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  1. 70charger
    Interesting stuff. One silver lining in the Duffey to AAA deal is that he can work on his changeup in a lower leverage situation. I'd love for him to be able to come back up after a Nolasco trade (fingers crossed?) and keep everyone off balance with a completely new look.
  2. 70charger
    Also think it's reasonable to expect a tale of two seasons. Since this is the toughest jump, I'm guessing we may see a rocky first several weeks. Even if that happens, you make like a Bruckheimer movie and keep sending him out there until he gets his confidence back. At the end of the year, I think his batting line will be fine overall, and downright encouraging when you just look at the latter half.
  3. 70charger
    Is it really so hard to take what people say at face value? Some people insist on doing biblical-style exegesis on off the cuff remarks. Was the job Duffey's to lose? That's what the man said. Do you know why he lost it? No, but I guess feel free to ask next time you see Paul Molitor.
  4. 70charger
    Probably the better career move for him, but it might've been nice to have him as depth in AAA. Oh well. An experiment without much of a downside.
  5. 70charger
    From where I'm sitting: Moving to the outfield may or may not hurt his ability to produce. The collective reaction: "OMG, this front office is so stupid!" Gaining 50 pounds over the last few years and not making an effort to stay in shape may or may not hurt his ability to produce. The collective reaction: "OMG, people just need to stop picking on Sano. This is more 'Twins Way' stuff like what happened with Ortiz!" Let's get some consistency here, please. I think it's absolutely fair to criticize his work ethic because work ethic matters. Yes, he should get a chance to prove Reusse wrong. But come on now.
  6. 70charger
    Twins win 6-1.
  7. 70charger
    Rays on the board with a HR against Jepsen.
  8. 70charger
    Wow, look at that.
  9. 70charger
    I'm gonna guess Suzuki.
  10. 70charger
    Circus Boy update: 6 complete, 5-0 Twins. Santana has completed six innings with 8 Ks and only 3 hits given up. Opening day, here we come.
  11. 70charger
    I recently got a haircut in Cyprus. I don't speak Greek, so it came out awful. I'm anxiously waiting for it to grow out. I would take my haircut over Kohl Stewart's every day and twice on Sunday.
  12. 70charger
    Really interesting stat. Crazy how the results are so disparate too. Silva did one season with a 130 ERA+ and another with a 75 ERA+. Whaa!?
  13. 70charger
    Basically this. The answer to the question "when do spring stats start to matter" is, to me, pretty much never. You mentioned that some pitchers will do things like throw only fastballs the first game of the year. If he doesn't get knocked around, will we fall back on our "pitchers are ahead of hitters at this point" cliche? If he gets knocked around, is that indicative of what he'll do during the season? And when we count up his stats at the end of spring, his ERA will include his experimental and rusty early starts, so what is a spring ERA worth? Then if you want to remove the early starts to make ERA more closely aligned with a real-game experience, you're taking an already small sample and making it tiny, so again, what is a spring ERA worth? This is on the well-trained staff of scouts, coaches, and manager. We can argue about spring stats until we're blue in the face (and we probably should, because otherwise it'd be boring around here), but not a single one of us could reasonably make a stats-based argument that would be better than the subjective judgment of the staff.
  14. 70charger
    Kepler can't play center except in a pinch, and he definitely can't play shortstop. The comparison is wrong.
  15. 70charger
    Go ahead and leave out the foul balls.
  16. 70charger
    He moves really well for a guy his size! Plus, he owns a catcher's mitt, so hey! Third catcher. Boom. Done. I'm having a drink.
  17. 70charger
    Is Escobar okay? Announcers made it sound bad.
  18. 70charger
    In this day and age, I think there's more to be said for keeping someone's private life private than there is for splashing it all over the front page. This is a terrible loss, but it's none of my business if Sano doesn't want it to be.
  19. 70charger
    So as soon as I leave they start doing well. Got it. Not happy about that...
  20. 70charger
    Non-Circus Boy update: It's 9:30 here, and I haven't eaten. Time for dinner.
  21. 70charger
    Who had the higher fly ball? Sano or Park? Roster decisions will hinge on this!
  22. 70charger
    And boom goes the dynamite.
  23. 70charger
    Circus Boy update: game is tied at 2 in the middle of the third inning. Berrios goes off in favor of Landa. Also, Buxton is fast as heck.
  24. 70charger
    Are you there in person too?
  25. 70charger
    The red is still jarring. I can't say I hate it, and they might grow on me. But I'm absolutely not used to seeing our team in red.
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