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  1. jokin
    Plus, Palcios is the one with the huge upside. For further evidence, just look at Arraez and Palcios photographed together, it's like Seabiscuit and American Pharoah.
  2. jokin
    Good News: Trevor May's K/9 on the night was 27.00 Bad News: Trevor May's ERA was 40.50 Good News: Trevor May's FIP was 1.60 Bad News: Trevor May's BB/9 was 13.50
  3. jokin
    Of course.
  4. jokin
    Heh-he... yeah... "fairly"
  5. jokin
    So you're saying there's a chance that he's the second coming of Altuve? (He's also Venezuelan, with better comparable numbers than Altuve at the same ages, but obviously, I'm not holding out a lot of hope that this might come to fruition.)
  6. jokin
    Quite likely true, but Ryan made a huge bet on Buxton sticking in the offseason when he traded away his prime Plan B option. (And he's been down this bridle path before assuming things not in evidence with Aaron Hicks when he was handed the job with a basically non-existent Plan . One would think that there was strong impetus to lay down a specific action plan to ensure that the #1 Prospect in all of baseball (who struggled in 2015) would have had some special attention to help realize some measure of success.
  7. jokin
    Terrific month of May for Garver after a slow start. OPS .822 Question- Who gets the callup to Rochester first? 1) Garver. The hitting-challenged Red Wings are second to last in team hitting stats and could probably use Garver's bat. 2) Turner. The threadbare AAA level catching situation would be exacerbated even further should Murphy be called back to the Twins. Shouldn't at least one of these guys be working ASAP with the near-major league ready arms? Not so many of those in Chattanooga, especially among the SPs.
  8. jokin
    I concur with this paraphrase of Hamlet reality check proviso- "Perchance to dream?"--> Twins Way Reality--> "Ay, there's the rub... what dreams may come... must give us pause... respect the calamity that may come instead"
  9. jokin
    I know we're going to go round in circles here, but I stand by my original statement... Smalley credited Buxton's sudden resurgence towards Bruno with an apparently sudden brilliant insight- "Restore the leg kick"- to which I say, "Isn't he looking at daily video on each players ABs?" Buxton struggled for the entire month of April, both with the Twins and in Rochester; it seems like the process of getting back on the program should have started in the first week of April- and not taking credit for getting back on the program in the second week of May.
  10. jokin
    Bruno is paid to know why.
  11. jokin
    Only just "a bit"?
  12. jokin
    Sounds a little self-congratulatory and of course, begs the question: "Why didn't Bruno tell this to Buxton himself when he was up here?"
  13. jokin
    Pretty clean game by Stewart, 63 strikes/37 balls 4 K 0 BB
  14. jokin
    Note: Only "seven of the 13"
  15. jokin
    You're missing the point by a wide margin. The general thinking seems to be that if he's "not the superstar we thought", than therefore, "Buxton is a bust".
  16. jokin
    I was going to do an article just before opening day, entitled: " Murphy.... 54-81-100?" The gist of said article was to have TD community members guess which number of games would be closest to the number of starts at Catcher for JR Murphy. At that point in time, my guess is most would have put their guess at above "81" and many more at "100", as the consensus coming out ofST seemed to be that Murphy would easily ease into the starting role by the ASG. I'm thinking the organization's projection would have been between 54 and 81. My guess would have been "just below 54". *** ***(I just didn't know that should have been more clearly stated as 54 starts for Rochester.)
  17. jokin
    We still have Tommy. He's scheduled to start for Rochester tonight.
  18. jokin
    Thanks Seth. Although, I've already moved beyond curious in the case of Meyer- this whole thing is becoming downright strange.
  19. jokin
    Ha... Yep. I can't conceive of any reason to hold him back any longer. (The BABIP and Strand rates look a little unsustainable, but using those numbers against him to keep him from the jump to AA would look more like one of the typical excuses for not moving him- he's earned his promotion). One interesting peripheral stat that I have not seen previously mentioned- and which has apparently directly aided Gonsalves' dominance of the FSL- his GO/AO ratio is 1.39, which is double his average before this season. And among the best in the FSL. (Stewart's GO/AO ratio is 1.45).
  20. jokin
    Uhhh... so can we officially now list Alex Meyer as Missing In Action?
  21. jokin
    Isn't it just a little odd, or disconcerting, that, assuming Meyer starts Tuesday night, that it will mean that he hadn't pitched in exactly one week, and that last appearance w/ the Twins, a short start?
  22. jokin
    You've missed a few. We even have threads on Twins Daily that have something to that effect in their title. And then you have these publications: Draft Day Dilemmas: Is Byron Buxton just a bust? Pipeline Inbox: Could Buxton be a bust? Minnesota Twins Byron Buxton: Boom or Bust in 2016? Sports Live: Is Byron Buxton just a bust? The Line Drive: is Byron Buxton just a bust? Minnesota Twins fans: Temper your 2016 Byron Buxton expectations "Draft Day Dilemmas: Is Byron Buxton just a bust?" Byron Buxton / The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 337 – Putridity
  23. jokin
    I made no reference to your post, and in no way alleged that your post remotely resembled likening Buxton's career as being on the brink.
  24. jokin
    Well stated. This existential concern for Buxton's career being on the brink- just a bit overblown- methinks.
  25. jokin
    And sadly, it was the White Sox that demonstrated this weekend that they are the ones that have learned this lesson- like the Royals before them. The Sox overall pitching peripherals are actually down this year- they actually trail the Twins in K/9 and K% rates! But no matter, they reminded Ryan and Molitor this weekend that the one of the Twins Way sacred rules is sacred to them, and seemingly forever forgotten in Minnesota.
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