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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I need to see unpopular truth-tellers front and center before I vote D again. No more "rising stars" or party bosses or 28th generation Kennedy kids saying all the right things.
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    What do commenters here think about the idea of trading some of these guys while the bloom is still on? Which ones?
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    True, according to Darvish the terms weren't "correct." No we don't know exactly what the offer was--if a strict offer even existed. The existence of a 7/160 "offer" from the Yankees at one point just seems very believable to me.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/yu-darvish-refutes-report-yankees-offered-long-term-deal-article-1.3753563
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    He had a poorly timed TJ it was discussed upthread
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Yankees make initial 7/160 offer to Darvish in November but keep it quiet. Darvish does not respond. Yankees then land Stanton in December and abandon Darvish negotiations. Skip forward to January. Darvish starts getting diva-ish or anxious, says no one is making him offers (or words to that effect). Reporters get curious. Reporter asks Yankees source "have you made Darvish an offer?" Yankees source replies "yes we offered him 7/160 and gave him 48 hours." News site runs report. What's so hard to believe about that?
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    yes, old news - I don't see why it couldn't be.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I am assuming the Yankees 7/160 offer was made prior to their acquiring Stanton, which would change the luxury tax implication. So to me it's not really that rumor-ish at all. Sitting here in February, it looks more like a sincere first offer the Yankees knew Darvish would not accept. The MLBTR estimate for Darvish was 6/160, and this whole offseason the Twins have told their fan base they were serious about making a competitive offer to Darvish, so of course they are prepared to pay Darvish 6/160 and of course this could be over by now. There is a nice convergence of events working in the Twins favor here. If they get cold feet or wait too long for his price to drop, like you said, they will lose their chance.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Darvish apparently turned down 7/160 from the Yankees early in the offseason. Now Darvish is asking 7/175. Translation: "hey that old Yankees offer is looking pretty good right about now." Also it was said the Twins were prepared to make Darvish the highest paid Twin. Mauer makes $23 million so that would make a Darvish contract worth about $25 million a season, or 6/150. I have no idea what Darvish is worth but it seems like the Twins are prepared to spend 6/160, or so I assume. Gerrit Cole is looking cheaper by the day. I also like Cobb, as do the Cubs and the other AL East teams. The lack of action this offseason is pretty ominous and I think the Twins are caught in a game of chicken they cannot win. Spring training games start in three weeks already. I think they should be proactive and get a pitcher while they can.
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    We would lose that interplay between catcher and umpire. I hadn't seen it quite that way. Even with a radar strike zone I would always want the home plate umpire to have the final call. There could be interference or the buzzer could stop working for whatever reason. I wonder if the catcher could cultivate that relationship in other ways, if the ump was no long calling the balls and strikes.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Great post. We can disagree. Just to spin it around, pitchers can work counts, too. Best example again being Greg Maddux. The story goes that he would work batters across entire seasons -- throwing pitches to certain batters in games early in the year, so that he could plant expectations in their minds that could be exploited later in the year if necessary. Sounds far fetched, but hey it's Maddux, no reason to disbelieve it. Lots of good pitchers work counts and adjust on the fly like you do as a batter. I come at it from the pitcher point of view. I blogged about Ervin Santana working counts once after one of his complete games last spring. Then Santana had Gregorious struck out in the Wild Card game. Sure, it looked like he missed his spot, as Castro was set up "outer half" and then stabbed back in at the pitch rather than receiving it properly, which did not help. #framing But maybe at the last moment Santana's instinct told him "no, not outer half" on that pitch, and so he changed location during his delivery. Not likely, but not impossible. It shouldn't be the umpire's job to think "Castro was over there, Gregorius isn't biting, so this pitch that's still only half way to the plate should be called a ball." The umpire's thinking should be "did this pitch pass through the strike zone?" That's all. Leave the cat and mouse games to the pitchers and hitters.
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    a general comment is fine, and if umpires were more consistent I don't think this would be an issue for me. I also think this is a different issue than guys like Mauer getting borderline calls go their way (at least he used to). Maybe arguing balls and strikes should be permitted again. The one specific example of exploiting the umps I can think of was Maddux in 1997 against the Marlins. I can't think of anything else more recent so that's why curious. I don't know why an inconsistent strike zone or exploiting umpires is entertaining or good for the game. My opinion, of course.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Boring offseason? Speak for yourself! Check this out!
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    So, working the umps? Can you offer some examples?
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    That sounds horrible.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Here is Santana's pitch to Gregorius in the wild card game that should have struck him out
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I always liked Vladimir Guerrero because he reminded me of Kirby Puckett - never saw a pitch he didn't like. Would swing at anything and hit it, too.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    don't we all
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Performance enhancing, they say?
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I think a couple guys on Cleveland really over achieved in 2017 (but they maybe Rosario and Polanco over achieved for us), and Cleveland lost a couple other guys to free agency. I think the Twins should not concede anything to Cleveland in 2018. They won't win 100 games again this season. Just my opinion.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Well they have had more chances to trade for pitching than sign pitching, and haven't done that either. If they sign Darvish, does that then put the Twins "one player away"? The Astros are stacked and hard to beat, but Darvish might put the Twins about equal with Cleveland.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I know what you mean. I was there a couple years ago and it was hard moving around in some places even just by myself. But I don't see an alternative. Maybe a couple other places could work and they could get a few more people in, but then it kind of loses its magic. It is what it is.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Darvish's twitter feed has gone silent again -- meaning absolutely nothing.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I know this thread is about Darvish, but who better to trade prospects for than a very good pitcher like Archer with team control?
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Hello? Twins? *tap*tap* this thing on?
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