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  1. cmathewson
    Who saw this Santana thing coming? En Fuego!
  2. cmathewson
    Great deal. More offense, no draft pick comp. He's a great fit for this team, offering protection for Willingham and Arcia.
  3. cmathewson
    Blackburn in 2012: 19 GS 53 ERA+ 1.7 WHIP Correia in 2014: 12 GS 66 ERA+ 1.53 WHIP So Correia has a ways to go to get to Blackburn country. On the other hand, in 2012, we did not have five or six qualified replacements for Blackburn.
  4. cmathewson
    A one-tined fork is a skewar. A two-tined fork is a shrimp fork. Just ask this guy:
  5. cmathewson
    They have drafted more college relief arms of late and converted many of them into starters. I'm sure they will try with these two. The reason they shy away from college starters is the wear and tear on their arms.
  6. cmathewson
    May 61 IP, 63Ks 1.13 WHIP Johnson 59 IP, 54 Ks, 1.20 WHIP Meyer 57 IP, 67Ks, 1.31 WHIP Darnell 45 IP, 47Ks, 1.24 WHIP Pino 49 IP, 47 Ks, 0.88 WHIP All of these project better in the majors than Correia. Will they all? Probably not. But the fact that you have five of them (and a sixth, if you count Gilmartin), why not start trying to improve, rather than throwing up your hands and not even trying to get better?
  7. cmathewson
    Well, maybe I read it wrong. But it sure seemed to me that many of the posters were saying if he didn't get his Ks down and his walks up, he was headed to an inevitable fall. It just seemed odd to see all that talk on that night in particular. When he starts getting pitched around, we'll see how he adjusts. Hopefully he lays off more often. Until then, I'd like to enjoy the ride without worrying about his next slump.
  8. cmathewson
    I read several comments in a row in which the writers expressed concerns about his future, one of whom compared him to Delmon Young. On one whole page of comments, the general tenor was negative on a night when he had just hit a grand slam and a double the day after he hit a three-run bomb and the game-winning single. That's what I reacted to.
  9. cmathewson
    I watched that Yankees game--his best game of the year--and he was extraordinarily lucky. He had the bases loaded with nobody out and the heart of the order coming up in the first inning, and the Yankees didn't score. He left the bases loaded in the second inning and only gave up one run. If he isn't so lucky in either of those innings, the whole fan base would be clamoring for a DFA. What we saw last night is a decent game for him. It's why he has a 7 ERA or something. I would argue that the Twins have five pitchers who would be better right now and who would have a future with the club beyond the trade deadline (May, Johnson, Meyer, Darnell, Gilmartin). If you have both those things for any one pitcher, you should make the move now. The fact that they won't do it is a slap in the face to fans.
  10. cmathewson
    "He's paid good money to do that" sounds like an indictment of the FO, when that means putting meatballs on a "T". Maybe it's his way of touting the company line with a tinge of sarcasm.
  11. cmathewson
    This. We all know May is on a 26-inning scoreless streak and Johnson is running neck and neck with him. So just give Correia the company line vote of confidence and change the subject already.
  12. cmathewson
    I am arguing for "wait and see" rather than "the sky is falling."
  13. cmathewson
    Go back and read the thread about Gardy's and Antony's comments re: Hicks' lack of aggressiveness. Plenty of people agreed with their assessment. Some of the same people are complaining about Arcia's aggressiveness. As Brock said, this is not a contradiction. But it is a conflict if you consider that Arcia's aggressiveness is resulting in lots of homers and doubles, which everyone will say are better than walks. When his aggressiveness becomes a problem, he'll need to work on it. You can say it tends in that direction for most players, but that is a statement with large samples sizes behind it. Guys go through periods of walking a lot, when pitchers are pitching around them; and periods of not walking a lot, when they are hot and pitchers are throwing them a lot of strikes. Over the course of a season or two, these streaks tend to even out. Right now, Arcia is in one of the latter streaks. And it is only 10 days since he came off the DL. Give it time. Correlation does not imply causation. Guys walk a lot because pitchers don't throw them strikes and they don't swing at balls. You need both tines of that fork to make a complete causal argument. Right now, we just have one tine.
