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  1. wsnydes
    Agreed. In Buxton's case, I feel it's pitch recognition. Pulling off of breaking balls, particularly from RHs would indicate to me that he sees a pitching coming inside and doesn't drive into it. When it starts to break away from him, he ends up out of balance and reaching. That, IMO, screams of not enough seasoning at the higher levels of the minors where breaking pitches are better than in the lower levels. He also seems to foul off very hittable pitches because of the same lack of pitch recognition. I like that he's able to fight a little, but I think there is a lot of room for growth there. I'm not really worried about him long term yet though.
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    Speed doesn't make you good at any a defensive position. It helps obviously. It's certainly a weapon and helps cover up inefficiencies or mistakes. The best outfielders still make quick and correct reads and take the straightest route to the ball.
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    Well put. I think the idea is that even aggressive hitters that chase out of the zone can still be selective. It's not necessarily that they swing at pitches out of the zone, it's what pitches they swing at out of the zone. I agree in general that hitters need to be more selective, forcing pitchers to stay in the zone, but if that takes the aggressiveness away from a hitter and they suck because of it I don't see how that's a win. It should be more about getting a hitter to understand their own tendencies and work with them to become a better hitter rather than completely revamping a guys approach in order to (hopefully) make them more successful. When you have guys like Rosario that swing at everything, that's still about pitch selection. Its the same basic message. They just have to realize which pitches they can do damage with, not what they can make contact with. There's a massive difference between those two concepts. Similarly, just because it's a strike, that doesn't mean it's worth swinging at in certain situations.
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    I think it's hard to argue that this team preaches what they say they preach in the minors. Minor league players lack fundamental skills and and situational knowledge and awareness. That's been going on for some time now. Gardy was complaining that he was having to spend too much time teaching fundamentals. That should not be the job of the big league skipper. That's what the minors are for. There's a reason that a team like the Cardinals continue to develop their farm system at such a high level. They know these things when they get to the big leagues. Then the big league skipper can work on mechanics and practice things rather than teach things.
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    I'm remember audibly laughing watching highlight reels of Vlad Guerrero and his ability to clobber "bad balls." Golfing home runs out of the dirty, driving HRs over the RF wall from the LH batters box, etc. Some guys can get away with it, some can't. I think Jake Mauer put it rather succinctly.
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    Grossman seems to be cooling off. By the time Rosario gets called back up, I would imagine that they'd split time in LF at best. Keep Kepler in RF.
  7. wsnydes
    Beat me too it. Routes and knowing when and how to back up Buxton has irritated me to no end.
  8. wsnydes
    I viewd his PT as a means to rest the OF'ers that haven't had a day off for a while. Even so, that's too much. I'm also probably being overly optimistic.
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    I would agree with that. There is a list of guys I'd rather have seen DFA'd than Arcia. Santana is on there, but a few bullpen guys are on the list ahead of him. Moli just needs to learn to be more efficient with his bullpen use so that they can go down to 12 pitchers. I think Arcia vs Santana kind of misses the point. It's the pitching that are the worst offenders of keeping this team out of games.
  10. wsnydes
    I don't disagree with any of your points either. Perhaps the team was trying to find out how much he wants it? Maybe they didn't feel like he was working hard enough? I don't know. For whatever reason, they kept him in AAA and he didn't react well. At that point, you certainly can't call him up whether he earned it or not prior to that season. Keep in mind that I'm not questioning how hard he worked, merely stating that perhaps he needed to work even harder to get back. That's what I would have done in that situation, but that is my mentality. Like I said, life isn't always fair. The Twins shouldn't and don't deserve to get a pass on him, but I can't say that Arcia is blameless either.
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    I guess that I'd expect him to work harder to earn his way back up, using it as motivation. Life isn't always fair, sometimes you have to dig yourself out to get ahead.
  12. wsnydes
    I was going to put him somewhere between Jason Tyner and Roberto Clemente, but he already beat me to the comparison post.
  13. wsnydes
    They were at the trade Plouffe point this time last year... Dozier is more of a "deal the veterans to free up PT and acquire talent" in my view. I do want to see Polanco though.
  14. wsnydes
    He said that last year too...
  15. wsnydes
    Pretty much. I figured that if it would be "okay" as long as they dealt Plouffe. Since that didn't happen, all bets were off. In fact, at that point I was convinced that that's exactly what was going to happen because that's the only way the deal made any sense.
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    Also correct. I figured this day was coming as soon as that signing was made. I'm surprised that it took this long, but the writing was on the wall. That move created far more problems than it's been worth.
  17. wsnydes
    Correct. I'm not going to lose sleep over Arcia, but there were more deserving options to be cut loose or sent down. Carrying the 13 pitchers for Molitor to mismanage and overuse is a mistake.
  18. wsnydes
    I don't really want him getting AB's and time in the field over Buxton or Kepler, but there is no reason that he couldn't have been platooning at DH.
  19. wsnydes
    Rosario's OPS+ last season was 101. {grabs popcorn}
  20. wsnydes
    I agree, he is playing far too much. But it's not because he's wearing out.
  21. wsnydes
    Kepler can play some CF.
  22. wsnydes
    I don't care where Polanco is playing as long as he's playing every day.
  23. wsnydes
    And they're doing virtually the same thing with Polanco. I'm not sure if adding him to the active roster to provide depth and not playing him is better or worse than sitting behind that list of crap veterans. It's not good or smart, that is for sure.
  24. wsnydes
    Agreed completely. At this point, there is no reason to consider using a roster spot on a defensive specialist (using it sarcastically). While I'm not nearly as bent out of shape about Arcia's DFA, I am miffed by the timing and how it went down.
  25. wsnydes
    Agreed. The response there is that they have better all around options in the INF, but had none in the OF. Arcia can't even play a corner spot, let alone CF. Again, I'm simply stating what I believe to be the other side of this argument. It is very thin, I agree. But it's the only rational reason I can see as a benefit of this move.
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