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  1. LeatherAntenna
    of all the posts in this thread this one sums it up best. I still believe in Kep, he looks in shape, is intense, and I believe that he figures it out. As to the rest and upcoming years, well, as in “Games of Thrones”, prepare for winter.
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    Agreed he should have hit Betts except he didn’t know he would face Betts with no runners on when the inning started. Now if you are saying he should have plunked Betts after Leon, that would have been interesting and also may have started a bench clearing brawl. Maybe that should have happened.
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    The guy in the Robert Redford movie “The Natural.”
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    Well another disappointing loss and with this thread the Twins are that much farther away from a 2006 mirror season since in that year the Twins at this same time were starting a long winning streak as opposed to tonight’s continuing loss tendencies. Reed actually looked good tonight but he is still got spanked and his night pretty much sums up this season.
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    . It’s not been 10 years. More like 7 and 1/2 years but I agree with you that it has been too long not playing consistent playoff achieving baseball. Especially with the potentially best outfield the Twins have ever had if Buxton can appear again. Something is amiss within this organization. If the Twins don’t finish strong this year and that does look doubtful then singing players to contract extensions, if that is an organization desire, might get harder with this outfield seeing a more appealing move to a free agency market where the player can sign with a winning team becoming a factor.
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    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.
  11. LeatherAntenna
    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?
  13. 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.
  14. LeatherAntenna
    . Could do a 2006, 25-32 on June 7 and then 71-34 the rest of the year.
  15. LeatherAntenna
    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!
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    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?
  19. LeatherAntenna
    Doesn’t this make the Twins a 90+ win team this year, especially with the condition of the division this year?
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    . 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.
  24. LeatherAntenna
    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.
  25. LeatherAntenna
    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.
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