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  1. h2oface
    If a team is Practicing Pragmatism, it is trying to improve the team with all its resources all the time, and especially during the offseason. And not to just sustain a competitive team, but to at least try to make a championship team out of its competitive team, if that is what is in hand. To just always be interested, and never capture the prize, is not practicing pragmatism in my view. It is being inept. One can still fail, and the whole team can go down with injuries, but at least you did something instead of just hoped what you had would not regress or just maintain, but get better. That may happen, too. But if one wants to compete in the playoffs against the very best teams after getting there with a competitive team against teams that half were not close to competitive, one must be pragmatic and work to improve the team (not just retain what you already had), especially with the money available, the players available, the prospects for trading available, and the highest level of starting pitching being the prize. If the goal is just to contend, one doesn't need to do much with this team. If the goal is to be the only team to win the championship, then it is pragmatic to act before the prizes are all taken. (And now there is only Ryu left....)
  2. h2oface
    If the bullpen all wear the same glasses, (use blank lenses if not needed) and grow similar facial hair, they can bewilder the batters as they will be confused at who is pitching and what is their go to......
  3. h2oface
    It seems the counter weight rope broke and the window slammed shut.
  4. h2oface
    I don't think this article is mindless, blanket criticism, nor a waste of my time. Time to sign Donaldson, before he is gone, too. Josh was back. Pitching? I think that ship has already sailed. Ahoy.
  5. h2oface
    Great list. I'm not interested in Yamaguchi at all. There are plenty of guys to take a chance on in the farm. Focus should be on at least two much finer starters right now, like #s 1-5. Laser focus even.
  6. h2oface
    Quite an update. Impressive. And funny!
  7. h2oface
    Diaz still making the decisions at third. Yikes.
  8. h2oface
    I really can never get on board with the "trees". Each trade stands on it's own. The origin of each butterfly effect is hard to nail down. I know people like to do it, but trading Ynoa was done to help us then.... not in the future. It did not. Ynoa does not become a trade for Littell. Each trade stands on its own.
  9. h2oface
    Now that's creative. It's like Sergio is getting younger every year. No changes yet, except elimination of Gibson and Perez. OK. So nothing has really changed, and definitely no additions. How did I get here.... same as it ever was.......
  10. h2oface

    Rule V mania

    h2oface commented on mikelink45's blog entry in mikelink45's Blog

    I didn't expect any to be drafted. I think it shows that the value of those on the farm in the netherworlds of the rule 5 bubble, particularly Wander Javier, are highly overrated by many close to the team, but not fooled by other teams watching.
  11. h2oface
    ..... you're not.....
  12. h2oface
    "It seems like we all have an affinity for baseball players who are more rotund than the trim...." I must not be a "we". I never get it, myself. I sure hope we can do better than Astudillo in 2020.
  13. h2oface
    Donaldson.
  14. h2oface
    May as well have 3 3rd starters, and pitch them 3, 4 and 5. Better than a 5th starter being the 5th starter.
  15. h2oface
    Diamond was "better than you think". Hildenberger was "better than you think". Harper? Dobnak had a welcome 28.1 innings in the regular season. A surprise and a story. His 2 innings in game 3 of the ALDS is exactly what I think. If someone gets hurt and he can fill in and still fool people who haven't seen him before or much, great. He could be very valuable for a spell.
  16. h2oface
    Ryu had his career year last year. The first time he made it through a year and stayed in off the IL/DL most of the time. I think it was an outlier, and would not bet on him. I hope they $ign Cole Bumgarner before it is too late. tic toc. (Cole, too, for that matter....)
  17. h2oface
    I just don't get the optimism concerning Pineda. Do you just throw his career numbers out and look at a couple of months in 2019 and think that is him and not that he is closer to his career? Or even that he will be worse as he ages? a couple of good months doesn't mean that is what to expect, I don't think. Perez had a couple of good months.......
  18. h2oface
    That will be in the equation, regardless of signing two starters that already are fantastic pitchers at the MLB level. You can never have too much pitching. Especially good pitching. Injuries are going to happen. The opportunities for those with options will be there, and if they can perform, they can push their way into the rotation, and make others into tradable assets. That would be optimum. One will surely be in the rotation to start the season because of Pineda's suspension. I haven't forgotten, at all.
  19. h2oface
    Commendable optimism. The statement that sticks out for me is...."the Twins rookies as a whole pitched a slightly better than average rate in 2019." I really don't get that excited about average. Rookie or veteran. I get the overall picture as positive, and it could be worse, and all............ but it could be a lot better, too. They don't get me excited at this point. In fact, I feel that to bank on Smeltzer, Stashak, and Dobnak as anything other than depth (and a couple good stories) would be misguided.
  20. h2oface
    So let me get this straight. So far, treading water, and have just dropped Gibson from the rotation. Have I missed anything? It's like extending Pineda for two years with a 2 million/year raise. I wonder how most would have felt about this extension right after he was suspended ? (Which is essentially what has happened except for the time delay) Odo gets a one year extension with a raise of several million. So, so far, same rotation with the AAAA fillers at the rear except Gibson is gone. But money to spend, and room for starter(s). And $trasburg (and Rendon) and Bumgarner are available for $ and a draft pick (of which, what is it, 80% or something, is it, fail?), and Keuchel for $ only. Watching the days go by....... same as it ever was, same as it ever was. Nothing to really see here, yet. After changes upon changes we are more or less the same. Time to improve the team, me thinks, instead of treading water.
  21. h2oface
    I wonder how the diet is going......?
  22. h2oface
    I would sign him to a contract with multiple incentives, and give him the opportunity to make good money, and bet on himself.
  23. h2oface
    I wish they would keep the frigging tarp off the field unless the weather looks questionable. No need for these damn tarps to be on the field at all most games. As for the netting...... amazing we all survived this long. If your face is in a screen instead of the game, you might deserve a wake up anyway.
  24. h2oface
    Better than Clams!
  25. h2oface
    Forget Chapman. $ign Rendon.
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