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Ben Revere's catch the other day was BOOOOONNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKERRRRRRSSSSSSS
Thats funny you say Revere won't get sent back down. Pioneer Press today had him on the front page of the sports section with a headline something along the lines of "Odd Man Out". It is going to be very tough to keep him up for the entire season. Next year when Kid Cudy is gone, he will be around. Hopefully alongside Aaron Hicks and the other OF we got on the way up.
Second place by the break is a long shot. Kyle Gibson better be a stud!! If he is what they are saying he is, he will make a major difference.
Kubel won't get traded. I don't see that happening. If anything I think we should try to get rid of Cuddyer. We won't resign him I don't think so it would be nice to get all we can for him.
Keep in mind that we are still 13 games under .500, meaning that a 20 game winning streak may or may not even put us up into the top of the division. Lots of work to be done still, and we need to play like .800 baseball for a while longer to even stay close. That being said, the Twins are too good of a team to be the very worst team in baseball and I think most everyone knew that. My prediction is a second place finish in the division to Detroit most likely. Being 10 games down at this point in the year is not insurmountable at all but I just don't think the team has anything in them to put a championship run together this year. My backup prediction would be getting swept by the Yankees in the first round, which would be a huge shock to everyone. It is highly impressive that we've gone on this winning streak with 2/3 of the lineup being minor league players, but that's what you have to do when over half the team decides to take a month off due to a scraped knee. It is almost inconcievable the injury problems the Twins have had this year, and they are by far the most injury-ridden team I have ever seen. You can't expect to win with a minor league team playing up, but the Twins are a better organization than most so it would be great to see them make a run despite the ridiculous situation the first half of this season has turned out to be.
Word. I don't know how I feel about getting rid of Kubel...I know he probably has the most value right now...but is that a bat you really wanna get rid of? I mean we got a couple studs coming up right now for OF.
Screw it! Lets get rid of the entire OF minus Span. Span, Hicks and Revere out there! That is some serious speed.