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  1. bighat
    BUXTON is a monster. EH?
  2. bighat
    Lots of squandered opportunities today. I hate to assume it'll come back to haunt the Twins...
  3. bighat
    When you're mounting a huge comeback on the road in the thick of the playoff race late in the season, and John Curtiss is your best option in the 'pen...well, that's not good.
  4. bighat
    More fantasy points if he bunts and the gets the SB. In my opinion, that catch wasn't Buxton's "finest catch" but I'm not complaining! Is Buxton the Twins' best player right now?
  5. bighat
    Problem is, he can't hit 30 HRs for the Twins if he plays 3/4 of the season in Rochester, NY. The Twins let other players (Polanco, Buxton) struggle and battle through LONG LONG LOOONNGG slumps, because they think those players have potential. For some reason, the Twins don't think Kennys has potential and thus they send him down every time he whiffs on a slider. Let's pretend the Twins don't have Grossman. Kennys plays 5 games per week all year long at DH and spells Mauer at 1B every once in a while. I think he hits 28-35 HR over the course of the year in that situation. If the Twins eventually move on from Kennys, I think a team like San Diego picks him up, plays him every day at 1B and he hits 32 dongs. I'd certainly rather roll the dice on Vargas playing every day and see what he can do. We know what Grossman gives us and I think we shouldn't feel sheepish about asking for more out of our DH.
  6. bighat
    Rogers hasn't been too good lately. Bummer they couldn't win this one. Go get 'em J.O.
  7. bighat
    See, this is my opinion too. I know I'll get slammed for not listing his OPS and other metrics, but I feel those are slanted due to the fact that he's been up-and-down so darn often. He hasn't even had a real chance to get into a groove, ever. I agree with others here in that Mauer's kind of blocking him. But when the Twins are DH'ing guys like Escobar and Grossman all year, I feel that Vargas would be a huge improvement and I'm just kinda baffled on why the Twins don't seem to want him to stick.
  8. bighat
    Pondering Kennys Vargas this morning after his big HR put the Twins up for good last night. I think he's vastly underappreciated and underrated. In my mind, I think if he plays 140 games per year we get a .255 batting average and 34 HR. He can DH full time (switch hitter) and a Sano-Vargas combo in the 4/5 holes would scare other teams to death. Vargas can fill in at 1st base too. Why, when it's pretty evident to me he's a 30+ per season HR guy right now if he played full time, does he always get the shaft? What's SO TERRIBLE about Kennys? I think the Twins really have something with him and they seem to have absolutely zero patience and send him down if he so much as swings at a bad pitch. Thoughts?
  9. bighat
    Polanco is abso-smurfly on fire. Eddie Rosario is the best pure hitter on the team these days! When the Twins can get contributions for guys like that they're hard to beat. And hey, how 'bout that Kennys Vargas!?!?
  10. bighat
    Do you see anyone else on the Twins stepping up? Aside from Torii Hunter's 1-year return in 2015, absolutely nobody on this team wants to be the leader. Dozier's been kind of forced into the role and I think he's done a good job. His teammates and opponents respect him, he puts up good numbers and wants to win. I will add that I agree that when Plouffe was here, their frat-boy buddy antics got a little old. But since Plouffe has left I think Dozier's the best guy for that role and he's doing a very good job IMO.
  11. bighat
    Who's this Melville guy? And what's gonna happen with Slegers?
  12. bighat
    Rats.
  13. bighat
    9-0. So far so good. The Twins might just have a chance to sweep the series here.
  14. bighat
    Interesting lineup for the Twins. Too bad about Sano's injury. He could play 1B in this scenario, and Garver could catch - leaving Giminez on the bench. Been nice to see the Twins win a few interleague games here, they're all important at this point. Logjam in Wildcardland.
  15. bighat
    Totally agree. The time for sentimental signings, "farewell tours", etc. is not when you are clinging to a wild card berth. If the Twins want to send Perkins out on a feel-good note, sign him to a 1-day contract in Spring Training or something so he can retire as a Twin or whatever. The Twins hired Molitor based on home town feel-good mushy-mush too (at least partially) and the owner feels so warm and fuzzy about it that he wouldn't even let the new front office fire him and start clean. The Twins are fighting enough uphill battles in MLB. Why they paint themselves into a corner with guys like Perkins and Molitor is beyond me. This ain't t-ball.
  16. bighat
    Great to see the Glen Perkins Farewell Tour is more important to the Twins (why?) than winning ball games. Same goes for the manager, he stinks but it's sure folksy to ask him about his favorite walleye fishing hole on that Twins Caravan! Maybe we should bring back Hrbek, that jolly old guy really got the hometown fans chipper. Any other washed up native Minnesotans we can bring in to ruin the team?
  17. bighat
    Shame on me, and shame on all of us who got excited about that 2nd wildcard spot. We'd given up hope and moved on with life...only to be tricked into getting our hopes up again. Shame shame shame.
  18. bighat
    Boshers blew the game last night, maybe Perkins' farewell parade can come at his expense. This game was an eye opener. Reminds one of when the Twins played Houston and the LA Dodgers - the Twins are not in the Indians' class and unfortunately it looked like both teams knew it last night. Amazing play by Sano! That was seriously Machado-esque, I cannot say enough about this kid's play at 3b this year. Buxton's gem and early RBI, I think we can expect a torrid September from him once again.
  19. bighat
    Could not agree more, Van. Watching Perkins waltz into the bullpen wearing his "free pass" hometown boy Gopher t-shirt under his uniform? No thank you. It's sort of like the Phillies and Ryan Howard. He did some good things for this team, but when a guy's out of gas you gotta DFA him and just let someone else take a flyer if they want. He's toast and this Twins fans does not want to see him in a MN uniform ever again. Perkins hasn't pitched for over a year and the last time he did he was getting plastered and was a huge contributor to the collapse in the early days of a dreadful 2016. This team needs to bury the ghost and move on with what got them here. I think Perkins returning would have a negative effect on the clubhouse and the way the team feels - kinda like when that hated co-worker returns from a long vacation in the office.
  20. bighat
    Wins against a struggling Brewers team and a few lucky escapes in Detroit....hey, we'll take it! But series like this one against the Indians - this is the meat and potatoes. Are the Twins gonna show some fight? Step up? Is the recent hot streak for real? Now's the time to go for it. I think Colon starting the opener is a good thing. Veteran presence, Twins players don't have to worry about their pitcher getting nervous. And hey - can the Twins can please please please keep the opponents off the board in the first 2 innings? It's one thing going down 4-0 against Detroit or Milwaukee. Getting down by more than 2 early against Cleveland is a different animal.
  21. bighat
    I'd also prefer Vargas over Grossman as DH. I don't think that's gonna happen, though.
  22. bighat
    I was watching this yesterday - that low and outside pitch (fastball, curve, whatever) is a big problem for Sano right now. Would love to see him go the other way more often, but it seems like he's got HR on the brain right now.
  23. bighat
    The Twins need ya today, Erv.
  24. bighat
    That was my immediate thought. Gotta be a lot of guys feeling pretty busted tonight in the clubhouse. I feel like that K by Sano in the top of the 9th was when the Twins went belly up.
  25. bighat
    Wow. That Sano AB was over as soon as the first pitch hit the outside corner. Belisle save was blown the moment Mahtook got into the batter's box. Hildenberger gets a big thumbs down too. A gimmick pitcher who can't get anyone out once they've seen him. Could this terrible loss send the Twins tumbling back down the standings? Will our heroes come back and win tomorrow? Stay tuned.
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