What it might be is that Gardenhire knows this is a rebuilding year; Terry Ryan would never have allowed that. His philosophy was that the team should slowly improve each year, always marginally competitive, and never taking a significant drop off to rebuild. Wild Bill looks to be turning that around, preparing to take a shot in the next few years.

If Gardy does give consistent at bats to Gomez … he’d better give them to Kubel as well. The way I see it, if Gomez and Span would be hurt by a platoon, why wouldn’t Kubel? Or Buscher?

I think if Wild Bill were behind this, there’d be some consistency. We’ll see what happens, I suppose. But I don’t have much faith.