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  1. h2oface
    Garver wasted for Sanchez. A worse hitter and a worse fielder. A Yankee with a bad attitude. Still no stud pitching, and no improvement. Gray is fading and fast. Just a place holder that gets paid too much. Falvey and Levine are Visitors playing fantasy baseball with our team. They think they are so smart, but took a 100+ win team and tanked them last year.. Visitors leaving a horrible ring in the tub. Billionaires don't really need a budget when it comes to their hobby of owning a baseball team. Just ask Steve Cohen and the Mets. He is having fun. And we have jokers playing fantasy baseball with our team.
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    93ish. On the slide down. Definitely on the decline. And people are happy he is now our best pitcher. Normalized mediocrity and being touted as the anchor of the rotation. And it makes some fans happy. Mediocre starter and mediocre new shortstop. Another place holder. Pineda would be too, and still out of shape. Whoopee. A fanbase totally programmed to accept less. Apparently, if high velocity is your calling card, it is a grate(rol) way to be traded by this FO.
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    ?? just not for the Twins when it comes to stud pitchers. I had to laugh at the article about of Colome on MLB Trade Rumors. At least we don't have to see him on the team. Respectable my arse. "Colome is coming off something of an unusual season that saw him post a respectable 4.15 ERA over 65 innings with the Twins, despite a swath of unfavorable Statcast metrics. While Colome’s bottom-line numbers have generally been much better than his advanced metrics over his career, Minnesota still declined its end of a $5.5MM mutual option on Colome’s services for 2022, instead buying the reliever out for $1.25MM."
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    Someone correct me if I am wrong here, but WAR is a cummulative stat. Sooooo.... using your figures, Falafel has 1360 innings and 2.3 total WAR, That is 5.76 times more innings than the 236 innings you state for Polanco. If he is consistent for the other 1124 innings to match K-F's innings...... he would total (1.1 WAR x 5.76 = 6.34) 6.34 WAR in 1360 innings compared to 2.3 for K-F.
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    And now, for the 3rd thread on the subject...........
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    1 year and 55 days past his 30th birthday. Your definition of well past 30 is much different than mine. More like barely past 30. Especially if you consider that 56 days ago he was still 30 if asked how old he is. Yadier Molina agrees I bet. Falafel is 27 in 11 days. Basically 4 years difference, but one is young and one is old. Go figure. K-F only has two years left on his contract. I guess that means to this FO that he has to be traded (ala Berrios and Pressly) by the trade deadline of this year..... so trading Garver for 3 months of Twindom.
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    ???? So we know management will only play the #1 catcher 60% of the time anyway. That would be a max of 230 games of the 384. He played in 184. So he missed 46 net, or only 20% of the games he would have been allowed to play in. I can't ignore that fact, either. Jeffers had a Danny (Santana and Valencia) first partial year, and has bombed otherwise at the plate. And in AAA when demoted again last year. Rortvedt, in years, has not found an acceptable presense at the plate. Remember the preceived trading from strength of the centerfielders Span and Revere, and how that worked out? Fans and FO and even TD prospect predictions have always dissed Garver. And all he does is get better, and if injured, get healed and get back. Behind the plate and at bat, Garver is the Rodney Dangerfield of Twins' catchers. He never gets the respect he deserves. There is a reason no one wanted Jeffers......
  8. h2oface
    I now officially hate this FO. First Berrios, now Garver. And still no pitching. Get rid of Escobar, Get rid of Pressly. Anderson. Littell. Graterol. May. Rosario. Wade. Baddoo. Sign Happ, Shoemaker, Colome, Rodney, Robles, Dobnak, Bailey, Perez, Parker, Dyson, Reed, Barraclough, Belisle, Cave. And that is just off the top of my head. I hate this Front Office. Visitors. I hate them.
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    It's been over 24 hours.... how many stud pitchers have the FO signed so far?!
  10. h2oface
    "Baseball America became the first place to rank prospects on a national level in 1990. Since that time, other national outlets like Baseball Prospectus and MLB.com have also grown in popularity. The top-5 prospects in Twins history were all considered among baseball's top-10 prospects at some point in their professional careers. " Does the first sentence work? I kinda missed it the first time, too, but there were no rankings of this sort until 1990. This is a historical list of how they were ranked, and the highest ranking Twins on prospect lists since it the prospect rankings began.
  11. h2oface
    I mean really, there is already a rule that is being ignored! Love a pitch clock, but it should also come with a caveat that the batter has to step into the box within 5 seconds of the pitcher standing on the rubber ready to pitch, or he gets an automatic strike. Goes both ways when it comes to wasting time. I am really tired of watching these prima donnas adjust their gloves every pitch and grabbing their balls. The game itself is still without a timed ending. I hate changing the base 3 inches. I hate a free runner on second in extras. Do not move the mound/pitching rubber at all! I hate excessive shifts. Minimum 2 infielders on each side of second before the pitch is good enough. Also, letting an outfielder come to the infield is fine. I hate MLB games, even double headers, ever being 7 innings. Hate hate hate that. I hate a ghost win in the playoffs. I hate so many teams getting in the playoffs. I guess I could go with 12 (10 is plenty), but any team that is not even above .500 (not at .500 or less) for the season and they are ineligible and it reduces the number automatically. I thind the seeds should go totally based on W-L record regardless of the division, like the NBA.
