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  1. cmathewson
    <Insert mention of Molitor here>.
  2. cmathewson
    I know they could use both players. When the Twins played the Whities, they had a raw second baseman playing, who botched a key play, which led to the winning run. He was some kid who belonged in AA ball from the looks of him. And now with Floyd hurt, they could sure use Hernandez.
  3. cmathewson
    He has a lot more tools than I thought he had, that's for sure. He's probably the fastest guy on the team. He has a rocket arm. Good range. Sure hands. Surprising power. I could see him as a regular shortstop until an upper tier player comes along from the minors. He's probably below average as a regular, but he's not going to hurt you out there everyday. That's a pretty valuable player.
  4. cmathewson
    I have a hard time seeing how two months of Liriano = six years of Hernandez + Escobar. None of those three is worth all that much on the market, but control alone makes it anything but a wash.
  5. cmathewson
    Because we have at least one other guy who can give us six innings and who deserves a shot. At least that's my answer.
  6. cmathewson
    That's the thing. Rondon can't throw a breaking ball for a strike. So you look fastball and take a good hack. Incidentally, Rondon was optioned out after the game. I was thinking during the game that the guy didn't belong in AA, let alone the majors.
  7. cmathewson
    Even more impressive: He pulled the ball down the line. That's some serious bat speed. Now we know why he struggles so much on the soft stuff.
  8. cmathewson
    Right. Let's see how he does against AAA competition. If he succeeds and we still don't have room for him on the ML roster, he can opt out and some other team can give him a shot.
  9. cmathewson
    Well, I haven't looked at all the film. Some of it is just listening to the game, 'cause, you know, work an' stuff. Perhaps what Provus describes as a line drive is actually more of a fly ball.
  10. cmathewson
    Also, I don't think this is mechanical as much as pure fatigue. He hasn't caught this much, this soon since his mid 20s. It's taking a toll on his hands, which are a little slow to the ball. I used to count his pop ups in a season on one hand. I have needed to use my second hand just in the last week. When he tries to speed up his bat to compensate, he pulls off the ball, rolling over to second. It should also be noted that he has hit the ball hard several times during this slump. But they position him well (in and toward the line in left), catching all the line drives.
  11. cmathewson
    What's amazing to me is how minute the difference is between success and failure in this game. Aaron Hicks offered lesson #1. But Mauer is an even more instructive case.
  12. cmathewson
    Right. And don't we have a seven-man bullpen for just such circumstances? I doubt it changes Duensing's availability one iota if he comes in to get Fielder and Martinez, rather than Peralta and Kelly. The difference is, he leaves with the team ahead by two instead of behind by one.
  13. cmathewson
    Hendriks might not, but Gibson does. While we're at it, can we swap Worley for Deduno when he's ready?
  14. cmathewson
    Arcia recalled as Mastroianni disabled by foot injury; Hicks dropped in order | StarTribune.com
  15. cmathewson
    He was able to play enough for nine innings in one game. At the end of that game, he had to make an awkward cut in the outfield. He limped off the field. The next day he was caught limping around in warm-ups in a way he had not been limping around prior to that. So they sent him to the training room, where the medical staff found out he had aggravated the injury the night before. When he left the clubhouse in a walking boot, he was on the DL. Whatever injury he had, he had aggravated it. The Twins reported it was a stress reaction. I said in a previous post that didn't make sense because you don't send a guy to get an MRI with a stress reaction. It sounded more like a impact fracture to me, based on the diagnostic test ordered and the fact that he had aggravated an injury that started with him fouling a ball off his leg near his ankle. That's just using what is reported with facts you can learn from WebMD. All this stuff is reported in the daily newspapers. It shouldn't even be all that controversial.
  16. cmathewson
    Let me look in the Strib blogs archives. That's where it was published (Phil Miller I think). Though it might have been Berardino.
