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  1. big dog
    This is almost as boring as watching golf or bowling on TV. Bright side is I am well ahead on my yard work pace.
  2. big dog
    Former Twins Update, 4/18 edition Jorge Polanco .182/.325/.643, 3 HR 8 RBI Michael A Taylor .298/.327/.689, 0 HR 6 RBI Joey Gallo .136/.292/.648, 3 HR 5 RBI Nick Gordon .206/.263/.763, 3 HR 10 RBI Luis Arraez .276/.353/.695, 0 HR 3 RBI (and 8 SO, 7 BB) Sonny Gray 0.00 ERA, 0.82 WHIP, 11 IP (2-0 record) Kenta Maeda 6.00 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 15 IP (0-1 record) Emilio Pagan 5.14 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 7 IP Jorge Lopez 1.93 ERA, 0.96 WHO, 9.1 IP (1 save) not posting players on the Orioles, wounds are too fresh
  3. big dog
    We could just recycle the same thread from last year, which IIRC quieted down considerably once Lewis came back, Julien and Wallner came up and started hitting, and they quit playing Gallo. Then he seemed to be a better hitting coach somehow. Sucks to have a slump this bad to start this season, especially twice in a row, but it's not as if the team has never hit with this coach. I'm not riding this slump another three weeks without doing something, though.
  4. big dog
    If you want to believe anything from this sample size, let's also note Sano has struck out in 36% of his plate appearances. That's the second-highest rate of his career. I'd say efforts to fix the "not making contact" part aren't working, although he does seem to have gotten away from hitting HRs. I'd still take Wallner.
  5. big dog
    Luis is also on track to have 54 hits, walks, and strikeouts this year. I'll be the over on hits, gotta get it now before the oddsmakers catch on.
  6. big dog
    From the Cave article on mlb.com: "The 31-year-old veteran figures to slot into a bench role with Colorado entering the season, offering a left-handed complement to the club’s righty outfielders Brenton Doyle and Sean Bouchard while also providing an alternative to Kris Bryant and Elehuris Montero at first base." Wow, that says a lot more about Kris Bryant than he ever wanted to hear.
  7. big dog
    Great, now the Twins have to sign someone else named Chavez or I'm never going to get to wear my new jersey.
  8. big dog
    Well, having him start the ninth with the bases empty seems like a good start toward solving that problem.
  9. big dog
    I was hoping we would somehow keep Sonny Gray. However, that wouldn't have changed this article given that he's already dealing with hamstring trouble.
  10. big dog
    "It's fair to say that the Twins aren't in nearly as good of a position from a rotation quality and depth standpoint as they were a year ago, with Gray, Maeda and Mahle all on hand." It's also fair to say that I will be replacing Mahle's production while sitting on my computer reading Twins Daily, so I've got that one covered.
  11. big dog
    Glad to see Buxton back in the lineup and running well!
  12. big dog
    The one exception? Every other starter we’ve traded for has failed to give us value? That seems a little extreme. Not as much as saying that trading Polanco decimated our roster, but still. Joe Ryan and Sonny Gray?
  13. big dog
    Actually, I’m an old LH with a beard. Falvey, I’m waiting for the call!
  14. big dog
    "Only 17 pitchers in the major leagues threw 140 or more innings with an ERA+ of 125 or better in 2023. " That stat blew my mind. I had no idea it was such a small number.
  15. big dog
    And word was expecting a lot more money. That didn't work out so well.
  16. big dog
    So if you have Duran on your team and I have Graterol on mine, send me your cell # and I will be extremely happy to do a straight-up trade.
  17. big dog
    Agreed, it had value. I might argue that it had the average value of other #65 picks, or I might argue that anyone who chose Sabato first and Soularie second probably would have not made a great pick at 65 or I might argue that they would have chosen Strider. But the expected value of that pick isn't all that great.
  18. big dog
    True, but that wasn't just a cost of the trade- it was a cost of every draft pick above 125. I think it's too much to say it was the cost of the trade alone. Strider was there 65 times earlier. I think Spencer Strider is the cost of choosing Aaron Sabato in the first round and Alerick Soularie in the second. Why put all the blame on this trade?
  19. big dog
    I remember Sano making some nice picks on low throws. I remember his footwork around the bag being pretty weak, since he had hardly played there. I have no idea how stats capture something like that.
  20. big dog
    Sano was a better fielder at first than Kiriloff? I must have missed that.
  21. big dog
    ouch
  22. big dog
    A small, thin guy with a beret and a skinny mustache walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder. Before he can say a word, the bartender says "Hey, that's really cool! Where did you get it?" The parrot says "France, they've got millions of them."
  23. big dog
    I think the poster meant having a sac bunt instead of striking out, then having a strikeout that ends the inning. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound useful…
  24. big dog
    The Yankees traded four players for Frankie Montas and Lou Trevino. They got 41 bad innings from Montas over two years. They got 21 innings from Trivino in 2022, and he's been out since and is still out (elbow injury). The story goes on and on. Why assume that only the Twins trade for injured pitchers? Successful trades for pitchers have also become a pattern, as mentioned by a prior post. Which is the true pattern? Or maybe it's just risky to trade for pitchers.
  25. big dog
    The Twins payroll is lower because they know Buck is going to hit all those incentives. Wouldn't that be nice? MVP, 600 plate appearances, that's another $10 million. Win/win!
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