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  1. Mike Sixel
    No idea who calls what pitchers, but looking at gamecast I couldn't help but wonder if the Twins know anything about the high strike and strikeouts....because every pitch was waaaaaaaaay down. It doesn't matter if they have bigger problems or not, they are not winning anything this year.......and they should be playing for 2-4 years from now. So, I don't care if he takes at bats from Suzuki or not. IMO, Pinto should catch about 1/3 the games up here, until they decide to make him the guy that catches 2/3 of the games up here. He can DH other times.....but worrying about "not taking Suzuki's awesome bat out of the lineup"* seems like a bad reason not to have Pinto up here and playing. *a: no one said that, sort of b: it isn't that awesome, really
  2. Mike Sixel
    Money, no one else was going to pay him close that money. Not close.* *see my sig.....
  3. Mike Sixel
    He's on the 40 man, they need to see what he can do this year......so moving him up made sense to me.
  4. Mike Sixel
    That said, I'm cool letting Santana stay out there, if they don't believe in Escobar.......I just am unsure why no one believes in Escobar at this point.
  5. Mike Sixel
    No idea what you are talking about, I never said what do with Santana in that post. I was asking why Escobar, given his age and success last year, could not be the SS until Gordon or someone else is. None of that has anything to do with moving Santana around, indeed, moving him around last year was a HUGE bungle on their part, if they wanted him at SS long term. Like, mind numbingly bad. If the FO is making long term financial decisions based on fans freaking out, they are losing the game. My question on this thread was couldn't Escobar be the future. That has zero to do with what you and the other poster are talking about, imo.
  6. Mike Sixel
    No gift? Jerk.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I can live with that answer. But, not sure I agree on Santana's upside. If only they would have shown this patience in the field last year, and had him at short.....
  8. Mike Sixel
    Who's fault is it that he is a rookie at SS? They deserve this. How old is Escobar? Why can't he be the future for 3 or 4 years?
  9. Mike Sixel
    Arcia should be in right, imo. Moving around a young guy with fielding issues was a terrible idea. The Twins should play the young guys and see what they have. Enough with the old, bad, players already. That said, Escobar is not old. I think I might go to him. In center? Hicks has shown he can't hit or field, over two years. No interest in him coming back until he does something in AAA. Buxton should be right whet he is for now.
  10. Mike Sixel
    I endorse the move by Molitor.
  11. Mike Sixel
    I love cilantro. The bullpen, not souch.
  12. Mike Sixel
    I was just adding comments from a more reliable source than me. But, as the article points out, this is just a continuation of last year.
  13. Mike Sixel
    From Grantland......... Worst of all might be Danny Santana, who ranks last in the majors in DRS and has somehow already cost his team six runs on defense in just 12 games. Thanks to a seemingly excellent rookie season in 2014, Santana won the Opening Day shortstop job, but his shiny .319/.353/.472 effort last year can largely be chalked up to a tremendously flukish .405 batting average on balls in play. In 2014, Santana struck out five times more than he walked, and he projected as one of MLB’s most likely regression candidates heading into this season. Instead of a gentle pullback, the early returns have been brutal: a .195 batting average, just one extra-base hit, 13 strikeouts, and no walks in 42 times at bat. Throw in the rough fielding and Santana might be the worst player in the majors through these first two weeks.
  14. Mike Sixel
    From Grantland....... Compared to the average major league right fielder, Twins right fielders combined to cost their team a total of 23 runs last season, which was the worst mark in baseball. Oswaldo Arcia, a young slugger known far more for his bat than his glove,2 did most of that damage, so in an effort to bolster the outfield defense, Minnesota signed 39-year-old Torii Hunter to a one-year, $10.5 million contract. In addition to the goodwill engendered by bringing back a franchise legend, it hoped he would provide some leadership and also allow the club to move Arcia to the slightly less demanding left-field position. Well, the Twins better be getting tons of veteran guidance because on the field Hunter has been awful. He’s hitting just .225/.256/.350, and his defense has been just as bad. The trademark range and athleticism that made him a Gold Glove center fielder and human highlight reel is now long gone, and DRS rates Twins right fielders (mostly Hunter) as the worst in the majors again this year.3
  15. Mike Sixel
    From Grantland ......... The team’s catching has been similarly awful. Last year, Minnesota catchers were collectively 28 runs worse than average, and most of that falls at the feet of Kurt Suzuki. While the 31-year-old has never carried a particularly bad defensive reputation during his nine-year major league career and even made the All-Star team in 2014, advanced metrics loathe his defense. Over the past four seasons, Suzuki combined to cost his team 46 runs more than the average MLB catcher and ranked 25th, 30th, 28th, and 34th in the majors in DRS over that period. Somehow, those numbers might actually underestimate his negative defensive value: Last year, Suzuki was also 20 runs worse than the average catcher by advanced pitch-framing metrics, the fourth-worst mark for any backstop. With another year on Suzuki’s contract, in addition to a $6 million player option for 2017, the Twins have someone worth shopping in the near future — if they can find another club that doesn’t care about behind-the-plate defense.
  16. Mike Sixel
    Given that they punted on defense this year, moved a shaky defender to a different position, and the GM feels Hunter is adequate or better, I am not sure the team wouldn't look foolish for benching him. Schafer is terrible, going to bench him too? Or Hunter? Outfield defense does matter. We are seeing that clearly this year. But, this is Ryan's plan. I don't see what benching does.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Disagree on the bullpen and Pinto. The pen has bad pitchers in it, with track records. Pinto, well, I have a thread on that.
  18. Mike Sixel
    188........
  19. Mike Sixel
    Watching on gamecast.....do the Twins know to throw up in the zone with two strikes?
  20. Mike Sixel
    While in Europe in 1986, I peed in a train station in France. There was no one there, a dozen or so urinals. Dude comes in and pees in the urinal next to me. MUCH later that night, I go into a completely different bathroom. No one there. Same dude takes the urinal next to me. Smiling. I have not be back to France.
  21. Mike Sixel
    I sincerely love that you answered my rhetorical question. Of course, I am home sick, so take my judgement with some salt.....
  22. Mike Sixel
    My bad, I thought it was replacement. He has .1 WAR so far this year on offense, or about 1.3 WAR or 1.5 WAR if he keeps that up. Hardly inspiring, given his inability to frame a pitch or otherwise do anything on defense other than "handle a staff". of course it is possible Pinto is worse, how will we know if he sits in AAA?
  23. Mike Sixel
    Clearly the offense is a concern, but it can't stay this bad.....
  24. Mike Sixel
    SUPER! They should sign him to another extension!
  25. Mike Sixel
    He's about league median on defense.....no issues with the defense.
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