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  1. Doomtints
    You have to be consistently good over the course of an entire season to finish with over 200 strikeouts. If anything, this has proven the idea of him not being good this year is vastly exaggerated.
  2. Doomtints
    200 Ks is a really big and important milestone. Pretty cool for Berrios.
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    Hildy is very feast or famine. I bet if we take the time to look at the matchups we will see the reason why. Molitor should give that a try.
  4. Doomtints
    Good article. For a team that kept promising rebuilds through the draft, they sure do whiff a lot at drafting, don't they? I don't like calling draft picks "busts" or "flops" because so few draft picks in baseball ever work out anyway. This is just part of the business. And anyway, the Twins don't seem great at developing players. It's hard to blame the draft picks alone if they are being taught bad habits.
  5. Doomtints
    They were 4-2? Wow, doesn't feel like it.
  6. Doomtints
    I wish. Mauer, who won't be around much longer, is batting leadoff. They're not auditioning jack. Dude should be batting 8th or 9th. No one auditions for the bottom of the batting order and he's not hitting well enough to be at the top.
  7. Doomtints
    The Twins are basically an average team. They were last year too. Yeah, they need some playmakers. They've got the foundation, for the most part.
  8. Doomtints
    This loss is on Molitor's continued bizarre bullpen management. The silver lining here is the Athletics burned through a big chunk of their bullpen yesterday, late in the season, playing against the lowly Twins. If the Twins can hit the ball over the next two games they might get a win or two.
  9. Doomtints
    I'm optimistic about these guys, but if they all do well the Twins are still missing a bona fide ace. If the Twins want to win a playoff game against the Yankees, Red Sox, or Astros, they will need an ace, and I consider the "win one playoff game" bar to be very low. Any other move, in absence of a move that acquires an ace, is pointless.
  10. Doomtints
    As well intentioned as this might be, having a doctor tell a player how to swing has a very good chance of ruining that player's productivity and may even cause a different injury as the player tries to adjust. The best way to use a doctor like this would be to have him present when doing physicals before signing a player. If the doctor finds a current player's pitching arm is a ticking time bomb, just trade him.
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    I like the Tigers.
  12. Doomtints
    I haven't wanted Dozier since the 103 loss season where it was proven that his leadoff power was useless. But, alas, the market wasn't there. Nevertheless, I can see him coming back. As for Santana, it depends on the price. I think it would be unlikely for him to suddenly be a 5.00+ ERA guy, and if he is just waive him and call it a day. Obviously the price has to be right for this to be worth trying. However, I would bet Santana goes to Detroit, Chicago, or back to KC, where they are all really desperate.
  13. Doomtints
    The biggest need is a manager. If the front office is not good at player communication, the manager must bridge that gap. The manager must know how to fill in a lineup card. The manager must know how to read pitchers when they are on the mound. The manager must know how to utilize young pitchers (particularly in their first appearance) and young position players (let them play). Molitor checks one box: The owners like him. That's it. Suck it up, executives, and find someone else. The Twins will have Sano, Buxton and Polanco back. Pineda might be OK. Maybe they can get Santana for another year. I anticipate the market for Dozier will be zipadeedoodah so he might end up back, too. Escobar probably cashes in somewhere else -- good for him -- and he's a regression candidate anyway. Even though 2018 didn't work out, the FO did a good job of picking at the players who were available. They didn't quite know when to stop (Morrison?) and hopefully learned to not sign a starting pitcher too late. Overall the advice is ... give it another try and pick up players who are available who look like upgrades ... but this time with a new manager. And learn how to communicate. Baseball is a team sport, executives can't treat themselves like members of a country club and expect to win games. It's either work hard and win or take it easy and hope for the best ... as they did with Buxton.
  14. Doomtints
    I didn't see it mentioned that Pineda has not pitched this month because he tore up his knee. This reminds me a bit of Santana, who kept having strange injuries as he tried to come back to the majors.
  15. Doomtints
    Polanco leading off is a great idea that I think most other managers would have figured out a hell of a lot sooner. Hopefully he makes himself indispensable at leadoff.
  16. Doomtints
    They were using openers in the minors. They want to try it in the majors and he's used to it.
  17. Doomtints
    Speaking of that, let's bring in Dusty Baker.
  18. Doomtints
    What I think is weird is that anyone thought his suckiness is anything other than a fluke. Fans around here never liked his signing and I don't see why. Baseball-reference says his similar pitchers include: - Corey Kluber - Jake Arrieta - Clay Buchholz etc... No hall of famers, but some pitchers who were or are very good. This is based on numbers, not opinions.
  19. Doomtints
    Everyone who has ever worked more than one job knows how effective leaders influence organizations. There always has been and always will be people in baseball circles who will die on the hill insisting that such a thing doesn't exist. They demand hard evidence. Yet soft sciences are real -- businesses run on them, universities teach them, and we all experience them. We can't put a gauge on language development but we can learn a thing or two about it and be predictive about it, same with countless other fields, processes, and products. What people don't realize they are saying is that baseball teams don't need leaders, and of course that's not true. No one says these words directly, but when people argue this point this is ultimately what they are arguing without realizing that's what they are arguing. No leaders = no coaches, no mentors, no managers, no collaboration. I would argue that Torii's leadership style was counter to what people think of as leadership. He is in the work/life balance camp. Work hard, but also take the time to blow off steam and to put that extra energy into letting your guard down. This is a good philosophy for a job that has a countless 12-hour days in half a year. Sure Hunter helped with baseball skills, but every team has people to do that.
  20. Doomtints
    My skeptical spidey-sense is tingling. If an org knows it sucks at communication, but they have good communication with a catcher on someone else's team, would they bring in that catcher to bridge the gap?
  21. Doomtints
    2017 Santana: 16-8 (+8) 2018 Twins without Santana: 67-78 2017 Santana on the 2018 Twins: 75-70* A more realistic impact of Santana on the 2018 Twins: 71-74* *This is current state, AFTER the talent dump-off. You can add a handful more wins if the talent dump didn't happen, which it might not have if Santana's production had been available.
  22. Doomtints
    I read somewhere earlier in the year that Odorizzi broke some 100 year old record for number of starts in a year before recording an out in the 7th. However, that seems unlikely and I haven't been able to find the article since. For the record, it was 26 starts.
  23. Doomtints
    Odorizzi was clearly *completely* out of gas in the last at bat. I hope his arm is OK, he was shaking it a lot between pitches. This current Yankees team is good, but this is NOT the same team that dominated the Twins year over year. The lineup looked completely defeated midway through the game. The Twins will be able to beat these guys in the coming years if they get on track soon enough.
  24. Doomtints
    I'm 100% on board with delaying a rookie's debut for service time considerations. After all, you're only talking about three weeks to start the season. Who cares. It's a smart investment. But doing this after a guy has played for a couple of years, after he leads the team in WAR in a year and earns a Platinum Glove? Wow. Sure, send a guy like that to the minors if he needs it. But keep him there for service time? Again, wow.
  25. Doomtints
    It's interesting that, because the Twins hit a grand slam, the Yankees had to hit one too. Of course. I'm looking forward to the Twins doing a 25-0 beatdown of the Yankees someday.
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