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  1. LeatherAntenna
    agreed on Dozier. The last two years his production has been vastly superior to 06 Mauer. And I am not taking away from Mauer’s 2006 last game performance in winning the batting title-he did that well. Potentially top tier slugger in Sano? He appears washed up as a top tier slugger to me. Hope I am wrong about him, I will be happy if I am. Buxton is an X factor. If he is healthy and hitting like at the end of last year, then the dream season could happen again.
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    Like the optimism in the story comparing the possibilities to 2006! That was a dream season catching Detroit the last day. I was glued to every inning after the Twins started the climb winning 19 of 20 in June and July. Sadly though, those are near impossible odds to see repeat, going 71-33 the last 2/3 of the year. Fun to see happen again though.
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    For Dozier questioners, he is ahead of his HR and RBI production numbers at this same point in time compared to either of his last two years. It may mean nothing if he stays flat for a while-I understand a person wondering about him.
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    And Escobar just hit his second tonight moments ago! Good for him!! Maybe Dozier will learn something.
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    apparently teams haven’t figured him out for half of his year. It also tells me that they the teams haven’t figured him out really at all. Or if they had they would shut him down the whole year. Why else would you let him excel for half of a year? This logic is mind boggling.
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    in my mind kind of strange posts about Dozier. Goes off for a few weeks to make his stats respectable? If he could do that “going off” like turning hot and cold water off on a faucet then he is more talented than any of us know. A marquee player for how many 90+ loss campaigns? I doubt his bat knows how many losses there are in the loss column. Couldn’t get anything for the guy? I doubt that is true with 70 HRs the last two seasons. I think a few teams would appreciate that, maybe 28 or 29 teams. He’s just not as good as he is perceived to be? Depends on the poster I guess.
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    Do we need some new sabermetric guys?
  8. LeatherAntenna
    . It is possible that we have an emerging star in Kepler, he seems to have a better bat this year. And do we need emerging stars.
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    . Could do a 2006, 25-32 on June 7 and then 71-34 the rest of the year.
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    Just watching Lynn and his pitch count shoot up reminded me that this year will be another long one. 88 pitches through 4 innings. We wonder then about lackluster fielding? Only 10 pitches in the 5th, the Toronto batters were either feeling compassion for Lynn or the players were just getting tired of taking batting practice and probably wanted to face a different pitcher.
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    thank you, one more question, that first year he was injured was he not? Was he a victim of that injury or was he just not MLB material? Again just curious, I just recall that the few times he did connect and hit it out it was impressive.
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    Nice, congratulations!
  13. LeatherAntenna
    Can I ask someone, what happened to ByungHo Park? I had forgotten about him after that I believe that one year that he played with the Twins?
  14. LeatherAntenna
    Doesn’t this make the Twins a 90+ win team this year, especially with the condition of the division this year?
  15. LeatherAntenna
    . Agreed, he may or may not soon start to decline. Given the nature of that which he has achieved, perhaps as a perennial underdog, I expect him to surprise us with great play for a long time yet wherever he plays and finishes his career. He is a joy to watch.
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    Self driving bull pen cars. Could still have celebrities or lottery fans ride in the driver seat.
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    I am not a great fan of Mauer for a variety of reasons, but I have to say after reading this Star Tribune link I have more appreciation for him then I have ever had before. It’s probably the kids of his which really put a real human element into what he will be going through this year. Will the Twins want him back at a salary that he thinks is fair? But what is fair to the player from the standpoint of young kids (and perhaps uprooting family) with a player in or near the twilight of his career? Why do the Twins say they will treat discussions on his contract with him in the upmost respect yet they haven’t reached out to him yet even just for some polite conversation? Sure the club doesn’t have any obligation to talk yet, but a 17 year and only a Twin vet - one would think the team and Mauer would have had some back and forth already-at least if only for the club to say— hope that the year goes well and their is reason for mutually beneficial discussions in the off season.
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    I expect to see him be aggressive and swing at hittable pitches with RISP because 2018 is another contract year for him. History thus dictates that we should see another 28 HR year out of him.
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    I generally like your story except for two phrases. Offensive ‘juggernaut’? No that’s Walt Disney imagination. An impressive single hitting machine, clutch hitter, great reader of pitches, yes. Juggernaut- not so much. ‘Living Legend’? No, again a long reach. He will be remembered for a long time, Minnesota boy and all. But he has done almost nothing in playoff ball and that just makes his story a great Saturday afternoon matinee.
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    How about speeding up the advance of the young arms below deck? It seems to me this a unique opportunity to do this with the class of potential young stars it appears the Twins already have on the starting diamond? A cultural look for one or two years of bringing up the young arms faster may be at a particular crossroads right now.
  21. LeatherAntenna
    2006 was quite a team. No telling what happens that year in the playoffs if Litiano doesn’t get hurt.
  22. LeatherAntenna
    Somewhat agree except why would anyone want to fear any team especially the Yankees? Going into a playoff you expect good opposition. I certainly wouldn’t want to say some year, “Wow, we made the playoffs and we are so fortunate that we don’t have to play a Yankee team.”
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    Why is this subject so important? Winning the division? It is certainly nice to see the progress lately after the four very bad years but winning the division in perhaps (says the article) the weakest division is not a definition of a great team is it? A deep playoff run, ie the championship series should be the minimum goal in my estimation. Again, I am not meaning to downplay the progress this team has made lately and I love the youth, we have the formations of a very strong roster for some years to come. I just believe expectations should be higher.
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    Very nice piece, thank you! I have a molitor story. My youngest brother was married in 92. Both my brother and his wife were big fans of Molitor and took their first date at a Milwaukee game several years before. The two took a honeymoon in Toronto where they timed it for a Molitor appearance. My brother in advance of the honeymoon wrote to Molitor, telling him he and his wife were big fans and they would like to take Molitor to dinner in Toronto if he had any time. He never heard from him before or in Toronto and never really expected to. Three weeks after his honeymoon he is home from work at lunch and he gets a call. It’s Paul Molitor apologizing about how mail falls behind sometimes during the season and he had just opened the letter my brother sent.
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    ‘Crushing it’ and recouping 3MM by voiding an agreement on a failed physical by Marte? Isn’t that sort of like knowing how to balance a checkbook and using a stop payment maneuver in a bank transaction so you don’t waste your own cash? Seems like they did something anyone else would have, hardly crushing it.
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