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  1. wsnydes
    So you'd DFA Mauer and let him leave for nothing?! I sat through those years in Section 102 at Target Field. Patiently, I might add. Just as I do this season. Was I happy about it then? No. Did I keep going to games? Yes. Why? I'm not sure anymore. That loyalty certainly isn't being repaid. I'm well aware of what a fan base does in losing seasons. Being a season ticket holder through four straight 90+ loss season tends to wear a guy out.
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    I think Morneau could have too. The shell of him former self still played in 134 games, swatted 19 HRs with 77 RBI and a .773 OPS. MVP numbers? No, but certainly marketable. He had a similar 2013. The Twins got Alex Presley for him when they did finally move him.
  3. wsnydes
    I really don't want to keep shuttling Buxton back and forth. He historically struggles a bit at each level before taking off. He had a good spurt after being brought back up, I'd like to see if he can start trending upwards again in the next couple of weeks. That also gives Rosario more time to rake in AAA, which I'd prefer. That time would also give you more time to look at Grossman, who appears to be cooling off. If in a couple of weeks he hasn't corrected, you send Buxton back down and bring Rosario up. I wouldn't mind seeing Kepler in CF a bit, but I'd have to see what Grossman is doing before settling on who plays where. That is a good question and I think the Twins are in a pretty good position there. They have options and they all involve youth.
  4. wsnydes
    I wouldn't even bring Santana back, they have other options to fit his role that would likely be better at it. Sano can DH until Plouffe is dealt. I'd deal Nunez and Dozier as well. I don't really think Park would benefit from being sent down, but wouldn't be up in arms if he did.
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    I don't disagree with any of what you said, but to say that there was nothing there simply isn't correct. Also, I said that the vets could have been unloaded, not that the Twins would load up on prospects. My initial point is that in order to rebuild, you have to start somewhere. This team still hasn't. 2012 was the second consecutive 90+ loss season. That was the time to unload anything that could be dealt even if its a bag of balls. If you have eat salary to do it, so be it. Get what you can with what you do have.
  6. wsnydes
    Included on the 2012 Twins roster that finished 5th in the ALC: Justin Morneau Josh Willingham Denard Span Ryan Doumit Francisco Liriano Brian Duensing Glen Perkins Matt Capps Admittedly, those aren't all great names. Some would have been sell low. Some were traded later including Ben Revere who was on the team, but I didn't include in this list. They certainly could have been unloaded to replenish a lagging farm system.
  7. wsnydes
    This. Even if they unloaded some of the younger minor league talent to acquire more younger talent to fill out a lagging farm system, that is still a rebuild. It may take longer, but it's at least a start.
  8. wsnydes
    That's my point, which seems to be your point from earlier. The rebuild needed to come 4 years earlier. They could have unloaded veterans to acquire younger talent. Instead, they continued to sign decline phase vets and augment them with average prospects from a barren farm system. That simply prolonged the middling of this squad and delayed the inevitable. If they would have simply blown things up earlier, we may not be at this point now. They've never actually started a rebuild. They're still not in the midst of a rebuild, TR is trying to contend. His moves and lack thereof show it. His in-season moves and roster management still show it. The managers distribution of playing time shows it. The words that come out of their mouths show it. None of the guys in charge understand where they sit. None of them appear committed to right the ship. Back to back 90+ loss seasons doesn't trigger a rebuild and five of six seasons 90+ losses doesn't, how am I as a paying fan supposed to believe that a 100+ loss season will be any different? The FO certainly doesn't give me any hope that such a thing is understood by them.
  9. wsnydes
    Considering they had in-house options, signing Park shouldn't have been in the picture if they didn't have the Plouffe situation worked out yet. That reeks of being nearsighted and ignoring the big picture. Also, they simply could have moved Sano to 3B rendering Plouffe a backup. They had options, they just didn't plan far enough ahead to make the correct ones.
  10. wsnydes
    I can't agree that last year upped expectations. They overachieved with what they had, added virtually nothing and played it off as "we're going to contend." It was a sell job that many around here saw right through. Last season was possibly the worst thing that could have happened. It made the FO complacent. This club should have been in full rebuild mode 4 years ago and wasn't.
  11. wsnydes
    Much easier to be preaching patience if they hadn't been already doing that for the last few years. I was fine with that approach as long as there was a visible plan. That disintegrated last season and only got worse during the offseason. At this point, I think the fan base has every right to be irritated. They can ask for more patience, that's fine. Just don't expect us to spend our money on this mess until the patience we've already shown is rewarded.
