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  1. 70charger
    I think that, while the stats don't seem to favor Doumit here, the better question is a relative one. I.e., how bad is he compared to the next option? (Sort of like an opportunity cost kind of thing.) Given that his bat doesn't make up for his poor defense, does Drew Butera's lack of a bat make up for his good defense in such a way that the balance tips to Butera? I think we have some inkling of what the answer to this question might be. Seems as though Doumit doesn't look so bad in this light...
  2. 70charger
    I'm a believer in Hendriks, and it kinda bothers me when people ignore him (of course, it's a minor bother given all the bots on this site). His numbers in AAA were truly outstanding, he's still young (23?), and he showed some indications of being able to put a few things together late last year, despite his abhorrent start. He's not a 28 year old AAAA guy who's never been particularly good at any level. It might take him a little time, but I think he puts it together. I certainly hope he doesn't sit behind someone like Correia because of the pay due to him. But I think he'll show enough to earn a spot out of the gate. Hopefully he holds onto it.
  3. 70charger
    You win the special Olympics! Yay!
  4. 70charger
    Could somebody who actually witnessed this please answer this question? Otherwise, this will just devolve into a Terry Ryan-bashing thread.
  5. 70charger
    Yeah, he missed it too, but he didn't feel the need to write a manifesto capped with a stupid picture. Pull your head out of your ass.
  6. 70charger
    Diamond is probably due for a statistical regression, but count me among those who don't see any reason to think he'll blow up. I think eating 200 innings at a 4.00 clip is a nice expectation, and if he falls a bit short (say, 175 innings and 4.50), that's still a useful thing to have in most rotations in the majors, and especially the Twins'. Diamond has nice mechanics that seem to make him less of a candidate for injury, and if he can keep hitters off balance by disguising his pitches well, there's no reason to think he can't be an effective control pitcher. No, I don't think he repeats his out-of-his-mind first half performance of last year, but I think he'll be quite effective, actually.
  7. 70charger
    Was the sarcasm that difficult to see? Pull your head out of your ass, man.
  8. 70charger
    Um. This is easy to agree with. His bat is his asset, if he can play a defensively more "premium" position (i.e. 3rd base over 1st base), then that's gravy. So he should work on it.
  9. 70charger
    They need to go to the Harmon Killebrew school of autographs. That man knew how to sign a ball.
  10. 70charger
    Do you ever listen to yourself?
  11. 70charger
    Then we'll see you back here in 2014? Hey, a man can dream...
  12. 70charger
    Every single one of our starting rotation wasn't pitching with club come the deadline. Every. Single. One. 2 went down with injuries, 1 got traded with a 5.3 ERA, and 2 were so sucky they were DFA'd. 2/3 of the innings pitched by our team were pitched by pitchers with ERAs above 5.00, which means that 2/3 of our innings were pitched by people who were #5 starters or worse on normal teams. Is it really that hard to think that maybe things will be better this year? I guess that since I'm not bitching about everything the Twins have done lately, I'm just drinking the kool-aid. Whatever. Flame away.
  13. 70charger
    You must be a truly sad and depressed person. Please get help. I thought it was fun, and I enjoyed meeting some of the hot prospects.
  14. 70charger
    I'm willing to bet more than a few Dominican pesos that his English is already better than yours.
  15. 70charger
    I would like nothing more than for him to be ready to blow us all away from day one as well. I don't find that to be the most likely scenario in the world, however, and it's not because of service time or anything like that. He has no AAA time, and he seems to be slow to adapt to each new level.
  16. 70charger
    I saw him this weekend at Twinsfest. He seemed a little overwhelmed, which is to be expected I'm sure. Now he's gotta reach his potential so the autograph I got is worth something...
  17. 70charger
    Great stuff. Also, thanks for posting all of this stuff about, you know, baseball. Seems like it was an episode of Days of Our Lives on here the last few days.
  18. 70charger
    Hadn't talked to him at all? Hadn't talked to him at Twinsfest? Hadn't talked to him since flight school? You're giving us no context, man! Were you there when he said it, or was it a snippet?
  19. 70charger
    The whole Mauer-in-decline as a catcher thing might be overblown. His stats are anomalously bad last year, counting the year before is stupid, and if I recall correctly, all of the Twins' catchers had bad stats last year, including the supposed defensive wunderkind Butera. It makes me think that a terrible pitching staff may have had something to do with it. I recall seeing opposing teams swiping bases on a bunch of our rookie pitchers who just looked unaware and overmatched, and I'm not sure any catcher could have done much with those.
  20. 70charger
    Then we'll suck. Are you serious?
  21. 70charger
    I think it's a good thing they'll be catching him more, especially if he feels like he's up to it. He should be right around 100 games, in my opinion, assuming things break right. Obviously, if there's some reason to think that his health is failing, like if he starts feeling weakness of the lower limbs of a non-unilateral variety, then pull him back.
  22. 70charger
    Hmmmm.... I might bring back Thome....
  23. 70charger
    In 2001, he should have been 19. I don't think I was that young when I was that young. (I know that made no sense; I'm just saying he looks ridiculously young and I have no perspective.)
  24. 70charger
    I'm disappointed in this too. On the other Jair Jurrjens thread, I said that he had quite the potential and the history to be a great reclamation project. I would have loved to have picked him up. Oh well.
  25. 70charger
    Mike Redmond for backup catcher. He didn't want to be a manager anyway.
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