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I hope Buxton can turn into as productive a player as Rosario has been this year. And I hope Rosario can continue to maintain this type of production season to season. Eddie has definitely been a bright spot this season

Good lord, get a new third base coach already. How many times is Glynn gonna send runners this year when they have 0 chance?

Sometimes I forget that despite our failures this year, we are still a better team than Detroit, KC, and Chicago. And then I wonder how we haven't won more games with them in our division.

I agree that it is too early to give up on them, but as it stands today, Buxton is a massive bust and Sano is a big question mark. I'm certainly hoping they both pan out, but with how much of Buxton's value is tied to his speed, he is only losing value in that regard as his speed and defensive ability have already peaked. The longer it takes him to figure things out, the more value he continues to lose on speed and defense. And with how much he's been injured and how reckless he plays in the outfield running into the walls, all it takes is one bad collision with a wall to cost him a step or two and he becomes a 4th outfielder at best unless he learns to hit. With Sano, pretty much all of his value is tied to his bat, so if he can get that working, I doubt anyone is too concerned about his glove as a 1B/DH. But, it still remains to be seen if he can get that consistently working. Overall, they've both been hugely disappointing.

The JJ Hardy trade wasn't so hot either. Especially with how poorly the Nishioka experiment turned out.

I honestly don't understand how our minor leagues have failed to produce so consistently for so long. All of our pitching prospects have been failures for like a decade, our "can't miss" prospects in Sano and Buxton are busts at this point, we can't even produce passable bullpen arms, let alone starters. What exactly is going wrong in our system and why has it not been remedied? I mean, I understand most prospects don't pan out and I'm not expecting an endless stream of MVPs year in and year out, but you'd expect with a large enough sample size we'd be seeing a decent number of our prospects at least be average players.

Well, compared to the rest of the pitching we've produced

Have we developed a single decent pitcher in recent years besides Berrios?

Maybe he figured getting fired would be his easiest way to retirement. He sure doesn't seem particularly interested in decent baseball.

I may have taken some liberties

I imagine (or hope) that a lot of the people watching are like me and its more or less background tv when we suck this bad.

I like LaTroys confidence. "Well, if we do this a whole bunch of times, I bet we can get 2 or 3 of them where the results aren't catastrophic and we can use those to justify the 10 times it was a complete failure"

We've really jerked around May in general. If I'm him, I'd be hoping for an opportunity with another organization.

I don't know why people are assuming this lineup has anything to do with Buxton not getting called up. Molitor has proven time and time again that he is awful at constructing a lineup regardless of what players the FO provides him.

Molitor not getting ejected is basically explicit confirmation that he does not give a damn about his team. If he won't even get ejected defending his boy, Matty B, then I doubt he would've even left the dugout if it was one of the rookies.

As a Minnesota sports fan, I've found drugs to be a much better option than laughter

He could cut the middleman and plunk Porter in the head.

Seriously, I cannot even believe Molitor doesn't get tossed there. How can he even pretend like he gives a damn about this team if he doesn't get worked up over that? I don't care that we're losing and that this game is irrelevant, there is 0 excuse for that **** from the umpire and 0 excuse for Molitor not blowing up on him.

How the hell does Molitor NOT get tossed here? What a ****ing pushover.

That's what can happen when you have 3 other teams in your division that are 55-82, 54-82, and 44-91. And the guy with the 7.71 ERA comes in the "restore some balance to the inning"

Based on how bad his lineups have been during his tenure regardless of what he has to work with, I'm not quite sure what to think

I genuinely cannot recall a ****tier lineup in any game that I've ever seen in my entire life.

I think the Morrison signing also looks worse due to the usage of him and our awful lineups. If everyone else was healthy and playing decently, it is likely he would've got less play time and been lower in the lineup when he did play, or at least that is a reasonable assumption. Granted, his numbers look bad anywhere in the lineup, but even still

Did Smalley just call him Edward Encarnacion?

He's too busy looking apathetic in the dugout.