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  1. Shane Wahl
    Why does anyone care about how Mike Pelfrey is taking this? He has been a terrible pitcher for the Twins.
  2. Shane Wahl
    Why does this happen? I mean it would still seem that Kvasnicka, Jones, and Koch were producing and could all be AAA players. Why not one more year for them to see? It's crowded? It's crowded because of additional signings of aging players for both the Twins and AAA.
  3. Shane Wahl
    It would take approximately one start for May to be stretched out! And yes to your entire second paragraph!!!
  4. Shane Wahl
    Honestly, Hicks probably should play other positions, because he can play CF. He is a 4th OF of the future for the Twins if everything goes right. Also, Oswaldo Arcia should not be on a short leash. I don't understand how this is playing out at all.
  5. Shane Wahl
    Uh, for fun. I am actually making more fun of myself than making any kind of point.
  6. Shane Wahl
    http://m.braves.mlb.com/news/article/115408600/atlanta-braves-brady-feigl-joe-benson-have-chance-at-opening-day-roster You know that I am going to be comparing numbers in April if Benson makes the Braves roster, right?
  7. Shane Wahl
    Released Koch and T. Jones? Why?
  8. Shane Wahl
    Yeah . . . I mean look at this (and I understand the "opening day doesn't really matter" crowd, but there still are 40-man issues, and development issues) . . . . a rebuild with Hunter, Robinson, Milone, Pelfrey, and Stauffer instead of Rosario, Hicks, May, Tonkin, and Oliveros (or two other relievers). This is why I never really get the idea of "winning more games" and "playing prospects/young guys" being mutually exclusive. At AAA too. The Twins seem to just ram aging veterans from the top down instead of just going with a full youth movement to actually see who the hell is good and worth keeping. Then you just get young guys pissed off and off elsewhere to potentially succeed. This is enough of a problem, but it is only exacerbated by injuries to some key prospects . . . the rebuild gets further and further delayed. Back after 2012, I would have thought 2015 to be the year of certain contention. Now? Does 2017 even make sense for that?
  9. Shane Wahl
    This is probably my favorite post in some time around here!
  10. Shane Wahl
    Come on. First, Robinson has no success against lefties, so this "platoon" stuff is comedy. Second, Rosario or Hicks would push Schafer to the 4th OF and Robinson out of the organization.
  11. Shane Wahl
    I have said this a bunch, but Shane Robinson does not belong on an MLB roster, *unless* that team is heading to the playoffs and they need a guy to do one thing very well, like defense. That's why it made sense for the Cardinals to have him, but it is absurd for the Twins to have him.
  12. Shane Wahl
    Milone was the guy going in and he is the guy coming out. They probably always were going to toss Hicks in AAA as well. I don't really mind not relying on ST stuff on the field. But May and Hicks should be with the Twins. The replacements for them are *bad* and with no upside for any future with the team. Hopefully this all gets corrected by May 15 or so.
  13. Shane Wahl
    Indeed. Hicks has taken it well. I imagine May did as well. Pelfrey did not, which comes as no surprise.
  14. Shane Wahl
    I really like the title!
  15. Shane Wahl
    I don't think Pelfrey is being smart about his long-term big league status. He could develop into a good MR or even setup man. That is the way for him to get contracts north of $2 million per year going forward. As a bad starter? Minor league contracts . . .
  16. Shane Wahl
    The Twins are committed to losing as much as they feasibly could in April. Then it makes more sense with everything else.
  17. Shane Wahl
    Much Ado About Nothing.
  18. Shane Wahl
    Calculus, indeed. I was damn good at math through 10th grade. Then some higher algebra came along and I was like "what?" Then senior year A.P. Calculus *destroyed my brain* even with the top notch teachers at old BHS (that's Bemidji, not other poser B-towns in Minnesota). Through about "10th grade" in the Gardenhire era, the Twins had successful bullpens and always the promise of able guys to overfill the bullpen. By now, however, my brain can't deal with this current mess. I really don't like moving any of these 5th starters to the bullpen. May would be wasted as a long man and would get out of whack in a MR role. Pelfrey may only be successful in an MR role. Milone is going to get shelled either way. And then there is this race for mediocrity between Boyer, Thielbar, Thompson, Hamburger, and Graham. Four spots between these eight guys? And that's after Duensing, and Stauffer. Why? How? Luckily, there are guys like Oliveros and Tonkin there, and there are those recently drafted hard-throwers in AA and A+. So maybe the headache will end within a year. It would be how I then went to BSU and didn't have to take a math class in their honors program and could take Symbolic Logic (a Philosophy course, sorta) instead.
  19. Shane Wahl
    Small sample size in spring leads Twins astray again. I hope that this isn't an appropriate headline, but I am afraid it might be. And thus Mike Pelfrey and Blaine Boyer make the roster. No offense to the latter, and maybe this has just been a little showcase and buildup for other teams to claim him. I would really prefer May in the rotation and Oliveros in the bullpen to add strikeouts and a modicum of intimidation for batters.
  20. Shane Wahl
    Learning MLB pitching by facing AAA pitching? No. AAA is a place on the way up or a quick trip down very early on in a career. There is no way it helps him to do anyting but play for the Twins. And the guy is legitimately getting better. Not sure what else can be said here.
  21. Shane Wahl
    I do think that the Twins should trade Danny Santana. Given that it won't happen, I still like the idea of giving real days off to Dozier and Plouffe. They need more rest. Escobar can play 3 days a week as a starter or maybe 2 days. He is a great bench asset.
  22. Shane Wahl
    While it won't happen, I really wish Hicks would just start murdering the baseball this season to end this nonsense. I still don't understand how anyone watching that play could say that it landed next to him or a few feet from him. It was behind him. I watched the path of the ball from behind home. Then I "rewound" the dvr and watched again a few more times. AAA time is going to do squat for him now. Shocked that there is even a debate going on with regard to Shane Robinson and Aaron Hicks.
  23. Shane Wahl
    Ok, that makes me feel better at bit.
  24. Shane Wahl
    If he dove, that ball is a triple because he wasn't catching it. On television they actually showed the flight of the ball from up and behind home plate. Not a possible catch. End of story.
  25. Shane Wahl
    Someone find the video?
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