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  1. DJL44
    She was great in Naked Gun, wasn't she?
  2. DJL44
    I don't understand why the Twins chose their brain trust from Cleveland (Falvey), Texas (Levine), Tampa (Baldelli) and San Diego (Tingler). Not a lot of pennants from those teams. Can't they steal someone from St. Louis instead? I looked up the bio of Michael Girsch and he has twin daughters. Twins! It's meant to be.
  3. DJL44
    One thing I will never understand is why a pitcher needs 4 full days of rest after pitching 75 pitches. I agree that Falvey has failed to fill the pitching pipeline. One obvious cause is this team does not sign and develop international free agent pitchers. 30% of players are from outside the US and the only decent pitcher the Twins have signed and developed in the last decade is Brusdar Graterol.
  4. DJL44
    It is sad. Pagan has been an asset the 2nd half of the year compared to Rogers. Rogers has allowed 15 runs in his last 17 innings. I don't think he'll get a major league contract as a free agent.
  5. DJL44
    After they outright Randy Dobnak to AAA (nobody will want to pay the $7M they still owe him). and release Austin Davis.
  6. DJL44
    The single-A complex leagues aren't going away. The teams have too much invested in their spring training facilities. They may not have good attendance but the teams want to start recent draft picks at the complex so they can use all of the fancy training tools they have. AA and AAA teams are making money. Those teams are located in medium sized (and some large) cities and are fairly popular entertainment locally. High-A might get squeezed if salaries get too high. I assume the MLBPA will do its due diligence to find out how much they can raise pay without losing teams.
  7. DJL44
    If he gets shelled in his first start against the Yankees, I'd still give him another start against the Royals at home.
  8. DJL44
    I'm guessing this means he's in the rotation for the rest of the month. They need a starting pitcher and aren't going to want to burn an option on him.
  9. DJL44
    Yes, we should want the team to make the playoffs. I want this team to make the playoffs and win at least one game there to end this streak of playoff futility. Get that monkey off the team's back.
  10. DJL44
    More important, there is no Frank Viola on this team
  11. DJL44

    Nelson Cruz

    DJL44 replied to bighat's topic in Other Baseball

    He could play for the Dominican in the WBC next spring.
  12. DJL44
    Gladden had a a different perspective. Judge will beat you, your pitchers have to shut down everyone else and make sure there isn't anyone on base ahead of him.
  13. DJL44
    Randy Dobnak is about 4 months younger than Tyler Mahle. I don't know if he will ever pitch for the Twins again.
  14. DJL44
    I am hoping both local kids Wallner and Varland make the big league roster. That should be fun to root for.
  15. DJL44
    I read somewhere that the best deadline acquisitions are usually relievers with a good career track record who have had some bad outings in the first half of the season. They often bounce back to their old level of performance and cost very little to acquire. The other way to make sure you're a good trade deadline acquisition is to be acquired by the Cardinals. They always seem to get a huge performance out of deadline acquisitions. This year they struck gold with Montgomery and Quintana but I also remember Larry Walker and Will Clark performing down the stretch for St. Louis.
  16. DJL44
    I think it would be a really bad idea to bench Arraez during a pennant race in favor of an untested rookie. Did you know that Palacios is actually older than Luis Arraez?
  17. DJL44
    I'm stealing "Stillwater swear".
  18. DJL44
    Any .310 true batting average player will have a month where they hit .270 and another month where they hit .340. It's really, really hard to hit .300 in MLB this season. Only 13 players are over that mark.
  19. DJL44
    I think Killebrew was underrated. At the time he was also underrated because he didn't hit .300.
  20. DJL44
    Not in the same spot. He's playing a utility role, he's not the starting 3B or the starting 1B. That will make him underrated.
  21. DJL44
    Aaron Sanchez is going to get DFA
  22. DJL44
    Jhoan Duran gets my vote for Twins ROY
  23. DJL44
    My list - worst to best Tropicana, Kingdome, Metrodome, Oakland Coliseum, Chase Field, Turner Field, Angels Stadium, Nationals Park, Dodger Stadium, Kauffman, Target Field
  24. DJL44
    This chart would be easier to understand if I knew the base rate (league averages)
  25. DJL44
    He's been playing all over the place and not starting consistently which will lead him to being underrated. He's also been brutal defensively, making a lot of rookie mistakes.
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