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  1. mikelink45
    In the long run it does not matter. But I happen to be a small hall person and I am not really excited about lowering the standards so that anyone that was good can get in. We have enough questionable entries in the hall now. As IndianaTwin stated " Curt Schilling, Zack Greinke, Kevin Brown and Wilbur Wood all exceed him and Dave Stieb, Luis Tiant, Rick Reuschel and David Cone are very close to him." Would I put all of them in the hall - No. I understand that we are not seeing the 3000 hits 300 wins standards working anymore, but I am not sure that WAR is the real measurement either. I can adjust to the best in their era which gets Santana votes, but I do not need to go back and match every other era's stats to that person. I do not want to sort through plaques in a Hall that takes up multiple buildings. Some day there will be another hall - the best of the best.
  2. mikelink45
    If the lists I have seen here are accurate move him to the pen. He is too far down the list and can always be stretched out if we go that far. But for now every live arm we have should be used to bolster the pen.
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    No - whether we have any hope this year or not, Ryan is needed to give the young pitcher one veteran to look up to and steady the ship. Ober is trying to recover his effectiveness and is not ready to be the staff ACE.
  4. mikelink45
    Like you I want him to make it, but I am very disappointed with what we saw last year. You mentioned Schwarber - he had a low BA, but he had massive power, took walks, and drove in runs. Matt had 22 HRs and only 40 RBIs! That is the combo that really disappoints me.
  5. mikelink45
    Nice try Nick - Pablo missed most of last year, will miss most of this year and will be coming back with who knows what ability in the last year of his contract. This is another blow for the team and I am really sorry to read about this, but we have already paid for Mahle and others during their injury years and didn't get much of a return. Save the money and invest in Pablo if he comes back strong of in someone who is pitching well.
  6. mikelink45
    What is going on - am I getting the wrong posts - first 5 things was actually 2 and now 12 quotes is 3. What am I doing wrong?
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    I guess that is it - I clicked on view full article and nothing happened - maybe that is one of the five.
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    I did and nothing happened - same two points
  9. mikelink45
    I only read two notes - the headline implies 5
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    Wallner, Larnach, Lee, Bell - start all four and give the pitchers a bottle of Advil. Talk about GOLD Gloves - these are made of Iron. Clank. My biggest hope is that we are not wedded to the past. That there is true evaluation on all levels and we cut veterans, rookies, DFAs according to their ability and no one has a lock on anything. Sorry, Ryan, Pablo, Jeffers, and Buxton - we are counting on each of you.
  11. mikelink45
    Very old - 8 decades changes a persons' perspective
  12. mikelink45
    If only projections were facts.
  13. mikelink45
    The best move so far, but when someone who has been DFA'd is the best move it means we still have a lot of work to do.
  14. mikelink45
    Finally I understand why Hawkins is coaching in the pen - by mid season he will be our closer.
  15. mikelink45
    What an interesting quartet of pitchers. Good arms, bad results. Hopefully the Twins will figure out how to have them prosper. I remember the struggles of Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax - neither looked good at first - and certainly not HOF. Hopefully at least one will turn the corner this year.
  16. mikelink45
    I used to give grades - this is easy - F But the context is missing. The off-season moves have to be seen in context of the in-season moves and how well they are implementing the PLAN! Haha - sorry I just had to pretend there was a plan.
  17. mikelink45
    4.37 xFIP does not spell rotation to me. But the Pen makes sense. I know Tampa makes errors, but overall if they judge him as a trade chip they generally know what they are doing. When I look at the pitching staff rankings on BP I find only six teams with worse eras - and we are close on two of them. Tampa Bay was down, but their 3.94 era still made their staff above average. In Whip - we are way below average - Tampa Bay is way above. And they were will to trade Bradley. They screwed up with Ryan and we won, but that success is hard to count on.
  18. mikelink45
    None of them have really shown that they can handle MLB batters so why do we think we can convert them and have a good BP? How many starters have failed the transition to BP? As stats confirm SP often find the first inning the most difficult. In the BP they may only get one inning. Joe Ross: Released by the Phillies in 2025 after a failed stint as a long reliever. Jordan Hicks: Demoted to the bullpen in 2025 after a failed attempt to convert from a reliever back into a starter. Phil Hughes: Struggled significantly to maintain form in 2011-2012, including a 5.79 ERA, despite early career flashes. James McDonald: Danger of being demoted to the bullpen in 2011 due to struggles in the rotation. Lucas Sims, Colin Poche, & Jorge López: All removed from the Nationals roster by June 2025 due to high ERAs in the bullpen. It works often, but no guarantee.
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    This was fascinating because my brain said CF was the only defensive position where we were above average - back to the calculator. I would have the Tigers winning and quite a bit more successful with their pitching staff. Sorry to say Ryan and Lopez are good, but not Skubal and Valez good and ack Flaherty and Casey Mize are also above average. We offer SWR and questions. A poor defense, a poor BP, and only 60% of a dependable rotation paired with an offense that finished 23rd in run production and I am not sure I am confident that we can stay above the Guardians who always exceed expectations. KC is the one I really disagree with.
  20. mikelink45
    Hard to read and have confidence. Nice try. Rogers and Topa - our two elder statesmen, our experienced arms and you write Okay who do you want? Who do we have or do we just refuse to pitch in high leverage situations? Orze had a good era 3.02 but that whip 1.368 is not what you want in the 8th or 9th. And Sands was not even able to match his career 4.19 era last year. And those are our top 4.
  21. mikelink45
    I guess they are trying to get us excited about ST! This kind of transaction is no big deal if it is just a minor effort around some real moves, but I fear this might be the move!
  22. mikelink45
    I feel sorry for all you writers who have to figure out the team you are covering and what to write about. But keep going, the TD subscribers will be there right with you. I am wondering how the division reacts to the Valdez signing by Detroit - I have not seen a big shakeup in the division that correlates to this since we signed Correa. With Correa we learned that the other teams were right, we were not getting the superstar the salary said we should. Framber has questions too or he would not have lasted this long. Will he be the better bargain and will Tom be forced to respond?
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    His start was not a good one for Twins fans, but is he can be better than the incumbents that would be good - except that we are all waiting for the three prospects - Rodriguez, Walker, Gonzales with more enthusiasm.
  24. mikelink45
    Good essay, but also depressing. How many positions are we above average? Buxton sure, but who relieves him. Jeffers average at most defensively. Our defense is really weak - maybe we are above average at DH!! But what is more important than SS?
  25. mikelink45
    The biggest question - who wants Larnach? We made a number of trades for minor league pitchers - Abel, Bradley...and still have our prospects so a trade of Ryan would require a much higher return. If they feel they have surplus I would look at an Ober and SWR trade. The extensions are a good plan - two years ago we could have extended Jeffers and had a catching future. Kopech does nothing for me..
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