Walter's Whites

I'm a music junkie. I play Cat Stevens on guitar all the time. But if you're going for comedic effect play Sheryl Crow. If you play the 60's versions millennials who don't know music will just tweet about how the Twins picked a weird cover of Sheryl Crow (which makes me weep inside).

*Sheryl I believe is the right spelling.

Oh definitely Cheryl Crow.

Can we all agree "The First Cut is the Deepest" should be Sano's walkup song first game back?

I know Lynn has his faults, but if we can get him on a 2 year deal with a higher annual amount then do it. We have to get some more depth.

The question is why would Buxton sign an extension. If he fulfills his potential, he should want to become a free agent ASAP and not have free agent years bought out. If I'm Buxton I'm tempted to bet on myself and get to free agency.

I'm not concerned over 8 at bats, but I do think he needs to cut down the strikeouts and get in better shape to fulfill his potential. Hope he does, because he could be MVP caliber.

Great deal. I don't know how much Cobb or Lynn are asking for, but I still think we should go for one of them if it's a fair deal. We have flexibility to spend, so let's get some depth in this rotation.

Before you know it, the Vanimal will be back. That's how uninteresting and sad this off-season has been.

I hope he reaches the bigs soon so we can hear Sid Hartman try to pronounce his name.

I understand the top 4 are risky, but now is the time to take a risk with contracts coming off the books soon. Let's be aggressive and go for something. At some point every front office has to take a risk.

I bet the Pohlads aren't gung-ho about the dough they wasted on Byung-Ho to see if he could hit in the show.

I don't even speak Spanish and I'd still rather listen to the Spanish broadcast.

My recommendation would be to either turn on the radio broadcast, mute the TV or put music on. Do not listen to Dick alone. Don't do that to yourself.

I have an idea. Let's take the media guide away from Bert and see what he talks about. My guess is nothing. Or how many days until his next birthday.

CAN WE STOP WITH THE DAY GAMES????????????

Other than the White Sox (who could maybe fit in to this category), I see one problem for the Twins schedule. Every team is better than us.

Phil Hughes seems like such a nice guy. He always provides souvenirs for the fans sitting in the outfield.

This has nothing to do with Terry Ryan personally, I've met him several times and he's a standup, high class guy. But does anyone else feel that his collective time at GM was overall underwhelming? The division titles were fun, but most of those division titles came in a very weak central with the Tigers, Royals and Indians all being pretty horrible. As soon as we got to the playoffs it was fairly obvious we weren't as good as the other playoff teams. Granted, the Twins had no flexibility for payroll and other teams did, but Terry Ryan really only made one aggressive move at the deadline in all of those years (Shannon Stewart). And I think it's fair to say his second stint as GM was a disaster. Overall, having one playoff series victory in his tenure just feels a little disappointing.

If Berrios starts in AAA, I guess I can see why. He was just awful last year and needs to get his fastball under control. But Mejia? What's the point of starting him in AAA? It's pretty obvious that he is better than Vogelsong, and you'd get him some big league innings to see what he's got. Vogelsong is not part of the future. Mejia could be. Give him the #5 spot.

When the Twins signed Vogelsong I chuckled and thought: "Don't worry, there is no chance he'll make the roster". I never learn.

No matter how you frame it (sorry folks), pitching mostly comes down to location and movement. If Twins pitchers continue to throw in the heart of the plate, Castro becomes less valuable. I think it is a valuable skill, but in no way is adding a catcher going to decrease our runs allowed by 100+ runs. That will come with simply executing pitches and playing better defense.

I know there is basically a zero percent chance of this happening, but if Ryan Volgelsong wins the fifth starter job I'll probably have a stroke.

I know it's only spring training, but seeing Danny Santana in centerfield is frightening for any Twins fan.

Who's everyone got for the fifth starter now?