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  1. big dog
    If you believe they have failed with all the shortstops in the system (some of whom they didn't draft), doesn't drafting a shortstop seem like a priority?
  2. big dog
    I wonder if there's ever been a Twins team with 5 ex-players on it before. We got value for Pressly and Escobar. Rijo may still turn into a player from the Lynn deal.
  3. big dog
    That might be- Steve Stone was basically done after his Cy Young year and says he knew he was throwing too many curves and wrecking his elbow, but as he said, you don't get many chances to win a Cy Young. On the other hand, you have guys like Frank Tanana who were fireballers, got hurt, and then started throwing breaking balls because they no longer had heat. I suppose different injuries lead to different outcomes. I think he had a shoulder problem, though I'm not sure I remember that correctly.
  4. big dog
    There were an awful lot of guys back in the day who had a really good three-year run and then were never the same. Consider Dave Boswell from the Twins. 19 years old in 1964, 23 IP. Worked his way up to 106 IP, then 169, then 222, 190, and in 1969 he threw 256 innings at age 24. Went 20-12 with 10 complete games, ERA+ of 115. That was it- he threw a total of 130 innings over the next 4 years. Career over at age 24. He said that his career effectively ended when he threw a slider to Frank Robinson in the tenth inning of a game (he lost 1-0 in 11 innings).
  5. big dog
    And we were all so looking forward to putting 2020 behind us. Be careful what you wish for, I guess. Good luck, Mr. Enlow, I hope the recovery goes well and perhaps you are fortunate to be able to sit out the rest of this train wreck.
  6. big dog
    Absolutely inept in the field, no clutch hitting, no apparent thinking. Granted, there are a lot of injuries, but can't even minor leaguers generally be expected to catch and throw the ball accurately most of the time? Reliever has a great inning, hey he threw 12 pitches, gotta get him out of there so we can bring in...anyone. Ridiculous. I continue to believe that Astudillo has no business being on a major league team (I know, everyone loves him etc), but he's just one problem in a whole broken toolbox right now. Just think what the score would have been if the Yankees were hitting at all. Tonight should be another laugh-fest. Clown show describes this pretty well. I've never been so disappointed in a Twins season, not even close.
  7. big dog
    These games were closer than the Twins game??? The Falklands War was closer than this game. The "war" also lasted 72 days, roughly as long as the first two innings last night and hopefully about as long as Shoemaker's career with the Twins. (The United Kingdom vs. Argentina in 1982, for you young 'uns.)
  8. big dog
    Happy to trade Donaldson for anyone who might be able to help us in the next few years. That does not include anyone mentioned in this article.
  9. big dog
    My understanding was that Donaldson would make us a better team, as long as he could stay on the field. I believe that I was badly misled.
  10. big dog
    New Twins strategy: pitch a shutout, have a chance. I've never been this disappointed in a Twins team, ever. Very short time left to man up and right the ship.
  11. big dog
    Gagne was very solid with a strong arm. Simmons appears to have far more range and surer hands. I don't think there's any real comparison, and I thought Gagne was a good player.
  12. big dog
    Trust the process...grrr...trust the process...argh...trust the process...don't say bad things...trust the process...*#$&$%^ Sorry, just couldn't hold it in any longer.
  13. big dog
    In related news, Anderson needs ligament surgery and will be out half the season. Bad break. Great news for both parties here, I think. Let's hope Dobnak gets some good financial advice. He's only set for life if he plans for it. My guess is he's got that under control. I hope it's true, for him and all the other players who sign good multi-year deals. I have a friend who worked as a financial planner for a sports agency. She said that it was an incredible chore keeping players from investing in whatever their friends thought was a good idea (Burger King franchises were very popular ideas for a while). She also said that of all the athletes, baseball players were the hardest to manage because a lot of them had not only never been to college but sometimes hadn't finished high school and the amounts of money just seemed unlimited to them. Not much life experience or trying to manage money independently. Fortunately for Randy he's got a ton of life experience. It would be interesting to know what kind of help agents give, or don't give, their clients and how it varies.
