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  1. TheLeviathan
    Under, this team still can't hit their way out of a paper bag.
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    Yes, but that complaining might have also led to May's demotion to the pen later in the season. The complaints are valid, why is Duffy in the race for the 5th starter spot if the team doesn't think he has the repetoire to be a starter? Meanwhile they move a guy they admit has the stuff to be a starter to the bullpen. My brain hurts.
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    They could have uprooted the veterans, especially given the fact that one of them actually has worn an outfield glove in the past. We shouldn't give the Twins a pass and buy that this was their only option. That's my only point, I really strongly disagree with that. And the thing is, for many that want to believe this will work out for the Twins, they should disagree with it too. If Sano works out as a RF no one is going to say "Thank goodness the Twins had no choice but to do this!" - they'll argue the Twins made the right decision, not backed into a good thing. Buying the "we had no choice" angle let's the Twins off the hook if this doesn't work out.
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    So Sano was the only possible RF? I don't buy that and neither should you.
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    Absolutely, at the end of the day all the mistakes I worry they made could turn out to have been brilliant maneuvers by the team. I just take major issue with tossing the team shade already for their roster management.
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    We don't know how their choices will work out. But it was their choice to do all of the things you listed. They weren't backed into any corners or without alternatives. They willfully walked into their decisions. They deemed this the best way to go - fail or succeed it was their call. We should judge the results as such, not start giving them preseason cover that this was somehow the only way things could be.
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    Kepler is about 40% of my insistence on trading Plouffe. We NEED a batter like Kepler, he might step in immediately as the best leadoff hitter on the roster until Buxton improves his pitch recognition.
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    They could have moved Plouffe. They could have kept Sano at DH. They could have moved Mauer to DH and played Sano at 1B. Quit trying to give the team excuses. They had a multitude of options. These are the choices they made. They chose not to sign any relievers. They chose not to trade for any relievers. They chose to give Duffy and Nolasco preference to May in the rotation. They chose to move the 22 year old and not the 29 year old to the OF. They chose to sign Park. We may judge, at the end of this, that their choices were correct. But they weren't backed into a freaking corner, that's so preposterous.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Yeah the forced hand presentation of these choices is so terrible. It is about May in the bullpen. It is about Sano in RF. The team willfully made those choices and should be judged by their success or failure as such.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Again, Milone didn't have to move. We could be rolling out Santana, Milone, Gibson, May, and Hughes if we wanted to. We didn't want to. That's really all it boils down to.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Chances are that he'd be just fine. Predicting who will or will not be an effective bullpen arm is not much of a science, it's more guesswork. In either case, we didn't have to remove Milone from the roster to put May in the rotation.
  13. TheLeviathan
    You only have to "dump Milone" if you count what they did with May as "dumping May"
  14. TheLeviathan
    He's made 25 freaking starts, this argument is so terrible. Let's dump Buxton too if we're going to use this kind of argument.
  15. TheLeviathan
    But, as you kind of admit, these are all self-imposed problems. The team should be having Santana, Hughes, Gibson, and May in the rotation and had a three way competition for the fifth spot. They chose instead to move one of their upside starters to the bullpen, admittedly as a temporary act. It's pretty rare for guys to effectively bounce back and forth, so either the team is deluding themselves about May going back or they are deliberately feeding Trevor May false hope. Either way, they created this problem with their own choices: infatuation with a lefty starter, non-spending/trading during the offseason on relievers, and over spending on mediocre starters in FA in the past. All of that has lead to a real wasted opportunity to utilize Trevor May in the best position to help this team - pitching more innings as a starter.
  16. TheLeviathan
    We could use the same mentality in the rotation which, as you may know, pitches far more innings. This team cornered itself and people are rushing to justify it. Ugh.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I imagine Trevor May standing out in the bullpen with a single tear running down his cheek. I have many tears on the other hand.
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    This spring has indicated some good steps in that direction so I'm hopeful as well. I'm glad you pushed back on him a little bit, those responses were hard to read and not hold against him.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I was caught off guard by just how delusional Dozier was about his second half.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Yes, one of the higher upside pitchers. I don't care what Hughes weights or where Gibson was on the prospect list 5 years ago. May is one of the few potential starters with the ability to strike people out and the pitches to do it as a starter. That alone makes him pretty much the highest upside arm outside of Berrios. Santana is sort of a known quantity, there isn't a ton of upside in him.
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