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  1. mickeymental
    what about tony o's 1973? it included .291/.345/.410 with 92 rbi, 16 hr and more walks (45) than strikeouts (44) -- good for a 109 ops+ (and only 13 gdp despite 624 plate appearances on one-and-a-half legs). his 1974 also included a 109 ops+ (but 130 fewer plate appearances) and wasn't bad, either ...
  2. mickeymental
    well, one of the sites is pretty much in the moment (2/3/2008). but, although i appreciate the conversation, i'm not even sure what we're "debating" anymore. cuz i wasn't so much looking to be "right" as just testing my own fuzzy memory (the recollection, triggered by this original post, that johan and milledge shared a faint link). in retrospect, milledge was apparently not nearly as big a factor as my fuzzy brain wanted to remember. but, in hindsight, the twins actually did pretty well (as you're likely well aware, humber threw the perfecto in 2012 and guerra, at 26, made the majors last year).
  3. mickeymental
    the excerpt below (which also includes a bonus big pelf mention) is off a site called "metscentric" and apparently from february 2008 (http://metscentric.blogspot.com/2008/02/johan-santana-saga.html). it goes on to say that the mets, out of nowhere, traded him -- in part because the twins weren't all that interested in milledge for santana (but, back to my original point, i seem to recall that a bunch of twins fans were very interested). anyway, the mets traded milledge (11/30/07) two months and change before the santana trade (2/2/08). all i'm saying is that i seem to remember milledge linked to santana -- and maybe, in the final analysis, we're both right: Because the Mets were one of the few teams that could both afford and were probably willing to pay what it took to get Santana, Mets' fans and local writers speculated on what possible package the Mets could put together to offer for Santana. The first names that came to mind were Lastings Milledge, a talented young major league-ready outfielder, and Mike Pelfrey, a recently well-regarded potential staff ace who was disappointing in almost every chance the Mets gave him in 2007, with one exception, a dazzling win over the Braves that offered hope that he just might turn out to be good.
  4. mickeymental
    this question just kept bugging me. here, from earlier this month, is a post from the "mets daddy" website (http://metsdaddy.com/tag/johan-santana/): Today is the eighth anniversary of the Johan Santana trade. Over his tenure with the Mets, Santana pitched well to brilliantly when he was able to pitch ... The cost for all of this? Basically, it was Carlos Gomez. Yes, the same one. It’s interesting that it was Gomez because he wasn’t what the Twins initially wanted. They wanted Lastings Milledge.
  5. mickeymental
    isn't milledge the guy who was "needed" to make the johan santana deal a winner? rather than gogo?
  6. mickeymental
    punto!
  7. mickeymental
    plus, not only are other shoppers eyeing that lone bottle of heinz ketchup on the shelf -- but also, it often doesn't matter how much you're willing to pay. you don't just grab the bottle and head to checkout. that bottle, for whatever reason, must want to jump into YOUR cart.
  8. mickeymental
    five years of 142 hits and 500 ab for joe would be a career average of .304 with 2407 hits. too tall an order? hof?
  9. mickeymental
    made postseason five times with four teams. won a ring. good teams wanted him. i think of the time he dove behind second to snag a grounder, then rolled the ball out of his glove to the bag for the force.
  10. mickeymental
    up with shaggy.
  11. mickeymental
    ... not to mention the 16 gold gloves through 1977.
  12. mickeymental
    while .285/.365/.410/.775 and morneau's batting title legitimately keep hope alive, cuddyer just paved the way for what to do if it doesn't pan out.
  13. mickeymental
    a long and solid career, a batting title, played in a world series, seems like a good guy and, per baseball reference, looks like he collected roughly $80 million. with or without the $12.5 million he'll probably be able to feed his family.
  14. mickeymental
    maybe the twins can trade for daniel norris and move into his van down by the river.
  15. mickeymental
    maybe the twins could also get milton bradley and albert belle to come out of retirement and solve all of their problems.
  16. mickeymental
    the twins could fail on all these fronts and still have a very good season.
  17. mickeymental
    i'm betting nick punto can catch.
  18. mickeymental
    wonder if he'll go into the hof as a twin.
  19. mickeymental
    good list. 6. byron buxton, regardless of how good he really is, got some serious big-league seasoning under his belt after a lost 2014.
  20. mickeymental
    I would call it a career night for mr. butera.
  21. mickeymental
    i heard that ted williams's brain might be available. just imagine sano hitting between williams and bonds!
  22. mickeymental
    and if a tree falls in the forest ... in other words, there have presumably been a lot of teammate-on-teammate punches thrown between the morneau incident and the harper incident. but very few where one of the players totally lost control in public and didn't care that cameras were taking it all in. meanwhile, i'm guessing it'll be a long wait to see footage of the next papelbon team-building exercise.
  23. mickeymental
    overblown? did you see the same footage i did? papelbon clearly went after him with malice. the reason it isn't seen more often is because if and when it happens it's typically in a place that doesn't have cameras. and the reason it was a big deal is the very reason you point out: papelbon lost control and couldn't contain himself until he was out of camera range.
  24. mickeymental
    hard to imagine one teammate choking another in this clubhouse: https://www.facebook.com/Twins/videos/vb.45991614840/10153648821024841/?type=2&theater nevertheless (and aside from the possibility of returning as a coach) his work is (or at least should be) done. leave on a high note, torii!
  25. mickeymental
    roberto kelly kevin maas
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