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Rotating the Rotation: Is Jose Berrios Coming Up Soon?
TheLeviathan replied to dwade's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Milone always should have been a reliever. -
Please, I beg for a fiscally Conservative party that isn't straight off the Puritan boats.
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Positional flexibility only matters if you're competent at it. This kid needs to be at third, no more of this nonsense.
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I thinkwe need to keep playing him but for gods sake stop htting him first drop his butt to 6th or 7th.
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If this team believes Sano can play third than Trevor Plouffe needs to go. I like Ploffe, but long term it's a no brainer.
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So now he's going to be badly playing two positions? That isn't flexibilty, I could do that at a far lower rate of pay. Can we all agree this outfield "move" is indefensible yet?
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Rotating the Rotation: Is Jose Berrios Coming Up Soon?
TheLeviathan replied to dwade's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I'm with nick, it's abundantly clear our hitters are going to need more time to adjust and thrive. Might as well call the young arms up to do the same rather than staggering everything.- 117 replies
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Gladiator Showdown: Aaron Hicks vs John Ryan Murphy
TheLeviathan replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Should've kept Hicks a pitcher. -
I'd also throw out there that he managed to do something I can't recall about anyone else: his performance made me actually want to continue to watch a Super Bowl halftime show. Easily the best I can remember in my lifetime.
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All we've heard publicly is that he's a respected leader, sometimes things happen.
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Wasn't a fan necessarily, but his talent was obvious. Sad loss.
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No, that last point is speculation. None of us know why August and September were so brutal anymore than we know for sure why this April has been brutal as well. It need not be a formal debate to have the decency to respond to someone's argument as it's stated rather than dismissing it as something it's not. It sort of helps the discussion if you discuss what people are actually saying rather than something you make up to respond to.
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I really think Milone would do well as a reliever. Replace Fien with him and call up the kid. I don't have any kind of demand for when, but I'd like to see it happen this year.
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I don't disagree with your point, I will never register for a party simply because of how much I hate how they rig the system to keep out third parties and prop themselves up. The two parties have a chokehold on things to a degree that I'll never support. My comment was more about that faceless boggie man. That's what it sounds like every time Sanders or Cruz or anyone else makes that comment. Hell, I heard my ultra-conservative grandfather use that remark and all I could think is "you ARE the establishment of the Republican party" It's a really meaningless term right now. I think what you're railing against - the two parties rigging the system against outside influence/ideas - is valid. The message is just getting lost in the terms I'm afraid.
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I agree, it's not suppression, but when I first moved to Chicago I didn't have residency at a place long enough (bouncing around as a graduate student) to get registered. It cost me voting in one election. I was so pleasantly surprised when I came back to Minnesota how easy we make it here. It should be that easy everywhere. We should WANT people to vote, not see how many hurdles we can throw in their path.
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You clearly don't get what a strawman is. It took 5 replies in this thread before the original poster's point was lost in a "SSS" argument. That argument is totally irrelevant and completely unfair to the original poster who very clearly made the point to note he was using a larger sample. The point is not only invalid, it's completely ridiculous and deliberately ignores what was said. The discussion didn't "evolve" - it got forced down a sidetrack by a totally irrelevant point. THEN it evolved, making the original point totally lost while some of us tried in vain to get back to it. Lastly, I haven't ignored anything. If I had "ignored" his other 1000 at-bats I'd be asking for him to be sent to AAA. And I've said nothing even remotely close to that. I spoke of feeling worried about him. That also means I don't have to provide direct evidence - I'm not stating a fact, I'm stating a feeling that I'm getting from the length of time his production has been so putrid. I've openly stated that only the future will prove anything right or wrong. I hope my feeling is wrong, but we're approaching a large sample here that is on-going in his career. It isn't a SSS. It isn't 58 ABs. It's about 300-400 at-bats that are ongoing. If you want to wait until 500 to be worried - be my guest. But at least treat the original post and people that share that sentiment with a fair argument. Every time in this thread that "It's only 58 PAs!' was mentioned was a disingenuous, irrelevant argument. Plain and simple.
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I love same day registration, I think anything less is really un-democratic to be frank.
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The start of a new season is an arbitrary line too. Whether I pick a 4 day all star break or a 4 month break, Dozier didn't magically become a new hitter in either span of time. Looking at the larger, most relevant context is my reasoning. No one disagrees. It's not relevant for the argument that was presented in the first post. Posting that argument is not a valid point because no one is arguing it. It's a straw man. It's irrelevant. As for his 1,000 PAs - Again...not really. We all acknowledge he had a great stretch, but hitters can do that and then find the league adjusts to them and they never find that success again. No one is denying he's had a great start as a full time regular, the problem is why haven't we seen that Dozier for a considerable length of time? It's perfectly valid to be concerned when it's been a pretty significant chunk of time since he was that player. Will he go on a binge and make those fears go away? Certainly has happened in the past. I'd welcome it, but we won't know until he takes more at-bats. But while you and others may arbitrarily decide mid or late May is the time to be concerned (when he has less than 300 at-bats this year) - I'm looking at a larger context and sample size right now.
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Trade or as a FA?
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Republicans and Democrats and pundits all drop the term incessantly in all sorts of contexts. It's basically meaningless at this point. That's not to say what you're arguing against may not have merit if you use the word, but you're choosing a term that means almost nothing.
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Then you are a drawing an arbitrary line. It's always arbitrary when you're doing this sort of thing. I don't disconnect seasons when I think about players. Sano's plate discipline is absolutely a factor for me as I consider his start. I take John Ryan Murphy's BABIP from last year into consideration for projecting this year. I can't ever remember shutting off last season's trends from consideration merely because they were last season. I find the notion preposterous, in fact. A hitter's past is always relevant. If you want to haggle between 320 and 400 - it's still WAY more than 58 an that's the whole point. 320 is enough for me to be concerned, if it's not for you - fine. Just don't paint it as a 58 PA over reaction - it isn't. That is twisting the argument and an unfair presentation of what you disagree with.
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And that's fine, that's a valid reason to do so. He's certainly exploded for stretches of extremely productive play and we may be on the cusp of that. Only the future is going to tell. (Though I may argue dropping him in the batting order may be called for. Or that we have more flexibility with that if he's going to be this streaky) What worries me about Dozier's hitting profile is that it's relatively limited (draw walks, pull everything) that I think attacking him from a pitcher's perspective is easier than, say, someone like Sano or Mauer. I wonder if his binge the first half of the year drew a lot of attention and if he's been "figured out". He might be attacking pitches the same way, but peripherals don't always tell the whole story.
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I'm pretty sure "establishment" has taken over the title of "most used word that doesn't mean a damn thing"
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If I wanted to cherry pick where he was looking most awful I could have. I'm well aware that the last 300 at-bats make Dozier look REALLY bad. I picked post ASG because it is a natural division where we commonly compare player performance. I mean, if you want to get more specific with just how terrible he's been you're certainly making a good case for it. But it's absolutely true that he's on a long, on-going stretch of poor play - that's what is concerning. This isn't 58 at-bats, it's extended significantly farther back than that. Where you choose to be concerned is absolutely fine. What I reject and really hate that happened in this thread was a rush of people saying "Meh, it's 58 PAs". It's not just 58. Where you magical line is for being concerned is just as good as my magical line, but we aren't talking about 58 PAs. That's a disingenuous refutation of the point being made.
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Game Thread: Twins @ Brewers, 4/20 7:10pm CT
TheLeviathan replied to Riverbrian's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
She's got that girl-next-door cute thing going on. That's what it is.
