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  1. big dog
    If it predicts a big year for Byron, I'm all in.
  2. big dog
    That was a trade between the Padres and the White Sox. If the Padres made a great trade, what did the White Sox make?
  3. big dog
    The only thing I can add to this post is...whatever.
  4. big dog
    Totally agree with above sentiments- when I said I liked what I heard and found it encouraging, I meant some level of growth/maturity in Stewart and an apparent and probably dramatic change in how the organization developed young pitchers. Both changes are potentially very good news for the future.
  5. big dog
    OK, that was an awesome post. Thanks. Love what Stewart said- all aspects of it. Really interesting and very encouraging.
  6. big dog
    Also if it were 100% elastic he would hit the wall and bounce back 30 or 40 feet, which I'd pay money to see.
  7. big dog
    As I said, efficiency is important. This would be the antithesis of efficiency. But I agree, who cares?
  8. big dog
    It's important to be efficient, but who cares if you are the team that spends the least to win 80 games? I am really underwhelmed so far, and barring a significant trade I don't see how this team is going to take the next step, other than our traditional two-tiered strategy of Wait & Hope.
  9. big dog
    I certainly hope that replacing Molitor with Baldelli results in a major change in this approach.
  10. big dog
    OK, that split-screen idea is incredibly fun. Thank you.
  11. big dog
    Well, today got better.
  12. big dog
    big dog opens door...sticks head in, looks around...says "oops, wrong room". I'll be down at the bar if anyone needs me, hoping we sign a free agent whose name I recognize before too long.
  13. big dog
    That's known as the "winner's curse".
  14. big dog
    Good plan, except Austin is out of options.
  15. big dog
    If you are in the batter's box and you take one hand off the bat on your followthrough you could just about hit the umpire. The catcher can't get far enough back.
  16. big dog
    Amen. A team is penalized if a batter interferes with the catcher on a ball in play. Shouldn't the team be penalized if the batter hits a catcher in the head with his bat? I'm looking at you, Adam Jones.
  17. big dog
    Personally, I like that contract better than the Corbin deal from a team perspective. I'd be popping champagne if the Twins had done that. But hey, Adrianza!
  18. big dog
    Well, if the best you can do is "this is how we baseball" and running Buxton promotions all season while he's on the DL or in the minors, maybe high pay is not appropriate.
  19. big dog
    I get that Gordon is unlikely to be a big star, but I'm hoping he can be Greg Gagne for a while. That would be ok with me. I would like that regular top 10 in Def-WAR that Gagne had, but I'd rather have the two WS titles.
  20. big dog
    I find the strategy unsettling for my traditionalist views. I don't think that makes it bad, though. Given that a player who is removed from the game can't be reinserted, it isn't a costless strategy, so I don't know that it's the cheating- it's just burning assets in nontraditional ways. I do think that playing one way for 162 games and then completely changing strategies, in radical ways, for the playoffs indicates that the playoff structure might not be a true test of who is the "best team", but of course that's been true for a long time- if the Twins had been required to use a traditional rotation of starters in '87 and '91 we probably wouldn't have won. Of course, we also wouldn't have faced Koufax 3 times in 7 games in '65. Should an NFL team have to tell its opponent what defenses it will use for the first ten plays of each game, or can they change strategy to respond to their opponent? My biggest problem is I'm sick of staying up so late watching 26 pitching changes. If that causes me to quit watching, and there are 50 million people like me, then MLB might actually care.
  21. big dog
    I think one small piece of this that hasn't really been mentioned is the way he apparently "bought in" to what the coaches were saying. That makes it sound like if he had been told that in Minnesota, he apparently wasn't processing it very well. That's a knock on the manager and coaches, but isn't it also at least somewhat on the player?
  22. big dog
    Running winter conditioning with mandatory workouts- how innovative. Are you planning to make everyone live in Fort Myers, or just show up there four times a week? Mike Trout trains in the winter using workouts designed by his personal trainer- the guy who was the trainer at his high school. No one else is involved. https://www.mlb.com/angels/news/mike-trout-workout/c-161491480 The Yankees have an exit interview with each player where the conditioning coach sets personal goals with them, then the next thing they do is they welcome them to spring training and see who's in shape. Lots of ways to expect adults, especially adults who have been MVPs, to handle themselves in the off-season.
  23. big dog
    If you don't think Gardy "showed fire" you weren't paying attention. #8 all-time in ejections. Famous incident during the Angels playoff series when he went to the mound, signaled in a reliever, and then had Mientkiwicz say "Isn't Kyle Lohse on the team any more?"- went ballistic. Fire- check. Playoff results- unchecked.
  24. big dog
    Yes, I don't think there was a single thing about the Hicks trade that was doing it right. We not only traded the wrong player, we traded him for an unbelievably worse player. Bad idea, worse execution. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
  25. big dog
    Trading both Span and Revere could have been these moves, but weren't (though I'd much rather have May now than Revere so...?).. Trading Hicks definitely wasn't. I thought signing Reed might have been a move like this, too. I certainly want smarter, or at least luckier, trades and signings. Getting something for Lance Lynn at least seems like a mini-steal right now.
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