In this special contribution, thought leader Wayne Visser presents the 8 frontiers that are changing business and leadership to be more sustainable. An increasing number of companies are pushing these frontiers forwards, past out-dated patterns of thinking, towards a thriving future of purpose-driven, innovative, and collaborative business.
So much of making a successful transition to a more sustainable future — which is by no means certain — depends on letting go. In Sustainable Frontiers, I explore ways to let go of an industrial system that has served business well, but is no longer fit for purpose. We need to let go of out-dated styles and models of leadership and business, along with high-impact lifestyles and selfish values. We must learn to go of cherished ideologies that are causing destruction and beliefs about ways to tackle problems that are failing to resolve crises. It is no wonder that so many are scared to let go. Many of us are comfortable clinging to our old consumptive habits and selfish behaviours. Besides, the future is uncertain, and our greatest fear as humans is a fear of the unknown. We would rather trust (and fight to protect) the present we know than gamble on the future we don't know. And yet, as history has proven time and again, companies that fail to change are companies that ultimately fail. Sustainability is fundamentally changing the way business functions in society across the following eight frontiers.
At the same time, an October 2014 study by Cranfield University shows there is still a massive generation gap between current and future leaders' belief that they are adequately delivering a social purpose through business. (See Schema).
Special contribution from Wayne VISSER, adapted from an article first published by Greenbiz as "Cowboys, spaceships and CSR 2.0" (May 2015), and his book Sustainable Frontiers: Unlocking Change through Business, Leadership and Innovation (Greenleaf, June 2015).


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East Of Venus - Memory Box
by Kevin Orton Rating:10 Release Date:2016-04-29 Label:
East of Venus has been aptly described as an 'indie supergroup'. It brings together the talents of Glenn Mercer, Stanley Demeski (Feelies, Winter Hours), Rob Norris (Bongos) and guitarist, Michael Carlucci (Winter Hours). What beautiful music they make.
Memory Box showcases not only a tight ensemble, but exudes the joys and benefits of Television's stripped-down, no-nonsense approach. Add in some hooks worthy of Big Star and some gorgeous Byrds jangle and any resistence is futile. Right from the top, 'Let's Find a Way' ropes you in with Michael Carlucci's irresistible, mesmerizing guitar. Throw in some woozy slide runs and instantly, you're transported into another world, ever so beautifully out of time.
The album is a mix of captivating originals and left of center covers. As tight and strong as this band is, Memory Box is clearly Carlucci's show. Not only does his raspy, intimate voice take the lead on all but one track, he penned six of the album's ten songs and contributed to a seventh. As for the choice of covers, they beautifully encapsulate Carlucci's tastes and influences. From Lou Reed to Gene Clark. "Faded Pictures" is an unreleased number from the end of Carlucci's tenure with Winter Hours. The haunting 'Wishing Well' with its chiming guitars is East of Venus at their darkest and most cutting. In contrast, 'In the Sun is a dreamy, infectious Pop gem. 'You Started Something' verges on Psyche territory with its fuzzy driving guitar.
Among the covers, the Red Bucket's 'Jane September' seems tailor made for East of Venus. That might be because Carlucci, Mercer and Demeski were all members of the Buckets during its brief history. Their refreshingly up tempo, cynical take on, 'Reason to Believe', puts a new slant on Tim Hardin's classic bitter pill. Lastly, their version of the Rolling Stones' 'Citadel' feels more at home in East of Venus' hands than it ever did on Her Majesty's Satanic Request. A gloriously sinister finish to an album that can only be described as dreamlike.
Memory Box is not only the debut of East of Venus, it's also their last. Sadly, Michael Carlucci passed away suddenly just days after completing this album. Full disclosure, Michael Carlucci was a longtime friend of mine. So for this reviewer, Memory Box brings not only great joy but also great loss to mind. It also couldn't be any more fittingly entitled. For friends and fans of Michael, it is box we can open time and again and hear our friend in his prime, doing what he loved most in the world. For those who are unacquainted with Michael and East of Venus, you're in for an infectious treat.

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Students of Salinas high schools hope new book will inspire change, address racial adversity
Jocelyn Ortega
Salinas Californian
How can we begin to change the world around us? How can we begin creating an understanding of each other when acts of racism are happening every day?
A North Salinas High School teacher and his students discovered these questions can be answered by telling their stories.
The book "Our American Stories: Volume 2" was published by North Salinas, Alisal and Everett Alvarez high school students. In the all-Japanese language collection of stories, students recount the stories of their families' immigration experiences.
The book shares photos and stories of local families of all backgrounds.
NSHS junior Carl Sabado wrote the story of the financial disparity his family experienced after coming from the Philippines.
"I saw the difference between families with more money and those who didn't have any, like mine," Sabado said. "When I was growing up, we didn't have the things other people did. I didn't even want my friends to know how I was living, so I never let them come over."
Ximena Vega, another student in the NSHS Japanese class, held a photo of her parents as she recounted their journey from Mexico to the United States.
Her mother was eventually able to work and get a college education.
Vega says her father, a former farmworker, didn't make the journey without some harrowing incidents, including an escape from immigration officials.
"He just started running and he went into a stranger's back yard. There was a little boy there," she said. "They didn't know each other at all but the little boy allowed him to hide in there with him until the police left. Thanks to that little boy, he became a citizen and was able to have me and my mom and my siblings."
For Vega, the best part was hearing similar stories from fellow students, like that of Arturo Ordaz Gutierrez.
Gutierrez says his parents also immigrated from Mexico at a young age.
"They didn't know the language. They didn't know where to go or what to do," he said. "I know I'm very lucky to be born here in the United States because a lot of people that go through so much just to provide for their families."
The students said that stories like theirs are not always talked about, but they are taking steps toward understanding adversity.
"A book like this is really important right now because this really shows what different families have to go through to get where they are now," Gutierrez said.
True stories come to light
In 2018, former NSHS Japanese teacher Yo Azama and his students published the first volume of "American Stories" to detail the experiences of Japanese Immigrants on the Central Coast.
In the book, Azama wrote: "In the midst of challenging political times, our true stories can get lost in debates."
Following the release of the first book, Azama was awarded a Civic Innovation Grant by the Monterey County Office of Education and the Dan and Lilian King Foundation.
