Jump to content
Our first free agents ranking has launched, click here to see the top 40+ names in free agency! ×
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Hosken Bombo Disco

Community Moderator
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    17,808

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    8

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Hosken Bombo Disco

  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I can also see success without Mauer, or a less prominent Mauer (batting sixth for example).
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Hopefully May and Meyer make their debuts soon and get that handful of starts that benefitted Gibson so much.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I feel your pain, but I will say that Nick is anything but a Twins mouthpiece. None of the site owners or main writers are mouthpieces though they do each have varying shades of support for the organization. I will go out on a limb and disagree with your last point. I don't see this as a talent-poor team, considering several different guys were discussed as all stars this year and a handful more have been praised as either having breakthrough years or as catalysts for a short time (Santana for example). No talent to go deep into the postseason to be sure, but they ought to be playing above .500 right now if not for some really questionable judgment along the way.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You are referring to Pelfrey here, and I am inclined to agree with you. But maybe Pelfrey just fell out of condition this winter and wasn't able to get his mechanics in synch and get his velocity back. If that's the case, it wouldn't really contribute to the Twins bad luck with injuries -- or as S. said, more like good luck. Injuries are part of the game for all teams. There reaches a point, when a team like the Twins attributes every substandard performance to a disclosed or undisclosed injury, where people just don't believe it anymore. (I don't want to make light of concussions here.) Unfortunately Nick's article struck that cord for some people. Nolasco was pitching hurt. Pelfrey was hurt. Plouffe got hurt diving for a ball. Buxton hurt his wrist. JJ Hardy hurt his wrist. Morneau was hurt. Mauer is always hurt. Hrbek was always hurt. Kohl Stewart is now hurt. Meyer was set back a year. Gibson was set back a year. And so on, for most teams most of the time, not just the Twins.
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    So, only your best tirades make it to print Well tirades are what the Twins need to be hearing IMO...
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    At this point maybe they are holding Meyer back for next week's two game series vs San Diego?
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Kudos to Brock and the rest of Twins Daily. It's so easy and tempting when reaching a milestone on a big project to take a quick break, take a breath, a step back to enjoy the "fruits of your labors" for a time, but you guys have kept on it, even after the new site went on line. Bravo!
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You are right. I can support the Twins effort to manage expectations of the Meyer-Buxton-Sano group, since I am less convinced than many fans that these guys are certain to perform to their lofty expectations. Our current MLB ready prospects have been a general disappointment so far. (Gibson has been good, Santana shows promise, etc.) However, keeping the same personnel, programs, philosophy in place for the next group, I'll expect the same general result -- maybe one of those three will actually pan out as an All Star in the next several years.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Nick really gave it the Bremer treatment in the Espn article You want unlucky, compare the Twins to Texas and Tampa Bay. I think the Twins were actually pretty healthy most of the season. Kubel and Colabello filled in fine for Hammer and Arcia, and that was the extent of the bad injuries for most of the year. We should also start describing injuries to Mauer as "mysteries" and not as unlucky.
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I see what you mean - I agree.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I agree, and liked having them nearer the top / above the fold (now they seem to be further down the front page and squashed below numerous ads & such), the excerpt is a nice addition, I might also like seeing the most recent poster too, however.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The letter writer in the OP got it right - Gardy doesn't have any new tricks. Sabermetrics. Gardy doesn't understand how teams use statistics to beat us and hardly even understands the importance of platoon splits or batting average (Florimon anyone?). I think Molitor is open to how the game is changing. Age not such a factor.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Maybe they even DL Gibson at this point since it's only a few days more anyway, and add a player who could be of use. I better not hear anything about adding Hughes to DL -- the radio guys said he's up and around and ready to go!
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Not to worry, because both Meyer and May line up nicely for both Tuesday and Wednesdays starts, with the added benefit that Gibson and Hughes would get an extra day or two.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Go back and look at their performance in September the last three years.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Maybe we no longer need to sugarcoat our criticisms of this team??
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    This is going to be great, but it's always a little (or a lot) awkward at first.. Like coming home one day and all your furniture is moved around, new chairs you haven't sat in before and someone changed the curtains, the kitchen table is sitting in the master bedroom, the bookshelf you donated 2 years ago is back in the corner where the fishbowl was, and so on.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    There will be no waiting in any lines, that much is sure /snark
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    No they wouldn't, and undoubtedly there is You are right about the Big Poppi fiasco but I think Terry is already on record as regretting how that turned out. He might also be regretting the Revere trade at this point; who knows. Back to Pohlad -- it's possible he's been embargoing his anger until after the All Star Game events, and is now prepared to force action. We'll see. This is not a team with poor talent. Not too long ago some people were predicting something like 85 wins and talking wild card. Morales was signed. As many as six guys were discussed as All Stars. Yet here we are again.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Like he said, just for fun and invitation to dig deeper. I'm amazed Greg Gagne was a leading hitter in 1990! No wonder they finished last..
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Cute! Closely resembles the rally bunny.. we might need that puppy later
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    ask the white goatee
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It's easy to explain away a playoff game here and there, without getting too deep into the in-game matchups. But how do you explain 1 playoff game win in the last 10 years?
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    And that's exactly how the Twins approached it too.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Worrying about service time is in essence worrying about the 2018 or 2019 season. He will be reaching 30 by then. Will the Twins need all Meyer's options anyway?
×
×
  • Create New...