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thecoffinnail
I am sure you mean the bulk of his experience as a pro has come at 3rd base, not right field. Or am I seeing things again?
Steve Adams
Aurgh. Thank you. Fixed.
krillin
Am I the only who thought the Twins would have a better season than this? I mean I didn’t think they would make the playoffs unless they caught some lucky breaks and got a WC slot, but this is terrible.
jd396
You’re not. I wasn’t expecting 90 wins but I thought we could chug along just fine and have a believable shot at a W/C slot… and if the celestial spheres all aligned properly we might even be legitimately good. What we lacked in greatness I thought we made up for in lots of potential and lots of decent role-player kinds of guys. However… Everything that we thought of this spring that could go wrong… well, all of that happened at once, and then some.
Twinsfan79
You can say that last one again. Not sure what happened but this team looked pretty sharp this spring. Apparently the wheels fell off on Northbound I-75.
twinsfan77
It is hard to fathom a team that won 83 games last season would be on track to win 51 this year, especially with half the season completed. One should keep in mind that if you lay aside a really good month last year, the Twins have been bad-to-really-bad now for 6 years. The organization is a mess, top to bottom. I feel bad for Paul Molitor, who might be a good manager if given a good team, but now may not have an opportunity to prove it.
jd396
Last year the Twins were 20-7 in May and 63-72 in not May. I think we read way more into breaking 500 than we should have.
TheCanoShow
Who would of thought that 33 year old dae hoe lee that no ones heard of would be having a better season than Park
Jorge Soler Powered
Another foreign bust in the making.
runner
“Given the fairly minimal nature of the Twins’ investment in him…”
What are you taking about? They are $25 million into this guy.
st1300b 2
Posting fee is not in addition to the salary
Steve Adams
Over a span of four years. He doesn’t need to do a whole lot over a four year span to justify a $25M outlay based on the financial landscape of baseball in 2016. He can prove to be worth that with one good season. Even factoring in the posting fee, a $6M annual commitment isn’t of great consequence for most MLB clubs.
TJECK109
How is hitting .257 considered robust?
TheCanoShow
He was batting .257, now he’s batting .191
Cam
The robust part was in reference to the more important slashes after AVG – combining for a really damn good .923 OPS.
Steve Adams
When it’s paired with a well above-average OBP and a slugging percentage that’s more than 300 points higher.
Strauss
It’s bad enough trying to be a white sox fan with all those boneheads running that team and organization, but I’m glad I’m not a Twins fan. Sorry you guys.
jd396
Terry Ryan and Kenny Williams are bad for opposite reasons, but we still have a similar problem.
Ryan just lets things stagnate while KW makes random transactions as if he gets paid per trade.
Ryan has always had an open license to do thinks his way because the Pohlads love him and how he brought us out of oblivion in the early 00’s. It seems since KW assembled a bunch of random throwaway relievers who all had insane career years at once and steamrolled through the 2005 postseason… Reinsdorf thinks that’s because KW was brilliant instead of lucky.
The Sox FO is blind squirrels. The Twins FO is paralyzed squirrels. At least blind squirrels stumble over an acorn sometimes. Paralyzed squirrels are content to just sit there and admire other teams’ acorns from a distance
runner
$25 million investment can never be called minimal. They have a guy they are $25MM into and your contention is that they get one good year out of this guy and they’ll be happy? No.
jd396
If you value 1 WAR at $4-5m like most places seem to these days it honestly doesn’t take all that much (definitely takes more than 0.1 fWAR, though) for that contract to at least wash out over the life of it.