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Buxton is on his way to the show!

Buxton will wear #25.

BUXTON BABY!!!!!!! HE IS ON HIS WAY!!!!!

I would agree, and with Torii suspended and Hicks hurt, I think there is a good chance he debuts tomorrow. The kid is hitting .421 in his last ten games, and he has been hot all year, and while they are at it they should call up Sano, Meyer, and Burdi, who has a 1.56 ERA in his last 17.1, plus 21 strikeouts and 5 walks. I think they need to get the young guys up now.

Nice job by Eddie and Joe.

Stuff does not equal results. If someone told a scout that Mat Batts had better stuff than Kohl Stewart they would wonder if the person knew anything about pitching.

There have been lineup changes: Dozier 4 Rosario 9 Mauer DH Plouffe 5 Vargas 3 Nunez 6 Herrmann 2 Escobar 7 Robinson 8

That he would be a 4th outfielder.

I think that the Twins would be better off trying to sign Matt Weiters, but Kevin Plawecki might be an interesting target, but they should only do a one for one trade for a catching prospect.

Game Thread: Twins @ Rangers 6/13/2015 3:05 p.m. CDT We have a game today! The Twins have been doing awful lately, thanks to an offense that can't score more than two runs per game, and a bullpen that gets us out of the game as quickly as it can, but at least the starting rotation has done it's part. I'm going to do a short Game Thread today for all of the TLDNR people, so if this is too short I don't want to hear any complaining (or see), but I believe that people on TD believe that if you don't have anything nice to say, go say something on the Game Thread, and that is why a certain moderator is always saying "TLDNR" on the Game Thread. Weather: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 89. South southeast wind 10 to 15 mph. Lineups: Twins: Dozier, 2B Rosario, LF Mauer, DH Plouffe, 3B Hunter, RF Vargas, 1B Herrmann, C Escobar, SS Robinson, CF Pelfrey 5-2, 2.28 Rangers: Deshields, LF Choo, RF Fielder, DH Moreland, 1B Gallo, 3B Andrus, SS Martin, CF Chirinos, C Alberto, 2B

I remember people mentioning Stewart, Meyer etc. I remember people saying we should trade for Lucroy, which would require gutting the farm.

The Astros and Cubs never sold the farm for major league ready talent, and another thing is that Stauffer is not on the roster. Oh, the Twins don't have any more questions than the Cubs and Astros, either.

They were not selling the farm, they were trading players like PJ Walters, and Colby Rasmus, who had demanded a trade.

People said the same thing about Lorenzo Cain.

Fact of the matter is that they don't get paid to make decisions, they are paid to make the right ones, and they are not paralyzing themselves because they are afraid of making the wrong decision, they are approaching it how any reasonable front office would. People just can't say that the Twins have a bad front office when they don't even understand how a front office approaches trade talks, contract negotiations, draft decisions etc.

Well, Terry might be waiting until Tyler Jay is signed.

Trading for "proven" pieces is an awful idea, look at the teams that go and make a big trade at the deadline, the Tigers did it with Price, the A's did it with a lot of players, and those moves rarely pay off. If a team's scouts like a player, and they are lower on someone from within the organization that other people are higher on, that is when you use pieces to get major league talent that you think will help you in the pennant race, but it all comes down to scouting, you just don't trade for someone because they are popular with bandwagon fans, (those players are commonly known as "superstars"), you trade for a player because you and your scouts think that player x is better than player y, and you are higher on them than your trade partner, because when teams make a trade they usually think that they came out better, they just don't throw away players, which some of these trade proposals on this thread have had the Twins doing. But like I said, it all comes down to scouting, look at how the Giants built there world champion teams, and look at the Cardinals, they didn't just go acquire a bunch of all stars, they traded players that they were low on, but other teams were high on for unheralded players, and when the Giants did go out and make the big trade (Carlos Beltran), it was one of their worst moves in recent history. The Twins are pretty high on their prospects, and from a scouting point of view they should be, but if the Twins scouts think that a certain player is going to actually help the team become a world series champion, and they could part with certain prospects and still win the trade, but meanwhile make the other team think that they are winning the trade, then they should go for it, but if you like player x, and the other team is asking for a bunch of prospects that combined you are higher on than player x, it is stupid to give in just to get the player, because if you believe that the prospects are better than player x, you shouldn't trade for the player, because you actually believe that you are losing the trade. When teams make trades they want to come away as the winner, not even, and definitely not the loser.

The Twins haven't been bad for decades, and trading away your prospects for a player that will give less value than you paid for is a rotten idea. Nobody said you had to choose to tolerate a "crappy" team, and your idea that we can trade top prospects who have just as likely of a chance of succeeding as the player that we get for them just is illogical at this point, the Twins have a better chance of winning the division by promoting players than trading for players who some people on here want, and those players are not going to change us into a world champion team, or even a .500 team, the players that can change a team like that aren't available in trades, and it is just stupid to trade prospects that have as good of a chance of succeeding as the player we would get in return, and in the long run make the team more money, so it stupid from a baseball and business standpoint. This team has as good of a chance at succeeding this year as any other team in the division, and the only area that we need help in that we can't solve from within the organization is catcher, and the catchers that are available in trades aren't going to be much of an upgrade over Suzuki, and we can upgrade the outfield and bullpen from within, so it is just unreasonable to make a trade for a player that you could upgrade just as good from within.

That is way too much to give up, and the only thing the Twins would be getting in return that would be of any help would be Lucroy.

Stewart has better stuff than any of those pitchers you listed above.

I'm glad to see that the cellists are stone cold sober.

Because Blackmon is hitting .262 in Coors Field. I wonder what he would hit as Target Field. Sano is way to valuable to trade him for an average outfielder.

Why? He never initiated contact with an umpire, and the punishment for throwing equipment is a fine, not a suspension.

This is absolutely ridiculous. http://m.twins.mlb.com/news/article/130222744/torii-suspended-2-games-fined-for-outburst