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  1. tarheeltwinsfan
    Good post Eris.
  2. tarheeltwinsfan
    If the hypothesis in the article above, that batters striking out, but at the same time swinging hard, is not as harmful to a team's chances of winning, as is batters who have weak swings with resulting weak contact, which lessens a team's chances for victory, then I ask this question: Should the Twins pitching staff be built to induce weak contact, rather than trying to achieve strikeouts ?
  3. tarheeltwinsfan
    Good summary of the Twins' status regarding how the Twins need to build for the future, which includes the 2024 season. Helps me understand the Dodgers better. High payroll plus keeping a good farm system. A great formula to keep winning.
  4. tarheeltwinsfan
    Great memories. Thanks to Paul for the article and to all who submitted comments. By the way, I can't identify the player whose baseball card appears at the heading. It looks like a 1956 Topps card, which I think are the most beautiful cards ever made. If I had to guess I would guess Dee Fondy. But he was a lefty. Farris Fain maybe?
  5. tarheeltwinsfan
    I bet my childhood baseball field in North Carolina has all of your ball fields beat for uniqueness. We had 3 prominent features: 1) We had a hedge of thick bushes for our outfield fence. We lost more balls in those bushes. The other side of the hedge was a small, fenced pasture occupied by a horse named "Lucy", who would chase us when we went into the pasture to retrieve baseballs. Sometimes we just left the ball in Lucy's pasture and used another ball for the rest of the game; 2) A small cement goldfish pond was directly behind second base. Many times, we had to jump the pond to try to catch a fly ball and we had to get onto our hands and knees and reach into the pond to retrieve a floating wet baseball; 3) The most unique part of our baseball field was Mr. Woodward's backyard, directly behind home plate, separated by a woven wire fence, which stopped most of our baseballs from going into Mr. Woodward's yard. Mr. Woodward was a jeweler, with a store in downtown Statesville. But his hobby was catching snakes. He kept them in terrariums in a detached garage behind our ball field. Black snakes, king snakes, water snakes, a rare hog nosed snake, garter snakes and an occasional copper head and sometimes a rare timber rattle snake from Fox Mountain in the Love Valley area of our county. Of course, he also had frogs and toads and mice to feed to his snakes. Every month or two, during warm weather, we'd be playing ball and we would see Mr. Woodward carrying his terrariums outside and placing them on the ground behind home plate on his side of the fence, far enough back so that an errant baseball would not break one of his terrariums. Then he would get his hose and turn on the water. By that time our game had stopped, and we gathered along the fence on our side. One by one Mr. Woodward would take each snake out of its cage and clean the cage while the snake just lay lazily in the grass. We were fascinated. The only snakes that ever tried to slither away while in the grass were the black snakes. The others were content to lie still in the green grass. Then Mr. Woodward would carefully replace each of the snakes and carry the snake cages back into his garage. Only then would the baseball game resume. I'll save the story of when Mr. Woodward's two alligators escaped for another time.
  6. tarheeltwinsfan
    Oh my gosh Dave. I also had a Nellie Fox bat, which was foolish on my behalf because the bat was too heavy for me and the handle was thicker than my skinny arms. I never developed any power, but always tried to punch the ball to right field. That is why I became a pitcher in high school. I couldn't hit, I couldn't field, I couldn't run fast. You have heard of the "crafty lefty"? I was a "crafty righty". Big ole' slow curve ball that the opposing hitters could not wait to hit against...when I got it over that is.
  7. tarheeltwinsfan
    Offer Farmer and Vasquez and E. Rodriguez.
  8. tarheeltwinsfan
    I look forward to reading more from Bobby about Twins baseball. Consider this a belated "Welcome Bobby to the Twins family."
  9. tarheeltwinsfan
    I wish we were.
  10. tarheeltwinsfan
    A fun article. Thanks Cody.
  11. tarheeltwinsfan
    Fun article. Reminds me of a childhood proverb which began: "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost."
  12. tarheeltwinsfan
    Nick, Fascinating and spot on, article. I'm curious, are there any current (therefore Koufax and Gibson are unavailable) pitchers you would trust 10/10 to start a playoff game in 2024? As an aside, I would trust the 2023 version of Sonny Gray 10/10 to start a playoff game in 2023. I am curious what more Gray could have done in 2023, to have garnered a 10/10 rating from you? The Twins are really going to miss him in 2024.
  13. tarheeltwinsfan
    Theodore, I really enjoyed this article. Thank you. I hope to see more articles like this in the future.
  14. tarheeltwinsfan
    I would rather hang on to Polo and Farmer to use them to trade for pitching. While I understand the possible need for a CF backup for Buck, I don't feel that need is as critical as the need for a top line starting pitcher to replace Gray. Better hang on to all the trading chips until the Twins solve the biggest problem first, which is a really good, #2 starting pitcher.
  15. tarheeltwinsfan
    I was just going to post this same idea. You beat me to it.
  16. tarheeltwinsfan
    Fascinating article. Thanks Parker.
  17. tarheeltwinsfan
    This trade undervalues Jeffers and over values Vasquez. This trade leaves the Twins dangerously barren at catcher, a key defensive position and most importantly, a key position for the pitching staff.
  18. tarheeltwinsfan
    If this deal were made, who would catch for the Twins? Insert Vasquez for Jeffers and eliminate Sixto Sanchez, I would do that deal.,
  19. tarheeltwinsfan
    Hello Newman ! Hello Jerry !
  20. tarheeltwinsfan
    Yea, That's what I thought too.
  21. tarheeltwinsfan
    O'Neill's stats are not impressive. There is a reason he is the #5, odd man out for the St. Louis outfield.
  22. tarheeltwinsfan
    Each of these 4 contracts was reasonable at the time the contracts were signed. I was happy about each one and I am comfortable with each one still. Josh Donaldson was an example of a bad contract.
  23. tarheeltwinsfan
    Cody, I'm just a University of North Carolina grad trying to be funny. I know nothing about Marcus Stroman. I assume he is a perfectly nice person.
  24. tarheeltwinsfan
    I believe a "lovably eccentric personality" also may have been used by the Dookie fans to describe several other Duke graduates, in addition to Marcus Stroman: Christian "Stomach Stomp" Laettner, Gerald "Elbow" Henderson and Grayson "Leg Sweep" Allen.
  25. tarheeltwinsfan
    What do you think about Aroldis Chapman, who is a free agent?
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