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  1. IdahoPilgrim
    None. He wouldn't get hit in the head. It would have been a home run instead.
  2. IdahoPilgrim
    This used to always confuse me too. I finally found something that explains it. The minor league portion has two phases - AAA phase and AA phase. For the AAA phase, the player has to be AA or below, and the new club is required to keep him on the AAA reserve roster (but not necessarily on the AAA active roster) the entire season, or he goes back. For the AA phase, the player has to be A or below, with the same roster requirements (has to be on the AA reserve roster the entire season). That makes it slightly different than the major league phase, as players taken in that have to stay on the active roster all year and not just the reserve roster. For AAA teams the reserve roster can have up to 38 players; AA can have up to 37 players; A and below can have up to 35 players. For the major leagues, of course, the reserve roster is the 40-man roster.
  3. IdahoPilgrim
    Just got my copy and skimmed through it. Noticed that Slama is barely mentioned (listed only as eligible for 40-man and on the depth chart). Wondering if that's because the TwinsCentric brain trust doesn't have the same view as some on this site do, or if that's because they believe the organization has written him off and they're trying to be realistic on what the organization will do regardless of their own personal beliefs. Good job, though. Look forward to diving into it in more depth.
  4. IdahoPilgrim
    They removed a bunch of pitchers from the 40-man: Perdomo, Walters, Waldrop, Vasquez, Manship. Also, Matt Carson.
  5. IdahoPilgrim
    I haven't looked at any numbers, but just from what I can remember about the season (and I'll admit I've already blocked-out large parts of it in my memory, in a gesture of self-health), the bullpen didn't look nearly as sharp in the second half of the season as it did in the first.
  6. IdahoPilgrim
    Watch. In the end they'll compromise. They'll replant the trees, but then they'll paint them black. We can call it the "Black Forest."
  7. IdahoPilgrim
    You gotta admit, though, it was fun to watch, even if your favorite teams lost. Taken together, with all of them going 5 games and given the (one-time) format change, this was the most interesting round of divisional series I've seen in recent years.
  8. IdahoPilgrim
    I wonder if he will make it back. I broke my ankle last September (2011), and I'm just now getting to the point where it's not affecting my movement. I don't know how serious his break is (mine was pretty bad), but ankles are notoriously slow in healing, and he isn't that much younger than I am. I remember wincing when I saw it happen, and wondering if his career was over.
  9. IdahoPilgrim
    This ain't happening. The Twins (rightfully so, I think) don't value him as highly as many on this board seem to, or else they wouldn't have traded him for a couple of spare parts (and they were lucky to get that). For that matter, the rest of the league doesn't value him that highly either (or again, we wouldn't have had to trade him for spare parts). There was no interest on the Twins part to negotiate a new contract with him while he was here, and I can't believe there will be any to resign him now. He has great stuff. He's inconsistent and unreliable. His ERA post-injury is around 4.75. Let's move on.
  10. IdahoPilgrim
    Upside? What if we've already seen it? I think we just have to consider Liriano as one of those players who had great potential but could never put it together, for whatever reason. That's hardly uncommon - there are more of those than there are aces.
  11. IdahoPilgrim
    That's the beauty of baseball! As Texas learned last year, and now Washington, you can't just run out the clock. You have to get that last out, get that last strike. Until that happens, anything's possible.
  12. IdahoPilgrim
    Is the hope that our new pitching coach will see something nobody else has? If not, then I say no. I would prefer a perhaps left gifted but more stable performer.
  13. IdahoPilgrim
    OK, when they announced the one-year format with the lower seed hosting the first two games, many (including myself) didn't like it because, as it was said repeatedly, only a small percentage of division series actually go to 5 games - in effect negating the higher seeds home-field advantage. Anybody else find it ironic that all four series this year have gone to game 5? I have to admit it's made it pretty exciting. I find myself wondering (almost against my will) if maybe, just maybe, they should keep it.
  14. IdahoPilgrim
    I'll add my applause to that given above. This site was (and is) a welcome pleasurable distraction in what was otherwise a tough year. Thank you!
  15. IdahoPilgrim
    OK, for those of you who actually played the game and aren't just spectators like me: I'm watching the Washington-St. Louis game this afternoon, and on a bloop hit to RF Ian Desmond, who was on second, decides to run through the stop sign his coach was given him and come home. The throw was off-line and Desmond scored, so in one sense it worked. My question is: is there going to be fallout from that in the clubhouse after? Are players expected to follow coach's signals or do they have the latitude to disregard them and substitute their own judgment? Does it matter that in this case it worked out, or would the reaction (if any) be the same regardless of the outcome? Genuinely curious.
  16. IdahoPilgrim
    They were thinking they wanted to get the second wild card card in this season rather than waiting for 2013, but since the 2013 schedule had already been set, the choice was between letting the world series go even deeper into November or use this format for one season only. I don't think anybody is thrilled with it, but everybody agreed to it, including the players.
  17. IdahoPilgrim
    Didn't I see this on a fortune cookie somewhere?
  18. IdahoPilgrim
    Thank you - that was my whole point. Nobody in the stadium except the umpires thought that was an "infield fly."
  19. IdahoPilgrim
    The whole point of the rule is to prevent an intentional drop leading to a double or triple play. In this case, the ball was deep enough that the runners were able to advance safely even after it dropped. That alone shows that this was not the situation intended to be addressed by the rule. You can stretch the language of the rule to make it fit anyway you want, but using the "duck" test, it was a botched call.
  20. IdahoPilgrim
    Pretty bad. But that's baseball, and Atlanta fans did themselves no favors by their reaction.
  21. IdahoPilgrim
    I haven't bothered to sit down and look this up, but I have to wonder how many managers in the past have had consecutive 90-loss seasons and not been replaced.
  22. IdahoPilgrim
    They were speculating on the radio that Jake Mauer might get it. Jeff Smith deserves it more than Jake. Apparently, according to R&M, Smith is not thought of as highly in the organization and is unlikely to be advanced beyond where he is now.
  23. IdahoPilgrim
    You make it sound like this is a ploy to pacify the fans while not making real changes:). I think you are correct, though, that Anderson's job is probably safe. My guess is the reason for letting Stelmaszek go was they wanted to bring Cuellar up and needed a spot for him, and Stellie was considered more expendable than Anderson.
  24. IdahoPilgrim
    They were speculating on the radio that Jake Mauer might get it.
  25. IdahoPilgrim
    What I find interesting is they didn't even wait until the organizational meetings started. This has obviously been in the works for some time now.
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