Thome A Twin
Rumor mill has us talking to Frank Thomas and Junior, too, just to get all the old guys who have hit more than 400 homeruns against us on our side for their twilight years.
$1.5M + up to $750K in incentives. That's cheap as anything for an .850 OPS and 25 homers.
4 Comments:
As much as I like Matt Tolbert coming off the bench to hit late in games, I am still a fan of this move.
January 27, 2010 at 8:28 AM
I like this move for two reasons:
1. Thome still has some power
2. It gives me something to look forward to.
January 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM
I like thome. i like the way he plays to win and i think he really is an old time player still having fun. i hope he is more 2008 than 2009, but any power we get is better than a lot of our alternatives.
i dont mind a lineup with kubel, morneau, mauer, thome, hardy, span, young, cuddy. Thome can DH when kubels in the field and give us a power option off the bench which we have beenlacking. I wanted to blow my brains out when we were using players like gomez as a DH.
January 27, 2010 at 2:33 PM
Agreed - those days when Kubel wasn't DH last year we fielded some pretty shitty looking lineups.
The only problem with the full lineup dtk lists above is that it assumes Cuddy is playing 3B. Which I wouldn't be opposed to, but it's not likely to happen. Regardless, the standard day to day lineup would still have 7 of those 8 guys: against righties it could look like Span, ?, Mauer, Morneau, Kubel, Cuddy, Thome, Crede (yes, I think we'll re-sign him), Hardy. Replace Thome with Delmon against lefties, and hope Kubel finally figures out how to hit lefties. Regardless, there are exactly 2 solid or better lefthanded starters in the rest of the AL Central, so having our best 5 hitters all be lefties looks unbalanced but may not be a bad thing.
If we get 2007/8 Hardy and Delmon realizes another 10% of his potential this year, this lineup could produce better than any we've seen in Minnesota. Just look at the potential bottom of the order compared to Gomez, Punto, Tolbert or anything else we've finished up with the last decade.
January 27, 2010 at 4:33 PM
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