Puckett's Pond » Baseball Grief http://puckettspond.com A Minnesota Twins Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 18 May 2013 17:34:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Stages of Baseball Grief http://puckettspond.com/2011/12/20/stages-of-baseball-grief/ http://puckettspond.com/2011/12/20/stages-of-baseball-grief/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:01:43 +0000 http://puckettspond.com/?p=6882 Jason Kubel is the newest ex-Minnesota Twin.  Kubel joins Michael Cuddyer, Joe Nathan, Kevin Slowey, Jose Mijares, Matt Tolbert* and Jim Hoey as members of the 2011 Twins that will not be back for 2012.  Jim Hoey was never a fan favorite, especially because the JJ Hardy trade that brought him to Minnesota worked out so poorly for the Twins.  Matt Tolbert, despite being Ron Gardenhire’s golden boy, was never the beloved utility infielder that Nick Punto was before him.  The rest of the gang, Kubel, Cuddyer, Nathan, Slowey and Mijares, however, enjoyed particularly fan friendly careers in Minnesota.

*Tolbert has yet to sign elsewhere, but with the Twins’ utility spot likely occupied by Tsuyoshi Nishioka or Luke Hughes, Tolbert’s time in Minnesota is over.

They say that everyone experiences Five Stages of Grief; Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.  The Five Stages of Grief even have a great sabermetric acronym, DABDA, so they’re particularly well suited for baseball.  In this case, Twins fans are definitely feeling loss as the roster turns and evolves.

The Five Stages of Baseball Grief are the very same stages, just expressed differently.  (more…)

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