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  1. laloesch
    yes that is true but he's starting REALLY slow this season.
  2. laloesch
    Well see where he ends up OPS and OBP % wise.
  3. laloesch
    I agree. I think a trade would be beneficial at some point to free up the spot at 1st or permanently move him to DH. it is what it is.
  4. laloesch
    We aren't going to see a return to pre 2020 covid attendance levels for the next few years i think. That's gonna hammer ALL sports franchises, not just MLB. I fully expect it to drag down salaries / reduce what owners are willing to spend on payrolls, and even cause contraction or relocation of many of the marginal franchises in MLB, NFL, NHL, etc. An Example is Tampa Bay which has consistently low attendance numbers and low revenue, but is being held hostage in a toilet bowl of a stadium by the City of St. Petersburg. In a few years they will be splitting games or will flat out relocate to someplace like Montreal (which i personally think is a terrible location given the LONG history of very low attendance numbers the Expos had in Olympic Stadium, another toilet bowl of a stadium), orrrr they may fold altogether.
  5. laloesch
    it's too bad that Liriano's season was cut short in 2006 by TJ and that Radke partially tore his labrum. That starting staff was good enough to win a world series in my opinion if fully healthy. Santana, Liriano, Radke, Silva, Boof, + Garza and Baker. They also had Joe Nathan to close em out. If they had pulled it off that year Santana would be getting in for sure.
  6. laloesch
    A lot of this is media hype. The very old folks are the ones succumbing to this virus. Like 70+ year olds (not 50-60 year olds), but especially people that are immunocompromised. Influenza A and B kill over 30,000 Americans a year with over 30 million contracting it from one year to the next. Of that 490,0000 result in hospitalizations and 35,000 result in deaths. COVID-19 IS nowhere near that level. The CDC put out A LOT of bad data initially about COVID-19. At first they were claiming 6-8% causalities were possible which is utterly absurd. The most widely supported number now (compiled by actual medical professionals) is in the range of .75-1% which is bad but not a catastrophe. In fact it will probably result in far few deaths than the swine flu outbreak a few years back. It's kinda like the comparison of the 38,000 car accident fatalities in in USA to one passenger plane crash killing 350 people. Neither scenario is good obviously, but the media is always going to hype up the plane crash because it's a plane, not typical. Almost every medical professional I know is just rolling their eyes at this. This is the first time a corona virus has circulated either, just so everyone is aware.
  7. laloesch
    I agree. It dosn't hurt to give him the data (which i'm sure he has) and see if he wants to tweak his approach at the plate, other than that let Josh do his thing. There are soooo many weapons in this lineup he will get pitches to hit. The beauty of this lineup is that you try and skip him to get to someone else somebody eventually will make you pay for putting him on base.
  8. laloesch
    I would definitely try and extend Berrios. Give him a wheeleresque offer and get it done. That said, I differ from most of the Twins fans here on Rosario. I think he's a good player even with the gaffs and would be open to extending him for the right price. Signing him to an extension doesn't mean we can't trade him down the road. Another area were i diverge from many posters here is Buxton. I'm just not sold on him yet. If he could stay consistently healthy and be more consistent offensively I would pull the trigger on an extension, for the right price. Perhaps this year is the year. I'd also like to see a Trevor May extension, perhaps towards the end of the season. If he pitches like he did in 2019 it's absolutely worth it. I still think he could be a good starter for the Twins, but it looks like that ship has sailed which is somewhat unfortunate.
  9. laloesch
    Well the poster originally said 100 million dollar floor, so no not 80 or 90.
  10. laloesch
    then you have to have a hard cap. If your putting a floor then you have to have a hard cap. instituting a minimum floor will explode baseball payrolls and put the smaller teams out of business.
  11. laloesch
    Wait. So 4, 4 team divisions each league, 2 conferences each league, 2 divisions within each? Why the conferences? That part confuses me. I do like where you are going with this in general but the conferences and 8 playoff teams each league i question.
  12. laloesch
    One in Nashville. Move the A's or Rays to Seattle and be done with it.
  13. laloesch
    Not a fan of the deal initially, but after thinking about it for a while and looking at Maeda's stats I've come around. But this statement of maybe 1-2 decent years is an extreme exaggeration and biased IMO. Maeda is a good pitcher and even at 32 has plenty of gas left in the tank and the added bonus that he's a 4 PITCH PITCHER! Certainly not a one / two trick pony like Graterol who just hurls the ball as hard as possible and that's about it (at this point). Don't get me wrong, I'm sad to see him go but at this point unless he makes some major changes to his arsenal and approach he's not profiling as starter and certainly is hittable in the major leagues. The more i think about it this deal was not that bad for the Twins. Maeda is arguably the teams best starter to begin the season. At least they have a stable 1-2-3 punch to the rotation in Odorizzi, Berrios and Maeda. Bailey can be Bailey without having to rely on him to heavily and when Pineda comes back in May this rotation is pretty strong me thinks.
  14. laloesch
    I'd dig my heels in on this one. NO WAY would i give the BoSox anything more than Graterol.
  15. laloesch
    Correction: Maeda was put into the bullpen because the Dodgers had FIVE BETTER starters than Maeda.
  16. laloesch
    Exactly.
  17. laloesch
    Why not? He's going from the NL to the AL and he's been a 4 something ERA pitcher most of his MLB career. Not at all out of the realm of possibility.
  18. laloesch
    No way he's a #2. At best a #3.
  19. laloesch
    I think Dobnak is starting material. He can certainly pitch as good Gibson (who was not good in the 2nd half of last season), if not better. Down the stretch Dobnak was .6 - .8 war i think. Still scrub territory but improving. Thorpe has control problems, but if he gets over the hump of jumping from AAA to the majors he could make it as a starter. I still think the Twins should consider putting Trevor May back into a starting role.
  20. laloesch
    Too bad he doesn't have a curve ball or slider.
  21. laloesch
    Urias would take a kings ransom in Twins prospects. That said, i would be willing to entertain a Lewis Urias swap.
  22. laloesch
    I may catch flak for saying this, but i still think he could be one hell of a starter.
  23. laloesch
    Good post. The problem too me is stability. You start the year with Odorizzi, Berrios, Bailey, ...... i guess some combination of Dobnak, Smeltzer, Thorpe and Graterol for the 4th and 5th spots. Dobnak looks like he has the stuff to hold down a rotation spot, followed by Smeltzer who doesn't throw that hard but has a multitude of offerings, and then Thorpe who has the stuff but is just plain hittable (at leasst he was). Then there's Graterol who is just plain raw. Then you get Pineda back in late spring and Hill early to mid summer. Will be a very interesting spring regardless of whether or not they add another starter.
  24. laloesch
    Dobnak sits in the low 90's with his sinker and occasionally touches mid 90's. Smeltzer is also in that range 90-93 but has 4 pitches.
  25. laloesch
    No question about it that they need one more GOOD starter at least.
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