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  1. mikelink45
    Good reflection - hard to add anything to what you wrote - they are such a disappointment that figuring out how to fix them is almost impossible. But they definitely showed that adding a FA to a bad team does not make a better team - it just might make a worse FA.
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    What a fun fantasy - this is what spring training is all about - dreams and hopes
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    I like Miranda a lot -but Machado - the pressure is on. ST is so full of optimism - I think we will be 162 - 0 this year!
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    Wow - the ACE card has come up again. No there are not 24 Aces out there if we go by the definitions that seem to float around that this is the guy you want to start and end a WS. I will take 5 really good pitchers, and an outstanding BP. The age of 100 MPH means that arms disintegrate - not worth a lot of prospects. We have enough articles about how good this SP depth is. Let's test it.
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    I was not happy with Molitor being replaced, but it is not Baldelli's fault. I am not happy with his by the book approach, but it reflects the FO and all the coaches that have been brought in so I am not sure what I should be using to judge him.
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    When I see Pagan replaced by a quality pitcher I will have more faith. I just cannot fathom what the eventual lineup will be at this point. We do need Miranda.
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    I do not see him making it as a SP, but based on what we have seen, I am not sure he is a quality reliever either. With all the names at St Paul, he is in danger of being on another team before the year is over.
  8. mikelink45
    You know I I know somebody the reason I didn't write what you were expecting is because I have high hopes for Miranda. Probably more than most of the writers on these pages. So I think we have an interesting situation with Miranda Lewis and Lee and I have to see what Lewis comes back as before projecting him for anything. We also have to see what Kiriloff can do if he's healthy.
  9. mikelink45
    Interesting to speculate but like the rest of you I have no idea
  10. mikelink45
    I find this fascinating after yesterdays article about Moran - he is the key addition and if we are worried that he sometimes walks batter we should not be extending Pagan. Sometimes wildness works for a pitcher - see Ryne Duren of the Yankees. But Moran is much more in control that Duren was. The Yankees used to walk him to the mound with those big thick glasses and he would remind you of Rick Vaughn in the movie Major League. I can see some other starters making it to the BP and hope they do before the rejects of other teams.
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    I love it - let the prospect rise as quick as his talent and attitude allow. I would love to see him at 2B with Miranda at 3B, Polanco trade bait. Then what to do with Lewis - what a good problem.
  12. mikelink45
    I have no idea. I know that the SP rotation is more likely to block him than the BP so I would favor the BP to start with..
  13. mikelink45
    Much better than another dumpster pick up. Give him a chance.
  14. mikelink45
    I can only repeat myself. Wait and see. I hope they're all great.
  15. mikelink45
    I like your optimism, but I do not see Cavaco or Sabato making it which puts them with Rooker. I am still questioning the Noah Miller pick and sorry we lost Petty. Not sure they will allow Wallner to get a role in the crowded roster. So what we have is Lee looking great in one year, Lewis seeming great but with a terrible injury history, Larnach with lots of promise and two years of injury. So my grade is incomplete for your list.
  16. mikelink45
    I loved going to Millers games, although I missed Willie and Roy. That was fun baseball. WIllie will always be the greatest centerfielder. No matter how bad they wanted Andruw Jones in the HOF, his short career cannot compete with Willie's overall and long value in the field. Roy suffered a wait that was too long and his counting totals have to include the Negro Leagues. I remember how sad it was to see him in a wheel chair, but he always had a smile. Look at this list of HOF players who were Millers at some point: Orlando Cepeda (1957) Jimmy Collins (1909) Ray Dandridge (1949–1952) Red Faber (1911–12) George Kelly (1930–1931) Billy Herman (1948) Monte Irvin (1955) Another great player who only got 10 years in the big leagues because of prejudice. Willie Mays (1951) Rube Waddell (1911–1912) Zack Wheat (1928) Hoyt Wilhelm (1950–1951) Ted Williams (1938) Carl Yastrzemski (1960) The games against the Saints were memorable and a pleasure for any baseball fan.
