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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    An overwhelming majority of young catchers in other organizations are already playing full time by age 24 or 25. It's great and everything that Pinto has Mauer Steiny and Suzuki to mentor him, but you learn to catch by catching. Doumit caught quite a few games last year, now this year Suzuki. Goalposts again.
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    you are unbelievable.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Oh well. Just one game. At least tomorrow night we got Kevin Correi------- never mind.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I wondered about that too.
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Do we tempt fate by bringing Guerrier back out?
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Whoa-whoa-whoa tying run at 2d
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Those four dreaded words: "and just like that..."
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Dickey, what a knucklehead
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Welcome to the Glass Half Empty club. There are plenty of open chairs for us to sit. I still see a management mindset that favors veterans at the end of their careers over youth. The Morales signing is ok, at least it's proactive, but there's so much else to do.
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It can be interesting to read the out-of-market commentary on what the Twins "should do" with their team; the proposed 1B-C-DH rotation being an example. Morales will be full time DH within a week and that's that, no guys rotating around those spots. Meanwhile the FO probably feels like we here on TD are imposters with no clue on how to run the roster.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You got it. Here's another variation: "The same fans that demanded Hicks play every day in the majors to get experience, are now complaining that he wasn't sent to AAA to work on his fundamentals." um, no. Those would be different fans, bud.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I thought I heard on the radio broadcast that he will get some late inning at bats in the next day or two.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I assumed you had Correia ahead of Deduno on the De-Done-o list. however I could cut Deduno a little more slack, a couple more starts maybe. He's got so much movement on his pitches he's nice to have around. Unfortunately not a lot of movement today.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Way too many quality arms waiting in AAA.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Good effort by Santana. His instinct (from what little I've seen) has been to turn and play balls off the wall but the jumping catch at the wall is part of the CF repertoire, and he's started to do that.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Not by me. I'll remember the slam.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Ok I'll bite. There are apparently very few of us who responded with "meh" to this signing. But we still like the Twins.. I like the discussion about Pinto that this signing has generated. I agree that maybe he's on his way back to AAA for a while, and that's probably for the best, but I'm not sure how I feel about that, given the Pinto discussion earlier this spring. I get a sense that the majority of TD posters are just happy because this is an additional signal that the Twins are committed to winning in the present, and enjoying a pennant chase for a while, rather than this being the final move that puts us over the hump. Do I have that right? Or can this signing genuinely move us from 85 to 88 wins? Or given how the standings look as of June 8, is 85 wins enough to make the playoffs? Is there anything else the FO should do to get us there? Anything else the manager can do? The players? Just some more ideas to bring to the table.
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    Best wishes. It's a privilege to be in this community with you.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Parmelee may not have done himself any favors, but nor have the Twins done Parmelee any favors. Parms was not even called up during the outfield pinch in early May. Leaving spring training, the Twins corner outfield depth appears to have been: 1. Arcia 2. Willingham 3. Kubel 4. Colabello 5. Jason Bartlett 6. Mastroianni 7. Chriss Herrmann, 8. Eduardo Escobar, 9. Chris Parmelee. Is that about what everyone else had in mind? Since May 26, when Willingham and Arcia returned full time, Parmelee has had 8 plate appearances (before today). Kubel has had 16, twice as many, and Kubel was already well into his slump prior to that. Also since May 26 Kubel has had twice as many starts as Parmelee, 4 to 2, with Kubel facing guys like Nick Martinez, Nick Tepesch, and Chase Whitley. Unfortunately, Parmelee drew Tanaka in one of his. Such is life in the doghouse. Parmelee is only 26, and I've already documented similarities in the side by side development of Parmelee and Torii Hunter, but I have a feeling it's immaterial at this point. I think as long as we win, no one will care much who gets the playing time. With the Morales signing its a good time for the Twins to hit reset. But I still like Parmelee as a 1B/OF utility guy the rest of the year, and going forward.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Guerrier feels shaky to me. I'm all for using him for as long as he's useful, though. Hopefully in early innings or mop up.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Ah yes, a magical phrase we've heard before
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Another consideration of this signing is that Boras represents Meyer.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I thought the Twins were just starting to find a rhythm (Correia notwithstanding) so I was surprised by this. Essentially this signing just means Morales is the full time DH, so an improvement without too much disruption. The Twins have now announced they are buyers, and not in a rebuild, which solves their identity crisis too. Willingham: It's not impossible to move him, it's impractical to move him. If he's struggling, nobody will want him, and if he's producing, the Twins will want to keep him. If the pennant race doesn't pan out, I guess the Twins could ask for a PTBNL in a salary dump. It's hard to see the Twins pulling this off while depending on a green rookie infielder to play CF. So I think playing Fuld full time is the best option at this point. And now you are looking at an old, old lineup, and a wasted year of development if they fall on their face--- but no need to dwell on that. They can compete this year; it's not out of the question.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Ouch. i don't think that's how it will go down.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    My thought exactly. You can't sign Morales for 2014 and in the same breath claim that Santana needs to play center to gain experience, or that if Willingham stays hot you can move him and be sellers at the deadline, or that... and so on. I'm not opposed to this signing I just don't know if it makes as much sense now, as it did before.
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