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Vasquez would be a big help for the Twins, but how does a guy hit 20 some home runs , one year, and not even double gits in any of the rest? Well, I looked at his strike out rate, hmmm.

It worked in 2019 ?

Twins version of Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn, and look what he did for Cleveland!

Personally, I hope Wallner (IN AAA) shows he is the next Judge and Larnach shows he has Rosario's arm with out the screw-ups but beyond that, I would rather see the Twins pick-up veteran last chance players, than rookies show they should never leave AAA. (For Lewis to stay whole and show Big Show permanence would be nice also)

I suppose Jose Abreu and Andrew Heaney weren't on their radar? How about the new Red Sox pitcher Kenley Jensen? You may not agree with my examples, but every needle-mover that signs elsewhere is another step towards this team retooling. Pohlads see fans in the stands as no.1 priority, Twins cannot afford retooling as lack of fans in the stands during the seventies forced Calvin to sell, Pohlads are not baseball first like Calvin was, so a return to the seventies type teams will not be tolerated. plus beyond Buxton Twins have no Rod Carew caliber player to keep talking TV sports heads mouths flapping about the Twins.

It seems Sanchez does not want to be with the Twins (I wonder why) and Jeffers should be catcher no. 3 as even if his bat improves, I truly doubt his defense will ever be even average. They need a top line catcher, so opponents know that in at least x percent of the games it is not run-at-will. All the so-and -so out of the minors will be just great is bloviating; ten or so years ago , Buxton, Hicks, Sano were going to save the Twins, yeah right. One problem the that no quick fix will solve, even when the Twins were well in the lead this summer, the talking heads on news sports, treated them as a side note; mention of the Vikings got near as much blah, blah, blah all summer on the channels I watched.

The head coach has been a problem since Tom Kelley left; he had bad years, but during his good years he made the most of it, he did not get blown out by the Yankees and lose all play-off games.

What makes a winning team (I am leaving out pitchers) an often close knit group of players who year after year know what to expect from each other. Go look to see how many Twins from the 1987 team were still there in 1991, a goodly number. How many Twins from the 2019 team are still there now? Team fans have favorite players who they want to see, year, after year, after year; when a gaggle of strangers show up each year, fans stay away.

If the Twins are going put their future in supposedly up and coming rookies, they will be treading water for a long, long time from what has come up in the past ten years. At that of the boys from the Twins wannbe Minors, Larnach and only one other seem, at this point, of maybe being the read deal, due to hard work on Larnach's part, and simple talent for the other.

For a team that needs pitching you are probably correct.

Not sure why you left them out but: 1961 Killebrew 46 1962 Killebrew 48 1963 Killebrew 45, 'Allison 35, Hall 33 1964 Oliva 32, Allison 32

IF Correa starys with the twins, Miranda will have a mentor just as Sano did with Cruz; the way Twins rookies are playing with the organizations coaches, I feel bad for Miranda if Correa leaves.

Never thought I would be advocating for Arraez but , yes, his range is below average but his runs above average per year are 9 at first base and 17 at second.

Eddie Rosario with the Twins

Then you think it was stupid to dump Rosario, his batting numbers were very good and they still dumped him. You have to if hitting is so important plus if hitting is that important then the rookies who have put up lousy numbers should go back to AAA till they prove then deserve to be up, not floating around the Mendoza line, or traded for veterans whoes already have shown what they can do . The latter is how they got a top line team in 2019,