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  1. Whammy
    Sometimes with Dazzle Dan on the call I'd rather watch and lose than listen and win, though. We are all stupider for hearing him break down the shift changes over the last couple years, on last nights broadcast. It's like he didn't even watch last year.
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    Are you allowed to listen?
  3. Whammy
    Thanks for the article. This type of article is one of the reasons I'm a Gold Caretaker. Shining light on players that don't get a ton of light shone on them. Nobody is predicting anything for Amick even though some of the odd replies make it seem that way. They click on articles that they know they won't care about, just to comment negatively about them. Strange behavior.
  4. Whammy
    I completely disagree with this assessment of what's happening. They don't care if the journeymen sit on the bench and get 2-6 plate appearances per week. They don't care about developing them. They've developed, and are what they are. They don't want Julien sitting on the bench, which is what he'd be doing if they kept him on the 26 man roster right now. They want him playing every day. That will happen at AAA.
  5. Whammy
    Said another way.... See you next week Eddie!
  6. Whammy
    That feels like more of a last-year problem. I don't feel like Eddie getting screwed by a large zone has really been the problem this year.
  7. Whammy
    It's amazing how that 260 average managed to get him an OPS+ of 130, as a rookie, with no other discernable baseball skills.
  8. Whammy
    I personally believe that his defense HAS improved greatly at 2B. He's now almost making plays that he wouldn't have been close to making in 2023. There's a curse in that though. Almost making a play usually looks worse than not even getting close. Ultimately he needs to hit though. And he's not. The "Eddie quirks" are easy to laugh at when he's hitting .300 with a .400 OBP, but the quirks just add to the pile of annoyances when he's hitting .200 with a .600 OPS
  9. Whammy
    Yes. Yes. Let's carve out a brand new role, mid season, for our oft-injured, hugely-important, young potential star.
  10. Whammy
    Twins will lead the league in Saves
  11. Whammy
    Hilarious that the 2nd game that would ever be on Twins.TV won't be on. Hilarious in a "you can't make it up" kind of way.
  12. Whammy
    Do we know how Twins.TV will work with nationally televised games? This Saturday, for example, the game is on FS1. Will it also be on Twins.TV? Will it be on the special channels set up on all of the cable/satellite services? Same question, but for the Apple TV games that we will inevitably get throughout the season.
  13. Whammy
    Plus you gotta figure out if you're going to offer him arbitration in 2026! (90% joking)
  14. Whammy
    I'm probably in the minority but I actually like this Dobnak move/decision. Makes a ton of sense in my mind.
  15. Whammy
    As soon as we knew Castellanos wasn't making the team it seemed incredibly obvious that it was going to be Dobnak to fill that roll. They want someone to potentially eat innings, especially early in the season. Say what you will about Dobnak, but he's pretty effective in that role. That is how he was used this spring and he was effective doing it. As was stated above, due to his $3M guaranteed salary, if he does just a so-so job in that role, it's easy to DFA him, and have him get through waivers and back to AAA. If he does well in that role, then great, we've got a guy who can eat innings and keep our higher leverage relievers fresher than they have been the last couple years.
  16. Whammy
    For the record, I predict Dobnak in the bullpen to start the season. They know they can get 3 innings out of him and that has extra value early in the season when they aren't pushing the SPs up to 100 pitches.
  17. Whammy
    For the last few weeks I've had this sneaking suspicion that Paddack was going to show his health, then some decent team would be dealing with a lot of pitching injuries and would trade for him. Trading a SP right before the season is a little different than a RP, I think, so it feels like it's getting A LITTLE late in the game for that. But it still wouldn't shock me. Yankees? They seem like they are having big time SP health issues. Red Sox? They don't have the long term issues that the Yankees have, but lots of questionable statuses for pitchers right now. Astros? Some injury issues and Arrighetti is walking a batter per inning this spring. Padres? Mets? All of those teams feel like minor possibilities.
  18. Whammy
    I'm not giving up on Martin, but I feel like we need to see Keirsey for a 2 month stretch to see if he's going to be a long term 4th/5th OF or if he's 40-man roster fodder. We've seen Martin for that long of a stretch and he's shown us pretty much what he is. A 5th OF who you don't really trust to play center and can play 2nd in a pinch, but you'll be cringing when you do it. If we're going to carry a 5th OF, I'd rather it be a guy who I'm perfectly happy seeing in CF. Having a late game defense of Buxton, Bader, and Keirsey sounds pretty appealing to me.
  19. Whammy
    Co-signed. You hit all my points.
  20. Whammy
    Where would that evidence be? I don't think either of the main defensive metrics (OAA and DRS) take scooping throws into account. I'm not here to say he's a good scooper. I have no idea. But I'd posit that you also have no idea.
  21. Whammy
    I'm begging you to ask Aaron to go one episode without talking about Duran's velocity. 100mph is the new normal. I know it. You know it. The twins know it. They shouldn't need to "confirm" it to anyone. It just is. His other recent obsession (the Twins.TV stuff), is much more justified though. But I'd ask that you two try to do what Phil Miller was attempting to have you do, which was calling it "Cable and Satellite." Calling it "TV" is too vague, in my opinion, and can lead to confusion, since most people will probably be watching on their TVs regardless of if they are streaming or not.
  22. Whammy
    This thread is strange.
  23. Whammy
    I went down a little bit of a Eduardo Beltre rabbit hole the other day and decided to look up where the top 5-10 OPS guys in the Dominican Summer League in each season from 2018-2021 are today. Let's just say... it's pretty ugly. Julio Rodriguez in 2018 was the only notable guy and there were a lot of "Status: Released" Fingers crossed that Beltre can buck the trend.
  24. Whammy
    I'm a math guy so I have a clarifying question on the EV90 stuff... Is EV90 the average of his top 10% of exit velocities, or is it literally the raw exit velocity of his 90th percentile batted ball. (ie. 30th highest velo out of 300 batted balls).
  25. Whammy
    After digging into it this afternoon a little, it appears that OAA for infielders does take throwing into consideration, but not for outfielders.
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