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  1. Doomtints
    Molitor is quoted as speaking with Sano's trainers, just not with Sano directly. Do you believe that Molitor is speaking to Sano's personal trainers? That seems very unlikely if not impossible. Why would Sano pay for personal trainers when the team will provide them? Look, being an athlete is a full-time commitment. Sure you can get weekends off during the offseason like the rest of us, but should by no means be sitting on his hands for six months. And there is zero point in "training in a bubble" -- the Twins and him should be working together on the same plan.
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    These aren't days off. He is training with trainers.
  3. Doomtints
    The best plan for improving attendance is to try to lose less than 90 games. Dozier has been on a lot of teams that have not accomplished that feat. On a different roster, Dozier is incredibly valuable. But he can't carry this team on his own.
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    Several reasons. 1) Dozier's power did not help the team at all last year. 2) Dozier is about to hit his decline years. 3) His replacement is ready. 4) The Twins have other holes that need to be plugged. 5) Though he's the team's "best player" he is by no means a hall of fame candidate. Half of the White Sox roster is as good as Dozier is, and the White Sox did not even make the playoffs.
  5. Doomtints
    "In dealing away Sale, the White Sox have apparently committed to a blow-up rebuild, with reports of Jose Quintana, Todd Frazier and Jose Abreu now being on the block. Some will look at this as the path the Twins should have taken, and maybe still should take." The Twins can't take that path. The Twins don't have anyone who can hold a candle to Chris Sale or those other guys.
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    mlhouse - Griffith knew how to build teams with great defense, particularly in the infield. He was also not bad at all with building a starting pitching staff. He struggled a bit with bullpens and was terrible at hiring managers. Crossing the bridge between a good defensive team and a team that can fire on all cylinders doesn't necessitate making huge moves, as you say. This team, however, has had holes all over the place on the field. Bad defense, bad hitting, bad pitching. Of course today's team isn't impossible to fix (and a few more years of growing up will go a LONG way), but as you suggest it's going to take more steps to get there.
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    The 84 collapse wasn't considered heartbreaking by many. At that time the Twins had not been to the postseason for as long as anybody could remember. People in the Twin Cities were generally not paying attention to the Twins and those who were had been expecting them to collapse, being used to the fast-starting teams having terrible second halves, or vice-versa. Even though the Twins were in contending late in the year, few were surprised by the end result. In any case, the 84 team did not have many holes. With any other closer in the league, they probably make the postseason. They were a good team. By the time the 85 season was rolling, people had mostly forgotten about the Twins again and few were expecting much. It was not until late in the 87 season before fans in the Twin Cities truly started paying attention full-time. The instant the Twins made the postseason, there was an electricity in the air that you had to experience to truly understand. *Everyone* was excited. I think in many ways, the residents of the Twin Cities needed that championship. It was quite a party and the beginning of a new era -- not just for the Twins but for the Twin Cities.
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    OK, Thanks.
  9. Doomtints
    Exactly. There's room.
  10. Doomtints
    The Twins could stand to have defensive improvements at every position. They were at their worst after the strange pitching changes at the end of the year, so there is every possibility that they will be better in 2017. When the manager benches veterans for guys like Albers and Dean, the message being sent is rather clear: Why bother. Sure the pitchers who were let go were not great either, but they weren't as bad as those two. If the manager gives up, that attitude is going to trickle down.
  11. Doomtints
    They do? The starters at AAA were mostly a steaming pile of nothing last year. The AA team had another group who underperformed. A+ has a bunch of exciting guys who certainly won't be ready to play for the Twins in 2017. The Twins still have to be patient with Berrios. May has a role now and he needs to prove himself again. Meyer is gone. With the other cuts the Twins made, the logjam is pretty much gone. Let's hope Berrios at least works out. Be that as it is, yes, they need someone like Santiago, or anybody, who can hold down the fort for another year.
  12. Doomtints
    Yes in capitals with 50 exclamation points.
  13. Doomtints
    Good research. The city he grew up in (Castro Valley) is an affluent, mostly-white city. This doesn't mean he does not know Spanish, of course, as he could have learned it in school. Seeing as he went to Stanford he no doubt has a very good academic record and is probably at least familiar with a foreign language.
  14. Doomtints
    Well we can end this right now. Everything is my fault. All of it! Whatever anyone did or did not do is all on me. I apologize for my transgressions and hope you all have it in your hearts to forgive me. Now we can move on.
  15. Doomtints
    Great stuff. The Twins *must* improve defensively. We talk all the time about pitching and catching, but the Twins defense is atrocious. It won't matter who is pitching if the Twins defense remains the same.
  16. Doomtints
    I think I (and many commenters) lost sight of things a little bit. The Twins Daily staff is working to build a positive relationship with the new front office and with that in mind wrote a positive piece about what they have done so far. This isn't wrong, certainly what has been done so far is not negative. The viewpoint from us fans is different, and as we a group we feel like "not much of consequence" has been done yet. We would rather wait and see, because sure the moves so far are good but they're not enough. We all forgot to consider that the positioning is different between the author of the piece and those of us who read the piece. I think this is probably on both of us (the author should have been able to predict our reaction just as much as we should have realized why he wanted to write it this way). A different word choice for the title would have made all the difference. Lessons learned for everybody.
  17. Doomtints
    I am much more impressed by millennials than I am my generation -- Gen X. I imagine you are Gen X as well. Gen X has been the ultimate generation of incompetence. Our parent are still running things for the most part, and the next generation to run things will be the millennials. Sad but true. Gen X is going to push things backwards before the millennials come of age to fix it.
  18. Doomtints
    There wasn't much choice. The major league team had more holes than George Washington's teeth. Bad management.
  19. Doomtints
    Well, aren't those true things? It's not unfair to point out things that the guy actually said and did. True, it's not the whole picture with Hunter, he has done some good things too. And of course now that he isn't going through the stress of competing he isn't likely to lose his temper and act like an arse. Oh, and you forgot to mention his homophobia.
  20. Doomtints
    Exactly. Let's see where things are in a month before we rate anything.
  21. Doomtints
    Meh. Ryan would have picked up a catcher too. It's a necessity at the moment since they don't have one. Ryan may have even picked up the same catcher. We need to keep it real. As of yet, the Twins haven't done anything that will make a major difference.
  22. Doomtints
    Strong start? The pitching staff is still completely unaddressed and that's where the problem is. They don't even have a coach yet. The Twins *had* to get a catcher as Suzuki is leaving. Do these guys really believe that the whole problem the Twins have with pitching was the catcher? That seems naive. Also, releasing Plouffe rather than trading him is not what I call a strong move. Sure, they'd have to eat some salary to trade him. A trade is still better.
  23. Doomtints
    These are minimal, practically symbolic, roles. Perhaps "culture of winning" was a poor word choice but this isn't a big deal.
  24. Doomtints
    He was all or nothing in that if a move wasn't going to put them over the top, he did not bother to make the move unless his back was to the wall. This means that the only moves he made over the past few years were to fill the gigantic holes. There were no marginal moves made that could have pushed the team towards the middle.
  25. Doomtints
    Sure, it's a "weak" strategy if your team is already in the middle of the pack. The Twins are coming off their worst record since being in Minnesota. A move to the middle of the pack is a huge leap and one I would be very happy about. Ryan was very much into this "all or nothing" approach and we ended up with five years of the nothing. A year or two in the middle would be a huge turnaround for this team.
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