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  1. bird
    As far as buzzkills go, Buxton's struggles stand alone. In order of magnitude, a reversal in direction of these are things would turn around my own spirits: Buxton figuring it out at least to an acceptable level at the plate, Berrios holding his own in MLB, Fernando Romero having another promising season, Gonsalves regaining his health, Lewis Thorpe looking like he's back, Gordon keeping it up, and hauls at the trade deadline for two or more vets. I already am a believer in Kepler, Sano, and Polanco. I just don't care about Gibson or Hughes. I take those days off from baseball generally.
  2. bird
    Bob, your reports are so much fun to read! Thank you.
  3. bird
    Not that I'm not ALWAYS inspired by game threads, but this talk about Grackles has me quite worked up. And the Grackles in Texas? They aren't the dull Common Grackles of Minnesota. These are called Great-tailed Grackles (look it up). Like all things Texan, they're larger than the other Grackles. Also like other Texans, they're obnoxious, noisy, and unpleasant. True to being Texan, they hang out in large groups late at night on the city streets, often hiding behind the bushes, and like to suddenly cause a huge boisterous ruckus when a visitor happens by. They're tiresome showoffs. The Great-tailed Grackle is actually closely related to the homo sapien Texan, as evidenced by their affection for dead animals and their similar willingness to pick at them on roadsides and in parking lots. And very sadly, these rather self-important and arrogant things are lurking everywhere you go and their numbers are increasing at an alarming rate. Unlike another disgusting relative, the European Starling, these Grackles were Born in the U.S.A. Well, Mexico, really, but they'll never admit it.
  4. bird
    How come I'm feeling like we've pulled out some old comments and substituted the name Dozier in where Cuddyer's name used to be? Is it just a coincidence that you feel the same way about media darling Dozier like you did about media darling Cuddyer?
  5. bird
    Yeah, well, they WOULD have traded him for pitching, but they have to operate in the Major League instead of the Dynasty League.
  6. bird
    Yeah, Pressley's not the problem. The biggest and most frustrating problem is that they haven't gotten production (yet?) from a prospect pipeline supposedly fairly loaded with higher-ceiling, high-velo guys. For whatever reasons, and they vary. If the Twins released a current bullpen arm, there's a good chance that guy latches on with some other team and occupies the last seat on their bullpen bench for a short stint, like Fien and others did last year. The thing is, we have four of those guys in our pen. Sigh. Pressley's two steps up from that.
  7. bird
    Exactly this for me too. The main piece has to be a frontline starter, a guy who projects as a #2-3, not a guy with a #3 ceiling. The closest thing we have to an acceptable main piece in our system? Berrios might tempt me, if Lewin Diaz, Blankenhorn, or a similar top 150-200 prospect was offered as the second piece, which would be mandatory for me because of the injury risk I'm assuming with the main piece. But I can see why some would move him at the deadline for a Fernando Romero/Rortvedt type package. And I suspect that's the kind of offer they see, if that even.
  8. bird
    I agree, but this is why I think they retain him. We may have too many sellers at the deadline, too much inventory available, to extract this kind of overpay for him. But for me, and I hope for Falvey, there's no great benefit in trading him for some prospect that projects as just another league-average starter. So I think Falvey keeps him, through his option year even.
  9. bird
    You make some great points. This helps me understand where you were coming from, and I apologize if I left the sense that my pushback was anything less than respectful. And I hadn't delved very deep. I don't know for certain, but I wouldn't question an opinion that the Twins are less capable of successfully developing a HS guy than the average org. I do know their results are abysmal, but which team's results aren't? I think we can both agree that a few statistics a few weeks into the season at AA are hardly the stuff on which to base a lot of conclusions, but you're right, the broader question is do we want the greater risk of a Hunter Greene given what we do know.
