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  1. Dave The Dastardly
    I'm not enamored about this positional flexibility stuff. These players are "professionals". That means they're experts in their field, not jacks-of-all-trades. Know any surgeons that don't specialize in one area? You know, a heart surgeon doing knee surgery one week, kidney transplants the next day? No, they focus on one area, learn all they can about it, and practice, practice until they can't get it wrong. Find the best position for each player and keep them there.
  2. Dave The Dastardly
    "Exposing" Sano will take a big trench coat, but I believe other teams won't even want to take a look.
  3. Dave The Dastardly
    Repainting the back deck every spring. Repainting the same deck every fall. Putting the paint dealer's kid through college. Joyfully watching the snow melt from the grassy yard, only having to watch where you step due to all the turds the deer deposited all winter long while chewing off your arborvitaes, maple saplings and Honeycrisp apple trees. Taking the snow plow off the tractor in late March, putting it back on the tractor in April, after spending two days trying to remember where you put the pins necessary to mount the blade so you wouldn't lose them, by which time the April snow has melted. Watching your wife shake her head while you look for the missing pins and telling you the snow will be melted before you get the damn plow back on the tractor. An empty bottle of Jameson.
  4. Dave The Dastardly
    Ironic that a sport criticized today as slow and pedantic was played in Sleepy Hollow, home of Rip Van Winkle. Oh, and the Headless Horseman? Perhaps a reference to the baseball commissioner? One cannot help ponder these things...
  5. Dave The Dastardly
    You mean the runs?
  6. Dave The Dastardly
    I heard one of the reptiles is the Turtle.
  7. Dave The Dastardly
    I'll go with 5 and 4. Wouldn't bet the farm on the rest.
  8. Dave The Dastardly
    I've consulted my crystal ball (an upended empty bottle of Grain Belt) to answer this question and here's what I see: Second week of the season Buxton will run full steam into the centerfield fence and be implanted so deep they'll have to cut him out of the padding with a DeWalt sawzall; out for the season. Buck, once he recovers, will be traded to the Little Sisters of the Poor because, you know, the sisters have a hole in their lineup. Correa will collide full-on with Polanco on a pick-off throw from Sanchez behind the plate, breaking both players', noses, clavicles and gold chains; both players out for the season, the chains converted into gold teeth and implanted in a rap singer. Because of the errant throw, Sanchez will be traded to the White Sox for a couple of used baseballs in the hopes that he will do the same thing to the Sox. However, once in a Sox uniform he'll set the record for the most consecutive home runs for a season and top out around 80. Sano will strike out so many times Rocco will just throw out a white towel every time the big man is due up. But then one day he consults the spreadsheets, holds a finger up to test the wind from the front office, and sends the big man up to the plate. He swings at the first pitch, low and away, misses by a foot, the bat slips out of his hand, bounces off the pitcher's head, beans the third baseman, ricochet's into the stands and KO's Wally the Beerman, touching off a riot for the scattered Linenekugels, which nobody will drink unless it's stolen or given away for free. Sano gets arrested for assault and bat-trio and does time in the Hennepin county slammer where he acquires 76 tattoos and a trombone and eventually takes over Cell Block 13 where everyone calls him "Whiffer". There it is, straight from the bottle. I'll take the over.
  9. Dave The Dastardly
    You might want to read my last sentence again before jumping to conclusions.
  10. Dave The Dastardly
    See ball, hit ball. See ball, catch ball. See glove, throw ball. Pretty much the same from high school through major league. Baseball diamonds are similar, basic rules are similar. You could take a 13 year-old kid playing street ball and throw him into a game at any level and he'll know what to do. The basic aspects of the game aren't rocket science, it's the talent level (inherited) and the mental ability and willingness to learn and adjust that separates the different levels of play.
  11. Dave The Dastardly
    The only way we'll find out if the young guys in the pitching pipeline are going to make it in the Bigs is to give them a shot in the Bigs. "Saving" their arms by keeping them in the minors too long and holding down their innings pitched doesn't prove anything. Forget the reclamation projects. Ain't no future in the past.
  12. Dave The Dastardly
    A start is a start. There's no extra runs, or wins, awarded for Opening Day. 161 games later hardly anyone will remember who pitched and who won. Now if we want to talk about the last game that decides an invite to the play-offs, or clinches a shot at the World Series, or wins the World Series... then I'll get excited about who's pitching.
  13. Dave The Dastardly
    To answer your question; poorly. Slap me for being negative, but until Rocco learns how to use a pitching staff and bullpen wisely all our hurlers will be put at a disadvantage.
