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Makes sense. My, the Twins are keeping LaMarre busy. He's in the Red Wings lineup again today in Atlanta. I wonder if the Twins charter plane is picking him up on the way to San Juan?
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Thanks, spycake. It looks like Mr Lamarre is in the process of picking up beaucoup airline miles over this 10-day "demotion".
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Well, according to Doogie anyway, the Twins seem to have acknowledged that it was all just a big misunderstanding, and packed away his uniform on the plane to Puerto Rico. (Still like to get an explanation on how the 10-day rule was waived). The move from last Friday was faintly reminiscent of a Kennys Vargas 2015 demotion in the midst of a three-week stretch of near-regular playing time- and in that stretch, being the team's hottest hitter- hitting .347 and slugging .510. As the old adage goes for the Twins.... the bench player with options is always the first to go when you need a 14th (and at least once under Gardy, a 15th) pitcher.
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Please explain how the 10-day rule is waived, Mr Doogie check-mark.
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There hasn't been much reason to rag on Falvine thus far and I've muted my own criticism and giving great latitude towards benefit of the doubt. But this move particularly is definitely Terry/Gardy level head-scratchingly-worthy.
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technicality point-> Duffey came on in the 13th and finished the 14th to record the win. What is Duffey's projected role long-term for the Twins (if any)? 1) SP looks like a fading dream. 2) Closer? 3) Set-up? 4) (dreaded) Spot-Starter/Long Reliever?
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The next step in enforcing the "unwritten rules" is having Sisco get plunked when the Twins play the Orioles in July. ("Long memories" for slights to the rules being yet another of the hallowed "unwritten rules"...)
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How about absolution for 3 Twins knee-jerk defenses in response to some reporter jerk asking them a ridiculous question about defending a ridiculous and mysterious code of "unwritten rules?"
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I must have missed that time when the unwritten rules of baseball were updated mandating that bunting bans in a superfluous defensive shift situation must strictly conform with slow pitch softball written rules.
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Game Thread: Twins @ Orioles, 3/29@2:05pm CT
jokin replied to Riverbrian's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I strongly suspect that RB has the only Doors reference related to an MLB team on opening day in 2018. Truth be told, the worst Doors album is still a cut above what passes for most rock music today. And the poet and "Runnin' Blue Shaman", Jim Morrison gives us plenty of fodder to work with vis a vis the Twins. I mean, really, 'Cmon, cmon now', it wouldn't just "Touch Me" or make me "Wishful, Sinful" or a "Wild Child" if I were to "Tell All The People" that it's time to "Do It" and and join the "Easy Ride" on the 2018 MN Twins "Soft Parade" on Opening Day and all the way to the playoffs, amIright? -
Actually.... "Yes"... You are. Just look in the mirror and repeat 10 times.... "ST stats are absolutely, positively meaningless.... Not like apples, not like oranges, not like kumquats." As many have noted previously, and using your own analogy, all of the myriad of ST-only variables inherent in spring-time exhibition play make this analogy axiomatic: "ST Baseball is to MLB in-season Baseball as Raspberries are to Rutabagas." If this weren't a truism, then Aaron Hicks with his nearly career .900 ST OPS should already be a perennial All Star... except for the fact that when the games actually mean something, he's actually a barely above replacement level .687 OPS.
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Yep. FWIW, I was in Chattanooga and sat behind the Twins dugout for two games in 2015. Sano was one of the "vocal leaders" both in pregame warm-up sessions, and in the dugout during the games. Lots of sometime mischievious chatter between teammates and occasional chatter with off-field spectators and employees. Sano was a frequent instigator. However, I didn't notice anyone being "harassed." I guess that "proves" that Sano is.... what, exactly? Gregarious? Immature? Exonerated from Betsy's charges? Oof.... the scourge that Twitter sometimes can be. The platform has nuclearized the power to dangerously redefine the legal notion of "Rush to Judgement". Does anyone seriously believe that the "head usher" at AT&T Park freely shared with some random fan... the entire set of adopted policies and procedures taken relative to a perceived predatory sexually harassing Lookout player?
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Throwing the (former) first base coach's (superfluous) alleged behavior towards her into her allegations against Sano- was an immediate red flag to me- and it didn't seem to have helped her case with MLB, or to the basic right to the presumption of innocence inherent in our legal system. Weinstein, Cosby, et al are being justifiably taken down because victims have bravely pursued legal recourse and remedy- that apparently hasn't come close to happening in this case. I'll be the first to condemn Sano if and when charges are filed and the legal system can make a credible case against him.