  10. bird
    I probably deserve to stand corrected to some extent. However, the discussion we were having was limited to pitching. I could have been clearer. The first comment I made was to refute the claim that the pitching staff was performing poorly. The second comment I made was responding to a blanket statement that the AA team's pitching success was the product of 27-29 year olds. I looked at the current roster and saw Turley, Clemens, and Tracy (let's throw in Bard too) as fitting that claim. That left I believe 11 or so others who aren't 27-29. So, the only points I refuted were that the pitching staff is struggling, with that being evidence of coaching incompetence. When the response to this was that this third best ERA was a product of a staff full of 27-29 year olds, I refuted that too. I might be wrong about the median age of the staff being lower. That was a guess, and maybe a bad one based on my thinking that Stewart and Romero and a few others are young.
  11. bird
    It's okay for you to lack confidence. But you aren't supporting it with facts in either of your comments. Half the AA roster is 23 or under, and there's no one 27 or older. The median age of the roster is very likely one of the youngest in the Southern League. If you don't want to support your viewpoint with actual facts, why use made up ones?
  12. bird
    Poor Buxton now gets every border line pitch called against him.
  13. bird
    Yes.
  14. bird
    FIFY
  15. bird
    Because "He just dropped the barrel of the bat."
  16. bird
    I like it. The javelin. Thrown by Petru the Impaler.
  17. bird
    Wear your assigned number throughout the race and turn in the money people pledged to you. What cause are you supporting?
  18. bird
    I assume you're drawing your first conclusion based on the struggles of two high-profile prospects at Chattanooga. A deeper look will show that they have the third best team ERA in their league and that 75% of the pitchers are performing exceptionally. What evidence do you see of incompetence? I'm very skeptical about your other conclusions as well. I very much doubt the new regime is taking any kind of wait and see approach. Instead, I think they're drawing a very different conclusion than you and many other fans. I would bet that we never see the kind of staff overhaul you suggest. I think they'll add some processes, add other resources, and make a few personnel changes, because there just isn't the glaring talent vacuum many assume there is.
  19. bird
    Right. It's called lost seasons due to injury. They're progressing, which is great.
  20. bird
    Anyone ever heard of the Twins or a Twins player seeking out a sports shrink? Hope someone starts dropping handfuls of business cards from a good one around the locker room, slowing down in front of Buxton's and Gibson's lockers.
  21. bird
    Waiting for a SSS truth bomb on this.
  22. bird
    We have better than a Berrios type right now and for two plus years in Ervin Santana, for a reasonable price. And that's assuming Berrios lives up to his ceiling as a #2-3 starter. Yes, I know he stands a better chance of falling apart than a Berrios type. I'll take my chances that I can construct a roster of pitchers that will give me similar production to Berrios, maybe slightly less, over the next year or so. I don't want to trade my one frontline guy for that type. I want a frontline prospect for my one frontline guy. At the most optimistic, Berrios is viewed as having a small chance of giving you some #2 production. Not a good enough return for me. Close though, with a Rortvedt type thrown in. As you say, none of what we have in the system is clearly projecting to be Santana's equal.
  23. bird
    If I'm the GM, I expect to retain Santana. Why? Mainly because I don't believe someone is going to offer me a future frontline starter of greater promise than any I have in the system today (Berrios, Romero, Gonsalves) and another prospect of substance thrown in (think Blankenblahblah). But I'm sure gonna try, and I'll be blind to where we are in the standings, contrarian as that is, if the overpay is stupendous. I'll take my chances on Berrios as his replacement. I just don't expect anyone these days to offer up a pitching prospect much better than a Berrios type.
  24. bird
    Yeah, who knows, but we certainly can't ignore the guy's stated intentions. Whether it's motivated by ego or some deeper sense of purpose, I for one hope he signs with the organization that will give him the very best shot at becoming a true two-way player here.
  25. bird
    In the 60 Minute piece, they sat down with two of his American teammates to quiz them about Otani. Neither player was exactly articulate, but they spoke in superlatives and neither of them seemed to have any doubt about his ability to hit in MLB. Of course, you have to wonder if they're just saying what they think the interviewer wants to hear and all that. I wouldn't know a good baseball swing from a bad one myself, but one swing I did see sure didn't look much like Ichiro. He went down and got all of a shin-high pitch and parked it Griffey style.
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