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  1. h2oface
    I smell David Ortiz all over again. The one pitcher that should have been off limits is gone. At least we got a #3 for him. That is something. 32 as the season starts. I would have rather went with Grateral to help us. Not a fan of the trade.
  2. h2oface
    Nick for Brian Schales, who had a horrible year at 4 levels - extended ST, High A, AA, AAA, and back to A, where he was claimed off Fort Myers waivers by the Toledo Mudhens on Dec 12. Brian who?
  3. h2oface
    Unless there are injuries, I expect none of these to break camp with the Twins. ST filler, that is all. Jake Reed best get out of this organization, unless he just likes playing AAA ball for hardly any money. He should have bailed to Asia a couple of years ago. Thielbar's short story is over.
  4. h2oface
    Ever since I was a kid, I just hate the phrase "innings eater". If you get called one, it usually means you suck, and that is the best someone can say about you, and a replacement for how they really feel - you know - the brutal truth. Much ado about nothing. He won't break camp. Put it in the bank.
  5. h2oface
    I don't know his motive, no will I pretend to. But I am a huge fan of the late Jim Bouton and Ball Four. Truth is truth, no matter the motive, anyway. I will not villianize the whistleblower. He could have been the guy (as a pitcher, he didn't benefit at all) that was forced by peer pressure to assimilate into the team, and just stay silent. But after all the lies, and he didn't need to be part of the team, he spoke up. Good for him. Good for the good cop that doesn't buy into the crooked code blue. And I am one that doesn't care at all about sign stealing, and thinks it is up to the defense to figure out how to keep the signs secret, regardless of how they are stolen.
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    For benches to clear, and the childish BS that ensues, is the most ridiculous part of the game, and always has been. It is way past time for MLB to make a rule with suspension attached, for any player that comes out of the dugout or bullpen, just like the NBA has done for anyone coming off the bench in any altercation. Time to grow up MLB. I, for one, do not have a problem with players being vocal about things that happen in play. I don't see it as a problem. The problem is always the childish chest pumping and postering like it should be something that one should get in a physical fight about. To come off the bench, out of the dugout or bullpen, when what has happened on the field has nothing to do with you, is really just ridiculous. Let Donaldson talk. Nothing wrong with that. No big deal. Other than arguing balls and strikes, I don't see a single rule that he broke to incite all the shoolyard shenanigans.
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    Funny stuff. But....... 5. September 20, 2016 - Donaldson vs. Umpire Arguing a pitch that the umpire correctly called a ball (-2 points) How does a guy strike out on a called third strike (that was a ball incorrectly called a strike according to the pitch f/x) if the umpire called it a ball?....... which he didn't. Hence, the called third strike. Am I missing something, here?
  8. h2oface
    The bad guy is the honest one. This is the zeitgeist we live in. The old "have my back" even if I am the dishonest one - and you are a good teammate.
  9. h2oface
    I can't see how this will be good for the clubhouse. Marwin needs to really perform well with no advantage to change that.
  10. h2oface
    I wonder how long Marwin has with the Twins. This has to affect how he is regarded by his teammates, no? While I am personally not someone who really cares about sign stealing, and feels the method is not important, if the goal/result is the same...... it is surely not the majority opinion, nor MLBs, and certainly not the players. This has to make him a tainted person in the clubhouse. I don't see how it can be good for "chemistry".
  11. h2oface
    Garver led off at University of New Mexico, too. I bet we see him there against lefties to start the game. I like the power lead off. I look for Kepler to be even better this year. And Garver. Regression my......
  12. h2oface
    "Every year, to survive the dog days of summer, teams end up having to find games from outside their planned five starters. So how many of those did the Twins need in 2019? Exactly 16 games. They came from Devin Smeltzer (6), Randy Dobnak (5), Lewis Thorpe (2), Kohl Stewart (2), and Cody Stashak (1). The good news for 2020 is that three of those five names are the first three in line to get starts again. They’ve been there." The good news...... and the bad news..... The bad news for 2020 is that three of those five names are the first three in line to get starts again.......
  13. h2oface
    Thanks for the article. I love this stuff, and you made it very understandable. Interesting that the Twins consider $3 million for Hill to maybe essentially flush down the toilet a low risk, but ponying up the $375 K to keep Berrios happy becomes an issue and something to fight over. Baseball is a weird business.
