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  1. LaBombo
    The comparison to Bush is interesting. Randy put up a .251/.334/.413 line in his career. Those numbers are both deflated by his era and inflated by the straight platoon he spent most of his career in. A typical year in his prime was .260/.350/.430. Parmelee's career major league line is .248/.321/.404. The good and bad news is that his platoon split is fairly even, meaning he's not lost against lefties, but also that you can't maximize his value by platooning him. Unless he can find 30 points of obp and 50 points of slugging pct in his bat this year, it's hard to see how Parm figures as anything more than a placeholder at first. More likely he is a Randy Bush type, but as a 250 AB utility guy, not a 360 AB platoon guy.
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    http://cbsdetroit.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/hockeyfight.jpg?w=300
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    http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4ee67e2169bedd1060000000-400-300/boone-otter-toga-party-animal-house.png On a roll... again.
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    Celebration or gang initiation?
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    Or if you have a spare DeLorean sitting around and you're handy with nuclear fusion, you could always go get a copy of the 2025 Sports Almanac...
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    But it's 1:30 tomorrow, so the game was over last night for him.
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    No, in a good way, really!
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    Usually, although Detroit control wizard Fister (knock it off) led the majors with 11. Since he's hardly ever wild, I'm guessing he's just mean. Deduno's 5 wild pitches last year project to nearly double the 2012 league leaders' totals if he'd pitched 200+ innings. So he's versatile.
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    Purpose of gate if not locked to prevent player falling through it?
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    He averaged about 1 per 15 innings last year, which would've led the majors if he'd have pitched just 180 innings.
  12. LaBombo
    Deduno working on thinning out Brewers' bench...
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    Thinking about naming my next dog Lapu-Lapu...
  14. LaBombo
    Yes, but Ramirez wasn't there to translate that day?
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    Yup, good catch. Was meaning to say his batting average will be hard to maintain with fewer home runs, since the in-play stuff tends to even out.
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    Check out the big brain on knud! You were the kid who stayed awake in 7th period history, weren't you? And in fairness to Hicks, he's having another of his good games tonight. There just doesn't seem to be any in between with the kid yet. 4 bad games then one where he looks like RoY or even All Star material.
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    Pedroia and Teen Wolf, separated at birth? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qD7Rhb3s9O0/TheSNUoPdzI/AAAAAAAAAI4/Dgqlr09du8A/s320/teen-wolf3.jpg
  18. LaBombo
    Rather Magellan-esqe route by Hicks. The explorer, not the GPS.
  19. LaBombo
    That's almost certainly not going to happen. No player in the past 5 years has batted in 100 or more runs while hitting 10 or fewer home runs. Only two hitters have come close, Michael Young with 106 RBI and just 11 HR's, and Vic Martinez with 103/12. But Young batted .338 that year, and Martinez was right behind him at .330. Morneau's babip is currently sitting at .331, waaaaay above his career .297 average. And a pace of just a third of his career HR norm will just make it that much harder to maintain his current batting average of .293. If he were to suddenly regain his home run stroke, Morneau could put up numbers more like his career average, but that seems unlikely after over 1000 post-concussion at bats. He's a fan favorite, was a cornerstone of most of the playoff teams in the past decade, and had himself a great half-career. But he's just not the same player anymore, and the Twins need to realize that when they decide what to do.
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    True dat, infinite carbs = potentially bad. But thanks to concerned relatives and friends, I have sworn never to look at my bottom again. On the other hand, Aaron will have not one but two Olive Gardens to chose from in Rochester, and while dining there he absolutely will not be told to hide from Justin Verlander behind the watercooler.
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    "Starting to produce"? What is your definition of production? Patience went out the window when a guy who has always needed at least a year per level skipped a level. Patience is off the table. Wave goodbye to patience. Literally wave goodbye with your hand. What's left is sorting out where Hicks belongs now, which is AAA. Ping pong ball? WTF are you talking about? How many Twins position players in the past decade haven't been up and down at least once? And where is the overwhelming body of evidence that suggests that skipping a level and then going back to it is worse for a player's development than being absolutely destroyed by the competition in the majors instead? Aaron Hicks has been awful for two months. Two months of bad play is an extended period of time. Hand, meet forced.
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    Curse the splits all you want. At the end of the day, Aaron Hicks is batting .133/.212/.225 unless the pitcher is a lefty, even after the latest 'breakout' game. Again: .133/.212/.225. That's awful. A guy who puts up that line over 2 months in the majors after skipping AA needs to be in AAA and figure out what the heck he's doing at the plate. And in what is rapidly shaping up to be another 90+ loss season, it's hard to see what difference it makes to Hicks' mlb roster status whether or not there is someone better or even approximately as good as him to take his place. The Twins aren't going anywhere, even if they're not deprived of a .133/.212/.225 offensive juggernaut.
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    He has faltered for two months already, just like his minor league track record predicted that he would. Despite another FSN highlight reel game, Hicksie is still batting just .133/.212/.225 against right-handed pitchers. That's not some kooky, random day/night, home/road split, it's three quarters of his at bats, it's terrible, and it's not improving. He's terribly overmatched right now and needs to be promoted from his previous level to AAA so he can come up with some sort of game plan against pitchers who can throw the ball with their right hand. There are lots of them.
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    Parody, or whatever the politically correct word for idiocy is? Hard to tell...
  25. LaBombo
    If by "give up" you mean promote Hicks from last season's level to AAA, then count me in. Let me know how I "track" compared to the other imbalanced posters if you have a chance. If not, good luck with trying to equate a single post to even a minority TD contingent's consensus on... well, anything, I guess.
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