Will It Be Okay?
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Despair is a tough feeling to rebound from once you've felt it as badly as Twins fans have felt it this season.
The sky is falling. There is no hope. Nothing good on the horizon. It is like we've put The Walking Dead on repeat.
I'm not going to go Patrick Reusse on the bit because I couldn't say it much better than he did.
I just want someone to tell me it is going to get better. It has to get better.
Won't it get better?
Like I said, the horizon seems bleak.
Your budding prospects, Byron Buxton, Eddie Rosario and Miguel Sano have combined to hit .231 this season with 137 strikeouts in 372 at-bats. That's a strikeout just under every third at-bat for these guys.
This is your future core. Your hope. And they are failing. Miserably.
Of course, they are all very young. Rosario is the oldest at 24. Buxton the youngest at 22.
And not one of them has played a full season at the Major League level. Preaching patience to a fan base that has seen this team win just 18 games this year is like selling trying to sell sand in the desert. No one is buying it.
It's an old mantra that continues to grow tiresome. But it is the only thing you have to hold on to as Twins fans.
And, frankly, I think these three will be just fine. Between refining their skills and more playing experience, things will turn around. You also have to believe they may feel pressure from other players at their positions. Players like Robbie Grossman or Max Kepler.
A good showing from them should make them realize they are only as good as yesterday's box score indicates.
It will be okay from that standpoint. That's my belief. That's where I put my faith in this team.
Then, I look at the pitching. And all that faith that was built up in the young position players is destroyed.
The current starting rotation is garbage. Last in the American League in ERA+ as a staff, last in the AL in earned runs, last in the AL in runs allowed per game and second to last in the AL in home runs per nine innings. Just to name a few.
And I can't point to anyone in the system that I believe will save this staff. Jose Berrios is one guy and his initial appearance at the big league level was a large fart in a crowded elevator.
I still believe he will get better but it will take more time. Which he has. Guys like Kyle Gibson, Phil Hughes and Ervin Santana do not.
This to me is problems A, B and C for the Twins with not real hope on the horizon. That's why they need to blow the whole thing up. And start now. Not in the off-season but right now.
Outside of Berrios, no one is safe. Even coaches and front office staff. This would be where I agree with Reusse.
I would take a bucket of balls for Nolasco at this point. Or maybe a bag of air. It might give the Twins more value.
What's the point in waiting anymore?
You want to have hope and belief in something as a fan. You can stomach the bad if you believe good will come. You can at least see it from the position players standpoint. You can't from the pitching staff.
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