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  1. Fritzderkat
    I just made a post on one of yesterday's threads, which I'm sure is now lost to history, but I think it applies here as well so I'll paraphrase. I said earlier "the pieces weren't there" less in agreement with Santana's comment but to my own way of thinking and that is that even if the Twins had kept everybody they traded, or even if Santana and Castro had been healthy and Polanco available, they were still without Buxton and Sano at anywhere near optimal performance and as it turned out were 'stuck' with Lynn, Morrison and Reed. I don't know how anyone here could realistically consider that roster as potential contender--not even in the weak-teat AL Central where even a sub-performing Cleveland team was able to hold them off most of the season without any sort of a serious threat. The 2018 Twins as structured were not a playoff-caliber team, nor were they in 2017 (despite their sneaking in as a Wild Card), not when you compared them with the perennially few legitimate contenders, and in my opinion the "pieces" for that haven't been there, certainly not the right ones or enough of them, for most of the past 30 years. So, go ahead and beat me with a stick, preferably something less than a 34-oz. Slugger.
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    Where's Joe Page when you need him?
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    Who can possibly argue with the statement, "The pieces aren't there"? When's the last time for the Twins they've had the right pieces? Fact is, the Twins, like practically every franchise in the majors besides Boston, New York, Houston, the Cubs and the Dodgers are jokes. Once in a while,a different squirrel will find a nut, but not very often. Beyond those, there is no competition, and for fans like "ours" to sit around and bellyache is a joke in itself. Whoever keeps saying the only goal of the Twins is to put fannies in the seats and turn a profit pretty much says it all.
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    Bring him up! Btw, as a sixth grader, I pulled it off at second base once in a 'midget league' game at Midvale Elementary in Madison. The kid's mother, on the sidelines, complained to the umpire bitterly.
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    Admitting that he has a habit of bringing bad cases of white knuckles to the 9th, I have to say that in watching him closely this year, first time in his long career for that opportunity, I came to admire his cool. And more often than not, after putting us on the edge of our seats, he'd come through, which is much more than we can say about a lot of the Twins, yes? Good luck to him in Oakland, and wherever else he may land over the next...what, five years? Big question: Who now's gonna be our guy? Only thing for sure is a remark made by one of us elsewhere, how often will the Twins as we know them this season (or next) really need a closer?
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    Thanks. I'll likely hang in until they throw me out or the Twins drive me nuts. I see I've picked up a bad point for a see-through attempt to disguise the f-bomb. My bad. Indeed, Iyam incorrigible.
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    If not already obvious, it means I am your proverbial dinosaur. There's little about the game I like anymore, and not the least of it is the strikeouts and home runs. The home runs are a joke; reminds me of the steroid era. Thanks for your polite reply; I appreciate it.
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    Mike Sixel: Are you a fan or a metrics guy? How about the folks in the business who create the prospect ratings?
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    I really don't care how high they were rated. They've flagged, and you folks keep wishing they hadn't. Prove me wrong, Miggy, Buck, and I'll change my tune.
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    You people certainly are optimistic, not in the least considering how many times in recent years this club has folded or never gotten off the ground in the first place. Overvaluing what the Twins have, as someone has mentioned, has no doubt been contributive. If that is a fault of you who are 'fans' as well as amateur analysts, the sports writers for the (Red) Star-Tribune (& Crescent) and all the TV talkers must share equally in the blame. I have no confidence that Buxton or Sano will ever fulfill the hype. I wouldn't even call it potential anymore, simply hype. I have a question: How many here consider themselves part of the "metrics" group and how many are plain old fans?
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    I wrap it up like this. On the same day they deal Escobar, Belisle is still around and gives up a walk-off in the 10th. That's what I call ironic. They ought to put it in the 2018 highlights vid. .
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    God hep us. Every one.
