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He's gonna be a good one to watch for a very long time, I've got that feeling. Someday, Buck, Mauer, Bocaton will be swinging it together up in the TC.

I just have a hard time seeing a big slump from Buxton. He has so far shown a decent eye at the plate and he is so darn fast that outs, become hits thus preventing slump-like numbers. May 1, move him up if Kepler is healthy. Kepler is a CF, it's pointless to move him to a corner now. It's also time to let Morales sink or swim in AA.

Right, hopefully no one took this post as Hicks sucks, lets dump him to the Pirates. I still think he can be successful, probably needs more time in MiLB though.

RF tonight, Parm off day LF tomorrow, Willi DH DH Wednesday, Doumit off day There really is no reason not to give him 3 looks. I will actually be pissed if we wasted the kids time and didn't bring him up for 3 starts.

If struggles continue, do you just suggest more seasoning in AAA?

Do they send the message down with him that he is a RH batter? It would make sense, being the majority of his at-bats have been LH(and terrible) that the Twins would send him down with the task being to get at-bats right handed exclusively and hopefully snap out of his slump and come back to the majors. I imagine it would be temporarily difficult batting RH against RH pitching, but in time he could get the hang of things (100 AB's?) Everyone knows the M.O. on Hicks, If he fails this time up with the Twins, I would think that would be the first step in correcting the fella. Him being a RH batter only wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, we have plenty of LH batters.

I mean, they could definitely find playing time for him if he deserves it. I guess if that happened, they would send Hicks down and give the starting CF job to Mastro. Hicks could spend time DH'ing, playing LF/RF and being the emergency CF. This would cut down on at-bats for guys like Parmalee, Willingham and Doumit though. I wouldn't be too upset if Doumit is missing some at-bats though with the way he has been swinging it. Ideally, you would like to hold off on the Arcia train until June-ish, when we could deal Willy or Morneau if Parmalee proves he can hit at this level.

I have no issues with sending him out for the 8th, BUT, there was no reason he couldn't have Burton loose there to face Gordon. Would've been a runner on 3rd with a strikeout pitcher and a strikeout prone batter with one out. It could've potentially won the game for Gardy, instead he had no one loose in the bullpen.

If the season were to end today: The Twins would play a game 4 and game 5 against the White Sox and Indians to determine who won the AL Central. If they were not victorious, they would then have to play a game 6 and 7 against the other loser from the AL Central and the 1st loser from the AL East. PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONS PEOPLE!

Lots of season left. Draft is more than 2 months away. I believe Manea has plenty of time to sweep people off their feet again. Looking back at it, I wish we would've lost a few more games last year so we could have Appel.

CUT HIM, FIRE HIM! #SEASONSOVER Wait...let's give it some time.

In a couple weeks add Deduno and Diamond...and it's not that bad. Worley Pelfrey Diamond Deduno Correia It's only a matter of time before Gibson earns his shot as well.

Uh, yeah. WOW.

So this means what? Worley Pelfrey DeVries Corriea Deduno --Then Diamond when he's ready? Ugh. I hope we score lots of runs.

FWIW, He was the Phillies best pitching prospect coming into the 2012 season, according to many reports I read.

I'm torn. I want them in Minneapolis, but as far as we know we won't contend this year. If that's the case, what is the point in starting their clocks early? The later the better. Bring them both up in June unless we truly believe we can contend with this team, which is what I think we all want to believe.

