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  1. Doubles
    Sweet HoF humblebrag, BERT.
  2. Doubles
    Cowboy Joe is such a turd.
  3. Doubles
    What a pick by Mauer. High degree of difficulty there.
  4. Doubles
    He's seeing a lot of pitches, but walks do seem to be out of Jonathan's scope.
  5. Doubles
    I have zero doubt Sano could be a great third baseman if he really wanted to.
  6. Doubles
    Unsliced bacon is called pork belly, and it is glorious. In retrospect, I do prefer it with some level of slicing. Carry on, as you were.
  7. Doubles
    Ugh, ugly AB for Buck. Seems like when he struggles he is almost always behind in the count 0-2 / 1-2.
  8. Doubles
    Holy moly, Chief.
  9. Doubles
    Not sure this applies, but when I go into the MLB GameDay app I always have to enable my location...
  10. Doubles
    Man, how great it is that baseball is back! Also, how great that we can now stream on our phones via the Fox Sports Go app? Love it.
  11. Doubles
    Digging all those swinging strikes.
  12. Doubles
    Thares, Pecota, Zips, & Steamer sound like a formidable pitching rotation.
  13. Doubles
    An editor? For Twins Daily? About time! Finally! Errrr, long overdue! I mean, congrats, Tom. Love the game recaps, and all the other great content you bring to the mix. Atta boy!!!
  14. Doubles
    Completely agree. Furthermore, if he didn't know, he's just as, if not more culpable.
  15. Doubles
    Let's settle this: Sano plays 138 or more games this season, I won't question his fitness on this forum until Opening Day 2020. Sano plays less than 137 games, you stop being a Sano apologist until at least Opening Day 2020. Also, winner chooses the loser's avatar for the entire month of April, 2019. Deal?
  16. Doubles
    I think Sano has the ability to be very good, if not great defensively. Not much denying his natural ability. Time will tell if he wants to put in the necessary work to excel in the field. Corey Koskie and Justin Morneau are two examples of guys that came to the Twins pretty raw in the field and through hard work made themselves excellent defenders. I'd love for you to be right about Sano's 'demise at 3B'. I just don't see it if he keeps packing on the poundcake. I believe Sano will crush at the plate (home plate, that is) regardless if he's 250, 280, or 300 pounds. That's what he does, and the fact that his is a large human being undoubtedly plays into why he's such a powerful hitter. But I wouldn't worry one iota about his abilities or power diminishing if he was carrying the equivalent of a bag of salt pellets less than what he currently is. I won't even pretend to understand what 'layman medical hubris' means. But I find it quite disingenuous to believe his chances of staying on the field, and in the field, are unrelated to Sano's fitness level.
  17. Doubles
    Count me among those super-excited when news of the Lynn signing broke. At the same time, as exciting as it was to see him perform yesterday, I'm taking it with a grain of salt. Just as I would if he had gotten lit up. Spring training, especially for pitchers, is about ramping up and prepping for the 162 game grind. Still, it would be an awful lotta fun if yesterday's debut was a sign of things to come once the games start counting for real.
  18. Doubles
    Sometimes people are as much, if not more, preoccupied with the messenger as they are the message. Does anyone freak out when Phil Miller or LaVelle mention Sano's weight? But some people lose their minds if Reusse or Souhan go there. Shoot, there was even a Sano article here on TD a while back that had the word 'Eat' in the title. Pretty sure that was no coincidence...
  19. Doubles
    Curious to know your thoughts on these questions: * Do you think Sano can be very good to great defensively? * Do you think Sano's value to the Twins is significantly higher at 3rd base? * Do you think Sano's value to the Twins is reduced if he has to move from 3rd base to 1st base? * Do you think Sano's value drops even further if he moves to full-time DH? * Do you think Sano will crush at the plate whether he weighs 250, 280, or 300 pounds? * Do you think the higher his weight gets the more difficult it will be for him to stay on the field?
  20. Doubles
    Blasted Perkins for what? He injured his arm. You’re either in the lineup or you’re not. Hard to help the team from the sidelines. Same as it’s hard to be a team’s best player only playing 120 games a season.
  21. Doubles
    Name me any other Twins players on the verge of being moved off their most valuable position based on their lack of conditioning & I will light them up just the same.
  22. Doubles
    I want Sano to get into better shape. I want him to play the position that maximizes his value to the Twins for as long as possible. That position is third base. I also want Sano to play more than 120 games this season, ideally around 150. As long as he is in the lineup, he will crush dingers. That's the easy part for him. I don't see anyone trying to "Ship him out of town." And I see zero issue with wanting to see the best possible Miguel Sano at the position that maximizes his worth to the team.
  23. Doubles
    There will eventually come a point when Mauer & the Twins part ways. As iconic jet-set bartender Brian Flanagan said so profoundly in the cinematic classic known as 'Cocktail': "Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn't end..."
  24. Doubles
    I believe there are two ways to handle the Vargas situation: 1) Hang onto him through ST for as long as possible, using him as an injury-insurance policy in the event anyone ahead of him goes down. "Don't make a decision before you have to..." Release him / trade him to a rebuilding team that doesn't really believe it will contend for post-season play this year. Sooner the better, if they are doing Vargas a solid so he has as much time as possible to catch on with another club. Vargas turns 28 on August 1. He could be the kinda guy that a rebuilding team would take a flyer on, but not someone a contending team would feel comfortable plugging into their lineup.
  25. Doubles
    Hitting dingers in spring training proves absolutely nothing to anybody. How about he tries to be on the field more than 70% of the time during the regular season? Now he's gonna be subjected to missing games this season due to his off-the-field behavior. I should probably know better by now, but the number of people who support athletes unconditionally flabbergasts me. I guess I should keep the root word that 'fan' is derived from in mind.
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