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    Seriously? Not even one of the best? Lost me there. I guess Ted Williams, who did get in a World Series, but wasn't enough of a bulldog to lead the team to win it, was not one of the best Red Sox? And you have to take in account that Mauer was saddled with Gardenhire as a manager.......
  13. h2oface
    I didn't even consider Liriano..... as we didn't draft him but traded for him, and was only in the Twins' system for 2 of his 5 MiLB years - with the first 4 being not so special, and the first 3 being mediocre at best. Not that much of a comet until his 5th year in the minors. But he did get on the lists. "Baseball America became the first place to rank prospects on a national level in 1990. Since that time, other national outlets like Baseball Prospectus and MLB.com have also grown in popularity. The top-5 prospects in Twins history were all considered among baseball's top-10 prospects at some point in their professional careers. " Since we are only talking about actual rankings being in exsistence since 1990, it is not arbitrary, it is a fact.
  14. h2oface
    I just meant performance, not injury. Assume......... Perhaps you should utilize the ingnored user option in your account settings, dude........... I wish the best for Ober. I just don't see it progressing much better than Dobnak's progression has, All 100 or so innings. September was telling. I hope I am wrong.
  15. h2oface
    This years Randy Dobnak. The hitters are not MiLB hitters in the show.
  16. h2oface
    It amazes me that people are counting on Baily Ober to stick. If we will be relying in the prospects who will be limited to less than 150 innings in this coddling world of present day baseball, and some just around 100, we will be needing a dozen sleepers.
  17. h2oface
    Has Miguel Sano Met Expectations? Not my expectations.... but in general. Fair or not, Sano was projected to be a HOF player from the beginning. Movie and all. So the short answer is........... no. Justify it all you want, unless he has a renaissance and becomes the sustained late career consistent hitter ala Nelson Cruz, no HOF will be in his future. And there are about 5 young players right now, and some more established young vets, that are in the one in 10-15 years of Cabrera realm, so it really is not that rare....... by 5 to 10 times....... But it certainly isn't Sano.
  18. h2oface
    Millionaires arguing with Billionaires. Big Dix Hot Dogs should be catering........
  19. h2oface
    Homer prognosticators are much more stubborn than national prognosticators.
  20. h2oface
    Another shortstop when he was originally signed....... Mistake? No. Just a prayer that he would actually become what he was hoped to become. Twins' luck prevailed. $8,000,000 to Happ.... that's a mistake.
  21. h2oface
    Not far from fixing? Get rid of the best you have, and not far? Dream on..........
  22. h2oface
    Everybody is a shortstop..... and then they are not.
  23. h2oface
    I'm a fan of Donaldson in general..... his progression from childhood, his fire, and his ability, and am glad he is on the team. I hesitate, however, to give him credit for "what the batted ball data shows he should have hit". The only thing that matters, is what he did. And that was, even in 2021, not coming up with the hero big hit so often when we needed him, and the opportunity was his as he stepped up to the plate. I would even go so far to say that Josh has failed the Twins in the first two years, and not the other way around. 2021 was a disaster not only from the pitching staff performance, but also because just about all the players were suffering at the plate, other than Polanco, and Buxton when he was on the field, There were times when you could look at the box, and half the batters were hitting around, or less, than .200! When we really needed him, in the short 2020 season and down the stretch and for the postseason, he could not take the field, and be the player he was paid to be. I know..... injuries happen, but that was the biggest failure in the tenure so far. I hope, if we even have baseball, he is prepping and doing what he needs to on his own to stay healthy and on the field, and provide performance that justifies his contract.
  24. h2oface
    Damn. I was all stoked up to find out who it was.... who the new Madden of Baseball was ...... and A QUESTioN !!!??!!?? OK. I have to decide now? Brockmire. Jim Brockmire.
  25. h2oface
    First of all, I am an advocate of these guys being in a noted Hall of Roid/Hall of Gambling in the Hall of Shame in the Hall of Fame, and have been for years. Of course my example is a hypothetical (as was yours, the one I responded to), as is anything that we cannot know exactly as what did or would have happened. But we are not talking about cheating on a test in school. The guys that are considered and nominated for the MLB Hall of Fame already were great before they did the roids and got caught, or gambled on baseball, figuratively or literally. The comparison to a C+ student (player) is not one that is really even part of the discussion - is it? - as the C+ player isn't even ever nomitated for a vote of admission, and were never as good as the A player that decided to take roids to heal faster or get even better, which is what happened to all the players considered. The C+ players that took roids and had a great year (50/50 Brady Anderson? - maybe a B player?) still were never even close to being nominated to the HOF to vote on (although the Baltimore Orioles didn't care and he is in their HOF). All of the ones that are denied, but are still worthy either before they took the roids, or bet on baseball etc...... are already famous players, and surrounded by FAME. The roids were a part of baseball, and these guys should be in the Hall of Shame room in the Hall of Fame in my opinion. It is part of the famous story of baseball, a more complete museum. I don't even know if it would be an honor to be in the Hall of Shame in the Hall of Fame, but it would be truthful, and tell a more complete story of greatness in baseball, and what did and can happen.
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