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  1. Nine of twelve
    My wild-@$$ prediction is that Busenitz will be lights out at Rochester and be the call-up when a new reliever is needed due to injury or performance issues.
  2. Nine of twelve
    The way you posted this it's as though you were in Fort Myers reading the morning paper over breakfast!
  3. Nine of twelve
    I'm sure your lifetime ban proposal is well intended, but I'll go to your last paragraph and be devil's advocate. Do you suppose an up-and-coming player would be capable of spiking a rival's food during spring training? Making the penalty more severe for the player who tests positive increases the incentive for something like that.
  4. Nine of twelve
    I remember googling stanozolol when Ervin went down. If you are juicing this is not the drug to take. Apparently it is almost always detected and the test is very specific for that drug.
  5. Nine of twelve
    I'll bet $1000 that the team has told its players exactly that. However, there's the it-could-never-happen-to-me syndrome, or the oops-he-was-given-the-wrong-supplement syndrome, or, most likely, the not-the-sharpest-knife-in-the-drawer syndrome.
  6. Nine of twelve
    You seem to have inferred that comments about bad jokes are directed specifically in your direction. To be fair, I suppose that's a very logical inference to make. Not that there's anything wrong with bad jokes.
  7. Nine of twelve
    This is why pitch to contact is the right approach for many pitchers. True power pitchers are excepted, of course, but if you're not able to get a lot of K's you're better off inducing easy grounders and fly balls early in the count.
  8. Nine of twelve
    IP: 1. ERA: 0.00. K/9: 18.
  9. Nine of twelve
    If Falvine had known a few months ago that we'd get Morrison they'd have traded him then. The best we're going to do now is get a low-level prospect from a team that really wants him because every GM in baseball knows he'll be available in two weeks. The only question is which team will pick him up. Or if he goes to Japan to mash big time for a year or two.
  10. Nine of twelve
    Having Yankee stadium as one's home field skews the data. The place is a launching pad, especially to right field compared to the old stadium because of wind patterns. True, it's deep in center but even Al Newman could have hit 5 dingers a year playing there.
  11. Nine of twelve
    I can't remember if I posted this before. Matthew LeCroy was part of a very funny occurrence. Spring training, 2004. Mientkiewicz gets a single in the second half of a game. LeCroy asks Gardy if he can go in to pinch run. Gardy gives the thumbs up and makes the move. Mientkiewicz said after the game that waiting for LeCroy to get from the dugout to first base was the longest two and a half minutes of his life.
  12. Nine of twelve
    This is not hypothetical, it's in violation of the CBA. Players are not allowed to make payments to other teams or players.
  13. Nine of twelve
    I think the FO has the goal of creating an organization that supports a major league team that can legitimately contend in the postseason every year. That's a nearly unattainable goal even for a high-revenue team but it's what we should aspire to. It all comes down to scouting (which directs drafting, trading, and free agent signings) and player development.
  14. Nine of twelve
    Me too, but if I have six starters of approximate equal ability, one left handed and five right, I'll install the lefty in the rotation and drop one of the righties.
  15. Nine of twelve
    His release.
  16. Nine of twelve
    Haven't read through the thread yet, but I'll make this observation. It's rare for a team to have a significant postseason run with no left handed starting pitcher. It would not surprise me to see the front office trade for one if the team looks strong during the month of July.
  17. Nine of twelve
    Another way to say that is the Twins were right for once.
  18. Nine of twelve
    I'm guessing that Pujols is whom gocgo was referencing. The Angels owe him $27M for this season. $28 M next year. $29M the year after that. $30 M the year after that. And $10M for a personal services contract after that. And the man barely made it through 2017. And some people around here complain about Mauer's contract?
  19. Nine of twelve
    IIRC, Sanchez' contract is not guaranteed. With the acquisition of Odorizzi and now Lynn the likelihood of him being on the 25-man coming out of ST is nil. He'll wind up receiving little of his $2.5M so that brings the expenditures to less than $24M. I agree that the course Falvine followed is a better bang for the bucks.
  20. Nine of twelve
    I mostly agree. I think it's good for most batters to go for a higher launch angle, but it shouldn't be pushed for all players. The bat control experts, like Carew was, can Wee-Willie-Keeler the ball past shifts. There aren't as many players like that as there used to be but a good hitting coach should recognize that and not try to do too much launch angle tinkering.
  21. Nine of twelve
    My favorite nickname ever in baseball: Eyechart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Gwosdz
  22. Nine of twelve
    Too young. I suggest The Trilobite.
  23. Nine of twelve
    This game thread thread is starting to sound like a game thread.
  24. Nine of twelve
    This is why Buxton should be leading off this year.
  25. Nine of twelve
    Chief is at stage 2 of aging. Stage 1 is forgetting to zip up. Stage 2 is forgetting to zip down. Hit me. I can take it as well as I can give it. :-)
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