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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Maybe a good compromise would be to call him up, but as a part-time player or sometimes DH.
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    Of my three examples, the Rangers were below .500 on Aug 13, the Twins were below .500 in September, and the Rockies hovered around .500 most of the season (last below .500 on July 15 but half a game above .500 on Aug. 23). Your condition that a team spend an unbroken period of time below .500 since mid-April is a pointless technicality. It only reaffirms my opinion that the Twins should have held and played out the schedule with their best players. At this point, and it's just a gut feeling, but I'd even bet that if Falvey and Levine could do it over, they would, and they would keep Dozier, Escobar, and Rodney in favor of a soft sell of Pressly and Lynn, similar to last year. They still get Austin and a solid minor league starter from Houston, they keep their fan favorites, and not as many empty seats once the Vikings start their season.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Glad they are taking a look. We lost several productive MLB pitchers from our system last offseason, so this is good.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm not trolling, and not singling you out, I just genuinely have no idea what to do with comments like this. I suppose I could let them go unanswered, but answering them could also provide an educating opportunity too, for people who just aren't aware or are new to following baseball. Who the hell knows. Most important to me is I don't want fans to think comebacks don't happen or that pennant races can't be exciting. 2015: Texas Rangers were 8.0 GB in division on July 27, third place in West, behind the Twins in the Wild Card, went ahead and traded for Cole Hamels, won division. 2009: Minnesota Twins were 7.0 GB trailing Detroit in September. 2007: Colorado Rockies epic win streak. We don't see this sort of thing every season, but really, the examples are numerous. Did the Twins have a chance? Yeah, of course they did.
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I think what people will come to realize is that these guys are just another front office. There is nothing special about them. They are new to this, and full of ideas, ideas that probably aren't much different that other front office ideas. They want the public to withhold judgment on them until some date far in the future, after they have built their "sustainable, championship caliber" organization, which will be a date of their choosing, which will be after half of us here are dead, I suppose. And if they are looking to sell expiring contracts of favorite players at every deadline, it's going to be a long, long road for everyone. You are speaking as someone who is following the Twins, much like the national writers. I'm speaking as a fan. I wanted to see how this season unfolded with our key pieces coming back. Seven games back was a daunting challenge, but doable. It has been done. It will be done again.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I can, and will again! April/May/June was ugly, and the pieces weren't there. But once July rolled around, we had: Polanco returning from suspension;Santana returning from injury Sano and Buxton to recall from the minorsDozier's half season surge to hope forThe pieces were there. Basically the same team that made the surge last year, slightly different bullpen. The front office could have done a "light sell" of Pressly and Lynn and would have been praised just the same. Instead, they pulled the plug and are rightfully getting raked across the coals--not so much on Twins Daily where the loudest posters seem to be on board with the sell off, but in the community in particular, the sell off doesn't seem as popular. Again, heading into July, same lineup as last season. Same players coming back. Pieces were there.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I am fine with him answering the question that way. If I were in that locker room I'd be pissed too.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You're joking, right? Castro went down, and they failed to find a reliable catcher. Buxton was allowed to play on a broken toe. They ought to have stepped in and kept Reed from being overworked. Those are the ones that pop to mind. As far as Santana not "taking accountability" tonight, he said he missed his spots on those pitches that went for home runs. There was no sour grapes in that interview. I don't know what else he is supposed to say.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I wasn't. Was anyone?
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Disagree completely. Santana was asked a question and answered it candidly and professionally. I appreciate that. Isn't that what we say we want, instead of the canned answers all the time? As for the other players joining the team, they know what's up. Field, Drake, whoever, they know what's going on. I doubt they would be insulted by what Santana said. They are getting a chance to play. It is what it is.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Twins Fest is not an arbitrary deadline, in my opinion. Also, that was roughly the deadline the front office set during the Dozier talks the prior offseason. In Cobb's case (or Darvish), he could be introduced at Twins Fest and ready for camp in Feb, and it's a different story, whatever he signs at, 4/60 or whatever. The silver lining is the Twins have that additional free agent money to spend this offseason.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Since you are going down this road again (in a Rodney thread), I will say, again, that I disagree completely with just about everything above The key with Darvish/Arrieta/Cobb/Lynn was signing them in the normal period. The front office used Twins Fest (mid-late-January) as a target for trading Dozier the year before, so that would have worked as a good deadline for signing a free agent starter. I would have signed Cobb but during the normal signing period. And no, I would not have signed Rodney. What about closer, then? Dunno. These guys are supposed to have "the data." Maybe Reed or Pressley. Reed was a good signing. I would have hung on to Burdi and Chaggy, too.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Mike Lowell pulled off several of these in MLB -- somehow Great sell by the pitcher De Jong, too.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    ooooh that's interesting. In need of an outfielder but none available. I have no idea if Buxton/Granite/Wade are about ready to come off the DL. If so, I would limp along with Rosario/Cave/Kepler for a game or three and Adrianza as th backup, until one of those three are ready, then I would just recall them from the minor league DL. If none of those three figure to be ready soon then Plan B and one of the recently acquired waiver or trade guys, I guess. Just my 2 cents. Edit: forgot about Motter. (I know right?)
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Great description of the Cave-Duffy at bat. Lots of stuff happened late but that was a huge moment I would think.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    we have to read these stupid things before commenting?
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Pohlad's reputation for cheapness is well earned! And in fact the front office did trade away Lynn and Hughes, two of their three top paid pitchers, and Dozier, highest paid position player after Mauer. The Forsythe salary swap is getting in the weeds and I wouldn't expect a typical fan to take in and retain information like that. I would guess most typical fans just want to win and have fun, root for their favorite players, and any chance of that continuing in 2018 was brought to an abrupt halt at the trade deadline.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I lean toward yes, they should have stayed away. Twenty-nine other teams did. The front office did some things right, but as for the big things, they got most of them wrong. Posters here just are not acknowledging that. Just my opinion, I think. Sometimes I don't know what team other people are looking at.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    So, I'll play: "That the same front office who botched the previous offseason is the same front office to trust in this next offseason." Thoughts?
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Next time maybe tease your article with a better excerpt? A person on Twitter either knowingly or unknowingly called the owner of the Twins "Carl." Therefore, another person on Twitter decided it's no use explaining to people how dumb they are? Who are the infielders the Twins are looking at since Dozier and Escobar were traded? What the sell crowd refuses to consider is the value of winning, goodwill, all those intangibles which are not worth getting into here. The Twins have a four game series with Cleveland coming up. They should have waited to sell at least until that time.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I like Cave too. I think he take's Grossman's role next year.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Fair. That hasn't been coming through in the recent posts. Yeah I was fed up with Dozier too. And Lynn. And Morrison. (and Sano and Polanco and Rodney and...) ... and the front office. I hope they reflect hard on every move they made this season.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    "much more evidence" What is it? We have a sentence from LaVelle. That's it. If someone has something on the radio they heard they haven't shared it, and I'm open to that information. I'm still looking for dollar figures, too. Anyone? Doogie? And do we have to rehash LaVelle's record as a so-called beat writer?
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    oh, so Dozier should have filed and signed the paperwork to release Lance Lynn? Interesting.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Keep Escobar and Dozier and win more games in the stretch, maybe even make the race interesting, and most important, keep good will with the fan base. The Lynn trade and a couple of those others could have still happened and we would still have had a couple prospects to show for it.
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