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  1. bighat
    I agree. Seems like we have about four articles a week on this site asking "Should we move Sano/Kepler/Garver/Astudillo to first base?" I don't think any of those guys should go to first, at least not yet. It's a challenging position in its own right. How about we just put a first baseman at first?
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    My thoughts exactly. Good work Mr. Rowson, you'll be missed, congrats on the promo. I am confident the FO can find a suitable replacement.
  3. bighat
    Thanks mods - always a pleasure chatting with all of you in the game day threads! And don't worry, those rare slaps-on-the-wrists aren't taken personally Many thanks for all you do. Can't wait for Spring Training!
  4. bighat
    The best example of Eddie hate I've seen this week was when someone commented "The only thing Eddie did was hit a meaningless homer in the 8th inning of Game 3 against the Yankees". It was hilarious to me because if Arraez had hit that HR, you just know that poster would have said "Arraez, wow, what heart and grit, he's the only Twin who is trying to win this ball game. RESPECT." I think some people are turned off at Eddie's personality, and frankly can't get past it.
  5. bighat
    Dude at least he got us on the board. Arraez hits that HR and you'd call him "the one guy with guts on this team who is still trying". I know Eddie has his faults, but this Eddie-hating is ridiculous.
  6. bighat
    Thanks for sharing the details on this award - great to hear from some of the lesser-touted prospects. Just by reading this interview, you can tell Contreras is a hard worker and pretty darn talented in his own right. I'll be checking in on this guy's stats next year. Congrats to him and nice to see the Twins system winning awards.
  7. bighat
    Well said. I feel better!
  8. bighat
    Not to us. But the Twins have indeed been selling these type of acquisitions as "impact arms" to us for the past few years. Take a look at the trade deadline. Romo and Dyson being billed as shutdown relievers that would get this team over the hump? C'mon.
  9. bighat
    While Jake Odorizzi and Mike Pineda were savvy signings, we've seen many more pickups like Zach Duke, Martin Perez, Fernando Rodney, and Addison Reed fall flat. If names like those above are considered "impact pitchers", then I'm not sure I can stomach more of the same. Let's go out and grab some high-profile talent and stop sifting through scraps for a change, Falvine!
  10. bighat
    A guy who can win 14 games and pitch to a sub-4.00 FIP, while striking out almost a batter per inning AND log 200 innings in the AMERICAN LEAGUE is a very, very good pitcher. That's a horse. Justin Verlander's don't grow on trees. Even the Astros and their mighty rotation is on the brink of elimination. How are the Tampa Bay Rays doing it? By sending out Charlie Morton (great free agent pickup), Blake Snell, Ryan Yarbrough and Tyler Glasnow - don't know where the last two guys came from, but it was certainly out of nowhere! And some of them are following "openers" all year. I think the Twins need to get creative and start using the Kevin Cash blueprint. Spend some money on decent middle relievers next year and use them as openers.
  11. bighat
    I'd love to see a list of free agent starters that will be on the market. I know some of the big names - admittedly I haven't paged through the entire 3 pages of this thread to see if someone's posted them.
  12. bighat
    Agree with the Kepler 2nd-guess and I posted something about it earlier as well. Game 1 of the ALDS in Yankee Stadium against James Paxon isn't the place to get your first at-bat in over a month. Ridiculous. Kepler should have played during the KC series and if he wasn't good enough to go, he should not have been on the playoff roster. Astudillo could have taken his spot. Waving the white flag in Game 1, in hindsight, looks absolutely terrible. Pulling Berrios. Then having Gibson on the playoff roster and then using him as an innings-eater in a 3-run game still has me scratching my head. Overall it's easy to be a Monday Morning QB. And sure, there were some questionable decisions from the lineup standpoint. But this team lost this series because the players got out-pitched and out-hit. The team faltered under pressure, looked as bad as they did all season. Hard to blame the terrible play of just about everyone on Rocco Baldelli. This embarrassing series loss is on the players, in my opinion.