This allowed for a new book and to expand the project to include stories from students and teachers at other high schools in the Salinas Union High School district.
NSHS Japanese teacher Cameron Chien says the objective of the book is to teach Salinas students lessons that go beyond the classroom, such as empathy, kindness and building a sense of community and understanding.
"Their book actually means something. Their words are powerful," Chien says. "I hope with this, they can see that they inspire others because what they're doing here is not only for themselves."
Chien says students learned that Salinas had once been used as a "stopping point" before Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II.
Today, Chien and his students reflect on the spike in racially motivated hate crimes across the country, including the recent mass shootings of Black community members in Buffalo, New York, and a Taiwanese Church in Southern California.
"We wrote this book beforehand, but it made us think even more that this is one of the reasons we should put our students and families' voices out there," Chien says. "If we can start seeing through other people's lenses, we can hopefully cut down on these unnecessary tragedies."
The book is sold on Amazon and accessible to everyone. For more details or to purchase the book, click here.


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Beijing, April 16 -- State Intellectual Property Office of China has published Shandong Lujian Detection Tech Service's patent application for food detection device. The invention was developed by Jiao Nianqiang, Sun Tao, Zhang Huili and Chen Xiangdong. The patent application number is CN20161985050 20161109. The patent publi..
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Beijing, April 14 -- State Intellectual Property Office of China has published Wipro Ltd's patent application for system and method for providing computer network security. The invention was developed by Radha Krishna Singuru. The patent application number is CN201610116015 20160301. The patent publication number is CN1065610..
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Beijing, April 14 -- State Intellectual Property Office of China has received King Slide Works's patent application for slide rail assembly with interlink lock device. Chen Gengjin, Yang Shunhe, Wu Qiwei and Wang Junqiang developed the invention. The patent application number is CN201510620957 20150925. The patent publication..
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Beijing, April 16 -- State Intellectual Property Office of China has received Li Chuanlin's patent application for inflaming-retarding moisture-proof firework barrel. The patent application number is CN20161952608 20161026. The patent publication number is CN106568350 (A). International Patent Classification codes are C08K13/04,..
Seoul, April 15 -- Korean Intellectual Property Office has published Lee Ok Soon's patent application for fall prevention handrail system of workers. The patent application number is KR20160097642 20160730. The patent publication number is KR20180013637 (A). International Patent Classification codes are E04G11/06, E04G11/22, E04..
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New Delhi/Washington: US President Donald Trump has presented America's highest military decoration, The Legion of Merit, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his leadership and vision under which India's emergence as a global power has accelerated and for elevating strategic partnership of the two countries.
Official sources said, The Legion of Merit, Degree Chief Commander, bestowed on Prime Minister Modi on behalf of the President, is a rarely-awarded, prestigious decoration that can only be bestowed by Trump, typically to heads of state or heads of government of other countries.
India's Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, accepted the award on behalf of the Prime Minister from the US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien at the White House.
The citation with the award states: "For exceptionally meritorious service as the Prime Minister of the Republic of India from May 2014 to August 2020. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's steadfast leadership and vision have accelerated India's emergence as a global power and elevated the strategic partnership between the US and India to address global challenges. Prime Minister Modi's personal engagement expanded US-India ties across all facets of the relationship, helping to establish a strong foundation for an enduring partnership that is based on shared commitment to freedom, democratic principles, the equal treatment of all citizens, and the rule of law.
"India is a key partner for the US in the Indo-Pacific, where the two countries are increasing collaboration to ensure freedom of the seas, open and transparent investment and infrastructure development, secure and reliable digital networks, and good governance."
In a glowing tribute, the citation adds: "Prime Minister Modi's personal initiative strengthened the defence partnership between the United States and India, enhancing the US' ability to secure joint military cooperation that addressed shared challenges. His efforts to expand India's economic cooperation with the US has advanced prosperity, investment and job creation in both countries.
"Prime Minister Modi's superior effort, personal leadership, and unwavering commitment to advancing strategic cooperation between the United States and India and promoting global peace and prosperity reflect great credit upon himself, the Indian armed forces, and his country."
The Legion of Merit, Degree Chief Commander is a domed five-pointed American white star plaque of heraldic form bordered in purplish-red enamel 215/16 inches circumscribing diameter with 13 white stars on a blue field emerging from a circle of clouds; backing the star, a laurel wreath with pierced, crossed arrows pointing outward between each arm of the star and the wreath. The reverse is engraved with the words 'United States of America'.
In September this year, after a very long gap, President Donald Trump awarded the Legion of Merit, Degree Chief Commander, to Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Amir of the State of Kuwait.
The decoration was last awarded in 1991.
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A wireless ad-hoc network is a wireless network deployed without any infrastructure. This includes wireless mesh networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, and vehicular ad-hoc networks. This book focuses on the most fundamental aspects of wireless ad-hoc networks. Topics include the design of the link layer for better performance, the study on routing protocols for higher efficiency, and practical issues in its application. These topics are crucial to build a foundation in design, implementation, deployment, and analysis of a wireless ad-hoc network. Main features include: General introduction to a wireless ad-hoc network, Performance comparison and improvement of medium access protocols, New routing paradigm and algorithms, Autoconfiguration schemes and related issues and Privacy in a vehicular ad-hoc network.


Run The Jewels, seperately known as Killer Mike and El-P, made an appearance on Stephen Colbert's The Late Show to perform their very own halloween jingle. Colbert also lent a hand to the halloween song, although his portion was much more tame, to say the least. Both Killer Mike/El-P and Colbert hilariously go back and forth between their very different takes on halloween tunes. In recent days Run The Jewels released their newest single, "Talk To Me," in anticipation for the drop of their upcoming album. In other Run The Jewels related news, Killer Mike has got some new politically charged merch. The rapper and activist dropped some t-shirts and sweaters with text from leaked Hillary Clinton emails that involved him. John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, emailed, in reference to Killer Mike's support of Bernie Sanders,"I guess Killer Mike didn't get the message." He apparently did. Scroll down to peep the merch and head here to purchase some for yourself or a loved one. Watch Run The Jewels and Stephen Colbert go toe to toe in a battle of Halloween songs via YouTube below.


