Who should play right field if Kepler is traded or given a limited role?

Who should play right field if Kepler is traded or given a limited role?

My first choice would be Trevor Larnach. 

The amount of talent doesn’t matter if you can’t work as a team. That’s the case with this team right now.

We need Arraez, Buck and Kirilloff playing ever day. We need Donaldson to run out his groundouts. I know some may say, why should he risk injury running out a ground out? I say because it is the way the game should be played, "The Twins Way" and it sets a poor example for the younger players when the see Donaldson dogging it.  I told the FO not to sign Donaldson, due to his long history as a catcher and his resulting   recurrent leg injuries. Did they listen? Nope. Sano needed to be traded several years ago . His   excessive strikeouts will continue to stifle rallies the rest of his career. The Tigers will love to have another ex-Twin.   For the love of all that is good and true and to honor the Hall of Fame player with a .341 career BA, Wee Willie Keeler, every player who faces a shift should be able to hit the ball  " where they ain't", and get on base 50 % of   the time there is a shift. Finally every pitcher who walks the first batter he faces in an inning should be fined $100 for his first offense, to be increased by $100 for each subsequent offense. Thanks for reading this. I feel better now.

The three position players I most enjoy watching are Arraez, Buxton and Kirilloff. To have all three on the IL just shows what a trainwreck has occurred so far. 

I don't quite go so far in criticizing particularly Donaldson for lack of hustle. He goes down the line, but doesn't "bust it" like a majority of players. He probably has more justification for not sprinting hard because of the leg injuries he has suffered. It's not a good look especially if a ball is bobbled.

Cave is probably the only guy I see sprint all-out to first on every ground ball. 

As far as beating the shift, I would like to see more lefty hitters put down bunts in appropriate situations. It doesn't have to be a precise bunt oftentimes, just past the pitcher and if it forces the third baseman in an closer to the line, then there is a real gap to shoot for in the infield. Trying to hit a grounder to the non-pull side would probably mess with most swings. A lot of hitters are shifted in the infield, but played close to straight away in the outfield, Buxton and Kepler being two examples. 

Finally, walking hitters. No one tries to walk hitters, but sometimes pitchers try to be too fine (I think of Kyle Gibson in this regard). To me, it is one thing to walk a guy after a long battle--every pitcher misses his spot once in a while--rather than a four-pitch walk with not one pitch being competitive. The difference between success and failure is so small and sometimes arbitrary. Right now it seems that everything close is going against the Twins. One would expect things to turn around, but waiting for a turnaround is brutal.

On 5/9/2021 at 10:52 AM, tarheeltwinsfan said:

We need Arraez, Buck and Kirilloff playing ever day. We need Donaldson to run out his groundouts. I know some may say, why should he risk injury running out a ground out? I say because it is the way the game should be played, "The Twins Way" and it sets a poor example for the younger players when the see Donaldson dogging it.  I told the FO not to sign Donaldson, due to his long history as a catcher and his resulting   recurrent leg injuries. Did they listen? Nope. Sano needed to be traded several years ago . His   excessive strikeouts will continue to stifle rallies the rest of his career. The Tigers will love to have another ex-Twin.   For the love of all that is good and true and to honor the Hall of Fame player with a .341 career BA, Wee Willie Keeler, every player who faces a shift should be able to hit the ball  " where they ain't", and get on base 50 % of   the time there is a shift. Finally every pitcher who walks the first batter he faces in an inning should be fined $100 for his first offense, to be increased by $100 for each subsequent offense. Thanks for reading this. I feel better now.

I couldn't disagree more about sprinting on a routine ground ball.