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I've been saying this stuff all winter, but it's worth repeating. Having Joe Mauer healthy going into spring training is huge.

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can't wait either..... I bet Mauer will be a .300/ 380 / 490 type of hitter this year for almost a .900 OPS

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/photo-logan-morrison-bryan-petersen-share-tub-drink-043548597.html

by SteveHoffmanSlowey on Feb 19, 2012 12:34 PM EST reply actions  

I will take that as a baseline

Tho as long as he is back to form, he might even bat higher (tho probably with less power)

by twinscrazy_german on Feb 19, 2012 12:45 PM EST up reply actions  

92 on March 15th!

The article is mostly direct quotes from Mauer himself.

by DavidRF on Feb 19, 2012 3:07 PM EST up reply actions  

You can do that?!

We should tell LEN III that he can quote Mauer. This is big.

"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot

by cmathewson on Feb 19, 2012 5:26 PM EST up reply actions  

When healthy, he's among the best of the best.

"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." ~George F. Will

by SooFoo Fan on Feb 19, 2012 5:23 PM EST reply actions  

Answers one question from last year anyway
“Looking back on it, there’s a lot of things that I think we could have done differently, or wish we would have done differently, but it happened and [I’m] just trying to move forward.

“I mean, if we knew I was going to have surgery, we would have had it right after the year. But you know, you have to try and figure out if you need surgery, and … we were making the best decision at the time and we thought we could rehab it and avoid surgery.”

"Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any one of us." -Kirby Puckett
"Tell Gardy there's nobody around to protect him now." Ozzie Guillen

by less cowbell, more 'neau on Feb 19, 2012 5:29 PM EST reply actions  

He's classy about it

They advised him to rehab and not have surgery. It was bad advice. He doesn’t blame them though. He takes the blame for listening to them.

"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot

by cmathewson on Feb 20, 2012 12:11 AM EST up reply actions  

Do not feed the troll

Don’t click on the J— S——- article

by DJL44 on Feb 19, 2012 11:08 PM EST reply actions  

He is such a tool

"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." ~George F. Will

by SooFoo Fan on Feb 19, 2012 11:53 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

Where does he get off? All over his column, apparently.

"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot

by cmathewson on Feb 20, 2012 12:09 AM EST up reply actions  

Looks like he's off for the summer

Mauer is his meal ticket. He can pre-write those for weeks when he doesn’t feel like writing a real column.

by DavidRF on Feb 20, 2012 2:09 AM EST up reply actions  

Him and Ruesse

Remember the Reusse article went he went to a game, begging people in the stands to rip on Mauer, and booed him, and quoting himself when he couldn’t find anyone who shared his negative views?

These guys dont seem to get what a huge competitive advantage it is having a catcher who is your best hitter. That advantage is a huge part of the Twins playoff apearances over the past decade.

by AM. on Feb 20, 2012 7:09 AM EST via mobile up reply actions  

You mean P----- R----?

Do not use their names. Do not click on the articles. It’s the only way to put an end to a toddler with a tantrum.

by DJL44 on Feb 20, 2012 9:12 AM EST up reply actions  

You are trying to use reason...

That’s not going to work. Its gotten to the point where they just make stuff up. This week, he blames Mauer’s attitude (not his money) for Cuddyer and Nathan leaving. He also blamed Mauer for Revere’s upbeat personality (with the team losing, Mauer should have put a stop to that).

Even worse, when someone in the comment section actually responds with something rational like “I understand with a high salary that expectations go up, but not much of what you write makes sense”, then a flood of angry-fan commenters shoot that poster down with things like “he’s a writer for the strib, I think he knows more than you!”.

So, there’s nothing sensical about this. These articles are essentially pre-written for the whole year already. J—- S—- can go up north and relax in a cabin for the rest of the summer.

by DavidRF on Feb 20, 2012 11:31 AM EST up reply actions  

Where he can Google himself to his heart's content

Interested, interested, interested, very interested, very very interested, … then he suddenly lost interest.

"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot

by cmathewson on Feb 20, 2012 12:02 PM EST up reply actions  

I never read it...

but reading this makes me want to read them. It sounds hilariously bizarre.

by tobynotjason on Feb 20, 2012 1:03 PM EST up reply actions  

If you remain detached and read it like the ravings of a troll perhaps

… but DJL is right, you don’t want to give him the satisfaction of upping his page views. I had already read it before this thread… I was just trying to show “AM” that these columns completely ignore reality. Its real boring… nothing new… he’s just trolling for re-tweets from the angry-fans.

by DavidRF on Feb 20, 2012 1:08 PM EST up reply actions  

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