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  1. h2oface
    It boggles my mind to read that defensive metrics rate the top three first basemen defensively to be Pujols, Cabrerra, and Mauer. Twins fans seem to love Dozier's defense and have disdain for Plouffe's. These ratings show that however the results are arrived at, the formula for these metrics leave a lot to be desired to come up with these results.
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    Gardenhire is not even playing Santana at short while Escobar is out! We have centerfielders playing right and left and a shortstop in center. Santana should get all the starts at shortstop for the rest of the year. Put either Hicks or Schafer in center, and Nunez can play left or right as well as Santana plays center, and they are all in the game if that is what Gardenhire is trying to accomplish. Personally, I don't get it at all, and he said a few weeks ago that he wanted to see Santana at short. Actions speak a lot louder than words, always.
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    It was thought that Pelfrey would be all systems go for 2014. This is a repeat of the mistake made with Matt Capps. Yup. Best to try to trade him in the off season and get going with the future. Put Pelfrey on the market and shop him incessantly. If he is as good as supporters hope, it should be an easy deal to make. He will be traded next year at some point, anyway. It is just a matter of how insignificant the return will be.
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    It has been time for the big change since 2007. It is already 7 years late. Yes..... change the management immediately if not sooner.
  5. h2oface
    Relax, Jose Berrios.......... it is just Rochester, not the show. No biggy. I don't get why Pryor isn't getting a look. Even just a few innings. Yeah.... the surgery. That didn't stop him pitching in AAA. Let's see how he does.
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    I recently saw a video of him hitting in the cage. He looked to be free swinging.
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    Buxton surprises me. To have the most valuable prospect play in a league that is not directly under the parents control.... especially in the post concussion period ...... it surprises me. Here I am, thinking Buxton is too fragile to play baseball, and is just going to get hurt. I guess it will take at least a full year where he can stay on the field to have that change now.
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    Young Kohl just got tired again fast. Third pick of 2014, Carlos Rodon, now in AAA, looks like he will be brought to the show in September for the White Sox, fast tracked like Sale in 2010. I wonder if he is tired?
  9. h2oface
    I'll bet every hitter wishes you could just throw out all the strikeouts and then calculate the stats. That was a brave thing for Arcia to say while playing for the Minnesota Twins.
  10. h2oface
    Why are minor league professional teams playing 7 inning games. High A is not little league. I can maybe understand it for double headers, but not ever for single games. And to be completely honest, I can't even see the point in double headers. This is professional baseball. Baseball is a 9 inning game.
  11. h2oface
    In all the baseball I have followed since 1961, I have never seen a farm system win a World Series.
  12. h2oface
    I like Miami's direction a lot better. And look how fast it happened. And they have Redmond instead of Gardenhire.
  13. h2oface
    Garvers's main nemesis may be that he was drafted in the 9th round instead of the 3rd. It is like the pundits (management) choosing the best college teams for the polls. They won't let you past the competition because they already picked you better, even if perhaps you become better, which might have meant, you were better to begin with and the pickers just didn't see it. His bat should take him past Turner. You aren't a finalist for the Johnny Bench award if you don't have a fine glove and throw. Turner is proof of that as well. Thanks for the article on the young men that should become the next Twins' catchers after the transition years of Suzuki. Pinto should be traded.
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    So if the Twins don't bring Meyer up this year, what is to say they won't be motivated to not bring him up until july of 2015? The same playing time, super 2, arbitration, and control arguments fit every year. I guess Will Middlebrooks should be the Twins GM. Then it would happen.
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    It wouldn't shock me either, if the Twins let Meyer finish out in Triple-A. But it would very much upset me. I hear all the reasons, and disagree. Tell me that Alex doesn't want to give it a shot, and I wouldn't believe it unless I heard him say it, and then I probably wouldn't believe it. Who cares if he taxes the bullpen now? Really? Anybody? Even the taxed bullpen would want to see Meyer and May pitch. 3 or 4 starts, immediately if not sooner? Don't all the other pitchers tax the bullpen? Aren't there bullpen moves that need to be made, and other pitchers to try in the pen, too, as the Twins settle into the cellar? It wouldn't shock me if the Twins don't do what everybody wants and needs to see sooner than later (it is already later) either. Unfortunately, I pretty much expect it and expect to be more upset.
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    I would sure like it if a Twins' pitcher would go 91 pitches, 8 K's and only 2 hits, ....only one more out to get in the 6th... only 10 outs in the game... and leave the game with a runner on first and second and the score 4-0. I would like that every single game. His "relief" gave up his inherited runner's runs plus one. It could have been a line of 92-97 pitches with a 6 inning shutout and 9 Ks. I will take Meyer's line every game for our Twins. Every Game.
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    As good as A.J. Achter was for the first half of the season, he is been totally not that recently. How does a pitcher go 1.1 innings with 3 hits and 2 walks and no runs score? That was Deolis Guerra's line...... What a game in Louisville for the Redwings.
  18. h2oface
    Schafer, Shafer, Schaefer, Schaffer, Schaeffer, Shaffer........... it is starting already. At least he isn't another Pressly, or Presley, or ............
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    Coming to the site today was like going to the gorcery store you always go to and some manager from the home office had come in and made the staff move everything around. Nothing tasted different, it wasn't better, it just looked different and you just had to wander around more to find what you want. I hope it was fun. I am sure I will get used to it, but is just seems more cumbersome right now, with a different look and more white. I see there is 4 game threads on the home page right now. It probably takes more space, but I really liked how the MLB site keeps the "gameday classic" so after change upon change, you can always use the one that never needed changed anyway. Hey......... thanks for the site, and I hope all the work was worth it to you.
  20. h2oface
    I trust what Middlebrooks said way more than the Twins front office at this point in history. His arrival is way overdue.
  21. h2oface

    Garver hits 3 Homers!

    h2oface commented on huhguy's blog entry in Blog huhguy

    suzuki transitions to garver in 2016......... trade pinto.
  22. h2oface
    Deduno, when starting, got Pinto behind the plate. Anderson coached him to not be himself and the fastball movement disappeared. I don't think they want anybody to fail, they just fail at knowing how to handle individuals and help them be the best them that they can be.
  23. h2oface
    The thing about Johnson replacing Nolasco so far......... he is doing a great impersonation of Nolasco, getting spanked and behind by 5 after a couple of innings...
  24. h2oface
    MVP - Suzuki Pitcher - Hughes Relief - Perkins Rookie - Santana In this rebuild......... is there even a rookie on the active 25 right now? (except maybe Kris Johnson? Would he even count?) Doesn't seem like much of a rebuild when you look at it that way.
  25. h2oface
    Gardy should have been fired in 2007. I am happy for another passionate post. I hope it helps.
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