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  1. Doomtints
    The Cubs went from 100+ losses to 97 wins and the playoffs in 3 years and to the most dominant team in the league in 4 years. This is the benchmark.
  2. Doomtints
    Poor Nishi. :/
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    Here are Nolasco's real numbers since leaving the Twins: 73 IP, 63 H, 27 R, 15 BB, 51 K, 1.06 WHIP, 3.21 ERA. Still nothing to scoff at, mind you. I have said, half-jokingly, that Nolasco would pitch a no hitter within 1 year of leaving the Twins and earn the nickname "No-No Nolasco." He had a shutout but, as of yet, not a no-hitter. Many Twins fans were very vocal that a guy wouldn't purposely suck just because he's on a team that he didn't want to be on. But what else can you call this?
  5. Doomtints
    Hopefully stealing away their front office will be the new Blyleven trade for the Twins.
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    I love Blyleven. But you have to look at this through the lens of the era. Look at what the Twins traded to Cleveland to get Blyleven. It was total junk. People talk about Ryan's Pierzynsky trade but this trade was astounding and resulted in a championship. If that's all the Indians could get for Blyleven, clearly teams thought he was done. We ought to keep this in mind as we poo-poo this list of free agents available. The people poo-pooing this list would also have been poo-pooing the Blyleven trade. And believe me, I was there -- a lot of people did that very thing even as he put up good numbers as a Twin. And, yes, this sentence is only being added so I can write poo-poo one additional time in this response.
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    I agree that it's not about leg kicks or whatever. If you look at his face and how he swings, it doesn't seem like he can even see the ball a lot of the time. I am clinging to the idea that he is just nervous and trying to meet the very high expectations for him. But forgetting about all that he looks truly lost. I hope he figures it out. His star defensive plays are great but he needs to hit to have a major league career.
  8. Doomtints
    In a 100 loss season there is no reason to pull him, so the fact that the Twins had a lead is not even relevant. But it's almost like he simply did not want Berrios to get a win, which he only needed one more out to be in line to get. This is borderline offensive, really. Instead he gets the loss -- but only because the next pitcher did a poor job and allowed the baserunner to score. Even if as a manager you don't trust Berrios, do you trust this bullpen instead? Hell no. This bullpen has been cooked for months. Let the young guy pitch as long as the game isn't getting embarrassing.
  9. Doomtints
    You think you're going against what I said but you're not. I said straight up that the Twins won the world series by the tightest margins possible. You can bet the farm that not having one of those two pickups I called out would have meant not winning the division. As for winning the division with 85 wins being an aberration -- sure. But this was before the wild card. It's much more possible for a team with 85 wins to go into the playoffs today. But this is neither here nor there. I'm not suggesting the Twins can make the playoffs simply by picking up two players. I am, however, stating that there can be a much bigger improvement than one would expect and to not even try is the only sure way to fail. We know that nearly everyone on this pitching staff needs to be replaced. As for the team supposedly not having an aversion to sign free agents and listing off three guys in five years ... that doesn't really support your argument. If they had signed ten market value players in five years, sure. Instead the Twins went for youth and supplemented them with free agent geriatrics who tended to fail quickly. Ryan's teams have been great at having players who are young and old, but almost no one in their peak years in between. Those peak year guys will beat you all the time. My theory is that Ryan's bosses got impatient with his process for rebuilding the pitching staff because all he did with the signings you mentioned was block the prospects he traded for previously. In other words, Ryan's bosses got sick of his aversion to signing free agents.
  10. Doomtints
    Yeah but some of this stuff is ancient history now. Morneau should have been traded two years earlier. But this is a double edged sword. The Twins should have kept the original Santana, Cuddyer, Punto, etc. It's a shame I have to go back so many years to be able to list off interesting players. Ugh.
  11. Doomtints
    We'll see I guess. Good things could come out of him being traded PROVIDED other moves are made to address filling his spot. I'm understandably skeptical about this organization pulling that off, even with a new guy. Few teams survive jettisoning their best player unless that player is a cancer in the clubhouse.
  12. Doomtints
    About all I remember from the last five years is a whole lot of young guys -- some of whom were traded for -- who had no business playing in the majors either because they were not ready or were never going to be ready. If you are talking about Hughes, Nolasco, Pelfrey -- those guys are in the minority and most of them were simply older versions of the young guys who had no business playing in the majors...... Hughes was a good pick up. His extension was a terrible idea. You could say the same for Suzuki if not for the fact that the Twins have not been able to find anyone even half as good as he is. So there are roughly 1.5 players that fit your theory out of around 125 roster spots in the past five years.
