Saying Rosario is not worth $10m is a fine argument to make. The past 3 years of wanting to trade him for a bucket of balls was not ever a reasonable argument. The disaster we are seeing in our OF now is living proof of it. Nothing about Garlick is intriguing. There was no reason to add him to the 40 man roster when there were others more deserving. And now he is blocking some players from learning through fire. At some point you need to give your prospects a shot.
The FO is just trying to save face after a string of 3 bad decisions leaving the outfield in shambles. They cant let go of the sunk cost of those decisions and just go with whats best for the future of the franchise.
After this disaster in LF to open the year, I would like to see a public apology from all the writers hating on Rosario the last 3 years to finally admit that they were wrong.
Agreed. The argument against Rosario was always that he was blocking the young players. Now you clear the spot, only to block it with Garlick? Com'n.... If you are going to make that move, you got to give the prospects a chance.
You put a lot of stock in spring training. At no point has Garlick ever looked like a major league player. If we really had a need for Garlick then we should have just rolled the dice with Baddoo. Tigers would laugh at you if you offered Garlick for Baddoo straight up
Twins don’t need to keep Baddoo in the majors. He would have options. I would have preferred starting Baddoo until Rooker is ready than to have Garlick take space on the 40 man roster
This actually gave me a nightmare last night. We were playing the Yankees and these two scrubs were in the lineup and rally killer at every turn. We hit a homerun in the 9th to get within 1 and had opportunity to tie but Garlick had a weak at bat and we lost. Then I went home and got beat up by my pet monkey that I had in the dream which closely resembles the Angels Rally Monkey.
If we are going to put Garlick on the roster we might as well kept and started Baddoo out there to begin the year. Management shows that they were clueless in this move