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  1. big dog
    I think of Pedroia that way. Geez I hate that guy, but I'd love to have him on my team. I do think the Twins liked having Gladden...except for maybe Lombardozzi. A lot of guys hated having AJ on their team. Ask the White Sox. And the Giants. And a lot of the Twins. Maybe the Braves got along with him.
  2. big dog
    Seattle traded him to the Twins for a bag of baseballs- he doesn't hate Seattle??? I really don't care what he thinks about anything- he's entitled to his opinion, I just wish he quit thinking it's so important. Anyway, I share the interest in Palka. The guy looks like a real hitter.
  3. big dog
    Not the rotation I wanted, but new year, new start, maybe it works. If it doesn't hopefully they make changes quickly. Plenty of possible replacements, for a change.
  4. big dog
    Under. They will try hard, but Ausmus won't work miracles and age/injuries will be relentless.
  5. big dog
    Oh, I agree that the complaints were valid, I was just trying to clarify the timeline with Pelfrey. It certainly might have had something to do with May being moved to the pen later. It might also have been that they just didn't trust Pelfrey to come in and put out any fires. He was better at starting them. If he's good with the Tigers I'm going to be seriously bitter.
  6. big dog
    Though Pelfrey was going to the pen, then Santana got suspended and he was back in the rotation. Isn't that how it went? He did complain, that was clear, but I think it was the suspension that pushed him back to starting.
  7. big dog
    I wanted a context for that so I looked up Trout's minor league success rate. 108/136, 79.4%. I was expecting it to be higher. So I checked Dee Gordon- 77.2%. The other two top stealers in MLB last year- Billy Hamilton, 82.5% in the minors, and Charlie Blackmon, 71.8% in the minors. Hopefully Buxton is just being more tentative in the majors and can turn it up once he gets some confidence. And quits being hurt.
  8. big dog
    I don't think he'll get 31 steals, but I very much support the hope that he will. I'd take the under on 20 this year. He's got a lot to learn about it. But I like the optimism and hope it turns out to be true. What does it mean to be Missouri on a player? I assume that is one of the weirdest auto-corrects ever?
  9. big dog
    That's interesting, and a little surprising, but watching him the outfield speed has not been evident. Maybe he makes up for his speed by not knowing where he should run when he isn't going to a base- could be he just get bad jumps on the ball. -- and of course Sano is likely to suffer some of the same problems
  10. big dog
    Kyle Schwarber is also painfully slow. Sano's adequate speed is also part of the equation.
  11. big dog
    OPS of 720 marking a downward trend, the recent market for 3Bs, and he gets traded for a closer?
  12. big dog
    5 appearances. First 2 scoreless. Next 3 were terrible. I think he'll have a good year, but he isn't changing my mind about starting him at the moment. If his concentration is not there, that's a problem he better fix.
  13. big dog
    It's a long season. He may get a shot. His spring stats are among the worst on the team.
  14. big dog
    May did not look good in his outing late in today's game. I really like him and hope he's part of the rotation soon, but he isn't exactly making a strong case for himself lately. Maybe he can work on some things in the pen and be ready when he gets a shot.
  15. big dog
    I was only watching on TV today, but Nolasco looked good. He was hitting his spots, good movement on the ball. I'm a huge Duffey fan, but so far, yikes. If you trust Molitor to make changes as necessary, I think Nolasco has to be the one to go north. If you don't trust the manager to put the best players on the team and make changes when that isn't the case, that's a different problem.
  16. big dog
    I still want to keep Arcia, at least for a couple of months, to see what he can do. I just wish he would do something this spring to make it easier to be excited about that.
  17. big dog
    Yeah, and Rickey had people so freaked out that they made mistakes from being nervous, etc. The whole tone of the game was different when he was on base, and his speed was second to his incredible focus/ferocity about stealing bases. Other guys stole a lot of bags, but I don't think anyone else affected the game the way he did. Very special.
  18. big dog
    And I don't care how good Quentin looks, he can't stay on the field. Lose Arcia to keep Quentin? I would absolutely not do that based on spring training results.
  19. big dog
    Wow. Two ROYs in one draft class. That must not happen very often. The Dodgers and the A's had 3 in a row, but none of them were from the same draft. -edit, the Dodgers actually had 4 in a row (Sax, Valenzuela, Howe, Sutcliffe), drafted in '78, undrafted FA, '79, and '74. The A's had Weiss, McGwire, Canseco, drafted in '85, '84, and '82.
  20. big dog
    Yeah, I get it. I was just drawing a distinction between a BP hitter and a great hitter.
  21. big dog
    Somebody who crushes balls in BP, making the fans ooh and aah. Unfortunately, that term means that BP is the highest plateau they usually reach. Nobody talked about Thome as a BP hitter.
  22. big dog
    I'm not sure what I think SHOULD happen, but I'm 100% convinced that Santana and Arcia WILL happen. And right now I have no problem with that. I do have a problem with all the at-bats Quentin is getting right now. I don't see him as the answer to any problem we have.
  23. big dog
    I think the writer means he is still a rookie by having one fewer at-bat than the minimum last year, so he's technically a prospect even though he was in the majors for quite a while. I don't think that is a commentary on his ability.
  24. big dog
    Great article- lots of good memories. The Harrellson call, which is what I heard living here in Illinois, was totally awesome. It no longer exists on YouTube- I guess he complained, or someone did. You can get the Twins TV call and radio call, but not Hawk's. If I recall correctly, the sequence was 1. sound of ball being obliterated by Thome's bat 2. Hawk saying "dadgummit" (might have been "ballgame" but I think it was the former) 3. Long sequence of crowd cheering, not a single comment from the Hawkaroo. Easily my favorite Chicago White Sox Moment Of All Time. Craig Kusick's nickname was Mongo. Obviously.
  25. big dog
    Yeah, I'll bet the Sux wish they had Escobar back instead of a couple of dreadful months of Liriano (12 games, ERA+ of 79). Now they're considering the Ghost of Jimmy Rollins. I'll take EscoBear. Let's hope he is who he looked like at the end of the season.
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