Went to Chennai, India for a client last month, making it the second time I've been to India in the last 6 months. Funny where the camera will take you. Any time you travel that far for a shoot, no matter how much fun you're having, you have to make time shoot for yourself. Which is precisely what these images are. The people and things I saw while aimlessly wondering around that foreign city. There were a lot of very noticeable differences between Chennai and the places I visited up north (Delhi, Agra, and jaipur). Firstly, the people down south seemed to be much more relaxed. They were still trying to sell you on something, but it wasn't nearly as often or with the same aggression. Which was a big plus. Overall, I think it didn't have the character of the northern cities, but that could just be my experience. One of my favorite parts of the northern trip was all the Chai tea. It was everywhere. Granted, we were there in the winter, but it didn't seem to be as much of thing down in Chennai. And when it was, the tea itself had a completely different taste. I was told they don't use a lot of spices like the northerners do.
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By looking at animals as they appear in our dreams (through information from analytical psychology, myth and religion) we are provided with a window through which we can glimpse something deep within the instinctive-body-matter aspect of an individual's psyche. We also glimpse the aspects of nature by which we know the interconnectedness of all things. The animal can connect us to the instinctive level, but it is a mistake to simply interperet all animals as instincts without respect for the amazing, mysterious specificity within the psyche of choosing precisely the image required.
Inseeing is a term used by Ranier Marie Rilke to describe that exact moment in creation when God knew that each creature was perfect just as it was. By inseeing into the images of the animals in our dreams, perhaps we can better understand what they can tell us.
Because of the innate and inner need of humans to produce images of central value to relate to the world around them (which Jung called the religious instinct), primitive men and women identified themselves with the faces of nature-mountains, trees, water, and animals. Frightened as they may have been, they did not feel alienated from themselves or the Universe. But the human family moved from this state of participation mystique with nature to the opposite pole of alienation from the Universe. This is reflected in our current planetary abuse of natural resources and animals. We must now re-connect with nature to effect healing upon our earth and continue our own individual growth. Our consciousness, by nature of our capacity to remember, to re-member and reflect, can allow us to see the natural order of life. We are the space in which the Universe can be cherished in a new and intense manner.
In this workshop we will see how our everyday experiences can be used to remind us of our place in the natural order of things. NOTE: please wear comfortable clothing, and bring a mat, drawing material and a small picture of yourself as a young child.
Eleanora Woloy, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Eastern Virginia Medical School with a private practice in Virginia Beach, VA. She received her medical and psychiatric training in both adult and child psychiatry at the University of Michigan and is a Diplomate of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts. She has lectured widely on the I Ching, the basics of Jungian psychology, and the Eleusian Mysteries. Her book, The Symbol of the Dog in the Human Psyche, was published by Chiron Publications this spring.
An authentic religious experience is both an awesome and a potentially fragmenting experience that challenges the very structure of our personality. When accepted, contact with the numinosum may lead to transformation. Such contect may, however, instill terror and activate defense mechanisms. Dr. Corbett will discuss examples of religious experience, the ways they may or may not be healing, and the ways in which our own vulnerabilities and narcissistic defenses prevent us from experiencing their transforming power.
Psychotherapy means service to the soul. In its most essential form, it is a process by which an individual can be helped to develop or clarify a sustaining relationship to the Divine. For both analyst and analsand, psychotherapy is a form of spiritual practice that utilizes the grit of human existence-the shadow, intense affective experience, narcissism, old wounds-as well as the human capacity for joy and suffering. This workshop will explore the nature and dynamics of this process and will assist participants in learning to practice psychotherapy as a spiritual discipline.
Lionel Corbett, M.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Santa Fe, and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico.
Cathy Rives, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Santa Fe, a canditate in the Analyst Training Program of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico.
Lecture: This workshop will review the many different ways in which Jung used the terms anima and animus, and will discuss the controversy these terms have inspired. We will explain why we believe taht anima and animus actually descibe particular intrapsychic functions, which are best understood as the operation of soul and spirit. This useage allows these functions to be separated vrom their historical association with contrasexuality, thereby freeing them from sexist bias.
Lecture and Workshop: When Dr. Lavin presented his Depth Psychology of Alcoholism lectures here in Portland in 1986, he talked about Jung's understanding that a person who lost contact with her or his inner creative spirit often went on to abuse alcoholic spirits in order to get high and warm again.
In this lecture series, Dr. Lavin will discuss the many forms of spirit and the ways in which twelve-step programs support the rediscovery of the creative spirit both within and without. In their best form, twelve-step programs are meeting places and containers for the ecstasy of Youth and wisdom of the Wise Old Woman and Old Man.
The lecture and workshop will discuss sobriety as a process of remembering one's Self by loving the body, finding the soul, and accepting the embrace of one's creative spirit. To grow in sobriety means letting go of dependence and co-dependence and walking a path which liberates the heart.
Thomas Patrick Lavin is an Irish-Catholic Democrat who was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. He received his diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. he holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Ph.D. in Moral Theology from the Univerity of Innsbruck in Austria. He is a founder of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and served as its first Director of Training.
Dr. Lavin has received many awards for outstanding work in the area of alcohol and dug abuse rehabilitation both as chief clinical psychologist for the U.S. Army in Europe and in civilian practice in Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. He now lives and has his clinical practice in Wilmette, Illinois and lectures and consults both in this country and in Europe.
A unique group of fairy tales feature protagonists who are in the second-half of life. These "elder tales" reveal what really happens in the "ever after"-when the Prince becomes bald and the Princess dons bifocals.
In this lecture and workshop a number of "elder tales" from around the world will be retold and discussed. The stories contain deep insights about the tasks of maturity, from self-reformation and self-transcendence, to helping the next generation and being open to magic. In charming and poignant dramas, the tales depcit the final quest in life-for wisdom and illumination.
Allan B. Chinen, M.D. is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco, and is on the Clinical Faculty of the University of California. He is the author of In the Ever After: Fairy Tales and the Second Half of Life, published by Chiron.
For Jung, the emotions are the foundations of the psyche. The highest aspirations of the human spirit have evolved and are developed from them. An emotion is at once somatic (bodily innervations, expressive physical action) and psychic (images and ideas). Active imagination, Jung's analytical method of psychotherapy, is intricately interwoven with the expression and transformation of the emotions.
