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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm fairly optimistic this year, but I've stopped thinking in terms of a wave or group of prospects that will all arrive together. They will come one at a time and with no particular rhyme or reason. The Twins seem too willing to extend the older ballplayers, limiting open spots and flexibility. 3/5 of the rotation is under contract for no less than the next three seasons, leaving no room for a possible intriguing core of guys that might have included Gibson, May, Meyer and Berrios. The Twins are capable of playing .500 which will be fun for a change, but .500 is their ceiling for the foreseeable future.
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I care...I bought all the hype!
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    "Tommy Milone: why the hell not." What an endorsement! Meanwhile, back in AAA,...
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Gardy took the team to the ALCS his first year, and Kelly won the World Series, so I'm setting a high bar for Molitor
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Is the commissioner familiar with the steroid era? Perhaps batting averages are below their historical pre-1990s averages (.260 or so), but I don't know if offense overall is down. His top issue should be replay reform I would think?
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Another question is: which of Hughes, Nolasco, Santana, or Gibson moves to the bullpen when Meyer is promoted into the rotation?
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    That's the *catcher puts down one finger*
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    If these choices were a horse race, my trifecta bet would be 4-1-5
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Me too. He's made a decent income playing a game he loves. I've got to think he was allowed to start these games as nothing more than a professional courtesy. He was never going to win the 5th starter job this year. He might find success in the bullpen and change his tune.
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    "promises not to stay past the end of the season"
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    actually Ryan's original quote in 2012 was something like "you just can't get a pitcher of Meyer's quality for as cheap as a starting center fielder in his prime, unless the pitcher is still in A ball" So there's that
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    hope you are right!
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    My recollection is that it was the Twins front office who was hyping Meyer in the first place. They traded a pretty good center fielder and lead off man for Meyer. Again, obviously Meyer will get his chance, and both sides of this whole conversation will become moot. Yet for some people, the fact that Meyer continues to be held down in AAA is just more evidence of the wisdom of the Twins front office. Someone help me get my head around that.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    For curiosity sake, I went back to check, and Alex Meyer didn't have control problems when he was acquired. Ryan called him a power guy who throws it over the plate. So I wonder if the insistence that Meyer master a change up pitch has anything to do with his control and two month shoulder soreness (by the way, two months is not a full season and Meyer was pronounced fully healthy when he did return and pitched in Arizona Fall League that year). Combine this with the myth that "young pitchers must struggle" (the Yordano Ventura comparison is helpful here too) and I feel the Twins may be blowing a huge opportunity. Meyer might realistically have been positioned to become an ace as of Day One of this upcoming 2015 season (if perhaps on an innings limit of some sort). Instead, it's also a real possibility that Meyer in AAA continues to issue walks at a rate not acceptable to Ryan and Molitor, with Meyer consequently being kept down in AAA because of it. And somehow this is all proof of the wisdom of the Twins front office. Ok, I'll stop my rant for now. For all that, it's also more likely than not that we see Meyer by mid-May or sooner, and that if he does struggle that the Twins work with him here at MLB rather than return him to AAA.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Bummer. Not yet I guess.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Agree, tweaking the mechanics can be tricky business. Only the pitcher knows what's comfortable and there are a lot of different ways to sling a baseball.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Quick point. The comparison is not the career potential of Alex Meyer to Randy Johnson or Sam Deduno, the comparison is actually to the control issues those guys all had. I don't want to be the guy who attacks every time an Alex Meyer article pops up, so I'll let it go. We will see him this year I agree completely. Hopefully very soon. Free Alex!
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Good reporting Nick. Even looking at photos, Meyer looks like he's still a work in progress. But here again, Meyer is a top prospect. I also don't feel Terry Ryan can use "control problems" as a reason to leave Meyer in the minors. Samuel Deduno, right? It was a point of pride that nobody knew where a Deduno pitch was going to fly off to. Wildness was Deduno's calling card. I would think Ryan would want Meyer up ASAP regardless. If he struggles we'll all see it and Ryan can just send him back down with everybody's blessing. It will be fun (I think) to watch how this develops, and to see Meyer finally make his debut.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Didn't realize it was only a couple weeks. At this point, why not. I do think the Twins would have been better off calling him up last year, even after his innings limit, even to just ride with the team.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The "service clock" argument for Meyer needs to be retired immediately.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm ok (I suppose) with Milone winning the spot. But that comes with the real possibility of Meyer and May being packed back to Rochester. Hard to get excited about that idea. Those guys could use the MLB appearances. Like others have said, the wear on the arm is the same, whether they're throwing a pitch in AAA or MLB.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Sorry 'bout that
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Can a person even be absolutely sure about that anymore?
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I would like to hear Torii say: "Granted, my UZR dipped to -18.3 at Comerica but my wRC+ is still strong and if my BABIP and slash lines see positive linear regression, I'm coming back."
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm glad Gibson has pitched well, because with competition for this final spot of the rotation, I'm not convinced Gibson might not have been one of the guys optioned. Looks like Milone is a couple lengths clear of the field to this point.
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