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Should also have mentioned that the last time he hit above .223 was 2019

Interesting the Gallo gets MVP love by hitting Sano's career batting average and hitting Sano's per 162 number of home runs.

The games aren't played on paper. They're played on television. Or, they used to be.

Luckily those seldom turn out bad.

Not at all. But don't assume the moves we've made this off-season will put us over the top. For the most part we've replaced pieces with other similar, but hopefully better pieces. HOPE is not a good strategy.

They may already have one. He pitches in the 8th or 9th inning most nights. Until we're willing to seriously consider this option we're wasting our time even discussing this issue.

Pretty sure they thought they had covered all those bases the last two years.

Luckily, this year, we're not at all relying on the guys who couldn't stay on the field last year

I for one, take a look at the "lineup that has the potential to withstand the blow of losing Arraez" and see a lineup that scored fewer than 700 runs last year and wonder where offense needed to win a World Series is gonna come from.

Get over it and get ready for the future which is now closer than ever and will likely include YOU paying a not insignificant fee for locally televised games.......

Said this from day one and will say it again. The Orioles will rue the day they passed on a guy named after Brooks Robinson.

83. Offense stayed the same. HOPING for health from Kirilloff & Larnach. Pitching is deeper but our ace is still pitching at the end of games instead of the beginning.

Been many a year that Twins fans would have been ecstatic to have a guy with a sub 4.50 ERA (and career sub 4.00) at the end of the pen.

Not sure who will get the start but the closest thing we've had to an "ace" in a generation will probably come into the game in the 8th or 9th inning.

That number has already been determined. It's 9.

Shouldn't hurt the Twins any more than it does any other team. If it does, that's on them.

Not anything new, to the Twins or any other team. Need only to look as far as Harmon Killebrew. Played 1B, 3B, LF & RF and no more than 44% of his career games at any of those positions.

Position flexibility is more needed now than ever, in part, because teams carry so many more pitchers than they did in the past. 35 years ago a 25 man roster MIGHT carry 11 pitchers but typically was more likely to carry 10. Either 40 or 44% of the roster was pitchers. Now, with a 26 man roster teams are allowed to carry 13 pitchers and seldom carry fewer than that. Teams are forcing themselves to have more flexibility among their position players. As far as forcing Lewis to start working at other positions last year, I believe that was a product of his success when he came to the big leagues. He hit well enough that they knew they would likely need to count on his bat and his glove was not going to supplant Correa at SS last year. It's entirely possible that at some point he becomes the shortstop and Correa moves to third with Lee becoming the second baseman. OR any of a half dozen other position combinations involving other positions (and players) all over the diamond.

IF this top 5 stays intact it could very well be a staff with 5 # 1s, 5 #2s, 5 # 3s, 5 #4s and 5 # 5s. History tells us that's not very likely. The biggest key to a successful season is the health of those 5 guys. Second biggest might be having one of them rise above expectations. As far as Joe goes, I think the key to HIS success might lie in a return to the Tim Lincecum look. Baseball's a funny game. You never know what you might need to put you over the top.

Kirilloff has to stay healthy. Anything else is gravy.

A lot boils down the health. Health could be the difference between what we currently see / have in Buxton and him being seen as a generational talent. Kirilloff? Need I say more? Lewis--nuff said.

If he'd had more power at the plate his knees & defense might have been less expendable. He won a batting title with a sub .800 OPS. That's hard to do.

We're at the what the f moves portion of the calendar now.

Lot of things can / probably will happen between now and the time that decision needs to be made.

Actually, Gallo strikes out 37.2% of the time. Sano only 36