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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Good to see Eddie and Dozier together. Hoping that's the DP combo again this year. I'm a little unclear on whether you said Dozier is planning to hire a nutritionist this year, or did last year, or if the Twins don't have decent options available inside the clubhouse, or what. Doesn't matter; sounds like you had fun.
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Are you serious or joking?
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It means that I do not hold it against Ryan for the Don Beaver episode, the contraction lie (which was 100% bluff IMHO), the failed cable channel and being off television for a time, and so on. Some people have axes to grind, but I think Ryan is a really good guy and who's to say Pohlad didn't have anything to do with the Nolasco contract? I wouldn't put it past him to meddle in Ryan's business on occasion, especially at the end of the 2013 season given how inconsistent Ryan's words and behavior were.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I also agree. It may have been true that the Twins needed to simply field a team, thus the contracts to Burton, Pelfrey, Correia, Doumit, Suzuki, and so on. This is no longer the case. We do not need to sign or extend 0.0 WAR players anymore. We do not need another bargain bin bullpen veteran out of the belief that we cannot afford one of the top guys.
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Only the Twins bear these costs? No other mid market MLB teams have to deal with any of this?
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    By your numbers, if the value of the franchise does not increase, and if the team would lose $120 million on a player payroll of $240 million, and payroll this year is roughly $105 million plus $13 million negotiating fee for Park, then they are already at the break even point this year, correct? BTW, I picked 240 as a ballpark number, not as a suggestion. Surely you didn't read that I suggested the Twins should be rolling with a $240 payroll. Also for the record, I am a Ryan fan though not a Pohlad fan.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Your bullpen comments are a real gut check. I agree with you on the bullpen controversy this year, though it's yet to be seen how that turns out. I could honestly care less how high or low the team payroll is, so long as they are putting the best players on the field and winning. Most of the best players are making the least amount, anyway.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Appeal to authority is usually a big one. "Clearly, Ryan knows more about the Twins than we do, therefore it's obvious that the personnel moves he is making are better than the moves we are suggesting." Or maybe in this case: since Pohlad is the owner of an MLB team, he must be smart about money, and all of the rest of us must be ignorant about money (which in my case is definitely true--I was neither a finance major or philosophy major)
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    That did work......
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    What discussion? In all fairness, nobody is discussing a "break even" model for the Pohlads, except in response to a post you have made, after you have brought up the subject yourself. Let's see Ryan and Jim Pohlad sustain a $240+ million payroll for a couple years running, then by all means we can test whether your statements might hold up.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    No doubt. I am not implying O'Rourke is a lock to be good or that we didnt need to sign one of the better guys like Sipp or Bastardo. I'm just ready for the college reliever guys to graduate. There are certainly enough of them. At this point I will be sorely disappointed if the Twins sign or claim another bargain bin reliever who will take innings away from the younger guys with upside.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It's only funny in the sense that it's hard to tell if you and the original writer are serious or not. As many of the commenters of the original article pointed out. God bless the writer, he is probably a poster here, but three cans o' corn don't prove anything, imo
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    ERA = errors per run average
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    All teams make low profile moves like this. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/transactions/#month=1&year=2016 My concern is that I feel O'Rourke has been the best option all along.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Here comes the Turk walking toward us. Pretend you don't see him and hope to hell he's coming for one of the other guys.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    True, Rosario has poor peripherals but he produces. He might have to make a trip back to Rochester for a time. His outfield assists are impacting opponents base running. I feel Rosario is our present and future left fielder and I would be disappointed if the Twins didn't see it that way too (save for a possible injury or demotion at some point)
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    There have got to be enough batters in MLB with terrible platoon splits or who never hit opposite field (like Dozier) that a manager could comfortably position his pitcher somewhere temporarily. There are also enough pitchers who are all-around athletes (like Chargois) who might be a candidate for this type of switch. Definitely underused!
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    8:34 set cell phone back on night stand8:35 back to sleep
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You traded Plouffe and opened third for Sano, which was the big thing. Next up on Day 2: mike wants wins becomes GM for the day........
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I assume all these criticisms of the Kansas City Royals offseason moves come with a big, fat asterisk* next to them. * cuz World Series and stuff
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I don't mind having pitchers in the line up. I'm also a guy who doesn't mind a 2-1 pitching duel night after night (no more 3:30 hour games!), so the "easy out" doesn't bother me as much. Call me a purist. Obviously the NL will come around to the DH sooner or later, all the more reason to watch NL baseball while it's still NL baseball and watch guys like Bumgarner when they come to the plate.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You are of course correct on this issue, as I don't believe any minor league pitcher, AL or NL, is required to hit anymore, at any minor league level. But I'd bet its more because pitchers don't put any effort into hitting, than to them being a different species of baseball player.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    This issue is clearly a matter of taste. Exciting in an intellectual sense, perhaps. I'd bet that when the DH comes to the NL, NL managers will sit there the whole game feeling they have no more in-game managing to do. So in other words, pitchers OBP is .000? Glad Willihammer fact checked that for us.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    In prior off seasons, Meyer did substitute teaching, if I recall correctly. This offseason he got married and I presume took a honeymoon and got his mind off baseball. Next offseason he runs for city council in Rochester, N.Y. (kidding about that last one). I am very much a pro-Meyer guy and hope he has some good innings in ST and either way he needs to be brought north, I believe.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I do like having the pitchers in the lineup who take it seriously and I like the additional strategies around the double switch. I like having the leagues different. Seems like an inevitability, however.
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