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  1. terrydactyls
    Just after the trade deadline, a lot of people were calling for the front office to be fired. To me, this bullpen is better than one they could've built by losing more assets. Kudos to the men in charge.
  2. terrydactyls
    Huh?
  3. terrydactyls
    Is Hugh Boost a new addition to the Twins?
  4. terrydactyls
    Plenty of teams have had worse strikeout percentages - 80 since WW2? That's one team per year! According to my math, that ain't "a lot". Mikelink - the list you attached a link to is awfully impressive. Guys that hit more than 50 home runs in one year and struck out less than 50 times is special. Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Kluszewski, Lou Gerhig, Johnny Mize, Yogi Berra (and more). Because of my age, I had the opportunity to watch some of them play. I almost wish I were even older so I might have had a chance to see more.
  5. terrydactyls
    I know the A's are a bad team, and that Blackburn isn't the same caliber of pitcher that the Twins will face in the playoffs, yada yada yada..... (thank you George Costanza), but Actually I got nothing to add. I just wanted to use yada yada yada at least once this season.
  6. terrydactyls
    If I were making the decision of which catcher to use and with the assumption that both catchers are similar, I would ask that day's starting pitcher who he preferred to have behind the plate. I don't have any fancy, modern statistics (some starting with a "b", some with an "f", and some with only several capital letters) to support my theory. I just feel that the comfort level of the pitcher outweighs statistical analysis.
  7. terrydactyls
    I concur with Polanco at DH. That will help keep him healthy and in the lineup. This not Buxton's year so unless he goes on an end of year rampage with him bat, he's not on the roster. Ryan versus Maeda is tough. I'm leaning towards Ryan as the starter only because of Maeda's strong history as a playoff reliever. As for Castro, I'm in Maine so I haven't had many opportunities to watch him playing defense. However, Taylor is a great defender and does have about 50 RBIs as primarily the number 9 batter.
  8. terrydactyls
    You only listed Severino as a prospect worth watching. Aren't Martin and Lee prospects worth watching?
  9. terrydactyls
    How big is the Twins' bench at Target Field? Is it bigger than a normal bench? And why does any bench need a bat? As for Buxton, if you thought he looked bad as a DH, I would bet he looks even worse as a pinch hitter. He seems to play at his best when he contributes on both offense and defense.
  10. terrydactyls
    Or it's a slightly pulled hamstring and you have greatly over reacted.
  11. terrydactyls
    I hope it works for Byron. I've had both cortisone and intra articulate Synvisc gel injections in the past year and neither worked. The first of two knee replacements is scheduled for early December.
  12. terrydactyls
    Jose Salas is still batting below .200 but it seems like his name shows up nearly every day in the recap. According to baseball reference, over the last month, his average is just under .270. Let's hope that he's starting to figure out professional baseball.
  13. terrydactyls
    To anyone who wants to refer to Lewis' accomplishments this season as a Small Sample Size, consider this: That's the whole point! In exactly 1/3 of a season, he has 4 grand slams, 14 home runs, 50 runs batted in, and 6 stolen bases. And he's a rookie. Whether or not you think 54 games is a SSS, those are still damn impressive numbers. The bullpen (despite the complaints of many) appears to be a strength heading into the playoffs. With Gray, Lopez, and Ryan as three sure starters, that leaves Duran, Jax, Thielbar, Pagan, Varland, Ober, and Maeda (and maybe Paddock and Stewart) available for bullpen duties. If an occasional fourth starter is needed, the Twins have Ober, Varland, Maeda, and possibly Keuchel to choose from. That might be a better selection of arms than any trade deadline acquisitions might have created - and without any reduction of minor league assets.
  14. terrydactyls
    Can someone attach names to the rookie dress up day picture? An amazing group of giants and little people. Or maybe they only look small because of all the redwood trees around them?
  15. terrydactyls
    Hearing good things about a trade that is mutually beneficial is refreshing. So often you hear people complain that a trade wasn't more beneficial to the home team. Being in Maine, I only get news about the Red Sox and currently the discussion is all about front office changes. A Boston reporter who covers the Red Sox said yesterday that the biggest cause of the decline of the Sox (and a major reason for the from office shakeup) is that the front office would only make trades that they perceived to be in favor of the Sox at a 70%/30% rate. According to the reporter, Boston didn't finish several major trades last off-season because of this. To me, that gives the Twins' front office a lot of positive points for the Arraez/Lopez trade.
  16. terrydactyls
    If he is on a pitch count, I would have difficulty commenting about SWR having "a hard time getting through five innings" without knowing what that pitch count is. If it's 70 or less, it would be unlikely for him to get through the lineup twice. Twice through would be 18 batters. He would have to average just 3.9 pitches per batter. Even at a 90 pitch limit, that is only a 5 pitch per batter average; which is doable but only with a "quality start" outing. In the minors, it might just be as simple as building up his endurance (and confidence).
  17. terrydactyls
    At first, I thought you meant Batting Practice (BP) pitcher. I think Twins Daily should have an easily accessible glossary of standardized abbreviations. Sometimes I feel like I'm back at meetings when I worked and couldn't understand half of what was being said because of all the acronyms being used.
  18. terrydactyls
    I played competitive (?) sports for over 60 years. My experience (and I am only speaking for myself) is that after the first pitch is thrown or the opening faceoff (or in my case, the first shot I faced), it's pretty much a game just like all the others. And that held true from Little League when I was seven until adult hockey when I was 70.
  19. terrydactyls
    Who cares? If the Twins had traded for a reliever, in my OPINION, they probably had a 50/50 chance at improving the team. But at what cost. No one who writes for or comments on TD articles actually sits in on trade negotiations. But there are a lot of comments like "throw a few bucks" or "it wouldn't take much" that are being made. All speculation. And my most important point is (again this is my OPINION), what Hawkeye Bean Counter wrote was his OPINION. To call it "idiocy" or telling him he's wrong is incorrect. Opinion isn't right or wrong! Just because you have a different OPINION, it doesn't make either opinion right or wrong.
  20. terrydactyls
    Duh! Pick up the option and figure it all out at spring training. A lot of commenters have mentioned CF as a problem but no one (yet) has mentioned that both Lewis and Martin could fill that area. Lots of decisions to be made in March and April next year and all winter for us to tell the Twins' front office how to make those decisions. Now, if only they would listen to us.
  21. terrydactyls
    I took would like to see Jenkins promoted. Why not? One more week shouldn't faze an 18-year old. Is it my imagination or have the names of Jose Salas and Noah Miller been showing up in these recaps fairly often over the last month?
  22. terrydactyls
    Yeah. I guess you never can have too many guys on your roster that have batted .166 over the past four years.
  23. terrydactyls
    DFA Gallo.
  24. terrydactyls
    The title of this article is a little deceiving. This is just a numerical listing of Twins players by WAR. If it were actually a list of most valuable contributors, I think MAT, Solano, and Castro would be much higher.
  25. terrydactyls
    That's what alcohol is for.
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