MLB: ***2024 Minnesota Twins***
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Agree. He’s not holding his own in RF. Gallo and Wallner can handle that spot.
I would be nice to see the Twins package Kepler for the A’s Richard Lovelady or Sam Long.
Damn, the AL East is just loadedWhen I get frustrated with the Twins lack of scoring, I just need to look at Oakland. I mean, Damn. And if Cleveland's pitching suffers, look out.
I am not sure there is a more frustrating player in the Twins organization over the last 8-10 years than Kepler.
Oh wait, how silly of me...it's as if I forgot Miguel Sano ever existed.
Sano has to dominate that list. He looked like a dominant guy at the plate to a guy that can’t even function. At least with Kepler he looks like he can be serviceable. He was trending well and popped in 2019, but I was a bit skeptical, as that season just seemed to be pure magic for everyone in that lineup.
I think they thought the new shift rules would benefit him supposedly but just haven't seen it. I honestly really like him but Wallner looks ready. I think a lot of us thought Sano could be the next David Ortiz. Well that's not happening. I just had to look and I don't think Sano is even playing baseball now unless it's somewhere out of the country.
Sometimes I swear that Aaron Gleeman reads this board. The last paragraph from his Athletic article regarding Kepler.
Any offseason argument for maintaining maximum outfield depth with Kepler is no longer a priority. He’s hit .198 in a lineup that’s struggled for two months, Larnach is close to returning from the injured list, and Wallner is too good for Triple A. They’re ready now, or at least as ready as they’ll ever be, and at some point the Twins need to find out what they have, for the present and future.
Any offseason argument for maintaining maximum outfield depth with Kepler is no longer a priority. He’s hit .198 in a lineup that’s struggled for two months, Larnach is close to returning from the injured list, and Wallner is too good for Triple A. They’re ready now, or at least as ready as they’ll ever be, and at some point the Twins need to find out what they have, for the present and future.
Loved to see him bring it home with another two inning save. They had no chance at 104.6 mph.
Polanco with a clutch game winning double. Go for the sweep boys.
The interesting thing is with him having been unable to go at 100% at any point so far this year is when the truth will come out about what is wrong.
If you've followed the right people, you can read between the lines that a lot of the beat guys have known something coming out of spring training, but can't state it explicitly.
Is it chronic? Degenerative? Something that can be fixed but needs major procedure/time off? Interesting times...
He’s almost not human. He has some of the best hitters in the game totally off balanced and taking terrible swings. He’s not a normal man.
One TC podcast (Zulgad) this week said Buxton’s knee issue is chronic and speculated that he will never play CF again.
The team is really struggling with the bottom of the strike zone. Guys swinging at multiple pitches in the dirt on the same at bat.
