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  1. h2oface
    Yup. Jeffers could be on a quicker "path". Smith was also blocked by Grandal and Barnes (who has been streaky), but when Barnes couldn't get back to his best last year, Smith was called on and is the starter, now. I think Jeffers will be ready if called upon midseason. That is my call, regardless.
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    I look for Jeffers to be up by midseason, and being a force, ala Will Smith of the Dodgers. So a generous 1 year contract just might keep Castro for a year, especially if you wants to be a part of a winner, and still make some money. He just might bet on himself. If Astudillio is still part of this team in 2020, I feel the FO is not doing what it can do to improve this team. Injuries are always looming, and Castro could be a needed piece, or he could be a great trade at the deadline, too.
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    Why am I not enamored with the pen yet?
  4. h2oface
    It could have been DJ LeMahieu that was signed! A way better choice, even with Arraez, which is still a question, with little power. Oh well. Looking forward. Schoop was signed with great hope. Too bad he couldn't return to his previous form. He was part of the early mix, and had his time..... so I would say he didn't really hurt, and didn't really help. Do they call that a replacement player?
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    I like Eddie. I like Twins that were Twins from the farm from the beginning and make it to the show succeed, especially with great aplomb. I also will always give credit to RBI. Sure, hitting 4th and coming to bat with people on base have a lot to do with it, but you still have to rise to the moment and drive them in. I also embrace advanced stats, and they don't lie. If our guys, including Nick, see the limitations of his play, so will any team that would trade for him. I also think it is folly to think that national sports writers have a better take on his play than those that see it daily. No way. We see all the warts, and even probably dwell on them to a fault at times, more than we should, and lose site of many of the players positives. (Just visit a game thread on this site, daily!) All this talk could very well be noticed by Rosario, and he could have the best year of his life this coming season, the best focus of his career, and harness the plate awareness he has not embraced, and be more valuable than ever. I definitely don't trade him right now, unless the return is crazy good. Crazy good. The prospects could pass him, and could be one injury away from the opportunity to be the guy you can no longer not play everyday, ala Arraez. But for this year, until something like that happens, keep Eddie and hope he wakes up, focuses, and has the best year of his career, offensively and defensively.
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    I find the team that becomes a kid's team really is not that much about the proximity, but about who their parent's team is..... and it trickles down. It could have been the Braves. The "brainwashing" affect. Baltimore, and Cincinnati were often choices for the folks that lived around there, too, for proximity, from my experience of living up the mountains in Blowing Rock in the 80s. But I don't know him..... I am betting it mostly hinges on the $, and the deal.
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    Good for Baldelli! Let's hope the season after is much different than the year after Molitor won his award.
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    With all the regression predicted, it seems the FO has no need to spend big on pitching, and the window is already closing fast. Gone are the days that players can get better 2 years in a row. Time for a rebuild. SELL!!!!!!!
  9. h2oface
    I guess central North Carolina, south of the Blue Ridge in the piedmont between Hickory and Lenoir ...... is close to where he grew up? Atlanta was the closest professional team. But personally, not really that close all in all, and not even in Georgia.....
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    To me, it is another weapon a championship team needs. The don't have to be league leaders, but they definitely should not be the worst in MLB! With the speed this team has, it is pathetic that they don't steal more bases, and steal them with a high percentage of attempts. Whatever needs to happen to develop the base stealing talent again, I am all for it. It isn't always the fastest player that steals the most bases. Counting on the big hit as the only option in playoff games leads to being swept. We all that story.
  11. h2oface
    Bumgarner. Bumgarner .Bumgarner. Bumgarner. Bumgarner. Dobnak, Smeltzer....... and that other guy that starts with an S..... can you say Scott Diamond? Depth, for a fill in when needed until they blow up, just like Hildenberger and Harper. I can't wait to be out of the old mentality of the "good story" and have great pitchers. Pitchers are mentioned as still young at 26 and 27, but are too old at 30? I would much rather have a healthy aging??? Bumgarner pitching in the playoffs than even Kershaw or Verlander or Price .... or even Cole, regardless of how his season went.
  12. h2oface
    That big time curveball IS a strike! It is a great pitcher's pitch, just what the game is supposed to do.... encourage the talent it takes to be able to make a pitch like that, that just barely makes it into the zone! To make a pitch that is a strike and the hitters can't hit! That is baseball. That is what a pitcher is supposed to do! Just because the umpires are too inadequate to make the right call, instead of the wrong call on those pitches, does NOT mean it isn't a great pitch, and a strike, and always has been, regardless of the umpire's error. This is like saying an umpire "was consistent", and that is OK, even if he was consistently wrong with his own imagined strike zone all game. Amazing how one can call a pitch from a video from behind the catcher with the view of the ball totally blocked. I will not be one of the "you" that will hate the change. If the system goes down, the ump just steps in and makes the call with no delay. He will already be standing there, just like the court judge is sitting in his chair at a tennis match. Not a big deal.
