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  1. ewen21
    To be honest, Kepler was dreadful for a long time and had a nice run for a couple of months. Jeffers and Wallner are not proven commodities and Taylor never was a good hitter. They look REAL bad in a lot of their at bats. but my expectations for these players in bigtime baseball games just was not that high.
  2. ewen21
    Mostly horrible at bats so far in the two games played at Target. I do not want to hear about pitching and defense wins for a long LONG time. Wanna know what loses? Not hitting at all. It was why we lost most of the games we lost during the playoffs losing streak. Terrible at bat after terrible at bat with the exception of Julien and Lewis.
  3. ewen21
    That was the worst take of the game. What was he hoping for? A walk? Kepler tends to go catatonic
  4. ewen21
    I am not saying he is an ex murderer. Even last year when the goal was to get him in 100 games. I am saying after many years of him being injured and through each scenario it is has been tough to tell what exactly it was that kept him off the field. We have been told what a supreme athlete he is and he's played in over 92 games one time. Enough with the excuses and the "we gotta keep him healthy" stuff. That is HIS responsibility. Availability is the best ability.
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    Just so you know, the Twins have scored only 48 runs in those last 18 playoff games in a row that they have lost. The lack of offensive production and lack of professional at bats is probably the biggest reason why they have been prohibitive losers in the playoffs. I do not know what the make Christian Vasquez and his .603 OPS. We do not need easy outs in the lineup. We have been there and done that in favor of "defense" enough. The defense doesn't suffer much with Jeffers in there over Vasquez. The lineup surely does. To address the topic .... You know what loses in the playoffs? Offenses that are toe up comatose. That is what loses. Give me the best lineup we can get and in this discussion that means Buxton isn't getting very many at bats if he does make the roster. I, for one, am not impressed with him marching into Rocco's office trying to tell him he wants in on the playoffs. What assurance does Rocco (or the GMs) have that Buxton won't come down with "swelling" or "soreness" and be a no go? He has not played at the major league level in two months All of a sudden the playoffs are around the corner and he is raring to go? How this doesn't raise red flags about the guy boggles my mind. To me, he is a guy who doesn't want to play more often than he wants to play. Color me suspicious at this point.
  6. ewen21
    I really feels that way to you?
  7. ewen21
    His lifetime average is .234 and his lifetime OPS is .749 and that is well below average for his position. I agree with you in that no one should be eating crow for criticizing him, or even calling for his all out release. He was very bad for a long period of time and we stuck with him much longer than most teams would. He had a two month turnaround this summer and that is nice. HOWEVER, I do not know if many have noticed, but he's in a minor dry patch right now. We are going to need him in October so he better not conveniently slump down the stretch. And by the way.....Kepler has been completely catatonic in the postseason. He is 1-18 in six games so he better snap out of this mini slump he has been in for now. We cannot afford another postseason where our bats go catatonic.
  8. ewen21
    I wish I could give this ten likes. Soreness is all we really get, though. At no point during the season did theTwins expand on it beyond that. Even when Rocco went on that "He'd be out there if he could! But he can't!" rant he spoke in very general terms. I thought it was a silly display at the time, but that was actually an effective rant that covered the situation for the Twins. It stopped the Twins media corps to ask any more questions about it. Not a single follow up question. Didn't seem to warrant much of conversation in the press. Without knowing any actual diagnosis one can surmise this has only to do with Buxton saying "the knee is sore" and the Twins simply pulling him and playing cautious. Is it simply: Buxton doesn't play when he feels sore? How about Souhan being a reporter and getting some actual information rather than chastising fans for being "cork sniffers" and "snooty" They should grill Rocco until he erupts, if you ask me
  9. ewen21
    Is it unreasonable to assume the Twins have looked at that knee, scoped it, treated it, monitored it, scrutinized it nine ways to Sunday? He was a central figure in their marketing these last few years and they invested long term. If there’s an injury that puts him on the IL that’s one thing. Right now it’s soreness. He is the only one who can feel the soreness. He’s the one who reports the soreness and that decides whether he can go or not at this point. The medical staff can only do what it does and if all monitoring equipment doesn’t come up with any specific injury then we are talking about soreness preventing him from playing. I honestly don’t know what to make of that.
  10. ewen21
    Fun Fact: Luis Arraez has more hits this year than Ryan Jeffers has in his career.
