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  1. 70charger
    Without having looked at your response, I came up with a similar list. Taylor Rogers deserves a spot. Not big on scholarships, but Addison Reed is owed a lot of money that’s tough to throw away. His track record suggests that you give him another shot. This is his last year under contract, so his leash is finite. Trevor May definitely deserves some run. And Alberto Mejia can’t just be waived; there’s too much upside there, especially if the team is going to try interesting combinations like openers or stackers. I was on the fence about Hildenberger. I think he’s good enough to stick, but I don’t think he’s a given this year with his results in the latter half of last year. Also, he’s got options, so he can ride the shuttle. I’d be happy to see the Twins pick up two bullpen pieces projected to outperform most to all of these four, and the other chips will fall where they may.
  2. 70charger
    Great handle. Welcome to the site.
  3. 70charger
    Excellent post, and Oliva - in my homerish opinion - should be in the hall. At least Joe's got that decade at catcher to balance out the horrible deficiency in voters' minds of not being a Yankee.
  4. 70charger
    Great idea for an article. I'm pretty shocked at the sorry state of the left side of the infield and, especially, center field. Not to take much away from Sano and Polanco as players, since I think their best years are ahead of them, but half a great season at 3B, and a 92 OPS+ at shortstop? Total meh. Pretty sorry state of things that the Twins of previous years this decade couldn't muster up anything better.
  5. 70charger
    Could the context be "if Buxton and Sano rebound..." in terms of injury recovery, health (e.g. weight issues), offseason training program adherence, etc.? Just a thought. It would make the quote much more palatable than actually waiting for them to perform on the field.
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    You'd think his swing would be a good candidate, but I wouldn't mind if this pose became the inevitable statue at Target Field. Anyone else?
  7. 70charger
    That is both apt and the most Minnesota analogy ever.
  8. 70charger
    This one was fun.
  9. 70charger
    I agree! Dead ball era 4eva!
  10. 70charger
    Oof. Enjoyed the article though.
  11. 70charger
    Well, not Venezuela. Yay, PSUV...
  12. 70charger
    I expected something around 3 and 30. I’m surprised too. I am inclined to leave Sano at third for another year and go after a defensive minded shortstop for a couple years until (hopefully) Lewis shows up. Then we could slide Polanco to second and have less of a need for Escobar. But there are still a lot of moving parts.
  13. 70charger
    Even the army brats?
  14. 70charger
    You're not allowed to nominate yourself.
  15. 70charger
    Stats for reference: MLB batting stats: https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/bat.shtml Rosario stats: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rosared01-bat.shtml
  16. 70charger
    Wow. No. My entire point is to quit focusing on the outliers. Don't cherry pick samples either way. Don't pretend like baseball teams' front offices do, either. Also, I'm not sure where you're getting your stats, but Rosario's career OPS is .784. League average for the last 80 years has never been that high. Similarly, Rosario's 2018 OPS is .803. League average for the last 10 years has been around .720. Also, it so happens that Rosario has, beginning in 2017, dramatically improved his discipline. He went from a strikeout to walk ratio in the 7 range in 2016 down to 3 in 2017. He regressed a bit this year, to 3.5, and I don't personally see that as any reason to panic. His walk rate this year is above his career average, and at 26 years old, I don't know why anyone would assume it has peaked. Finally, you think you'll find a team that will trade for him on the basis of his .950 first-half production, and not on his career numbers and trends? That's ridiculous, and I don't think it lines up with your claim to know how baseball front offices make their decisions.
  17. 70charger
    So, by this logic we should be getting rid of guys like Rosario and going out to find more guys like ...Grossman? Yeah, I’m going with cherry picked sample.
  18. 70charger
    Good resume. Seems like a candidate. Of course, I’d hire him on name alone. Epic, epic baseball name.
  19. 70charger
    I wondered why we hadn't seen any posts from her. Sad, but thanks for telling us. We always appreciated her insights and anecdotes. And welcome to jamisea.
  20. 70charger
    ESPN can give you that stuff. I know, it's ESPN. Just hold your nose while you check it out. http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/seasontype/2/position/1b/league/al I don't know who would argue that Mauer was the best 1B in the AL. He's top 10 in ESPN's calculation of WAR, but he's not close to the best. Second in batting average though. Maybe that's what he was getting at?
  21. 70charger
    Super cool. I'm a big Johnny Bench fan (the Reds are, sadly, my NL team). I think Mauer belongs in that same catching pantheon.
  22. 70charger
    Is it possible you're having difficulty differentiating appreciation and rationalization?
  23. 70charger
    But we’d probably have to throw in Duensing to get him. Infinite Duensing loop.
  24. 70charger
    You may be right, but it's also logically possible that you're reversing cause and effect: i.e., it is possible that these amazing pitchers are all in the big leagues early because they're naturally amazing pitchers. Mozart could write symphonies as a kid. Does that mean that all kids should be pressed to write symphonies? I'd love to see a side-by-side of the bell curve's tails. I don't have the bandwidth to do it, but wouldn't it be interesting to see a comparison of the top-level pitchers who are late bloomers versus the top-level pitchers who are prodigies?
  25. 70charger
    Agreed. Well said.
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