A differentiated understanding of the emotions is of great value to both analyst and analysand. We can train ourselves to recognize the fundamental emotions. One of the most useful approaches is through the study of the prototypical expressive actions. Darwin was the first to differentiate between the fundamental emotions, the complex emotions, and the symbolic cultural gestures. This lecture will take up the fudnamental emotions, with particular attention to universal patterns of expressive behavior. This material is drawn from experiences in dance, dance therapy, and analysis, as well as the contributions of Darwin, Jung, Henderson, Tomkins, and Stewart.
'I move,' is the clear knowledge that I personally, am moving. The opposite of this is the sudden and astonishing moment when 'I am moved.' It is a moment when the ego gives up control, stops exerting demands, allowing the Self to take over moving the physical body as it will. It is a moment of unpremeditated surrender that cannot be explained, replicated exactly, sought for or tried out.
This one day workshop will introduce an approach to movement that was originally developed by Mary Whitehouse. Sometimes called "authentic movement" or "movement in depth," it involved a mover, a witness, and their relationship. We'll take up the development of this work an its use as a form of active imagination. Building on material presented Friday evening, we'll focus on the ongoing, interwoven relationship of body, psyche, and emotions. Morning and afternoon sessions will include lecture, movement experience and discussion. Participants are invited to bring journals and/or art materials. Enrollment will be limited.
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The purpose of this study was to look for the effectiveness of teaching styles on learning outcomes seen sprinting skills of motor skills. The method used is experiment with a 2x3 factorial design treatment. Population research is College of teacher training and education students that amounted to 12 classes, conten 360 person. The sample was selected using simple random sampling. The study was conducted during one month with 16 times meeting. Research instrument using sprint test and rubric. The results of the study concluded that: (1) There are differences in skill scamper between teaching style inclusion, training and reciprocal as a whole, (2) There are differences in skill scamper between motor skills and high motor abilities low overall, (3) There is an interaction between style teaching and motor skills against the skills to sprint overall.


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The Twins got the not-so-good Fernando Rodney Experience on Thursday. The Twins closer hit one batter and walked two, the second with the bases loaded, to blow a save opp. The Twins eventually prevailed in 13 innings anyway, but Rodney's loss of command stressed his bullpen mates and leaves the relief corps wearied going forward.
That said, Rodney has been impressively good since April's chronic uncertainty. His ERA remains below 3, which didn't seem possible two months ago (his ERA entering May was 5.87).
It is a major oversimplification to depict the Twins' offseason closer decision as a binary one of Rodney or Brandon Kintzler; there was a wide range of options available to the Minnesota front office, some more practical than others.
Kintzler took a slightly richer deal to be a setup man with Washington than the 41-year-old Rodney accepted with the Twins. At the time, I thought, and wrote, that the Twins would have been better off bringing back Kintzler.
As June nears its conclusion, it appears that I was wrong. Kintzler's walk rate has almost doubled this year. Rodney, who carries a merited reputation for lack of command, actually has a superior BB/9 rate this season. Kintzler's ERA is pushing 4.50.
To be fair, Kintzler's FIP -- fielding independent pitching -- suggests that he is actually pitching almost exactly as well this year as last. FIP says he didn't fully merit his 3.03 cumulative ERA in 2017 and is doing better than his 4.45 this season.
But Rodney is getting better results than Kintzler. I didn't see that coming.
It was impossible to imagine Ron Gardenhire managing the Twins without Rick Anderson as his pitching coach. The duo, old buddies during their playing days with the mid-80s Mets, supposedly made a pact back then -- if and when Gardy got a big league managing job, Andy would be his pitching coach.
And so it was, for 13 seasons, many good and some not.
Which made it noteworthy that, when Gardenhire landed the dugout job in Detroit, it was with a different pitching coach. The Tigers has already hired Chris Bosio, discharged by the Chicago Cubs when Jim Hickey became available. Gardenhire did get to bring Anderson on as his bullpen coach, but Bosio was imposed on him by the higher ups.
The nature of Bosio's comments — and who they were directed toward — were not disclosed by (general manager Al) Avila. It is not clear whether those comments were racial, sexual or otherwise bigoted in nature.
Gardy, in the above linked piece, speaks highly of Bosio as a pitching coach but added: "This organization has to act and they did."
And so Gardenhire has Anderson as his pitching coach once again.
Since the Rays shut out the Nationals on Tuesday, the larger point still stands. This is a team running with two traditional starters, and almost five weeks into it, with a bunch of games against good lineups, it's working.
I caught the end of the Rays' 1-0 win Tuesday, which featured some really out-of-the-box managerial strategy from Kevin Cash.
Top of the ninth, the Nats have up Bryce Harper (lefty), followed by Anthony Rendon (righty), Juan Soto (lefty) and Daniel Murphy (lefty). Four high quality hitters. Cash brings in Jose Alvarado, his top lefty reliever. Alvarado promptly walks Harper, who showed bunt on practically every pitch.
Now ... Cash doesn't want Alvarado pitching to Rendon with the tying run on, but he wants him to face Soto and Murphy. What to do?
His answer: He pulled right fielder Johnny Fields; moved Mallex Smith from left to right, shifted first baseman Jake Bauers to left field and had Alvarado play first base (with Bauers' glove), with Chaz Roe coming in to pitch. (As a sidelight to all this, the Rays lose the DH). Alvarado was laughing as he took his new position.
This kind of thing -- moving the pitcher to a defensive position for a batter -- isn't unprecedented. Paul Richards did it a few times in the 1950s, and Whitey Herzog did it in the 1980s. But they generally were putting the transplant someplace where they didn't expect the ball to go. First base may carry the lightest physical demands, but the first baseman is quite likely to touch the ball.
So the Nats announcers are speculating on whether Roe dares try a pickoff throw and if Rendon should bunt toward first and force Alvarado to make a play. There are a lot of ways for the Nationals to try to take advantage of this novice playing first base.
And they did none of them. Harper doesn't take a monster lead and steal second; Rendon doesn't bunt toward first. Rendon strikes out.
And Cash undoes all his earlier moves. Bauers reclaims his glove and returns to first, Smith goes back to left, Carlos Gomez comes in to play right, and Alvarado returns to the mound (and gets his warmup pitches). The Rays have lost their DH for the remainder of the game, but they have their favored lefty to face Soto and Murphy, so they're where they want to be.