  14. Dave The Dastardly
    Ahh, the search for perfection! If only we could field eight perfect position players... You know, like all those other teams. I'll take Kepler's defense over 30 points on his batting average any day. Him and Buxton on the field together take 30 points off the opposing team's batting average. Personally, I won't worry about Max until he falls below the Mendoza Line. The problem is left field guys, not right field.
  15. Dave The Dastardly
    Location, movement, velocity. In that order.
  16. Dave The Dastardly
    Agree with the concept but I'd prefer peddling Sano and Urshela, give 1st Base to Kirilloff, 3rd base to Miranda and LF to Larnach so all three can settle in at their preferred positions instead of shuffling them around all season and keep Arraez as the utility guy. By the end of the season we'd know whether or not we've got our guys for contending in 2023 and beyond.
  17. Dave The Dastardly
    Personally, not excited about this move. Seen this "magical-fix-for-fading-veteran" schtick one too many times. Would rather put my money on one of our many supposed "prospects" who are clogging up the minors. Time to fish or cut bait.
  18. Dave The Dastardly
    As I've been preaching since last season ended, the Twins needed to move both Donaldson and Sano in order to open up playing time and ABs for the young guys that are the team's future. With Donaldson gone we're only half there and we still have a logjam. Sano has always been the biggest log. Trade him and most of the playing time problems go away, the young guys get a solid year of experience at the major league level and we're a contender in 2023. Dink around all season long with Sano blocking Kirilloff at first, Larnach in left and three or four others who could get AB's at DH and we can forget contending in 2023.
  19. Dave The Dastardly
    Love the TTTPitMtCBWSNBN!!
  20. Dave The Dastardly
    I'd submit that fading "experienced" pitchers fail just as often, if not more spectacularly, than rookies. We only have to look back at 2021 for multiple examples. The difference is the rookies can use the experience, win or lose, to learn where they need to improve in order to up their game because they have youth and time on their side. The old "pro" we fished out of the dumpster on the other hand is going nowhere but home. That's something to keep in mind if we're really trying to build for the future. If the kid's healthy give him the 5th spot. It's no harder to throw a pitch in MLB than it is to throw the same pitch in the minors.
  21. Dave The Dastardly
    If Sano starts at first and Kirilloff sits on the bench I'm going to need lots of tranquilizers. There's absolutely no rational argument for not playing Kirilloff, the team's future first baseman, who is way better defensively and can hit, in favor of one of the worst fielding first baseman in the league who occasionally hits a long homerun when he doesn't strike out. Sano's a DH on his best days and should be on his way to the National League.
  22. Dave The Dastardly
    I met Lisa once at a town ball game in Gaylord. She was sitting behind home plate throwing insults at the home plate umpire between wheezes. Turns out he was her husband. I was downwind of her and had to burn my clothes when I got home, what with the smoke smell and hot ash burns. If I'd known that I'd have borrowed a Yankees jersey before the game.
  23. Dave The Dastardly
    Weeping and gnashing of teeth does little more than further enriching your dentist. I instead have gazed into my crystal ball (actually an empty bottle of Jameson) and seen the future; Rortvedt will find his swing and replace the Twins "Big Pappi Nightmare", Sanchez will take one for the Gipper right in the groan, Godoy will get lost in Crosstown traffic, the Bat Signal will go out for the Turtle, the Front Office will say none of this could have been foreseen, or foresworn and TD fans will develop a sudden interest in ballet and say "tu-tu" and ta ta to Twins baseball. I, in the meantime, who actually has real Irish blood coursing through his veins, shall seek out my emergency bottle of Jameson and spend the evening watching the "Quiet Man" with my wee bit of a lovely lass. Maybe I'll get lucky and the Twins will sign a top-rated pitcher tonight. Take that as you might.
  24. Dave The Dastardly
    Sorry, I've lost track. What was the subject of this article?
  25. Dave The Dastardly
    The FO is thinking a year ahead. Their goal for again being competitive is 2023, not 2022. Dumping Donaldson and his contract had to happen in order to open up opportunities for younger players like Miranda and underused players like Gordon and Arraez; the guys they'll need to be competitive in 2023. We weren't going to be competitive in 2022 with or without Donaldson. Now if they can dump Sano, and with the DH coming to NL they should be able to find a taker, Kirilloff can settle in at first, and Larnach, Celestino and Rooker get more AB's and experience in the Bigs and we find out which players are going to help in 2023 and which ones aren't. Players and managers have to think in the "Now". Executives have to think in the "Future". So I'm cutting the FO some slack. One last time.
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