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  1. FrodaddyG
    Yes, I'm sure grandpa has talked tons of Milwaukee folk into rooting for a team ~1000 miles away that left half a century ago, instead of the one in town. "But Ricky, these guys played here 50 years ago! Oh those were the days, I tell ya!"
  2. FrodaddyG
    They finally found a way to capture Milwaukee's lucrative 65-and older baseball market.
  3. FrodaddyG
    Wimmers sat around 90, touching 92 on occasion. The main selling point on him (especially during the BYTO discussions) was that he could be "like Mike Leake" and move quickly. Leake is pretty much the definition of a league average pitcher. While someone like that has value, much of the "low upside, but fast to the bigs" selling point is lost when, three years later, the guy has barely seen AA and is now shut down again with a mystery injury.
  4. FrodaddyG
    But, to be fair, the stuff they were doing a couple years ago left them in the predicament they're in now.
  5. FrodaddyG
    No way. Guy that young needs two seasons of short season ball. This would be his "repeating Beloit to learn to hit the ball the other way and move runners over" season.
  6. FrodaddyG
    Revere's walk% by year: 6.01 7.21 7.73 7.79 5.41 (5.77 in MLB) 4.15 (4.23 in MLB) Overall he's at 6.29% career, and trending downward as he moves into the majors. AS Pig said, it isn't unheard of for a guy to figure it out, but he's at 2500 PAs as a professional, and he's not getting better in that department, he's getting worse. Hackers tend to stay hackers (See: Young, Delmon) but most of them are guys who can give the ball a ride once in a while and aren't just praying that another grounder finds a hole every time they're at the plate. I hope Revere succeeds because it helps the Twins, but I'm still hoping that they can eventually (and sooner than later) piece together an outfield with guys whose entire offensive game isn't predicated on flurries of singles and nothing else. That said, I'm nowhere near delusional enough to believe things like "Revere could have a chance to be an All-Star every year", which are just flat-out idiotic. The guy is a nice piece, but if he's anywhere near the Twins' best player in any given year, that will be a historically terrible Twins team.
  7. FrodaddyG
    Reminds me of the joy I got from attending Livan's final game in a Twins uniform. Sat in the RF stands above the baggy to try and catch home run balls, but all of them he gave up went to deep center instead...
  8. FrodaddyG
    3 starts, 0-3. 11.1 IP. 7.15 ERA. Yes, he's been very, very bad.
  9. FrodaddyG
    Congratulations, you've just invoked the sound byte so ridiculous (and consistently used to justify poor players being on a roster) it spawned an entire Twins site for 6 years.
  10. FrodaddyG
    That isn't the point. It's the most players' successes aren't as exclusively tied to one tool as Revere's are, in this case, his speed. Hoping dribblers continue to find holes every AB isn't a great way to expect sustained productivity. As has been pointed out before, one mild hamstring tweak or any dropoff in speed and Revere is essentially a useless player.
  11. FrodaddyG
    A complete lack of pop and the inability to draw a walk would be two large ones. Specifically the drawing a walk portion for a guy who should be a table setter, and relies entirely on batting average, which is a department he has been fortunate in to this point in the season.
  12. FrodaddyG
    But if he makes that catch, (obviously one of the best of ALL TIME!) I bet Oakland just forfeits the game out of respect!
  13. FrodaddyG
    Come on, Pig, all he has to do is "ignite the offense". And he "turns infield singles into doubles and triples"! Insert other generic platitude here!
  14. FrodaddyG
    I'm no blogger, but Revere hasn't really proven wrong the people who thought his upside was as a defense-oriented singles hitter who needed to be fortunate on his BABIP to succeed. He still can't get an XBH or take a walk to save his life. This year has pretty much been on the upper end of expectations for his production (to this point). If his average creeps down into the .300 range, and his OPS dips back into the 600s, has he really made anyone who deemed him as (ideally) a fourth outfielder eat crow?
  15. FrodaddyG
    Is this the most indirect playing of the race card ever done?
  16. FrodaddyG
    It's like the Black Death of... teams?
  17. FrodaddyG
    While it would be preferable to get them in the bigs, if he isn't playing here more than once or twice a week, he should be playing in Rochester every day. It's stifling his production to have him serve as a backup 1B/5th corner OF/occasional pinch hitter and only get a handful of plate appearances a week.
  18. FrodaddyG
    Mission accomplished.
  19. FrodaddyG
    Quite the free agent coup for the Wild. Exciting day for the team and the fans.
  20. FrodaddyG
    Joe Mays The Twins medical staff Telly Hughes' elocution LaPanta's hairpiece believability
  21. FrodaddyG
    Another Twins first rounder that hasn't panned out. /BYTO meme
  22. FrodaddyG
    I think you mean "NHL '08 Franchise" blogger. I miss him in the same way I miss that pain sensation you get when you floss your teeth until your gums bleed.
  23. FrodaddyG
    Finally, Buck posts. Something to look forward to.
  24. FrodaddyG
    If they want someone to hang with Rubio and speak Spanish, I'm willing to do it for a fraction of the $19M a year Gasol makes.
  25. FrodaddyG
    His old what?
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