Soto singles to center, Harper stops at second. Murphy singles to left; Harper stops at third. All this maneuvering to get Alvarado to face the lefties, and he retires none of 'em.
Now the Nats have right-handed hitters up, Trea Turner and Michael A. Taylor. Cash brings in Sergio Romo, who throws a few sliders and pops up Turner and fans Taylor, end of game.
And all the postgame attention went not to Cash's brainstorm but to the postgame yelling by Romo at Taylor, who apparently drew Romo's ire in a previous game by stealing a base. Eyeroll.
That, in my mind, is just stupid jock stuff. It's nowhere near as interesting as a pitcher playing first for a batter.
Per Berardino, the Twins expect to see four straight right-handed starters, so Cave figures to provide another lefty bat. Come the weekend, however, they'll see a string of left-handed starters. That might be the opening for Buxton's return. It can't the just-demoted Ryan LaMarre, unless somebody else goes on the disabled list.
Which, the way this season has gone for the Twins, is quite possible.
The Twins won Sunday 2-0. They also lost two of three to the last-place team in the AL West and sit eight games behind Cleveland in the standings.
Reinforcments, at least internal, are probably on the way. The Twins optioned out Ryan LaMarre after Sunday's game; my expectation is that Byron Buxton will rejoin the team in Chicago tomorrow.
Between injuries and slumps, the Twins haven't gotten anything out of Buxton yet this season. He was, by Baseball Reference's version of WAR, the best player on the 2017 Twins. The gap between the 2017 Buck and the 2018 Buck is a significant portion of the difference between the 2017 Twins and the 2018 Twins.
And next week Jorge Polanco returns from his PED suspension. I'm not sure that's going to improve the infield defense, but Polanco is a better hitter than Ehire Adrianza, and this lineup can use a dose of his relatively high bat-on-ball skills.
One obvious conclusion to be drawn from a glance at the AL standings is that the "pennant races" in the junior circuit are merely about playoff positioning. The Yankees and Red Sox have a double-digit lead over everybody else in their division; Cleveland, as noted, is eight games up in the Central; and the Astros and Mariners are putting space between themselves and the Angels.
Jessica Mendoza of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball crew tried during a rain delay to make a case for the Twins getting back into the picture. While I appreciate the effort, I'm not buying it.
It's possible for the Twins to run off a winning streak. But I suspect the story around this team for the next five weeks or so is going to be who gets sold off.
RIP to Donald Hall, former U.S. poet laureate. I don't consume much poetry, but Hall was a marvel when he turned his wordsmithing into the direction of baseball.
I can recommend to you his "Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball." I can't lend you my copy; I lent it years ago to a colleague who promptly dropped it while taking a bath.
are in agreement on the call on his double Tuesday.
Curtis Granderson, known in these parts as the greatest of the Mankao Mashers, is having a decent bounceback season with the Toronto Blue Jays.
He's become a platoon player at age 37 -- just 20 plate appearances against lefties coming into Friday's play -- and having his at-bats focused on right-handing pitching has resulted in a sharply improved on-base percentage.
This is the Grandy Man's 15th major league season and his fifth team. I was, frankly, a bit surprised he got an offer during the winter. He's lived up to it, probably in part because he's not getting overexposed.
The portion of Friday's post that regarded Matt Belisle emphatically stands.
He didn't cost the Twins Friday's game, but he certainly made sure they were out of it. I can't see how he makes it through the month, mentor or no.
It would be inaccurate to blame the Twins loss Thursday on the bullpen. The lineup contributed zero runs to the cause until the ninth inning against one of Boston's lower leverage pitchers.
But the bullpen -- specifically Ryan Pressly and Matt Belisle -- did turn a close game into a rout, and there were big-picture choices involved that made that outcome more likely than not.
Choice One: The heavy use of Pressly.
Thursday was the 71st game the Twins have played this year. It was the 37th appearance for Pressly, who has now appeared in 52.1 percent of the Twins games. At that usage rate, he would pitch in 84 games. This would not be a record -- 1970s relief legend Mike Marshall pitched had three seasons, with three different clubs, of at least 90 appearances (the last being the Twins in 1979).
But using Pressly at the frequency of Iron Mike is beginning to backfire. He has surrendered multiple runs in four of his last six outings, and his ERA, which entered the month at 2.22, is now at 4.15.
Of course, somebody has to pitch. And the Twins have four other relievers (Zach Duke, Trevor Hildenberger, Addison Reed and Taylor Rodgers) with at least 30 appearances apiece, and Hildenberger, has pitched more innings than Pressly.
Which brings us to the second choice.
Choice Two: The presence of Matt Belisle on the roster.
The Twins have eight relievers on their roster -- the above mentioned five hard-worked middle/setup men, closer Fernando Rodney, Matt Magill and Belisle.
Magill has pitched well (1.46 ERA after Thursday's mopup inning), but Paul Molitor seems reluctant to use him in game situations.
And Belisle -- well, we saw him quite a bit last season, and what we saw then remains true now. He's not a guy you can use with frequency, and he's prone to outings that just get away from him. One of them was Thursday: one inning, four hits, three runs.
The Twins apparently love Belisle as a mentor, but the first job is getting outs. If the Twins are going to carry that extra reliever, it has to be somebody who can lighten the burden on guys like Pressly and Reed, who are showing signs of fatigue. That's not Belisle.
Lance Lynn, facing one of the best teams in baseball, allowed just one (unearned) run Wednesday night.
Lance Lynn threw 97 pitches, just over half for strikes, and walked five men while striking out two. He lasted just five innings.
Good results, bad process. Which do you trust more?
Lynn's ERA is now a season best 4.64, which ain't good but is 3.73 better than his ERA at the end of April. But even as he lowered his ERA through his nine starts in May and June, he walked 23 men in 50 innings.
He's made it work, in large part because he's surrendered just two home runs in that stretch. But it isn't pretty. He gives me Mike Pelfrey flashbacks at times -- a big right-hander with one usable pitch of which he has imperfect command.
Lynn does miss more bats than Pelfrey did, however. He didn't pile up a lot of strikeouts Wednesday against Boston, but in those most recent 50 innings he has 47 strikeouts. Pelfrey would have needed about 90 innings to get to 47.
