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  1. h2oface
    Before this is all over, you may just have to add them to the list?
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    Dozier should have stayed there...... instead he Ks looking as the tying run at the plate with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th in game 3 of the NLCS on a 4 seam fastball...... TO END THE GAME! Granted, if the machines called balls and strikes he would have been justly rewarded with an amazing take as the pitch was just ever so barely outside, but with umpires calling the game, there is no way you can take that pitch with the bases loaded and the count 1-2 to end the game. You just can't take that pitch. Amazing.
  3. h2oface
    Dozier reports to emergency room with massive amount of splinters in his buttocks.
  4. h2oface
    The return was that good? And the Lynn and Morrison (and Odor trade?) signings were just that good, too. I will claim good when they actually do something in the show. If they ever do something in the show.
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    Well, I bet Stearns expected what Yelich (and Cain) did this year, and that is why he traded for him and gave up what he did. It doesn't really matter what no one thinks, in the end, just what the one that makes the move thinks. Good fortune is always part of it, but Stearns was just doing his job better than most others. I have to give him credit. Calling the right shots and his analysis of the move to make was hard work realized, and nothing to do with luck, but process.
  6. h2oface
    Bravo! You da man.
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    Interesting that Houston, with Stearns as the assistant GM, gave up Hader for Gomez, and then Stearns became the ultimate beneficiary of the move as the GM of the new team. I hope that Falvey can rival what Stearns has done, and not be the co-director that turns out to be the weak link. The Brewers are pretty damn impressive. I really enjoy watching them play. I keep thinking that the Pressly trade and the Reed signing (among others) don't signify a good start, but what is a Twins' fan to do, but hope for the best in the new season. This was my favorite article of the year. Great job, Nick.
  8. h2oface
    Great article! Thanks.
  9. h2oface
    Pressly defends Osuna, calls the heckler a dickhead and f*cking soft. http://www.tmz.com/2018/10/09/astros-ryan-pressly-roberto-osuna-heckler/
  10. h2oface
    Another rebuild? Are we still rebuilding? Is there ever and end to the rebuild?
  11. h2oface
    If he would have had to retire after his concussion episode..... he would have been a shoo-in, like Kirby Puckett. Playing out his contract as a light hitting first baseman.... could very well make that not happen. The bi-lateral leg mystery doesn't help, either.
  12. h2oface
    This whole idea that shortstops and catchers shouldn't hit, or it is OK if they don't, is so lame. MLB players should all hit. To accept those that can't is why teams don't win pennants.
  13. h2oface
    The Brewers made all the right moves. Our guys made all the wrong ones, and the "fans" adored them as, dare I say it...... I do....... because it is history....... "crushing it". But the reality is, regardless of whether one wants to take the easy road and say they were the right moves, all the stats said so.... the players just performed horribly - the reality is they were all the wrong moves, and they are now history, and can be viewed not as hindsight, but history, and poor identification. Very impressive what the Brewers accomplished. I don't call it luck. I call it genius. And they are "killing it!"
  14. h2oface
    Yeah... I would like to think that. Assuming the same performance is usual, even though he may have done just the opposite in a different butterfly effect. His first outing was not impressive in the playoffs, but the inherited runs didn't hurt the team this time. Doomtints helped lay it out.
  15. h2oface
    I might not be the best driver in the world, but I always look behind me (and around the car) before I get in the car. If I run over something that was there and I just didn't see it, or didn't clear the path, I feel like a moron, and I know I am totally at fault. If I run over a living being (or hit them, etc) because I just didn't see them but should have..... I can't just brush it off and think.... oh well, just a stupid mistake. It is huge, regardless of intent. I don't know how running over someone and breaking their legs isn't "reckless driving", regardless of whether one doesn't see something, because it is our responsibility to not move until we clear the path. I also don't drive a car that doesn't have plates.... I really don't like to talk to police if they initiate the conversation. I have never enjoyed a conversation with a cop that started that way. I might forget my wallet very rarely, so I can sympathize with not having ID. Plus somebody would have had to pay the tab. ID and wallet always together. Just think if Sano and Puig were on the same team. Never a dull moment.
