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  1. IndianaTwin
    I live in Indiana, but I’m FROM Iowa. Normally, my sign that we’re approaching spring is that I’m choosing exhibition Baseball over the NCAA tournament. This year has been different, however. Caitlin Clark Mania has hit HARD in our household, to the point that it’s still not fully registering that tomorrow is Opening Day.
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    I don’t know if this fits here, but this is way cool. A couple years ago at a pre-COVID Twins Fest, he was posing for pictures with every kid in sight, including holding babies.
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    Or maybe even "Fulmer"! 😁
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    Thanks. I especially liked the first link. And as I said, your comments resonate with the perceptions I've had about how the FO treats people. After Correa signed, lots of people made comments about how the Twins "lucked into" the deal or that it "fell in their lap." I don't think that's the case at all. The sense I have is that the Twins were pretty upfront in saying "This is all we think we can do. We recognize that we may not be able to match all other offers, but we'd still love to have you." And then, as things started to break down elsewhere, they continued to express their interest to him. I'm not sure where that fits into the "leadership" conversation above, since those comments are more about Falvey than they are about Correa, but I think it's an example of leadership within the FO that often doesn't get acknowledged on TD.
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    Who would win the Utility spots? I dont know the other rosters, but I like Farmer and Gordon for those slots.
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    Doc, you’ve made some comments here that also fit the perception I have of the organization — that they are straight shooters that treat people with respect and decency. I’m curious if you’re making these based on your own observations or if you’ve read articles/quotes from insiders to back these up.
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    Earlier this offseason, I did a pretty deep dive into how the Twins used their starters last year. In a nutshell... In April and May, they used their starters pretty "normally," with a decent number of starts going well into the sixth and even some into the seventh (including Bundy, but not Archer). Nearly everyone got hurt and spent at least some time on the IL. A late May to early June stretch gave us Smeltzer-Sands-Ober-Archer-Gonzalez-Bundy-Smeltzer-Sands-Archer-Bundy-Smeltzer-Gonzalez-Sands-Archer. When Ryan and Gray came back from the IL, there seemed to be a noticeable shortening of starts. It worked in the sense of Ryan-Gray-Bundy-Archer making nearly all their starts throughout the summer, with the No. 5 spot rotating through a number of guys (including the couple of starts they got from Mahle). While Archer made nearly all his starts, he never lengthened to the degree they hoped. Some injuries returned, they fell out of the race in September, and gave some starts to young guys. My conclusion was that they didn't plan to have shorter starts, but were forced into it by early season injuries. They pivoted subtly (and successfully) with their use of starters, but didn't have the bullpen horses to make it work. To me, it was the perfect storm of lockout, short spring training and injuries. I think this year's staff is much better structured to avoid a similar situation.
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    Sorry — I wasn’t clear. I meant start with all of his games (roughly two of three) at DH, transitioning over time toward playing some fraction of the games in CF. I’d agree that in general health deteriorates, but it seems the way they are approaching Buxton is more analogous to a starting pitcher building up to longer outings over the course of spring training.
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    Don't click on any shoe ads from her, people!
  10. IndianaTwin
    I think you nailed it. Here's his stats for the last four years: On a per-162 basis, those are great numbers from a full-time DH. We recognize he's not going to play 162, however. But rather than considering that he averaged 70 games per year in this time period, a better average is about 83 games, given that it's only 3.37 seasons because of COVID. After 92 games last season, start the year with a pattern that shoots for 108 games this year (two of every three games). Start with the pattern of a full-time DH, gradually into CF as health allows.
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    "Opening Day starter" is sometimes a fluke, but it feels good to see the Twins trot out a rotation where the first five games will be started by someone who has legitimately earned and received an Opening Day nod for their team sometime in the past four seasons. Can't be too many teams that can say that. That also adds some level of credence to an earlier statement I've made that they have at least five guys who can pitch like an ace over an extended period of time. Now if we had only signed Rodon. Oh, wait...