  17. mikelink45
    I have no idea, I only know what the TD pages tell me. I hate to see a bias against small guys - I remember the Blade - Tommy Hall pitching and starting for the Twins. Tom Was not a great pitcher but did win 52 - 33 and made a 10 year career in the majors. Bobby Shantz of the Yankees - "His lifetime record was 119-99, with a 3.38 ERA. He fanned 1,072 and won eight Gold Gloves." and "5'6" and 139 pounds". Bleacher Report Tim Lincecum and Johnny Cueto were also both under 6 feet. As I grew old and shrunk under six feet I started to wonder how six feet became the standard for tall and short. Now 155 pounds is only 75 less than I weigh so perhaps he can duplicate the old fable about Stu Miller being blown off the mound by a gust of wind. But judgments are made and should often be ignored, for example, "Chicago Cubs’ scout Duffy Dyer said that Greg Maddux wasn’t “strong enough to be a starter” in his scouting report in 1985" Check out this article - it is quite good.
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    I enjoyed your look at KC. They actually have enough talent to start towards 500 with the right approach. I loved KC in the WS years, but the club got stuck in old philosophy and the organization slid backwards.
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    You are talking about my very favorite team (sorry Twins) and I got to see them play in the last half of the fifties. Loved them.
  20. mikelink45
    This list was not about offense - it is reflective of what I see as the defensive importance. I watched Eddie Mathews and Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and Nolen Arenado and Mike Schmidt and all of them could handle a bat, but really picked up WAR from their defense. Nettles and Robinson may have won their WS with their gloves.
  21. mikelink45
    I say Ryan - he had it last year and he gave us a good season. He is going to be with us a long time (I hope) and it would be great to see him out there again as a reward.
  22. mikelink45
    The pitch clock gets so much attention and it brings me back to the days when the NBA put in their shot clock. Here is a Wiki quote - "The most extreme case occurred on November 22, 1950, when the Fort Wayne Pistons defeated the Minneapolis Lakers by a record-low score of 19–18, including 3–1 in the fourth quarter.[3] The Pistons held the ball for minutes at a time without shooting (they attempted 13 shots for the game) to limit the impact of the Lakers' dominant George Mikan." Yes those were our Lakers. But no one wanted a dull game like that repeated. Today do we hear anything about the shot clock in basketball? In a few years no one will talk about the shot clock in baseball. I love it.
  23. mikelink45
    I think you are right - SS is the key like C and CF. If I had to rank the importance of positions I would go: SS C CF RF 3B 2B LF 1B This off because I am only looking at positions and P would also be the key to success. I rank 3B over 2B because I think there is a reason that it is called the hot corner. In the past when ground balls were more common 2B would be higher because of the double play.
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    What everyone is missing is how successful the Reds have been. They did have a winning record in 2013 and have been the Little Red Machine ever since. Of course if we could be as lucky as the Yankees were when they annually grabbed the best players off the Athletics Here is a quote from Baseball Almanac, " Of course, the Yankees were the richest and most resourceful club in baseball, then as now, and they found a way to ensure a continuous supply of good players. They managed to turn one of their American League rivals, the Kansas City Athletics, into a virtual farm team. How did this happen? Connie Mack's family sold the Philadelphia Athletics in 1954, and Yankee principal owner Dan Topping arranged for one of his business friends, Arnold Johnson, to buy the A's and move the team to Kansas City . It's still unclear how much influence the Yankee ownership held over the A's, but the two teams then embarked on a six-year series of trades. These trades, as we shall see, almost always favored the Yankees . The Yankees, in fact, rarely traded players with any other team in this six-year period. From 1955 to 1960, the Yankees gained many outstanding players from Kansas City, and managed to give only marginal value in return. It must have worked, since the Yankees won four more pennants in a row beginning in 1955, while the new Kansas City team struggled to stay out of last place."
  25. mikelink45
    Eddie played in 2391 games - I do not think he was a utility player
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