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  1. bird
    That's a good question. If I had to guess, I'd say he had Hurlbut and Tepesch are a step better than the types of guys we're used to parading up here like Kris Johnson and PJ Walters and Cole DeVries and AJ Achter and...
  2. bird
    And let's not forget that everyone weighed in. The front office , the MLB staff, all the pitching coaches who worked with Berrios all of last year and saw him briefly this spring. He would have made the roster if all those folks were in favor of it.
  3. bird
    Mauer's situational hitting improves dramatically when he bats with no one on.
  4. bird
    This became fun.
  5. bird
    I feel like I'm becoming more familiar than is comfortable with your dirty dishes, dirty toilet, and now your dirty laundry.
  6. bird
    Yeah, well at least he pulled the ball to left center for his out.
  7. bird
    FIFY
  8. bird
    I never had to grow a beard for my mother in law. She hated everything I did.
  9. bird
    Gordon may end up being an okay MLB shortstop, but when it comes to triples, he won't hold a candle to Sano.
  10. bird
    Matt Garza has produced 14 WAR. Perkins gave us 9 WAR. It's the draft, so I don't have any expectations, just the hope that Jay gives us better than the average #6 production over time in whatever role he has.
  11. bird
    1-2; 1-2; 2-3; 2-3; 3-4; 3-4; 4​-5; 4-5; 5-6; 5-6; 6-7; 6-7; This is how I think about pitchers. In my mind, Ervin is a career 2-3 who is having a 1-2 season so far. I'm hoping he finishes by giving us a 1-2 full season. Or that someone takes stupid pills and gives us a 1-2 prospect haul at the deadline. Hughes is a career 3-4 at best, giving us a 4-5 season at best so far.
  12. bird
    Yeah, let's pull off another Butera thing, which I think went Sulbaran to Nunez to Adelberto Mejia, correct?
  13. bird
    There's a difference between a discipline and a plan. Sure, you make exceptions when it makes sense. If we had a surplus in the minors, say at shortstop with Javier, Palacios, Vielma, and Gordon, then trading from that surplus does not deplete you, by all means, look for a way to move that surplus player for a player that fills a need or for higher-ceiling prospects that are further away. That's part of your discipline. And a clubhouse cancer is a liability, not an asset, so you look for a taker. If I'm the GM, I'd even have an articulated set of guidelines for dealing with recalcitrants and what your process is for making qualitative judgments about discounting a player's on-field performance due to harmful off-field or clubhouse behaviors. Ryan, in my opinion, was tactical, not strategic, and valued intuition, which is great, but only if you put some guidelines (discipline) in place to force you to really think things through before making a dynamic move, I really believe that some of the catastrophic trades under Smith were a product of his lack of a trade discipline (and advanced metrics is a part of this) and his lack of intuition.
  14. bird
    Yeah, they've missed on a good share of those guys, as all teams do because the odds of ever seeing a MLB paycheck drop off a cliff. Duffey, Burdi, Chargois, Melotakis, Rogers, and maybe a couple others will change the perception that the Twins are particularly weak when it comes to early round successes.
  15. bird
    Charles Brown's "I Stepped in Quicksand" deserves a place in every cultured person's music library. But it shouldn't be off-limits to TD'ers either.
  16. bird
    I'm not concerned much about whether the Twins get pitching or position players in return for Dozier. For a number of reasons. One, I don't think Dozier fetches a MLB starter who vaults the team from pretender status into contenders. Two, if I'm GM, my sell discipline is not violated, and says I only trade from surplus, and I always get what I believe is an overpay, meaning I keep guys like Dozier when the offer is DeLeon. Because teams are not likely to overpay with anything other than prospects, I'm not counting on trading my way into instant contention. I have to be willing to make the occasional FA deal. Oh, and I'm NEVER depleting my farm system to make a run, ever. I want to avoid cycling in and out of the picture if possible. So, I'm trading Dozier, who is surplus, for prospects with a design on sustaining competitive excellence over time. I'm keeping Ervin, because I lack a current surplus and no one will overpay me anyway. He's worth more to me than to another team. How do I get from pretender to contender in 2018? Internal progress, taking my chances that the young guys come into their own, that guys like Chargois and Gonsalves come through, that guys like May and Thorpe recover, and one special FA move for a bona fide frontline starter. Can't count on trades or this year's draft.
  17. bird
    Me too, but I think we have to acknowledge that there may be only two, possibly three consensus #1 pitching prospects available in a given draft. You obviously take Price and Strassberg . But if Dillon Tate is your best pitching option, the strategy of going for a position player makes all the sense in the world to me. The Twins took Gordon instead of Nola, Freeland, or Hoffman, and I think they'll be happy they did. If they had a disciplined draft strategy to take position players when the alternative is a pitcher with a #2-3 ceiling, perhaps we'd be enjoying Benintendi or Happ instead of asking if Jay is off the DL yet. However, I don't believe this "position player priority" strategy plays out past the first round of the draft. In fact, I'd probably resonate to a strategy that says you either find a high-ceiling HS pitcher and overpay when possible or take your chances on a fallen angel like Seth Romero or Clarke in the second round. And I agree that the draft this year dictates they take a pitcher with that first selection.
  18. bird
    Concur.
  19. bird
    I absolutely agree that the Twins have been serial criminals in failing to bring in that one elite relief arm in the off-season. Unsurprisingly, it has resulted in a scramble for a band-aid every season, and that's because the relief prospects they thought they might be able to count on were unavailable due to injury stifling their progress or because of other hiccups in their progress. They can be blamed for failing to bring in that elite reliever. They've been very unlucky when it comes to injuries to practically every relief prospect being mentioned now as languishing unnecessarily in the minors. Burdi, Chargois, Melotakis, Reed, Jones, Jay, Bard, Baxendale, Wimmers, Rosario, Cedaroth, Booser, Jorge. I believe every one of these guys has missed significant development time due to injury, many missing an entire season or more, all missing months at a time. So, we can argue that a number of these guys appear to finally be ready, and that's good. But I will cut them a little slack for being a bit more patient than I am, and I reject the argument that there's been a misguided and deliberate pattern of moving these prospects along too slowly. Well, okay, maybe just a little too slowly...
  20. bird
    Yeah, I think it's important to remember that last year when they pulled the plug on him up here, his head was spinning and his breaking ball was not so much. He probably suffered as much from his lack of poise as he did from his lack of polish. Let's hope he will settle in this time.
  21. bird
    In really suuny sun, the head is really that El Purple, Bark. That's why birding is so dang cool, even without LSD.
  22. bird
    Both are delicious served on a bed of hummingbird.
  23. bird
    Haven't seen one in four years, which was the last time I was down in your neck of the desert, Chief. Saw my first in Madeira Canyon, saw many later in various places, most of them in and around Lake Patagonia. It's easy to mix Anna's Hummingbird up with Costa's Hummingbird. And Bob Costas is a possessive guy.
  24. bird
    Wrong, Ash, but it IS Anna's Hummingbird.
  25. bird
    Okay. For the curious among you, ....Oh. That's right. Never mind.
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