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  1. h2oface
    I would say get him if available after the QO expires.... but we have had horrible luck with late signing of players that missed all of part of spring training. Seems they are working out, but it doesn't help much.
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    Nope. He was definately Cat Stevens when he wrote it (or maybe legally still Steven Demetre Georgiou), just as Lew Alcindor (Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr) played for UCLA and Cassius Clay knocked out Sonny Liston. (In fact, Muhammed Ali - Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. - apparently never legally changed his name........ https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/boxing/2016/07/11/muhammad-ali-name-change-cassius-clay/86956544/ .......) But now I am miles off topic.......... miles from nowhere....
  3. h2oface
    Back on topic. While Marwin can step in at third, this limits his special use. Fate and blame aside, Sano seems snake bit. Over and over and over. And over and over and over. He will turn 26 before he takes the field again on May 11. This is disgusting. Baldy was even down there visiting. Why wasn't he immediately flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester? This is total irresponsibility and mismanagement, in my opinion, by the Twins staff for not taking total control of this from jump. Man, Sano needs constant supervision, apparently, or he will find a way to find bad luck, I guess, if that is what you want to call it. 26 on May 11. And after the little injury to Santana that took him out the whole year..... and maybe ends his career....... If Sano was slow before, this is not going to help, even when it heals. And his present value? Hardly anything. now.
  4. h2oface
    With a 40% K rate..... and a .211 average..... I would often take a bunt. Way more exciting than a walk, and fielders have just as much chance throwing it away for more bases as the poor power hitter has of hitting into the shift or striking out or grounding out or walking or...... Maybe Sano will actually be on the field at some point this year..... what a fiasco.
  5. h2oface
    I hope Garver starts hitting.....
  6. h2oface
    Most other teams probably aren't practicing fielding bunts as much either! It surely would be a weapon to bunt on them, especially with the speed on this team and the shifts.
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    Rooker hits a deep dinger, and the announcer could care less. So what if he is in the middle of an interview.... show some excitement! Go Twins. on Sano: "A teammate on his Dominican Winter League team slipped and spiked him him in the Achilles, requiring 12 stitches." So I have now heard achilles, heel, leg ....... is this the first person observation version... the achilles, or is this another second hand relay? I have head that the stairs cut him... and now he was spiked? Stange that the whole incident has become a mystery.
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    Hey! Not a utulity player! Watch it now. "Can I make a correction? Not a utility guy," Baldelli interjected during Gonzalez's introductory press conference. "And I only say that just because it's something I've heard used before all the time. We consider Marwin an everyday player. He's just a multipositional everyday player."
  9. h2oface
    Castro is a lame duck catcher. The sooner that Garver is considered the starter, and Castro the back-up and mentor, the better in my opinion. The passed balls and catcher created wild pitches that was a part of Castro's game even when healthy did not go unnoticed by me. Perhaps it escapes the advanced stats. But I saw them, and remember them. Now, Garver did not impress with a quick brain at times, but at least he is going to be here (probably) the next few years. And I don't really want an OK bat at catcher (and Castro was horrible even before his injury last year). I want a hitting catcher. And a fielding catcher. The sooner the balls and strikes are called by a non subjective method the better. Pitch framing, the art of cheating the reality of the actual location of the pitch, is a bogus skill caused by the inability of baseball to use the best tools available to make the calls more correct. Throwing the guy out at second, less passed balls, and turning wild pitches into blocks instead of creating wild pitches are the fielding skills I like. It will be interesting to see what the arch of Astudillo is this year.
  10. h2oface
    While I love this addition.... we are still coming in at 0%, But Hey, we are not alone. 10 teams tied for the bottom third. https://markets.predictwise.com/sports/2019-mlb-world-series
  11. h2oface
    Love love love it. Now Kimbrel!
  12. h2oface
    Or trade his quirk to another team. The league is not fooled. The more he pitches to them, the less they will be fooled, but don't use that as a selling point. Use bounce back candidate.
  13. h2oface
    So many had a poor year. So why can't they all just have a good year this year, right? What are the odds?
  14. h2oface
    With 3 of the 5 in bold having forgettable seasons (yes... even Hildenberger, when even when his stat line was good early..... was giving up excessive inherited runs and losing games for us, but just for other pitchers on the team), and Rodgers really just breaking out for the end of the season and May still a question without even a full season back from TJ, that is surely a bold optimistic stance.
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    These are wonderful! Thanks much. Is it just me, or does it show how hard it is to have and keep real good baseball players, and that they are really few and far between.
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    The ONLY one to get is Kimbrel. Sure, he could fall off the earth and become horrible. But at least we would have tried instead of just hoped and prayed. Plus, we really don't have a mountain man beard on the team yet - or did he shave to start the new year? I am so tired of the crap that other teams don't even want anymore, but this FO sees as ready to fix. Until they get a couple of successful reclaimation projects under their belt, why does one think this staff can be the saviors? Last year, they did just the opposite. Took a consistent Reed, and he totally tanked. Same with Lynn. Kimbrel. Kimbrel. KIMBREL. KIMBREL! And then get Marwin Gonzalez. I can't believe he is still available.
  17. h2oface
    At this point, I would sell the future for one year before I die, and hoping that doesn't happen first. Just one. Just one shining flaming season. Just one World Series Championship. Just ONE! ...... and hasn't the slow and steady been the approach.... like...... forever?
  18. h2oface
    It would be nice if these top 5 farm systems actually create a top 5 MLB team, eh? Fun to read about, though.
  19. h2oface
    I always loved Earl Battey. Even his name was so cool. I was always so sure that when Mauer finally got out from behind the plate, and he didn't have to squat anymore that he would morph into a more slugging hitter more like Hank Aaron..... 25-35 dingers a year... line drives that didn't go that far but cleared the fence by 10-20 feet, still high average and OBP. I sure blew that call. Thanks for the trip down the ol memory lane. I really enjoyed it.
  20. h2oface
    I read this and it sounds like he should be in the bigs right now. What's the hold up?
  21. h2oface
    If the FO passed on that, regardless of how 2018 unfolded..... the front office was a real......... just wow. I can't really say here what I think. The TD popo will just delete my comment.
  22. h2oface
    Sooooo..... which one is Betsy in the picture? Perhaps we can get a left to right to put names on the faces?
  23. h2oface
    Teams need and excessive amount of catchers in spring training. Many catchers get invited. Many, many. Still, it is good that he is one of them, for sure. It can't hurt, unless he just totally stinks it up while he is there.
  24. h2oface
    Thanks for the article. Great isolation of the hands in the video.
  25. h2oface
    You're on. I don't know that I am under-hyping him to say I believe, according to his current status, that he has been universally over-hyped. I am just noticing his over-hype. I haven't even weighed in on my expectations, or predicted whether he will make it or not. That is because I have no opinion on that. I hope he becomes a star. I hope they all do. I would love to lose a pocket portrait of Lincoln. But to fall from 3rd on the team (wasn't he even higher at one point?) to 12th, and out of the national top 100's as well, is not a convincing counterpoint to the over-hype claim. At some point, his family pedigree and tools have to convert to a player that can't be kept out of the show. It is nothing, however, that "The Man" can't turn around with a season and performance that makes it impossible not to play him in the show, and that would be very welcome. I don't know what the criteria of success would be for a Number 1 draft pick (number 5 overall) for him to have reached and achieved a career that matches his "hype". Seems it would be more than just making it to the show. It would be to become a very good everyday MLB position player (not just a utility guy), too, wouldn't it?
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