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  1. 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?
  2. 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
  3. big dog
    Kyle Schwarber is also painfully slow. Sano's adequate speed is also part of the equation.
  4. big dog
    OPS of 720 marking a downward trend, the recent market for 3Bs, and he gets traded for a closer?
  5. 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.
  6. big dog
    It's a long season. He may get a shot. His spring stats are among the worst on the team.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. big dog
    Yeah, I get it. I was just drawing a distinction between a BP hitter and a great hitter.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. big dog
    They all have the same floor we do- homeless tweaker meth-heads. Hopefully that's no more realistic for them than it is for us. Well, for me anyway. I don't know what other people have going on. Good luck to us all.
  20. big dog
    I would rather have Polanco on the team than Nunez, and if Buxton shows he's ready I'd rather have Polanco than D Santana.
  21. big dog
    So instead of another thread where we continually debate whether the glass is half-full or half-empty, here's one debating whether the glass is badly cracked or completely shattered. Knock yourselves out. For those who are planning to tell me "if you don't like it start your own thread", I would but lately they all seem to end up in the same place anyway, It's kind of like listening to Reusse except without the hilarious cackling. Extending Kurt Suzuki, Jason Bartlett, I suppose Mauer and Ortiz and the bullpen can only be a few posts away. If anyone out there has a baseball glove, lives in northern Illinois, and wants to play catch, I'm available. Have a great day.
  22. big dog
    Somebody must be making quite a good living doing Tommy John surgeries in the Fort Myers area. I hope a lot of these guys make a full recovery.
  23. big dog
    ?? Yeah, I would say that's true, if he's better than he looked last year. Not automatically. Ryan saying they think they can fix him suggests he needs to show some upside.
  24. big dog
    Triple like.
  25. big dog
    If healthy, they'll be good. But they are old, and at least a few key pieces are going to miss significant parts of the season with injuries. That's what I said last year, and it's even more likely to be true this year.
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