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  1. LeatherAntenna
    I keep hearing this comment 'we can sign Kintzler (back) if we want'. As if he will be this puppy dog hoping the Twins don't forget him. If Kintzler ends up in the playoffs or forbid in a World Series, I think other teams will want him and this puppy dog will cost the Twins more to sign than buying a Watson out somewhere else on the marketplace.
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    No mention of Granite? I like the kid but is he traded because he is an odd man out without room for him anywhere? Perhaps left field but that would waste his defensive talents?
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    Love the graphs and graphics! Especially the home run display.
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    Anyone know Kepler's average exit velocity? Just watching him the last 4-5 weeks I gotta believe that it is up on a higher side?
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    water torture device is another great metaphor, thank you. The square feet would be whatever the square footage Target field is.
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    In the article mentioning his positive strikeout rate among other things is like walking into a house with a roof that leaks in multiple places but saying, 'well this one room is dry.' Or as a poster mentioned his exit rate is better than anyone but Sano. Well a high exit rate means little when batting around 200.
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    . So if we had 8 Mauers at every fielding position playing flawless defense wouldn't that be wonderful? Then we would have a team that could score maybe 300 runs during the year and while looking flawless on defense would lose 130 games.
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    And Mauer does have two hits tonight and is a .222 slugging dynamo so far this year in the four hole.
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    . With Morneau it wasn't Tori but the June 2006 intervention in Seattle that woke up his career.
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    . 6'5" and 230lb. Worked in his contract year.
  11. LeatherAntenna
    perhaps the question should be who else shouldn't be playing first base?
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    ST stats are meaningless just as 0-9 opening season stats are meaningless. Seriously if ST stats are meaningless then why do we even have ST? We need to spend 30+ days getting warmed up? Here's to hoping Park makes the front office look silly.
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    . Wow. You really lob'ed quite a lot out there with this post. Might be nice to see Kepler at first. I didn't see a lot of ST so I don't know if he was even practiced their? Mauer will likely be a disappointment to many of us, but that isn't new. Hoping Park is a pleasant surprise, I want and expect serious contribution from him. I have nothing solid to base it on, just as no one else does either. But just maybe he is better then we know and he just had to adjust to MLB, looking initially very nice and then pulling a 'Colabello' getting hurt and tail spinning down his production.
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    I sure hope that Berrios doesn't make the Twins look bad.
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    A lot of consternation about this roster. I know exactly what is going on. The Twins want to start the season 0-9 again.
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    . Come on, he has doubled his HR production in the 7 year sum total from his 2009 contract year. Isn't that what we expect from a first baseman? I get it that he would like to do more for the team, but it is not going to happen. I see a man trying to save his pride at some point this year and stepping out of the way for a more productive youngster to excel-at least that is a class way to move on and is what he should do.
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    Mauer at cleanup so says the article? Well he does have a trend going, 10 HR in 2015, 11 HR last year. Who knows, maybe this year 12 HRs is in the cards.
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    So if we are impressed this spring with Park, does what just happened to Vargas really matter?
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    . I agree for the most part he is a classic lead off hitter until he has to run. Why would you want someone as slow as him leading off?
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    You mean like a basic 101 upper cut swing? I mean he is batting third and all.
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    I don't understand why the Twins organization doesn't pay 1/2 to 2/3 of the contract to a team that needs a 'pretty' singles hitter, convince Joe to agree to the deal (no trade clause, yes but do you want to play? for an embarrassing incentive) and cut him loose? But then I wonder what team would want a 'pretty' singles hitter at even 1/3 of his salary? It is a bizarre spot he and the Twins organization is in. The above post not withstanding I wouldn't bother with looking at cumulative regular season and postseason success in relation to cumulative payroll. Because if you isolate Mauer's salary in the analysis you might embarrass Mauer even more.
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    Signing him or not signing him is a pretty silly argument when at the time he was coming off a 28 HR season and it appeared the Twins had a power hitter in him for years to come. What I find strange is why no one comments about a 28 HR contract year that came and went so quickly? To me he clearly showed that year he could swing for a fence. And now since he is consciously trying not to swing for a fence?
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    2-4 in the series win, led the team in batting average for the series. My guess is that he is starting the rest of the way whatever Toronto does. three of four playoff games he played in were multiple hit games.
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    Another nice playoff game, 2-4 with a HR and double and 2 RBIs, 4-12 in the series and an OPS of 1135, little question that he will start Wednesday. Toronto needs him.
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    "He played a great game,". Blue Jays second baseman Ryan Goins said. "He saved some runs for us, he got a couple of knocks." "It stinks to lose, and I think that's the only thing in the forefront of all our minds, but those are the kind of games you play for,". Colabello said. "What you dream about growing up is being in a tight game with a lot riding on it."
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