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  1. Thrylos
    Plouffe or Ryan? (I hope for the Twins' sake that both are gone by July)
  2. Thrylos
    Let's put the fees in perspective: $17 a day x 100 players = 1700 x 90 days = $153K $8 a ball x 1000 balls = $8K total $161K or 1/15th of what the Twins saved by the Dodger's claiming Fien Industry practice or not, the Twins should do the right thing by the players and lead and be groundbreakers in the industry, and then maybe the rest of the clubs might follow. The money is ridiculously little in perspective. Someone's got to take the lead to make meaningful change. Might as well be the Twins.
  3. Thrylos
    Same as throwing in Buxton/Kepler back into the mix. Not only he has been better than these two, he has higher OPS+ than Plouffe, Dozier, Escobar, and Suzuki who are treated as starters. So if Arcia is "terrible", the aforementioned half dozen is worse than terrible.
  4. Thrylos
    Unless you have a crystal ball, the above is pretty presumptuous on 2 accounts
  5. Thrylos
    Kepler was on the DL until a couple days ago with a strained groin. Which means that it either healed extremely fast for a groin injury or he will not be 100%
  6. Thrylos
    Reading Ortiz' book will provide a few other reasons of why the Twins could have chosen LeCroy over him. It is a must read for anyone remotely interested in this situation as well as the Twins' Front Office and Field Management of that time (and now as far as the FO is concerned.) One thing about Minor League Numbers of that era: Back then the Twins' AAA affiliate were the Salt Lake City Bees and balls were really flying out of their park (4,330 ft elevation vs 5,186 for Denver for comparison).
  7. Thrylos
    Actually my -2.5 is generous Data here (fangraphs) Peak FB: (2011) 93.0 2016 FB: 90.1 -2.9 Pitchf/x Peak FA: (2011) 93.0 (had his 2-seamer at 93.6 ave in 2012, but with 1% of pitches...) 2016 FA: 90.4 -2.6
  8. Thrylos
    Strike one: Career 3.88 FIP / 3.94 xFIP / 3.86 SIERA in the NL Strike two: 2.5 miles down from peak FB velocity Strike three: A rebuilding team is not willing to build around him but wants to get rid of him He's out. (unless the Twins can trade Nolasco/Hughes and Plouffe/Dozier for him and move him on on a different trade)
  9. Thrylos
    Pat Dean is striking people out at twice the Scott Diamond rate. SSS and all. Hope it continues, but so far Dean > Diamond's peak
  10. Thrylos
    Why is that? Has been pretty much the best starter this season (and not that this says much.) If it is because of rebuilding, Santana and Hughes got to go too... (and I am not opposed at all..)
  11. Thrylos
    Now that they nixed the Cederoth as a SP experiment, he should be in the AA bullpen
  12. Thrylos
    I think that Bill Smith did a first rate job with the whole Twins' Spring Training / Player Development facilities at Fort Myers. If you think that Bill Smith "was bad as a GM", wouldn't that mean that Terry Ryan (under whom the Twins had a worse record than under Bill Smith,) is worse, or at least that bad? The bottom line got to matter a bit, regardless whether Ryan busts his tail off... Loveable losers for 25 years has become a tad old, regardless the blasé approach towards the Twins' ownership, front office, and management.
  13. Thrylos
    Pohlad
  14. Thrylos
    I have been banging the drum about a need for a President of Baseball Operations for a while now... RE: St. Peter. He gets a lot of credit for things that Jerry Bell did (like the ballpark). All I have seen St. Peter talk with some sort of authority are: 1. concerts at TF 2. food at TF 3. some Dakota school athletics The Twins can do better in that regard as well
  15. Thrylos
    Can you enumerate them?
  16. Thrylos
    So you think that Ortiz would had been better than Phil Nevin and Jason Tyner than Ryan and Gardy had at DH when they went 0-3 against the As? (He had just a .287/.413/.636 slash line with 54 HR and 137 RBI in 2006)
  17. Thrylos
    It was a huge mistake and an even bigger mistake was that nobody was held accountable for it.
  18. Thrylos
    Buxton up Santana to DL
  19. Thrylos
    They should still do it and underoffer round 2, 3, and 4 picks to make it up.
  20. Thrylos
    There is no way that the Twins should pass on Garrett if he is available there, based on the shape of the LHSP in the organization. No way.
  21. Thrylos
    This is why a smart manager would bat a fast guy in front of Park (and not Mauer, Plouffe and Sano who are pretty much immovable objects) so the opposing pitchers will not throw junk because of the fear of the stolen base, advance on a bouncing ball, etc.
  22. Thrylos
    He was in 2014
  23. Thrylos
    This is 100% how it should be done, but it would require planning and for this 20+ seasons of ru(i)nning this team Ryan has shown that: a. he just cannot do it (esp. trade prospects with value) b. he overestimates the abilities of his players (eg. Dozier, Plouffe) c. he will never sell high because he thinks that the high will continue. Everyone in this team other than Sano should be tradable. Will he do it?
  24. Thrylos
    "Rasmussen" and "new voice" are as far as they can be. Rasmussen has been a Twins' employee since 1991. He has been the Twins' pitching coordinator since 2008. Based on the development of pitchers from within the organization, I got to say that he is not part of the solution. He is the posterman (cannot call him "boy", he is 64) of interim.
  25. Thrylos
    When the Twins were in the shape the Yankees are now, fans were ecstatic. I just do not get the double standards here. If anything, I would think that one would be more critical of their team if it is not winning while competing that of others...
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