TheLeviathan
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Innocent until proven guilty.
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If we have to subvert our most fundamental judicial concept to stop college rapes......wouldn't shuttering the university doors be a more palatable solution?
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Uh oh....that word is scary with this club.
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He had a nice start - bad bullpen hurt the bottom line.
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We give outs away before the first pitch is thrown every time we march Suzuki out there. It's a reflection of the utter lack of confidence everyone, including apparently Molitor, has in Suzuki right now.
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It was Kurt Suzuki. I'd have done it too - odds were damn good he was going to get out anyway.
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You expanded your sample size just enough to make your argument. Why not 2009? 2005? If it's a simple matter of "more=better" then your argument should stay valid if you keep going right? But you just, by pure random luck, picked his career year and thought that was sufficient? Yeah, right. I agree that he won't be as good as he has been in all likelihood, but even then he'd still be the best thing in our bullpen after Perkins by a hefty margin.
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The problem is you intentionally picked 2010 to get the answer you wanted. If you picked 2011 there is suddenly no trend. (Or a VERY minimal one) He bounces around a bit and his numbers are down just a bit, but not any kind of significant decline. He has an unsustainable ERA and BABIP, that's true. The rest of your argument is pretty bogus.
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I called him "capable" as a non-Padre. I think that's a pretty fair adjective. Now, as for your argument. You cherry pick his career high from 5 years ago for SO/9, but his career rate is 8.9 and this year is 8.3. That's hardly a major difference. His career walk rate is 3.6 BB/9 and this year is 3.3. His velocity charts don't indicate any significant trend. And, yes, his BABIP is very low and indicates he may see a regression, but even a regression from him easily makes him our second best reliever. I'm not going to continue this because if you cherry pick anyone's career year and compare it to a particular season you could argue he's "declining". It's a really unfair way to make your argument.
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Except I wasn't answering the question of "will he be good", I was answering "what has he done outside San Diego". You took me out of context and are arguing a strawman. You've got a funny definition for "decline" also. I understand worrying about his age and his performance away from San Diego, but he's been damn good for awhile by many measures.
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Fine, but that's not what the person I was responding to said. We're not talking about a guy whose only success was in the league's best pitcher's park. I'm fine with trying the young guys, but are any of you serious about calling up Achter and making him our 8th inning guy? If the answer is no, then your complaints are really in the wrong spot.
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He's been better in San Diego, but he was a capable AL reliever for most of his career.
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Nick Punto...is that you?
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Had the team opted to trade him last year, there was quite a bit of catcher movement this offseason we could have indulged in.
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Should Kurt Suzuki take a week off?
TheLeviathan replied to jimbo92107's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
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You also don't help much if all your "contact" results in weak outs. Hence the value in consulting multiple stats.
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Are The Twins Buyers Or Sellers?
TheLeviathan replied to Brandon Warne's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
With Sano in the middle the lineup would balance out tremendously with a leadoff guy that could force Dozier into the middle of the order. But that's also likely where we want Buxton. -
Since this last call up he's looked world's better, no doubt. But when someone cites one stat (a really flawed one at that) it makes me bristle. Hick's Hard Hit Rate is still very low and it's the lowest of his big league career. (20.4% - below the likes of Hermann) His walk rate has also plummeted. So while it's nice that he has a higher LD%, a lower GB%, and a lower K rate - there are a lot of red flags too. Now if he keeps having at-bats like he did this series we can throw all that out the window, cuz he looked like a different player.
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So you're content with someone meekly grounding out as long as it's "contact". He could go up there and bunt every time and be the most amazing contact hitter in big league history by that measure. It's nice that he's cut down on the Ks, but that was never his major issue either.
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Sano's approach makes me wonder how the hell anyone was getting him out in the minors. He's looked that good.
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Are The Twins Buyers Or Sellers?
TheLeviathan replied to Brandon Warne's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
You cite opening day starting nods? Quick.....tell them about Kevin Correia! They're 25th in the league in starter's ERA. I don't think they'd be opposed to adding arms to help them, now whether Pelfrey is that or not is a different question. However, Navarro is hardly asking for a huge haul. -
With the kind of contact guys have been getting off of Fien lately, we may have even more problems ahead.
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Exactly or last year when Hicks remained lost. But Vargas in early May? Rosario now? No way, huge mistake.
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Yup, this is precisely when Rosario needs to STAY. He needs to be allowed to struggle and work through things. I am fundamentally opposed to the idea that you demote a kid to lesser competition to show them how to succeed against better ones. At least that shouldn't be the first reaction, it might come into play if the struggles deepen and progress isn't made, but Rosario should spend the rest of 2015 with this team.
