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WATCH OUT EVERYONE IT'S TIME TO EMBRACE THE SADNESS THAT IS THE 2017 MINNESOTA TWINS Get used to this image, because you're gonna be seeing it a lot 2016 Season Summary  (59-103, worst record in MLB) Reasons 2017 1) The Pohlads must have gotten a Western Union telegram espousing the merits of this "sabre metrics" thing and went out and hired some people who know what this new fangled stuff means. Joining the Twins FO this year are President of Baseball Operations Derek Falvey and General Manager Thad Levine 2) We have the 1st overall pick in this year's draft, so we can look forward to completely loving that up! (seriously, look at the Twins draft history over the last decade.  )3) 103 losses is pretty drat hard to do worse than! 4) Byron Buxton might be figuring this poo poo out 5) MIGUEL SANO IS NO LONGER PLAYING RIGHT FIELD! THE TEAM C - #21 - Jason Castro Probably the biggest sign that the Twins are more open to analytics is the signing of Jason Castro. Castro had a monster season in 2013 and then promptly fell off a cliff offensively. He, however, is a very good pitch framer and does have a bit of power. 1B - #7 - Joe "Cake Eater" Mauer Former All-Star and sure bet for the HoF until he got hot brains. Now he's a somewhat average first baseman who's being paid $23 million per year, a fact any Twins fan will remind you of ad nauseum. 2B - #2 - Brain Dozier Since we live in the bizzaro universe where a millionaire man-child is President and the Cubs won the World Series, of course Dozier didn't get traded in the offseason. The first test of the new FO seems to show that they know the value of their players and won't trade people for just any pile of trash offered. SS - #11 - Jorge Polanco Polanco's bat should do well enough, but the real question is if he can adjust to playing SS after not having played the position at all in the minors (a very Twins thing to do, honestly). If Dozier does get traded, Polanco likely will fill that spot on the infield. 3B - #22 - Miguel Sano Last year, someone in the Twins FO thought it was a good idea to move Sano to RF. Anyone who has ever seen a even just a picture of Sano would have told you this was a stupid loving idea. Of course, he was an absolute disaster defensively and thankfully that poo poo won't happen this year. With Trevor Plouffe gone, Sano is free to move back to his more natural position. LF - #20 - Eddie Rosario Eddie had a really good rookie season in 2015, but took a rather big step back last year (like pretty much everyone else on the team). Perhaps more suited to be a 4th outfielder, but considering the dearth of talent on this club right now, he starts. CF - #25 - Byron Buxton Most of Buxton's time in MLB hasn't gone well. He's incredibly prone to striking out, doesn't walk much, and didn't really show much power. In the last month of the 2016 season though, he started to deliver on some of the promise that made him the #1 overall prospect at one point. In September & October he had a 1.011 OPS with 9 HR and drew 10 walks. Obviously those aren't sustainable numbers over an entire season, but it gives Twins fans hope that he might have started figuring things out at the plate. RF - #26 - Max Kepler Kepler had a nice month of July in 2016 and became only the 5th player in Twins history to hit 3 HR in a game. The rest of the season was a bit of a struggle for Max, but that's to be expected of most rookies. DH - #52 - Byung Ho P- Wait, what do you mean he was sent down? Really?! He had 6 loving HRs in Spring Training!  I guess that means it's #19 - Kennys Va- What do you mean he also got sent down on top of getting injured?! Then who the gently caress is our DH? #36 - Robbie Grossmann  PITCHING STAFF  Happy Baseball everyone! Hopefully by October we'll all still have the will to not jump into Lake Minnetonka with a cinder block tied to our legs!
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