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  1. 70charger
    It's sort of similar in that regard to the historical data that show a stratospheric failure rate of drafting high school catchers. Again, if anyone is to buck the trend, it'd be Joe Mauer.
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    This is literally the exact opposite of the criticisms that were such a common refrain here in the past year or two. (Not necessarily Oxtung, but a huge number of others.) The old criticism was "why can't the Twins just go out and get someone who will make the team better now and quit worrying about a bunch of scrubs who wouldn't make the team over the free agent anyway?" The new criticism is "why did the Twins go out and get someone who may make the team better now but will block the young guys who may or may not have a major league future?" Are we really worried about a $7 million a year contract being ultimately destructive to Logan Darnell's presumed major league career? I don't see it.
  3. 70charger
    I agree that this quote makes it seem that Worley is the front-runner. I saw him pitch the other day, and (extreme small sample size warning) he looks good. There was also a nugget in there about Deduno commonly finding himself in high pitch counts early, which I think is a legitimate criticism.
  4. 70charger
    Good article. I'm not actually counting on Kubel at all, much less the way some here seem to be counting on him. Frankly, I'm not sure he stays on the club for very long at all.
  5. 70charger
    Wow. You win this topic.
  6. 70charger
    I just don't see it. I get that he's on the hated Yankees, and I hate the Yankees as much as the next red-blooded American. I also get that he gets fawned over by the media to an almost disgusting degree. On the other hand, he seems like a nice guy, he isn't a juicer, he's been a great player for a long time, and I just don't see anything that stands out that would make me hate him. Two other things that go in the plus column: 1) He gives gift baskets to his mile-long train of one-night stands, and I may or may not be jealous of him. 2) He hit his 3000th hit (a home run) on my wedding day, which coincidentally put a halt to the very possibility of my having a mile-long train of one-night stands.
  7. 70charger
    Numbers 1, 2, and 3: They need to kill the sing-along. If I hear "Fishing in the Dark" one more goddamn time, one more time, I swear I will [THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN REDACTED AND THE AUTHOR PLACED ON A "LIST" - SINCERELY, THE NSA]
  8. 70charger
    Number of sources I've heard call him a "diva": 1. You. I'm going to go ahead and reserve judgment until I hear something real.
  9. 70charger
    The only problem with your articles is that I have nothing to add to the discussion. Great reads, though.
  10. 70charger
    I get it. Good one.
  11. 70charger
    Depends. Are we willing to trade Duensing?
  12. 70charger
    I think a lot of this may have to do with the fact that it is one of the worst winters on record, and that many fans remember the frigid conditions of last year's game. I was one of the people who bought face value opening day tickets last year only to run into a friend who got tickets in the fancy padded seats behind home plate from a scalper for $20 each. Less than I paid for a much more plebian section. Guess who isn't buying face value tickets this year?
  13. 70charger
    Cool. I love Tom Browning, by the way. I was a kid living in Dayton, Ohio in the late 80s-early 90s, and that world series sweep was a highlight.
  14. 70charger
    Edgar Martinez is one of the glaring omissions in my mind. So is Piazza, but I think he's pretty much a lock for next year. Sometimes that's how these things go.
  15. 70charger
    I'm glad you did this digging. To me, Swarzak looked pretty darn good this past year, but given his past struggles as a starter and his not exactly sterling reputation for stuff, I had no idea that his season was so good. The stats are very telling. I've seen some around here who are willing to literally toss Swarzak out before the season even starts, and it's never seemed like a good idea to me, especially when a few bullpen pieces have options. I just hope he can continue.
  16. 70charger
    I actually read that article on the Daily Mail the other day. I can't remember what I was doing on the Daily Mail website, but I saw a Twins pitcher in a story link, and I thought it had to be interesting to make it onto a British paper. I looked, and in reading the article, you could tell it was written by somebody with no real knowledge of baseball. A "gem" is a good way to describe it.
  17. 70charger
    The pro shop at Target Field has a bunch of game used stuff, from small budget to budget busting. Your gift "target" have a favorite player? Maybe get him/her a game used ball? They're really cool - they're all MLB authenticated, and you can see who threw it, whom they threw it to, what happened on the play, and what the disposition of the ball was. If you're really ambitious, you can have said favorite player sign it at Twins Fest.
  18. 70charger
    I'm perfectly fine with this as a stopgap too. A healthy Doumit is actually a very good hitter (how quickly people forget!), and I just don't see the point of cutting him loose and eating his salary. He's got a career OPS+ of 106, and he's one year removed from a 114 with 18 home runs. Even his "really bad" year last wasn't really bad. His OPS+ was 96. We can handle Doumit as a part-time (no more than half-time) catcher next year while we groom Pinto for the future. And while I wouldn't be opposed to someone else coming in on a one-year deal if their balance of offense and defense proved better, I do find it a little perplexing that we were talking about guys like John Buck who are clearly not upgrades.
  19. 70charger
    Agreed. At 2 years, I sign Arroyo no question. Plus, as stringer bell mentions, it staggers the contracts very well for maximum flexibility.
  20. 70charger
    I agree with this. I mean, I understand why they let him go even if he wouldn't have been my first choice. But as a guy who insisted that Hendriks could put it all together and be a serviceable starter (and who thus looks a little silly now), I saw something that indicated potential. And he hung around the majors for awhile anyway, even putting together some pretty good starts, if not enough to overcome the garbage ones. I'm surprised there's so little consternation here with all that went down when Joe Benson was let go, and he was a guy who never did anything above AA.
  21. 70charger
    Seems to me like Danny Santana is too high. He'll slug like Ben Revere, walk like Ben Revere, but won't put up a batting average over .300 to mitigate the other lacks. I just don't see him topping a .650 OPS in the majors, but I'd love to be wrong. Also, I think Gonsalves could have been in the honorable mention spot, probably over Turner. Oh well. I'm just picking nits but still excited about the prospects over all.
  22. 70charger
    Me in April: "Guess I'll turn on the Twins game." "What's that? Oh, Pelfrey's pitching? And the count is 3-2?" "I think I'll just watch Dances With Wolves real quick then flip the game back on and see what happened with this batter. Before you know it, we'll be in the second inning!"
  23. 70charger
    This is the one for me.
  24. 70charger
    Today I learned that Jim Thome was a pitcher. Also, look at the dates in the post you're quoting. What happened in 2008 isn't relevant to solidifying the 40-man for 2015.
  25. 70charger
    Both Alex Presley and Darin Mastroianni hit just as well as (or better than) Rajai Davis. They both have speed, and I'd consider Mastroianni's baserunning to be more or less on the same level as Davis, though he has less of a track record. They're both considerably younger than Davis. And Mastroianni and Presley together cost less than Davis will. I want nothing to do with this guy.
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