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Right now Dozier and Plouffe are the only two contributing offensively.

In terms of effectiveness, Stauffer was slightly better than Duensing all season, neck to neck with Thompson lately.

What fine work has Gardy done? I am really curious about that. The Twins won 2 championships in 1987 and 1991 under TK. That's the only fine work I could remember.

3 straight years of 30 games under .500 or over.

The Twins could add a power hitter with a good avg and one or two starters. If they don't bring Morneau back, they need someone to replace him in the lineup. Correia, Albers, Deduno (if he's healthy) should be in the rotation. They could sign Pelfrey for another one year deal. That would leave one vacant spot in the rotation.

I believe the Twins need a manager who could take the team to the next level. We all know it's not Gardenhire.

Slowey has been doing fairly well with the lowly Marlins this season. I think he has more talent than you thought.

I think Colabello is one of the major contributors not PJ Walters.

It should have happened earlier though.

Diamond should be sent down to AAA. Albers should be called up. Ibarra should take Duensing's spot in the bullpen. Byebye Duensing.

Ibarra is ready and he is a lefty, Tonkin and Ibarra are both knocking on the door, Duensing should be easily replaced.

Exactly. Vargas should be promoted along with Sano and Rosario. Morales should not be promoted though and he should be demoted now.

Absolutely agree with you!!!

Albers has not had a chance to pitch in the ML. Don't write him off just yet. Let's be fair. Walters and Hendriks were given a few chances already. They both failed to succeed.

Albers earned the next callup. Hendriks has not shown much this season. Parmelee is hitting .200 in AAA. Colabello should stay in major league for the rest of the season. Arcia should be called up in Sept if not earlier. Tonkin or Ibarra should take Duensing's bullpen spot.

Please no more Hendriks.

Swarzak is not a starter, he is a reliever.

part of the blame also falls on Twins’ management for not giving Gardenhire enough flexibility to place players in different spots in the order to play effective station-to-station baseball? this statement makes no sense to me. I believe Gardenhire has the most flexibility to place players in different spots in the batting order in all the baseball teams.

Yeah right keep making excuses for Gardenhire.

I truly believe Gardenhire is not the only problem.

Albers should replace ineffective Diamond now. Ibarra or Tonkin could replace ineffective Duensing in the bullpen.

Achter? Breezing through the minors? Are you sure? Look at his ERA.

Parmelee should be sent down a while ago. Florimon has been doing all right lately. But he is not really impressing anyone. Escobar has not had much playing time. Actually I like Escobar better because he is younger. I think Escobar is going to take Carroll's job next year.

Hendriks had not had any success in the major league even when he had no arm problem and was lights out in the minor league. 1 win out of 20+ starts in the major league? That's just amazing. He's been given a lot of opportunities in the past. He is still young, age is on his side.

No, Albers is the next one up.