The Twins

Has anybody else noticed that the only real change we've made to the Twins this season is that we basically traded Justin Morneau in the starting line-up for freakishly poor hitting Kurt Suzuki?

How sad is that for a team that already lacked offense and offensive muscle?

They tell me Aaron Hicks and Alex Presley are still "battling it out" for the starting centerfield job, but if you check the stats and watch the games you'll also see that neither came "armed" for the battle. Both have been just awful so far.

And that the projected starting pitchers are looking as bad as the worst pessimists predicted.

And that Gardy STILL wants Bartlett (the guy who is 0 for the entire spring and looking far older than his 34 years would suggest) over Eduardo Escobar as his back-up shortstop?

Well if you hadn't noticed yet, I thought I'd pass that information along to you.

The only differences  that I see with this year's squad is that we have even less offense and more expensive losing starting pitching (all with long-term contracts.)

It's going to be a few more years of bad baseball in Minnesota...

I read a quote yesterday and it went something like this, "The Twins lineup this year will feature Mauer and Arcia and then a lot of other guys who would be lucky to be batting 8th or 9th in any other major league line-up."

That sums it up better than anything I could say.