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  1. ThejacKmp
    Call me crazy but I'm excited for the Phil Hughes era in the pen. I don't think he's going to jump in as a late inning setup guy but I think he'll bring a nice arm to the middle innings and it's not crazy if he turns into a quality setup man in the next few years if he can get a bit more velocity pitching in shorter stints.
  2. ThejacKmp
    I think more thought has to go into it. You have a big strikeout pitcher on the mound in Sale so if the goal is to get a guy to third, you find yourself with Sale pitching to two guys (buxton and Rosario) who are not particularly tough to strike out. To me, that's the argument against it even in that situation (you're right that close game with runners on is the place that makes sense). You have to have someone coming up who puts the ball in play (they're going to walk Mauer, even with L on L) and that just isn't Buxton or Rosario. And you have to not have Matt Belisle next in from the pen.
  3. ThejacKmp
    And Zach Granite's AAA performance in no way forces the Twins hands. He still profiles as a nice 4th OF (but perhaps not for the twins since he is LH) and a below-average corner OF.
  4. ThejacKmp
    No way they walk Mauer with runners on 1st and 2nd. Mauer is not Trout or someone who that would make sense - you don't move someone up where a wild pitch scores them and you don't put the go ahead run in scoring position. Let Polanco hit with the 2-0 and then you can bring in Mauer. Sacrificing rarely makes sense - outs are at a premium late in a game.
  5. ThejacKmp
    And as I stated, the article is wrong. Chris Gimenez has hit four home runs this year. Check baseball reference.
  6. ThejacKmp
    I know this season the Twins are competitive and our focus should be on that but man, I'm excited for next year. By June you should see all three of these guys pushing for a rotation spot. With May back, Mejia a year older and Berrios and Santana still in the fold, the Twins could have a really nice rotation. And that's not even mentioning the Thorpedo, who seems like a 2018 cup of coffee candidate. I get wanting to push them now and I get that you can't choose when you compete but it seems like a real stretch to push them fast this year. I don't want to see any of them until September 1st, even if that means the Twins fade in the summer heat.
  7. ThejacKmp
    The bunt was a bad idea to begin with but particularly once Sale went 2-0 on Polanco. Let him swing away from there, he's got an advantage and a walk would be killer there. Sale is going to bring something over, let the young guy hit. I will never get saving the catcher. If Castro gets injured, you lose one game you were likely going to lose anyway. And who really worries about something freak happening, especially in this day and age of no collisions at the plate. Belisle. Oh Belisle, time for you to go. The Twins don't have a lot of exciting relievers coming up but someone has to be better than Belisle. I imagine there's a good chance that he reverts to the mean but sometimes it's about accountability. You just have to get rid of fringe guys who don't perform.
  8. ThejacKmp
    Nope. They both have four.
  9. ThejacKmp
    Totally different era, hard to compare baseball in the 70s to baseball today. The hitters are better and they have access to way more info. Today's game is about knowing how to pitch, not being good at throwing. I'm not throwing shade at guys in the 70s - just saying that with technology and the extreme professionalization of the sport, it isn't easy to throw an 18 year old into the fire.
  10. ThejacKmp
    Add Gimenez to the bullpen matrix!
  11. ThejacKmp
    Gimenez should be added to the reliever matrix
  12. ThejacKmp
    Is it weird that there's no Leach news at all?
  13. ThejacKmp
    Okay, questions I've always had about being DFA. What do those guys do during that period? Do they go home? Go back to wherever they will end up if they aren't claimed? Work out at the Twins spring training facility? Do they still keep health insurance or are they cast adrift?
  14. ThejacKmp
    Love the bullpen use graph. Super useful.
  15. ThejacKmp
    Is JJ Schwarz going back to school for sure? Crazy that a guy talked about as 1 overall is still on the board.
  16. ThejacKmp
    Yeah this. I known huge Twins fans right now whose knowledge of the Twins minor league system comes down to three guys - right now maybe Gonsalves, Gordon and Garver? And to be fair to them, if I didn't read TD I would have no concept of the minor leagues either - I wouldn't be checking the box scores every day and keeping track of players.
  17. ThejacKmp
    What would you suggest?
  18. ThejacKmp
    Way better but I'm not sure its MLB's fault. How are you going to get the average fan interested in guys they're not going to see for 3-5 years? Some of whom won't even sign? The NFL has guys trying out for the team 100 days later and each team has at least two guys they're hoping will see regular PT. A fan watches because they'll know someone on the field next year. MLB has none of that. The video is also a big part - how much video exists of some of these high school guys? The NFL has video of every guy because they're all in college and they all play games on TV. There's no way to tell how good the competition is either, not an issue in the NFL. MLB is destined to be for draftniks only.
  19. ThejacKmp
    Or they both flame out. (knocks on wood)
  20. ThejacKmp
    I always forget that going to school means that have to at least pretend to take classes. That is certainly a factor.
  21. ThejacKmp
    And can we say surprising? Starting pitching quality was supposed to be the Twins problem this year, not depth. They had a ton of mediocre back-end starters and no front end. Now they have two front-end guys (albeit with some potential regression) and are picking up castoffs to start games. Baseball is a funny sport.
  22. ThejacKmp
    For the game the Twins put up a 1.507 OPS. Holy geeze.
  23. ThejacKmp
    Yeah but to what? There's no one better out there. Until Santiago/Hughes come back, I'm okay with Gibson. He has his ups and downs but they have no one better.
  24. ThejacKmp
    It's hard because while I agree wholeheartedly with the Twins organization having some troubling issues with spending money, the criticism cites the one time I don't think it's fair to call them cheap. It's like when someone is bashing the political party you hate but they're doing it by citing the one thing you don't mind about that party. Unless the Twins don't spend their allotted draft money overall (seems unlikely), they can't be called cheap for the draft. They didn't even invent this strategy. I also feel very uncomfortable about the language used: those that aren't critical are the unreasonable ones. I think it's pretty clear that the people blasting the Twins for being cheap for the Lewis pick are ignorant of the draft process. You can call it stupid, you can say their strategy is bogus but calling it cheap shows a reflexive knee-jerk assumption with no consideration of the bigger picture. No one is too stupid to understand the draft but a lot of people are too lazy to read a single article that explains it.
  25. ThejacKmp
    This may be a dumb question but those admittedly slightly-ridiculous lists have some high ranked guys still remaining that I've heard smarter people here excited about: Tanner Burns, Tristan Beck, Jake Eder. Are these guys unlikely to sign or do the Twins have a shot to throw savings at them in these middle rounds (9-15)? Do those kind of guys ever sign if offered $1 million (e.g.) in the 11th round?
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