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  1. FritzDahmus
    The Twins need to be more like the Yankees, White Sox, and Astros ---- cheat and sign expensive free agents. Evidence - World Series Championships, Lance Lynn, Jake Odorizzi, Kyle Gibson, Ryan Pressley, and other free agents from someplace other than the Twins brilliant front office duo [as influenced by Pohlad's missing check book]. On a real topic: Gordon was playing a deep CF and Simmons knew that. Simmons played that like it was his ball until the very last. In the end it looked like it was his ball [as it landed closer to Simmons]. But, really it was just bad communication from Gordon....I guess. Tigers didn't look much better.
  2. FritzDahmus
    With a solid pitching staff......this team would be up there with the White Sox. That has been illustrated enough on this site...so I'll skip that. So....it is being suggested they need to trade Berrios, Buxton, and Rogers because the pitching wasn't upgraded properly??? WTF??? Sounds like an excuse to go cheap [yet again].....and call it a rebuild.
  3. FritzDahmus
    My hindsight has always been really really sharp. So I'll use it again -- They should have spent the money on a starter not named Madison Bumgarner, and not Josh Donaldson. Donaldson is just ok as a hitter and has flashed an ok glove. Very disappointing. But what he really excels at, is something we don't need more of.....................landing on the IL. Trade him and hold out for a nice return. Because, and tell Pohlad, you could do a lot worse than JD at 3rd.....so spend the money.....then over pay for a bunch of pitchers. I dare you, you cheap bastard.
  4. FritzDahmus
    Over at the former KSTP 1500 sports channel..........Jug Head says JD should shut up, because the Twins are in last place. Idiot. Reason number 148 for leaving that radio station and web site in the dust......and landing here [and another spot].
  5. FritzDahmus
    Agreed. I'd like Giolito to explain to the World, how he came from nowhere....to be an annual All-Star candidate.
  6. FritzDahmus
    He is....but I like him. Teammates like that are always great teammates. I like A.J. Pierzynski as well.
  7. FritzDahmus
    You are correct, in my view, in all your assessments. But regarding major FA trades --- I don't think it is simply characteristic of this current FO....I think it is characteristic of all the Twins FOs since Calvin Griffith. But -- We shouldn't just label only the Twins this way.....unless a mid-market team is making an obvious run at a World Series....they all do these things [no major FA trades, etc...]. Tampa Bay is the only clear exception at making it work as a cheapo. Love those guys. Oakland may be the other. Baseball has to fix its team payroll imbalance issue.
  8. FritzDahmus
    Exactly....everyone is acting like Mr. Spreadsheet. The non-Mr. Spreadsheets among us - are simply asking for an attempt by Ober to get through a 15 pitch 5th inning...with a new 7 run lead....and get a win. Maybe he fails. So what. Pull him at 15 pitches....or maybe live a little....pull him at 20 pitches. My God...how dare we??!!!!!!! I'll WTF myself......so you won't have to. WTF!!! ?
  9. FritzDahmus
    Excellent post. It says it all......and backs it up.
  10. FritzDahmus
    Absolutely agree. This article is yet another case of "using stats as a crutch" because you don't know what you are looking at. We had our big free agent acquisition [Donaldson] go down last year and then at the start of the year. The second place vote getter for the Cy Young pitched thru an injury and then went down [Maeda]. A player having a MVP month and the 2nd player picked in his draft....goes down ..... again!!! [Buxton] One of the best hitters from the last decade...gets hurt 5 weeks ago and has never been the same and is now rested a lot [Cruz]. Kepler [is he still on the team??] isn't exactly chopped liver.....has been out forever [even when he plays...he isn't right] A catcher who was the Silver Slugger winner.....has been right for....3 weeks....maybe?? [Garver] The "next .400 hitter"......is out [Arraez]. Need I say more?? Then the real problem....Simmons, Polanco, and Sano...playing like they are in mourning over all the injuries....and the FO thinking we don't need Eddie Rosario, Trevor May, and Clippard....but needed JA Happ, and Shoemaker???? Move Roco to the FO....he already talks like they do. Can't stand it. We need a salty old manager who says it like it is. Oh...and one more thing, A-Rod buy the Twins and not the T-Wolves!!! Please!! Bring all your "supplies" with [or at least rekindle those old supply lines]. ?
  11. FritzDahmus
    Trevor May was settling in. He should have been kept. Steady relievers are as rare as a rainy day in Southern California. ? Pressly should have been kept for the same reasoning. Keep them and pay them. Clippard would have been worth the wait as well [first time he has been on the DL...in a very consistent career]. Rogers is a keeper, Duffy is a keeper. They have more and longer good stretches than bad. Robles is a wait-n-see. Keep these and bring in young fireballers around them to test their metal. They pitch half your innings!!!! All Pohlad does is pick BP pitchers out of the scrap heap. That will not work.....unless you hit 300+ HRs and have large leads.
  12. FritzDahmus
    Pohlad let the Front Office [FO] sign one real expensive Free Agent [FA]...Donaldson. If the FO knew that would be the extent of FA signings [and they had to have known??].....they should have kept Trevor May [doing OK with the Mets] and signed other real Bullpen arms...not comeback kids. Keep Tyler Clippard as well. He is injured, but this is his 1st time on the DL. We need lots of Bullpen guys like him. Now, everyone wants Donaldson gone for........wait......get this......more projects and prospects. That never does it in Yankee Stadium in October. Pohlad loves this. It's cheap! Get rid of Pohlad. Maybe A-Rod wants to buy the Twins instead of the T-Wolves?? ? I'd welcome that purchase.
