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  1. Bodie
    Yeah, he was worse. And proof that WAR is meaningless. Anyone with a pair of eyes (and an iron stomach) could watch and tell you he was a one dimensional player who FAR too often didn't display even that one dimension. Now let us never speak of this "Gallo" ever again...
  2. Bodie
    I got 99 problems, and 1B arm strength ain't one of them! I'll take a statue at 1B if he can hoover up the rest of th IFs slightly errant throws. Plenty of 1B lacked (and lack) Meintkeiwitcz's range and Joe Mauer's arm and somehow played to an adequate level.
  3. Bodie
    Funny. No one had more people run against him, and no one allowed more success to those advancing runners among outfielders than.... wait for it... Matt Wallner. His strong arm has ZERO respect among MLB players and coaches as PROVEN by them running on him more than anyone else. And they are proven right by being more successful than against any other qualified outfielder in the bigs. Arnold Schwarzenegger was bigger and stronger than Mike Tyson. Tyson KOs him every time. Strength be damned. Having a desired trait that are part of greatness (i.e. arm strength) doesn"t mean greatness. Clementine (to use your example) had superior arm strength, amazing accuracy (kinda handy if you throw harder than anyone- ask those on the receiving end of a Sano throw from 3B!), above average speed and baserunning ability (in his prime) and hit for both average (.300 career ba) and power (in a power starved era). To compare Wallner to Clemente is even more laughable than the author's assertion that he is among the best dozen hitters in baseball.
  4. Bodie
    Remember, no matter how deep your manure pit, it is never considered "depth". You just have more shi... You can take a wild guess as to where I stand in regards to Julien being "depth" at 2B. Or any position requiring a glove!
  5. Bodie
    I remember seeing Liriano his first year starting. Had seats a few rows deep in LF, Jeff Kent and the Dodgers (sounds wrong, but...) were in town. As Liriano was warming up, my friend and I looked at each other and just shook our heads. His pitches broke so far and so sharply he looked literally unhittable. From 350-375 feet from home plate. Kent eventually hit a 2run HR (WAY over our heads) but the Twins won 5-2 if I remember correctly. Have never seen anyone a nasty/filthy as Liriano was early in his career. Even later after injuries took their toll, his stuff still looked almost as good as in his prime, but the control just never returned. A real shame... Probably the last appointment pitcher the Twins had. He pitched, you watched as he was SPECIAL, in ways that only the greats were/are. I won't open the can of worms that says that this Twins front office will never allow a special, unique GREAT player to develop as Liriano did. Though they seem hellbent on following his career path as it comes to injuries!
  6. Bodie
    C'mon!!! Every Twins fan knows Nick Punto never went 4 for 4.... well ok, that one Jr. Hi game. But he was 27 at the time! Speed and defense, and... well defense! (Love ya' Uncle Nicky!!!!)
  7. Bodie
    Not saying they'll make the opening day roster, but... I like the little I've seen of Gasper. Not sure he's quite MLB-caliber as a catcher, but he is having fun, and few things are more fun for a fan than seeing your team's players having a good time on the field. Things go right for him and we might be in for a more skilled Austidilo. Or at least a competent bat-first utility/pinch hitter. I might fall in love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ with Kiersay! EFFORT I haven't seen on a consistent basis in years. And not the "26th man on the roster" great effort, but Pete Rose "I'm the best on the field AND I'll outwork you too!" effort. My take is that he is the Twins' 2nd best OF behind Buxton. And the best team we can see on opening day includes him starting. Another topic... Which is more painful to watch, and zero, zero tie where no one expected to start above AA showed any signs of life (amazing that even the pitching staff looked lifeless while pitching a combined CG SO), or a 9-9 tie where you led 8-1? Well, at least it is spring, the (Florida) grass is green, and anything is possible! And Rocco is in mid-season form...
  8. Bodie
    No. The Twins have adopted the attitude that any and all effort beyond the minimum required to actually show up and play 5-6 innings lackadaisically is a risk. Keep going in this direction, and there will never be another exciting Twins player. Instead we'll be "treated" low minimal effort to "protect" them from injury while the three players with any star power struggle to play in half the games! I may be smarter than the average bear, but I CANNOT be the only one to notice this disconnect between theory and reality!
  9. Bodie
    M's fans say the same thing...
  10. Bodie
    162+5+7+7=181 Hope you are including DH! 9 positions, 20 starts at each position gives 180 games, a total only possible with 5 or 6 games (wild card dependent) in the World Series. I'd take that every day, and twice on Sunday!
