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34 ABs this year, played in NPB in 2013, and has attitude issues. I'd rather we hadn't botched the whole OF situation this offseason instead of either of the options you listed.

Great catch. I'm not shedding any tears over not having that clown on our team though, despite our dire OF situation.

So what you're saying is we should just bunt all night until he loses his mind?

Well, at least I got a chuckle out of that. Out by 15 feet.

I propose we work out a full FO trade with another team. We'll even throw in Brian Duensing.

That outfield....what the hell?

It's doing something to me alright... Just think, we could have a lineup that has Fryer, Herrmann and Suzuki all playing and Gardy can still have a backup catcher on the bench!

This is disgusting, regardless of whether or not they want to pretend Herrmann is an outfielder.

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Poor quoting on my part. I was agreeing with your post, confused by the people you were responding to.

I don't understand where some people seem to be getting this idea that Buxton was coming up this year at all, let alone in June or July. Am I missing something? Even without the injury, there was no way in hell he was coming up for anything more than a September call up and I can't even see any chance they were going to start his clock for that.

That righty who posted on a forum.

Hard to keep track of names when you've been drinking since noon.

He was just too busy spinning 360s in the outfield http://outsideisoverrated.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/young-lol.gif

Did anyone ever actually think Pelfrey could be a number 3 starter? And I mean an actual 3rd starter, not the Twins' idea of a number 3 starting pitcher.

I dunno, I hear Delmon has a hell of an arm... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mlKHttThPzw/UIjk7SJ2YkI/AAAAAAAAAU4/lZWDoVLlzLI/s1600/delmonrofl.gif

Regardless of whether his problems are physical, mental, mechanical, or anything in between, he has no business being anywhere near a MLB roster pitching like this. You let a Kershaw or a Verlander or a King Felix work through their slumps. You don't let a career 1.5 WHIP, 4.5 ERA "work through" being a bad pitcher + whatever combination of other factors is going on.

Why is Burton still on the roster?

Just release him already. I don't want him starting. I don't want him in the pen. I don't want him taking starts in AAA. If the Twins are dead set on keeping him, he can be a BP pitcher for low A ball or something.

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If by finding himself, you mean finding his way to a demotion, than yes, he is doing a pretty good job.

Well said. The same could be said for a lot of the things we're all complaining about now and the last few years. Lord knows a team like this brings out the anger in a lot of us, and I'm certainly no exception to that.

I'm just sick of these so called news stories and columns that may as well have been written by ownership themselves. I'm going way off topic of Bartlett again though, so I should probably just shut up or start another thread though.

Then there's this beaut: A return to winning? Apparently spending some money to even try to be an above .500 team isn't worth it until all of your homegrown talent magically pans out? This article is drivel and Reusse should be embarrassed to be writing a PR puff piece like this.

Speaking of not being held accountable, apparently the twins current situation is all Bill Smith's fault and you're a moron if you disagree with the way that ownership has handled things. Someone might want to tell Reusse that calling fans morons for their beliefs isn't a great plan... http://m.startribune.com/?id=252566001