Bottom line: Lynn isn't really pitching that well.
Every double helps, I guess.
Really, that scoring ruling changed nothing except Escobar's doubles count. It went from a single and error on Jackie Bradley Jr to a double and error on JBJ, since Escobar wound up at third. It doesn't affect anybody's ERA, batting average or even fielding percentage.
Escobar has played in 66 games so far this season and has had at least one double in 25 of them. His longest doubles streak is four (June 3-6, a span that includes an off day and, natch, a doubleheader).
I'm about ready to embrace his chances of getting this record.
Joe Mauer was hit twice with pitches on Tuesday. They were his first two HBPs of the season. His career high is three, which is higher than I expected.
So I guess Mauer is now on pace for a career high in a statistical category.
Mauer is at 25 career HBP. This does not put him in the top 100 of active players. In comparison, Mike Trout (tied for 37th among active players) has been hit 58 times, Miguel Cabrera 60 and Carlos Gomez -- who does get under some people's skin -- 96.
The current career leader in HBP is Chase Utley with an even 200. That's a few bruises.
Some of us have been anticipating the return of Trevor May to the major league club at some point this season as he returns from Tommy John surgery.
Such a return seems farther away than I expected. May has had command issues -- which is fairly common at this point in the rehab process -- and is now on the disabled list at Triple A Rochester with shoulder inflammation.
One aspect of the addition of Taylor Motter to the Twins organization -- and the retention of Gregorio Petit -- is that Taylor Featherston got pushed out. The Twins released the light-hitting infielder the other day.
Featherston's had some major league time with three different clubs, and the Twins signed him as a minor league free agent over the winter and had him in training camp. But he didn't hit at all in Rochester, and with Nick Gordon now at Triple A and Petit back in Rochester, Featherston was redundant.
The problem solved itself, and not in a good way for Javier, who developed shoulder issues early in camp and is now out for the season after surgery on his labrum. He's expected back in time for next spring training.
Lewis has had some ups and downs in the Midwest League, including some knee discomfort, but he's expected to get promoted to high A Fort Myers soon. If, like me, you put off going to Cedar Rapids in the first half of the MWL season, you are likely to miss not only Lewis but Alex Kirilloff, the Twins 2016 first round pick. The outfielder, who missed all of 2017, is hitting .333/.391/.607 for the Kernels.
The Twins on Sunday had an inning ended when both Ehire Adrianza and Mitch Garver got caught in rundowns. It is today a what-if play -- what it Joe Mauer had gotten to hit with men on the corners in that inning? Would it have changed the complexion of the game?
We don't know that alternative universe. We do know that in this universe the 2018 Twins have seemingly been prone to baserunning blunders.
*The Twins lead the American League in getting picked off, with 10. Nobody else has more than seven.
* The Twins are next to last in stolen base attempts (23). Only Oakland tries to steal less often.
* The Twins have the fifth worst stolen base percentage in the AL, at 72 percent.
* The Twins have been thrown out on the bases 23 times, which is exactly league average. Boston and Houston are 1-3 in this, but they have lots more baserunners. Tampa Bay is second in lost runners.
* The Twins are second in the AL in extra bases taken. They've gone first-to-third or second-to-home on singles, or first to home on doubles, on 48 percent of such opportunities; only Texas, at 50 percent, is higher.
Specifically, the Twins have gone first to third on a single 38 times in 101 such opportunities; first to home on 23 of 51 doubles with a man on first; and second to home on 42 of 64 singles.
All three in this photo were injured in the shooting last spring at the Republican team's practice session. Scalise, whose position as majority whip makes him the No. 3 leader in the Republican caucus, has had multiple operations.
He started the game for the GOP and made a play in the field before coming out after a few pitches. Which is excusable considering that he uses a cane to get around.
It started, in a sense, when the Twins filled the 40-man roster spot created by waiving Phil Hughes by picking up fringe utility man Taylor Motter, who they then stashed at Triple A Rochester.
To put him on the active roster, they waived infielder Gregorio Petit. At one point I seriously thought he might have moved ahead of Ehire Adrianza, the Worst Pinch-Runner in the World, but no. Petit cleared waivers and he was stashed at Rochester.
Then came Thursday's Sano shakeup, and the return of Joe Mauer from the disabled list. Lost in the tumult over Sano was the simultaneous demotion of Jake Cave, who had been platooning in center with Ryan LaMarre, with a corresponding move made Friday.
That move was bringing up Motter.
It remains a 13-man pitching staff.
Eleven months ago Miguel Sano was an All Star. Today's he's not only back in the minors but in A ball.
Sending the slugger to Fort Myers rather than Triple-A Rochester tells us that this is more than a "break the slump" demotion. This is intended to be a reboot of the slugger's career. We may not see the big man back in Minnesota for months, perhaps even until 2019.
I interpert that as Sano can't be a star if he's not in the lineup, and he can't stay in the lineup if he's 290 pounds.
And the solution is not as simple as "DH him" or "move him to first." Dmitri Young years ago was a first-rate hitter who ate his way out of the league and into a health crisis. I have no clue as to Sano's off-field habits, but it seems likely that the Twins want to drastically rework his entire approach to his career. They want him to be great, and he's not on that trajectory today.
"I'm not mad. I'm happy because I'm struggling. You know, this is an opportunity they gave me. I know they love me here and everything. … Everybody here trying to help me. It's a chance to go there and work, and I'll come back soon."
Say this for Falvey and the Twins: This is not a half-measure. This is a drastic move that undercuts Sano's trade value. Falvine are committed to making Sano the best he can be. Now we'll see how committed Sano is to the same project.
The story of this game is not Addison Reed giving up mostly ground ball hits, it's the offense scoring two runs against a bad Detroit pitching staff.
Yeah, well, I got nothing good to say about the Twins hitting other than the two Eds (Rosario and Escobar), but if you have to score six runs to win you're probably not winning a lot of games.
The @Twins have signed free agent RHP Matt Belisle - he will join the team in Detroit (number 19). To make room on the roster they have DFA'd Gregorio Petit.
I not only do not care for this signing, I actively despise it as a symptom of the fetishization of the "proven veteran."
