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  1. Willihammer
    Only Mauer and Nolasco are long term commitments. There is a financial window right now to make a big move. W-L or even position should not be a concern at all IMO
  2. Willihammer
    Yeah I'm not in love with too many in the bullpen, and I haven't been impressed by Tonkin from what we've seen of him. Maybe Guerra or Oliveros can fill a role, and Pelfrey or whoever is shoved out of the rotation but there will be 1-2 open spots by my math.
  3. Willihammer
    14 games way back in 2006
  4. Willihammer
    Final offer - Mauer to LF, Pinto to 1B, Vargas to DH. Defensive improvement in LF, 1B, while getting around the backup catcher / DH problem.
  5. Willihammer
    I'm not sure that's true.
  6. Willihammer
    I think this makes the most sense, but I think the Twins will be reluctant to do it, but I'm not sure why.
  7. Willihammer
    Who is the better bat - Pinto or Vargas? I like what Vargas has done so far, but his track record is much shorter than Pinto's. Its far from clear Vargas is the better DH option than Pinto, in my mind. If Pinto is the better bat, he should be the primary DH and instead we should be asking, what do we do about Vargas? Its also worth mentioning both players minor league platoon splits since 2011 are basically zero.
  8. Willihammer
    Do we want Pinto cutting into Mauer/Vargas at DH?
  9. Willihammer
    Better results lately but he still gets burned on good waist high fastballs. Struck out on another one last night from Kluber.
  10. Willihammer
    What happened to the ignore feature?
  11. Willihammer
    Ugh. That was not his best PA. Takes ball 1-2-3, then takes strike one, and then swings at ball 4 for strike 2, then swings at ball 5 for strike 3. It looked to me like he pushed it because he didn't want to take a walk after Santana had risked the SB of third (successfully). Any ball in play would have scored him.
  12. Willihammer
    Is there any chance the Twins add Reynaldo to the 40 man and call him up in September?
  13. Willihammer
    I'm not sure why Pierzynski winds up in every conversation about Mauer. Yes, AJ has logged more innings at catcher since 2010 despite being older. A lot more. So he's tougher, one of the toughest players in baseball probably. He's also allowed baserunners to steal at will, can't frame pitches, is a poor baserunner, and isn't as good of a hitter. So, he's not as good, and hardly any cheaper. In fact on a per WAR basis since 2010, AJ's produced 1 WAR per $4.7m. Mauer? 1 WAR per $5.7m. I'm glad the Twins have the better player, even if he's more expensive. I wish they would get a whole bunch more players like that. (I shall now go to the WAR thread and try to defend WAR.) All that being said, I think a lot of the armchair doctoring about Mauer is borne out of a frustration with the fact that the lineup is almost unwatchable without him in it. If the players around him were better, and the team didn't lose 90 games a year, Mauer wouldn't catch so much heat. Maybe its kinda like KG and the crummy T-Wolves teams earlier in the 2000s. KG was among the game's best players and still people said he wasn't "clutch" or whatever. Pretty soon he had enough of it and went and won some championships in another city. We're lucky Mauer seems to like it here a little more, even if some fans don't appreciate his output.
  14. Willihammer
    Good read - minor quibble. The strikezone might be smaller than it was 20 or 30 years ago, but since the pitchf/x era began, its actually grown around 5%, and also changed shsape (tighter left to right, bigger in the bottom of the zone). http://www.hardballtimes.com/the-strike-zone-during-the-pitchfx-era/
  15. Willihammer
    why not 1000? Why any limitation at all? Is there a technical reason?
  16. Willihammer
    Brock, why the limitation on likes? Its the 4th inning and I am out of likes again. Need moar likes for game thread.
  17. Willihammer
    That is maybe my favorite feature of the new site. Very convenient.
  18. Willihammer
    Its hard not to be encouraged. Vargas comes up, gets peppered with offspeed stuff, makes an adjustment, then takes an offspeed pitch deep for his first HR. All within the span of a week.
  19. Willihammer
    Undoubtedly. But I don't demand quality from a free site where anyone can register and submit an article. If you are going to insist on quality writing then it seems to me you will have to change the entire model TD has going here, which will utlimately translate to less content, no? And OC is a big reason I come here, even if every authors prose isn't Shakespearean or some arguments are unsound or unsupported by facts. In fact I'd argue that the discussions those postings sometimes initiate is where TD really shines. edit: here's a perfect example http://twinsdaily.com/blog/356/entry-5291-what-does-walker-have-to-do/
  20. Willihammer
    I vote for more lax editorial standards. TD is a free site, I don't expect ESPN insider-level writing from every author. And there is a lot of downtime in the offseason (and during the season when the club sucks) where I would rather have a bunch of short, perhaps poorly-written posts to read and comment on than a few long and well-written ones.
  21. Willihammer
    I think so too. That would seem to be consistent with Ryan's MO and the reputation he seems to cultivate. If you look at the top candidates for release to make room for Meyer, you can find similar reasons Ryan wouldn't DFA or relase - eg. Colabello: turned down $1m Korean offer to stay with Twins. Deduno: pitched well since moving to zero leverage mop up duty. Burton: no quite disasterous enough to justify cutting bait in a contract year (same as Correia) The Twins might very well believe Meyer has earned a promotion but are running into a conflict with the way they prefer to deal with releasing or optioning players, and the FA reputation they want to uphold. Its kinda sad that Pino seems likeliest to get optioned again despite flashing better peripherals than Correia and more long term promise.
  22. Willihammer
    Maybe not ideal but I say its a lot better context than say, spring training.
  23. Willihammer
    Any chance you would make em unlimited again? I really wanted to like a "bitch Sox" post in the game thread but didn't have any left
  24. Willihammer
    So what are you saying - that TR had a trade offer in hand and put an ultimatum on Suzuki? I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case but we have no evidence other than the timing, do we?
  25. Willihammer
    Sorry to nitpick but do we have any reason to believe the Suzuki extension was related to the trade deadline? I would judge them separately: A on the Fuld trade - I'm not that familiar with Milone but looks good on paper. D on the Suzuki extension - the other day TR said there were other things they valued besides framing, and mentioned durability. Well, hope they are ok with 1800 PAs at a .690 OPS and no added defensive value from the catching spot for the next three years. Suzuki just doesn't break and with $6m up for grabs, he most definitely won't.
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