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  1. Jocko87
    The vision is quite clear. An average offense becomes a legitimate contender and there's enough hitters around to make that happen. If the offense gets hot, it could be a magical summer.
  2. Jocko87
    It’s not March so, yeah.
  3. Jocko87
    Remember, baseball is not a sport of hustle, it’s about being in the correct place at the correct time. That sometimes requires hustle. The correct place for Lewis will most often be 2nd base instead of third on a ball to the gap, along with 98% of all other ball players. That said, he wasn’t close to full speed when he came back, but it’s what was needed. Correct place at the correct time.
  4. Jocko87
    Just had to get Wacha to the magical 50 pitch number.
  5. Jocko87
    The at bat doesn't start until Zebby gets to 0-2.
  6. Jocko87
    Correa xBa 0.820. Meaning that ball is caught 18% of the time? Lolz
  7. Jocko87
    Really a tough oversight by Abbott and or Costello not to predict the DH and work it in.
  8. Jocko87
    3rd base! Doh.
  9. Jocko87
    Yeah yeah, more importantly have you heard anything about Correa and Buxton?
  10. Jocko87
    That Bregman money is still available. Honesty, who cares about the Tigers. Just focus on making sure the Minnesota Twins are also for real and I'll live with the chips as they fall.
  11. Jocko87
    Even better, the choice was between two 28 year old career minor leaguers.
  12. Jocko87
    You are correct about getting out of the weeds, we don't have enough information to be in them most of the time. You ignored your own advice in the second part of your post. That's a decidedly small view. I could see ten different routes to playing time for McCusker down the road.
  13. Jocko87
    I'm struggling to understand what the issue is here. They brought in an available outside player over someone not on the 40 man. In May. Always take the outside resources over your own, always. Then, they were right about said outside resource and he became the MVP of a 13 game winning streak. The inside resource in question is called up anyway but is a lower priority for at bats to the aforementioned red hot acquisition. Meanwhile, McCusker is so fooled by a major league change up he's thrown a bat farther than he's hit anything. The front office and Rocco have played this perfectly including McCusker most likely going back down when Buxton is ready. I don't know what the issue is.
  14. Jocko87
    Exactly this. Reading through these comments a lot of folks are melding league average with replacement level when they are two distinctly different things. The Fangraphs definition for replacement level is 0 WAR over 600PA. It’s a little early to be discussing this in WAR terms. In his injury season, he was worse than that. Other seasons, much better. In other words, a solid major league player. Half the league, approximately, are solid major leaguers. He is one of them.
  15. Jocko87
    You know they play nine innings in the big leagues right? Even for double headers.
  16. Jocko87
    $425 million doesn't just spend itself.
  17. Jocko87
    I have boogers older than that nickname.
  18. Jocko87
    Plenty of options still available.
  19. Jocko87
    Much to the surprise of both organizations, however, the petals of the once-detested deal have come to bloom a season later than expected. Why would you be so confident to speak for these organizations? You don't know this and it's obviously a narrative setting wish fulfillment to say this. Both teams knew exactly what they were getting. Both teams would likely do the deal again. We don't need to pretend we know inner thoughts.
  20. Jocko87
    "Triple"
  21. Jocko87
    Not really trying.
  22. Jocko87
    Am I the only one that heard the Buxton news was false? Still in the protocol per Chatterberry. Said it was reported in error.
  23. Jocko87
    Was going to comment something like this on one of these parody articles. Glad I'm not the only one who is not impressed. Even Stu misses the mark from time to time for me but when it's once a week and only once a week it's not a big deal. The editors need to remember these are pre-arb writers that are a long way from getting to see the third time through the order regularly. Couple of them need some seasoning time in the forums.
  24. Jocko87
    It seems like we have this conversation every other year. He was toast as a prospect prior to last year and then I realized he was only 22. Many threads trying to put a stake in the Berrios deal at the time. I forgot again today but I distinctly remember arguing for patience then and it still applies here. It doesn't really change what I think he needs to work on but he still has a ton of value and potential to unlock. Very few pitchers even see the big leagues at his age, much less have the success that he's had.
  25. Jocko87
    I would be curious if his stuff would play up at all in a relief role. Not having any single "great" pitch means he really has to hit all four of these categories to be serviceable. I'd like to see him work in a variety of roles both for this season for the Twins and his development. He's almost in the Dobnak role for me now. It's worth seeing what he could cut loose in one inning. He needs 96-97 or channel Greg Maddox. Neither seems likely.
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