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You don't know that, at all. It's possible, or, it's possible he gets hurt worse playing elsewhere. Players get hurt. No amount of hindsight makes anything preventable

I honestly don’t care who, specifically. The numbers are going to hurt, imo

Researched a little … there was an exemption last year for unvaccinated players of MLB. They were allowed to play last year in Canada, but that exemption ended in January, so this year is different and unvaccinated players are actually barred from entering the country which is different from last year. Simmons not going to Canada last year was not related to his vaccination status, but because of a visa status (he was in the process of applying for U.S. citizenship and wasn’t allowed to leave the country.) So, the 5 could be anyone. According to Reuse, it’s 4 pitchers and 1 position player. If true, 4 pitchers really hurts.

Sanchez and Urshela also played in Toronto last year with the Yankees. But, it doesn’t really matter who, if Souhan is correct in that there are 5 players who cannot go to Canada, that is a lot to replace on top of all who are on the IL already.

Yep ... the article posted above said they won't until Thursday, though ... they need to wait to finalize anything if there are injuries/whatnot

says one who should have no mind or body left

I do. Remember it well

We see bodies stretched to their limits … how fast they run, how hard they throw … it’s got give in some way?

I’m actually more concerned with who goes. I guess it’s sort of the same thing, as it’s all connected. This could really hurt depending on who and how many are out and who the replacements will be. But it’s not like they didn’t know they’d have to plan for this eventuality. But with so many on the IL as it is, I really wonder what the team is going to look like

Considering the number of players already on the IL for various reasons, the roster is a conversation, How many is a handful? How this impacts the roster? These are legitimate questions.

How many is a ‘handful’? Is there anyone left in St. Paul to bring up for the trip? As a reminder, whatever your personal feelings on covid and vaccinations, these are the rules of customs and immigration of another country. MLB has to work within that framework. Discuss the roster crunch, not covid and vaccinations, please.

Not anymore since I edited your post and changed it back to the default font

lol ... I would still rather watch a game there than at Wrigley. Wrigley might be the iconic stadium in town, and certainly is a must see/experience, but unless you have very specific seats, it's a terrible, terrible place to watch a game with all its partial view or obstructed view seats, not to mention, more difficult to navigate to/from/into, higher crime in the area, more expensive. Impressive, though, you've been to them all! (once your re-checked the Rangers stadium off your list.)

Stop it, both of you. Stick to the topic and off one another.

If Alacala and Canterino can add to the mix positively, that will be just like making a trade!

It was mentioned in one of the Twins Minor League reports. I don't think anyone brought it up here, but there is a transaction page for minor leaguers, too, in the Minor League forum. (And no one mentioned it there, either, so I moved your comment to that transaction thread. )

I voted ‘something else’, meaning my answer is ‘yes’. The whole team surprises me. I thought we were going to have another dreadful season and for all the reasons mentioned, and a few more, it hasn’t been dreadful. We may not win the WS this year, but I don’t put it completely out of the scope of possibilities. But the team is much more fun to follow for a host of reasons.

I don’t know for certain or not if Donaldson was a negative on the team chemistry. Possibly. He could have been part of the whole with that. Sometimes players and personalities just don’t blend. It’s interesting to see the turn around this year. Kepler commented that they just didn’t blend last year, they weren’t a team, just a bunch of individuals, but I’ve not heard a single report specifically pointing to Donaldson as the cause. Just a lot of scapegoating from Twins Daily, imo. At the time I liked the signing. Without any hindsight applied, I still like the signing. The Twins showed a commitment to signing a big name. We needed better defense at third and we needed a bat to replace the bats that were leaving after 2019. We needed more fire and personality. I thought the Twins were making a commitment to better the team. I still think that, even though it didn’t work out as hoped. Of course, in HINDSIGHT, it didn’t work out the way I think anyone hoped for various reasons. Part of that wasn’t Donaldson’s fault, because pitching didn’t do us any favors. If I knew all of that before, no I don’t sign him, then what? No way to know for certain if we’d be better off today or not. We got good pieces in return so it wasn’t a total loss. So, maybe there was something worthwhile. But I don’t think it was the worst signing ever. Far from that, even though it didn’t work out as hoped.

That’s not what happened. He had words with the pitcher regarding sticky stuff. It was just after the league cracked down, and we all know how vocal Donaldson was before then, and Donaldson did a kind of a ‘See, I told you so’ that led to his being tossed. Not condoning it, just clarifying it

I ate mine before the game started. I think there’s something to the win we had.

Who said this was a science-y thing? I didn't.

I'm testing a theory ... I'll tell you all what it is after the game, if we've won

These threads are for baseball discussion. I live downtown Chicago and understand what some of you are saying why you won't attend games. But let's leave it at that. If you want to have a more in depth discussion on social issues, police justice, riots, urban centers, the media's role ... please visit our Current Affairs club and have that discussion there. But leave these forums to baseball. It has been proven time and time and time again that we cannot remain civil when delving into these complicated issues and we end up with the train far off the tracks in a heap, spilling each others' proverbial blood along the way over our differences of opinion on these issues. These forums exist for baseball. Let's leave it at that.

I'm not sure who would be worth more in a trade, it's about what we would get back. There is a difference there that I think you may be forgetting. What Correa is worth isn't necessarily what we would get in return and probably wouldn't even get close to that for so many reasons. But, for the Twins, the SS we have is most definitely more valuable to keep on the team.