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  1. Joe A. Preusser
    Is it just me, or do his stats look terrible? 4+ ERA for a reliever on the season, and 10+ over the past 10 games? Not exactly confidence inspiring.
  2. Joe A. Preusser
    Call them what you want, baseball teams are businesses. The Dodgers have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that you simply cannot indiscriminately throw money at a roster and expect to be great. The Yankees and Red Sox have both had similar seasons in recent memory. Fiscal responsibility will, in the long run, both make money for the owner and organization (priority #1 for any business) and put a better product on the field (priority #2 for this particular business). Does any sane person actually think the Twins don't want to win another championship? Of course not. But there are correct ways to go about running this type of business, and throwing away money on free agents (that have largely been terrible this year) last offseason is not conducive to that success. Write this down, because it's important. The Twins don't owe me, you, or anyone else anything. They will continue to try to be as good a team as they can and make as much money as they can. That is the nature of the baseball business. Any fan over the age of 14 or so should have a pretty good grasp on that, but based on the posts on this message board, that is apparently not the case.
  3. Joe A. Preusser
    That means Johnny thinks the Twins would be 11 games ahead of their current position if only they would wise up and hire HIM as manager. It's just common sense.
  4. Joe A. Preusser
    Yeah, if only we had spent 239M, we too could have a 29-39 record. Of course, that would be 2.5 games worse than the Twins currently are, but hey, at least we would have spent the money. That is clearly the only thing that matters. Spend. Spend. Spend. To hell with fiscal responsibility. Oh, and P.S. that "gibsonly" was cute for about 2 seconds. Now it's just tired and stupid.
  5. Joe A. Preusser
    Sorry Snepp, but that's not accurate. Laudner's OPS was 27th out of 50 for all catchers that year, but most of the players with worse OPS played much fewer games, so Timmy was close to the worst hitting regular catcher in baseball. And BTW, the Twins' other catcher, Mr. Butera (Sal, not Drew), had a much worse OPS that year, and they both batted south of .200. The other players' offense was simply amazing by 1987 standards, something the 2015-16 version of the team has at least a chance of repeating.
  6. Joe A. Preusser
    I can't argue with your points, they are all true. But I like to think of it as "runs/9 innings" potential rather than a sum of individual parts. I have seen many teams put several poor hitting but excellent defense guys in their starting 9 and still hit plenty enough to make deep playoff runs. Remember, one of Tim Laudner's nicknames was "Buck Eighty-Six" for a very obvious reason. And I would still expect both Dozier and Flori to hit in the neighborhood of .250, anything less likely isn't worth it.
  7. Joe A. Preusser
    They got an AAAA defensive SS and an AAAA starting pitcher. For 2 rented months of 5+ ERA. Good trade for the Twins.
  8. Joe A. Preusser
    I've said it before and I'll say it again. If we had to, we could play both of these defensively strong guys in a lineup that included Sano, Hicks, Buxton, Mauer, Arcia, et al to carry the offense. Being strong defensively up the middle is worth some hitting ability. Both Dozier and Floriman can hit ~.250 with low power. More than enough to be pieces on a championship team with others hitting a ton.
  9. Joe A. Preusser
    I'm not a Shrute, Jim. But yes.
  10. Joe A. Preusser
    I'm an assistant manager at Walmart, not getting invited to a lot of high class parties.
  11. Joe A. Preusser
    Umm, I believe the Minnesota Orchestra is the best in the world.
  12. Joe A. Preusser
    Sounds like fun. No, seriously, it sounds like fun to me. Seriously.
  13. Joe A. Preusser
    What, does Revers have to hit like .900 against us?
  14. Joe A. Preusser
    What do you play? Organ at Twins games?
  15. Joe A. Preusser
    Is the dog wondering why Hammer's ass is so lopsided?
  16. Joe A. Preusser
    As a former all-state HS tennis player and current 300 pound TD poster... I can't refute this.
  17. Joe A. Preusser
    My loss.
  18. Joe A. Preusser
    Anyone else on board with Correia's new nickname being "Neo?" Correia: Are you saying I can dodge bullets? Gardy: No Kevin, what I'm saying is when you're ready....you won't have to.
  19. Joe A. Preusser
    I'm hooked. I'll play tennis with you in the morning. Provided you can be in St. Cloud by 6 am?
  20. Joe A. Preusser
    Delmon got a hit against us, everyone drink!
  21. Joe A. Preusser
    Whatever you pretty little mind can conjure up.
  22. Joe A. Preusser
    Excuse us, we haven't seen a 4-4 night by someone other that Mauer since 2008.
  23. Joe A. Preusser
    Just one more step on the path to the loony bin for yours truly. Actually, I think Clete has fixed his swing and could be a valuable chip at the deadline. A year ago I would have punched myself in the face for writing that.
  24. Joe A. Preusser
    Anyone living in Chicago and cheering for the Twins and not the White Sox ( I won't even mention the Cubbies) is aces in my book.
  25. Joe A. Preusser
    We got fleeced in that deal, and it has nothing to do with Capps' performance after the trade. I look at this as Smith's worst transaction, and it's not even close.
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