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  1. LaBombo
    Taking the needless out is bad enough, but getting 'out-managed' by Dusty 'walks are bad' Baker... ouch. http://www.famousbirthdays.com/thumbnails/baker-dusty-large.jpg
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    Get drunk, dress a pet like a hotdog, and pass out? http://statsstylescore.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/hank.jpg Never mind, I was thinking of my central MN relatives...
  4. LaBombo
    Agreed, although it's a font of reason and accountability compared to a reliever getting a vulture W for giving up a one pitch rocket lineout to CF after a starter who pitched 8 innings of a scoreless tie gets a pat on the head.
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    The Twins may not perpetually lead the league in player days lost to the DL, but if there were stats for performance lost to playing through injuries the Twins would have to be near the top of the heap.
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    Not mightier than the sword today. An object lesson in the near-irrelevance of reliever ERA...
  7. LaBombo
    Like music Late in the Evening, the magic of xFIP is finally seeping through in the second half... http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/misc/paul-simon-late-in-the-evening-front.jpg
  8. LaBombo
    Four letter's perpetually obnoxious Steven A. Smith called it "The weakest move by a superstar... evah! ". Knowing what many people think the 'A' in Steve A. Smith stands for, I'm sure Durant was curled up on the bathroom floor in the throes of a massive anxiety attack after hearing that shot. Have fun getting rocked like an inflatable Bozo punchy, rebuilding Lakers!
  9. LaBombo
    How Arcia played can be described in one word, 'sparingly'. After proving himself as one the Twins' best hitters in nearly 800 PA's over two seasons in his early 20's, the Twins responded to Arcia's 2015 injury by pretty much taking him out behind the barn and shooting him. And yes, he didn't hit well in AAA after coming back, but nobody hits well when their BABIP is 70 points below the league average. Whether the Twins took that into account or simply let the 'sound of the ball coming off his bat' be their guide, we'll probably (and fortunately) never know.
  10. LaBombo
    This is just my take, but it seems like a down-to-the-two-b'fers, extreme makeover rebuild would see the franchise draw the no trade line in the sand at the Sano/Buxton/Kepler threshold.
  11. LaBombo
    I guess the ambiguity of the word 'half-@ssed' and the quotes around the word "rebuild" were too subtle to indicate that I didn't feel that the Twins' actions constituted an effective reconstruction of the roster. Speaking of ambiguity, I'm not following the whole 'rip down good, tear down bad' construct of your last sentence. Does that mean you feel that just discarding aging mediocrities is enough, as opposed to trading players with real value like Dozier and Ervin? At any rate we agree that watching Josh Willingham decompose and Kevin Correia fizzle out wasn't much of a rebuild. But what I don't understand is this: how does the Twins' failure to rebuild then make it unnecessary for them to rebuild now?
  12. LaBombo
    The 2015 Twins were outscored by their opponents. They had the 5th worst pitching staff in the AL by xFIP and the 2nd worst offense, along with a below average defense. And on the intangibles side of the equation, the guy most often credited (rightly or wrongly) with singlehandedly turning around the Twins last year is now retired. If anyone is ignoring what happened in 2015, it's the people (including those in the Twins' front office) taken completely by surprise by the Twins being awful this year. Few people foresaw 100+ losses, but the groundwork for 90 losses was laid while Twins' management took a postseason victory lap to celebrate breaking the .500 mark instead of addressing the team's glaring weaknesses.
  13. LaBombo
    No, but 'hit by pitchout' does, because odds.
  14. LaBombo
    Now we know exactly how much fun it is for other teams to play the Twins the other 161 games of the season...
  15. LaBombo
    Somewhere between the deliberately satirical call for heads of this post and the five years of consequence-free self parody that is the current Twins front office lies the Sanity Zone of ownership tolerance of executive incompetence.
  16. LaBombo
    I don't see where anybody is saying that, but what the hell, I'll say it. Players have both the innate and developed skills of staying healthy. It's hard to quantify and even harder to predict, but it's there. The Twins' management is responsible for selecting the players on the field, and the ones they picked either are or are not good at avoiding missed time due to injury. Luck or the lack of it obviously plays a huge part, but at the end of the day, the Twins front office and their trainers and medical staff are responsible in some measure for the health of their players. How much blame they deserve and how or even whether they'll held accountable is pretty far down on my list of concerns about the front office at the moment. I'll just say that the avoidance and handling of player injuries is one of many areas where I'd like to see improvement when new leadership takes over, and leave it at that.
  17. LaBombo
    I realize that in this post, at least, you're apparently predicting what Ryan will do or not do, and not advocating for a course of action yourself. That said, the question remains: Help win what in 2016? Enough games to lose only 100 instead of 110?
  18. LaBombo
    The Twins have stumbled along for five years now in a half@ssed "rebuild" based almost entirely on acquiring a few veteran mediocrities while mostly just losing games and waiting for prospects to mature despite sometimes making decisions that indicate a low priority being placed on that maturation process. To show for that strategy the Twins currently have the worst record in the A.L. and a negative run differential more than twice as low as that of the next worse team. Other than a still highly-rated minor league system that has yet to deliver on its promise, the Minnesota Twins organization stands in utter ruin at the moment. If muttering about contending while waiting for homegrown youngsters to flourish and shuffling veteran placeholders in and out has been an utterly predictable failure as a strategy for half a decade, what indication is there that it's about to succeed now?
  19. LaBombo
    With regard to the second, microscopic set of o/dWar, Park is +0.2/-0.2 in 15 times as many AB's and is four years older than Arcia, so if you're going to trim dead wood, sunk cost is the only numbers-driven 'reason' not to take a saw to Park before Arcia. With regard to the first set of numbers, a franchise that's been pretty consistently one of the worst-hitting teams in the AL this decade probably ought to find a use for anyone who can generate offense, regardless of defense. And if there's a convincing explanation in this thread of how the Twins' self-inflicted logjam of 1B/DH types is a valid defense of their inability to DH Arcia, I've yet to read it.
  20. LaBombo
    The "super" part must refer to his 280 OBP this year, as opposed to his unsuper 2015 OBP of .241.
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    It's a long shot, I know, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7357/16559955096_cf34493ee3_m.jpg
  22. LaBombo
    That's the versatility of Jepsen. He doesn't need a save opportunity to blow a game.
  23. LaBombo
    Really nice rally, but Twins, so comes up a bit short. http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/uv9s50tsrkhsczr4ligs.gif
  24. LaBombo
    Wow. Fan of the show but I've never seen pilot footage, thanks for posting. Looks like it never achieved the cult classic status of the Kirkless Star Trek pilot that got recycled into a 'new' episode. http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/810/810794/captpike-spock1_1186426056.jpg
  25. LaBombo
    Me too. Figured the youngsters only know the movie version, plus the gif was just too cool to pass up. http://www.vokrug.tv/pic/product/b/a/9/4/medium_ba947c48561b7261fc2c25123afa5064.jpeg Spock liked this
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