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  1. Jham
    You'd think we'd go down with our best and not our most average rookies.
  2. Jham
    Littel and Stashak have good numbers but not very impressive stuff.
  3. Jham
    I get that we clinched and everyone's hung over if not still drunk, but we're batting a dude with 0 career hits lead off?
  4. Jham
    Actually, I always liked the thought of Gibby as a reliever. When posters were suggesting him as a nontendercandidate during his frequent struggles in three past I always thought it would be dumb to let him walk without seeing if his fastball slider could play out of the pen. When on, his slider has been literally among the best pitches in baseball in getting swinging k's. a lot like Presley's curve. Health is key of course.
  5. Jham
    She's working! Gotta be tough to conduct an interview with Bert being dumped on your head! But she's a pro's pro.
  6. Jham
    Just wanna say thanks and congrats to all the game thread posters. We've watched a lot of bad baseball, and this year we finally got paid off. Cheers!
  7. Jham
    Correct. I think he's seen his last days in the minors and should achieve super 2 status. Point being, he's likely to hit arbitration early which is potentially means 8 figures over his arb years. It's a consideration for sure, imo.
  8. Jham
    He'll almost certainly be a "Super Two" and eligible for arbitration after next season. which means those numbers may be even higher.
  9. Jham
    Because there's a possibility this isn't his break out season.. I'm not saying I'd bet on it. But batting titles tend to catch the eye. If he's leading the league in hitting he probably makes the All Star team. If he's winning batting titles and playing average defense, he's probably a gold glove candidate. Dozier won one. If he does this while hitting 15 HR, he's probably an MVP candidate. Agents and arbitrators notice these things. Regression is also a possibility. But if you had to bet on whether Arraez will hit Altuve HR or Sano will hit for Altuve avg, which would you bet? The HR may be more valuable than the avg. But young contact hitters adding power, even elite power happens every year. Power hitters adding elite contact is rare. It's a gamble with conflicting metrics. To boot, we have several other big investments to make which may keep us from being able to extend him if he does blow up, but may also be of greater priority in the present sense. Interesting. If it's me, I wait. We already have some fairly 1 sided extensions which are likely to cause some tension going forward.
  10. Jham
    yes!
  11. Jham
    Come on guys. Put the nail in the coffin.
  12. Jham
    jopo team mvp?
  13. Jham
    How'd Lamare get an at bat this series?
  14. Jham
    Uhhh... according to who? he's been better out of the pen, but he's only been a reliever for a month.
  15. Jham
    Maybe we tie for the division, but our broken down team has no pitchers left, so we just give our spot to the White Sox and Giolito agreeing that if the White Sox win they get the division but if they lose they're out and we get the wild card. predictably, they lose. Twins finish half a game back in second. In this scenario, 1 more win would have saved the season and a lot of confusion.
  16. Jham
    I didn't place Lamare ahead of him... I don't expect AK to rake right away, but I'd be excited to see him or Larnach or Rooker this season. Just doubt it makes the team any better unless the plan is to run out lamare and wade every night.
  17. Jham
    Especially since AK is about 100% to start next year in AA/AAA for probably half the season anyway. Healthy, he's currently behind Buck, Rosie, Kep, Cave, Wade, Margo, Rooker, and possibly Arraez and Tortuga or maybe even Raley. He'll need to hold off Larnach as well. He projects to be good enough that options won't matter much. There's no roster reason not to bring him up. That said, he hasn't demonstrated he's good enough yet. His slow start to the season may indicate he needs time to adjust. And MLB playoffs would be a steep curve. I'm also not convinced his short compact Hrbek swing translates to elite MLB hitter these days.
  18. Jham
    There it is.
  19. Jham
    It's crazy the way Graterol can't get elevated swinging strokes with that velocity. Wish he hid the ball a bit.
  20. Jham
    Also, MLB wants the Yankees (not the Twins) to have the record. I don't discount that.
  21. Jham
    Depends who you ask and when. Most thought our window was opening last year. then last year happened. But this year with the contracts coming od the books was pointed to for years as the year. Our rotation for next year is starting to look like the AAAA carousel of old... If you wanted to bet that next year's team will win more games than this year's team, I'd take the under for pretty hard.
  22. Jham
    I remember game 163 at the dome. It was broadcast on TBS who had a slogan at the time: "very funny". A twins fan brought a sign that read: "Tigers Blow Season (TBS): very funny" I loved that sign.
  23. Jham
    Adrianaza as well right?
  24. Jham
    How close is Buxton to hitting?
  25. Jham
    MANY wanted Duffey DFAd last season. We may have found our Pressley.
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