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  1. h2oface
    So, inquiring minds want to know..... what exactly was it? Is it some secret? You sure it isn't....... 239 lbs?
  2. h2oface
    I am not one that is concerned about Sano, weight or no weight. I think he will be just fine. There is a cultural latino thing. All you have to do is live in and around LA to see and hear it. It is not malicious. Childish, yes. Persistent, yes. Hopeful, yes. Mean spirited, no. A super rich big child, that needs a trusted mentor. Missed the normal schooling because he was playing baseball. I have the same intramedullary rod/nail in my right tibia since 1991. And it was to repair a complete Tib/fib break, not a slight annoying stress fracture. It was very quick healing, and I ran a marathon on it. Tons of physicality in addition. Never a bit of trouble, to this day. Let him play baseball, and play third base.
  3. h2oface
    Because they don't know the process?.... in all their previous experiences and positions that got them the jobs they now have? Right. That's what was said, but I don't buy that spin at all. Hopefully, they already were well aware of the process.
  4. h2oface
    Left out of the Opportunity Cost.... Sanchez. A total waste of $417,000. And I don't care what anybody spins.... the cost of doing business, that's nothing in the grand scope of overall payroll (tell Gibson that, someone that is actually going to stick around, when they couldn't even pony up a couple hundred grand to his arbitration event....), etc..... Sanchez, as said at the time, was a total waste and a bad decision. A total throw away of almost half a million. That is bad management.
  5. h2oface
    For numerous reasons, I have never liked Rodney. Just because I now have to see him way more than I want to now, doesn't mean I have to start liking him.
  6. h2oface
    His time has passed, and the luck run out, is my bet. Not a fan. Never a fan. Will not be a fan of Rodney. It amazes me the the pitching metrics guys in the FO went for him. No top closer, no ace starter. Hmmmmmm. Here comes 2018.....
  7. h2oface
    It sure would be nice if the fastest team in baseball led the Majors in stolen bases this year.
  8. h2oface
    Maybe. Sure. Are you sure that this isn't MLB Trade Rumors? Because this is surely a fantasy that is just pure rumor fiction from your mind at this point. I can make things up and suppose, too........... but probably shouldn't.
  9. h2oface
    I don't know where or how being suspended for however much time it was for roiding fits in your assessment and reputation problem, but that is on HIM as far as I am concerned. And once a roider, it is impossible to tell how long he was. They all have a story, and it usually involves it was a mistake, and it was the only time. Sure. Sure it was, right?
  10. h2oface
    Some evolve. Some don't. When you don't, there is a player now positioned where that sweet swing always hits the ball.
  11. h2oface
    And the time being referred to was the end of that (more than a) couple of stellar seasons (2011 to pre-trade 2015 with 2.25-2.82 ERAs ,<FIP not looked up>, and 2010 was really the beginning). He had a rough go with KC to end the 2015 season. But he put on his ace shoes for the WS. You can call him whatever you like for the period. Call him a #3 if you like. He had an untouchable run, and not just for one season. But we are heading off topic.........
  12. h2oface
    Hughes is as cooked as Perkins' was. Only his ego is keeping him in the game at this point. But he has to be cut to get the money, so that is what will have to happen. I doubt he will do a Cuddyer. If he hangs around..... the only hope I have is in the pen, which is where I would have put him since September of 2015.
  13. h2oface
    I certainly don't think that "this board" is anymore of a collective expert than other sources. Many times, with it's homer tendency, and folks liking to assume collective consciousness, I find it just the opposite.
  14. h2oface
    Now that is the 20-30 million dollar question. With the FO not getting it done through free agency or trade, it will be a developing question all year.
  15. h2oface
    If that is the case.... then why not have the advantage for 3 games in a row, instead of 2?
  16. h2oface
    I have always been an advocate of not pitching your notably worse and inadequate #1 against their ace #1. Giving up the opening matchup to have the advantage on all the others. Maybe not #4, but #3..... Opening day, too. But I have never seen it happen. Some traditions and egos just can't be altered.... or can they?.... now. If you hit lightning in a bottle, and shuck their ace with your bats..... you really have an advantage moving forward. If not, you were supposed to lose anyway. There was a time it was deemed ridiculous to pitch your best reliever in a situation other than the closer. Some of us were calling to do that for years. Now those teams that do it are considered "ground breaking", even though fans were smarter and faster than them.
  17. h2oface
    But this team needs one!
  18. h2oface
    Does this team need an ace to win? In the playoffs? Absolutely.
  19. h2oface
    Well, I wasn't referring to specifics.... just the general feeling that it was a good signing, and the ways the stats could be interpreted that they would be better than they have been recently, again. To me, it doesn't matter what direction they are coming from, just the results. And Odorizzi seems to be a similar pitcher. So not to excited here.
  20. h2oface
    I heard similar projections about Nolasco and Pelfrey when signed. I hope for the best, but I really don't see Odorizzi as any different, and am not expecting results that wow.
  21. h2oface
    And then there was this, reported by Jeff Todd | February 28, 2018 at 1:13pm CDT, I MLB Trade Rumors: "It seems the Twins also feel their roster-building work is done, with chief baseball officer Derek Falvey telling reporters including Mike Berardino of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press (Twitter link) that there’s a “high likelihood” the team has already compiled its Opening Day unit. Minnesota did make quite a few acquisitions over the winter, including recent moves for Jake Odorizzi and Logan Morrison that added fairly significant salary commitments for the 2018 season. Some have wondered whether another rotation piece would make sense, but that doesn’t seem to be in the plans at present. Minnesota is slated to open with a club-record $116MM+ payroll, though the organization had already been in nine figures to open each of the past three years." So much for the hype of an ace being the goal. Ordorizzi, to me, feels an awful lot like the "talk myself into the positive and hope" that I heard when other signings in the past, like Nolasco and Pelfrey, were what we waited all off season for....... Well, they talked a good rap. But that was all it was. Call me..... crushed.
  22. h2oface
    I think the comment means absolutely nothing. He could have said something totally different the next day. But it looks like he will need more than 12, as he is yet to get a hit after 12 ABs.
  23. h2oface
    I wonder if Joe Mauer has heard anything about "launch angle"?
  24. h2oface
    "Thad Levine indicated some regret in the Twins’ loss, telling Twin Cities’ media "we were 29/30ths of the way there." I also read in some article, and not sure if it was Falvey or Levine, but I think it was Falvey... comment, that he was surprised that he wasn't claimed way earlier, and he expected he would be. So I don't know that I buy the spin that they thought they could sneak the shaggy one through, now.
  25. h2oface
    May as well get rid of the farm with trades. This FO won't be using/needing them.
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