  14. cmathewson
    I would say the disjunction is more like a conditional. If his production starts to fall, he will need to walk more. If pitchers keep throwing him meatballs, he shouldn't be taking them in order to increase his walk rate. When they start pitching around him, he will need to lay off those pitches and take more walks.
  15. cmathewson
    Oliva was a notorious bad ball hitter, like Puckett. Neither struck out that much, though.
  16. cmathewson
    One other thing: Lots of people complain that Hicks is walking too much and is too passive. The same people complain that Arcia is is not walking enough and is too aggressive. You know who you are (and you are not straw men).
  17. cmathewson
    Red flag or no, it's hard to walk much when you are hitting the ball so often and so hard. I'm sure they will start pitching around him, and he'll need to adjust. But he shouldn't adjust until he needs to. As to the Ks, he's always struck out a lot. Comes with the territory.
  18. cmathewson
    This is the gist of my point. It's early. He reminds me of a young Tony O. Tony never walked much, but he got more disciplined over time.
  19. cmathewson
    Another stellar game from Correia and Burton. Can't wait to jettison them. But, we are paying them a lot of money to suck the life out of the team. So we must continue to let them do that.
  20. cmathewson
    Just hate those grand slams and three-run homers. Seriously? Do you guys know what you're even talking about here? He's homered in two consecutive games and has eight RBIs in those games. Have we run out of problems to talk about? How about Correia? And he's been back from injury, what? 10 days. What are rate stats in 40 PAs? It's ridiculous. Give him a year or more before you start worrying about K/BB. And realize the K/BB is high for guys who swing violently enough to hit 40 HRs in a year, which he would do if you projected his current pace out over a full season. OK. I get it now. Silly me. You'll are joking. Cause he's the last person to worry about. Am I right? Even after he gets picked off of second after breaking lights on the scoreboard.
  21. cmathewson
    And Liriano.
  22. cmathewson
    What does a guy have to do to prove unworthy? He got off to a fast start last year. Since then, it's gone from bad to worse. The last 365 days, he's 6-15 with an OPS against of .806 and a WHIP of 1.5. There are three guys in AAA who would do better right now. Why do we have to keep a guy who is bad at pitching?
  23. cmathewson
    Position players whom Gardy benched/sent out for long stretches when they were young: Cuddles Kubel Bartlett Hicks Escobar Pinto Pitchers whom Gardy/Anderson sent down/bullpened in favor of marginal veterans: Santana Garza Baker Slowey Deduno In general, Gardy is known for putting up with a struggling young player for less than a week, and then benching him. Sometimes a guy needs a day or two to clear his mind or get extra work in the cage or, whatever. But guys get a week of starting here, a week of benching there, and generally do not get consistent play from Gardy until they prove to him at the major league level that they can do it for months at a time. A guy doesn't have to just be good to play for him, he has to be hot, and stay hot. Hence, Santana is Gardy's new favorite because he's hot. If he slumps for a week, he'll end up on the bench for a couple of weeks until the guy in front of him slumps, etc. Playing the hot hand to the exclusion of development makes Gardy a particularly bad manager for developing players. It's a chicken and egg situation that at best slows guys development (Cuddles is the leading poster child), at worst it means the guy has to go to another team before finding himself (Garza is the leading poster child). If a guy is a veteran, however, Gardy shows almost infinite patience with him. Kubel continues to start despite falling off the same cliff that landed Colabello in AAA, for example.
  24. cmathewson
    As long as Gardy refuses to play Hicks, he's better off in AAA. If he wants to play him almost everyday, he's better off learning how to hit breaking balls from right-handed pitchers who actually know how to throw breaking balls.
  25. cmathewson
    Benching him (which Gardy apparently has done already). DFAing him (which Antony is capable of doing). Sending him to AA. I can think of a lot of ways to show you've given up on a player. Playing him everyday in the majors is not one of them.
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