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  1. Shane Wahl
    It looks like about .900 OPS, with 19 homers, 37 doubles, 72 walks, and 105 strikeouts.
  2. Shane Wahl
    Maybe having a foreign policy that doesn't create more terrorists should be a goal.
  3. Shane Wahl
    Who are "the people" and why are so many innocent people slaughtered as well. Al-Awlaki is a perfect example of someone radicalized out of being a moderate cleric because of the brutality of American wars.
  4. Shane Wahl
    Colby Lewis has to be the leading contender out of these guys to sign with the Twins.
  5. Shane Wahl
    Well the OPS did drop at the end of the year to a much more pedestrian number. He should repeat A+ and then we'll really see.
  6. Shane Wahl
    I will go with Kent Hrbek.
  7. Shane Wahl
    Knoblauch came up and batted second between Gladden and Puckett. But that is pretty close enough. And Chuck Knoblauch had a rookie .701 OPS . . . which is roughly what Hicks had after April. Who'dathunk?
  8. Shane Wahl
    If the second best pitcher they bring in is a 3 year/$42 million or so guy then woah. Nolasco is not close to worth that kind of money. He is basically merely Correia+ Anyway, I think you are right about Plouffe. I think giving him some time in the corner OF spots before Sano even arrives might be helpful. And against lefties he is very good.
  9. Shane Wahl
    Morneau has no future. It's not totally clear to me that Parmelee has no future. And then there is the Mauer-at-first potential factor. Also, he isn't very good now anyway. Also, he would be rather silly to not find a good hitter's park. The Twins are frustrating spenders much of the time when they do spend. Paying millions for replacement-level or barely above replacement-level players is not wise. Spending more for potential very good to star players, or playing minimum money for more players and hoping one actually works seems like potentially a better idea.
  10. Shane Wahl
    Morneau and Kubel are both signing somewhere with a friendly hitters' park so they can play 2014 to regain some value.
  11. Shane Wahl
    It in many ways is worse than Bush (not all ways, but many ways). The targeted assassinations sound "nice" because of the scope of these attacks (whether by drone or special operations on the ground), but it exacerbates secrecy, lawlessness, and the losing war for "hearts and minds." Even the case of Anwar al-Awlaki is not nearly straight forward at all (other than the obvious killing an American citizen without any due process). And when they later droned his 16-year-old son (also, of course, an AMERICAN CITIZEN) for no apparent reason . . . well there's little to be said about the commission of such evil. The main point from the documentary is really not about these individual cases, but how the "kill lists" have gone from a few people to that Iraq deck of cards to now thousands at a time . . . and one list after another is indicative of the real motivation for waging a war on terror. It's never to win it, but to always keep it going by creating more enemies to keep killing. And somehow Americans just accepted never-ending war as American foreign policy. It's the war on drugs on a larger scale.
  12. Shane Wahl
    Ok, reality seems to indicate that Yoon is a real possibility. And, yes, Hicks is likely to start in Rochester. I don't really want for the Twins to sign some marginal AAAA player yet again, and neither do I want them to get an aging and declining veteran for the corner OF. So maybe they don't do that and they start with Willingham-Presley-Parmelee in the OF (Arcia either in AAA or getting quite a bit of time at DH). If those walks start to drop for Willingham (because his bat is less of a threat and pitchers are aware of this now), Parmelee really doesn't improve significantly, and Presley actually achieves what could be expected of a marginal MLB player, then the team is going to get around zero WAR from the three of them while also no development for the future. That's the kind of scenario that is quite scary to me. I don't think much was actually figured out in 2013 and I don't want another similar situation in 2014. This is why I am much more willing to part with these older and replaceable players now. By the way, I may have been onto something with Correia and the Giants. Clearly, the Twins are not going to trade the only pitcher they can be fully confident will be an actual 4th-5th starter in terms of quality. But Correia would thus fit nicely at the backend of the Giants rotation.
  13. Shane Wahl
    Nolasco is going to get at least 3 years. And it's going to be a disaster for whoever signs him.
  14. Shane Wahl
    Career ERA+ for Nolasco is 94, for Vargas it's 91.
  15. Shane Wahl
    Harden is the only one I remember being discussed in that way.
  16. Shane Wahl
    Career ERA+ for Nolasco? 94. No thanks.
  17. Shane Wahl
    Ulgh. I wouldn't sign Nolasco. He's extremely average. It's a slightly improved Correia but for 3 years and $42 million or more. Yikes.
  18. Shane Wahl
    I agree!
  19. Shane Wahl
    Thanks to both of you. It's more interesting, certainly.
  20. Shane Wahl
    What are Messenger's Japan numbers? He wasn't good before he went there.
  21. Shane Wahl
    The Dodgers are a team willing to do such a thing. There are teams like that. I think that trade is indicative of what is possible out there.
  22. Shane Wahl
    See "Incident at Oglala" if you are up and watch Netflix docs like I do . . .
  23. Shane Wahl
    True in that I think ample AAA time is valuable. I have maintained that AAA is important and there was a whole discussion about AA vs. AAA here. But I also believe two things: 1. Once a team takes that mistaken step and promotes a guy too fast to MLB, it is a problem to send him back down to AAA for long. It just messes things up. See Chris Parmelee. And before the "but Brian Dozier . . . " comment . . . Dozier was still terrible until he and Bruno found something to adjust. 2. A team that is terrible can afford to have its prospects get growing pains in MLB. The Twins are terrible, thanks to BS, TR, RG, and RA, and so on. Sticking Arcia and Hicks back in AAA seems like an unwise move.
  24. Shane Wahl
    Yes, thanks!
  25. Shane Wahl
    Dodgers Decline Options On Mark Ellis, Chris Capuano: MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com "Capuano, 35, pitched to a 4.26 ERA with 6.9 K/9 and 2.0 BB/9 in 105 2/3 innings for the Dodgers this season. While his role with the club was uncertain early on, injuries opened up a rotation spot, and 20 of his 24 appearances for the Dodgers wound up being starts. A .334 batting average on balls in play shows that Capuano was the victim of some poor luck, and his FIP reflects that, projecting that his ERA should've been closer to 3.55"
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