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  1. SwainZag
    Meh. If Rogers or Kintzler would have given it up someone would have put "why they send him out there for an another inning when you have an 8 man pen?" or tomorrow when Rogers is unavailable because he threw 2 innings tonight you would hear, "Thanks Mollie, great job wasting him yesterday."
  2. SwainZag
    Ugh.
  3. SwainZag
    Straight away center about 2 steps in from the fence on the warning track and it was very high too.
  4. SwainZag
    He JUST missed that
  5. SwainZag
    A walk-off 450 footer would be a great Welcome Back! for Miguel
  6. SwainZag
    Good god, I can't imagine how hard it is to hit that 80 MPH curveball after seeing 3 fastballs at 99 MPH.
  7. SwainZag
    Not a fan of that slide Buxt-sie
  8. SwainZag
    The more I see of Rogers the more I like. Real possibility of being a fixture of the pen in the future.
  9. SwainZag
    Plouffe-sie!!
  10. SwainZag
    Suzuki wanted the same pitch as strike 2, low and away.....Pressly didn't really put it there.
  11. SwainZag
    How bout a little 6-4-3 here Pressly?
  12. SwainZag
    Random thought. I wonder if Kepler and Boehringer have hung out.
  13. SwainZag
    No, no a backup slider is a slider you left in the bag from the night before because you passed out. You wake up hungover in the morning and boom there it is in the bag still.
  14. SwainZag
    He missed badly. Catcher had lined up him low and outside.
  15. SwainZag
    I feel this is necessary....again.
  16. SwainZag
    Trevor played that pretty well. Anderson can fly.
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  18. SwainZag
    Gibson got robbed.
  19. SwainZag
    For the first 2 rounds, I wouldn't be protecting any relievers. Each team is drafting 28 players apiece and more than likely going for upside. I protect the position players and starters. You get 3 more protections after Round 1 and 2.
  20. SwainZag
    During the 2012 season Perkins hadn't reached all star game, he wasn't even put in the closers role until mid-July of 2012.
  21. SwainZag
    I'm not trying to place blame on anyone, I am just saying looking at the 2012 team there wasn't a treasure trove of players that would bring back a net of prospects. No one could have predicted the sheer amount of injuries which directly led to regression and career lows by so many players to the 2011 team. 3 players played in at least 100 games. 2012 was a direct fallout of the perfect storm that was 2011. If people need to find solace in blaming Smith, Ryan or whoever else in the front office go for it. Realistically how much would have Doumit, Perkins and Willingham netted the Twins in trades in 2012? I have no idea how to assess Josh's value. A 33 year old poor fielding OF having a career year in the 1st year of a $21M dollar deal. Maybe a Top 200 prospect if the right team was out there? I really don't think at the time Doumit or Perkins bring back much. But to each their own.
  22. SwainZag
    Oh I completely agree with you. More walks would be great but watching Rosario hit, there are so many near unhittable pitches he waves at or barely gets a bat on to pop up or slowly ground out. For a free swinger like him being more selective at the plate, especially early in the count, would seemingly work a lot better than strictly wanting him to take more walks. I've never deeply looked into swing rates outside the zone, but I imagine Rosario's chart would not be pretty.
  23. SwainZag
    Liriano was traded during the season, Span was traded right after the season. Capps never pitched in the majors after the 2012 season, that should show you his value. Duensing never had any value and 2012 could be considered his worst as a pro. That leaves Morneau, who was still a former shell of himself making $14M. Josh Willingham who signed the richest FA contract in team history before the season, which kinda meant he wasn't going anywhere. Doumit, a poor catching, poor fielding 31 year old OF who at best probably would have netted a C prospect. The only player who probably would have fetched anything was Perkins, who was cheap and just coming into his own in 2012. He had good numbers at the trade deadline and had just started closing games. It's fun to look at names and scoff at the front office for not "loading up" on prospects for those big names, but in reality, there wasn't much there.
  24. SwainZag
    This is a great statement. Working a count for a guy like Rosario could mean the difference of striking out on a ball over your head on a 1-2 count, or being selective and getting a ball in the strike zone to drive to the outfield on a 3-2 count.
  25. SwainZag
    This is sarcasm, right?
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