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  1. Mr. Brooks
    But if you sign FA help and they get injured, then you still have your top internal options available to step in. If you rely on your top internal options instead, you are left scrambling when they get injured. There is a reason that the top FA players get a lot of money. They don't come with a guarantee, of course, but you play the odds, and they have better odds, that's why they are in demand.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    Three of those guys have been here all year, contributing to a bottom 5 bullpen. Of course you'd rather have them finish strong instead of weak, but it'll be such a small sample size, that it won't tell you much about how you can expect them to perform next season. Most WS contenders these days have really good bullpens. Traditionally, guys like Pressley, Rogers, Duffey are ok pieces, but ideally I think you'd like all those guys competing for the last spot or two, not all being key pieces.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    I honestly can't. Not trying to be snide, I just really fail to see how two professional adults would have a problem being objective. I could see in a field like military, or firefighting, when a supervisor might have to choose someone to send into harms way. But in a profession like baseball, I just don't see it.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Jake is the older brother, not Joe. If he's so unprofessional that he can't objectively manage his brother than I don't want him in the organization at all.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    It seems pretty optimistic to me to think you can turn around a bottom 5 bullpen with only 1 good FA addition. To me, that is how you set yourself to fail and then say stuff like, "... but they were counting on x,y, and z to step up, and who could have known that a,b, and c would get hurt. "
  6. Mr. Brooks
    What's the reason that Mauer can't manage while Joe is still on the team? They are both professionals and grown men, I don't understand this argument.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    Granite and Garver are both already on the 40 man. One could come up without a DFA. Would just need to go down to 12 pitchers.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    If what you say is true (lack of HR's with men on is due to pitching around him), then his OBP should be higher with men on- it's not. Otherwise you are saying that pitchers just try harder not to make a mistake with men on, and it works. That doesn't make any sense to me. If it were that easy, they would just try harder all the time. Do you have any data to support your assertion that this happens league wide, and not just to Dozier?
  9. Mr. Brooks
    Fangraphs.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    He actually throws his change 11.1% of the time, which is pretty good for a 3rd pitch.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    Didn't Sano just return from a bunch of days off? Not every slump can be solved by a day off. Sometimes the remedy is to play through it.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah Sano has cooled off considerably since May, but lets remember he is just barely 24 years old yet. I truly believe that someday, soon, we are going to see the slumps become fewer and shorter.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    I love it. And I've always considered AA/AAA as high minors.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    But he could return on 9/1 and it would be less than 20 days, so it wouldn't burn an option.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Whether we should have been buyers instead. Whether we make the playoffs or not. Whether we can hang with the Sox, Steps, and Dodgers if we do make it. Im just happy we'll be playing meaningful games into September. Baby steps.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Even if it makes sense with a sinkerballer, I'm not sure I've seen data that shows it's true. The one pitcher I remember it being said for a lot was Blackburn. So I checked his splits. Career OPS against: 4 days rest: (1730 PA) .833 5 days rest: (1129 PA) .844 6+ days rest: (595 PA) .753 The numbers are basically the same on 4 or 5 days rest, and on 6+ they are far better, not worse. The K and bb rates are mostly the same, btw, it's the slugging that changes. In Blackburns case he does a better job limiting hard hit balls with more rest. This is only one guy, but my hunch is that its one of those things that people say because it makes logical sense, but isn't actually true. I'd be interested in seeing more data, but I think that the advantage of extra rest more than makes up for any disadvantage, even for sinkerballers.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Sorry. Certainly didn't mean to assign an opinion to you. He's been a low 4 ERA starter here, and the numbers show its not luck dependent. Yet, that doesn't appear to be good enough for you, since not all of his starts have been good (and only aces don't regularly have bad starts mixed in). I'm just trying to understand your opinion on him.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Why does he need to perform like an ace to satisfy you? Since joining the Twins he's got a 4.02 ERA (4.06 FIP, so it's not luck based), and his 5.33:1 k:bb ratio suggests to me that he should be able to keep it up. That is pretty good compared to what the Twins had been getting from the back of their rotation. Saying he owes us 2 or 3 more good starts, despite the numbers above, implies that nothing short of top of the rotation production will justify him being in the rotation. Well, I don't understand that. Even with him, we still have one unclaimed spot, so he's not blocking anyone. In regards to his starts with Atlanta, sure those happened. But obviously Falvey didn't think that's who he was or they wouldn't have brought him in. I said when we signed him that they must see something from his time in Atlanta that is fixable. I really don't see any downside to this at all.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Funny, after the last 3 starts, the posters ripping the "old fat guy" in the rotation as stupid and incomprehensible have all but disappeared.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    No, not a weird narrative on the board. One poster who doesn't like Dozier.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    Well ERA alone tells me almost nothing, especially for a relief pitcher. Im guessing they are also looking at his 15 bb's to only 40 k's in 54 innings and realizing that he's probably been pretty lucky. And also that he's not really a prospect, and the minor leagues are about developing your actual prospects, not worrying about results from your filler.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Adrianza doesn't have close to enough PA to qualify.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    I'll be pretty disappointed if Gordon isn't in the picture until 2019.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    I mean, the FO decided to buy initially and the team responded by completely going into the tank. It would have been foolish, IMO, to throw good assets after bad once it went from long shot but doable, to microscopic shot. It surprises me that Dozier doesn't seem to have the self awareness to realize that, he seems like a bright guy. I get the frustration, but if he must, he should focus it towards himself and the rest of the locker room where it belongs.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    In my opinion, with that embarrassing lineup Molitor had to run out there in this game, he's tripping over himself sprinting to fill out a new lineup card the second Joe says he wants to play. I guess I don't understand why every opinion has to come with a disclaimer here. Nobody here thinks I have access to Mauer or Molitor. Of course my comments you quoted are opinion and not meant to be passed off as fact. In fact, the second post you quoted was a question, so by definition can't be accusatory. It gets cumbersome having to always attach a disclaimer to every post, but I guess it has to be done. As for Mauer, I get why you are sensitive, but A) I'm not someone who goes around nitpicking everything Joe does. I'd say I'm close to 50/50 on him around here. So it's a little insulting to me to invalidate my opinion here as Mauer bating and nothing more. And To whom much is given, much is expected. That might not be fair, he shouldn't turn down the money or apoligize for taking it, but nothing ever is fair and its natural that he's going to be more scrutinized as both the highest paid (by a mile), and longest tenured Twin.
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