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  1. h2oface
    I read this and it sounds like he should be in the bigs right now. What's the hold up?
  2. h2oface
    If the FO passed on that, regardless of how 2018 unfolded..... the front office was a real......... just wow. I can't really say here what I think. The TD popo will just delete my comment.
  3. h2oface
    Sooooo..... which one is Betsy in the picture? Perhaps we can get a left to right to put names on the faces?
  4. h2oface
    Teams need and excessive amount of catchers in spring training. Many catchers get invited. Many, many. Still, it is good that he is one of them, for sure. It can't hurt, unless he just totally stinks it up while he is there.
  5. h2oface
    Thanks for the article. Great isolation of the hands in the video.
  6. h2oface
    You're on. I don't know that I am under-hyping him to say I believe, according to his current status, that he has been universally over-hyped. I am just noticing his over-hype. I haven't even weighed in on my expectations, or predicted whether he will make it or not. That is because I have no opinion on that. I hope he becomes a star. I hope they all do. I would love to lose a pocket portrait of Lincoln. But to fall from 3rd on the team (wasn't he even higher at one point?) to 12th, and out of the national top 100's as well, is not a convincing counterpoint to the over-hype claim. At some point, his family pedigree and tools have to convert to a player that can't be kept out of the show. It is nothing, however, that "The Man" can't turn around with a season and performance that makes it impossible not to play him in the show, and that would be very welcome. I don't know what the criteria of success would be for a Number 1 draft pick (number 5 overall) for him to have reached and achieved a career that matches his "hype". Seems it would be more than just making it to the show. It would be to become a very good everyday MLB position player (not just a utility guy), too, wouldn't it?
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. h2oface
    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.
  11. h2oface
    Yuk. Personal taste, I guess. That and living in Charlottesville, VA for 26 years and hearing Wahoo way to much.
  12. 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.
  13. 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?
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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?
  19. 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.
  20. h2oface
    If he was on the Twins, at least he couldn't purposely throw the ball at our hitters.......
  21. 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.
  22. h2oface
    What? No Tyler Jay?!?!
  23. 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
  24. 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.
  25. 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?
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