Denny

Wasn't trying to tear him down intentionally, just meant to point out that his career was not was not very distinguishable from that of hundreds or thousands of others. In perspective .291 puts him at #359 all time, and his career line is .291/.332/.423, which is meh. Combine that with playing for 7 MLB and 1 KPB team in 14 years, and I don't think I was being overly critical of his caereer. He is a name many Twins fans are very familiar with because of his years with the Indians, but he exists more on the periphery of baseball than in the category of guys with "accomplishments".

New poster here. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I am going to give the benfit of the doubt to Kennys on this one. The article says the three players were among others in their disagreement with how Baerga was managing the game. It appears Baerga responded by benching them in the middle of the postseason. Just because Baerga was able to bounce around the majors for a decade doesn't mean he is immune from second guessing as a manager. I think this sounds good. I like that Vargas wasn't ok with being benched as a punishment, especially when its in the middle of the playoffs and its clear that multiple players had issues with the manager. Why is it that some faction of Twins fans look down on/fear players with passion/attitue, but will whine on, and on, about how Joe Mauer never looks like he cares. If I remember correctly a lot of people herehad a negative reaction to Sano and his homerun trot shenanigans a couple years ago, which turned out to be quasi-justified on his part. Let's all just pump the breaks on calling this necessarily a bad thing, or on saying the Kennys has a respect issue.