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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I too am a sucker for pinstripes. I don't mind any of the uniforms, though I am least enamored with the gold trim letters on white tops. I don't know if they have been mercifully retired, but I haven't seen them for a couple seasons in any case. Gold trim letters on blue tops (Baldelli) I think are fine but look a little busy. I also happen to love love love the red tops. Erv Santana always selected those when he was pitching at home. I don't remember the Knoblauch red tops of the 90s much at all. Also great selection of photos! Radke pitching in Yankee stadium? I wonder if that was his near-perfect game in 1997.
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    I've got to side with poster Tomj14 on this one. A year ago, there was a credible report that the Pirates were asking Gordon, Gonsalves and Zack Granite for Gerrit Cole. That's when those prospects still had some sparkle. That's what we are talking about. Moreover, regardless of Gordon's development or future here in Minnesota, there is a franchise cornerstone coming up the minors right behind him at the same position.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Or, maybe they are informed but just disagree with you.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I think technically the sides reached a settlement, but wow. And he's worth it
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    To the case for Kepler, I'd add that he actually OPS'd better versus lefties in 2018, putting to bed the concern about his platoon split (at least for a year). Also, Kepler has a great relationship with Buxton, and I enjoy seeing those two in the outfield together.
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    Thanks for the vote of confidence. I had been seeing positive data on Kepler's performance on the threads here and there, but never took the time to put it all together as it is here.
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    Thanks, that's a much more tempered and measured version of the thing that came out of my mouth, though I still have points I'd like to argue. To be continued on another thread at another date.
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    Cleveland FO: Winning the division is unsustainable, so we must become worse. Minnesota FO: Since we cannot catch Cleveland, it is pointless to make the team better. I mean, posters here can nod their heads and continue to go along for the ride, but something really foul is happening and thankfully national people are starting to point it out. Edit: I guess I should add the disclaimer that it's just my opinion
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The trail we all want to follow together is the Postseason trail. So until that happens...
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    agree, "and at those prices" was an unfortunate turn of phrase.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Hayes makes an important point: if the Twins are hoping Kimbrel will accept fewer years and a higher AAV, that only really means that more teams will be in on him. So it's a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation. But I really think these remaining high profile free agents will be taking fewer years, if they decide to sign at all. As for Romero, I think he could be a Josh Hader type of guy who pitches up to multiple innings at a time, a few back-to-backs but generally every second or third day. With hopefully just as much success. If the FO goes that route, I can get behind that.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Here's an excerpt from the Hayes "Twins in on Kimbrel" article: But the Twins are likely lying in wait as they did last winter when they signed Logan Morrison and Lance Lynn to late deals. Though both struggled, but few would argue the Twins could have done much better than they did to sign the pair when they did and at those prices. Don't know if I'm supposed to believe anything in that paragraph, or just the first six words of it!
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    There may not be a vast conspiracy here, but as jud6312 just posted, there certainly does appear to be at least a half-vast conspiracy. (helps if you say that last part out loud)
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    And people complain the Twins don't have a deep farm system! *just trying to have fun with this
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    heck, Plouffe would be a better option.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I think he has a career year and we trade him at the deadline for prospects.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    My point regarding Kepler is that he's still maturing as a hitter.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Kepler is 26. You can begin there.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I don't know. I don't want a shutdown, but I think Trump could win back the right by fully committing to one.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    So what happens in three weeks?
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It does not describe Falvey the person, but in my opinion it describes Twins baseball operations to a T. Example: Here's where "fear of failure" resonates with me: being 7 games out of first on July 27, at a critical moment when your team might be starting to gel, and then deciding to be sellers and trading your players instead. Would the Twins have overtaken Cleveland? Possible, but not likely. But possible. Fear of failing to catch Cleveland and not getting anything in return for guys entering free agency. Not everyone agrees that trading those guys was bad. I understand that. By the way, Milwaukee was 6 games out of first on August 28. That ground can be made up. Cruz was a great signing, the others maybe prudent, maybe not. We will have to watch and see.
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    I read the same thing and had the same reaction. I'm a fan; I wanted to read the spin there. Now I wonder if the converse of that statement isn't also true: if things don't come together this year, will ownership provide even less "flexibility" in 2020?
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    I've lost a little of my reverence for Olney after this one.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Posnanski nailed it. What Needham (and plenty of others) have questioned is this: Should Rivera as a closer be the first to be unanimous? One answer to that question is no, of course he shouldn’t be first. As stated: Ty Cobb should have been first. Joe DiMaggio should have been first. Ted Williams … Stan Musial … Willie Mays … Henry Aaron … Jackie Robinson … Tom Seaver … Cal Ripken … Greg Maddux … Ken Griffey … all of those guys and more should have been first. But they weren’t. And there’s no going back to get any of that right. Rivera did his job better than anyone in baseball history. He has the best ERA+ of any pitcher in baseball history. He has the most saves, if you care about saves. He’s fifth all-time in Win Probability added — right between Warren Spahn and Tom Seaver — and his postseason pitching record is an absurdity, 141 innings, a 0.759 WHIP, a 0.70 ERA, and so on. Is his Hall of Fame case as good as Maddux’s? As Seaver’s? As Johnson’s? As Martinez’s? As Gibson’s? No, not to me. But maybe it’s better to think of it this way: Nobody closed out a game better. Nobody. In that way, maybe nobody is better suited to close out this ridiculous streak of the greatest players not getting elected unanimously. https://theathletic.com/733813/2018/12/26/posnanski-how-the-lack-of-hall-of-fame-unanimity-became-a-thing-and-why-it-should-end-with-mariano-rivera/
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    There's no denying the smirk, but on second thought I'm going to give Sandmann a pass. He wasn't smirking the whole time and he had those other kids behind him egging it on. If Phillips walked directly up to me singing that song and drumming I'd probably be frozen in place too.
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