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  1. bird
    Yes, we know. Fulmer is back in AAA after posting about a 7 ERA, a 2 WHIP, and -1.1 WAR over about 100 IP. No one is much more excited about Carson in Chicago than we are about Tyler here, or than the Orioles are about the #4 pick, Dillon Tate, who is also floundering in AA. The lesson: we're gonna win more than we lose, but we're gonna lose occasionally. Like everyone else.
  2. bird
    That guy's old? Corny for sure.
  3. bird
    As I said before, the primary benefit of that decision was the opportunity gain. We avoided a nasty Dozier contract and gained Schoop as an excellent addition to a bona fide pennant chase. So if Raley and Smeltzer win the WAR war against Dozier over time, frosting on the cake.
  4. bird
    This is off topic, but if Kirk marries his sister, are they still Cousins?
  5. bird
    Noticed the Twins have six players with 7 or more homers, two others with 6 and 4 respectively, while the Tigers have no player with more than 3. Which begs the question, how can this team possibly be only 23-17? And begs the larger question of how can the Tigers possibly be 16-18?
  6. bird
    Is Fielder still getting a check in the mail? Just curious is all.
  7. bird
    BTW, 10% is not an overtip dude. But yeah, nice hat.
  8. bird
    Belisle it is.
  9. bird
    I will concede that Cheap Trick was good but not great at the same time Roger Erickson was good but not great. In 1977. 42 years ago.
  10. bird
    Good Gawd. Gimme a choice between a Matt Belisle relief appearance, a triple root canal and a Cheap Trick concert and I'm catching an Uber to the dentist. Cheap Trick comes in third.
  11. bird
    The signals we've gotten from the Twins is that DeJong is on the very shortest of leashes given that he's been a DFA victim previously. Smeltzer is lurking, Gonsalves is recovering, Thorpe, Littell, and Stewart merit staff's attention more than Chase... That said, I have to wonder if the organization still sees those glimpses of potential. They may be almost as frustrated about unlocking it as DeJong is himself. I actually have a soft spot for these guys, but it fades quickly.
  12. bird
    The most dramatic gain from the Dozier sell is the opportunity gain derived from the decision to forego signing him to a long and illiquid contract.
  13. bird
    This is an interesting notion, and I think you're probably right, but I wonder if this has data-backed validity now that this is possible to track. Anyone know? It would be interesting, stadium to stadium, to know if there are higher missed strike numbers at some, maybe higher missed balls at another.
  14. bird
    Yeah, when Perez, Parker, Cruz, Schoop, and Cron are all giving you what you most optimistically expected and only Marwin has been a disappointment so far, I think we might owe the FO and the professional scouts a big tip of the cap about the quality of these decisions as we get further along.
  15. bird
    Yeah, and maybe even one level below those two.
  16. bird
    no
  17. bird
    This made me smile. But hey, at least he isn't talking baseball! Best he sticks to the price of a hot dog.
  18. bird
    What's up with Royce Lewis?
  19. bird
    The Twins have a 14-person team from their Analytics Department observing Lewis's every move. What they theorize is that Royce may be affected by his morning routine of consuming three bowls of Sugar Smacks and/or his pre-game meal of four Hostess Snowballs. They're looking at the spreadsheets to see if the twitch in the muscles on the inside of his left calf are connected to his nutrition intake and causing his hitting deficiency. The alternative theory is he's just in a bit of a slump right now.
  20. bird
    We may be pleasantly surprised by what we eventually get from that Rochester roster. Aside from Romero, we could get MLB innings from Moya, Magill, Vasquez again, Morin, Reed, Eades, and get starts from Stewart, Gonsalves, Thorpe, Littell, and even DeJong. Maybe not much to get too excited about, but that's pretty solid replacement depth. But yeah, it's weaker in terms of position player help. Wade, Torreyes, Gordon, Rooker, and Raley are the logical possibilities.
  21. bird
    Some angst here about all the wrong things. The only thing that matters, really, is that the Twins are trying to win in 2019. If Austin were to get lots of playing time INSTEAD of Cron as suggested by a couple of people here, they might be losing about 2 WAR. And who in their right mind wants Austin over Astudillo, Cave, or even Adrianza if 2019 wins is your goal? I could care less about Austin, even if he ends up being capable of securing a roster spot like John Hicks has done in Detroit? Good for him, and big deal. They still have Luis Rijo, Ziegler, and cash savings as a return for two months of Lynn. Precisely what I want to see my FO do. Get a return for even your more marginal surplus assets, and always avoid plugging some -0.7 WAR guy in as the 25th man. Good move.
  22. bird
    My guess is that you're right, a decision has been made, at least for 2019. Either way, he's not going to help the big club compete even as a low leverage reliever until he gets fixed. His appearance yesterday was mildly promising.
  23. bird
    That's a different argument, based on whether you agree or disagree with an ethical decision to abide by an agreement clearly meant to hold teams to spending limits. It would not have been going overslot. It would have been unethically breaching an agreement because paying the penalties was of greater value to you than being ethical.
  24. bird
    I would imagine the field staff was asking how long will he take to get his act together and become useful. He looked pretty lost there at the end of spring training. I'm guessing they had enough bullpen sessions to assess him and sent him to Rochester to correct a thing or two.
  25. bird
    To put this into proper perspective: 1) The Twins clearly had a down year in 2013, with only Jose Martinez and Robert Molina still alive. But they spent their allotment, which has consistently been a source of skepticism for you and others. A few teams spent amounts close to the $2.9M the Twins spent. Texas spent $7.6M. 2) They sandwiched a tough year between two that might be pretty good, with Thorpe, Hu, and Quezada all still alive from 2012, and Graterol, Ynoa, Arias, Wells, and Moises Gomez still alive from 2014. We need to consider how few of these prospects pan out. 3) For example, the Yankees spent $8.8M in 2012 and $10.6M in 2014. In fact, they signed 10 of the top 20 ranked prospects in 2014. It's early but I don't believe a single one of the two dozen prospects from those years is on their roster, and very few of them even got non-roster invites to training camp. This is just to say the Twins may or may not have fumbled the ball with Lewin Diaz at $1.5M, but it's a slippery ball to begin with. Just ask the team who took a shot at Yasmani Tomas, about whom the Twins were roundly criticized for passing up, right? The competitive landscape has vastly improved since 2013 because of the joint facility they now have in the DR. I think they're a player now.
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