FrodaddyG
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I fully expected a link to a Ft. Myers newspaper article about the change of brand in urinal cakes at the Twins' facilities.
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If only they could lower their standards to those of Twins fans! Damn their consistent winning and resulting high expectations!
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I yearn for the Twins to get back to that kind of terrible.
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Duh, everyone knows the character's middle name is "Power".
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Yeah, I'm not on board for anything significant, but maybe a little more than a simple minor league offer ($150k?) to get him into camp and see if he's got anything. He apparently was thought to have upside not that long ago, and Florimon/Escobar will likely be getting 500 ABs this year. I'm all for a move that could prevent that total from getting that high. If nothing else it's another handful of bullPunto to throw against the wall.
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That's what he's always seemed like to me. He's got a big, strong frame and rather effortless delivery. Obviously any pitcher is one pitch away from a UCL deciding it doesn't want to cooperate, but Felix seems about as durable as they come. Still can't believe he's still 26. He's been around FOREVER already. Same here. I may have a bigger grin on my face for this contract than the Mauer one, just because my gut tells me there's slightly less of a chance of it being a total albatross by the end of it. Both made me very excited to see mid-market teams lock up a face-of-the-franchise superstar through their prime, though.
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"Reports" saying he's getting 7 years/ $175M from the M's. Somehow, I really can't find a lot to complain about with the payday. He's one of the best pitchers in the game, a total workhorse who stays healthy, and ridiculously he won't turn 27 for a few more months, so really should just be entering his peak years. As someone whose "second" team is the Mariners due to family in the area and my own Seattle residence in the past, I'm happy for him and M's fans who get to see him stay in town for the long haul.
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Precisely. An extra year of control adds player value to the team who has him if they keep him, or to any team that may want to acquire him down the line. It's really a no-brainer to lock in the extra year with a few weeks in Rochester.
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No need to sign an infielder who had top 100 prospect promise as recently as 2010. They finally nailed down a couple guys around 30 who have been good enough to merit a combined 8 MLB ABs.
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See the "ESPN affiliate" bit at the top? What are the chances that ESPN would smile on an affiliated site giving away their pay info for nothing?
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I'm by no means a voice of authority for the site, but this won't fly.
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Article: TD Top Prospects: #7 Eddie Rosario
FrodaddyG replied to Parker Hageman's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
The middle infield pages of the organizational depth chart binder have been stuck together, and thus forgotten about, for the better part of the last 2 decades. (Andy McPhail had an unexpectedly shaken-up Diet Fresca blow up on him while browsing it back in '93.) -
All the scouting reports I found seem to omit this most important piece of information, but is there any word on whether he can "really get after it out there" and /or "pick it real good"?
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I may not have a thesaurus in front of me, but as it seems, "wise" and "witty" are not synonyms.
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Can we get the team barber to just let enough blood or keep enough leeches on him to render him perpetually too tired to stand up?
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And by the time Kubel became an actual on-the-radar "prospect" (after the breakout 2004 season), Mauer has already started his first season in the bigs and blown out his knee. Morneau also saw half a season in the bigs in 2004, so by the time 2005 rolled around he was off the "prospect" list. Mauer was still only a "prospect" in the sense that he didn't play enough games in 2004 before he got hurt, and rolled over into 2005 as the #1 prospect in the game. So when you say he was the "best hitter" on a lot of those lists, only the ones from 2005 on would count, and he was competing primarily with the likes of pre-figuring-it-out Span and Cuddyer. The Twins weren't exactly loaded with impact hitters once Mauer and Morneau "graduated" after 2004, unless you were high on the likes of Michael Restovich and Terry Tiffee.
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How many times does this need to be said? He's using different seasons in the development curve. I'd type something longer out myself, but I'm running late for darts.
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I almost made a "Not pictured: Flattened Fluffy" comment.
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Oh, I have that beat, I'm just not sure if I want to be that mean...
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Well, as long as you count Kubel's seasons from age 22 on. You know, the ones Arcia hasn't played yet. Because up to this point in their careers, side-by-side, Arcia has been just as good. If Arcia hits his AA numbers at AAA, he'll have OPSed within 3 points of Kubel's breakout AAA stats. He doesn't have to improve to compare to Kubel, he just needs to hit at AAA the way he did at AA and he's right on par with Kubel's numbers. This has nothing to do with him being "the one I know and have followed". Many of these guys on this board were over at the ESPN boards having glowing discussions of Kubel during 2004 and were devastated to see him go down with his AFL injury. People are high on Arcia, because he's done Kubel-like things at the same time in his career that Kubel did them. At this point in his career, Kubel broke out it the high levels the following season. Arcia will have the chance to do the same in a couple months. The limits of the time-space continuum aren't something I hold against Arcia just yet. [Edit: I walked away mid-post and then finished and see Brock made many of the same points. I wasn't intending to parrot him as much as I ended up doing.]
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Article: TD: Twins Top Prospects: #8 JO Berrios
FrodaddyG replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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The point is this: Prior to Kubel's 2004 season, Kubel wasn't a top prospect either. Not top 100. Nothing. As a prospect, he was loiwer rankings-wise than Arcia is at this age. Kubel was an under the radar, mid-round draft pick who hit well in the low minors. Then he had his big year, and jumped to the top 20, and deservedly so. But it wasn't like his AA-AAA breakout was anything anyone knew was a foregone conclusion, and if they say so, they're a liar. Maybe Arcia keeps the ball rolling at AAA, maybe he regresses, or maybe he exceeds Kubel's numbers. We don't know because, again, he hasn't played that comparable season yet. To use the "why isn't he a top 20 prospect" argument is a bit disingenuous, because the player you are claiming he's compared to in an "overblown" manner wasn't considered a prospect of any repute until AFTER the same-age season Arcia is about to play out. If you want to go by the "rankings" note, then Arcia's ahead of the game there, too, by beginning to show up in "Top 100" lists a year earlier than Kubel did. I don't think anyone is banking on Arcia putting up the "best numbers of his career" as he goes forward, but it isn't out of the realm of possibility, the same way Kubel found a way to have a huge year after a tepid year at Ft. Myers.
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Kubel forced his way onto prospect lists for the same reason Arcia has. He hit wherever he went. Maybe 8 years ago, the evaluators more heavily weighed production over tools and projectability. My 8-year-back prospect recollection is a bit rusty, but maybe I can recall why I had Kubel ranked so high on the Baseball America list pre-2005. (BTW, John Danks was the BA #59 guy on that 2005 list to compare with Law's Arcia ranking, and baseball superstar/fat-person-of-note Delmon Young was #3 on that list. So those guys are always dead on.) Arcia isn't a sexy, 5 tool player. He's a corner OF who can play respectable defense and hits the hell out of the ball from the left side. That's the exact write-up Kubel would have had in his pre-injury years. But the fact is, he's a level ahead at the same age as Kubel prior to Kubel's breakout AA-AAA season. Does he roll into this season at AA or AAA and mash the way Kubel did when he got there? I don't know, because it hasn't happened yet. But to say the Kubel comp is "overstated" is humorous. He's done the exact same or more, than Kubel , with a very similar skill set, through the same point in their careers, which Is ALL YOU CAN COMPARE. Once Arcia has had another season under his belt, then feel free to bring Kubel's breakout 2004 season into the comparison, because this upcoming season will be Arcia's comparable season to that one.
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Will there be any coding changes to address the shortcomings of Colombian hard drives?
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Well, Arcia did play in eight more games, so Kubel probably would have gone for 2 2B and 1.5 HR a game if he got those extra eight under his belt.
