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  1. IndianaTwin
    I'm going to stick my head out of my lunch booth for a couple minutes, make a comment, and then duck back in before stuff starts flying at me. Stats from 2010-13 IP ERA+ H/9 HR/9 BB/9 WAR SO/W Pitcher A: 588.0 91 9.4 1.4 2.6 3.1 2.77 Pitcher B: 570.0 88 10.1 0.7 3.0 3.8 1.75 I am fired up about the season Pitcher A gave us last year and looking forward to him getting that extra third of an inning he needs for a bonus. But I'm not ready to give up on Pitcher Bike Belfrey. Short leash? Sure. Top candidate for No. 5 spot? Probably not. Better suited for a relief role? Perhaps. But he was once seen in the same breath as Hughes and was seen as having just as high a ceiling. New manager, new pitching coach whose known to do well with reclamation projects. Don't riot yet. Give peace (and maybe even this guy) a chance. (Ducking back for cover.)
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    Of course Mauer hits into a lot of double plays. He fits the profile. He hits behind guys with little power, he doesn't strike out that much, and he hits the ball hard enough to not be able to beat it out. But for every GIDP, there's probably another 1st and 3rd situation. I'd be glad to have any of the career leaders in GIDP batting second on my team -- Ripken, Pudge, Aaron, Yaz, Winfield, Murray, Rice...
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    The 15 AL teams used from 7 to 15 starters last year, averaging 10.33. (The Twins used 12, by the way). So, there's a pretty good likelihood that Hughes, Gibson, Nolasco, Meyer, May, Milone, and Pelfrey aren't enough to get through the season. Given that, I'll gladly add Santana to the mix. On average, the first five pitchers to start a game started 109.33 games for that team. Perhaps not surprisingly, the four teams that got at least 120 starts out of their first five starters all made the playoffs. (The Twins got 118 out of Nolasco, Correia, Hughes, Pelfrey, and Gibson.) So, there's also a pretty good chance that about a third of the games will get started by guys who aren't in the rotation at the beginning of the year. If Meyer and May don't make the rotation out of spring training, it seems almost a certainty that they will get opportunities if they stay healthy and effective in either Rochester or the bullpen.
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    I'm not 60, so I can't speak to the Killebrew events, but I was an 11-year-old on my one and only weekend trip to the Met on 6/26/77. Twins beat the ChiSox 19-12 to move in first place. Carew had four hits. Glenn Adams had a grand slam and a team-record 8 RBIs after getting booed for misplaying a ball the day before. A drunk guy tried to climb the left field foul pole, and I seem to remember the Sox 1B coach (Minnie Minoso?) getting thrown out as the crowd went nuts. I think the regular season attendance record for the Met was set that day, but my brother-in-law and I know that the record was two less than the announced 46,463. It was Rod Carew Jersey Day and all the kids got a t-shirt. Paul wanted one badly enough that we bought an extra two tickets for the bleachers, went in and got the shirt, walked back out and then entered at our real seats down the first base line. It's probably behind the 1991 series, but that day will probably always be MY iconic Twins moment.
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