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  1. Willihammer
    Snot running down his nose
  2. Willihammer
    Swinging thru strike three with meh intent
  3. Willihammer
    Think if we pull a Twins jersey over Swarzak and point him to the mound for mop up duty, anyone will notice?
  4. Willihammer
    We... we found the antidote, and its name is Neil Ramirez!
  5. Willihammer
    Maybe he was thinking, double cutoff? http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2760783/manny-cutoff-throw-o.gif
  6. Willihammer
    LOL. Tanaka is a stud. Park will be okay. Kepler should be embarrassed.
  7. Willihammer
    Relative terms here. Boyer + Abad equals 1.3 WAR at 1/5 the price of Neshek. Yes they could have done both, but let's aknowledge the tremendous value there. Finding one or two diamonds in the rough to plug into the bullpen every year is maybe TR biggest strength as a GM. Rounding out the other 7-8 guys, not so much. I look at the Hu trade, like the Ramos trade, as being forced more by that failure to develop internally a bullpen core, and not an unwillingness to wade deeper into free agency. Those pickups are always going to have marginal impacts when they work out, and clog the roster at significant prices when they don't.
  8. Willihammer
    The prices weren't an anomaly, but relief pitching is a young man's game so building bullpens through free agency is a high risk / low reward venture. The Twins were smart to avoid the Bastardo and Sipp contracts in favor of Abad. Ditto Burton, Fien, etc. That doesn't excuse the extensions for those players or more importantly, the long-term trend of terrible bullpen performance going on 6 years now. In fact, I'd argue that nothing gives us clearer insight into the health of a franchise than its bullpen. Since good ones require so many arms, only an effective scouting, drafting, and developing apparatus can produce them, and in that respect the Twins have failed miserably for 6 years running.
  9. Willihammer
    Still better than the NHL. "Lower body injury." Provus/Gladden guessed it was the knee that bothered him earlier in the year.
  10. Willihammer
    Really? I've never had commercials for TV feeds online. I get them for radio feeds online tho.
  11. Willihammer
    When the Yankees were in town, Ken Singleton (YES color guy) observed that Buxton's swing looked "long."
  12. Willihammer
    Every freaking member of this starting staff is Jeckyl and Hyde. Or in Nolasco's case, Ricky and Ricky. http://www.petalatino.com/wp-content/uploads/ricky-martin-vegetarian-peta-latino-e1363799247372.jpg
  13. Willihammer
    Sounds like 2015 Ricky is pitching again.
  14. Willihammer
    They are 3 current or former Twins pitchers who leaned heavily on curveballs. I'm guessing Dantes was in a roundabout way addressing the argument that a 2-pitch pitcher can't succeed as a starter. Duffey does throw a changeup but obviously that is a work in progress at best. Diamond had a third pitch too (changeup). Did Bert throw a third pitch?
  15. Willihammer
    I think it is fair to have high expectations of Rosario. Any idiot can take a pitch, its not a skill. But players need to understand why its important to work deep counts, and it doesn't look like many of them do. Maybe coaches could do more in that regard. The league bats 1.796 in 3-0 counts, and 1.366 in 3-1, .976 in 2-0. If I were Jake Mauer, I'd move the goalposts away from "drive the ball" to "get to those counts." The aggressiveness will take over from there, it doesn't need encouragement, and the walks will follow incidentally, as they should. Pair that with an emphasis on 2-strike hitting in order to keep strikeouts in check.
  16. Willihammer
    Duffey should keep starting for the exact same reason argued for May- his peripherals are there. Let's give regression time to work in a lost season before tossing aside the Duffman. The HR/FB rate is atrocious.
  17. Willihammer
    Steve Wright.
  18. Willihammer
    Dragons could die when Dany sieges King's Landing, that would level the playing field.
  19. Willihammer
    Yeah which is why his absence from the battle seems so strange. I have a hard time believing it was simply a technical issue with screen time. Wouldn't take much to plug him into a quick shot just to confirm his whereabouts. From what the audience knows, Ghost was locked up when Jon was murdered, but since then ??? We haven't seen him once I believe.
  20. Willihammer
    By my count we have confirmed deaths on Lady, Grey Wind, and Summer. Nymeria (Arya's) was sent into the wild. We saw what appeared to be Shaggydog's head at the start of last week's episode. Ghost is MIA as far as the audience knows.
  21. Willihammer
    Thanks. Curious that he missed the battle then. In the books Nymeria creates and leads a super-pack. Maybe there is a connection there.
  22. Willihammer
    Did Ghost bite the dust already? Maybe I fogot. He didn't show up in the battle, I expected him to bail out Jon in a near death engagement but he never showed.
  23. Willihammer
    I've always been curious about what bats the pros swing. Wood type, length/weight, cupped, rounded, now we got knob choices. Good stuff.
  24. Willihammer
    Probably wise to keep that in mind. The Twins could just be gauging trade interest at this point. Also this is helpful: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/dfatracker Tim Federowicz at the top of that list. 28 y/o catcher with a .910 OPS in 1100 AAA PAs anyone? He also has not been given much of a chance at the MLB level.
  25. Willihammer
    I love Burr, saw him at the Orpheum last fall. But his podcast is where the real gems are for me. His "rambling." Finally watched the new Bo Burnham special on Netlix. It is... amazing.
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