Follow along: Belisle signed with the Cleveland Indians during the offseason. He allowed six runs in 10.2 innings, at which point the Tribe DFA'd him and he cleared waivers. He accepted a demotion to Triple A, where he gave up five runs in another 10.2 innings, whereupon Cleveland released him.
And the Twins promptly gave him a major-league contract.
Meanwhile, Alan Busenitz has an ERA of 0.38 in Rochester. Zero-point-three-eight. John Curtiss has a 2.31. Luke Bard 2.65. Lefty Gabriel Moya, 1.85.
Here's the thing: the Indians bullpen has been awful all season. They decided Belisle can't help them. The Twins bullpen has been getting overworked, and Belisle last year seldom was asked to pitch on back-to-back days.
Paul Molitor and Co. may love Belisle as a clubhouse presence and as a mentor to young pitchers, but this is not a team with s surplus of novices. The job is to get outs. There are plenty of more likely candidates for that at Rochester.
Kinda makes you wonder why the fixation with having Ehrie Adrianza pinch run for Robbie Grossman, doesn't it?
It's understandable. Adrianza is a glove-first middle infielder; Grossman is a poor defensive corner outfielder. Most good middle infield gloves come attached to fast feet. Most poor defensive outfielders aren't very mobile.
And it's even possible that if you had the two run a 40-yard dash that Adrianza would win.
But there are few situations on a baseball field in which a player is asked to run 120 feet in a straight line. It's 90 feet from home to first, after which there's a 90-degree turn to navigate. And what these numbers tell us in that Grossman does the running baseball requires faster than Adrianza.
And after watching Adrianza stumble twice rounding third base before getting thrown out at home, I believe it.
The Twins announced Sunday that Joe Mauer, who last played May 18, will begin a rehab assignment today with their Triple A affiliate. If all goes well, they apparently envision a two-day stint: DH today, first base Tuesday, rejoin the team Wednesday in Detroit.
That's the best-case scenario. When it comes to Mauer's health, best case is a rarity, and we'll see how things actually transpire.
I view Mauer's return with some trepidation. Not so much about him in the lineup; I remain convinced that this is a better team with Joe Mauer than without. I fret, instead, about Mauer himself. He has had some severe brain injuries, and that this occurrence of symptoms appears to have come without an actual blow to the head strikes me as worrisome.
Coming into the season, I was relatively confident that Mauer would play beyond 2018. I am less confident of that today.
I want Joe Mauer and his thoroughly professional example in the Twins lineup. But more than that, I want Joe Mauer to have a good life beyond his playing career. I'm hardly a neurosurgeon, but it's difficult for me to see how playing helps that latter goal.
after hitting his second walk-off homer of the homestand.
Charlie "Clutch" Culberson. The utility infielder has eight home runs in his major league career, and half of them have been walk-offs.
One came when he was playing for the Dodgers. It happened to be Vin Scully's final call as the Dodgers' broadcaster.
This is the sixth season Culberson has been in the majors, but -- so far -- it's the first that he hasn't also spent time in the minors. He's not a star, not a regular, not truly an established major leaguer -- but he's had some spectacular moments.
In my best glass-half-empty mode, I will note here that Ryan Pressly and Addison Reed have become disturbingly gopher-ball prone. ... Both have histories of allowing long balls, so it's not as if this is unexpected.
And what happened Friday night? Pressly pitched the seventh, and gave up a two-run homer to turn a 2-1 lead into a 3-2 deficit. Reed pitched the eighth and gave up a solo shot.
That we can see this coming just adds to the irritation when it happens.
Trevor May, rehabbing from last spring's Tommy John surgery, apparently ran out of time on his rehab assignment. On Thursday the Twins essentially swapped him and Jason Castro's roster status -- Castro went on the 60-day DL and May came off -- and optioned May to Triple A.
May's rehab is officially complete, but he's not ready for the majors yet. He appeared in six minor league games, four of them starts, on two levels during his rehab assignment, and struck out 20 hitters in 18 innings. He also walked 12, which tells us a lot about where he's at.
Pedro Martinez is a hellva comp for any young pitcher, but last night, as MLB Network was showing highlights of Jose Berrios' complete game earlier in the day, the Hall of Famer said: He reminds me of me as a young pitcher.
I can see that in a few ways -- short righties with a big fastball and imposing breaking stuff. What ultimately made Martinez great was his complete mastery of the changeup. Few power pitchers develop that pitch as well as Martinez did. It's no insult to Berrios to observe that his change isn't nearly as effective.
I listened briefly to the Twins radio broadcast while walking the dog and turned it off during a Dan Gladden rant against analytics that booth visitor Tim Laudner was subtly encouraging. First Gladden complained that the Twins based some draft picks more heavily on analytics than on eyeball scouting. Then he said he'd like to see a team turn its baseball ops over to old school guys. Laudner agreed, at which point I turned it off.
The old-school had its run. Its time as expired. We've seen what happens to old-school GMs in the era of analytics. Ruben Amaro Jr in Philadelphia. Tony LaRussa-Dave Stewart in Arizona. Terry Ryan in Minnesota. They get beat, and they get fired. Deliberate, defiant ignorance is a losing strategy.
I doubt that when Gladden needs a physician he seeks one who figures that everything he needs to know was known in John McGraw's era, or even Branch Rickey's.
The third and final day of the baseball draft deals in quantity, not quality. Picks 11 through 40 occasionally produce major league players, but rarely stars, and many high schoolers taken on the third day decline to sign and go to college.
So in a very real sense, the biggest thing to happen Wednesday was something that didn't happen. Nobody took Luke Heimlich, Oregon State's ace lefty who pleaded guilty years ago to molesting his niece.
Heimlich now denies what he admitted in court as a juvenile, and his record officially has been expunged. On talent alone, he was worthy of at least a second-round pick, perhaps higher, but no front office thought him worth the risk to their reputations.
This, frankly, surprises me. We've seen this repeatedly in pro sports: The highest moral virtue is winning. I expected somebody to, at the very least, take him in the third day. And nobody did.
Presumably no owner, no general manager, no scouting director wanted to take the risk. Heimlich is now too notorious to fly under the radar. No farm director could relish his inevitable quotes in the inevitable story in whatever town Heimlich was assigned to play in: "Admitted child molester to pitch here." And if that blowback is insufficiently intimidating, imagine the blowback if Heimlich got into trouble again.
