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  1. Everyday Eddy
    Guys playing hurt is ridiculous. I'm sure it was hard for Park to articulate the hand issue with the language barrier so his situation is more understandable but just recently Plouffe was playing with broken ribs. Trying to be a hero when you aren't that great in the first place does nothing but hurt the team
  2. Everyday Eddy
    Let's assume things are done completely wrong, which there is a decent chance of. Plouffe is re-signed to play 3rd and be a middle of the order "slugger." Sano is the right fielder of the future. Dozier is second baseman of the future. Escobar and Nunez are here next year. Park is DH. Polanco plays once a week. This is scary but I don't think it's all that unlikely.
  3. Everyday Eddy
    Nah, don't really see anyone covering up his struggles. What I do see is others placing a large portion of the blame on the way the Twins used him, whereas you are only blaming Arcia. Big difference
  4. Everyday Eddy
    If Danny Santana is worn down from his moderate use in CF, then that just magnifies even more why he shouldn't be a major leaguer. That's an extremely weak excuse for poor hitting from an athletic guy in his mid 20s
  5. Everyday Eddy
    Sorry I misinterpreted the question. He was stuck with a lot of garbage that year. Some of it on him though. There was no reason not to deal Josh Willingham
  6. Everyday Eddy
    If your scouting staff leads you to the worst farm system in baseball you get a new scouting staff. I can't begin to guess how the team might change had a different scouting staff been brought in. Could be better, could be worse. But there's this thing called accountability that should come into play. Giving the twins scouts/GM credit for making an easy decision drafting buxton and another no brainer to sign Sano is stupid. Any person on this earth could have made those simple decisions. It's the years that the twins were decent and hitting on no draft picks that they should be judged
  7. Everyday Eddy
    I fire my scouting staff
  8. Everyday Eddy
    And who's fault was that?
  9. Everyday Eddy
    I'm sure they will be on the roster. So will Nolasco, Hughes and Santana. Also nothing about Ryan's track record suggests he's not going to sign a couple more Robinsons, Pelfreys, Nolascos, Stauffers, etc. He has rarely made a good signing or trade, which is why I have no faith he will suddenly figure out that aspect of being a GM.
  10. Everyday Eddy
    The twins do not deserve to be a .500 team right now. And TR will figure out a way to avoid the common sense you just used to fix the roster for next year
  11. Everyday Eddy
    Those players are more similar to Mauer than Nolasco, Hughes or Santana. At least Mauer and those guys earned a big pay day and were good for some of the contract. We rewarded the others for being old and average.
  12. Everyday Eddy
    If Ryan makes the changes necessary to win 89-91 games I'll give him all the credit in the world. He won't though
  13. Everyday Eddy
    Every single one of those guys was an all star. Also those teams aren't afraid to get rid of bad contracts
  14. Everyday Eddy
    My problem is that TR has sabotaged the rebuild with the bad contracts. He sells fans that we're in win-now mode when we aren't really. He then proceeds to sign veterans who cripple the whole org by creating log jams. I've pointed out major issues that many people just decide to brush aside (almost the same way TR does with any big issue). I hope we win soon, but I can't sit here and realistically say the future is as bright as many make it out to be.
  15. Everyday Eddy
    Are you serious? Giants, Cards, Tigers had their upswing but fell short, Angels are always good, Rays had their strong run. Clearly no team can be perfect evey year, but there are definitely methods to put together championship organizations. Most GM's probably laugh at what TR has done with his implementation of awful veteran contracts .
  16. Everyday Eddy
    I do not disagree on our big three. However, I bet every decent organization has a plan to deal with all of the issues stated above. The very few teams that have all of those pieces are going to win championships and we will continue to have decent pieces and glaring gaps. We will eventually fill these gaps only to come to the realization that Dozier, Perkins, etc. are now not good any more and therefore we have different gaps. This is the twins way... an unending cycle of gaps. The twins need to figure out that you have to have no gaps to win championships. Some GM's have figured this out, TR has not.
  17. Everyday Eddy
    All of those teams you mentioned have done a better job than the twins. Do any of them have Hughes, Nolasco, Santana and Mauer sitting on their roster while they expect to win? Some of you people are feeding everyone that next year and the year after are in our window to contend. That is a pipe dream. You don't win anything with 3 average at best starters being paid big bucks and a below average first baseman making 23 million. I blame no one for Mauer's collapse and contract issues but himself because he was paid fairly at the time. We're well past the first 36 months of this poorly attempted rebuild, so not sure where you came up with that number. Everyone is so caught up in the positives of the twins that they fail to see the underlying issues that are going to expose themselves in the next few years: no elite pitching, overpaid veterans, no C, no SS, no BP, and TR still running the show.
  18. Everyday Eddy
    This is why I don't understand what's wrong with trading Perkins and Dozier. The supposed rebuild we've been in the last few years was not done properly. Five years is plenty of time to have every single position solidified with good prospects or young major leaguers. TR didn't do that. We have Sano, a few pitchers, and Buxton, Rosario, etc. in the outfield. No SS, C, 1B, or bullpen. We also have a surplus of 4-5 starters who are not going anywhere. We have Dozier, Plouffe, and Perkins who are good players, but will be good while the team is not (which to me is useless, but some may want an all star on the team at all times). Trade all 3 and continue building for '18 or '19. I know the thought of being bad for a few more years sucks as a fan of the twins, but if we really want to stack young talent together and make multiple deep playoff runs the rebuild should continue and that could start by moving Dozier, Plouffe and Perkins.
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