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come on. the twins lose their big game 1 to nothing... :eyeroll:
I was saying the same thing....what a desperation game.MrSafety said:Mauer bunting....... :eyeroll:
:eyeroll: Yeah, then we could be just like the Tigers...wait, bad example, okay how bout the Mets...shoot, not a good one either, I got it we could be like the Yankees...cripes this is frustrating, almost like there are things other than payroll that are important in building a successful team.Gooseguy10 said:Every year it is the same story......"they over achieved with what they had" Why not spend some money and get what they need to make the next step.
Kinda like your boy BOOF!!! :wink:however I could see the possibility of some of our pitchers to "regress
You make very good points. I understand that "buying" a team doesn't always work but apparently either does doing what the Twins have been doing for the past ten years. In my opinion if the Twins continue to operate the same way as the past, they will get the same results....above average seasons filled with people talking about how they over achieved with what they had......it gets boring year after year.smalls said::eyeroll: Yeah, then we could be just like the Tigers...wait, bad example, okay how bout the Mets...shoot, not a good one either, I got it we could be like the Yankees...cripes this is frustrating, almost like there are things other than payroll that are important in building a successful team.Gooseguy10 said:Every year it is the same story......"they over achieved with what they had" Why not spend some money and get what they need to make the next step.
Opening up the checkbook for a "can't miss" star and missing would cripple the Twins. For examples of "can't miss" stars that have bombed see Andruw Jones and Barry Zito (sorry 870). And at some point we are going to have to pony up big(ger) $$ for Mauer, Morneau, Baker, Liriano and Neshek. I really do like what Bill Smith is doing with this team, we're staying young, cheap and athletic. We have a great ability to use our price-controlled talent to trade strengths for weakenesses (example- Garza for Delmon). I fully expect that we trade an outfielder (probably Kubel due to our LH heavy lineup) and a pitcher out of our starting rotation in the offseason. Hopefully we can get a young talented 3B or SS out of that.
The goal of the season is to get into the playoffs and try your best to get through that crapshoot. Building a "playoff" team is much harder than one would expect, just see recent successes by teams like the Cardinals, Rockies, Marlins (twice) and even the White Sox and Tiger's runs were flukey at best...all teams that were light on payroll but "hot" at the right time of year.