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60 fans only? Are the allowed to roam the outfield stands for home run balls are all they all herded to one location. Open to everyone and you will make 10x that in concession sales.

Stubhub can get you pretty cheap tickets if you are patient. I got 2 tickets behind 1st base dugout for Red Sox and Rays for 11 each. Last year Pirates at Twins behind 3rd base cost me about the same. If you go on off days or away game days parking is free and 4 fields are normally in use by minor leaguers. You can watch Miquel Sano hit bombs and wonder what scale puts him even close to 200 pounds still.

Like most people that play the lottery. You hope to win big and in the end you only wasted your money. It is pretty sad that year after year the Twins draft big pitchers with great arms only to see them injured before the majors. Like other posts have pointed out the recoveries are delayed by 6 months as the team either misdiagnoses or waits for a miracle.

His average is high, his on base percentage is high but he is essentially a singles hitter in a big guy's body. The home runs don't bother me but the doubles do. I would still like to see him higher in the lineup

I will be interested in seeing the rest of the list and how many players you think will have a meaningful impact in the majors. Looking over the rosters, there are very few that project that way and most of them are at lower levels.

The way I see it is the problem is Mauer's strength. The charts show he is hitting pretty much to the same areas but now the grounders arent getting through. Also if you look at the flyball outsm they are much shallower than 3 years ago. The season is only about 1.4th over but this trend has been in the making for years. Following are the charts from pitch f/x site for 2009 and 2012. http://pitchfx.texasleaguers.com/charts/gen/4080452009040120091015AAAAAspray-chart.png http://pitchfx.texasleaguers.com/charts/gen/4080452012040120120515AAAAAspray-chart.png

Not much to report on the Dan Rohlfing front. Over his past 8 games he is 5 for 30 with the runs scored and 3 RBI. He did have a 4 game hitting streak during that span. For the year he is batting .227 with a .313 OBP. His slugging remains very low at .289. Unfortunately his stats are representative of the entire Miracle team who rank in the bottom half of almost every offensive category.

http://twinsdaily.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=770&d=1335532945http://twinsdaily.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=771&d=1335532951 Adrian Salcedo 4/14/2012 against Bradenton Marauders