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  1. h2oface
    Gordon has been over-hyped by fans, list makers, Twins FO, and himself. He has been a consensus equal opportunity over-hype. He's the man.
  2. h2oface
    Just ignore what Celestino and Alcala did after they came to the Twins, I guess. 16 and 19. They have to be like they were before. They have to be. Just have to. 16 and 19. Put it in the book.
  3. h2oface
    That agent to GM was smart enough to sign Wilson Ramos to a great value deal. Something our conventionally promoted and hired FO failed to do..... and their spidey sense brought us Morrison, Duke, Lynn, Belisle, Kinley, Wilson, and Odorizzi and Reed (for their worst seasons)..... and gave away Pressly. My spidey sense tells me that Parker and Pineda and Cron will similarly disappoint. I do have hopes for Schoop. That's something.
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    I remember when, just a couple of years a ago..... Jonathan Lucroy was the Realmuto du jour. How quickly his stock was not even close. 2 years...... to "assume" a trade is coming with an extension is just that. An assumption. A building block needs to last way longer than 2 years. Being way low on Grandal isn't really trying, is it? My bet on Grandal is that he will go the way of Lucroy, and this next season will get him on the market again with Dozier like attractiveness. That is after watching him fall apart defensively and offensively (may, june, and august = horrible) for months of the season out here in LA. Just what was wrong with trying to bring Wilson Ramos home for a couple of years? The money sure was right.
  5. h2oface
    Yuk. Personal taste, I guess. That and living in Charlottesville, VA for 26 years and hearing Wahoo way to much.
  6. h2oface
    If an established player with very good MLB performance is not worthy of much of a contract these days because he is in the "decline" at 29 to 30....... how is 24 and 26 and 27 young, in comparison. They still haven't even cracked the bigs yet. So, a "career" is only 26 -30 now? 5 years. 25 is not young. It is almost washed up if you are in the minors..... To hold on to 24 being young for MLB seems a bit hopeful to me.
  7. h2oface
    The Lookouts had the coolest logo/emblem. Blue Wahoos? Wahoo? From a great nickname to a horrible one. What's in a name, anyway?
  8. h2oface
    Unfortunately.... that is the role model of the generation. It isn't just Machado or Harper not running hard everytime to first base or after the missed third strike. It is most of the players. And that includes most of the Twins. It is a sign of the times.
  9. h2oface
    I thought the front office was supposed to make deals that actually improve our team! Yes, our team. They are the strangers and newcomers. 5 years ago, they could care less about the Twins. We are the ones that have cared since we can remember. At least last year, it looked like they were trying to improve the team, even though the reality of it became all the moves did was not improve the team. This year, it doesn't even look like they are trying to improve the team.
  10. h2oface
    Yup. Gives Twins fans another player to talk about for 5-8 years before he is released or dumped. Intriguing, but probablay a huge waste of time.
  11. h2oface
    Yet Zach "throw it to a base where nobody is" Granite is still deemed needed, when he could have been DFA'd. Go figure.
  12. h2oface
    5'9", 150, .195/.248/.218 (.461), 0 HR, 12 RBI, 26.4 K%, 5.2 BB%, 6/12 SB Stats don't matter much? Maybe that is meant to temper expectations of "good" stats. But if they are already tanking, and really tanking, even in rookie ball..... that matters to me. For Curtiss. WTF?
  13. h2oface
    How quick we forget. Hildenberger, during the "good" part of his season, at one point had let 7 out of 7 inherited runners score.... all charged to his teammates, and his stats still looked like he was doing great. I think the hitters have caught up to his gimmick, and hope the leash is not too long. I am extremely disappointed that the FO did not get Ramos. Betting that Castro will be a plus this year, his lame duck year, coming back from injuries, is hoping for luck. He is prone to passed balls, his bat was already declining, and the last thing this lineup needs is another bat that doesn't hit. Garver is still a question as to whether he will come back from the concussion. There is a reason (probabaly several) that the Angels, Brewers/Orioles, and Rays let the guys go that we picked up. This is the offseason of doing nothing except hoping that the guys actually perform. Baseball doesn't care how old you are once the game starts. The age excuse is so tired.
  14. h2oface
    If he was on the Twins, at least he couldn't purposely throw the ball at our hitters.......
  15. h2oface
    "It doesn’t make sense to overspend on relief pitchers......." Definitely opinion and not fact. In fact....... recent (the last decade) post season runs that are successful would beg loudly to differ.
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    What? No Tyler Jay?!?!
  17. h2oface
    History is history. In my book, not to be forgotten, conveniently, since he will be a player on one's favorite team now. Transgressions admitted, which accepting the suspension equates to, can be used to help the younger players be aware of paths not to make, and that is very helpful, and a good mentor. But to just forget them, for me, is intellectually dishonest. https://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/texas-rangers-nelson-cruz-biogenesis-suspension-ped-jon-daniels-al-wild-card-092313
  18. h2oface
    I guess this is an example where it subjectively fits to just speak of his recent small sample, than to use his not so attractive career stats....... and I agree. Brings better hope.
  19. h2oface
    "Littell came back to the Twins when they needed an arm in early July, and then he ended the season with a September call up. He was the youngest player to play for the Twins in 2018. Only Lewis Thorpe pitched at a younger age at Rochester in 2018. Thorpe is about six weeks younger." What a tease. Just how young is youngest? 20? 21? Do we have to look it up?
  20. h2oface
    "Additionally, his reputation as someone who puts in work away from the field could be influential to the younger players." Does this include his PED usage and suspension? I guess we just want to forget all about that......
  21. h2oface
    "The next Mike Trout isn’t going to fall into the laps of an organization." Yet....... THE Mike Trout, did. Go figure.
  22. h2oface
    Cruz better f-ing hit. Because there isn't anything else he can do. Maybe this isn't the year that he starts not hitting. But it is coming. And soon. Maybe next year, and we get another year of hitting. But when it happens, it sure happens quick, and management always seems so slow to respond. At least the FO signed someone that is currently hitting, instead of yet another short contract that is not hitting, and comes to the Twins from a horrible year. But betting on Cruz, now, and a bounce back from Sano and Buxton, (with Buxton it is really the first bounce that makes a complete year...), and Schoop and Cron and Pineda and Odorizzi and Reed, a first lasting bounce from Kepler, no regression from Rosario and Polanco and Gibson and Berrios, and a complete mystery waiting to unfold behind the plate......... is where we are at. Oh, and the pen.... I don't really like to think about the bullpen anymore. And they all could have a career year!
  23. h2oface
    So two down years projects to be better next year by reverting to career totals that make it appear more attractive? And a turning the corner year gets the same treatment in the other direction? I'm not buying. Trending performance means a lot more to me, and I hope it does to the new manager, too.
  24. h2oface
    .....with one of the worst records to make the playoffs all time in 2017, and wouldn't have come close with the same record this year. Not really a big deal in my book, especially since, arguably, with a better manager, they wouldn't have lost 103 the year before after winning 83 in 2015. That kind of graph does not indicate anything sustained to me. Kind of a novelty..... even though a team can and has won the World Series with only 85 regular season wins....... (and one with only 83 wins!) And even though the one game wild card game is called a playoff game...... it is really more like a play-in game to get into the playoffs. Personally, I am not impressed or enamored by it, since they never should have been so bad in 2016.
  25. h2oface
    Totally agree. But the sad thing is... LoMo = Cron and that is who they signed.
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