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  1. Willihammer
    Oh great now a 2 run homer instead of a solo. TRADE DOZIER.
  2. Willihammer
    Lol Dozier put your back into it Jesus.
  3. Willihammer
    Dozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  4. Willihammer
    Pretty nasty slider from the Gibster.
  5. Willihammer
    Right, because the Twins are amazing at drafting and developing.
  6. Willihammer
    Trading a prospect or two for starting pitching is a possibility too.
  7. Willihammer
    I also thought the thread had potential, sorry to see it go.
  8. Willihammer
    This environment prompted my first short sale. I'm worred about stagflation and/or price shocks if/when the Fed acts on rates again. My ass at least a bit covered holding ~20% of my portfolio short. Obviously it will just eat into gains if I'm wrong.
  9. Willihammer
    I'm thinking about a long term call option on Shopify. Feels a little speculative to buy outright and the long term (exp Apr 2017) are reasonably priced IMO. I just don't know enough about it and am leary of pulling the trigger on a co. with negative earnings, but its top line growth has been impressive.
  10. Willihammer
    It is interesting that, so far, the guy who has historically underperformed his peripherals is now outperforming them, and the guy who has historically outperformed his peripherals is now underperforming. Probably not a meaningful sample yet though.
  11. Willihammer
    Maybe just a blocking claim? Will be interesting to see if anything comes of it.
  12. Willihammer
    Did the Jays broadcast just have an outage or was it just me?
  13. Willihammer
    Yep. '81-83.
  14. Willihammer
    At what point does a man say "I think I'll double-wrap a garden hose around my neck?"
  15. Willihammer
    4 ground balls that half inning, for the guy who leads baseball.
  16. Willihammer
    This guy sounds like a great teammate. This guy's a douche. You do wonder about when a guy all the sudden earns the label of clubhouse cancer, if this is the sort of thing he might be up to. The guy with the fat free agent contract putting min. salary players in a position to either be buddies, or financially reasonable, but not both at the same time.
  17. Willihammer
    Tonight's game features a matchup between 25 year old LHP Matt Boyd and 25 year old RHP Tyler Duffey. Here are lineups: Tigers Matt Boyd (L) 1. Cameron Maybin ® CF 2. Erick Aybar (S) SS 3. Miguel Cabrera ® 1B 4. Victor Martinez (S) DH 5. J.D. Martinez ® RF 6. Justin Upton ® LF 7. Casey McGehee ® 3B 8. Jarrod Saltalamacchia (S) C 9. Andrew Romine (S) 2B Twins Tyler Duffey ® 1. Brian Dozier ® 2B 2. Robbie Grossman (S) LF 3. Miguel Sano ® DH 4. Trevor Plouffe ® 1B 5. Jorge Polanco (S) SS 6. Eduardo Escobar (S) 3B 7. Max Kepler (L) RF 8. Kurt Suzuki ® C 9. Eddie Rosario (L) CF Have a great game thread everyone. http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4d5d2a9649e2ae8f20010000-506-253/miguel-cabreras-dui-incident-is-much-worse-than-previously-thought.jpg
  18. Willihammer
    Why did Carew move to first base in 1976? Did it have anything to do with the knee injury he suffered in 1970?
  19. Willihammer
    Mauer's JAWS score is almost exactly average for a HoF catcher. But at 897 games played at C, he would be at the lower extreme amongst HoF C's, which IMO calls into question whether his career should be weighed against C, or maybe 60/40 against HoF Cs and HoF 1Bs where his JAWS score would be quite a bit below the 1B average.
  20. Willihammer
    Second is actually a pretty power-packed position these days. Could be a temporary thing though. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-best-year-at-second-base-ever/
  21. Willihammer
    Ideally we wouldn't be teaching anyone new positions at the big league level, I agree. But of the four, Mauer is the most athletic by far, that's almost indisputable.
  22. Willihammer
    I tend to think Mauer would do better at third, he is also the lone LH bat amongst 2 RH and a SH, but if he still has the legs for outfield then sure absolutely. Point being, if we're going to shift someone off position, do that with Mauer the athlete, not Sano or Plouffe.
  23. Willihammer
    Of the four- Mauer, Park, Sano, Vargas- Mauer is the most athletic. its not even close. Yes he is the oldest but let's remember he was the only player ever to be selected as the USA Today high schcol player of the year in 2 sports. He was also all state in basketball. He was the classmate you had who was annoyingly good at everything from the word go. And yet when presented with a roster crunch, the Twins move everyone around except him??? The solution is obvious- give Mauer a third baseman's glove. Rotate him into third against RHP to give the others more PT. He'd do just fine over there.
  24. Willihammer
    Dozier has quietly chopped 4.4% off his K-rate since last season, while improving his walk rate a tad. I think as Parker says he is staying in the zone longer, and to my eye he has improved his coverage of the outer half with two strikes. He's also hitting more fly balls, while popping up a lower % of those balls than ever. He's an incredibly hard batter to get out these days.
  25. Willihammer
    http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/08/cafardos-latest-moreland-leon-red-sox-gomez-puig.html?fv-home=0&post-id=70963 Assuming Puig fell to the Twins, I wonder if the Dodgers would trade him for Grossman straight up.
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