  11. Bodie
    C'mon!!!! These are Minnesota fans. They demand quality! They demand winners. Like the T-puppies. Or the Gophers. Or whatever y'all call uour North Stars' "replacements". Or best yet, the all-time winners, YOUR MINNESOTA VIKINGS!!!
  12. Bodie
    You can ignore the stats in spring training. True, in some cases. And those cases are veterans with proven track records. Paddack looking like he is continuing along his half decade (plus, sub-150 innings for his "star" years) track is certainly NOT something you just gloss over. Gallo, Margot territory. Sorry, worse. Those signings were simple one year disasters. Paddack is now an official multi-year disaster. Firable offense for whoever didn't simply release him.
  13. Bodie
    Well, after today's game, I'd say most anything is possible... walk off the Yankees and people will start talking! We'll, maybe not talking loudly as it is still spring training.
  14. Bodie
    An all-time favorite of mine. Name another "never was" who voluntarily gives up his MLB contract because he "wasn't earning it". Terrible ballplayer (at least as a major leaguer), but apparently a thoroughly decent guy.
  15. Bodie
    Now, can we ACCEPT THE FACT that you can't hit the ball hard if you DON'T MAKE CONTACT? Silly question for this organization, under this regime...
  16. Bodie
    We can agree Wallner's only defensive strength is his arm strength. And teams run on his arm more than anyone else.... and do it successfully. So...
  17. Bodie
    But you'd settle for an open bag of M&Ms... mmm, Mauer and Morneau!
  18. Bodie
    Fun Meintkeiwitcz (?sp?) fact... he played for the Pirates at the end of his career. He was thier regular starting 2B. Hardly the typical career trajectory of a normal first baseman... He was extraordinary at 1B as good as anyone. (Won many a free beer by being able to spell that Slavic monstrosity back in the day. Loved that horseshoe of a name on the back of his jersey)
  19. Bodie
    You're correct. We wouldn't be having this discussion. If Miranda played 1B regularly we would gladly welcome ANY competent 1B to man the position! Absolute.butcher on defense, seemingly ignored because he isn't as truly horrendous as Julien... Jim Thome had more of a reason to bring a glove in his last season than either Miranda or (even more so!) Julien do!
  20. Bodie
    It is not the same thing! When you use two roster spots to get one player's stats, you are, by definition, shortening your bench. And when those platoon player's both stink defensively (say 2B) you have the bad defense, lack of ability to hit against same handed pitching, and in the end,some truly bad baseball stemming from horrid roster construction. An old football adage says if you have a quarterback controversy, you don't have a quarterback. If you are platooning a majority of your "starters", you have a quarterback controversy. And no, this isn't a Joe Montana/Steve Young type question, but much closer to a Steve Montana/Joe Young question!
  21. Bodie
    There is a shortage of quality starting pitching. There has always been. Most teams would give up anything to improve that depth. Guys with no chance of ever making it make up 90%+ of all professional ballplayers who will keep getting chances to make the leap to the next level. Guys who don't have the arsenal to start go to the bullpen. You can pretty much guarantee that those desperate teams have tried pretty much everything to make these failures (almost no one is drafted as a reliever, percentage wise) work out as they planned. Before anyone brings up Santana or Liriano beginning their MLB careers in the pen, get real! Those guys were starters, who in the parlance of the day, were getting their feet wet in the bullpen before their assumed (presumed!) move to the rotation. Neither Sands or Jax fit this mold... not even close. Want to to see just how teets-up this can go, look back at the Jeff Reardon starting experiment. Didn't go well at all... and I'd say Reardon had a much better chance to make it work. He made the majors as a (poor-ish) starter and transitioned to relief. He performed poorly in his mid career return to the rotation. Neither quality innings, nor any quantity. His return to relief didn't go well, as most thought he lost velocity and movement that simply didn't return upon his return to the bullpen.
  22. Bodie
    Yeah, Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow...
  23. Bodie
    As we used to say, Bruno had a big hose in RF. And covered ground surprisingly well - at least suprising to non-Twins fans. A good player, seemingly a good teammate, and by all accounts a decent fellow. Age has let me learn that that is a rarer combination than we like to admit!
  24. Bodie
    Could he? Anything is possible... almost. But, which is more likely - your dream of him blossoming into an all-star level reliever (a job he has never done to even an acceptable level) or him pitching 50 to 75 largely ineffective innings before breaking down again I know which I hope for. I also know I'd bet the other way if forced to pick the more likely outcome.
  25. Bodie
    He ain't depth, any more than I am. If you can trade him for a bag of balls, you do it. There are a slew of 5+ ERA pitchers that can be had for much less than $7.5M. If you want "depth"...
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