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  1. big dog
    I want to see Murphy show some stick. I want to see DanSan take a walk, sometime during ST. I want to see Arcia running his butt off in the outfield drills. I want to see a bunch of players working hard and having fun.
  2. 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.
  3. big dog
    Wow, did I suck at that. Thanks that was fun to see. At least I could remember hearing of everyone. I spent way too long thinking about Otis Nixon's batting stance, trying to remember his name. "Who was that old guy...used to be fast...hmmm..." which actually applies to a fair number of them. Along with "young guy...was never that fast..."
  4. 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.
  5. big dog
    Because the standards for publication on the internet are so much higher?
  6. big dog
    Yeah, I was hoping for huge squats, and a body like Vasiley Alexeyev. That's a good baseball plan... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/2885402109_97683bd579_m.jpg
  7. big dog
    Players who are hurt get to play half the games? How did you decide that number was a fair response?
  8. big dog
    I think of it as a "reason", not an "excuse", personally.,
  9. big dog
    # of prospects in their top 20: Boston- 4 LA, Houston, Texas, Washington- 2 # of prospects in their top 30: Bos- 4 LA, MN, Texas- 3 Washington, Phil, Houston, Pitt, Atlanta- 2 St Louis, Milw, TB, Toronto, Mets, Yankees, KC- 1
  10. big dog
    True. And Tonkin may get DFA'd this year, like Achter did. I don't really see how them spending the first month in AAA mattered one bit, given expectations for them and the results we got. I do think Pressly has a chance, and I hope he succeeds, though I don't recall him looking all that good last spring. I do agree, as I said, that signing Stauffer was a huge mistake compared to other veteran pitchers. But I know that everything has to fit the prescribed narrative one way or another. So the Twins are vet-loving morons, it's all over. I like the Hot Stove League, but this Leaking Lukewarm Radiator League that we've been in for a while leaves something to be desired.
  11. 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.
  12. big dog
    I'm not sure I'd say 15 was many, but which of the young relievers was ready to go last year during spring training? I remember being unhappy they hadn't gotten a better reliever over the winter, not thinking that Burdi was ready to go right out of the gate. My unhappiness was Stauffer vs some other veteran reliever as a stopgap to when a young player stepped up. It wasn't a case of there being rookies who were clearly ready who were being closed out. That's what would definitely make me unhappy this year, though, if they signed a Stauffer- (or Duensing-)like veteran.
  13. big dog
    Another way to say it is Stauffer had a few appearances in April, then went on the DL, then he had a week and was gone. He didn't actually take up a roster spot for the full two months. He also, while "epically bad" (not disagreeing there, by the way), eventually got picked up by the Mets, who also thought there might be something there. This stuff just happens sometimes- teams try things, occasionally they work, often they don't, the key is moving on. That's what the Twins did with these players. I'm simply trying to provide some counterpoint to the overstatements about how Twins love vets and will always take the vet. It's certainly true sometimes, but there are also cases where they cut the vets, don't resign them, or trade them to let Aaron Hicks show out unprepared he is.
  14. big dog
    I think a good counter-example is Blaine Boyer- the guy's a veteran, Ryan found him somewhere, he had a pretty decent year, but he's clearly not anywhere in the mix, presumably in order to give some minor leaguers a shot. This is IMHO exactly the right thing to do, but I'm happily surprised the Twins did it. They do seem to have a strong interest in veterans, but here's a case where they are not going there. Signing Stauffer was a mistake, but they also admitted it was a mistake pretty quickly. He pitched 15 innings, total.
  15. 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.
  16. big dog
    Who has Arcia collided with in the outfield so far? I'm not recalling any events but I recognize that doesn't mean there weren't any. And what makes us so sure that Sano is going to be running into people? Outfielders shy away from collisions a lot more often than they look for them.
  17. big dog
    And he's been dumped again since. Our turn will come up if we wait a while.
  18. big dog
    Yeah, I was wondering if I could get you to set up interviews with a couple of my colleagues in other departments...
  19. big dog
    Thrylos, thanks for doing this so thoughtfully- great stuff to think about.
  20. 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.
  21. big dog
    The part I liked best, out of a great set of questions and answers, was pitching inside. Nothing wrong with making a batter move their feet once in a while, and bad things are a lot more likely to happen if you don't do that. Can't wait to see him in the Bigs!
  22. big dog
    While that is clearly true, it doesn't prevent me from hoping that Thrylos is correct on the prediction.
  23. big dog
    Congratulations on your son! Wonderful times ahead. (Sleep much?) I think he has the chance to see some exciting baseball, even if he's stil a couple years away from understanding when the hit-and-run makes the most sense.
  24. big dog
    Milone has a better arm than Revere, but his outfield range is terrible and let's not even start talking about the hit tool. What on earth kind of a comparison is that??? Excellent comparable??? Come on, you aren't even trying.
  25. big dog
    Yeah, I watched Harmon play a lot of baseball. I don't care what he weighed, he (and many others) were a lot slower than Sano.
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