It's possible that Heimlich will get a free-agent offer from somebody. Perhaps he'll find an independent league team to pitch for. Or perhaps his baseball days end with this collegiate season -- the Beavers, with three first-round picks even excluding Heimlich, play Minnesota this week in a NCAA superregional for a berth in the College World Series.
My personal hope is that his baseball days end with a loss to the Gophers.
The Twins took, as noted in Tuesday's post, a pair of collegiate hitters with their first two picks in the amateur draft.
Round 3-10 were held Tuesday, and the focus remained on hitters. The Twins forfeit their third-round pick to sign Lance Lynn, and they used their fourth-rounder to take a centerfielder from the University of Utah, DaShawn Keirsey. Keirsey hits and throws left-handed and is described as having a leadoff hitter profile.
If the Twins can sign Charles Mack that's an outstanding pick in the 6th round.
Mack is apparently a Clemson commit, and I'm guessing the Twins will have to go over slot ($254 K) to sign him. If so, that might explain the Jeffers pick in the second round.
The Twins drafted just three pitchers on Day 2, and added a second catcher in Clemson senior Chris Williams. He too is likely to be a below-slot signing.
The Twins are really stockpiling catching prospects these days. They drafted Ben Rortvelt in the second round in 2016 and traded for David Baneulos from Seattle during the offseason; those two are both at Cedar Rapids now. They got a catcher out of the Padres in the Phil Hughes deal as well; Janigson Villalobos hasn't been assigned to a roster yet.
For a few minutes Monday evening, it seemed possible that one, or even two, consensus top-five talents in the baseball amateur draft would slip to the Twins' 20th pick.
But a pair of teams with five first-day picks -- and a great deal of financial flexibility as a result -- interceded. Tampa Bay selected prep lefty Matthew Liberatore with the 16th pick and Kansas City claimed University of Florida ace Brady Singer with the 18th pick.
The Jeffers pick was, at least to outsiders, a bit of a surprise. Baseball America barely had him in their top 300; MLB.com didn't have him in their top 200. He was, I believe, the one first-round pick for which MLB Network didn't have a highlights package premade.
The Twins think he can develop as a defensive catcher, and really like his bat even if he can't catch in the majors.
The Twins reportedly already have an agreement in principle with Larnach, whose team plays the University of Minnesota in a superregional this week.
This is the second draft for the "Falvine" regime (and for scouting director Sean Johnson). It is also the second year in which their first two selections were position players (Royce Lewis and Brant Rooker last year). There is a principle gaining credence these days of "Draft bats, buy arms," the leading example of that being the Chicago Cubs. It's too soon to tell if that's what's going on here with the Twins, or if that's just the way these two first days fell.
Well, that Cleveland series worked out pretty well for the Twins. They went from being at risk of being buried to pulling within 3.5 games of the Tribe by winning the last three games of the four-game set.
Eddie Rosario ... well, what can one say? His three-homer game Sunday raised his slugging percentage 42 points, and I don't believe any of the homers came on pitches in the strike zone. The Twins have had some notable bad-ball hitters in my lifetime -- Kirby Puckett and Tony Oliva most prominent -- but I don't think I've seen anything like this.
In my best glass-half-empty mode, I will note here that Ryan Pressly and Addison Reed have become disturbingly gopher-ball prone. Pressly in particular has been worked hard -- at his current rate of usage, he would set the American League record for games pitched, established by "Iron" Mike Marshall during his brief tenure with the Twins.
Both have histories of allowing long balls, so it's not as if this is unexpected.
The Twins have an off day on the field today, but it's the biggest day for the scouting department as the amateur draft begins. I haven't posted about the draft this year nearly as much as I usually do, in large part because the Twins pick 20th. That's pretty far down the list to get revved up about mock drafts.
The idea seems to be, however, that this year's pool is heavy with college pitchers, and the mock drafts I've looked at suggest that's what the Twins are likely to take.
Here we see a pitcher startled by the necessity of doing something other than throw a pitch.
On April 26, Fernando Rodney entered with a lead. He did not get an out, and the Yankees beat the Twins. At that point Rodney had a 1-2 record with two saves, two blown saves and an ERA of 6.75. He had not had a 1-2-3 inning in 2018.
He has allowed one run since. He has allowed just 10 baserunners in 11.1 innings -- five hits, five walks . His ERA on the season is 2.84, which isn't eye-popping for a closer but a far cry from his April figure. He's even had seven 1-2-3 innings, which helps mute The Fernando Rodney Experience jibes.
While the Twins bullpen has its issues, Rodney is not one of them. A month ago, I could not have said that.
It's only the first of June. The Twins have more than 100 games to play. But these next two games against Cleveland feel darn close to must-win for Minnesota.
Cleveland now has a 6.5 game lead on the third-place Twins. Add a couple more to the margin, and it's hard to see how the Twins can stay in the race with the surging Tribe.
Cleveland's not the nearly perfect team it was last year; the bullpen is notably weaker, with Andrew Miller injured, Bryan Shaw gone and a number of guys who had big years in 2017 suddenly ineffective. But other than the starting rotation -- which itself has suddenly sprung a leak -- the Twins aren't nearly as good in any aspect as they were last year either.
The Twins were good enough last year, barely, to grab the last wild-card spot. This year, it appears, the best chance of making the playoffs is winning the AL Central. And two months into the season, that chance seems to be rapidly vanishing.
In Thursday's post I made an offhand comment about the imminent return of Ervin Santana. A few hours after I typed that, I learned what many others knew Wednesday, that Santana's rehab assignment had been aborted.
I have, from time to time, voiced caution about Santana's return. The role of the fingers in pitching is subtle but vital, and if the surgery on his right middle finger winds up imparing flexibility or feeling in the digit, that figures to be a significant problem. I should have been more skeptical Wednesday, especially considering the reports of diminished velocity in Santana's first two outings.
In other bad news, Joe Mauer's concussion symptoms apparently aren't getting any better. The chatter from the broadcasters late in the road trip was positive, but the standard broadcaser optimism was misplaced.
I think the Twins really miss the consistent quality of Mauer's at-bats and the example he sets. He plans his work and works his plan. We see so many flail-and-fail at-bats; we should appreciate Mauer's quiet professionalism more than we do.