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  1. Unwinder
    Great Wind Surge seats are like twenty bucks, so I guess there are worse places to shell out for a seat to sit around and text in.
  2. Unwinder
    I'm not sure what to expect long-term from Jax and Ober but I'm starting to avoid using "pitching pipeline" as a punchline. These guys are really working hard and earning these good outings.
  3. Unwinder
    You can't compare Ober to Methuselah, it was a completely different game back then. The average fastball was 12 MPH, and starters were expected to go 90 innings.
  4. Unwinder
    That's gonna be some career.
  5. Unwinder
    This trade deadline is good now.
  6. Unwinder
    This is a historic first.
  7. Unwinder
    I'm assuming that Nelson Cruz's couple of out-of-nowhere stolen bases this year are why his disciple Sano has been attempting them lately. Meanwhile, I feel like I wrote Rooker off really prematurely. He's not Cruz but he looks solid so far.
  8. Unwinder
    Hashtag FreeMiranda
  9. Unwinder
    It makes me really happy to see Ober continue to be decent, especially after Jax yesterday, and especially with Balazovic on an ungodly tear. These pitching prospects are really giving me something to look forward to (or at least fantasize about).
  10. Unwinder
    It's very encouraging that all the minor-league teams are winning when so many of the good prospects have been called up this year.
  11. Unwinder
    Good point, I was comparing him in my head vs Gordon as utilityman (and Gordon doesn't feel like a sure thing), and not considering him vs Miranda (the prospect I am most excited about) for third base.
  12. Unwinder
    I don't know why we'd want to trade Arraez, a young guy who factors into any rebuild plan that doesn't require completely starting from scratch (we want to contend in 2023, right?). Unless Toronto is drowning in expendable pitching talent, which does not appear to be the case.
  13. Unwinder
    I feel the same way, I've enjoyed more baseball this year than any year before. For me especially, having the Saints as AAA affiliate has made the Twin Cities a really special place to be a baseball fan.
  14. Unwinder
    I feel like I'm watching a teaser trailer for a new Star Wars movie. Getting psyched about triple-digit fastballs the same way I get excited about John Williams music and five seconds of Millennium Falcon footage, but ultimately I have no more idea whether it will amount to anything good or not than I did yesterday morning.
  15. Unwinder
    I'm definitely excited to follow Miranda's career. I was fortunate enough to be at CHS field for his AAA debut, and I can honestly say that it was the most electric night of baseball I've ever experienced. Went home with a big goofy grin on my face. I went from dreading the trade deadline, when we're sure to lose some of my favorite veterans, to anxious for the old-timers to get out and make way.
  16. Unwinder

    The Grand "Re-Tool" Experiment

    Unwinder commented on Tim's blog entry in Tim

    This very thorough look at the retool scenario certainly dampens my enthusiasm for it.
  17. Unwinder
    I have no problem whatsoever with his outspokenness on sticky substances (and I think his "it's not sticky anymore!" comment was, at worst, mildly obnoxious). But he doesn't seem like the kind of guy I'd really enjoy having a beer with.
  18. Unwinder
    Every time I see this discussion it's "Buxton is a generational talent with the potential to be one of Baseball's true greats," and "Berrios is a pretty solid number two pitcher," so if it's possible to keep one of these guys, I guess I'm on team Buxton, injuries and all.
  19. Unwinder
    I think the tell is usually that you can see a point where a pitcher's spin rate makes a sudden increase, we could much more easily tell who's using if we stacked up their spin rates over the last few years and looked for a dramatic bump. Also anyone whose current spin rate would have been considered excellent a few years ago is worth investigating. I think that as a team built around hitting, the Twins are suffering more from sticky stuff than they may potentially be benefiting from it, but it can't possibly be responsible for all of their woes. It certainly gives me more sympathy for strikeout-prone players like Sano,
  20. Unwinder
    This guy doesn't care about ERA, to him, WAR is god.
  21. Unwinder
    I've made peace with Sano being a streaky hitter. I enjoy watching him play when he's on a hot streak and have learned to sweat it out when he's cold. That's been a part of the Twins experience since I've been following, I'd be disappointed to see him traded away, even if that may be the best thing for the team.
  22. Unwinder
    I'd be pretty interested in seeing a poll by age about this unwritten rules scenario. My guess is that older fans tend to value these norms more than younger fans do. To me, the idea that Mercedes was in the wrong for swinging is so weird that it might as well have come from another planet.
  23. Unwinder
    This "unwritten rule" stuff feels like a weird holdover from another time. Seeing Duffey throw at(?) Mercedes, I feel like I'm watching an old movie where a character walks into a bar and gets kicked out because the regulars don't like the look of him. It feels anachronistic. It feels like it comes out of some sort of macho code that hasn't existed since before I was born. Speaking as a guy who's only been following baseball for a couple of years, I'm not a fan of this. This is much more of a turnoff to me than long late innings or frequent pitcher changes, or whatever else MLB has been trying to tweak to make baseball friendlier to newcomers.
  24. Unwinder
    You're absolutely right, I can't believe I haven't thought about the deadened ball once since that first week.
  25. Unwinder
    I guess I see it as unlucky that almost every player seems to have regressed at the same time, and almost every gamble we made on pitching has gone sour. So really, I guess the way I was using the word "luck" there was just another way of saying that everyone is bad.
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