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The Next Mike Trout?: Twins prospect Byron Buxton

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ucahogfan

July 01, 2013, 09:42:19 am
Most people believe that Buxton is currently the #1 prospect in the minors.  The Twins have a formidable duo in Buxton and Sano who should be up in the Twin Cities in a couple of years tearing up the AL.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/deja-vu-byron-buxton-stirs-echoes-of-mike-trout-in-cedar-rapids/

ErieHog

July 01, 2013, 11:22:28 am #1
As a Twins fan,  seeing Buxton murder the baseball has been a joy.

But, there are a lot of good OF in the American League;  Sano plays a more premium position, and I think he may end up being the bigger difference maker of the two-- if he doesn't grow his way out of it.

Again, not to marginalize Buxton-- he's crushing it, and I hope he does keep up the Mike Trout impersonation.
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ucahogfan

July 01, 2013, 12:11:58 pm #2
Quote from: ErieHog on July 01, 2013, 11:22:28 am
As a Twins fan,  seeing Buxton murder the baseball has been a joy.

But, there are a lot of good OF in the American League;  Sano plays a more premium position, and I think he may end up being the bigger difference maker of the two-- if he doesn't grow his way out of it.

Again, not to marginalize Buxton-- he's crushing it, and I hope he does keep up the Mike Trout impersonation.
Sano probably has the best usable raw power in the minors right now.  He and Buxton should be fun to watch at Target Field.

ErieHog

July 01, 2013, 12:12:57 pm #3
Quote from: ucahogfan on July 01, 2013, 12:11:58 pm
Sano probably has the best usable raw power in the minors right now.  He and Buxton should be fun to watch at Target Field.

I'm just terrified that he's going to grow his way out of playing 3rd base-- something that is, of itself, a big learning project.  Turning him into a 1st baseman would be another new position to learn to defend, and might hamper the last bits that keep him off a major league roster.
No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. No one has committed suicide for having been an apologist for those who did this to them. No one pays for them. No one is hunted down to account for them. It is exactly what Solzhenitsyn foresaw in The Gulag Archipelago: "No, no one would have to answer. No one would be looked into." Until that happens, there is no "after socialism."

ucahogfan

July 01, 2013, 12:37:58 pm #4
Quote from: ErieHog on July 01, 2013, 12:12:57 pm
I'm just terrified that he's going to grow his way out of playing 3rd base-- something that is, of itself, a big learning project.  Turning him into a 1st baseman would be another new position to learn to defend, and might hamper the last bits that keep him off a major league roster.
If all else fails, he could always DH.

ErieHog

July 01, 2013, 01:43:46 pm #5
Quote from: ucahogfan on July 01, 2013, 12:37:58 pm
If all else fails, he could always DH.

Long term, though, that's where they'd like to give Mauer more PT, or at 1st after they try to move Morneau or let him walk in FA.
No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. No one has committed suicide for having been an apologist for those who did this to them. No one pays for them. No one is hunted down to account for them. It is exactly what Solzhenitsyn foresaw in The Gulag Archipelago: "No, no one would have to answer. No one would be looked into." Until that happens, there is no "after socialism."

ucahogfan

July 01, 2013, 04:13:48 pm #6
Quote from: ErieHog on July 01, 2013, 01:43:46 pm
Long term, though, that's where they'd like to give Mauer more PT, or at 1st after they try to move Morneau or let him walk in FA.
Whatever happens, having Mauer, Buxton, and Sano in the lineup together is pretty formidable.  Will be weird not see Morneau in a Twins uni though.

ErieHog

July 01, 2013, 05:00:15 pm #7
Quote from: ucahogfan on July 01, 2013, 04:13:48 pm
Whatever happens, having Mauer, Buxton, and Sano in the lineup together is pretty formidable.  Will be weird not see Morneau in a Twins uni though.

A small part of me hopes that he'll be retained at a lower price, with a bit of a hometown discount; they've sunk tens of millions of cost into his current contract, while losing seasons worth of production.
No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. No one has committed suicide for having been an apologist for those who did this to them. No one pays for them. No one is hunted down to account for them. It is exactly what Solzhenitsyn foresaw in The Gulag Archipelago: "No, no one would have to answer. No one would be looked into." Until that happens, there is no "after socialism."

ucahogfan

July 01, 2013, 06:37:12 pm #8
Quote from: ErieHog on July 01, 2013, 05:00:15 pm
A small part of me hopes that he'll be retained at a lower price, with a bit of a hometown discount; they've sunk tens of millions of cost into his current contract, while losing seasons worth of production.
I think Mauer is the player who would do that.  He is a hometown boy who probably doesn't want to leave and hopefully realizes the best way to win it all is surround himself with great players and that means taking less money unless you are the Dodgers or Yankees.
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