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Off-speed stuff looks really good and he has good control of it...If he just had a little fastball command....

Beltran and Molina yes. They have 4 major league starters and 1 utility guy...Pretty compareable to a spring training lineup.

All star level lineup? Um no

I think this has mostly to do with the Twins selecting mostly High School position players for the last 10 years or so. For recent examples, Revere Span Parmelee Plouffe Cuddyer were all 1st round...

Dont blame you, that was 1 amazing season.

Its funny how you took the 2012 BA and coupled it with the 2009 OBP and SLG?

One of the best bits of news ive heard all spring.

Who cares, lets just hope Rosario sticks at 2b and has a good year and one of Polanco Santana Goodrum etc stick at SS and develop this year. Im optimistic about one thing right now for the...

To be fair the league AVG OBP the last 3 years is about .322. In 1999-2000 it was .345

But still you think maybe the Giants should have signed Becker in 2001 and had him leadoff in front of Bonds...

Becker was well ahead of his time. Amazing that his last 2 years in the major leagues he posted the following lines...

1999: 327 AB 258/395/371
2000: 357 AB 242/384/375

His last 684 AB in...

Yes, Rich Becker is a much better comp for Hicks then Hunter.

I think Hicks best comp as a hitter is Milton Bradley. Prolly a better person though :)

You are without a doubt the most optimistic Twins guy out there and I respect that. But this team is the 2nd or 3rd worst team in the AL without a doubt. They have the worst rotation in the AL,...

Are you joking? As a 27 and 28 year old playing AA he has posted some great on base numbers while striking out an avg of 17% of the time. So playing against guys he was 4-5 years older then he was...

29 and has 80 ab's above AA. Probably a late bloomer

I never said that, I think his defense will be pretty bad in RF. The good news is he has to play RF for about 50% of 1 year for the rest of his career so I could really care less about his defense...

It is fairly amazing to me how low everyones expectations are. If you throw out the beginning of 2012, when he made the team without a role and predictably struggled in part time play this guy has...

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