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  1. JB_Iowa
    Per Bollinger on Twitter: Rhett Bollinger ‏@RhettBollinger Liriano in 10 starts since returning to rotation on May 30: 2.84 ERA with 77 K, 28 BB and 3 HR in 63 1/3 IP. #
  2. JB_Iowa
    And RCP must be knocking them out.
  3. JB_Iowa
    Spammers are busy tonight out on the other threads.
  4. JB_Iowa
    Maybe he got the memo confused and thought he could just give up a 2-run HR instead of 2 HR.
  5. JB_Iowa
    Oh, and as I read it, the teams that qualify are in the 10 lowest in EITHER revenue or market size. So you could have a big market team with lower revenues that qualifies. Here's a link to an MLB.com article that explains it pretty well. Looks like Detroit got into the 2nd round because their revenues were low enough to qualify for revenue sharing: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120716&content_id=35035642&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
  6. JB_Iowa
    Would be interesting to see how they define "market". For example, for TV market, Iowa is included in: Twins, Brewers, Cubs, White Sox, Cardinals and Royals. So do the markets overlap? I suspect Oakland qualifies on revenue (one of 10 lowest) and, if revenue includes TV contracts, those figures can always shift dramatically as new deals are made. It doesn't surprise me that Minnesota would not be in the 10 lowest in either revenue or market size.
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    It is a lost season anyway. If Hendriks is part of the long-term solution for this team, I'd prefer him to be working with Cuellar in Rochester especially if he would be getting bombed in the majors. And I'd really like to see Duensing back in the pen where he seems to be effective. The Twins are on the line for Blackburn's salary anyway -- and I really don't see him as a long-term solution for this team so let him get bombed and frustrated. But the likelihood is that he will figure it out for 2 or 3 starts before he gets really bad again. That seems to be a pattern with him.
  8. JB_Iowa
    It's all part of the Twins strategy of marketing entertainment instead of baseball. Same thing they do with TF. I hate it but its all part of the game. One more reason I often turn off the sound.
  9. JB_Iowa
    And Deduno goes Phewwww ....
  10. JB_Iowa
    I'm not a Mauer hater. I'm a "Mauer Thread" hater. Enough is enough.
  11. JB_Iowa
    Wish they could have saved some of those runs from last night for tonight.
  12. JB_Iowa
    While I'm in agreement that the organization needs fresh minds, it's hard for me to see Redmond as indoctrinated in the Twins Way. He didn't come up through the Twins minor league system. He spent 7 years in the majors with the Marlins before 5 years with the Twins and then 1 last year with the Indians. And now has managed in the Blue Jays system. I still think that qualifies as the kind of new energy, ideas and enthusiasm that I'd like to see injected into the Twins organization. It's hard for me to see a former player having the same "Old Boys Club" Twins ties that I see in them constantly promoting from within.
  13. JB_Iowa
    I really wanted to see Red Dog with the Twins organization after his playing days were over. I'm glad he's doing well with the Blue Jays but I'd love to see him back with the Twins.
  14. JB_Iowa
    Just went to find the probable starters for the Orioles for this series. Hard to believe that its possible for anyone to look as pitiful as the Twins starters but Tillman, Britton and 2 "To Be Announced" might do it.
  15. JB_Iowa
    Thanks for giving me a Monday morning smile. Great column.
  16. JB_Iowa
    Had to look at the unis again. I thought it was only Blue Jays who could hit this many HR at TF.
  17. JB_Iowa
    I think Duensing will be okay back in the pen. He really seems to have the mental make-up for it. When he was in the pen earlier this year, I thought we were seeing the return of "Dirty Duensing" and I was disappointed when they gave him starts again. This team is like a sieve -- way too many holes to fill.
  18. JB_Iowa
    It's hard to say much about a team that is this bad.
  19. JB_Iowa
    I thought it was going to be the Twins post-ASG performance so far.
  20. JB_Iowa
    Last year I thought that Bert was kind of "losing it" -- mixing up names, forgetting things, etc. -- as though age was catching up with him. I really thought he needed to cut back. And he seems a little better to me this season.
  21. JB_Iowa
    On that we can agree. I almost didn't comment on this thread because for the most part I just don't get it. I NEVER understood the deification of Joe Mauer. And I still don't understand the villification of Joe Mauer. His contract is what it is. To the best of my knowledge, he didn't do anything dishonest to achieve that contract. Is there something that you all think he CAN and should be doing NOW that would increase his value? It seems to me that he has been doing what is asked of him -- playing most games at whatever position the manager prefers. I haven't seen him dogging it. I haven't seen or heard him say anything that would indicate that he is giving it less than his best effort. The one thing that I can see that he could do is waive his no trade clause (and maybe he's already told the Twins he'd do so in the right circumstances). I realize that this thread was started by someone who was trying to defend Mauer's worth. Heaven knows I didn't expect to come on here and defend Mauer. I just wish we could have a moratorium on this whole subject.
  22. JB_Iowa
    At the time Mauer's contract was signed, I posted elsewhere that I wished that they would structure it so that a portion was not included in the % attributable to players' salaries. It would make it a lot more palatable for most of the public. And would actually be more consistent with what I think they were doing when they inked the Mauer contract. But is is also really just a bookkeeping matter because the % allocated to player salaries is wholly within the club's decision-making anyway so there wouldn't necessarily be additional money available to sign other players.
  23. JB_Iowa
    Because THAT is the marketplace. Decisions aren't made in a vacuum. There are a lot of varying pressures that are taken into account by GMs when they offer this type of contract. The contracts aren't offered just on the basis of statisical performance or or projected statisical performance -- they also consider marketing, leadership, contributions to the community and other factors. So it is entirely appropriate to look at how other large contracts have worked out.
  24. JB_Iowa
    I expect this revised starting rotation to last what? maybe one turn? This is a pitching staff in flux. I expect a number of people to get opportunities over the remainder of the season -- unless, of course, the guys listed above turn in consistently good performances. And if that happens, then there isn't anything to gripe about.
  25. JB_Iowa
    But if he can keep up producing like a $15-!6 million/year catcher, I'm okay with it. Mauer is not, and never was, my favorite player. But at the time the contract was signed, in my mind I allocated about $7-$8 million/year to "goodwill" (a/k/a increased marketing and sales revenues attributable to Mauer) and the remainder to salary. And, even with the debacle of last season (and I really see his behavior last year as a debacle as much as his production), he has seemingly done most of what he could do to get back in the good graces of the fans. He is doing those things that many people griped about -- playing on Sundays, playing in a high percentage of games, playing catcher regularly. (The one thing I would have liked to see to "make up" for last season was a significant charitable contribution to something like the Twins Community Fund but that's just a personal preference for me). So his production this year is satisfactory to me (and is actually exceeding what I said would be okay with me). If he should manage to inject some more excitement by making a real run at the batting title again, that would be all the better.
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