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  1. Richmond Dude
    Neshek always struck me as one of those situations where Gardy just didn't like certain players who didn't fit his view of the game and he got run out, never really getting the chance to work all the way back from the injury. The Twins during this period had a solid history of screwing with their pitchers and either losing them or having them find success elsewhere after the Twins gave up. Regarding Neshek's popularity, the sidearm delivery was cool, but Neshek was from Wisconsin and really bonded with our fanbase. Beyond that, he was simply fun. It was a shame how that played out, he was pretty clear that his hope was to stay with the Twins for the long term.
  2. Richmond Dude
    MLB has been reducing the time between innings as part of the pace of play issue, so maybe there? Great point about the nature of soccer stoppages.
  3. Richmond Dude
    Interesting point about tradition and the nature of the buttons on the front of the shirt. If you look back on the 70s and early 80s, the uniforms absolutely lost a lot of tradition. Most teams wore pullovers, looked awful. The White Sox tried out shorts at one point. There was a real snapback to tradition in the mid-to-late 80s. So if you don't care for the patches, there is hope.
  4. Richmond Dude
    There's a whole episode of Ted Lasso devoted to this.
  5. Richmond Dude
    You're right. I looked up the DFA rules to see what I misunderstood. Once DFA'd, the team has seven days to either trade him or place him on waivers. I conflated the two when they are actually separate.
  6. Richmond Dude
    I think, *think*, that this would mean that one or more waiver claims were made on Cotton and they are attempting to work out a trade. If I recall, the designating team has a week to do that from the time of the DFA.
  7. Richmond Dude
    I agree with you on all points. I felt that putting Rodriguez out for the fourth inning was pushing it and maybe even setting him up (or somehow sparing the relievers who you expected to keep around the rest of the season. But there is no game today, weird. And, just as recently as last year, we were reminded of how little connection there is between the first week of the season and how a team actually plays the year out.
  8. Richmond Dude
    Unless, possibly, the Padres viewed Rogers as the single missing piece that would get them over the hump that they seem to have been stuck on in a division with two juggernauts. They underperformed the past two years and the GM was retained while the manager was fired. Teams in that position overpay. Not disagreeing, btw. You're right under regular circumstances. Just giving a different perspective.
  9. Richmond Dude
    Trading Sanchez away is probably the most certain way to ensure that he regains his form and even makes the All-Star game.
  10. Richmond Dude
    The fact that we are done with the last spring training game and they still haven't decided between Rooker and Garlick is a bad sign. Neither looked good this spring, at least statistically, and neither did anything today, either. To me, it seems like they clearly want Rooker, but they're having trouble convincing themselves.
  11. Richmond Dude
    Several of these rosters have 16 pitchers and the MLB only allows there to be 15 unless one is a two-way player like Ohtani. And if it is 15, both the players sent down in May have to be pitchers because the max is 13 at that point. In other words, there has to be 13 position players. Oddly, there are currently 13 rostered position players still in camp (+3 NRI). If Godoy gets sent down, somebody has to be removed from the 40-man. My own preference with the way things appear to be shaking out would be for Arraez to be the regular DH, but it looks more like it will be Sanchez. And maybe, if all Sanchez has to worry about is hitting rather than catching, he'll do better at it this year. But that's the kind of hope baseball fans always have in April of each year.
  12. Richmond Dude
    I'm okay with it, but the Twins have a long history of letting these second-chance guys hold on too long. I don't want to watch Happ or Shoemaker again like we did last year. They let those guys go way too late and it hurt the team.
  13. Richmond Dude
    A couple of points, based on things brought up in the thread: The Pitch Clock will be revolutionary, but it's not even actually a rule change but rather just enforcing a rule that already exists and fell out of enforcement. Changing the mound. MLB has done it before and the average height of men has increased significantly since the last time it was done (the average MLB pitcher as of 2019 was 6' 2.5"). While the distance between the rubber and the plate seems to be the most important, the actual important distance is between the point of release and the plate. Taller player = longer legs and longer arms = shorter actual pitch distance and less reaction time for the batter. Rules change in some sports frequently (football), but some are truly revolutionary. I can't imagine watching basketball without a shot clock, but it *is* artificial. Think of eliminating shifts as being similar to when the NBA prohibited zone defenses. Yeah, it "changed the sport," but all it really did was return it to its roots. The only thing I'll truly miss is watching a player on third take a 45 foot lead because the 3rd baseman is nowhere to be found. That was fun.
  14. Richmond Dude
    I think your comment is especially valid given the new CBA condition that you can only option a player five times in a year without placing him on waivers. While five seems like a lot, those heavy bullpen days followed by exchanging relievers with the AAA squad will evaporate that very quickly. On the other hand, if you slot in Jax/Thorpe as a tandem 5th starter and tell both they need to go three innings, you haven't lost that much. You could still use them in short relief on some days and one of them would have been the 5th starter anyway.
  15. Richmond Dude
    If you're serious, starting with runs scored is pointless, since both teams would get them at the start of their half-inning and it would still come down to what runners or batters scored after the granted run.
  16. Richmond Dude
    Thise of us who are Vikings fans have a phrase: Just one before I die.
  17. Richmond Dude
    This may very possibly be the best insight I've read on the situation all day.
  18. Richmond Dude
    I dunno, that story screams a plant from Story's agent to price up a bidder at the end of the process now that most of the other teams that inquired on him have finalized other options.
  19. Richmond Dude
    And that includes trading off Berrios and Cruz and losing Maeda, all key pieces of the team. It is hard to overestimate how badly Colome affected the team early on.
  20. Richmond Dude
    For all the smack talked about Dobnak, everyone seems to forget just how very badly mishandled he was at the start of last year. Wrecked his whole season. I'm glad to see someone else remembers.
  21. Richmond Dude
    Or the opposite. Baseball fans run to both extremes.
  22. Richmond Dude
    I don't know how this turns out, but here are a few thoughts: Sanchez doesn't DH for us because, while Kiner-Falefa had catching experience, I don't think we have another emergency catcher on the roster (could be wrong, someone will surely let me know if I am, lol). It's interesting to see folks who were mad when we traded for Kiner-Falefa also be mad when we traded him away. What changed in 24 hours? He didn't even report to Ft. Myers. Yankees fans are frustrated that Urshela was traded and fel this was a bad trade for them. Most of the professional baseball commentators seem to agree, grading the Twins higher on the trade than the Yankees (although some probably have factored in money and assumed a major signing). Rortvedt is a risk for the Yankees. I have watched baseball a long time (like many of you). I have a seen a *lot* of players who were great at AAA and projected to be solid major leaguers not be able to make the jump or have a single good season. The difference between the two levels is huge. I wish him well, but about half of these guys who make it don't actually do well. We'll see how it plays out. I'll wait for some actual games to put much effort into judging this one.
  23. Richmond Dude
    I'd be okay with this. Alternatively, SS and 2B get a day off every week and he fits there, too. I just want him to play.
  24. Richmond Dude
    I agree, at least in formal statistics. I think his horrendous performance the first two months of the season, and Baldelli's insistence in keeping him in the closer, demoralized the team and resulted in lesser play for most of the season. Once Colome was removed as closer, the team performed better and had a better record.
  25. Richmond Dude
    It's important to remember that last year's Twins team was better in the second half than the first half, particularly once Colome was removed from the closer role, and that Colome alone seriously undermined this team in the first two months of the season, demoralizing them for the rest of the season. I think we're better out of the gate just by him being gone. It's addition by subtraction.
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