  14. big dog
    Sorry that a quote from a radio announcer has you so perturbed. They must be working on their deliveries as well. Haven't we heard about pitchers using spring training games to work on location many times before? It was his second appearance. The way it was worded was kind of strange, but that's what I took it to mean. Anyway, I have no idea if Happ is going to be a decent #4 or not, but I hope (and expect) that the Dobber gets a chance and does well.
  15. big dog
    Eno Sarris has his fantasy rankings for starters published at The Athletic. Fun read. #10 Giolito #14 Maeda #19 Berrios #23 Lynn He has Keuchel 12 spots ahead of Pineda Happ 14 ahead of Cease Shoemaker 64 ahead of Rodon Kopech and Dobnak rank about even Thorpe is listed about even with Rodon. So only one major difference, and that's at the fifth starter spot. Should be an interesting season!
  16. big dog
    in a spring training game???
  17. big dog
    All I know is what I hear on the radio. It sounded like kind of a weird thing to say. It sounded to me like the announcer thought Happ was throwing the pitches that were called and the Orioles were getting batting practice.
  18. big dog
    I listened to the Baltimore game last week when he got roughed up a bit. The Oriole announcers said he was pretty clearly just working on hitting specific spots. They made it sound like he wasn't getting hammered, he was just doing what he thought he needed to work on and if the Orioles hit him, so be it. Hopefully he's getting ready. And I wouldn't be disappointed to see the Dobber get a chance either.
  19. big dog
    Dare we say...he's in the best shape of his life? Haven't heard that too much this spring.
  20. big dog
    Agreed to the above sentiments. It's not like Rooker is a replacement-level vet the team is using to hold the spot for a month. He's a (somewhat) young guy with a chance to really help the team going forward, and he deserves a shot. This is a reasonable choice.
  21. big dog
    If Buck can stay on the field he's the choice, but I don't know how much I would bet on that. Jiminez in LF reminds me of Canseco back when I used to sit in the outfield in Oakland. You wonder if he's just that bad or if he's not even trying. He's ahead of Rooker, but there will be some cheap hits and extra bases at his expense. I keep waiting for Anderson to quit hitting but it isn't happening so far. His defense is suprisingly uneven- this might be a good year to compare what's better, the great-field (we hope) and adequate-hitting shortstop vs. the polar opposite. Great discussion of bench strength. I hadn't realized the difference, which I agree strongly favors the Twins. Then there's the LaRussa factor...at best I think he will be an average manager overall. We'll see.
  22. big dog
    Carew was a great, great hitter of course, but no one ever watched him in the field to see what magical play he would make next. He was fun on the bases, too. He and Kirby are in the conversation, but man, speed is magical and he's way ahead of them. OK, to be fair, he's way ahead of everyone.
  23. big dog
    No matter what I'm doing while the game is on, I stop when Byron is at bat. Anything hit to center field I look up to see what's going to happen. He's certainly the most exciting Twin I've watched in 50 years of serious fandom. I hope he can finally play a full season. Man do I hope that.
  24. big dog
    That highlight reel was incredible. Even flashes of that would be an enormous upgrade. Very excited to see him take the field.
  25. big dog
    Yes, Ashbury is correct- I should have said highly predictable outcomes for individual cases in the short term are expensive to insure. The problem of adverse selection is huge here (insurance companies wouldn't play on a level field with respect to information about risks specific to that individual), and you couldn't really build a representative pool of "players with calf injuries" or "twenty-three-year-old MLB pitchers with a good slider and Tommy John surgery" or whatever. Insurance companies can also offload some of the risk through re-insurance, effectively sharing the policy with other firms (laying off some bets, as it were). That also works better (or only really works) when the risks are predictable for the insurance companies, and diversified across multiple policies. It might be better for the Twins to make some side bets on lines like the over/under that Donaldson spends X days on the injured list (or whatever it's called now).
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