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  1. dxpavelka
    I've spent the whole off season mentioning the fact that our starters are deep but not particularly overwhelming. The one guy who could change that is Duran and we'll likely never see him in that role.
  2. dxpavelka
    Scored less than 700 runs last year and basically added nothing. This is not shocking.
  3. dxpavelka
    At the end of the day they really haven't done much. They've added little offense to a nine that scored less than 700 runs. Keeping Correa was huge but unless he hits another gear they've added little. Most fans are ecstatic that Sano is gone but the lack of a right handed bat to replace him was obvious last year and will continue to be so this year. Very little in the way of bullpen additions. Adding Lopez and (hopefully) getting Maeda & Mahle (the killer Ms?) back makes the rotation deeper but does little to add an ace at the top UNLESS someone has a breakthrough year. Hard to see more than about 83 wins unless Buxton plays 140 games (with 95 plus of those being in the field) and / or Correa performs at 2021 level.
  4. dxpavelka
    He's Sano without the batting average. Or the right handed bat. Which I've spent the whole damn winter hearing about our lack thereof.
  5. dxpavelka
    I'm not actually looking for confidence. I'm just looking for Kirilloff to do is damn job. Saying he can be like an historically underachieving player is not gonna cut it for me. Especially when we've seen nothing yet to indicate that he can even be that good.
  6. dxpavelka
    Actually he's an average player because he DOESN'T cross thresholds that have defined greatness for much of the history of the game. It would be one thing if he didn't cross one, or some of them but he never crossed ANY of them. Lucky for him he's only the second most overrated football player from Michigan State named Kirk. And you don't have to be voted in to be an all-star, in fact most all-stars aren't voted in.
  7. dxpavelka
    Please not Garlick.
  8. dxpavelka
    A first round draft pick that never hits .300, never hits 30 home runs, never drives in a hundred runs, never gets a hundred and sixty hits in a season and is never an all-star is a huge win. Sure. Ok. NOW we understand why we haven't won a World Series since the first Bush administration.
  9. dxpavelka
    yawn
  10. dxpavelka
    Helps explain the 78 wins. Fewer than 700 runs scored didn't help either. Haven't really done much to improve either on either front. Better hope having a deeper (and not necessarily better) rotation makes a big difference. Stood pat on the bullpen as well. This could well be a make or break year for a lot of folks. Some of whom don't hit, catch or throw the baseball.
  11. dxpavelka
    About the same as Ray Lankford's 38.2 in virtually the same number of career plate appearances.
  12. dxpavelka
    Ks slightly more is probably not a comp you want to make to the fanbase.
  13. dxpavelka
    Dude was slightly above average ball player. Shoulda stuck with football.
  14. dxpavelka
    Just gonna say that using a guy who never hit .300, never hit 30 home runs, never drove in a hundred runs, never had more than 157 hits in a season, was never an all-star and was gifted an MVP as a comp does not inspire confidence.
  15. dxpavelka
    He's Sano with a better glove and worse bat and I don't care about his glove.
  16. dxpavelka
    At the end of the day you'd better either win the World Series or be entertaining. 29 teams are NOT gonna win the World Series. Odds would indicate that the local nine is far more likely to be among the 29 that better be entertaining than be the one winning it. For my money, Sano is the most entertaining Twin I've seen with a bat in his hand since Harmon Killebrew. It ain't always going out, but when it does it might land in a different zip code. And, sure, he might be a sub par fielder. However, last I checked, MLB teams are allowed to put a player in the lineup who never has to even pick up a glove.
  17. dxpavelka
    As opposed to Joey Gallo?
  18. dxpavelka
    We don't know what the present incarnation of Sano is. We are drawing conclusions from a 69 plate appearance sample size last year....
  19. dxpavelka
    Scoring runs and winning ball games is never overrated. And I would say not winning post season games changed what the team did moving forward more than what happened in the regular season did. We've moved on from a lot of guys from the 2019 & 2020 teams. The results have not thus far translated to on-field success. Prove me wrong.
  20. dxpavelka
    You're right. It's not. In 2019 with Sano in the lineup the Twins scored 939 runs. In 2022 the scored 696. What have they done to add offensive for 2023? Is trading Kepler (likely for pitching and / or prospects) gonna make help the production at 1st base or make the lineup more right handed? I like the current front office and on field coaching staff but sometimes it just feels like their direction come from reading this website.
  21. dxpavelka
    Kind of funny. Seems like our biggest concerns are first base and right handed bats and yet a right handed hitting first baseman who averaged 42 home runs per 162 games as a Twin from 2019 thru 2021 remains unemployed. Can't make it up.
  22. dxpavelka
    I'll give you A but will lean towards B.
  23. dxpavelka
    Can't win post-season games if you're on the golf course.
  24. dxpavelka
    When / if the young guns arrive there's still gonna be a DH spot available. Sounds like a good landing spot for a guy with defensive concerns. Just sayin
  25. dxpavelka
    Been thinking / saying the same since we signed Gallo. We scored less than 700 runs without Sano last year. No reason to doubt we could do the same again.
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