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  1. h2oface
    I can't get to Target.... but I go to a bunch of games at Dodger Stadium (including the 3 game sweep the Twins suffered in July of 2017 and watched Granite throw it to a base where there was no one there to lose a sure win, Molitor totally blow a double substitution, was forced to watch Colon for a game, and watched Rodgers and Kintzler implode and the Twins score first in every game and give up 1, 2 and 5 run leads... argh) every year (I love to see MLB games, no matter who is playing) and always brought way better food than you could get at the park. Same type of policy. At Angel stadium (was in left field when Pujols #600 landed 20 feet away against us), too. No need to line the pockets of the greedy hand.
  2. h2oface
    Kyle Gibson (Missouri, NCAA-1, three seasons) 3.66 ERA 63 games (29 starts) 259.0 IP 304 K (10.48 K/9) 0 HR 61 BB (2.10 BB/9) 1.16 WHIP 9 SV Gibson didn't give up one dinger in college in 259 innings? Is that right? That is pretty amazing.
  3. h2oface
    I guess we will know....... in August.
  4. h2oface
    I can't wait for the leash to be longer in the regular for when Odorizzi is getting bombed in the first inning and giving up more than 5 runs. I sure hope he is ready for the season. Austin will have to make the team, or he will be gone and picked up.
  5. h2oface
    That Tanner English is "depth" is kinda depressing. .233/.313/.417 for an outfielder, any outfielder, is NEVER "appealing". The whole modern day acceptance of center fielders and catchers and shortstops being bad hitters, and that is acceptable even with elite fielding, is hogwash. Every MLB player, when all they do is play baseball, needs to aspire and acheive hitting and fielding. For a line like that to be 'more appealing' in center than right is just settling for mediocrity.
  6. h2oface
    Me too, no hashtag. There really is not reason not to have both, though. The idea that it would be horrible to lose a draft pick, a draft pick that probably will never make the bigs anyway, is just silly. Just think if we would have lost a Levi Michael, or a Tyler Jay for a top line pitcher. It would just crush me.
  7. 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.
  8. h2oface
    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....
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. h2oface
    I hope Garver starts hitting.....
  12. 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.
  13. h2oface
    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.
  14. h2oface
    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."
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. h2oface
    Love love love it. Now Kimbrel!
  18. 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.
  19. 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?
  20. 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.
  21. h2oface
    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.
  22. h2oface
    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.
  23. 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?
  24. h2oface
    It would be nice if these top 5 farm systems actually create a top 5 MLB team, eh? Fun to read about, though.
  25. 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.
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