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You want players with high OBP batting at the top of the order. The only teams with 1B with better OBP percentages are: Atlanta San Fran St. Louis Cincinnati Chicago (AL) Boston Mauer would be batting near the top of the order for most teams if you are looking at first basemen. If you include all positions, Mauer would still be hitting at the top of the order for over half of the league. Now, if what you meant to say was, Mauer isn't hitting for power like the typical first baseman, so he should not be batting cleanup or in the middle of the order, sure. Good thing he isn't!

A New York based FanGraphs alum doesn't think about Joe Mauer? Shocking.

1) The Twins would overpay for Realmuto. Forget it. 2) Why the heck would the Marlins give up a good, cheap guy they can control until 2021? They can build up the rest of the team without giving up their once-in-a-generation catcher. Every other position will prove much easier to upgrade.

Exactly.

Garver has been better than Castro, btw. Who is to say Garver is not the catcher of the future?

This was a really fun game to watch.

No rehab? A mistake? Buxton is needed for his defense. Putting him on a rehab assignment in the first place was a mistake. Work on his swing in the minors after an injury? Who cares! Get him up here. The Twins missed his defense mightily in his absence.

Who would buy high for him? Yes he is improved, yet so far this year he has just 3 quality starts in 7 games. He has not been flawless. He has two straight years of a 5.07 ERA. He has to put up Cy Young numbers before anyone will look at him as anything except a serviceable end of the rotation guy.

I haven't been able to access this site at all from my home since I originally posted this message. When I posted this, the problem was intermittent. Now it's all the time. I'm on U-Verse in the Chicago area. Traceroutes die right at the last hop, so the issue is on your end.

So according to this article, the Twins have to: 1) Be nice to him 2) Be respectful to him 3) Work with him Gosh. Novel ideas. But this will be a big adjustment for a team that: 1) Moved him to the outfield 2) Questioned his work ethic 3) Called him fat If this article is true, Sano is easy to fix. Let's see if the Twins can swallow their pride and reach out to him to do it.

Perhaps. It should certainly be pointed out that throwing outside the strike zone is an important tool in a pitcher's repertoire.

Being unpredictable has its advantages. Whatever he is doing differently, let's hope he keeps quiet about it ... and let's hope he keeps changing things up a bit!

If this follows the script, Romero will blow out his arm soon. Let's hope the baseball gods have a different script for the Twins this time around!

The Twins can't win regularly without Buxton.

We have the same definition. I would say we have a difference of opinion, but that's not right either. Let's just say one of us looked at data.

Really? Josh Willingham Jason Kubel Joe Mays Harmon Killebrew (Insert 90% of the names in the baseball universe below)

Every player drops off a cliff. Morrison is at the age where it can start. He has hit very well over the past week. Hopefully he's in a groove now.

Morrison was a textbook regression candidate. I was a little surprised fans were so sold on him. Morrison might finish OK, he might stay the same. We don't know. His signing was a risk all along.

Sure, but a pretty typical Gibson line is 4.1 innings pitched 5 runs allowed. Whatcha gonna do?

I love these "lets throw everything out" posts. This is a ton of passion for the team. It's cool to see. (It's all wrong, mind you, but I appreciate the passion.)

Alternate headline: Twins Swept by a Bunch of Former Twins

Herr Kepler habst ein Grossenbatten.

Buntgate.

We can celebrate his first hit!