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  1. Mr. Brooks
    12 consecutive scoreless innings. That's not too bad, right?
  2. Mr. Brooks
    8 ks in 14 AB now for Park. He looks every bit as lost at the plate as Buxton, but without the added value that Buck brings on defense. Are as many calling for a Park demotion as die Buxton?
  3. Mr. Brooks
    That depends. If it were me, Kepler would start every game, regardless of the pitcher or who else was on the roster. But they clearly aren't going to do that. So, if he's only going to spot start 1 or 2 games a week, I'd pick a better spot than against Rodon.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    72 points of OPS is enough of a difference that if he's only going to get spot starts here and there, a game against a really tough lefty is not the one to choose.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    The Sox have lefties pitching Monday and Wednesday, so I would think Thursday would be more likely.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    If it takes 3 to 4 years to go from Southern League hitter of the year to any mlb success I'd say something went wrong. AAA is mainly for fringe players, IMO. Tearing up AA like he did last year should put him very close to a starting mlb spot.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    Bernardino tweeted that he was told Kepler would not see much playing time during this call-up.Though, to be fair, he doesn't say who told him thathat. Edit: In combination with other tweets it does seem to imply the information came from Terry Ryan.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    I disagree. Every player in that lineup came into the season with significant question marks. Dozier: Ice cold the last 2 second half's. The optimistic view was to imagine how valuable he could be if he held up all year. But that leads to the reverse, imagine if he has a full season of how he looks in the second halves. Rosario: Can anyone actually continue to have even moderate success with absolutely no plate discipline? Mauer: Has he been in an extended slump, or just late age decline? Sano: Probably the closest to a sure thing, which should be alarming considering the small sample size and k rate. Park: This one shouldn't need much explanation. Escobar: Perhaps the next surest thing after Sano, though projection systems still think he's far over achieving his skills. Murphy: Floor is probably Butera without the elite defense, upside is probably a good backup or fringe starter. Buxton: He will eventually hit enough to be a very valuable player, given his defense and speed, but how long will that take? Edit: phone auto corrected good to "gooder". Why?
  9. Mr. Brooks
    This is a good analogy, if the pilot has never flown that type of plane before.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    That is one hideous lineup. I'm convinced these old school guys like Gardy and now Molitor don't even know what OBP stands for, with Santana and now Rosario in the 2 spot. Doggie M was the correct choice to manage.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    Not at the park? What is he traveling by horse and buggy? It's been 12 hours since the move was announced. Anyway, what are the Twins doing? This kid needs to be playing, somewhere, anywhere. They should have called up someone else if he's not going to play.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    There were many who thought this lineup would be our biggest asset. While that might very well be true at some point this season, I have to say that a lineup with possibly the worst hitter in all of baseball last year as it's every day number 2 hitter is not going to intimidate anyone.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah this old fashioned belief that corner outfield defense doesn't matter. I guess it's because "range" is something that is hard to quantify with the eye test. Old school guys see a fly ball drop in for a hit and think, "everyone hustled, nobody dropped the ball or took a bad route, nothing to see here. " When, in fact, a faster outfield catches MANY of those so called routine hits. How many more teams around the league need to field defenses that make their mediocre starters look like aces and make their poor starters look mediocre before we take note? There is more to defense than simply catching the ones that are hit right at you.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    It's not just Molitor, it's most managers so I won't single him out, but it boggles my mind that so many smart, experienced baseball people can find a way to justify saving your (theoretically) best reliever for a situation that may never, and often doesn't, occur.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    If May's role is 6th and/or 7th inning guy then someone please re explain the justification for not giving him a legit shot at starting. The explanations I heard all off-season were that May was more valuable in the short term as a late inning reliever. That's not an argument I agree with but, ok, it's a legit argument. However, you can ALWAYS find an affordable middle inning guy, always. A middle of the rotation stater making the league minimum is not nearly as easy to come by and vastly more valuable.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Terry Ryan takes offense at that statement.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    If he refuses to play Winter ball again, I send him straight to AAA to start next year. If he plays Winter ball, I give him a shot to make the club in ST. The team can't "make" him play Winter ball, but someone needs to get it through this kid's head that he needs to commit himself year round to bettering his game, not just when he's "on the clock".
  18. Mr. Brooks
    For those saying the Milone demotion wasn't performance based: Do you really think the A's go out and trade away maybe the best pure SS prospect in baseball if they think Milone was actually as good as his ERA suggested?
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Not quite right. You are forgetting the fact that HR's don't count in babip. If you tried pitching to MLB hitters, they would just take you over the fence most of the time. On the times you actually were able to induce a ball in play, you would probably be somewhere around the .300 mark, over a large enough sample size.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    This could have also been said at this time last year, how did that work out? I'm not a fan of counting chickens before they hatch. There is nothing wrong with always trying to upgrade what you actually have right now. The real good teams don't sit back and count on minor league guys to some day come and fill spots. If they are as good as advertised, they will find a place for them, WHEN THEY GET HERE.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    This is not entirely true. By not calling him up at all this year, they can begin to push the service clock back into next year, getting them yet another year of team control.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    The Twins still have holes they could fill on offense. But, either way, it is meaningless until/unless they figure out a way to fix the league's worst pitching rotation. Until that happens, this team will never get above .500, even if Buxton/Sano both hit their ceilings.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    I meant no other tools that are elite, which is what his power is. Yes, he has the arm tool, but I was talking more about his offensive profile. Do you have a link to the extremely high success probability statement?
  24. Mr. Brooks
    Well yeah, I would assume that the Twins (or any other sane person) would do that deal in a second, but what is in it for the Padres?
  25. Mr. Brooks
    He needs to show the consistency of a Ricky Nolasco or a Tommy Milone first.
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