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  1. ThejacKmp
    God, there's just so much to like in this. It's like a college reunion but with all my favorite prospects doing well.
  2. ThejacKmp
    Stud-muffin has a sexual context that I think you're not intending. Kind of jarring, especially with the qualifier "the little". That's not to say he's not a very attractive man. It just feels weird in a description of the game.
  3. ThejacKmp
    Is there some reason they go with inning limits and not pitch limits for MILB guys? You always hear about guys being limited to 130 innings or whatever but one guy could pitch 130 innings and throw a thousand more pitches than a guy who works quickly and throws the same number of innings. It's also a matter of development. Romero has not been working on how to handle pitches 80-100 (some of the hardest in a game) for the past month. That seems problematic. It would maybe be better to have him skip a start every once in awhile and go deeper?
  4. ThejacKmp
    I'd get this if they'd moved Santana and Dozier -- that would really be giving up. But this was Kintzler and a guy who was on the team a week. Kintzler was due for some regression so we'll get up some MILB relievers who might be better anyways. I'm excited to have a Gonsalves or Jorge appearance down the stretch too - that might be better than Garcia and Gibby hasn't been terrible lately so maybe he can bridge that. I like that they didn't blow the whole thing up. They got some nice pieces for next year but this team still has a not-negligible chance for the playoffs. we got out of the hard part of our schedule. We still have 7 with the Royals and 6 with the Cleveland ball club. If they can win 9 of those, they have a good shot to get back in this.
  5. ThejacKmp
    Let's hope they go on a run. Garcia and Kintzler were nice pieces but neither precludes the Twins making a run here. They need Buxton to be September Buxton when he comes back and guys like Sano and Dozier to step it up while the pitching doesn't lose games. Plenty of season left and playoffs are not out of reach. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
  6. ThejacKmp
    I don't want anyone to wake up Tuesday expecting to have a fun day of rumors and realize they missed out!
  7. ThejacKmp
    July 31st is a Monday.
  8. ThejacKmp
    If he was asking about your ex-girlfriend he would have queried "fictional characters"
  9. ThejacKmp
    The twins clearly should have moved Willingham back late in his career. It couldn't be worse than watching him play left field.
  10. ThejacKmp
    Garver is crushing LHP this year but it's important to note that's only in 60 AB, a very small sample. He didn't have hugely pronounced splits the past few years and hit LHP at a .733 rate and .802 rate. Neither of those are bad but they don't scream "MLB 1B platoon". He may have developed in the past year but it just as easily could be SSS. Curious what you base the better fielder on? Vargas isn't awful and Garver is relatively new to 1B.
  11. ThejacKmp
    14 pitchers ties up the 25 man. The Twins should have a place for a bat like Valenica/Vargas/Byung Ho.
  12. ThejacKmp
    First of all, Danny Valencia has played OF in the MLB level and is likely equal to Garver out there. He also can play 3B at least adequately. He's by no means a Vargas or a Byung Ho who can only DH/1B. The other 100 games Valencia is a backup infielder and pinch hitter. Mauer and Castro both being LH really crimps the "Garver for backup 1B" mantra. Garver can't be the platoon for both of them. If Castro were RH, I would agree with you 100%. Garver could catch against righties and play 1B against lefties. But that's not reality. You need someone else because Garver should be catching vs. any LHP. That could be Valencia if Vargas/Byung Ho are not in your plans. You're wrong when you say Danny Valencia isn't good. He isn't a complete player but he does one thing very well that is valuable - mash LHP. Career OPS .872. I think people here are blanching at Valencia because of his name and their prior experience with him. Also, consider me on team Danny in this interaction. That's pretty crappy of Billy Butler. Also hilarious that guys who knew Butler a long time backed Valencia.
  13. ThejacKmp
    If you're going to have Garver playing against LHP, you want him catching instead of Castro, not playing first in place of Mauer. You still would ideally have a 1B platoon partner. That isn't Garver unless you give up on him catching.