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Minnesota's Wild Card Competition
jokin replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Bingo. I've also proposed that besides the AL East runner-up, the Mariners and Rangers are the most likely teams to be competing for Wild Card spots with the Twins. The Angels? I'm not seeing it. They seem to have had a curse set upon them. Ohtani hasn't shown anything this spring, and the rest of their starting pitching depth is a DL Disaster Zone waiting to happen. -
No. Not sure whether Span was traded at peak, Revere irrelevant. (You left out multiple obvious others) No. The teardown continued for multiple years, with the team spinning its wheels when Ryan was canned. A true teardown would have meant that Mauer would have been persuaded to move to Boston in the multiple opportunities to move him there. Many teams have rebuilt faster than KC or MN, historically speaking. Wrong. Ryan was removed by ownership because it was obvious that the team was going nowhere through the never-ending recycling of retreads and deadenders and failures to capitalize on timely personnel moves on those with value... and he had failed to deliver on any of his goals, timelines or promises. And that he was working off a 20th Century script vs. a Brave New World of scores of Ivy League mathematics and physics majors- veritable rocket scientists with a scientific approach that both Ryan and Gardy never understood the implications of- and publicly disdained.
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Cutting dead weight seemed to be a painful exercise for TR, one to be avoided or put off until tomorrow. But what about this.... How about during the Ryan rebuilding phase of just ONE trade in moving a significant veteran at peak value? Major aspect of failure during the previous regime that would have accelerated the Twins much sooner out of this (mostly) lost decade.
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Just hopefully not like Hector Santiago....
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This + 1000.
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"Insinuating" means you didn't say the word. It's a means of fleshing out in conversation of just what you do mean. I think you added some clarity here. Thank you. A good GM has to recognize his current needs, where his team is at in the competitive cycle, where the main competition is similarly at, and then extending these concepts out in time via game theory the what ifs in the timeline for going all in. So far, the braintrust has avoided jumping into tempting, yet dangerously expensive risky FA or blockbuster trade gambles or hasty internal personnel moves that either hamstring the team or leave gaping holes going forward. The results of where we are now has been more than luck (even though you didn't insinuate that it was ). My take from all of this in this first 1+ year is that these guys have been both prudent and shrewd (even though still wet behind the ears) and suggests that there's no reason yet to think they can't continue in this prudent yet shrewd vein going forward.
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Therefore... Falvine = TR? I don't think so..... we're now witness to a series of trades and signings well above scrap heap level @ perceived strong value plays. And it's not just agents who misjudge the markets, it's contention vs. 29 other teams to perceive value and/or succeed or fail at acting upon said value. Odorizzi = Santiago? Please Lynn = Pelfrey? Nope. TR couldn't wait to extend injured mediocrity LoMo = ByungHo Park? Not in this galaxy Castro = JR Murphy? Major misperceptions of C value by previous regime Reed = Boshers? Is there a FA RP down to his last shot that TR didn't covet?
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Are you insinuating that what was accomplished by the braintrust this offseason might have been mere luck or accidental? Pardon me, but all evidence suggests that what was demonstrated this offseason was a lesson taught from a pair of sharp, well-trained 21st Century baseball business minds- accumulating valuable and talented pieces that build upon last years' success- without busting the budget, and without damaging continued future improvements and upgrades incoming from the farm pipeline. Let's revisit this topic one year from now; what we've seen thus far suggests that the braintrust this offseason have laid the groundwork for further similar personnel upgrades next offseason, while simultaneously securing and extending the optimum veteran core going forward. Short term moves or not, they have not shown anything thus far that suggests that this team isn't being positioned for an extended run well into the 2020s.
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Tough crowd out here, at least some of us, anyway. Let's see... We went from 2017 having one Mid++ guy and a still-developing rookie- who is now trying to avoid the sophomore jinx- and a stable full of back end, dead end and major question mark guys.... to this season's upgrades in adding two new quality SPs with proven #2 level potential (that gives any or all of 4 guys that could hit #2 production levels), and not to forget, quality pen additions..... in exchange for.... virtually nothing? Okay, so we didn't get a potential Ace... but, I'd say we definitely got a quantity of higher quality over the mostly mediocrity that was the Twins staff in 2017.
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I suspect that the 4 or 5 man rotation speculation is going to be the subject of many threads and articles between now and the end of March.
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Agreed completely with your analysis. But if one were to open, the prospective position would be far more lucrative than Minnesota.
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You nailed it, Mike. For the first time in nearly a decade, we have the prospect of a rotation that gives you a decent shot at winning nearly every single game. Barring a monster season from somebody like Texas, Seattle or Toronto, it looks like this acquisition puts the Twins as a front-runner for a wild-card, at worst.
