Twins Tomahawk Indians 10-1

If you can’t love a team even when they suck, what’s the point? Half the fun is complaining about how bad you know your team is! :)

and disapprove of your scolding of others as if you are their mother, but I’m wondering why you stole less cowbell, mor-neau’s tagline?

and I know that Casilla’s stats are probably worse this year than Punto’s but, I don’t get that sick to my stomach feeling when Casilla is up. In fact, when Punto is up and there is a runner on first, I find myself hoping he strikes out so he doesn’t hit into a double play. At least with Casilla there is hope that he might get better. Punto is getting worse. Plus he is overpaid. If the twins wouldn’t have signed him this year for FOUR MILLION DOLLARS, nobody would have signed him.

Punto has had only one good year (2007) with the Twins. Before that, Punto was with the Phils and completely sucked there as well. So Punto has had a bad career not just a bad year.

Punto was terrible in 2007 – that was the year that he entered the season as the starting third baseman. I assume the “good year” you’re thinking of was 2006, when he took over at third after Batista was released and put up a decent offensive line, coupled with good defense. But he actually was just as good last year, if not better (roughly the same OPS, but higher OPS+, as offense was down across the league), albeit in fewer plate appearances. Heck, he was even better than Casilla last year offensively.

I’m not trying to say that Punto is some sort of great player, but he’s been demonstrably better than Casilla so far in his career, and in 2006 and 2008 he was a legitimately good player.

Casilla is still young and athletic and can figure out what he is doing wrong and change it very quickly but he needs the right coach to do that.

Luis Rivas says hi.

You do not evaluate a player based on one year, but look at the career of the player…otherwise, we would have said that Morneau was the worst everyday player ever back in 2004 when he took over from Mientz.

Morneau was awesome in 2004 – he hit 19 homers in a half season and led the team in slugging. He was crappy during a short-term callup in ’03, and not very good in his first full season in ’05, but ’04 was not a bad year for Morneau.

No one’s saying that you throw out career stats, or even minor league stats. The problem is that apart from his hot streak after his callup last year, there’s not much in his stats to suggest that we should be expecting much more from him. He’s got a .703 career OPS… in AAA. What am I missing that screams “greatness”, or even “competence”?

quite interesting especially considering the Twins arent at the dome and arent playing the White Sox.