  13. FritzDahmus
    This is sports. If someone pisses you off - you hit them and then take the punishment the umpires/referees/school/league lays on you. Mercedes got off easy. Tim Andersen is saying what he said to back his team mate. The quote of the week [and maybe why Rocco will never be a good manager, but just a manager of situations based on stats and players performing as the stats indicate] -- Here Rocco is talking about Garlick's 3 run HR off a RH pitcher [who the stats say he can't hit....because Kepler was injured, he had to put Garlic in] - “Sometimes when things do play out like that, to be on this end of it, it's something that we'll just take,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. What??? That has to be out of context. Rocco, Garlick is not a robot.....and by the way neither is Nick Gordon!! Play him already....or leave him in St. Paul.....or trade him where they will give him a shot.
  14. FritzDahmus
    The Payroll inequity problem needs to be fixed....now! [inequity....yes, you can use that word here, because this is one product that needs all the franchises viable]. Trading Berrios because we are having a couple of bad months [on the back of 2019 and 2020]........is why I will stop following this crap. So the plan is to throw everything away and gamble on another new set of prospects. Count me out..... Have fun watching the Yankees fellas..........
  15. FritzDahmus
    You need to account for the high wall...and add that to the distance. Many balls off the Target Field high right field wall would be a HR in Yankee Stadium. Right Field and especially Right Center play very very long.
  16. FritzDahmus
    Why not fire him now? All Rocco does is follow charts and graphs......he doesn't use anything he learned as an MLB player. An MIT Statistician with a PhD in Mathematics could do his job. Fire him and then hire a spokesperson to do the after game press conferences. Rocco sounds like a politician running for office or the spokesperson for that politician....boring and tiresome...........no diff.
  17. FritzDahmus
    If the BP sucks....the next step is to go longer with the starters. If that doesn't work.....your team is no good. Re-group over the winter or at the trade deadline to get better. Rocco keeps going by the "numbers" or something. Stop that! But about last night-----The idea that Duffey could not get that one batter out....so Rocco brought in Rogers [for one batter and a 2 run lead in the 8th..stupid]....then let him sit....so he could tighten up enough to suck in the ninth....and give up 2 runs and now we are tied. Who the hell is Waddell?? More musings........... Where is Pressley and May? Prospects are over rated. Winning today at all costs is all that matters [ask the player crashing into a wall]. Why is Escobar and Eddie not still on the team?? Why spend $23 million a year on Josh Donaldson and go cheap and stupid elsewhere??
  18. FritzDahmus
    Lack of a Routine will affect anyone in the worst manner [including the other 2 choices] But............. What the Twins front office has done with the bullpen is crazy. They let good people go, and bring in people less proven and with more issues. The bullpen needs a Josh Donaldson or Nelson Cruz signing. A big time reliever...or two. They eat up almost half your innings!!!!!! So....do something.
  19. FritzDahmus
    I would definitely add Garver to your "need benching list". He might even be due for something worse. You can't send him down. Release him??
  20. FritzDahmus
    You do realize..............you are complaining....about people complaining. In your complaint you need specifics [makes it interesting]. For example: Berrios getting yanked early should not be complained about because [insert your complaint here]. Otherwise, it's just whining. You're the one with negativity [whatever that is]....and we are the interesting ones. I bet you miss Sid's columns. I miss Sid...but not his columns.
  21. FritzDahmus
    I hate to say it....but it looks like we know a few things. 1. Sano will strike out too much and hit about .260 2. Kepler may be on a short downslide...why is that??? 3. Simmons can't hit. 4. Donaldson is not the power guy anymore that we thought he was. 5. Buxton will hit .260 and get hurt. 6. Garver can't hit anymore [like he did in ONE year]....or play catcher. Our offense is not good.......but with our pitching and defense...it will be plenty good if clutch??
  22. FritzDahmus
    Target Field can be a nightmare for a power hitting lefty. A deep right center field and a gigantic wall in right do not help the cause of the power hitting lefty. So theoretically, a right-handed pitcher may have fewer troubles....assuming the opposing manager stacks a bunch of lefties in his batting order if a right hander is slated to start. Right handed hitters have a more normal set of hitting hurdles to overcome, unless they go opposite field and hit the gap. But who wants to do that anymore. It is all about the HR. I think the dimensions of the park in Right Center and the over-sized wall in Right make it a Pitcher's Park. Lots of right handed pitchers in the Majors....and they will do fine at Target field versus the Lefties and the usual solid effectiveness versus the Righties.
  23. FritzDahmus
    The White Sox are the Mets of the Midwest. Spend on the big names and get nothing in return. Lindor is the obvious exception. We needed Odorizzi and Clippard signed. Do they think they can do better on the FA market?? Probably not. Baseball has stopped spending...except the Mets and White Sox.
  24. FritzDahmus
    Looks like the Twins could afford both Rosenthal and Colomé. Rosenthal is only at $2 million....am sure he wants more....but still. Rosenthal is probably better...from the track record and what I remember of him in KC.
  25. FritzDahmus
    Sign ex-Yankee SS Didi Gregorius [may help the players understand why they always suck when playing the Yankees], move Polanco to 2B, package Arraez for a top bullpen arm [only if the right one is available...not Brad Hand], sign Odorizzi, sign Cruz, and add free agent depth to bullpen. This should not cost more than $15-20 million more a year over last year. Right??
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