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  1. jokin
    Because he's been officially dubbed by the manager as the Twins' Tony Phillips?
  2. jokin
    So what you're saying is that our bullpen depth comes out to be worth about a dime a dozen?
  3. jokin
    This is really well-stated- while you're not going to get much from either Hermann or Nunez, Nunez will most likely be claimed if DFA'd (Hello, Toronto!); he's bench speed as well as a bench bat, and the Twins are hamstrung in middle infield depth should an injury arise in the infield or if they have to temporarily put Santana back in CF- up and until they are fully confident that Polanco is ready as emergency depth in the infield, they need to retain Nunez. Herrman's remaining options just makes it a no-brainer. And yes, after seeing him play, both LF and RF in 2014, Danny Ortiz could potentially make a very acceptable major league 4th OFer at some point, if/when necessary.
  4. jokin
    Curiously, I give Peterson all the more credit- to blow the game in the most inexplicable way conceivable- and still having the presence of mind to doing what he does best, striking out that same batter.
  5. jokin
    Actually according to the box score, Pinto reached base five times, with two singles and THREE walks, not two. And you're right, he's got to be thinking the call has to be coming soon, there's not much more he can do to get himself promoted.
  6. jokin
    From the Bloomberg article: This may be a lot of things, but it's fair to say this is most certainly neither about self-deprication or flippant hilarity.
  7. jokin
    Especially when it's the wrong guy, who had no business being in the GM chair.
  8. jokin
    I would hope so, this is his second year on the 40-man, if this would turn out to be another lost season, Kepler's hourglass would be running pretty low.
  9. jokin
    It seems pretty clear... I don't think H2O said anything about being offended, just perplexed.
  10. jokin
    What else would we expect from The Minimizer TM
  11. jokin
    Send him down, he didn't go opposite field on the previous pitch.
  12. jokin
    and pinch runner.
  13. jokin
    Yeah, I think Stewart is putting the diabetes issue to rest. I was actually stunned that they felt confident enough in him to battle that deep into the game. He's even farther along in the Twins's mind than I thought he was- which portends well for a mid-season promotion to AA.
  14. jokin
    Wrong. I quite accurately said, that as of today, they have the best rotation in baseball in terms of WAR, IP, WHIP, ERA. I didn't call it a coup. I did call it a set of far superior off-season moves and previously cheaply-acquired depth after losing multiple key components in their rotation- in comparison to what the Twins have tried to cobble together year after year when they lost pitchers. Especially when you consider that the Tigers have far less to work with, with respect to available enticing prospects. The Twins got Milone and Stauffer for possible back-end depth in embarrassing comparison. They signed Sanchez and acquired an Ace in Price for little talent cost, with the full intention on paying him Ace-level pay at some point, or getting rewarded on the back-end via trade/draft pick. Verlander vs. the Twins signings. I'm sorry, but between Nolasco and Santana, and the lesser-revenue Twins, Verlander plus the superior moves to bulld depth around his health issues is still going to work out far better for the Tigers. Oh, and Buck Farmer, their 2013-5th round-drafted college SP, is already on the 40-man roster and throwing very well in AAA. And you haven't mentioned the Tiger masterful OF retooling.
  15. jokin
    Devastating indictment.
  16. jokin
    Yeah, I'd rate Chopper's post as the thread-winner.
  17. jokin
    For heaven's sake, here's just one example from this year- the Detroit Tigers, with supposedly, according to TD bashers, "nothing" in terms of prospects to offer in trade, are currently rated as the #1 SP staff according to Fangraphs, and they replaced 3/5ths of their 2014 staff with 1) a for-cash acquisition from, Kyle Lobstein, (who the Twins passed on for Pressly in the 2012 Rule 5), 2) a trade for a lesser version of Trevor May, Shane Green, and 3) a trade for a lesser version of Escobar and a pitching prospect at least 3 years away, Alfredo Simon. The Twins could certainly have easily come up with these 3 names or better to put in place around Hughes and a Price/Greinke-level ace. (Not to mention how the Tigers have rebuilt their OF, including CF, with other teams' spare parts)
  18. jokin
    There have also been plenty of guys to sign on hole-flling one-year deals to flip or gain the comp pick from, to augment the premier FA signings.
  19. jokin
    "Preferred it that way?" Of course he would have. In the midst of his own scorched-earth, first Twins dismantling, he still publicly regards that his greatest move ever as a GM was trading Scott Erickson for Klingenbeck and ultimately for the PTBNL- holding out/holding up the Orioles for Kimera Bartee. That was 20 years ago, and into his 13th year after becoming GM, in his resignation speech, he said he was the wrong person to be a GM in modern baseball. Following the logic here, it's all Target Field's fault---- but blaming the inanimate object is still just a deflection that ultimately reflects right back on management.
  20. jokin
    I agree on Pinto***, on Hermann v Nunez there is little net gain from one on the roster over the other. (FWIW, I watched Pinto playing on Rochester last year, he, along with May and Meyer looked like the only sure "major league material" on the entire roster (Ortiz was a close 4th). Curiously, both at the plate and behind it, he looked as out of place in Rochester as he does in Minnesota, only in the diametrically opposite sense, and fully justified, "too good for this league sense" of extreme confidence and swagger. And we all know how un-confident he looks in Minnesota, a little when he slumped, but especially behind the plate- clearly Pinto is caught between the proverbial Rock and Hard Place.)
  21. jokin
    (e)... (e)... (e)... or were you referring to Danny Duffy?
  22. jokin
    In point of fact, the window for Meyer was wide open, and the parade of mediocrity between Rochester and Minnesota came and went though that window multiple times... and the window actually extended, in terms of Meyer's ST Majors/AAA dominance, from March (when Gardy publicly called for Meyer to be one of his late inning guys) all the way to August, but anyway.... "nice try" on the TR defense team, I know it's a lonely job these days.
  23. jokin
    Capps was Bill Smith's doing (although it's probable that TR consulted on the dea- and likely on the even more head-scratching Capps re-sign).
  24. jokin
    The Keystone Kombo in Rochester doesn't fill itself....
  25. jokin
    Velocity was in the low to mid 90s, presumably because he can't throw the FB for strikes. I would find it hard to believe he was trying to play through some injury.
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