  16. h2oface
    What a waste. Time to cut bait. The guy just can't grow up. Maybe he should get some counseling from Randy Moss. http://articles.latimes.com/2002/sep/25/sports/sp-moss25
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    Pressly comes in to relieve Verlander with the bases loaded and one out in the 6th in game one of the ALDS. First pitch.... wild pitch - 1 run scores and the runners advance to 2nd and third. Then the batter grounds out on the 5th pitch and another run scores, and the runner advances to 3rd. Sound familiar? Twins relief pitchers. Kings of the inherited runners scoring. He did then get a K and a pop up, and pitch a clean 7th. It looks like he won't hurt the Astros enough to lose, though.
  18. h2oface
    Now that is encouraging! I look forward to his progression to Scherzer numbers of today, and hope he can truly become that kind of consistent ace starter. One day, our pitcher of the year might win 20 games and have a season ERA around 2.50, 250+ Ks, 225+ innings, with complimentary other stats. Call me old school, but I still like to see wins close to 20 for a pitcher of the year. All the isolated stats are great, but in the end, a team's wins is the most important stat there is.
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    Ozzie Guillen is a clown, in my opinion. There is a reason why he never got another MLB job after the Miami debacle. Actually, many many reasons, and not just the Miami mess. I never liked that Molitor got the job to begin with, and thought he still should have been fired after 2017, and 2016 for sure. But the fact is, he only managed the sad state of affairs the our FO thought would be so good. The free agent's performance wasn't their fault, but it was their choice. What is Molitor's fault, is that he managed what was one of the fastest teams in MLB, even without Buxton, and the team leader only had 8 SBs.
  20. h2oface
    Just pay a player what he is worth, already! If he has a 10 million dollar season and he was under contract for 500K... give him a bonus! The system has been rigged now to not pay players when they deserve(d) it, and to over pay by 10 to 50 times when they don't by the long term contract. Things are really screwed up. Everybody wants security, and it really doesn't exist. Each team should have a pool of money to disperse. They should all get a salary based on past performance as a base for the year, and at the end of the year, the rest should be divided up as deserved from the season's performance. Now the young players are exploited.
  21. h2oface
    Nice of Belisle to even show some leadership as the season ends and give up a couple runs. Teaching the troops how to throw the ball away yourself and escape earned runs. Now that is a skill!
  22. h2oface
    De Jong's 2018 average pitch speed is 4 mph under the MLB average (89.2 to 93.2), his average spin rate is below the MLB average (2216 to 2263 rpm), and his average exit velocity is above the MLB average (89.8 to 88.4 mph). It is nice that he has had a couple of good games. I hope his future is somewhere else, though, and the Twins get some pitching that can take them to the playoffs.
  23. h2oface
    Busenitz, Littell (sort of), Curtiss, and Magill (1.2, sort of) all had clean innings. Call me amazed. I can't see how Gonsalves arm will play in the show.
  24. h2oface
    I have always thought the berger was lucky. It seems to have run out. But that doesn't stop Molitor from exposing him over and over and over.... and over and over. May is certainly failing his audition. It appears relief with men on base is not spelled M-A-Y. 500-pound fastball. That's funny! Perhaps Stewart just needed it to count - turn it on in the show. Detroit counts, right? But he also did it against Houston. That definitely counts. Does pitching against the current Twins' lineup count for Turnbull?
  25. h2oface
    At #24, in 2015, the Tyler Jay year, the Dodgers took Walker Buehler, who has been amazing this year. In 2009, at #25 (Kyle Gibson at #22), Mike Trout was finally selected by the Angels. It is often said that these are outliers, and all (most) the teams passed, on these examples. They all used their stats and scouts and advanced stats of the time, and evaluated them as not worthy of the many failures that have become litter ahead of them. Say what you want about the current way the stats are used to select the hierarchy of the draft. It fails way more often than it succeeds. Is there a better way? Maybe not. But I want the people making the selections that see the missing links, that picks guys like Walker Buehler and Mike Trout way ahead of the consensus group peer think. I guess that is too big of an order. Maybe it is all just luck after all, and the guys like Falvey and Levine could just as well be any other gambler.
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