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  1. tarheeltwinsfan
    Goooooooo Zebby. The Twins need another North Carolina native on the major league roster. Zebby lives in Cullowhee, NC located in western N.C. Zebby will soon be in the rotation with Bailey Ober, who grew up in Huntersville, NC, just north of Charlotte in the western Piedmont region of North Carolina. They can both pitch to Ryan Jeffers from Raleigh, NC, located in the center of North Carolina. And the number ONE Twins' prospect, Walker Jenkins, is from Southport, NC, which is on the coast of North Carolina. Since I also live in North Carolina in the hometown of 1987 World Series Championship team member, Mark "Country" Davidson (Statesville, NC) and have been a huge Twins' fan since "the move" in 1961, when I transferred my 8 year boyhood team loyalty from the lowly Washington (my birthplace) Senators to the mighty Minnesota Twins. I will remind you that the Charlotte, NORTH CAROLINA minor league franchise had a long history of being a Senators'/Twins' farm team where Harmon Killebrew once played, after his 2 year sentence of riding the Senators' bench as a signed bonus baby. That rule was a poorly conceived "bonus baby" rule back then. Any bonus baby signed had to be on the major league roster for 2 years immediately after the signing. This discouraged the owners from signing bonus babies, because the bonus babies had to take up a roster spot on the major league team. However the Washington Senators teams of the 1950's were consistently in last place (Washington Senators' motto was - "First in War, First in peace and Last in the American League"), so 18 and 19 year old Killebrew's presence on the Senators' bench for 2 years really didn't hurt the Senators. Long live the North Carolina - Minnesota Twins' pipeline !
  2. tarheeltwinsfan
    I contend Vazquez has surely helped Jeffery become a better catcher. Thank you for writing this wonderful article and pointing out how valuable a good fielding, good framing, smart, experienced, encouraging, hard-working, hustling catcher can be to the pitching staff. I am a huge Vazquez/Jeffers fan. The catching position is critical to helping the pitching staff. Critical ! In fact, just like Falvey and Levine have morphed into "Falvine" , Vazquez and Jeffers have morphed into "Jeffquez".
  3. tarheeltwinsfan
    O come on you dissenters. You must see the humor here, don't you? :)
  4. tarheeltwinsfan
    The same way the Twins let Graterol go to the Dodgers.
  5. tarheeltwinsfan
    I had posted that months ago, that Pham would be a good back-up for Buck. The Margot signing was a poor decision, which I also posted when it happened. I wish the FO would contact me before they make these decisions.
  6. tarheeltwinsfan
    If I were Farmer, I would have a voo-doo ceremony and burn all of my bats and batting gloves. At the same I time I'd buy a complete set of new, lighter bats and a complete set of new heavier bats. Then I would try to bunt some. Then I'd grow a mustache and shave my head. I'd immediately see several sports psychologists by zoom on a regular basis. Finally, I'd try a BF Skinner experiment. I'd donate $100 to the campaign of the candidate for President of the United States, whom I want to lose, for each out I made. Without saying who I am voting for, it would be very painful for me to have to donate any money to that fool's campaign. BF Skinner was the father of Operant Conditioning. If something results in pain, one tends to stop doing it.
  7. tarheeltwinsfan
    I believe we are better able to diagnose and treat and prevent sports injuries now. We also have mass media reports of every little hangnail now.
  8. tarheeltwinsfan
    Where is La Tortuga when you need him?
  9. tarheeltwinsfan
    Hmmm, who made the decisions to obtain Margot ($4,000,000), Sanatana ($5,250,000), pay Farmer $6,250,000 and trade for that 5th starter DeSclafani ($4,000,000), who was already hurt and who went down at spring training? That adds up to $19,500,000, which could have been spent better. However, as they say, an armchair quarterback is always right. :)
  10. tarheeltwinsfan
    Because it can't get worse.
  11. tarheeltwinsfan
    I feel bad for Pablo. The Twins need to reboot their season.
  12. tarheeltwinsfan
    Lucas, What a fantastic article containing understandable explanations. Keep writing for TD. Thank you.
  13. tarheeltwinsfan
    Good article Lou. Thanks.
  14. tarheeltwinsfan
    Any port in a storm.
  15. tarheeltwinsfan
    "This is the business we have chosen!" said Hyman Roth in "The Godfather"
  16. tarheeltwinsfan
    I had a warm fuzzy feeling as the season started, although I was concerned about the poor spring training season for the team and particularly several starting players. The war fuzzy feeling left the moment Lewis was hurt in the first game of the 2024 season.
  17. tarheeltwinsfan
    The Twins will get to bat against lefty James Paxton tonight. So far (one game - 5 innings, 5 K's, zero earned runs), Paxton has been good. I hope he implodes tonight, but I would rather have Paxton than Varland as the Twin's 5th starter.
  18. tarheeltwinsfan
    I hope the Twins have a very difficult schedule the first half of the 2024 season and baseball's weakest schedule, the second half of the season, like they did in 2023. I still believe the Twins strength of schedule had a lot to do with the Twin's "amazing turn around" the second half of the 2013 season. By the way, the visiting Dodgers are ranked #1 in the latest power ranking by MLB.com for good reasons.
  19. tarheeltwinsfan
    It depends on one's definition of "good". I prefer using the criteria of "Who is better than Varland." How many of these Free Agent SP's listed above would you rather have starting for the Twins instead of Varland? Plus it keeps Varland from being the # 6 guy, when inevitably needed, who will probably be Festa or SWR.
  20. tarheeltwinsfan
    One digs a hole, one shovel full at a time. Is it time to quote Gardy yet? "It's a long season."
  21. tarheeltwinsfan
    You hit the nail on the head CH. Post after post on TD during the off season ( plus Falvey) said that the Twins primarily needed another starting pitcher to try and mitigate the loss of Gray and Maeda. I would submit that the Twins be graded an "F" for failure to acquire one. Instead, millions were spent on other players at other positions and an injured 5th, at best, starter, who is now out for the entire season at a waste of $4,000,000. That $4,000, 000 combined with Santana's unnecessary ( How high on the "need" list was another first baseman?) $5,250,000 and Margot's ( how is this signing working out?) $4,000,000, add up to $13,250,000...which should have been spent on a good free agent SP.
  22. tarheeltwinsfan
    I guess $4 million just doesn't buy what it used to buy. Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?
  23. tarheeltwinsfan
    But Margot only has 3 at bats and he can't bunt. :)
  24. tarheeltwinsfan
    Interesting article. Thanks.
  25. tarheeltwinsfan
    I believe signing Margot at $4,000,000 was a mistake. So far his fielding has been below average (he made a terrible play and throw in a spring training game I attended) and his batting average in spring training and so far in the major leagues in 2024 speaks for itself. This money could have been better used on pitching.
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