Comments on: Not all doom and gloom on Twins’ latest road trip

By: johnjsmith

johnjsmith — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:43:11 +0000

My mistake Thome went to the sox, point being , the Twins never make a big move to push them over the top. They keep picking up retreads from other teams and end up cutting them or letting them go instead of trying to go after a big time bat. With their current philosophy do you see them in the world series anytime soon T? I sure dont, that was merely my point. Instead of Tony Batista, sidney ponson, ramon ortiz, rondell white, craig monroe,adam everett, mike lamb, we are never in the running for a quality free agent. Free agency isnt obviously the only way to build a team but wouldnt it be exciting if the Twins said “What the hell lets sign santana, and then make a trade to get a guy like Cabrera. Or in past years get a guy like Jim thome-fans would get excited about this versus getting guys on the cheap or trying to somehow squeeze another win out of a guylike ramon ortiz or ponson. It is now closing in on 20 years since we have been remotely close to a world series team. Yes sometimes you have to give up something or spend some dough-to get a Miguel Cabrera-but just think about him in our lineup with Mourneau, Mauer, Torri Hunter,. you know the twins won two world series in a span of 5 years and the joy and memories from those two series still are fresh in my memory and then for 10 years they were awful and then pretty good for the last 5 years, but just once it would have been cool to see them push the envelope and see what could have happened. Last year they were 5-6 games out of first and they let Luis Castillo go, for virtually nothing. That sent a huge message to other players like Santana, the twins ownership doesnt really want to win , its still about economics etc. Love him or hate him , a guy like steinbrenner does whatever it takes to field a winning team and an exciting team. T really is their any one in the twins farm system that is that great that we couldnt have tryed to get a cabrera-answer NO!!! Oh and by the way -tonights game cleveland 4 twins 0-the twins anemic offense is exactly where it was a year ago, no punch at all. Pitching staff is worse as well-brand spanking new stadium coming in, with all those revenue sources and santana gone, hunter gone, but at least the payroll is in line with what makes pohlad happy. Yeeha!!!!!!

By: T

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:26:34 +0000

Detroit gets Cabrera, a few years ago Cleveland got Jim Thome , who by the way would have fit in very nicely with the Twins

Detroit got Cabrera by trading away their farm. Which is part of the reason they got into trouble early.

Cleveland didn’t get Jim Thome, Cleveland lost Jim Thome. Chicago got Jim Thome, and it took Aaron Rowand…which is a gap in centerfield they’re only now starting to fill up again.

I’ll also throw in the obligatory “How many times has Chicago gone to the playoffs since aquiring Thome?” comment.

By: johnjsmith

johnjsmith — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:33:38 +0000

I love the Twins, but lets be real, they will never reach the world series again and win it while acquiring free agents on the cheap every year. Detroit gets Cabrera, a few years ago Cleveland got Jim Thome , who by the way would have fit in very nicely with the Twins, but we are subjected to Rondell White, Craig Monroe, Ramon Ortiz, Ponson, Mike Lamb, Everett, and the list goes on. I understand small budget team and all that stuff, but once it would be great to actually get a big-time impact player in his prime and not on the downside of his career ala Paul Molitor and Dave winfield another example of the Twins stinginess. Remember the lineups they had when they won-power hitting , with great pitching. Their lineup is nice,but no one fears them and on a given night they can score , but give me an intimidating presence at the plate, ala Thome-for ten years it was we need a new stadium to keep our prime players and as soon as we get the stadium they lose Hunter and santana-we will never win a series if always in the rebuild mode switch is on.

By: CeSar ToVar

CeSar ToVar — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:34:30 +0000

Don Baylor was another high profile free agent for the Twins.

Someone wanted to know.

By: shameless

shameless — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:07:42 +0000

Listen the twins aren’t going to make a run make a run at manny in the off season.

The road trip had a couple of heart breakers thats the nature of baseball.

So far I like what i see from this group!! I still don’t think we can contend with Cleveland this tear but in the years to come we will be great!!

Everyone cross your fingers for Franchise tomorrow….if we’re to have any chance of competeing this year he has to get over the hump…..be patient it took Santana some time after he had debris removed from his elbow!!!

By: T

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:21:16 +0000

Cuddy did, successfully

I don’t recall fielding the ball that well at third. Lots of fumbling catches (not as bad as Batista, but not pretty).

And then wasn’t there the problem of him overthrowing? I remember at one point Cuddy played 2B and was moved from that position for the same reason.

They found a place for his arm in RF, and it’s worked thus far.