  17. cmathewson
    Stew doesn't call enough errors, IMHO. There was a play in a Rangers game in which Kinsler botched a hot grounder hit right at him and Willingham ran home when he saw it. Kinlsler's throw was so far off line, Willingham could jog home. I thought it should have been two errors on Kinsler. Instead, it was a base hit and an RBI. Also, the infamous ole play by Plouffe was called a hit. And several non plays by Florimon have been called hits, or just no plays. I have Florimon with 5 errors at home on the year. Stew has only called one.
  18. cmathewson
    I don't piss on those that do. It just bugs me when people use them wrongly to justify their overconfident opinions. To me, the 2010 Young/Punto example constitutes a reductio ad absurdum on the brokenness of WAR. And that doesn't even touch how much more broken it is for pitchers and catchers than it is for guys who make plays on live baseballs. But we see the use of WAR to "price" contracts all the time, or to argue MVP awards or to do 100 things in isolation of context that are just wrong. It's a crude implement to begin with. With the wrong usage, it can justify all kinds of mistakes.
  19. cmathewson
    I care. This was a steal.....for the Twins. It is a win for the Twins scouts, who were able to look through the numbers to find a couple of hidden gems. As Reusse recently wrote, the Twins got more for Liriano than they got for Santana. I'm still not sure about that. If they had held onto Hardy, not so much. But even getting close is a great win.
  20. cmathewson
    The manager does two things to help a team win: The line-up card and making pitching changes. It's his job to determine if the pitcher on the field is a good choice in this phase of the game. You can say he should just bear down and get the guy out. But if he's out of gas, no amount of bearing down is going to help him get out of a jam.
  21. cmathewson
    Um, the reason I come to this site is to get the latest info on the Twins organization, often before the papers. I don't want them witholding information so that someone can watch Tivo without knowing the outcome of the game.
  22. cmathewson
    I'm sure that was going through Gardy's mind. I mean, he was at 80 pitches or something and he was already out of gas? Well, yes he was, and it was obvious to everyone watching. If he can't get through six innings, it's on the GM, not Gardy. Gardy has to make the calls to win games. Leaving him out there to "stretch him out" was not the call to win that game, and it did more damage to the pitcher's long-term outlook than if Gardy had protected him. I could see it if it was Gibson or someone who has some upside and a long-term future with the team. But Pelfrey is just a stop gap. You manage with him to win now, not to play for another day.
  23. cmathewson
    NOOOOO! Ozzie is an interesting character. But he is the worst manager on the planet. Why did the Twins beat the White Sox so often despite an obvious talent gap? Every night, Ozzie would do something the likes of which makes the Chief call for Gardy's head. Gardy outmanaged him every night, and it wasn't even close. Every time Ozzie pinch hit, Gardy would bring in a reliever to match it. It was like a chess game between Kasperov and Lew Ford. Chackmate for me was the Thome debacle. No thanks. Anybody but Ozzie.
  24. cmathewson
    I would like to see Pelfrey go down (if he accepts his option) and Gibson come up. Pelfrey can grind out five innings and keep us in the game. But he was clearly out of gas in the sixth. And I just don't think his arm is ready to give us the innings we need, regardless of whether you think he can improve in the innings he gives us (doubtful, imho). If he doesn't accept his option, DFA him. Not all of this is on Gardy, though. The GM shares some of the blame for pushing Pelfrey. I thought Gardy'd take him out after the Cabrera walk. The last pitch was a tell-tale sign of fatigue, flying open and throwing a 3-2 sinker that was caught behind Cabrera. Duensing was warmed up in the bullpen, but he stuck with his tired starter. He could not have given Fielder a better pitch to hit if he'd put it on a T. The paper said one bad pitch. Nonsense. He threw about 10 bad pitches out of 80. The Tigers just missed 8 of them. Well, as Bert likes to say, "he left a ball up and Fielder did not miss it."
  25. cmathewson
    I agree with this. Bert said something yesterday about keeping the ball off the fat part of the bat. To me, it comes down to having better command. He's keeping the ball on the corners, mixing up his pitches, moving it in and out, and keeping the ball down. When he has missed, he's missed out of the strike zone, rather than over the middle of the plate. He could regress command-wise. But so far so good.
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