  12. wsnydes
    Agreed. In Buxton's case, I feel it's pitch recognition. Pulling off of breaking balls, particularly from RHs would indicate to me that he sees a pitching coming inside and doesn't drive into it. When it starts to break away from him, he ends up out of balance and reaching. That, IMO, screams of not enough seasoning at the higher levels of the minors where breaking pitches are better than in the lower levels. He also seems to foul off very hittable pitches because of the same lack of pitch recognition. I like that he's able to fight a little, but I think there is a lot of room for growth there. I'm not really worried about him long term yet though.
  13. wsnydes
    Speed doesn't make you good at any a defensive position. It helps obviously. It's certainly a weapon and helps cover up inefficiencies or mistakes. The best outfielders still make quick and correct reads and take the straightest route to the ball.
  14. wsnydes
    Well put. I think the idea is that even aggressive hitters that chase out of the zone can still be selective. It's not necessarily that they swing at pitches out of the zone, it's what pitches they swing at out of the zone. I agree in general that hitters need to be more selective, forcing pitchers to stay in the zone, but if that takes the aggressiveness away from a hitter and they suck because of it I don't see how that's a win. It should be more about getting a hitter to understand their own tendencies and work with them to become a better hitter rather than completely revamping a guys approach in order to (hopefully) make them more successful. When you have guys like Rosario that swing at everything, that's still about pitch selection. Its the same basic message. They just have to realize which pitches they can do damage with, not what they can make contact with. There's a massive difference between those two concepts. Similarly, just because it's a strike, that doesn't mean it's worth swinging at in certain situations.
  15. wsnydes
    I think it's hard to argue that this team preaches what they say they preach in the minors. Minor league players lack fundamental skills and and situational knowledge and awareness. That's been going on for some time now. Gardy was complaining that he was having to spend too much time teaching fundamentals. That should not be the job of the big league skipper. That's what the minors are for. There's a reason that a team like the Cardinals continue to develop their farm system at such a high level. They know these things when they get to the big leagues. Then the big league skipper can work on mechanics and practice things rather than teach things.
  16. wsnydes
    I'm remember audibly laughing watching highlight reels of Vlad Guerrero and his ability to clobber "bad balls." Golfing home runs out of the dirty, driving HRs over the RF wall from the LH batters box, etc. Some guys can get away with it, some can't. I think Jake Mauer put it rather succinctly.
  17. wsnydes
    Grossman seems to be cooling off. By the time Rosario gets called back up, I would imagine that they'd split time in LF at best. Keep Kepler in RF.
  18. wsnydes
    Beat me too it. Routes and knowing when and how to back up Buxton has irritated me to no end.
  19. wsnydes
    I viewd his PT as a means to rest the OF'ers that haven't had a day off for a while. Even so, that's too much. I'm also probably being overly optimistic.
  20. wsnydes
    I would agree with that. There is a list of guys I'd rather have seen DFA'd than Arcia. Santana is on there, but a few bullpen guys are on the list ahead of him. Moli just needs to learn to be more efficient with his bullpen use so that they can go down to 12 pitchers. I think Arcia vs Santana kind of misses the point. It's the pitching that are the worst offenders of keeping this team out of games.
  21. wsnydes
    I don't disagree with any of your points either. Perhaps the team was trying to find out how much he wants it? Maybe they didn't feel like he was working hard enough? I don't know. For whatever reason, they kept him in AAA and he didn't react well. At that point, you certainly can't call him up whether he earned it or not prior to that season. Keep in mind that I'm not questioning how hard he worked, merely stating that perhaps he needed to work even harder to get back. That's what I would have done in that situation, but that is my mentality. Like I said, life isn't always fair. The Twins shouldn't and don't deserve to get a pass on him, but I can't say that Arcia is blameless either.
  22. wsnydes
    I guess that I'd expect him to work harder to earn his way back up, using it as motivation. Life isn't always fair, sometimes you have to dig yourself out to get ahead.
  23. wsnydes
    I was going to put him somewhere between Jason Tyner and Roberto Clemente, but he already beat me to the comparison post.
  24. wsnydes
    They were at the trade Plouffe point this time last year... Dozier is more of a "deal the veterans to free up PT and acquire talent" in my view. I do want to see Polanco though.
  25. wsnydes
    He said that last year too...
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