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  1. Joe A. Preusser
    I respect the career Sid Hartman has had and is still having, but I have seldom agreed with him and have often found his 'sources' lacking. The guy who delivers water to the office isn't a real source. That said, Morneau very much seems like the type of guy to pursue a winning team or a familiar team rather than the extra money, especially since he should already be set for life if he's the least bit fiscally responsible. I'd love to have him back on a modest 2 year contract to be a spark and leader.
  2. Joe A. Preusser
    Hmm, I guess we know where opposing teams are going to try to hit the ball against that outfield...
  3. Joe A. Preusser
    I can get on board with about anyone other than Garza.
  4. Joe A. Preusser
    That's a great point, I hadn't considered the potentially outlying stats of many of these young pro athletes.
  5. Joe A. Preusser
    I added height until I was almost 21, and was still adding upper body bulk until 23. Not sure if this was a usual growth pattern or not, but I've always thought that most guys don't get their adult body until 23-24. 17 to 18 seems like it wouldn't make that much difference, although of course everyone is different.
  6. Joe A. Preusser
    1. Sounds about right. I'd say our bid will be ~40 mil and the winning bid will be north of 50. 2. I think they comfortable going with what they have. If they want a solid veteran backup, then Mauer can work with them and the pitching staff while he's taking grounders at first. 3. Agree. 4. I see this one as 0% likely. Not because of Hicks. 5. Unlikely. This is the prototypical contract the Twins love to give out. Five predictions of my own: 1. Pelfrey is resigned. 2. Sano plays for the Twins at or by the ASB. Buxton is a Sept call up. 3. Gibson has a nice first complete year and checks in with an ERA just under 4. 4. Twins will sign 2 FA pitchers for a yearly average of 10 million or more. 5. The Twins will win 75 games next year.
  7. Joe A. Preusser
    The Twins showed this year that they will move prospects very aggressively if they deserve it. It is a welcome change, I prefer to push the kids rather then lead them along by the hand.
  8. Joe A. Preusser
    It would have to be one of the best hauls in the history of MLB, something akin to the Herscheal Walker trade the Vikes made with the Cowboys. Otherwise there seems to be way too much hype built up around both of those guys to deal them.
  9. Joe A. Preusser
    Of all qualified starting pitchers in MLB with at least 100 innings pitched, Correia's ERA checked in at 102. 102 divided by 30 teams = ~3.3. So on average, Correia was better than 1.7 of the starting pitchers for each team. I admit, that is a big generalization, and I apparently misunderstood Puck's intention in the first place, so I'm happy to let it drop. As far as Gardy needing a quicker hook, I kind of go back and forth. My first, gut instinct tells me that if our SP isn't going 6+ innings consistently he isn't doing his job. By not catering to that weakness, Gardy is in a way holding them accountable for their performance. On the other hand, I agree there were a bunch of instances last year where we all just knew that our SP was doomed when he came back out for another inning. But at the end of the season, we all saw our pen was just gassed and much less effective. Maybe it was doomed from the start because we didn't add enough starting pitching who could be effective and protect the pen for the whole year? As far as inherited runners go, I still put most of the blame on the SP. I'd be interested to see some stats on the number of IRs we handed off to the pen and how many scored, as well as how we stacked up %wise against other teams. I also wonder what the inning ERA is for those innings where pitchers enter the game with RISP.
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    Inherited runners are the fault of the pitcher who put them on base. If I'm a starter and leave with the bases loaded, then I deserve to have a few runs charged against me for it. Getting out of that scenario scott-free is a gift which artificially deflates an ERA. If the Twins BP allowed more IRs to score than other teams, it is mostly because they came in to more situations where there were guys in scoring position. And that's not all on Gardy, it is more on our starters who seemed to be able to handle 5-6 innings of solid work and then quickly implode with little or no notice once the next inning started. And I'm not sure what you meant by your last comment, Correia and the up-the-middle defense WERE good this year. Correia was better than at least one starting pitcher on every single MLB team this year...(Ok, I didn't fact check that one, but it's hard to believe that there was any MLB team with 5 starters under 4.2 ERA.)
  11. Joe A. Preusser
    Was this sarcasm?
  12. Joe A. Preusser
    Great post RB. When I read the part about KC I had a pleasant flashback to Denny Green's press conference after his team (Cardinals?) gave up a 21 point lead to the Bears: Who's Kevin Correia? He WAS! who we THOUGHT! he WAS!
  13. Joe A. Preusser
    All jokes aside, didn't it seem from day one that Bruno was asking the guys (Mauer expecially) to try to drive the ball more with the goal of raising our team SLG/runs scored and avoiding all those awful double plays from last year, with the unfortunate side effect of striking out a lot more? It's not exactly a strategy I would disdain as it seems likely a more talented group of hitters could execute it much better and have some success with it.
  14. Joe A. Preusser
    FA/INT - #2 (Please, please, for the love of all that is holy sign Tanaka) Pelfrey - #4 Correia - #4 Diamond - #4 Gibson - #3/4 Worley - #3/4 Deduno - #3/4 A rotation made up of these guys could be good enough to bridge the gap to our up and coming guys if everyone stays healthy and pitches to their potential. I honestly would be happy if we sign just ONE quality starting pitcher (TANAKA) and bring back Pelf on a reasonable 2 year. I expect Gibson and Worley and Diamond to have nice bounce back seasons (ok, at least one of them).
  15. Joe A. Preusser
    No x 1,000,000,000.
  16. Joe A. Preusser
    Show off.
  17. Joe A. Preusser
    6. The season series between MN and DET. If the Twins take the next two games we will win that season series. I like the idea of DET winning the series and all of us saying; well yeah, but we OWNED you this year.
  18. Joe A. Preusser
    That tends to happen when you keep putting them in the oven game after game after game after game.
  19. Joe A. Preusser
    Got a picture of the Missus and her golf ball sized moles?
  20. Joe A. Preusser
    Ding Ding DING!
  21. Joe A. Preusser
    Congrats to Pelf on a quality start. That is why we should give him a 1-2 year contract. Congrats to Chi on (re)finding true love. Let me know where you are registered. P.S. Only one of these comments was meant as a joke.
  22. Joe A. Preusser
    Not sure how you could be more wrong. Those teams won because they had some talent (certainly not the most talent) AND because they "got after it" and "battled their tails off." Sometimes you can get by with passion and drive and effort alone. You can rarely/never get by with talent alone. Tom Kelly had a paraphrase in Puckett's autobiography that said something to the effect "I'd rather lose with 10 hardworking, hustling, battling guys than win with 10 prima donnas." This means that whatever your talent level, if you're on this team you will "get after it" and "battle your tail off," or we'll replace you with someone probably less talented who will do those things. I've always admired this sentiment very much and would be sorry to see it cut from our future teams' philosophy.
  23. Joe A. Preusser
    Gardy: Meet me in my office an hour after the game so we can read up on all the Twins Daily comments. Andy: Sadist.
  24. Joe A. Preusser
    Is that a request?
  25. Joe A. Preusser
    Bring me up Skip, I can swing and miss with the best of 'em!
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