're referring to the Wild Card play in game then yes that statement is true. But if you're referring to an actual Game 163 to determine who advances to the Wild Card game, that game is actually considered a regular season game, counts in the regular season standings, as do the player statistics, and as such Santana would be eligible to participate. And while he may not be meeting expectations at this point, our ability to reach a Game 163 might just hinge on his pitching at a higher level from here on out and if that happens I'd not have any reservations about pitching him in that game and using up whatever he may have left in the tank since it would be his last start of the season and / or post-season.
  10. dxpavelka
    Just need another 5 week run like the one we went on 4 months ago. Look back 4 months and tell me which team you'd rather have: That team that went on that monster run or the current team. 4 months ago when we got hot we DID NOT have Sano, Buxton, Hicks (I know, we don't have him now either, but it sounds like he'll be back right at 15 days) or Rosario or Jepson or Duffy or Santana (still think he'll pitch some big games down the stretch). We still had Danny Santana playing short & Vargas trying to DH. This team SHOULD be better than the best squad we've put on the field all year and fully capable of playing good enough ball to make a serious run. Whether or not that will happen nobody knows but at least it could be fun.
  11. dxpavelka
    Assuming Buxton doesn't get called up in time to get enough plate appearances before September 1 to make 2015 his rookie year, I count 7 rookies. Not that I mind but I would not expect to contend with 7 rookies on the roster.
  12. dxpavelka
    If every MLB team jumped off a bridge...
  13. dxpavelka
    His career OPS is 4 points higher than our slugging all star. I see 2 options. 1. Close the book on 2015 and let him legitimately compete for a job next year. 2. Let him go somewhere else, develop and make us look stupid once again.
  14. dxpavelka
    Sano nami.
  15. dxpavelka
    POTENTIAL is like seeing tracks when deer hunting--You can't make soup out of them.
  16. dxpavelka
    I'd be more worried about this if he were 23 or 24 or 25 instead of 21. Things change fast. When we called Buxton up and not Sano, people started reading into that move thinking that there might be issues with Sano. Now, were less than two months later and Sano is in the big leagues, batting cleanup and looking like the real deal and people are stressing about Buxton.
  17. dxpavelka
    The last time we traded away OF depth because other guys were "on the cusp" it only took 2 and a half years to pan out. Exercise caution.
  18. dxpavelka
    Very unlikely to catch KC whether they stand pat or not. Not giving up assets for a CHANCE to get to a one game playoff series in not as bad as it seems.
  19. dxpavelka
    Agree that Gibson is a middle of the road # 3 type starter. You can never get too many of those when you haven't had a legitimate # 1 for 8 years.
  20. dxpavelka
    You can never have too much pitching, especially starting pitching. If you think you do, the baseball gods will bite you in the ass. Injuries. Dead arms. Inexcpicable loss of control. Bullpen so bad starters have to throw 8 innings every night. The day you think you have too much starting pitching is the day you had better start looking for more.
  21. dxpavelka
    A little butt hurt over a guy with a career .245 batting average arent' we?
  22. dxpavelka
    Been saying for months that when Sano comes up make him the 3B. Put Plouffe in a Super Utility role that was envisioned years ago for Cuddyer-5 starts a week between the 2 corner infield and outfield spot and DH. He's never been a bat only guy in the minors and if you want to get him acclimated to the bigs put him where HE is comfortable-whether anybody else is comfortable with him playing there or not.
  23. dxpavelka
    I can give you this year. MAYBE next year. But to say we have to think of more than this year and next as transition years, I can't do. At some point it's gotta be time to put the big boy pants on and contend young core or not. Gotta step up.
  24. dxpavelka
    You are correct in your Arcia assessment that the Twins have always valued defense. But let's think back to Randy Bush. He played a total of 50 games in the field from 1982-1985 and never hit higher than .249. But he showed enough with a little power that, in 1986, and even to a greater extent after Tom Kelly took over, that they worked with him to become an adequate defensive player and a vital part of two World Series winners. Do we really want to trade Arcia and see his offensive potention be realized somewhere else? I think the Red Sox just called looking for an eventual replacement for Big Papi.
  25. dxpavelka
    Could not agree more. He is at best a utility guy. Capable of filling in at a number of spots for a very short time. And if OF is one of those spots then something is horribly flawed with this team.
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