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  1. wsnydes
    I don't see it happening without quite a few moves and a few things working their way like you pointed out, but if some of the young guys come up and succeed it may not be insane to see them do that. I personally don't think it'll happen, mainly because I don't think the necessary moves will be made. I think the talent is there for the position players. Like has been pointed out, the pitching is what needs to improve in order for them to have even a remote chance of approaching a .500 clip.
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    Neither of those are qualifications or requirements for a big league manager, so that would be a refreshing approach.
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    I don't see why any of those couldn't be both. I was taught how to go with a pitch before I even got to high school. By the time I graduated, it was automatic. Good question on the Ks and becoming good. I'd be interesting in that answer as well.
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    Hardy's knock, in my view, will always be his health. When he was healthy, he was very good at the plate and in the field. His big years in Baltimore were largely due to his good healthy. That trade in particular bothered me a lot. They got nothing for a starting caliber SS. I've never minded the Gomez trade all that much.
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    I agree and hope it continues. Good thing he didn't go Bill Buckner on the bit too!
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    Buxton seems to be "okay" when he's ahead in the count. That helps him eliminate a pitchers options. I definitely agree that Kepler is ahead of Buxton in the hitting department. That is the extra time in the minors showing up. Buxton should be sent back down, bring up Rosario and have Kepler and Rosario split time in CF.
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    I'm all for ripping the FO, but I'm not sure what their other options were. Reasons like this are why the farm system exists in the first place. Kepler could have been brought up, but he wasn't even hitting as well as Buxton at the time. Rosario wasn't in a position to be called back up. Grossman isn't a CF, that's why Santana is still on the roster (all jokes aside). What do you suggest they have done? I don't really think they're doing detrimental damage to his career. I think that's a reach at this point. If struggling like this hurts his career, he's not the elite prospect everyone makes him out to be. I would have preferred he stay in AAA longer as well, but sometimes things don't work out the way you want them to. It's just reality.
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    Weren't they essentially forced to promote him due to Santana's injury? That left no CF on the active roster. I'm guessing they they would have preferred to leave him down there a bit longer.
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    Agree completely that those guys weren't ready to be called up. I'm not suggesting that they should have. What you are proposing makes more sense then what they actually did. I freely admit that the team wasn't in a great position to begin a rebuild, but they should have started anyway. You have to start somewhere. Unloading what they could is how to begin that, and I don't feel that they did all that they could have. And as you pointed out, once guys were ready, they needed to play them. They didn't do that either, and they still aren't today aside from being forced to.
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    This. So much this. It makes no sense to hold guys in the low minors and then catapult them through the high minors to the majors. That's part of the reason these guys are so raw. They are things that they won't learn how to deal with until they see better pitching. Some guys can adjust just fine going from AA to the majors, some can't. That isn't a knock, it's just human reality.
  11. wsnydes
    That approach is at least a rebuilding effort of sorts. It's still bringing in decline stage veterans, but they're at least cheap. Kevin Correia's of the world never made much sense. Signing a bunch of AAAA type guys could have at least bridged the gap and possibly paid off higher returns over what they ended up doing. My criticism is aimed at the efforts made to basically maintain a mediocre level rather than try to go young and start fresh. I have a hard time believing that Morneau and Perkins couldn't have been dealt. Willingham I can agree with, but if the team ate some of his salary he may have been. Either way, my broader point has always been that this team didn't then and still hasn't now ever started a true rebuilding.
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    While that could limit his value, it's not as though a team in need of a late innings guy wouldn't have dealt for him. Clearly his value between then and now is a lot of hindsight. But at the same time, that is what the FO guys are paid to foresee and account for.
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    Wasn't Ken Griffey, Jr the first #1 overall pick to be elected to the HoF?
  14. wsnydes
    He has a tendency to be sentimental with long term Twins. That's coupled with holding onto signees too long as well. Not a great combination.
  15. wsnydes
    So you'd DFA Mauer and let him leave for nothing?! I sat through those years in Section 102 at Target Field. Patiently, I might add. Just as I do this season. Was I happy about it then? No. Did I keep going to games? Yes. Why? I'm not sure anymore. That loyalty certainly isn't being repaid. I'm well aware of what a fan base does in losing seasons. Being a season ticket holder through four straight 90+ loss season tends to wear a guy out.
