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  1. ThePuck
    Like this post a lot...
  2. ThePuck
    Keith Law is a believer...
  3. ThePuck
    It is optimistic, but it's not out of the realm of possibility either. I imagine he'll settle into being the kind of pitcher who will gives us close to 200 innings with an ERA a little over 4.00. That's a pretty decent #3. Problem is, he'll likely be slotted as our ace going into this season.
  4. ThePuck
    Thank you! Finally some other people saying things about Smith I've been saying since he was fired. Good to know I'm not the only one...
  5. ThePuck
    Nice post!
  6. ThePuck
    Because they won't
  7. ThePuck
    Clearly? How so?
  8. ThePuck
    Arcia, the last three years: .375/.424/.672, 14HR, 51 RBI .291/.335/.531, 13HR, 51 RBI .320/.388/.539, 17HR, 98 RBI. Those numbers are pretty impressive...he's been in the minors for 5 years...he'll be 22 a month into the season...yet doubtful he'll be in the majors this year...at least not till September.
  9. ThePuck
    Interesting
  10. ThePuck
    but again, we aren't getting anywhere...you guys are more than entitled to believe what you want...even Terry Ryan said that everyone wanted them to draft power arms so they went that way this year...seems to me that means they weren't really doing that before but have now decided, hey, that might be an idea worth exploring. I'm sure that's a stupid thing to think too...I'm just generally stupid...
  11. ThePuck
    Johan Santana, Francisco Liriano, Scott Baker, and Matt Garza say "hi". The bottom line is that the Twins have done a bad job of scouting hard-throwers and when combined with their bottom 15 picks through most of the 2000s, they've come up woefully short on arms. It's possible that they don't value hard-throwers as much as other teams but they certainly don't hate them. Two of those (Santana and Liriano) weren't part of the draft and weren't originally ours. How much did we develop those two before they were in the majors? How much did we pay to draft those two. One of those two was too expensive to keep so we got rid of him. Garza got shipped off cause he wouldn't listen to how they wanted him to pitch. Then there's Baker...
  12. ThePuck
    anyway, we aren't getting anywhere...when stupid comes out, it's obvious minds are closed to other people's points of view... Clearly the team does like and value strikeout pitchers, seeing how many we've had in the system, over the years, on the major league team...
  13. ThePuck
    He didn't say hate. And I didn't say hate either. I said financially it makes more sense not to get them..and I explained why. and this isn't defending them? 'Clearly, the team did something right. Jim Callis of BA ranked the Twins minor league system the 3rd best of the 2000s.'
  14. ThePuck
    I wouldn't touch him...and I respect the Giants for how they handled the whole situation
  15. ThePuck
    Who on Twins Daily defends the Twins' drafting and development of pitching? I sure haven't seen 'em. See the post right below yours
  16. ThePuck
    I don't remember saying anything about them being scared of strikeout pitchers. I find it absurdly stupid you read what I wrote and thought that's what I said. I will say this though. Strikeout pitchers are more expensive to draft and keep if they work out...pitch to contact guys are, for the most part, less expensive...and you need to have strong defenders behind them...say, glove first guys in the middle infield...the inexpensive type of middle IFs...The kind of players a team under a budget would target. And the team did do something right in the early part of the 2000s...that's nice...that was then. I'm referring to now...
  17. ThePuck
    . Probably...but out of pure necessity (like they did with Revere)...not because it was the ideal time to do so. Gibson's numbers weren't overwhelming though. On the bright side, the old reliable excuse of defense not being up to par as an excuse to keep a player down is harder to use for pitchers. Garza was another that flew up...but then got in hot water cause he was a strikeout pitcher and he didn't want to conform to the pitching style we have :-) There are some people who are always eager to give the Twins management the benefit of the doubt...not saying you are one, but there are some that just purely find a way to defend team's management to the bitter end. How can anyone not see that there's obviously something wrong with the drafting, development and philosophy of pitching we have (the philosophy being what drives the type we've drafted and how we've developed them)
  18. ThePuck
    More than anything else. Winning teams tend to form "chemistry" by, you know, winning. Exactly...the As in the early-mid 70s were a bunch of jerks...they were always at each other's throats...
  19. ThePuck
    You're comparing hitting by a catcher and an OF and you're discounting the PR value in having Mauer, the #1 pick from the local area, up as soon as possible...impacting revenue and such with the local boy done good. Obviously he'd have to perform too, but they knew he'd do that. I'd think that'd be pretty obvious as to how it affects the topic at hand...
  20. ThePuck
    Oh, and he doesn't have to close his glove at just the right time? Hmmmm???? C'mon, man, you're smarter than that! Didn't you know, playing the outfield is simple...
  21. ThePuck
    Joe Mauer was a #1 pick from the local area...and you're comparing numbers from a catcher as opposed to an OF. Which makes Dave's case stronger, not weaker. It's far more difficult for a catcher to move through any farm system quickly than it is for an outfielder to do the same. It usually takes a few years for a catcher to learn how to call the game on a professional level. An outfielder just has to run fast and open his glove (a simplified take on it but mostly true). Not necessarily...not for a #1 overall pick with no one in front of him worth a darn in the minors. And it's not like they didn't know what they had in him all along. With us being supposedly very strong in OF prospects, that would have factored into Trout's rise to the majors as well. We can keep arguing this all day long...but we don't know. I don't, you don't, Dave doesn't. No one can say with certainty and be taken as fact. It's all hypothetical.
  22. ThePuck
    St Louis had the 8th best team ERA in MLB...and that was without Carpenter...
  23. ThePuck
    Two things, 1) The Twins will still count his AAA innings. He'll be on a 130-150 inning limit and it won't matter where he throws those innings. 2) He's 25. We'll have control of him through his age 31 season, no matter what. I believe that's another reason the Twins are, IN MY OPINION, a bit slow to promote...wait till they are 24, 25 (or older), you get all their prime years...it's a business thing.
  24. ThePuck
    Joe Mauer was a #1 pick from the local area...and you're comparing numbers from a catcher as opposed to an OF. And then there's the OFs we have in the system too. In any event, NO ONE can say with CERTAINTY he'd be in the majors by now or not if we had drafted him...which is why I said I don't think he would instead of being 100% decisive. My crystal ball isn't as good as some I guess...
  25. ThePuck
    Well then you'd be wrong. Sure I am
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