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    Honest question -- lots of folks suggesting the piggyback option. Are there any examples of teams doing this for a prolonged time (even 5+ times through the rotation)?
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    Mozzarella sticks and a smokehouse brisket. Unless they have the orange creme shake, in which case I choose that over the sticks. Gotta go with the limited-time offer.
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    Box scores are a thing of beauty. When I think of all the magical things about this game, I don’t know why I’ve never thought of the joy of trying to decode names like “WdsRchsn” and “Clstno” in 6-point agate. I”m guessing when I first saw, “Hrbek, 1b,” I thought his name was something like “Heartbeck.”
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    Your second sentence is the best synopsis of how I feel on Ober as well. And yes, ending up with about 22 starts averaging 5.4 innings gets him right in that 120 innings range, which feels good.
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    Yes, and the thing is that Spanish is generally pretty phonetic, much more so than with English names. A ninth-grader with two weeks of Spanish I would do better with Spanish names than Gladden. That it would be relatively easy to improve that aspect makes it seem like it’s actually disinterest on Gladden’s part, which is unfortunate. I’ve gotten to the point that I’m relatively ambivalent on Gladden when it comes to color, and he and Provus have a good enough rapport to make it work. It’s just that Gladden is SOOO bad when it comes to play-by-play that it’s hard to take him seriously on color. When Provus and Atteberry are together, it almost seems palpable that Provus is able to relax and do his job, rather than having to do his own job AND bail Gladden out of his gaffes.
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    Concur with those who like Atteberry doing the studio updates (and postgame). I always look forward to having him do play-by-play, but then he does it and I’m disappointed. I often get the sense that he’s feeling like, “I did my homework and found this tidbit, so dad gummit, I’m going to make sure I use it.”
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    On Dobnak, is that based on comments you’ve heard and/or how they’ve used him in ST? Or just a sense on your part? I don’t have reason to dispute, just wondering, given that most of his usage has been as a starter in the past.
  19. IndianaTwin
    1. Bundy and Archer started ONE-third of games last year, not TWO-thirds. It just seemed like two-thirds at times. 2. Randy Dobnak is missing from the Depth line, right? 3. What I’m struck by is that the Depth line looks like what the Opening Day rotation has looked like some years. That excites me. 4. To build on Dennesy’s comment about four (five) Kings is that each of them has the ability to pitch “like an ace” for an extended run. I think at least one will do that this year. I can’t say which one, but that’s the beauty of having five guys* in that category — the likelihood of one or two out of five is so much better than the odds of one or two out of one or two. That excites me as well. *Apologies if I got anyone thinking of a burger in mid-afternoon. That would be a third reason for excitement, except that I’m sitting at Moe’s, face down in a cup of queso.
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    I listen on MLB Audio. I usually do the first three innings and last three innings on the Twins broadcast and the middle three on the opponent's, just to mix things up. Any correlation between those innings and who's doing Twins play-by-play may or may not be coincidental.
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    That reminds me of Shooty Babbitt — let’s not forget him.
  22. IndianaTwin
    I’m with the others in the “doubtful” category on Maeda, but I don’t think his expectations would be anywhere close to 2/$50M to think it’s worth the risk on testing the market. If he’s wrestling with whether to take a year at $20M as a guy turning 36 a few days into the 2024 season, it’s hard for him to envision a team offering more than, say, $15 million to a guy turning 37 a few days into 2025. That’s 2/$35M in a best-case scenario for him. In that scenario, he probably only thinks he needs a guaranteed 2/$32M or so to beat the risk of getting $20M in the bag and needing to pitch well enough to get at least $12 in the second year.
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    I voted “no” on behalf of Boof, but Mr. Bugg seems worthy of consideration.
  24. IndianaTwin
    Sign Sano? 🤣
  25. IndianaTwin
    Is that you, Dave?* *For those newer to TD, there was a bazillion-comment long thread started by a "Dave" who claimed to have inside knowledge that a Dozier-for-DeLeon trade was imminent.
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