dxpavelka

Obviously someone sees things differently.

How would one go about distinguishing a black hole from the rest of this lineup?

HEART and SOUL. Thank God. Been saying the same thing since the day they cut him loose. No analytic for it. They've never replaced what he does that can't be measured. Joe Ryan was a great return but trading Nelson Cruz a hundred games after dumping Eddie only magnified what we lost when we lost Rosario. You think your comment is gonna get jumped on wait until you hear me mention that this team has not been the same offensively since Miguel Sano left the lineup either. Easily verifiable. Three guys who could carry the team on their shoulders ala Kirby of old. Guys in the current lineup who seemingly can do that? Nobody. You laid out Eddie's numbers above. OUR LFs have the worst OPS in the big league. But maybe I fret too much. Gallo's almost near the Mendoza line. AND he's missed enough games that he's not likely to break the team strikeout record.

Difference is that Eddie hits some of what he swings at....

And yet the fact that both are in St. Paul would seem to suggest that somebody feels differently.

Seems highly unlikely we will be able to change what has already happened. Seems highly possible that we can achieve different results going forward. The history of the game is literally littered with such.

The difference is he produces.

Meanwhile, Eddie Rosario..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

See if you can bring Matt Garza with you to pitch out of the bullpen.

He's a streaky hitter and most likely will hit a hot streak again. This team would be 3-5 games under .500 without him.

The prospects we need to be concerned with are Kiriloff & Larnach. Short, early answer is no. Hope that changes. HOPE is not a strategy.

Plenty of value from Buxton just hitting. If he was playing CF his value would be a LOT more than we're paying him.

Another change in the game that's not for the better.

dummernasako****inghammers

You named the problem without knowing it. 13 man roster. Why the hell does a ball team need more than 7 relief pitchers?

Actually those look a lot like Brent Rooker's numbers.

Twins LFs: Worst OPS in MLB.

Rosario gone for almost three years and still no adequate LF replacement.

Actually his path to the Twins is very clear. Get / stay healthy and don't suck.

Tough to be a fun team to watch when the most entertaining player you've developed in a generation, who has hit 30 home runs in his last 600 plate appearances, is sitting in San Pedro de Macoris.

It's the manager's job to put the player HE HAS in position to succeed. He doesn't have the players he once had.

He won manager of the year because we put good baseball players on the field. The fact that we're no longer doing so shouldn't be a condemnation of him.

DON'T LET HIM CUT THAT HAIR!!

Biggest issue is that this team plays with no heart. EVERY decision is based on advanced analytics. A wise man once said that advanced analytics is an excellent means of predicting the past. Analytics has a measurement for everything. Except for things that can't be measured. Heart. What does a guy do when nobody else is doing anything. ‘Jump on my back. I’m driving the bus tonight.’ Infamous Kirby Puckett quote. Nobody on this team is driving the bus. Started when they moved on from Eddie Rosario. A guy who didn't have great measureables. But he did things nobody else did. He took a pitch 8 inches off the plate and drilled it for extra bases at a moment when nobody else was hitting. Can that be measured? Sure. And probably quantified as a negative. Should I bring up the fact that the guys (admins won't let me use the word(s) I want to use) playing his position this year have the worst OPS in the big leagues? Continued when they traded Nelson Cruz. Heart and soul of the team. Give them a pass on that one cuz they got Joe Ryan. Won't even mention multiple opportunities to bring Cruz back. Traded Berrios. OK, great. Got studs in return. (note sarcasm) Of course, a year later we found ourselves in need of a Berrios caliber pitcher and traded for Mahle. Of course when HE failed to bring the expected return we again found ourselves in need of more pitching and traded a guy who won some big American League batting award thingy for another pitcher. NOW I'm about to cross into heretofore uncharted territory and ask one simple question: What has our lineup done to exhibit heart in the year since Miguel Sano's name stopped being written on the lineup card? Great hitter? Not really. Guy who makes everybody in the stadium and within earshot of a television stop and take notice when he's hitting? Absolutely. Guy who can wake up a line up and a crowd by hitting a ball to St. Paul. Yep. Is the manager and / or coaching staff an issue.? Maybe. But at the end of the day the game is won or lost by the guys on the field. Do we have the right guys? Maybe. Do we have the right kind of guys. Maybe not.

If I hired someone who wasn't a fit for the job the first place I looked was in the mirror. So the guy who was manager of the year three years ago is a complete misfit for the job? Perhaps the issue lies with the players on the field.