  14. ThejacKmp
    I'm not 100% sold on Garver being ready for that. I know he's a darling of TD but he may have some adjusting to do going up to the bigs. In my mind, if he demands playing time, Danny Valencia is super easy to trade. I also think that with Castro at C and no real DH option, there's plenty of space for Garver to get time without making him a 1B platoon. I worry that if he struggles, we'll see Mauer playing every day and that's not ideal.
  15. ThejacKmp
    If Joe Mauer wants to play past 2018, there will likely be a spot for him. Sano is going to be at 3B for the foreseeable future. Kepler is entrenched in the OF. The Twins don't have a big 1B prospect pushing his way to the minors. Palka has stagnated, Vargas seems like a bench bat and there's no one else exciting in the high minors. The closest is Lewin Diaz, a nice prospect but still a guy in A ball. And that doesn't even take into context that the Twins also have a DH spot with no clear takers. Unless the Twins are going to go spend big at DH/1B in free agency (seems unlikely), Mauer is going to have every chance to be the part of a LH platoon at 1B. Given the draw his name still is, it's hard to see the Twins finding someone better in the short-term market. I can see a 2 year $10-12 million deal with the understanding that Mauer is going to be platooning at 1B/DH. He's well worth that money. P.S. My offseason desire: the Twins sign Danny Valencia to a 1 year deal ($5 mill) and platoon him with Mauer. Dude mashes LH pitching and would be an ideal platoon with Mauer. And if the season doesn't work out, teams are always looking for a bench bat like that for the playoff run.
  16. ThejacKmp
    I think the point would be that the Twins can get a nice haul of prospects for Santana and then go out and sign a similar guy with the money they would have spent on Santana (it would actually cost them more to get a similar guy because of inflation but that's life). If you can have Santana or similar guy + prospects, you take the latter. Especially if you think that Santana isn't going to be a lock to replicate this season.
  17. ThejacKmp
    Let's not selectively use stats. Tell the whole picture. Chris Hermann has a -0.9 WAR this year and it's only 2/3 over. He's never had a positive WAR season other than last year (when his BABIP was 110 points higher than his career BABIP). My money is on his WAR with Arizona being negative cumulatively, likely by the end of this year. That would make the Twins the winner of the trade. Sometimes not playing a guy is winning.
  18. ThejacKmp
    I always liked JRM more than most but this seems like a fine deal. The Twins are relatively set at C and it seems unlikely JRM would play a role there in the next few seasons. That said, my biggest JRM feeling will always be confusion. He isn't some prospect who flamed out - he hit, damn it. At the MLB level. I a not-insignificant sample. And then he came to the Twins and forgot how. Again, in a not-insignificant sample. This continues to not make sense to me. I didn't think he'd be an all-star but he seemed like a low ceiling, low floor guy - until that floor dropped out under him. Glad he's in the NL. Makes it easier to cheer for him to turn around his career.
  19. ThejacKmp
    Yeah, you can't do that in baseball. It's so hard to project guys five or six years away. Kohl Stewart was a solid pick, the results turning out subpar doesn't mean the process was bad. There's a whole lot of luck in baseball development.
  20. ThejacKmp
    See I would give up Granite in a heartbeat. He profiles as a 4th OF to me and that's pretty easy to get. Maybe he proves me wrong but I'd definitely swap that (but I'm low on Granite)
  21. ThejacKmp
    Yeah, change the prospect, not the money.
  22. ThejacKmp
    And they spent years under budget. Years of terrible baseball. Get people excited, the boost in attendance from a playoff chase has to augment a lot of that anyways.
  23. ThejacKmp
    Again, those are your words. No one says it wasn't important to give his best, just that the context of the situation matters in regards to going all out.
  24. ThejacKmp
    Nope. Don't put words in my mouth. Also read them before you say "based on his words." I never came close to saying that, you inferred it because it fit your argument. All I ever said was that he wasn't going at top gear. That's not the same thing as not trying fully. Not trying is willful laziness, Grossman was just treating the game in its proper context. He wasn't going all out because he shouldn't be, the Twins don't need a risky all out play.
  25. ThejacKmp
    That one has always bothered me. As have ones where the ball bounces off of the receivers hands. They should split INTs into "QB fault" and "freak INT". Anything iffy goes to QB Fault.
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