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  1. cmathewson
    "It was not command but overall command of the strike zone." Wait what? That's been his problem for over a year. The guy we saw in 2012, who could paint with any pitch in any count, is nowhere to be found. To think he can just recapture that at this point seems naive in the extreme. In spring training, he had the command of a single A guy right out of high school. He was consistently missing the glove by a foot or more. I hope he finds it, but you don't make personnel decisions on hope.
  2. cmathewson
    He shouldn't be taking starts from either Dean or Gilmartin, IMHO. Give him the BJ Hermsen treatment,
  3. cmathewson
    I don't want to see him on the mound right now. It's not worth it. Let someone else sacrifice major league games to try to help him snap out of it.
  4. cmathewson
    I read a rumor he's being used as a RF so Colabello can DH and Pinto can catch Game 2. But we'll see. I'd be surprised if he plays short ahead of either Florimon or Escobar.
  5. cmathewson
    Nishioka was the worst defensive shortstop I've ever seen, and the worst defensive second basemen. And that is coming from a guy who watched Brendan Harris and Fred Manrique.
  6. cmathewson
    Yes. Time to dump him. He lost his fastball, making his change just a BP pitch.
  7. cmathewson
    So they have to beat out the starters we have to be worth anything, regardless of where they are in their development. I see.
  8. cmathewson
    Good question. I think the answer is Escobar has versatility while Florimon does not. This, I take it, is a key aspect of the Nunez deal. He isn't particularly good at any position, but he has played most of them.
  9. cmathewson
    When Guerrier is ready, Burton has to go.
  10. cmathewson
    I think Burton might be done.
  11. cmathewson
    Free Eduardo!
  12. cmathewson
    Get your mind out of the gutter!
  13. cmathewson
    It's considered great literature. Robbins just has a colorful way of describing it.
  14. cmathewson
    Phil Miller ‏@MillerStrib 2m Twins sold 21,818 tickets to tonight's game, maybe half of which were used. Answers my question about attendance. The BJs usually sell worse than any other team. And it's a cold Tuesday night.
  15. cmathewson
    It wasn't really gravy.
  16. cmathewson
    I can't claim credit for that one. Right out of Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins. Except the character just had a run-of-the-mill shoe fetish. He would buy his girlfriend a new pair of shoes, take them off of her, and turn them into gravy boats.
  17. cmathewson
    I thought it was a gravy boat for guys with food porn shoe fetishes.
  18. cmathewson
    What's with all the bunts?
  19. cmathewson
    0-2 pitch down the middle. Sad face.
  20. cmathewson
    I get MLB.TV, but it's just spinning tonight, so, Gameday.
  21. cmathewson
    Why I hate the bunt in that situation. Well, in almost every situation.
  22. cmathewson
    Gameday shows a full house. Seems a bit optimistic on a cold Tuesday night against the BJs. How many came out tonight?
  23. cmathewson
    To answer your question, .220/.280/.320, or about what he did last year. I just think that is about as good as he gets and he's more likely to hit .200/.260/.300 over the course of an MLB season. Historically, some championship teams have been able to carry a guy like that, e.g. Orioles and Mark Belanger. But those days are over. It is no longer a viable product to have a line-up with one big hole in it.
  24. cmathewson
    I think he's the kind of hitter who needs to really work hard and long in the cage to have a chance. Losing the first three weeks of spring training made it almost impossible for him to be in good form out of spring training. So why not start him on the DL and give him a rehab assignment in extended spring until he can get his swing back? I don't understand why they didn't do this.
  25. cmathewson
    I would say yes if you qualified that to say "strikeouts looking". If most of the increase in strikeouts were swinging strikes, I don't think it invalidates the theory. Even then, I think it's more complex than that. Guys take more pitches in general now than they did 20 years ago. Perhaps emboldened by a sense of calm with two strikes, guys take closer pitches in those counts than they did 20 years ago. If the umpires change the implicit rules of the game, players will adapt. That's what I see. You watch the Red Sox and Yankees play and the players are shocked to be called out on strikes. They walk back to the dugout shaking their heads and sayings stuff under their breath, the gist of which is, "You're not supposed to do that!"
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