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  1. h2oface
    Would you rather have Morrow for 3 years (last year and two more), or just one year, as the Dodgers had by only signing him to one year? Sure, very different case, especially where Morrow's career was. But they are all special cases. The FO that makes the right moves in advance, and not retrospect, and uses their intel and luck, become winners. One year contracts can be the best in a certain situation (Thankfully, a 41 year old season for Rodney will be a one year). 2-3 year in others. Every case is different, and if you make the right moves, 2 or 3 year contracts can be the very best for a relief corp. With the Dodgers uncertainty, they gave Morrow a one-year flyer, with no club option, he became a monster out of the pen, and he took it and ran. Good for him. Could have been better for the Dodgers. Sure, hindsight. But what makes a great FO is preparing for this with foresight.
  2. h2oface
    When the game has changed so that the manager is pulling a starter after the 6th (or sooner depending upon when the all mighty 100th pitch happens), consistently..... a starter that now only starts once every five days (remember the 4 man rotation forever before it was replaced by 5), and a 6 man rotation is even, perhaps, to become a standard in the future..... the relief pitchers pitching in the most important innings of the game are important. Maybe to be the most important pitchers on the team. I don't agree that it is a good plan going forward to leave that to happenstance and hodgepodge year to year. Championships are being won by the bullpens. A FO that identifies, and locks up, a set of pitchers for the back end of games, will be a FO that wins a World Series.... or two.
  3. h2oface
    ......or, after the first couple of months this year, perhaps........
  4. h2oface
    So why would I not watch a team I have followed for 56 years, since I was 6? Just because of one misguided rental for a year? I don't have to like every player that passes through. Or manager. Or Front Office hire. This is just as much my team as it is theirs. Maybe more. I support the team, not take money from them. Same with all the employees who pass through and get paid instead of paying into the team. So yes, sometimes I have to watch players that disgust me when this kind of thing happens, because that is just the way it is. My bet, he, like so many other hires like him, is released, or traded for little value, after causing way too much harm and getting way too many innings, before the season is over, and maybe even before the all-star break.
  5. h2oface
    It is not clear to me, and perhaps I have missed it somewhere in all the articles..... Was Rodney hired to be the closer.... promised to start the season in the closer roll? Did they make that commitment to him to get him signed?
  6. h2oface
    Marching toward a pennant winning season......
  7. h2oface
    Hey.... Kohl Stewart is safe and still in the org! Still Crushing!
  8. h2oface
    Anyone else tired of all the crushing, yet?
  9. h2oface
    Yup.Crushing it. NOT! I absolutely hate this. First, I have to watch Colon. Now I have to watch Rodney. Absolutely hate it. And bye bye Burdi. Damn.
  10. h2oface
    I quit.
  11. h2oface
    Falvey. Damn spell check and no edit functions from my phone...
  12. h2oface
    Falvey. Damn spell check and no edit functions from my phone...
  13. h2oface
    Burdi, Reed, Stewart, Bard. Such high hopes. Now willing to throw away another #1 pick. Daley must not like them at all.
  14. h2oface
    May as well go after Colon again, and Sabathia.... And we can sport the heaviest starters, the Tonage Trio. It would surely be an inspiration to young hurler's on how to take care of onesself to pitch in the show.
  15. h2oface
    I guess if all pitchers pitch well................... with Pineda, I just hope he pitches, instead of hanging out with Phil Hughes season after season. I was really hoping the FO would go after truly above average pitchers. Depth is good. But that is all this is. I sure hope to see better deals in the future. This looks a lot like the old boss to me.... Nolasco, Pelfrey, Hughes.......... comebacks can happen..... sure they can. Sometimes for one season. Sometimes for more.... sometimes never. If he pitches well it won’t be a disappointment.
  16. h2oface
    This team needs both. The focus, I hope, is on both at the same time.
  17. h2oface
    Please, NO Rodney. I can't even stand watching him pitch for other teams. Colon, then Rodney? Say it will never be! Hopefully, this FO has totally different and better plans than Kintzler and Rodney.
  18. h2oface
    Crushing It? Well, OK. I you say so. I will be waiting to see if anything actually pans out until I anoint them as Crushers. So far, it is all still hope and dreams.
  19. h2oface
    People like to say this, but in the end, if players have tools, and are going to make it, they should also show up in the lowest levels of the farm system, and in performance and stats. Kohl Stewart had tools, and can't even get protected. Like I said, lots of luck to all.
  20. h2oface
    Wasn't it 5th and 10th for the previous teams? If a prospect is rated in the top ten on the Twins, I would consider that high. And apparently rated high by our FO for the FO to even acquire them. Unless the MO is just to fill space on the farm rosters. Am I really qualifying this simple statement?
  21. h2oface
    Two new prospects rated high but performing low already, in low levels of the farm world. Amazing 5 pages of comments can come out of this. Good luck to the prospects and the Twins. All three will need a lot of it for this one.
  22. h2oface
    Can't he be passed through waivers and assigned (if not claimed, and who would with his contract attached) to Rochester ? Let him prove he can help the club before innings are wasted on him?
  23. h2oface
    I had no idea G Cinco was so found of himself.
  24. h2oface
    Well...... I will consider it not happening when it doesn't happen. Minor league contract..... call up......... just because the option isn't picked up, doesn't mean Perkins will retire, and not be around in some fashion, yet.
  25. h2oface
    The confirmation of this silver lining will be no more Perkins or Hughes. Sentimentality may still raise its misguided folly.
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