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  1. Han Joelo
    "Effectively aggressive" is...an effective description. Winning is the cake; top prospects performing well is the icing. (Not that all of the performers were prospects)
  2. Han Joelo
    Its great that they won, and even better that some good prospects had great games. Guys that weren't in the organization to start the year. Lets go for the championship trifecta.
  3. Han Joelo
    So Tademo was promoted for one game? Or maybe two? Were they short an infielder? Doesn't seem like they would be re: call-ups, but I might be forgetting someone. If I was an enterprising young reporter or blogger, I think I'd dig deeper on this kid, and this decision, if for no other reason than it might be an entertaining, human interest type story. My take--the Red Wings had a couple spots on their roster open. Tademo, currently sleeping on someones couch in Cedar Rapids, had a suitcase packed. He is well liked in the organization--someone, perhaps, has taken a cue from the Ozzie Guillen/Eduardo Escobar story and taken this kid under his wing. Or he is a suddenly blooming prodigy, whose next stop will be Minnesota. Yes, this is where I have arrived at in this disappointing season: Minor League Fan Fiction.
  4. Han Joelo
    Well, maybe Molitor sensed blood in the water and decided to chum with expendable veterans. Trying to find silver linings, I'm thinking Cave is pulling into a dead heat with Kepler right now as far as future value. ... ... Um, I'll keep thinking about this.
  5. Han Joelo
    Tademo on the move again. Should I ask why him? Or why not him?
  6. Han Joelo
    Thanks--he's a personal fave, for whatever reason. Good update. Hope he comes back strong. I think he's got moxie.
  7. Han Joelo
    As predicted, Kiriloff has stepped up, even in a loss. (it will take me forever to remember which consonants to double in his name.). As I was just reading an article about the Arizona Fall League, I was thinking he and Lewis could be the Twins' version of Vlad Jr./Bichette next year. When I saw Tademo's line from last night, my knee jerk reaction was to wonder if I should be regarding him as (my words) more than "an interesting, athletic youngster to keep an eye on." Seems like the kind of guy who is the third player in a deadline deal--the really good youngster that nobody has heard about yet, but scouts know is a player. Seems to be doing just fine after jumping over E-ton.
  8. Han Joelo
    The Vasquatch. Love it. Hope he is good; we need a reliever with that nickname/twitter handle.
  9. Han Joelo
    Perhaps the last unquantifiable part of baseball--backup catcher valuation. I didn't have a problem with Wilson really, and can't quite relate to the disdain some have shown for him. Interesting deal. Not because it will result in any net gain for the Twins, just because it happened at all.
  10. Han Joelo
    Yeah, I was getting myself confused as to who was where as I typed that up, but then it just occurred to me that BOTH teams have a bunch of intriguing players, so I made that poorly expressed comment.
  11. Han Joelo
    Is that two higher strikeout games in a row for Enlow, or am I misremembering? That Cedar Rapids team has some character(s). Just when I was calling/hoping for Lewis to step up, he got a night off (like others suggested) and so it was Rortveldt stepping up. Man, there are some good players in A ball right now.
  12. Han Joelo
    I don't know whether or not to get excited about the May-Rogers-Hildenberger Lockdown tonight. On the one hand, I'd be excited if these guys grew into the role and gave us half a bullpen to look forward to next year. On the other hand, its only half a bullpen, which in pitching depth terms is really only a quarter of a bullpen. Anyway, I'm thrilled with the win. I guess absence makes the heart grow fond.
  13. Han Joelo
    "They could really use an ignitor this last weekend. Can Lewis suck it up and be that man?" I guess I won't hold it against him if he can't, but is sure would be heartening to see. Although if I was a betting man, I'd put my money on AK to be "that man." Not that it would hurt to have more than one.
  14. Han Joelo
    I guess I should edit my posts. Somehow "Tademo" became Radeon? Wild.
  15. Han Joelo
    Nice game for Romero. While I'm glad they are taking care of him, they pulled him after a strikeout-single-single-strikeout sequence, at 84 pitches, and of course as stated, Harper let his runs in. Had they left him in, one more K and his line would have looked awesome. Or the opposite could have happened. Still, stats hinge on a lot of things.
  16. Han Joelo
    Radeon gets the emergency call again. Perhaps speaks to his character as much as his physical ability? I don't know.
  17. Han Joelo
    It's easy to get stuck thinking only the "top prospects" are actually prospects, and maybe forget how many players in the big leagues never got that sort of attention as minor leaguers. A lot of it maybe speaks to the volatility of it all, but it is a little remarkable that Wells isn't a top 20 Twins prospect. Not a criticism of the evaluators, just that things change fast, and when you don't start as a high draftee it is harder to get taken seriously. Its not going to change, but in some ways it is almost silly that so much perception of who these guys can be comes from before they actually started playing professional baseball.
  18. Han Joelo
    What would Arraez look like as a big leaguer? The current version of Forsythe?
  19. Han Joelo
    Setting aside debates about whether he's good enough to help the team next year (I think he is) it would seem to be Joe's style to slide off into the sunset without fanfare. A one year contract while ceding playing time would make it obvious he was finished, and the stories and accolades would start following him. Not sure he'd want that.
  20. Han Joelo
    I think Stewart DID get his chance to face one more hitter in an attempt to get the last out in the fifth, and that hitter doubled. At 98 pitches, pulling him was the right thing to me. He got 98 pitches of "development", and I still got to see a win.
  21. Han Joelo
    Interesting syntax, right? I thought the same thing at first read, but then took it to mean that the only counting stat AK added to was his K total...on this night, for the first time in a long time, he didn't even add a BB.
  22. Han Joelo
    First rounders fail at such a high rate I'm not sure if it is even reasonable to ever call a pick a mistake. There should be a word (lucky?) for when a team does pick someone who actually becomes a good MLBer. Jay is doubly unfortunate, in that Benintendi was taken directly after him, and because his supposed floor--at least in my mind--was a solid MLB reliever. You wonder if they hadn't monkeyed around with making him a starter, if he wouldn't have stayed healthy and reached that floor. And he still can, by all means. The lede could be this--"Jay, finally healthy, is blowing hitters away with his mid-nineties heat heat from the left-side. Consider this another win for a Dodgers organization that has previously plundered the Twins organization for quality relief pitchers."
  23. Han Joelo
    I think you nailed every one of my thoughts.
  24. Han Joelo
    Vargas!
  25. Han Joelo
    Keeping in mind that was Toby, not Ron. Toby was hired by the current FO, if I remember correctly. Like many, maybe all sons out there, I'd like to think that Toby acquired all of his Dad's qualities that made him a good manager, while developing his own personality independent of his father--one that probably goes counter to his pop's "old-fashioned thinking." Adjusting for generations, Toby probably got Ron started on digital music via iPod, and Ron probably reluctantly gave up his CD collection, after first burning all of his Johnny Cash albums. And...I'm losing the thread of this metaphor. But everybody agrees Johnny Cash is good. And neither one of them probably understood Kevin Slowey's infatuation with vinyl.
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