  13. h2oface
    The sooner the bettter. It is already at least 5 years late. The whole idea of trying to cheat, and I mean cheat, the game with bogus pitch framing is not at all in the spirit of the rule of the strike zone. The framing talent is just one making all efforts to trick the umpires call, and make a pitch something it isn't. It cheats the greatest takes, and the finest pitches. It's the closest pitches that deserve to be rewarded the most, as that is the whole purpose of being able to actually but the ball in the very corner of the zone, even (for example) if it is the very back edge of the 3 demensional area defined as a strike. Plus, it cannot be denied the the umpire is just guessing all these years. Plus, the umpires won't even use the tool created from them as a learning tool, and review their work and try to get better! Plus, since when has the present system ever been "seamless"? Never ever. That hasn't stopped it from being used. Times up.
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    "......in 80 games, he hit just .177 with nine doubles and 11 home runs. He also had 17 errors. So, could he play in the big leagues today? Probably not. But he has as much talent as anyone in the organization....." So much talent, I keep hearing. If he has that much talent, but can only perform at these levels in the low minors, there seems to something drastically wrong with the talent assumption, it seems. I mean seriously, the results of all this talent has been horrible. I get the injuries, but he was healthy for the 80 games, right? These numbers are not supporting the assumptive talent. Even 17 errors in only 80 games. Something is askew.
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    Thinking that Dobnak is the best internal option for the 2019 rotation is like thinking Diamond was going to progress. Same with Smeltzer. I still can't believe he started game 2 of the ALDS instead of Odorizzi. Or that he started a plyoff game, at all! If that is what happens, then the FO will have failed us when it comes to pitching, just like they did this year. Depth. OK. The first options? It makes me cringe.
  16. h2oface
    By signing Bumgarner, and being the recipient of his resurgence on a new team that is competing for a deep run. But the difference? Bumgarner has a history of winning World Series games. For all of Verlanders success in the regular season, and the rest of the Playoffs........ when he gets to the biggest stage..... he can't seem to buy a win.
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    Bauer has repeatedly said he will not sign a long term contract, and wants to go year by year. I hope they sign Bumgarner. I see a resurgence, and he is a bulldog in the playoffs. We could use a little of that.
  18. h2oface
    What makes a champion is always looking to improve the team, not stay idle. Cron's overall performance for the year suggests he should be paid less than last year, not close to double what he made in 2019. But it's not even the $. It's that it a position that could be improved. Cron should definitely be non-tendered, and go from there. If the position cannot be improved, pay him what he earned, not what a formula of arbitration suggests.
  19. h2oface
    I don't think these games mean a damn thing about where the Twins will have him develop. Exihibition games, managed by people not in his orginization, to get the kid some more at bats, and hopefully confidence after a very mediocre season at the plate. Where he is playing during the short AFL season means absolutely nothing about his future.
  20. h2oface
    I don't buy it. The pitching was worse, in general, as the season went on. And often times, I remember other teams getting hits into the shift...... how is that identified in the stats kept. What did Mark Twain say?
  21. h2oface
    Previous Twins Daily MVP Winners 2015: Brian Dozier 2016: Brian Dozier 2017: Brian Dozier 2018: Eddie Rosario I guess that means the faithful will be turning on Kepler next year. It seems to be a curse to be named MVP by Twins Daily.
  22. h2oface
    It looks like Houston is going to let one of the very best pitchers in MLB take his leave when this season ends for them. That is very Twins-like.
  23. h2oface
    Berrios would have come out for the 5th inning in Game 1. Would have gone to top relievers with the game tied or close instead of the minor league guys. Gibson would not have been in the game even trailing 7-4. Gibson wouldn't have been in any game. Definitely would have started Odorizzi in game 2. The Uber driver decision was misguided in so many ways. I am so sick of so called "great stories". This is the story that matters. Swept in 3. Nothing cute about it. Yup. Or "pitching identifiers" and "developers" let Nick Anderson go, too. It is official. As the other 3 series are all tied at 2-2, our Twins are the only team that performed in the playoffs like they shouldn't have been there. Truly embarassing for the team and the fans. I noticed a discussion about how the Twins outplayed the Yankees with hard hit balls, etc in game 3. The only thing that matters is that you score more runs than the other team in the playoffs. Close doesn't count. Stats don't matter. You lose a game 5-1 and outplayed them????? The Cardinals won game 4 in the late innings with 2 hits with exit velocities in the 60's. When you score, you are outplaying the other team. No spin needed. I hate the excessive shifts. Several cost us big time. And they will continue to do so. Hits even go through the shift on the side that is packed, because even where the player would have been, they are not now, and the ball pulled goes right through that hole, because even with 3 on that side, the normal spot is now vacant. We are so smart we weren't even competitive. Embarrassing.
  24. h2oface
    Not leaving Berrios in to start the 5th in game 1 (after only 88 pitches and a 1-2-3 4th on 12) with the game tied, and the pitchers he didn't use in a close and tied game, and starting the Uber driver for game 2 instead of a professional like Odorizzi.......... some of the managerial/front office choices I will never forgive or forget. Some process. Snow forecast for the Twin Cities this weekend? That would have been lovely.
  25. h2oface
    Process. Have we heard that phrase all year? Process. It wasn't losing the series, and "only one team is happy" thing. It is the process by which, once again, this team doesn't show up in the playoffs. The process by which they lose. Not even competitive. Not even one win, for another 3 games. New manager. New players. New process. But I saw them last night on the dance floor......... and nothing had changed. I must love to suffer. I know I will be back next year, ready to believe. I guess I am not too smart.
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