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  1. Thegrin
    picky picky picky
  2. Thegrin
    This is baseball. A player is not out after 2 strikes. Every year is a new year. Mauer proved that. This is baseball. Every throw is a fresh chance. I rookie league pitcher can strike out a top hitter. A pitcher can make a perfect pitch, inches off the plate, and the batter can still reach out and hit a home run. This is baseball and Hughes has been a superior pitcher. This is a new year and under new circumstance, the results can be different. This is BASEBALL. Also, Hughes has always been a control pitcher. Control pitchers are better able to focus, than the average pitcher. They see their spot and hit their spot. This implies that Hughes should be able to adjust to his current velocity, if his arm is sound. Give him time and he can make a turnaround like Gibson did last year. Who saw that coming ??
  3. Thegrin
    Every game I turn on the TV and cross my fingers. Right now, it doesn't look good.
  4. Thegrin
    One bad outing and you are talking about dumping him ? Thats a pretty quick hook, if u ask me. We are paying him for the next two years. How about saying that we'd like him to pitch, if at some time he appears as though he will get men out. If not, he will have about a two-year stay on the DL. Please don't put him on the Twins mound until he can make a good case for being able to get outs.
  5. Thegrin
    Without Butler can the Wolves even make the playoffs ?
  6. Thegrin
    With the recent trend of 5 inning starters, having a 4 man rotation makes sense. - Using only your best starters will give the Twins more quality innings at the start of games. - Pitching only 5 or 6 innings, on average, would not put undo stress on their arms. - The current trend of 100 pitch counts for starters also helps to limit arm stress (& innings). - The 3rd time through the order usually occurs in the 5th innings, in a well pitched start, it only makes sense to prepare to remove the starter when he starts getting hit. - If a starter is pitching well, they do not have to be removed until they are getting hits or he reaches his pitch limit. - Each starter could have a backup reliever capable of pitching another 2 or 3 innings, which would leave 4 pitchers ready to close out the game. - The backup relievers would be relieving once every 4 days and could easily show which pitchers deserve to be starters. They could easily pitch 100+ innings in a season. - Each starter would start about 40 in a season, and if they average 5 innings per start they would accumulate 200 innings. Imagine if the starters pitch 800 innings, that would leave only 650 innings available to be pitched by the 12 relievers. - 4 starters means 1 more reliever, this would make it easier to only carry 12 relievers and gives the lineup an extra hitter/position player. I love the idea of only using the four best starters in a 4 man rotation.
  7. Thegrin
    I like Gibson. I have high hopes for Gibson. I am very suspicious of his start in 2018. Will he be able to start up the way he ended 2017 ? I doubt it. Gibson seems to have to re-learn how to pitch each season. The Twins have to throw Gibson onto the mound every 5 days and live with the results. I doubt the results will be consistent until June. We can hope for better, but we shouldn't expect it.
  8. Thegrin
    I have a favorable impression of Jake Odorizzi. I watch all the Twins games and many other games as well. I get impressions. I trust these impressions and I like this trade. I like Berrios to improve but I don't trust Gibson or Meija. We had to bring in at least one outside pitcher of worth. I think (hope) (pray) that Odorizzi will be a reliable starter.
  9. Thegrin
    I hate being negative, BUT if looks too good to be true its usually too good to be true.
  10. Thegrin
    And the Twins sign Jake Odirezi, so that makes this thread ...meh
  11. Thegrin
    Lets hope that Hughes or May or one of the Rookies, steps up and we don't have to use Meija as a #5
  12. Thegrin
    There are plenty of AB for our current players in the DH & OF. They should be taken by Mauer, San, Granite, Vargas. Escobar, Garver & Grossman. This combo of hitters is better than all the Napoli types. After 2018 we will want to discard some. Until then, don't even think of bringing in an experienced RH hitter.
  13. Thegrin
    I got Teague fatigue
  14. Thegrin
    NO! nononononono ! an experienced right handed bat would take up at bats. The future of the Twins is in its youth. Let the young hitters sort it out amongst them. Let the kids get all the ABs.
  15. Thegrin
    nice narrative. I'd like to hear more about baseball in the Dominican.
  16. Thegrin
    I'd take the Twins infield over the Indians, any day. Lindor is a star. I'd love to see him in a Twins uniform, but would you take Ramirez over Sano ? or Kipnis over Dozier ?? and whoever they play at 1B over Mauer ? Come on? Be Serious.
  17. Thegrin
    In my opinion this analysis puts way too much emphasis on past performance and not enough on growth. Except, perhaps, for starting pitching. A projection of Twins starters being any better than average is based on hope.
  18. Thegrin
    Something bad will have to happen to get Wade into the majors in '18. Something bad will have to happen to get Gordon into the majors in '18. Kinley is something bad about to happen. Some relievers will prove that no good is going to happen for them, when you compare them to last years holdovers. Romero & Gonsalves are something good happening and I am looking forward to their debuts.
  19. Thegrin
    All I know is that the Wolves are wonderful to watch right now.
  20. Thegrin
    17 million in salary for Reed, Duke & Rodney. I will probably hate Falvine forever if 2 of these don't turn out to be excellent in 2018.
  21. Thegrin
    This quote was from another thread, but it bolsters the opinion that the website should be updated to include tables, and cutting and pasting from other sources "Here is the info.I had it in a spreadsheet so the formatting is horrible.I included 4 year contracts in the years there were not any 5+ year deals to FAs. Year Player Yrs Amt AAV Team Rev Rank NOTES: 2015 Lester 6 155 25.83 Cubs6 2015 Scherzer 7 210 30.00 Nationals8 2014 Tanaka 7 155 22.14 Yankees1 Does not include posting fee 2013 Greinke 6 147 24.50 Dodgers6"
  22. Thegrin
    There is plenty of room for 2 Twins fansites. I read the articles that appeal to me. Sometimes its the subject that interests me. Sometimes it is the author. As long as they entertain me and stimulate my imagination, I am happy.
  23. Thegrin
    We love the Twins. We want them to do well. Those consecutive years of bad ball, caused the Twins to lose the casual fan. Those unfortunate years undid much of the accumulated good will that the Twins had earned during the first decade of the 21st Century. It will probably take at least 2 or more good years, before the Twins fans will support the Twins, regardless of their record. This being said, I believe the Twins fans will come out stronger in the summer, regardless of their record (unless they really, really stink) because of the good will they earned in 2017. This will bring the Twins extra revenue and the money can be invested in their players. With good decisions and a little luck, the Twins could be contenders for the foreseeable future.
  24. Thegrin
    The money might be spent extend ending the contracts of Buxton and the gang. We would lose a 40 man roster spot and he might turn out to be Big Papi . Those are 2 ways they could lose existing talent before their time.
  25. Thegrin
    Looking at these rookies gives me more hope for the rotation and bullpen in 18 and 19. We Twins fans should all be thankful and look forward to another interesting year of Twins Baseball.
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