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    I think Morneau could have too. The shell of him former self still played in 134 games, swatted 19 HRs with 77 RBI and a .773 OPS. MVP numbers? No, but certainly marketable. He had a similar 2013. The Twins got Alex Presley for him when they did finally move him.
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    I really don't want to keep shuttling Buxton back and forth. He historically struggles a bit at each level before taking off. He had a good spurt after being brought back up, I'd like to see if he can start trending upwards again in the next couple of weeks. That also gives Rosario more time to rake in AAA, which I'd prefer. That time would also give you more time to look at Grossman, who appears to be cooling off. If in a couple of weeks he hasn't corrected, you send Buxton back down and bring Rosario up. I wouldn't mind seeing Kepler in CF a bit, but I'd have to see what Grossman is doing before settling on who plays where. That is a good question and I think the Twins are in a pretty good position there. They have options and they all involve youth.
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    I wouldn't even bring Santana back, they have other options to fit his role that would likely be better at it. Sano can DH until Plouffe is dealt. I'd deal Nunez and Dozier as well. I don't really think Park would benefit from being sent down, but wouldn't be up in arms if he did.
  19. wsnydes
    I don't disagree with any of what you said, but to say that there was nothing there simply isn't correct. Also, I said that the vets could have been unloaded, not that the Twins would load up on prospects. My initial point is that in order to rebuild, you have to start somewhere. This team still hasn't. 2012 was the second consecutive 90+ loss season. That was the time to unload anything that could be dealt even if its a bag of balls. If you have eat salary to do it, so be it. Get what you can with what you do have.
  20. wsnydes
    Included on the 2012 Twins roster that finished 5th in the ALC: Justin Morneau Josh Willingham Denard Span Ryan Doumit Francisco Liriano Brian Duensing Glen Perkins Matt Capps Admittedly, those aren't all great names. Some would have been sell low. Some were traded later including Ben Revere who was on the team, but I didn't include in this list. They certainly could have been unloaded to replenish a lagging farm system.
  21. wsnydes
    This. Even if they unloaded some of the younger minor league talent to acquire more younger talent to fill out a lagging farm system, that is still a rebuild. It may take longer, but it's at least a start.
  22. wsnydes
    That's my point, which seems to be your point from earlier. The rebuild needed to come 4 years earlier. They could have unloaded veterans to acquire younger talent. Instead, they continued to sign decline phase vets and augment them with average prospects from a barren farm system. That simply prolonged the middling of this squad and delayed the inevitable. If they would have simply blown things up earlier, we may not be at this point now. They've never actually started a rebuild. They're still not in the midst of a rebuild, TR is trying to contend. His moves and lack thereof show it. His in-season moves and roster management still show it. The managers distribution of playing time shows it. The words that come out of their mouths show it. None of the guys in charge understand where they sit. None of them appear committed to right the ship. Back to back 90+ loss seasons doesn't trigger a rebuild and five of six seasons 90+ losses doesn't, how am I as a paying fan supposed to believe that a 100+ loss season will be any different? The FO certainly doesn't give me any hope that such a thing is understood by them.
  23. wsnydes
    Considering they had in-house options, signing Park shouldn't have been in the picture if they didn't have the Plouffe situation worked out yet. That reeks of being nearsighted and ignoring the big picture. Also, they simply could have moved Sano to 3B rendering Plouffe a backup. They had options, they just didn't plan far enough ahead to make the correct ones.
  24. wsnydes
    I can't agree that last year upped expectations. They overachieved with what they had, added virtually nothing and played it off as "we're going to contend." It was a sell job that many around here saw right through. Last season was possibly the worst thing that could have happened. It made the FO complacent. This club should have been in full rebuild mode 4 years ago and wasn't.
  25. wsnydes
    Much easier to be preaching patience if they hadn't been already doing that for the last few years. I was fine with that approach as long as there was a visible plan. That disintegrated last season and only got worse during the offseason. At this point, I think the fan base has every right to be irritated. They can ask for more patience, that's fine. Just don't expect us to spend our money on this mess until the patience we've already shown is rewarded.
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