Appel lost his first start against Rice 5 to 1. He pitched 5 innings, allowing 5 runs although 3 were unearned. He recorded 3 BB and 3 K's while throwing 1 wild pitch. This game was played on Friday, so that would put him on track to pitch again this Friday vs Fresno State. 0-1 (W/L) 3.60 (ERA) 3/3 (K/BB)

Hey folks, figured we could start something new to perk our interest up during ST this spring. Feel free to predict OVER or UNDER for each. # of Twins TJ Surgeries scheduled before April 5th 1.5 OVER Hits for Butera 3.5 OVER Joe Mauer World Baseball Classic Championship Title .5 UNDER Team wins (including S/S) 13.5 OVER Justin Morneau Homeruns 3 EVEN Innings pitched by Kyle Gibson 13.5 OVER Aaron Hicks batting average .280 UNDER Correia strikeout total 6.5 UNDER Joe Benson strikeouts 9 OVER Chris Parmelee XBH 7.5 OVER Trevor Plouffe's errors 2.5 UNDER Rich Harden innings pitched 5.5 UNDER Date Alex Meyer is sent down(before/after) March 6th BEFORE Date Anthony Slama is sent down(before/after) March 19th BEFORE

Wait a second. I never said legit. Define legit? Is JJ Hardy legit? Is Luis Rivas legit? I believe the only thing I said is we would have 10 million wrapped up in the two positions.

I guess I don't quite get it... 2015 C: Mauer, Herrman (24 million) 1B: Parmalee (3 million) 2B: FA (4 million) SS: FA (6 million) 3B: Plouffe (5 million) OF: Arcia (1 million) OF: Hicks (1 million) OF: FA (7 million) UTL: FA (3 million) OF: MiLB (1 million) UTL: MiLB (1 million) OF: MiLB (1 million) SP: Meyer (1 million) SP: Gibson (1 million) SP: Worley ( 6 million) SP: FA (8 million) SP: Diamond (4 million) RP: Perkins (3.75) RP: Duensing (3) RP: FA (2 million) RP: Burton (3.6) RP: MiLB (1) RP: MiLB (1) RP: MiLB (1) Payroll: About 92 million. NOT OUT OF REALM OF POSSIBILITY! Also, I probably guessed high on quite a few guys for their salary. This projection assumes Parmalee, Hicks, Arcia, Gibson, Meyer, Herrman figure out how to be at least average by 2015. This gives those 6 2 full seasons to figure things out, which I would assume is plenty of time considering how close all of them are anyways. This projection needs 6 minor leaguers to fill small roles within the roster. 3 RP: Melotakis, Bard, May(SP), Berrios, Wimmers, Salcedo, Tonkin, Boyd... I would hope 3 of these guys are possibly ready to fill a mop-up role/MRP role by 2015, plus there is this year's draft that could include a quick rising RP possibly. 2 Backup OF: These spots could be filled by several different names: Kepler, Benson, Walker, Roberts, Ortiz. 1 Backup UTL: This spot also assumes that NO we have no minor leaguer capable of winning a starting spot by 2015 and that we have to sign a 2B and SS for a combined 10 million dollars. Players up for the spot: Rosario, Goodrum, Dozier, Santana, Michael. This projection is basically assuming that our minor league system fails miserably which I don't think will happen. Some of these spots will be swollowed up by our top prospects and they will emerge as legit all-stars. For some reason, I don't think it's a stretch to think that this team could become very good, very fast starting in 2015.

C: Mauer 1B: Parmalee 2B: ? 3B: Plouffe SS: ? OF: Arcia OF: Hicks OF: ? SP: Meyer, May, Gibson, Worley I would consider this to be a fairly strong core with lots of guys knocking on the door that could possibly do big things by 2015. Sano, Buxton, Berrios, Rosario, Kepler, Wimmer and lots of bullpen arms. I feel excited for 2014 because we will start to see some of these guys emerge, but 2015 will be the year where we could potentially start to do some damage IMO. Hopefully by 2015 we will have found a legitimate catching option to pair with Mauer.

Can I still get in? maybe i get one less pick or something? I forgot all about it til lunch today...weird I know.

Johnson > Buerhle

Honest question, is Terry Ryan doing anything right now to improve this team? My impression is that he is just scanning the waiver wire looking for the next marque player. I get it folks, it's early in the offseason, but let's face the facts Terry Ryan, we have lost 90+ games 2 straight years now, MAKE SOME FRICKIN WAVES already.

The Twins should not be afraid to trade any major leaguers named Willingham, Morneau, Span, Parmelee.