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  1. Why should the Twins - or most any other team- give up any players … when you could just break up the Dodgers and the Yankees.. Yes! I say tax the rich and feed the poor.
  2. I don’t know Trevor Bauer. Can only imagine he’s been through a lot in past couple years. When he was leaving Cleveland and then Cincinnati, I had my opinion Didn’t want him. But is he the same guy now? Has that attitude been humbled? I would think the Twins -like anybody else- would want to check in on him.
  3. ha its a sobering thought, comparing him to wilmer.. I like the Marte comp -- and what we could to against lefty starters if Miranda comes all the way back and can play some 3rd base- santana at first and lewis moonlighting in the outfield
  4. Park has hit the hard throwers heat this spring. Vargas' sluggin percentage last year can't be ignored.
  5. The experiment was ploof at 3rd. The hope was that he'd make himself trade bait worthy of a return. I'm sure TR's hope was to get something for ploof. His plan was to move ploof out and Sano to 3rd. He'll follow that same plan. And settle for no return. His only mistake was in not trading plouffe years ago, when there was value in doing so
  6. I like the idea of letting him see MLB stuff. And I agree with the top of the line thinking that says he'll see the starter that additional time. And if you bat him in the 2 hole it'll be less pressure. Season's shot. There's no pitching on this team. I don't care if bats behind Mauer. Don't care if steals zero based. Learn to hit. Let Molitor and Mastroianni teach how how to steal later
  7. The right time to change? No ones likes change, until it starts paying dividends. Pride and fear conspire to tell us not to change. When it comes to the GM, it's a matter of trust. I like what the Cubs did. They went and got the best GM. Who then in turn went and got the best field manager. On the other end of Chicago, their GM was faced with a need to rebuild. But he saw that he had 2 front line arms under control. So he move aggressively forward. Houston and Oakland do well with the math majors advising. As all teams do now. Keeping x twins around is fine. As you trust who you know. But in moving players and in making plans (to rebuild)... My only knock on TR is that he never -ever- sells high. And alway gets caught in log jamming positions. Of course he has sold high when got log jammed in center field and catcher. And then was forced to look for help there too. Bad luck? Bad planning? How does one so conservative get caught like that? And why buy up all mediocre pitchers available, and lock them in long term.
  8. There's a difference between responding and reacting; patience and impulse; caring and apathy; vitameatavegamin and PEDs The Cubs in recent years have hired 2 of the best leaders available. The Astros' went a whole new way a few years ago. The twins extended Hughes and Suzuki
  9. Why don't stat geeks keep track of inherited runners? For both pitchers.
  10. Learning about concisions in the past 20 has been bigger than- I don't know. PEDs? I mean the humbling nature of the whole concision education. What we don't know. Imagine, in the history of the game, how many catchers- catchers alone- who may have had undetected concision syndrome. How many of them would have benefitted, like Joe, to switch positions before it was too late. Not many would have had the clout, or have received more than one season's worth of patient tolerance.
  11. Yeah get the monkey off your back but your twin city circus'll be in an American League city near you - all summer tour. I haven't hit panic button like this since they let Gary Gartti go. Good news is they won ws that year
  12. I used to think the talk of Buxton being injury prone was foolish. He's still pressing. His head isn't in the game. Few people get hit by that pitch. That's just an opinion. Of course if it was me, I'd have ducked and gotten hit in the head.
  13. 7 games back b4 tax day. Where's my refund? Too late to wish upon Aaron hicks or Carlos Quentin. Can't send the whole outfield down. Can't teach top prospect to protect his hands. Kid's a loser.
  14. Does anyone else remember that September game against the Indians? 1984. We were 4 and half back in the old A.L worst, with like a 500 record. Up like nine or ten to nothing. And Davis was brought in to close it out in the 9th. I went to Cooperstown that day. Had the mets on the radio on the ride home. Gooden struck out 17 for the rookie record. Those out of town scoreboard updates crushed my Twins pride. Similar to this week
  15. Best beer without a doubt is Jack Daniels
  16. There was an article about Murph having trouble w/ the curve. Hope that's not the case. If he's half s good as the movie i'd be happy
  17. Yeah 50%. Same rating rotten tomatoes gave "trouble with the curve"
  18. I'm a big Darin Mastroianni fan. prior to him playing for the Twins, I was the only Twins fan to have ever attended FLHS. So, in my biased thinking, Darin would be the best choice. And if he could help Buxton read pitchers and steal bases...
  19. He's got to be better than delmon Arica the hammer the killer or bombo Rivera. And we watched Kirby's lower body grow into triple x. He did okay. I like the Dave Parker comparison. Another pirate Willie Stargell was 34 before they made him a first baseman .. looks like Sano stays in RF unless we need DH or until plouffe starts killing it , so we can get something in return by trading him
  20. One never knows. Do one? Howe do you know he's not the next Dan Marino. Besides, it's easier to forgive...lefties
  21. there's been no trade value in plouffe for 3 years. Imagine the return you'd have gotten in 2012. But who wanted to trade him then? I did. But so what. Even cutting bait comes a cost. Prudent GMs are gems. We are lucky to have one
  22. I wouldn't know if a great player was blocked. Yankees Patriots and Twins didnt't seem to know what they had behind Pipp Bledsoe and Eisenrich
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