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  1. Whammy
    Wasn't it 5-4?
  2. Whammy
    Do we think that Arcia's early season struggles are tied to the inordinate number of lefty pitchers (good ones) that we faced early in the year?
  3. Whammy
    Often the argument against calling someone up, for what may be sporadic playing time, is that it might hurt their development.... My question is this: At point in the year does that go completely out the window? If it's mid-August and the Twins are the in hunt, do we literally create the best 25-man roster we possibly can? Call up Berrios. Call up Duffey. Call up Arcia. Call up Vargas. Those players might play twice a week, but when does the incremental gain of having Arcia on the bench instead of Robinson and the incremental gain of having Duffey and Berrios in the bullpen instead of Boyer and Duensing trump any worries about developmental path?
  4. Whammy
    I guess I'm just not necessarily buying that his decline has started this year. We are still in relatively small sample territory here and a couple hot weeks and he'd be over his career OPS. He's almost exactly one year removed from 340/432/603 - 1035 - Before he got hurt. Granted, with another big home/road split, but still.... I'm not ready to accept that he is in the downside of his career.
  5. Whammy
    I'm going to quote this again, because I have a point to make other than "play ball"..... That's the kind of lineup that allows you to get the best damn defense catcher you can find, slot him in the 9th spot, have him hit 0.190, and allow him to make your pitchers better and play great defense. It's been too long since we've had that. We've been relying on offense from our catcher for over a decade now. Enough. I'm jealous of Kansas City. I want to remember what it's like to have a premium defensive catcher.
  6. Whammy
    Which one are you referring to? I'm not really on board with trading Gibson. Although if nothing else of real value was included I'd probably do it. The savings (in terms of prospects) we could get from including Gibson might just net us a decent short term replacement. But, in general, I'm not really interested in losing Gibson. Berrios on the other hand? You bet. Not that I don't like the kid. I do like him. If anything, I've gotten mad at the "he's too short" crowd for what seemed to me to be an oversimplification. He seems like a really hard worker and has certainly shown a lot of promise, but pitching prospects are SOOOOOOOO hit and miss. If we could rewind the prospect talk by 1 calendar year, the thought of including Meyer in any trade talks would have seemed like sacrilege. Now he's almost a throw-in for some people. Berrios has looked really good in AA and pretty good in AAA, but until he proves it in the majors, I'm totally fine with him being in the trade.
  7. Whammy
    I'm encouraged that the Twins are talking to Colorado. Not because I think they are going to come to an agreement, but because it shows me the Twins are at least thinking big. With big thoughts, often times come big moves. I'd be a little skeptical if this was only leaked to Walters or Neal, or whoever. The fact that Jeremy got his hands on the info leads me to believe that's it is a) a real conversation taking place between the teams, and not just trade scraps being used to placate the masses.
  8. Whammy
    Play Ball!!!
  9. Whammy
    All of those young players will be under team control for at least a year past when Tulo's contract is up and 3 years past when Mauer's is up. I guess Gibson's team-control years might not overlap with Tulo, not sure of his exact service time situation, at the moment. But you get the point.
  10. Whammy
    A severely declined, age 34, non-Coors-Field-hitting Troy Tulowitzki is still FAR better than anything the Twins have trotted out in the last....... Ever.
  11. Whammy
    I've seen: 3-0 Twins 3-2 Orioles 3-1 Twins and 2-2 Tie This is 2015, right?
  12. Whammy
    That O's board is unreadable. Both layout and content
  13. Whammy
    A3
  14. Whammy
    Based on what seems to be a general apathy by you toward all Twins prospects, it would be really interesting to see your top 30 prospect list. We already know it doesn't include Adam Brett Walker.
  15. Whammy
    ROARii
  16. Whammy
    All these damn quality starts are really racking up the innings for these guys.
  17. Whammy
    Todd Helton?
  18. Whammy
    Pitching is all about Adcocking and Subtractcocking, just ask Bert.
  19. Whammy
    This is exactly the type of game an AL team is ill-equipped to play in an NL ballpark.
  20. Whammy
    Dear Byron, this is how you change a game with your speed. Take notes.
  21. Whammy
    Some interesting home/road splits for Walker. He actually has more HR at home (12) in spite of 8 less games (31 vs 39). Also, he only has 5 doubles, compared to 13 on the road. He's batting .311 on the road compared to .211 at home. http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=608724#/splits/R/hitting/2015/MINORS
  22. Whammy
    If Walker could magically reduce his K rate down to 25% he'd be the best prospect in the game. Yeah, I said it.
  23. Whammy
    That is a Cheers reference actually
  24. Whammy
    Send him to the bullpen to figure it out
  25. Whammy
    I agree its a possibility, but I guess I don't bring it up because I'd like for the Twins to not jerk him around.
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