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    I believe that's what he was called in Chicago, not in Minnesota. It's fair to say he did not have the same success in with the Cubs (though his record there is more respectable than most people think).
  14. Doomtints
    This year, the Twins have had a nice, albeit far too streaky, offense. Provided things are not blown up too much over the offseason, the kids should start showing more consistency. Better pitching and defense will help their bats cash in a few more wins and might even help their streakiness a bit.
  15. Doomtints
    We will simply need to agree to disagree. The Twins can crawl out of the cellar next year with some pick ups and progressively move up the division in the following years. This only will work if they don't dig themselves into a deeper hole. You are advocating staying in the cellar for another three years, as if five years wasn't enough already. I'm not sure why anyone would be absolutist about gutting the franchise when doing so has been proven to not be the cure to a struggling team. I would wager that Falvey would never consider making the team any worse in the short term. It's possible to get improved prospects without creating holes upon holes. At some point you have to draw the a line and call it the bottom, the worst acceptable state. Once you hit that, you stop cutting and start building. If Falvey wants a lower bottom than 100+ losses, we're in for another decade of garbage on the field. I'm guessing he's not like that.
  16. Doomtints
    Shop him so the Twins have ZERO dependable starters? You trade veterans when you think you have someone ready to fill their shoes. Not before. Otherwise you are (best case) moving holes around or (most likely case) creating more holes. The Twins are about 8 pitchers short of a serviceable staff. Turning that number into 9 won't make the rebuild any easier. Ryan made this exact error when he arrived by trading away the outfield for prospects.
  17. Doomtints
    The Twins picked up Blyleven and Reardon in 1987, and they won the world series that year by the tiniest margin possible. Are you saying they could have won the series with just 1 starting pitcher and no closer? Just 1 good starter and the best set up man in the league was enough? That's all they had without picking them up. To me there is no question that picking up those two players meant EVERYTHING to that team. And neither of those two were jaw-dropping guys. They were simply dependable guys. And the pickups certainly did not fill up every hole on that team. Note that the Twins don't need to trade Dozier to pick up some dependable arms, so that's a straw man. Overall, I'm hoping this aversion to signing and trading goes away quickly. I'm not sure why fans ever bought into it, much less continuing to hold to it now that the strategy has failed miserably.
  18. Doomtints
    What's wrong with the old Derek Falvey?
  19. Doomtints
    It doesn't have to be a lot. If they pick up two starters from that list they will be making a huge difference. Throw in someone who can close and another who can set up, and you're already looking at a drastically different team next year.
  20. Doomtints
    That's right. I was familiar with that quote but still managed to misread it. Nevertheless, the new front office has a tougher task than he did when he first came in.
  21. Doomtints
    Even in that terrible 1982 season, the Twins had three-fifths of a good rotation. The same story goes for 1983-1986, though 1983 had some Viola growing pains. The bullpen, however, was horrific in those years. The Twins won the series in 1987 with a worse starting pitching staff than in previous years but a very good bullpen. Whoever gets the job with the Twins now has a much tougher task as far as pitching concerned. Note that firing the manager was probably the biggest thing that turned that team around. Billy Gardner was terrible at managing the pitchers.
  22. Doomtints
    Ah yes. His famous and unfortunate C grade that made so many Twins fans convinced Dozier's first full season was a mirage and forced us to listen to a majority of "expert" online fans telling us for a year and a half that Dozier was about to "regress" and fail and how the Twins should immediately give up on him. I'm glad that's over.
  23. Doomtints
    I was skeptical when I heard this, but someone told me that the Twins not only have stipulated that Molitor must be kept, but have also said during interviews that Antony must stay too.
  24. Doomtints
    The #1 pick that the Twins got from the horrible 82 season went to Tim Belcher who never played for the Twins. He refused to sign with the team. He was drafted again by the Yankees the following year and passed through a few different teams before debuting with the Dodgers in 87. Belcher had an OK career. He peaked during at the same time the Twins peaked (87-91). He would have helped the Twins in that era, but he was not good after that. As it turns out the Twins didn't need him as they got two rings in that time frame. He went 9-6 v. the Twins in his career. Puckett was drafted in 1982, but this pick was based on the Twins 1981 performance. He was the #3 pick.
  25. Doomtints
    You apparently missed the memo. He has been complaining about his lower leg before his great August. Since before the all star break, to be exact.
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