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  1. Willihammer
    Please, please, please move on from Ryan-Antony. Clean slate.
  2. Willihammer
    Both this year and last have been outliers in terms of baseruns. Just by having *no* luck next year, the pitching staff would make up 30 runs. Another ~50 by not playing guys out of position and losing Suzuki. The offense is due for 10 runs of sequencing regression. That's 9 wins. That makes them a 68 win team without changing a thing. Can they gain another 20 through internal improvement in an offseason? Doubtful. They would need a lot of turnover to achieve that, and probably some good luck to boot. And as we saw in 2015, good luck happens. You can't bank on it but should be prepared in case it hits you IMO.
  3. Willihammer
    Yeah. Oppoents have a .321 BABIP against us. The staff has underperformed their peripherals by 80 runs if not more, and counting. The lowest tech, most cost efficient way to improve the pitching, is to improve the defense. Lucky for the Twins, they have improvements all around the 40 man already. Plouffe, Escobar, Rosario, etc. They just need a catcher. Boom, that's what, 50 runs, easily?
  4. Willihammer
    Santiago has the highest k-rate of the group (excluding Mejia) career-wise.
  5. Willihammer
    Pretty dovish language I'd say. A graph was displayed showing Median projection for FFR to reach 3% "normal" long term rate in 2020 or later. ...And now some dummy is asking about Trump's comments re:Yellen. Dollar is down a tick. Oil up. Good news for stocks.
  6. Willihammer
    Huh, short-term bond yields are way down. -18% on 3 month, -6.5% on 6 month.
  7. Willihammer
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9vG7xDVX1k
  8. Willihammer
    OMG its so easy.
  9. Willihammer
    What I'd do- shift the #5-6 starters to the pen. Hughes, Gibson, Milone, and Duffey. Santana, Santiago, Berrios, and two open spots in the rotation. Shop Pressly, May, Chargois, Kitzler, Light, etc for starting pitching.
  10. Willihammer
    Santiago has only sucked in his brief Twins career. He is a 103 ERA+ starter overall. The same or better than Ervin Santana, Matt Shoemaker, Jake Odorizzi, Jeremy Hellickson, Ian Kennedy, etc.
  11. Willihammer
    2016 was the hottest summer globally on record, beating the previous record (2015) by a fifth of a degree. August marked the 16th straight record breaking month. http://www.startribune.com/earth-smashes-yet-another-heat-record-16th-month-in-a-row/394158631/
  12. Willihammer
    The reason for using crude stats like FP and RF/9 in discussing a player like Polanco is because the MLB sample is tiny in comparison to the minor league sample. Unless I'm mistaken, there aren't zone data like RZR for minor league players. If we're throwing those stats out because of opinions about groundskeeping or first base defense, then its just a question of the eye test, no?
  13. Willihammer
    Not sure who you're talking about or what your point is. My point was that a better SS than Polanco was moved off the position. At least as measured by FP and RF/9.
  14. Willihammer
    Player A played 2500 minor league innings at SS, with a .962 FP and 4.34 RF/9. Player B played 2900 minor league innings at SS, with a .932 FP and 4.20 RF/9. Hint- Player A is a our starting 2B. Player B is Polanco.
  15. Willihammer
    The question I've been asking myself lately is, which is better: a single Trump term followed by a better D than Clinton in 2020. Or, two terms of HRC...
  16. Willihammer
    IMO getting an above average defensive catcher is the single best move the Twins could make this offseason. Suzuki is awful.
  17. Willihammer
    The cash dividend income is nice, I wish I had more of it. FOMC meeting on Wednesday. Almost certainly won't raise rates but we'll see how the market digests the minutes. An OPEC+Russia meeting a few days after that.
  18. Willihammer
    I've been looking at AT&T for similar reasons. The stock is down a tick, they reported better than expected iphone pre-orders last week and they are a utility too so they pay a good dividend.
  19. Willihammer
    Kinda seems like hitters could be sitting FB on 2-0
  20. Willihammer
    1995- Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee got hitched. Pizza Hut unleashed the stuffed crust pizza. Gangsta's Paradise, Jagged Little Pill. & Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
  21. Willihammer
    Well at least he didn't walk Colon.
  22. Willihammer
    How long can Colon go?
  23. Willihammer
    These are the exact sort of people I'd hoped they'd target. I'm encouraged.
  24. Willihammer
    IMO the pitching situation is a long-term problem that realistically won't be fixed for 2-3 years at least. The defensive component is a smaller but still material factor that they could address by keeping guys in positions where their skills play up, not down. IE. no more DanSan or Rosario in center, get Sano out of the infield. At least put him on first base. Get Polanco off shortstop. And maybe the most important, find an above average glove / framer / game caller / CS at catcher.
  25. Willihammer
    I'm not too discouraged by a couple big names turning down interviews. I kinda prefer they pull an up and coming no-name out of the ranks somewhere anyways. Maybe someone like this: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/59830/unknown-hero-helps-make-giants-world-series-champions/
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