Slowey and Buscher…and Johan!
Posted on February 29th, 2008 – 9:46 PMBy La Velle
Kevin Slowey was on his way to a smooth first outing. He struck out David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez to open the fourth, and it seemed like everything I heard about Slowey in camp was true: He found some extra movement.
But then came a single by Mike Lowell and a two-run homer by Kevin Youkilis. Slowey couldn’t even get out of the inning, as Gardy had to bring in Brian Bass to get the final out.
“He kept trying to overthrow the ball,” Gardy said.
Brian Buscher impressed, making a nice stab of Youkilis’ hot grounder in the fifth and crushed a ball over the right field wall in the sixth - the first Twins’ RBI of the spring. Gardy backed up what other Twins officials have said about him.
“He’s kind of come here on a mission,” Gardy said.
Now, just in case anyone missed it. That’s right. Juan Gonzalez took Johan Santana deep for a three-run homer today…Santana’s quotes look very familiar….
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11 Responses to "Slowey and Buscher…and Johan!"
YES!!! I knew that Johan had lost some of his stuff because of his decline last year and yesterday. (LOL)
Ok, this crap about Johan being done is stupid. I got the same comments yesterday when I mentioned Juan Gone’s HR off Santana. It’s old!
Do we get excited about Buscher? The little taste he got last year put him on the mission.
am excited about buscher, but wonder where gardy will find a spot for him, unless he rotates him 3rd 1st and dh—have a feeling theres going to be alot of that this year with monroe, kubel, punto, harris it will be like having 12-13 regulars and whoevers not playing that day makes out the bench…not a bad situation as far as im concerned…keeps everyone fresh and alive…..
He La Velle, why didn’t you tell us that you were going to be on Sports Center?
Nice job by the way, pretty cool to see you on there…
IMO Buscher has enough on his plate learning to play 3B. Moving him around will delay his defensive development.
Let Lamb be the swingman. He already has experience at 1B and is not much better than Buscher at 3B now.
Lamb may have already reached his ceiling as a 3B.
Buscher’s ceiling as a 3B could be higher.
I think the best player should play, period. And don’t rotate players just for rotation sake, if a guys hot, play him. And as for Gardy’s favorites, does 79-83 say anything? Average production from 3B and no Lew Ford adds 8-10 wins last year.
Sane,
like the idea of letting Lamb play 1st and having Buscher stick to 3rd. Lamb has the experience there and Buscher could stick to auditioning for the long term job at 3rd.
I guess LEN3 is saying the Twins made a shrewd move by just offering Johan just $20M over 4 and letting him leave for more money, knowing his game was going downhill..And Juan G cranking one another piece of evidence.
Such baseball insight…lol
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the twins are good at offering juuuust short of what he could be singed for, by the way ,,,its planed that way,, thats how thay get rid of players that thay don,t need any more, or want, cuz of money, reasons,, pretty smart ,,if you ask me,,
