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  1. bird
    My bad...
  2. bird
    To you it is. It's not an opinion I agree with, but the obvious point about poor decisions is more important, and on that we agree. I'd simply remind you that poor decisions can have good outcomes and vice versa, and I think fair-minded folk will remind themselves of a few reasonable decisions out there among Shane's 20 in which the outcome just hasn't cooperated. This doesn't in any way suggest Ryan didn't make a whole lot of really questionable moves. It just means that, to use one example, not trading Plouffe wasn't necessarily the idiotic decision a handful of posters like to portray it to be. It's possible to be both critical and fair-minded for some, but maybe there are a few for which this is not within their realm of capability.
  3. bird
    That was my pal Shane's math. But hey, I appreciate that you guys share that it was a lousy off-season for Ryan and the Twins. Good information.
  4. bird
    I love it. Dumb luck on the two moves you think worked. And on the eighteen that you think didn't, just dumb. Perfect.
  5. bird
    The obvious homerism and sugarcoating aside, Dick and Bert are more boring than my mother-in-law's deaf beagle. I'd rather read the Catechism cover to cover than listen to those guys for two consecutive games. Hell, the games are bad enough. Oh, and if I'm the GM, I'm trading the first player I catch concerning himself with criticism from the booth. He can go take his lack of focus elsewhere, and I want everyone in uniform to know why the guy's going bye-bye.
  6. bird
    I'm a guy with a reputation for pushing back fairly hard when I think the criticism is overly harsh and when the comments get irrational, personal, stupid, or stupidly redundant. But I disagree with your point of view here. I'm a daily reader here because a lot of my pals here make very astute and reasoned arguments when they disagree with something the team isn't doing or has done. I may disagree with or question the opinion, but It's offensive to characterize 99% of us as hyperventilating and as members of a peanut gallery.
  7. bird
    This is the most plausible theory that's been suggested on here IMO. Not sure how guys like Polanco or Kepler seem to avoid this, if in fact they have. Without looking, I'm going to guess that the team K rates for our four full-season minor league teams is worse than league average. The question that surfaces for me is, has there been a concerted effort to draft/sign power position players similarly to the conscious effort to accumulate high-velo pitchers? And does this help explain a pattern? I think of guys like Diaz and Minier, and think maybe they rightly or wrongly have had a focus on power guys. However, I still don't rule out the remote possibility that Arcia, Vargas, Rosario, and Danny Santana are "flukes". I have come to the conclusion, however, that their scouts haven't had a very good eye when it comes to projecting on these power guys. Too many misses, or at least what appear to be misses at this juncture.
  8. bird
    so hurtful
  9. bird
    Which minor league prospects, pitching or otherwise, are languishng a level below where they should be? Name a few prospects for whom there isn't a valid, fact-based argument that they are well-served for now at the level they are at. Maybe Toronto did in fact promote guys faster than the Twins might've, I don't know, and I guess I'm skeptical as to how instructive those examples might be. I'll grant this: the Twins give non-premium prospects more and better chances to succeed. They are exceedingly patient. This explains why Pat Dean is getting a spot start in a couple days, and why guys like Darnell Logan get a cup of coffee in MLB, and why Wimmers is still toiling away in AAA. I don't think this slows the advancement of the premium prospects like Berrios at all. I also think there are more benefits associated with this patience than there are problems with it. I agree, the Twins don't appear to have great talent, for example, in AA with guys like Baxendale, Slegers, Eades, etc., but remember, we said the same thing when Duffey was one of them.
  10. bird
    I get what you're saying Mike, but i don't think saying the playoffs matter, or for that matter maybe on fairly rare occasions delaying a promotion until the break says much, if anything. The development staff is not going to impede a player's development. Two more starts at the lower level does not impede a prospect's development. I'm glad you brought up Gonsalves, because he's a perfect example of how fans skew their thinking about how ready a guy is strictly on the basis of their desire to see the guy advance, or maybe because it gives one a chance to be critical. The reality of Gonsalve's last start: 93 pitches in what, 5 1/3 innings? Completely dominating? Hardly. Isn't it just possible that he's well-served right where he is until maybe he can eke out a 6-7 inning per formance in fewer than 93 pitches in back to back games or something? So, to answer the question, I have zero clue as to if Gonsalves is ready for the next level, just like all the rest of the gang on TD.
  11. bird
    If Fernando Romero, Lewis Thorpe, or someone else had pitched 30 innings at Cedar Rapids to the tune of 8BB/43K and a 0.97 WHIP, like Francisco Rios did, do you really think they'd be held back because someone was worried about the standings? Such nonsense. Toronto is novel though, in that they don't have a lot of talent potentially reducing some openings upstream. This is in contrast to the Twins, who have Stewart, Gonsalves, Jay, Rosario, and others at High A. And I know some think those guys are wallowing around a level below where they should be, but a very sound argument can be made for why each of them has been best served so far doing their growing in Fort Myers. Advancement will come, and it has never been stymied one iota because someone was worried about the playoffs.
  12. bird
    Good observation. He threw 93 pitches before being pulled with one out in the 6th in this game.
  13. bird
    There were a hundred prospects better than Wade in his draft class. Benintendi may prove to be among the five best from his draft class. And Benintendi was beating up adults in the minors. This explains the difference in their current status, not some imaginary difference in how the two teams move prospects along. I bet if we looked hard enough, we'd find a Bo Sox prospect toiling in low A who is the same age as Berrios and thereby prove how slow Boston is to advance its prospects.
  14. bird
    I misspoke. He's been dominant at AA for 10 2/3 innings.
  15. bird
    Yeah, I agree with this. It tells me Ryan has no idea of what to do right this minute. It might be evidence of Paulie's frustration with fundamental lapses, in the field and on the base paths especially, and Maestro has a reputation for being fairly sound in those areas. And look at some of his other choices, outside of Mauer, for the leadoff spot.
  16. bird
    Same numbers at AAA? Those are very good stats, no question, but maybe it doesn't tell us everything.
  17. bird
    My bad. Say, did anyone check John Ryan Murphy for a pulse?
  18. bird
    Well, if they're gonna bring ANY catcher out of retirement to salvage the season, I'd hope it would be Jerry Zimmerman. Since Earl Battey's dead.
  19. bird
    Ah, the Snohomish Whiz Kid. Great memories.
  20. bird
    Like when a pitcher demonstrates good pitchability, this team is showing good unwatchability.
  21. bird
    Frazier showing Plouffe-like range there
  22. bird
    Bruce Look > Tischinski Derek Parks < Sevcik
  23. bird
    And George Mitterwald. And Hal Narragon.
  24. bird
    I miss Camilo Pascual.
  25. bird
    Me too.
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