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Twins not exactly Murderer's Row without Kirilloff Correa Lewis Larnach. One OPS over 726 and that's their catcher.

Vaughn and Benintendi just unreal numbers... Once upon a time, AB was right up there with Bogaerts Devers and Moncada in the BOS pecking order.

Dogging it ala Pollock.

Wonder why Benintendi wasn't benched? Guess Grifol wanted to have one less controversy to have to address with the media...

Why are Maldonado and Garcia on this team again?

1-2-3 Catcher leading off is interesting. Margot hitting third even moreso.

Or Colas...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ariana-biermann-says-she-had-172419964.html Poor Billy Seidl...not sure he knew 100% what he was getting into.

Forcing Ventura to stick around as long term manager when his heart was clearly elsewhere one of many front office misreads. It took some pressure away from JR KW Dunn Ozzie Buehrle situations...he was the last guy standing to take a lot of hits for an organization clearly in transition. Should have left after 2012.

Beckham was obviously later...but physically limited at SS. Anderson never had the work ethic/dedication to improve offensively...just relied on his natural gifts in CF but that was a different era. And for every one of those defenders...there was a Josh Fields or Dayan Viciedo mixed in that just never found a defensive home.

Walker just got sent down.

https://www.mlb.com/news/blake-snell-lands-on-15-day-injured-list Never sign those late FA guys. Look at Chapman Martinez Bellinger all slow going out of the gate. Montgomery relying on lesser pure stuff the major exception.

Feels like that was 50% Pods and Iguchi and AJ the first half of that season...Crede Rowand and Uribe were already pretty gifted defensively.

Almost the reverse of the Semien situation where a 6th rounder was projected by numerous scouts to be tapped out projection or potential-wise/utility or fringe AAAA...until he found someone in another organization who really believed in him as a player and invested so much personal time in his development. Tatis, they simply got outscouted on what possible range of outcomes they had on their hands from the Padres having 3x the amount of Latin American coverage...and investing time in stalking the back fields.

Sounds like what we said about Micker Adolfo for going on three seasons...