  14. h2oface
    B minus overall. The number one goal was a pitcher that could challenge or take over the top spot from Berrios. Massive fail. The starters = treading water, (Odorizzi, Pineda - partial year due to suspension, Bailey ~ Gibson) and one - Hill - may not even pitch all year. The relievers - treading water - and I hope Clippard can repeat his last year instead of doing a Dyson of some sort. The bolster gomes from Grateral Catcher? I hope Jeffers comes up and force benches Avila (ala Arreaz/Schoop) when Avila goes out with injury. So average move. Bringer of Rain (thankyouthankyouthankyou) is a godsend makes it all above average, but the thing we needed most, the top of the line pitcher (and really, we needed 1 top pitcher and one 2-3, but one would be a top grade, just with no +) is the limiting factor, and I mean limiting.
  15. h2oface
    Yup. Just what my mind said when I read that.
  16. h2oface
    Absolutely. Mostly, year by year, it shows how those that get paid to guess right, are mostly wrong.
  17. h2oface
    Is the -.2 for Dyson his total fWAR for the whole year, or just for the time he was on the Twins? And Perez was 1.9 for the year? That amazes me. Sure seems to leave out a lot of his horribleness for a lot of the year.
  18. h2oface
    If they can get Salazar with a minor league contract, that is my pick. Maybe he is ready to stay healthy?
  19. h2oface
    Interesting that Garver could be a Johnny Bench Award (college baseball's top catcher) finalist (1 of 3) in both 2012 and 2013, and runner up to Turner in 2013, it he was a terrible catcher. Try to stop him now, eh? https://www.baseball-almanac.com/awards/johnny_bench_award.shtml No, this FO did not hold him back. The previous did, in my opinion. I know many did not appreciate Garver until recently. I read about it for years. I guess I still will. I also think Jeffers is and should be ahead of Rortvedt (hence the original quick post), but it is great to have both near. Things can change in a wink with catchers.
  20. h2oface
    He was always, pretty much, kept one level behind Turner, until it was basically impossible to deny him. That is how he was held back, and what I said before. And now.... he is being projected to regress by many, instead of improve more. I might have different glasses........
  21. h2oface
    Good work.
  22. h2oface
    or your spelling .... but that is not really important.
  23. h2oface
    Perhaps the arguable consensus of the Front Office and TD staff and most posters and prospect ratings and projections and rate of promotion until Garver couldn't be denied, and they finally ...... finally got it? Who knows if Garver couldn't have been accelerated and here at least a year (or more) sooner (and nobody knows and can't know because it was never tried) without being held back behind "glove first/no bat" Turner all through the minors. That is what I mean by mistake, if I have to spell it out.
  24. h2oface
    Rortvedt is to Jeffers as Turner was to Garver. No need to make the same mistake over and over.......
  25. h2oface
    This from the MLB beat writer,Do-Hyoung Park, on the Twins site.... Does this affect the Twins' 2020 Draft? Yes. Donaldson rejected a qualifying offer from the Braves earlier this offseason, meaning that the Twins will forfeit their third-round Draft pick in 2020, while Atlanta will receive a compensation pick after Competitive Balance Round B. https://www.mlb.com/twins/news/josh-donaldson-impact-on-twins-in-2020-and-beyond Certainly it will be clarified soon and we can all stop guessing. Competitive Balance picks are unique in that they are the only draft picks that can be traded, but only traded one time. So that brings to question, if the competitive balance pick is surrendered to another team, as in this case possibly as the compensation, can that team trade the pick if desired, as the "original" team? http://m.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/competitive-balance-draft-picks Then there is this....... from this link.... so it looks like we will lose the competitive balance pick and the bonus pool $..... but it doesn't address if that pick can now be traded by the receiving team. http://m.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/qualifying-offer "(Note: Each pick in the first 10 rounds of the Draft has an assigned value, and the total for each of a club's selections equals what it can spend on signing bonuses for players selected in those rounds without incurring a penalty. When a team forfeits a Draft pick, it also surrenders the accompanying bonus pool money associated that pick, independent from any money forfeited from its international bonus pool per the rules below.)"
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