  13. bighat
    And some rather big national sports websites are asking the same questions we are: https://deadspin.com/how-is-the-twins-playoff-losing-streak-even-possible-1838869473
  14. bighat
    I picked this out of your rant because I agree with you. Well, I won't be "done" but I certainly think Graterol should be seen as a potential starter for this team. Sure hope the Twins brass agrees. We need a great player to come alive and spark this team. Right now we have lots of decent guys, but not a truly transcending player (aka: Acuna, Lindor, Scherzer, Bellinger, Verlander, etc). Buxton was supposed to be that guy, but he's not, and the Twins can't make the next step without a true winner on this team.
  15. bighat
    I did turn it off then, and just watched via MLB GameCast while browsing YouTube videos of my favorite comedians. It was too painful to watch and it just seemed like I was punishing myself for no reason. I've never felt worse about watching this team all season. Pretty sad that so many of us literally could not watch this game due to depression/anxiety/frustration.
  16. bighat
    I have no problem with what he said, mainly because he's staying on message. Rocco's done this all year. He's been quiet, full of praise, and has never criticized the efforts of his players in front of the media. For him to do an about-face on that after this series would have been shocking. He's developing a reputation as a players' manager, which I think is a good thing. After such a sickening series, I don't know if there's anything that Rocco could have said that would have made fans happy, frankly.
  17. bighat
    Losing 3 games at the end of the year makes us die hard, grumpy old fans upset and angry. But winning 100+ games and winning your division, setting the MLB home run record, and playing in one of the best stadiums in the league? Yeah, that outweighs the negatives. That "bomba squad" schtick? Yeah, that worked. The social universe is changing. It's not as much about results as appearance. Twitter, Instagram, #BOMBASQUAD, selfies at the ballgame, walleye on a stick. It ain't about wins and losses, it's about being able to show that you went out downtown and had a better time than your neighbors. Oh yeah, and did I mention the team was WINNING? Can you imagine how many casual fans in the Twin Cities this team picked up this year? This team didn't lose any fans. Even those of us that are hurting right now will be right back here come Spring Training. Heck, we'll probably start watching the Dominican and Venezuelan Winter Leagues before that. The Twins added fans to the bandwagon this year. It was a successful season for this team in many ways and it's impossible to argue otherwise. Even with the collapse in the playoffs.
  18. bighat
    I totally understand why so many fans feel just DONE with this team right now. I felt super ticked off last night - when they had the bases loaded and nobody out, didn't score...it was just sickening. That said - and I'm just speaking for myself - this sweep doesn't take away the fun I had this summer watching this team. There were some special moments. I refuse to let last night's sweep tarnish those fun moments we all had watching and commenting here on the game threads together. Watching the Twins bash another opponent 14-5 or whatever. Watching Luis Arraez come out of nowhere to become a special player.Seeing Miguel Sano click in the second half of the season. Mitch Garver's emergence.Taylor Rogers turning into an elite reliever, mowing teams down.Nelson Cruz and those 3-homer games. That said, I'm not sure I'm even sure I have the stomach to summon hope again. This Twins team looked absolutely out-classed and out-matched by superior talent and coaching. It wasn't even close. Was this Yankees-Twins? Because it looked like Yankees-Orioles. Being exposed as frauds on the national stage was frankly embarrassing. The Twins didn't look like one pitcher away from competing. They looked wayyyy farther away than that. Let's just hope it doesn't take this team 8 more years to even reach the playoffs again. The bad taste from this series won't go away for many fans until we make it right, advance in the playoffs. Pronto.
  19. bighat
    I've turned off the game, think I'm better off just checking the live GameDay score on the interwebz at this point. Seems to be pointless torture and suffering, continuing to watch. Why do that to yourself? Gets me thinking about how many other great things there are in life besides baseball. A walk on the beach, a bike ride down by the lake, a good snowfall on a crisp December morning, etc. You know things are bleak for your team when you start getting philosophical about this kind of crap.....
  20. bighat
    The problem with having an all-or-nothing guy like Sano come up during a rally like that - he doesn't make productive outs. Marwin's at-bat was just awful considering his experience and talent. Cave, well, we all expected that. He looked overmatched. This team just doesn't know how to scratch runs together.
  21. bighat
    Unforgivable.
  22. bighat
    "Big Moment Marwin" is up! Twins broadcasters hammered it home all year: this is why we brought him on board.
  23. bighat
    Not a productive out.
  24. bighat
    For the love of the flying spaghetti monster, let's do this!
  25. bighat
    Let's put together an inning here boys.
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