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  1. h2oface
    Does anyone know if Kevin Slowey is still MLBPA special assistant? http://mlb.mlb.com/pa/releases/releases.jsp?content=060215
  2. h2oface
    As much as I hated how Militor often chose to bunt, I like it a lot in the right spots. There is no excuse for a major league batter, every one of them, to not be able to lay down a bunt successfully 75 - 80% of the time. With the excessive shifts these days, a good bunt should be an automatic base, at utilized to break the shift. Do the stats used here include attempted bunts? Like bunts attempted and fouled off twice and then the batter proceeded to hit away to finish the at bat? The Twins had so many failed bunt attempts.........
  3. h2oface
    My bet.... No problems. My tib/fib horrible complete fracture healed great, and the intramedullary nail/rod is still living harmoniously in my tibia going on 28 years, with a couple of marathons finished. I was 34 when it went in. My bet.... No problems.
  4. h2oface
    Can we put a pink line through Phil Hughes' name, yet?
  5. h2oface
    I keep trying to get the pathetic look on Darvish's face from the mound during the World Series out of my head....... and how the rental totally screwed the Dodger's. Not once, but twice. It really was a nightmare. Trusting game 7 to a visitor. Positive the "ace" couldn't pitch so poorly twice in a row in the Series......... Ouch.
  6. h2oface
    He will me my MOY when the Twins win in the postseason, and my MOD (decade) if they win the World Series. You say the vote is before the Postseason? Not in my world. Looks like whether one likes it or not, he might be around for at least a couple three years to get a chance to have his players make him look good, and he truly may improve, be a quick study, embrace the new world and get lots of help form the FO. So Congrats just the same. It may be the less one sees someone work, the better they seem. Knowing too much might not be helpful in considering who one votes for.
  7. h2oface
    Once again, the GG award is all over the place. Another award in baseball for which the criteria is on a "need to know" basis, and a true mystery.
  8. h2oface
    Carlos had a pretty good July - August, but he was toast April through June. Sure, it can happen to anyone, but my bet is that last half year was his last hurrah. I think his slide is coming hard.
  9. h2oface
    No reason to not get a more productive vet, if one is needed. I guess Mauer and Dozier and Santana aren't enough? Why not? I am relieved that Colon will be gone.
  10. h2oface
    AJ Hinch gets my vote. Francona gets my 2nd place vote. I am in the 2 game improvement from 2015 to 2017 park. Molitor is like the relief pitcher that totally blows the save in the top of the 9th, gives up 4 runs and the two run lead, and then the team bails him out in the bottom of the inning, scores 3, and he gets the win. This team never should have had so much to come back from. Maybe I know and saw and remember too many things about how Molitor manages. The total mismanagement of what pen we had, the bunts, the blown double switch in LA that we all sat in the stands for 20 some minutes of WTF..... It isn't just won/loss record. A man that is still struggling so much with learning how to manage is not the manager of the year in my book.
  11. h2oface
    Cahill is the only one I would give a shot.
  12. h2oface
    Stop rubbing his history, or lack of it, in, please. I am talking myself into being hopeful!
  13. h2oface
    There certainly must be something more convincing that is seen in his (Alston's) results than this. Surely. I hope. Must be. Work with me baby... work with me.
  14. h2oface
    I think I heard Gibson say "Bite Me" all the way out here in LA.
  15. h2oface
    That's what you get out of my comment? Oh, let's see. Why do people switch jobs? They get fired. Disagreements with the people who don't play, but run the team and are newly hired. The Manager is no longer with the team..... a good chance to rejoin a managerial team that has has success in the past...... for change sake.... because they wanted to do something different....... because the Cubs' job is available........... give me a break. I said wait and see. If they aren't fine, tell me why they aren't. Why are they available. Why will players be available as free agents? Lots of reasons. And many will still be quite fine in an evolving game. Why are Managers fired that win 90+ games a year? Because they are not the power. And the power gets to do what they want, until an owner fires them.
  16. h2oface
    Even with the fuzzy math, this is so true..... Of course, in 2006, the Cardinals (who were on the bottom end of the previous worst world series champions) became the "worst champion" ever, coming into the playoffs as the National League Central Champ at 83-78 (didn't even have to play 162 games and qualified) and took home the gold. Our Gardenhire led Twins were 96-66, won the Central on a furious September and a Tiger collapse down the stretch, but were swept by Oakland 3-0, even with the MVP, Cy Young, and Battling Title winners.
  17. h2oface
    So the GG brain trust is 1-3 when it comes to the Twins, with what should be a sure thing, a blatant snub, and a total overrating of a second baseman. Such a misguided award, but it keeps getting notoriety. This award has been a joke for decades. Someone needs to create a new award to take over and make it right.
  18. h2oface
    Watching all the fine pitching coaches become available, and then not be signed by the Twins..... but Alston is.... well........ all one can do is "wait and see". Some were interviewed, but either passed on the Falvey pitch, or just had a better option. I can't really like it, because how do you like someone you have never heard of and don't know? I guess one can pretend, and convince themselves.... but all I can do is wait and see. That's all we all can do now.
  19. h2oface
    Maybe not, if the guy is a clone of Andrew Miller.
  20. h2oface
    Do The Twins Need A Proven Closer? Yes. Absolutely. And two setup men that are lights out. Not soft tossing arms. Not Tonkin and Pressly, Not Kintzler and Belisle. We have to do better to be a team that will win come October. If you just want to get to play in October, they will do, probably. If you want to win in October, not a chance.
  21. h2oface
    How impressive would it have been for the FO to have dropped De Leon, and trade for Bellinger, 1 for 1, instead as a secondary add on? It would have made them look like geniuses.
  22. h2oface
    Whoops. Nope..... Maurer is...... Brandon Maurer. No back editing allowed. The good humored "gotcha", gotcha! ;-)
  23. h2oface
    Looks like Boston doesn't have the same perspective on management. Farrell gone after American League East titles the last two years and World Series championship in 2013. Maybe if Molitor takes them to the division title........... This is a real catch-22 now. If the Twins continue to improve, and with the core and better pitching, there is a high probability of that, with or without Molitor - are you stuck with him until he retires? Or do you make a bold move to make the team even better in the relatively short window (2-3 years if you are lucky) that is upon us? We all want the Twins to succeed. Nobody really roots against the Manager. What if the team only improves to 86 wins (the last two year pace of +1 game a year, 83 to 85 wins), or to 90 wins (the last 3 year pace of +5 games a year, 70 to 85 wins)? Is 90 wins, and a Wild Card game exit satisfying? How about 90 wins and a Wild Card game win, and a ALDS exit? What are the expectations now?
  24. h2oface
    3 years is a long time. I hope the boys learn to bunt better.
  25. h2oface
    And there you have it. I hope the boys learn to bunt better.
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