  11. ewen21
    I think it is important to ask would you take the 2000s over 10 losing seasons and a championship? Give me the championship.
  12. ewen21
    I cannot look back on the last 20 years and say we have been successful simply because we contended and got the playoffs a bunch of times. What does it matter to "contend" if you hold the record for playoff losses in all North America sports in a post season? If you are giving me one title and ten crap seasons where we don't make the playoffs then give that to me over what we have had for the last 20 years. If you're telling me that a couple of years we advance in the playoffs that might be different. I am operating under the context of what actually happened the last 20 years
  13. ewen21
    How I felt today will be you tomorrow!😎
  14. ewen21
    These guys are not taught how to do it and they certainly do not practice bunting so while in theory it seems OK, in practice it isn't actually an option.
  15. ewen21
    Do we even know if he knows how?
  16. ewen21
    It's not the in game stuff as much as it is roster building and coaching philosophy (all rooted in sabermetrics). TO be specific, the emphasis on things like "exit velo" and "launch angle" and the lack of concern for putting the bat on the baseball has adversely affected this team (and many other teams). You think fact that this team is on its way to set a record for strikeouts in a season has nothing to do with an emphasis on certain sabermetrics that shouldn't be so emphasized? We wouldn't have Joey Gallo without their myopic view that doesn't extend very far beyond certain analytics that have become popular. And if we are going to be real, Buxton has not underperformed. If his history matters at all Buxton is by no means a reliable producer and no Twins fan should be surprised by this season. He has had a couple of good years and several dreadful years where he's been riddled with injuries. Some real talk about Buxton: He has played more than 92 games in a season only once He has never scored 70 runs in a season He has never driven in more than 51 runs in a season He has collected more than 76 hits in a season once Let me repeat that one. He has collected more than 76 hits in a season once! Let's not be deluded by this guy anymore. He has not underperformed. He has had more than his share of seasons like this.
  17. ewen21
    No, I understand the concept so you do not need to explain it again and again. Lewis doesn't even have 200 plate appearances in the majors and has barely played 120 games in four baseball seasons at any level. That's the issue I have.
  18. ewen21
    Saying the players make way too much guaranteed money in no way requires me to defend the owners. The salaries are ridiculous. The cost of everything baseball is out of hand. The owners don't make guaranteed money and they incur the risk. A guy like Patrick Corbin can suddenly bite the big one and be historically BAD and still make roughly 25 million dollars a year? Yeah, Let's agree to disagree
  19. ewen21
    Precisely. Why do this now? Let me be clear, I like Royce Lewis and he's done great, but has not even reached 200 plate appearances and we have to lock him up already?
  20. ewen21
    In this economy there should be no reason to hand an athlete (any athlete) 500 million dollars in guaranteed money. If you want to load up a contract with incentives then have at it.
  21. ewen21
    I was very much on board when these guys were hired and I give them some credit for attempting to make roster moves Terry Ryan never would have made. That said, I cannot stand them now. They are too bound to analytics. We went from one extreme to the other and sorely need balance.
  22. ewen21
    We need to give up the ghost. Buxton is an illusion. The thought of him reaching his potential is an imaginary thing. He just wasted his 29 year old season. I watched a video of an interview he had with Mad Dog Russo over the off-season. He kept saying he couldn’t control injuries. If he can’t, how can the Twins? It’s a waste of time even discussing him at this point.
  23. ewen21
    He doesn’t have the makeup to be a full time major league ball player.
  24. ewen21
    Let me apologize for being a naysayer. This was intended to be a fun thread and it was a great breakdown from Captain...... Perhaps I am becoming the curmudgeon I never wanted to be
  25. ewen21
    Let me respond to this first: I am sorry, but this is far too fiscally irresponsible. How do the Minnesota Twins operate like this? Forget any other question you want to ask me since this is your proposal. I will answer your questions after you respond to this. First, please explain how it is remotely viable for this team to pay a single player 40% of its payroll for the next eight years--specifically a player who both pitches and plays full time. I get that he is unique and currently he is awesome, but no way he maintains this level of play for more than a couple of years. Historically, no one has ever done what he is doing right now. I get that a lot of people love Ohtani here, but he's not coming here for less money to not play on a west coast team.
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