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  1. Unwinder
    I'm not taking off work early, but will try and swing by right after work at 5 and catch the end of the game. The pitch clock can't shorten it THAT much, right? Also if anyone shows up and doesn't know what to order, that rye lager is the best thing they've got.
  2. Unwinder
    more like lunch angle am i right
  3. Unwinder
    Oh wow, I watch Twins games at Forgotten Star all the time because I don't have cable and it's the nearest bar to me that reliably shows the games and doesn't mind me hanging around for three hours. Strongly considering taking off work early.
  4. Unwinder
    Seems like this model is pretty high on our fielding. I won't be complaining at all if we get this kind of performance.
  5. Unwinder
    I'm just really happy that there are NO pitchers in the opening-day rotation who I'm going to be disappointed to see. Like if I decide to go to a game on any given Thursday night, there's currently no chance that I'm going to look up the lineup for the game and get bummed out that I'm in for a night of Archer or Bundy or Chi Chi Gonzalez. All five of the projected starting rotation are guys I'm excited to watch, and so are probably the first five depth options (though for some I'm more excited about prospect intrigue than impressive performance). We actually have a level of depth where, until injuries kick in, I'm not even likely to see a truly boring filler guy starting at the SAINTS. Is this more competitive than Cleveland having multiple actual aces? Probably not, but it's really nice to be a be able to expect to see a fun pitching performance at any given game. Just imagine! An entire year of not reading a recap and seeing the starting pitcher described as a "desiccated husk!"
  6. Unwinder
    I think it's a long-term business move and not a short-term competitive move, Maeda's contract incentivizes him to start. If they don't give him a chance to do it, it's going to be harder to get anyone to sign a similar incentive-laden contract in the future.
  7. Unwinder
    The FO has famously been getting overpays this offseason, I feel like at this particular moment in time I'm happy to trust the process.
  8. Unwinder
    It seems like the trade deadline is a better time to find takers for a glove-first outfielder anyway.
  9. Unwinder
    I think the no-injury scenario isn't even seriously worth planning for. A six-man rotation is always going to be a temporary luxury.
  10. Unwinder
    Considering how much the Twins have had to dip into depth starters, and how injury prone the opening-day rotation is, I don't think relegating Ober to depth is that big of a snub. It's pretty clear that the rotation moves have been more about stockpiling than upgrading. I'll bet Ober pitches more major-league innings than at least two opening-day starters.
  11. Unwinder
    Yeah I don't want to see Ober going to the pen, I feel like he's pretty obviously more valuable as starting depth and, you know, a starter who's still going to be here in two years. I like Winder, and would prefer to see him succeed as a starter but I'm pretty skeptical of his shoulder holding up to the workload.
  12. Unwinder
    I wonder, does this signal that they're thinking about moving guys like Winder or maybe even Ober to the pen?
  13. Unwinder
    Fair enough, guess ot can happen to anyone
  14. Unwinder
    I saw him play - I want to say the Rays - last year and he absolutely cruised through six scoreless innings, but they put him in for a 7th and he got immediately shelled. Pretty good example of how fragile his arsenal is. Hard not to root for a crafty lefty though.
  15. Unwinder
    Even if the injury risk of making Duran a starter isn't a factor, do we think he can go out and do his Duran thing for more than, say, five innings? "Ace" definitions range all over the place of course, but I've seen a lot of people on here define an ace as able to go deep into games. Do we have any indication that he can do that while throwing anything close to the obscene velocities that make him so good?
  16. Unwinder
    I don't know much about his health concerns a starter, but my worry as a totally ignorant layman is that under a starter's workload, he'd blow out his elbow and never be the same again. I'm gonna trust the Twins' coaching staff over my own gut as to how many golden eggs we can get without killing the goose.
  17. Unwinder
    Sorry but this ship has sailed
  18. Unwinder
    Ober is good and I like him, if he's your first line of depth at AAA that says good things about your depth, not bad things about Ober. I'm pretty high on Ober, and I think he may well out-pitch someone in the opening-day rotation this year, but he's less proven than the guys in the opening-day rotation, and you can't stash Maeda, Gray, Mahle, or Lopez in St Paul. I'd rather have six starters I trust than five, and one of them's gotta wait his turn, and it has to be either Ober or Ryan, and while I like Ober a lot, Ryan pretty obviously has the edge. (unless they try a six-man rotation again)
  19. Unwinder
    Checking out some Marlins fan reactions, and they're just as mad as we are, so maybe it was a good trade. It looks like Lopez is also a charismatic fan-favorite.
  20. Unwinder
    Is there a physical? Could Arraez still fail a physical? Fingers crossed...
  21. Unwinder
    He can want to be here while also preferring to go somewhere else for more money. I've been happy at jobs I've had despite them not being my dream job, and despite being willing to drop them for something that pays more.
  22. Unwinder
    NEXT STOP: WACHA!!!!!!!
  23. Unwinder
    I go to the mall and I go to the Dior store and I want something, I get it. I make an offer, it turns out to be too expensive, so I wait for two other people to buy it and return it because there's a hole in it, then it gets marked down and I buy it.
  24. Unwinder
    When the offseason started, I thought there was a good chance that the Twins would lock Correa down, but I never dreamed that it would somehow be a bigger stunner than last offseason's Correa signing.
  25. Unwinder
    I'm not excited about this because I really want the Twins to shell out for Correa, I'm excited about this because I really want something to happen.
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