[Nelson] Major-league hits in the past 30 days Matt Wallner: 7 (5 games) Max Kepler: 7 (18 games) Joey Gallo: 7 (16 games) Byron Buxton: 4 (13 games)

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1. You can’t discount the leadership Max’s veteran presence brings, though. Where else are the young guys going to learn how to jog down the baseline or how to be inflexible in the face of your team’s defensive needs?

2. Wally was born for the bigs

3. I get why you keep your “super stars” toward the top of your lineup when they are slumping. But Buxton’s slumps are no ordinary slumps. His ABs when he’s off are lacking in basic fundamentals. He’s got zero chance at the plate currently.

4. Breaking News: Twins least favorite hitters are worse than Twins favorite AAA player. More at 11p

   ^call ^up ^Wallner

5. Don’t worry. When the front office can’t flip them for their “perceived value” they’ll still be able to plug up this lineup and bury Wallner.

6. I remember everyone downvoting me a few days ago saying Buxton shouldn’t be hitting cleanup and people were acting like I was crazy

7. Is it a service time thing with Wallner? Maybe after the All-Star break he’ll be called up.

8. They’ve found a way to let Byron hit his performance incentives while adding negative value— intentionally costing themselves more money for less production. You’ve honestly gotta just take a step back and appreciate the difficulty of that

9. Kepler and Gallo are sadly no longer the solution. Obviously buck has all-star potential still but it seems to have disappeared