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  1. h2oface
    Absolutely not. It takes a couple years of consistent non injury top performance to be an ace. Remember when folks wanted to call Phil Hughes an ace during his one good year? I do. Not then. Not now. It could happen though. Time will tell. Plus.... I don't forget that Santana was caught cheating a little over 2 years ago. That just doesn't go away unless you just ignore it because he is now on your team and doing perhaps as good as he has ever been. I am really surprised his partially torn ACL is still holding up without the juice. It is impressive. I am really happy for his success, and I am all for second chances...... but the past still counts, too. Just ask Roger and Barry and Mark and ..........
  2. h2oface
    The Mets, with all their pitching problems, are letting this guy go. And the Twins, bathing in new front office wisdom, use a 40 man roster spot? This makes me vomit.
  3. h2oface
    Pretender. They could get lucky, though. Pitching pitching pitching. Kintzler is the biggest pretender in a most important role. Triple A roster looks so unremarkable. This is the rebuild (that really never was) in the show now. And it came with no pitching.
  4. h2oface
    Not looming anymore......
  5. h2oface
    Soooo...... it was Berrios' day to start on Saturday..... and the Twins chose Tepesch instead. We know how that went........
  6. h2oface
    I just can't believe Santana instead of Park. I guess let Park cool off before given a chance to redeem himself. 13 pitchers. So when your pitchers suck, just have one more? More suck?
  7. h2oface
    The only thing I like less than the pen...... is the rotation. Relief will not really be in the Twins fan's vocabulary. Santiago is to be the number two starter. And Hughes and his historically horrid opening month will be attempting his comeback. Lots of relief will be needed, but I don't see it coming. A magic pen now wins championships. I do not subscribe do the claim that a pen is easy to throw together. Nor keep.
  8. h2oface
    Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks is minutes away from where I live! Their season starts soon. Hey glunn, do you want to join me and catch Hunter Greene before he has Tommy John surgery? I think I will catch a couple high school games.
  9. h2oface
    I love this move. I like any move these days. This was a 103 loss team! There is hardly any move that could not be an improvement, and this is a minor minor move, so hard to not give it a "may as well". Abad - super lucky in Minnesota and fools gold. Kintzler is too. Especially in the closers roll.
  10. h2oface
    Are alternate facts an alternative to alternative facts?
  11. h2oface
    People thought Murphy's performance at the end of 2015 and in the post season was a fluke, and couldn't be repeated. Well..... he and the Nats showed the rest of MLB. Fans are so fickle. I like having Dozier on this team. Prospects are for dreamers. Professional ball players are hard to come by. We have enough prospects. About time they become ball players.
  12. h2oface
    I agree totally. A HOF should be only the very special. Cuddyer is not HOF material, unless perhaps, there is a low bar. Well..... I guess there is a low bar. HOF should be reserved for great careers, not good careers.
  13. h2oface
    I bet De Leon ends up constantly hurt. I hope it doesn't happen unless they add Bellinger. Urias straight up would do it, though. Kudos for Falvey for holding out.
  14. h2oface
    Bold. Signing a declining catcher whose hitting is plummeting for $24 million is certainly bold and hopeful.
  15. h2oface
    Julio Urias is the only player to trade with the Dodgers for Dozier. The ONLY player.
  16. h2oface
    A real yawner for me. Like this team needs more strikeouts. This is Drew Butera before he decided to hit last year, with a few more dingers. I hate pitch framing. Object, to cheat the game of the proper call. I guess the only thing that can fix that and the at least 15% wrong calls by our arrogant power tripping umpires is to use the technology to fix the biggest flaw in the game and have a consistent correct strike zone.
  17. h2oface
    Twins' fans have forgotten how to aim high. Trained themselves. Convinced themselves. Yuk. And not the funny yuk. Why folks think May will excell anywhere baffles me. Tonkin too. Some seem to think we are forever trapped and can't escape them, so they keep talking themselves into hoping. The staff needs replaced! Not retreaded. I like Hughes to the pen, though. Always have - especially to start each and every season. Aim high, Mr Falvey.
  18. h2oface
    No to another high school prospect. No no no. Coupled with having to decide if he is a position player or pitcher, this would spell trouble.
  19. h2oface
    Kintzler is fools gold. Be happy you got what you did out of him, but no way he is a closer. 6th and 7th innings... see if he can repeat success. Personally, I doubt it very much. Unlike with Jepsen, do not be fooled! Tonkin? NOOOOOOOOO. Perkins is cooked. This will not be limbo, it will be the end. Do not expect he will be of any value at all if he can return. Holland? Take a chance. Chargois? Take a chance. I bet Falvey remakes the bullpen. I sure hope so. Other than the young prospects, I don't care if they are all gone. They were so horrible.
  20. h2oface
    I must need rose colored glasses. Sure, one would like to drink the koolaid and ignore this year's future "stars", but what I saw with clear clean lenses was a .230s club that includes Sano, Kepler, and Vargas, and Buxton lucky to see the .220 club. Yeah yeah... better months and weeks here and there. Strikeout mania. Berrios massive fails. So they all need to be average before they are stars. Reality folks.
  21. h2oface
    Personally, I am really tired of high school players that get drafted high and take forever to help the Twins, if ever. College pitchers that are then made to be something they weren't in college is a close second. I hope the new FO drafts much better, and lets college sort some of the high school failures out, instead of the Twins farm system. I don't know what to say about high draft picks like Levi Michaels. The top five are going to need a lot of luck to make it, is my bet. The Twins need some stars, not just MLB average players or worse.
  22. h2oface
    That is the hope, eh? From what most predicted Sano would do this year (didn't you have a Sano prediction?) , it was a let down. Hey, plenty of room to improve, for the whole .230 club, which includes Sano, Kepler, Vargas, and Escobar, with Buxton knocking on the door in the .220 club. Remember, Arcia made the 20 homer club, and that was as exciting as it got. Yeah, I stick with Sano's season as most disappointing, with hopes he really decides to work on his craft and drop 20 pounds over the off season and really improve in 2017.
  23. h2oface
    Exactly. His averages: OPS, OPS+, BA, SLUG, and OBP for the year was virtually identical to 2015. Improved? Not so much. And even if you disregard the last two months...... not so much. In my world, the whole season's performance counts, though. You can vote the way you like. I will do the same.
  24. h2oface
    If you miss 1/3 of the season as a member of the Twins because you were traded and not a Twin...... Well, you can no longer be the most improved Twin because you are not a Twin. At least in my world.
  25. h2oface
    Dozier got the extra homer and RBI that he is not getting credit for. The rain. He needs an asterisk, and the rule needs to be changed to keep all individual stats from rainouts. To pretend that they didn't happen is cheating history.
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