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    There have been many times during the 15 years I've been following the Twins when I have looked on in amazement at what I've considered the mistakes, gaffes and half-ass decisions they've made, nearly always at the hands of whomever is staffing their front office. Only occasionally have they done anything that actually pissed me off. With the Escobar trade, I'm seriously pissed. I'm so pissed that I hardly care what happens to them the rest of this season, and if Sano and Buxton don;t start playing like legitimate major leaguers, the crux of the plan for the past five years is about to go south, and it will be years before they can field a ball club that is good enough to contend. I've asked before what there is about them that has been consistent during this time, and time and again I come up with one thought: the Pohlads.
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    And I like Ervin Santana.
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    If I were the general manager of any other team in MLB, I wouldn't bother with any of the Twins you have named as possible tradees except Escobar and Gibson. And I wouldn't trade either of them if I were the Twins because as a fan, they're two of my favorites. Yeah, I know, that doesn't cut anything on the trade market but if you don't have a few guys you favor, what's the sense of rooting for a team? I like Rosario and Mauer, too, Berrios of course, but as for the rest I wouldn't miss any. Trading Escobar reminds me of trading Eduardo Nunez, a versatile, glue-like guy who can play infield or outfield. I liked him, too. I like guys who put out each time they play. I like Bobby Wilson for the same reason.
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    KenBuddha said:I don't think Molitor is gone because I don't think the FO gets to decide. Just like they really didn't get a choice in bringing him back after his MOY award. The owner wanted him and continues to want him. Once this contract is done maybe then the FO will get to decide, but not before. I said a couple weeks ago, and forgive me if it's been said before (it has to have been, by somebody), I've been following the Twins for the 17 years I've lived here and the primary consistency--that of continued failure--is the uninspired Pohlad ownership, their tightfisted control of finances and dimwitted appointment of organizational flunkies.. As a sidelight, whose decision do you suppose it was yesterday to bat Wilson with two outs and the bases loaded when on the bench sat Garver and Austadillo?
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    Agreeing here with SadMinny. I could see dumping anyone else but Rosario and Hildenberger. Too bad they have nothing to offer for Realmuto.
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    Chris Carter's hitting .193.
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    The comments conclude this game accurately. I'd say it was an (all-too typical) Twins loss. If there was anything atypical, it was Grossman's grand slam. Otherwise, base-running bloopers, fielding errors (and what's with Eddie Rosario overrunning or bobbling balls, which he's done several times in the past week), poor Bobby Wilson still swinging a bat (although credit to Bobby for stretching out with his foot on the plate for a critical tag), our man Gibby looking like all-too typical Gibby in the 5th, another blown save from the , Pantomime Archer, and running an untried and apparently overmatched rookie onto the hill in the 10th and leaving him in there to dangle. If there was a highlight, it was four guys from the bullpen managing a couple innings of scoreless relief. Atypically, that included Additive Reed. Anything we missed?
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    I'm on a roll today. Dump Morrison, too.
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    Dump Sano and leave Buxton in the minors until such time (if ever) he can verify that in tearing it up over an established period of time he has absolutely earned another shot at major league pitching. If he doesn't, dump him, too. I can remember a time when with Sano, Buxton and (as a sort of after-thought) Eddie Rosario, they were considered the core of what many were calling the best minor league system in baseball--or at least one at the head of the class in potential. Twins fans patiently hung their hats on that promise. Now they're left with this.
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    I moved here in '01 and started following the Twins because I like baseball. On the whole, it has been a disappointing 17 years. That's a long time to follow mediocrity, and now this season, like so many before, as we reach the half-way point I am becoming increasing disinterested in even watching or listening. Last night I happened to pick the game up in the second inning, watched until the start of the sixth and losing interest, turned it off in time to miss the fold. If I were running the club, I'd be sorely tempted to dump everyone except Rosario, Escobar and Berrios. .
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    After watching him the past couple of weeks I've come up with a nickname: Additive Reed: He makes their offense go.
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