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  1. terrydactyls
    Minnesota is nearly done rounding out its 13-person major-league position player collective. Now that is a depressing statement. They don't even have 13 "major-league" position players on their 40-man roster. Time for the front office to play Trader Joe and off-load minor league pitching along with Larnach and Julien for relief pitching.
  2. terrydactyls
    I concur with what you laid out. BUT, that's what should have been done The article is trying to look ahead.
  3. terrydactyls
    In none of the examples (definitions) presented on both sides of the question is the fact that baseball pipelines can be either positive or negative. The Twins' catching pipeline currently is negative but trending towards positive. The Twins have a pipeline but it hasn't produced much.
  4. terrydactyls
    A pipeline (according to Merriam-Webster) is "a process or channel of supply". The pipeline for the Twins is having catchers at every level of the minor leagues. There is no requirement that the product has to begin at the lowest level and progress steadily upward. That may be what you would like to see, but to be a pipeline, it is immaterial.
  5. terrydactyls
    WPA will always mean the Works Progress Administration to me.
  6. terrydactyls
    I like this idea. A pre-emptive strike by signing Realmuto followed by the trade of Jeffers to whomever offers the best return.
  7. terrydactyls
    I made out the lineups for my slow-pitch team in the 70s and 80s. My reasoning behind the lineup was based solely on the percentage of times the player reached base safely (except for a fielders choice). Error? Walk? Base hit? They all counted as reached base safely. Much like you, I didn't care how they get on base as long as no out occurred. The interesting "advanced metric" that I discovered was that the lineup remained consistent over the years. Some people just get on base.
  8. terrydactyls
    If not for the "satire" definition, I would have taken this article at face value.
  9. terrydactyls
    I still like that line up.
  10. terrydactyls
    I like that lineup a lot.
  11. terrydactyls
    Simple solution. Write with clarity in mind. Don't assume people know what you are thinking.
  12. terrydactyls
    That is a very good non-answer. You are applying two definitions to a single phrase. That is not proving your point. I think I actually agree with everything you said, but I'm not sure because of your phraseology.
  13. terrydactyls
    I agree that the "young for his level" reference is stupid. However, you used the same argument against Rosario being a prospect by saying his 2025 statistics would only be significant if he was just 19 (or "young for his level"). Either/or. Pick one.
  14. terrydactyls
    In the penultimate paragraph there is a line that reads "However, both pitchers can certainly fill a role with the Saints in 2026, and there could potentially be a big-league role that each could fill." Who is the mystery second pitcher?
  15. terrydactyls
    For most of the commenters above, it's Christmas (or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa) season. Try to get in the holiday spirit and enjoy the high ranking of the Twins farm system. In less than 10 days, it will be 2026 and then you can resume pi$$ing on any article with an upbeat tone. On a side note, I enjoy reading the minor league recaps during the season. I always save them until the end.
  16. terrydactyls
    "The island of misfit toys" sounds like Jeffrey Epstein's retreat. As for last minute shopping, I remember spending one Christmas Eve early in my first marriage at 7-11 looking for anything that might pass as a present. That might be a reason why it was my first marriage?
  17. terrydactyls
    Would it be possible change Tough Talking Tom to just T-Cubed or T³? The former is just too long for a nickname.
  18. terrydactyls
    The way you wrote this phrase actually means the opposite of what I think you meant. Let's break it down. "Nobody" is a negative. "Not shown" is a negative. Two negatives form a positive. Therefore, what you are actually saying is that all of the youth group should get extensions. Is that what you meant to say? If not, you should have written "Nobody of the youth group...has shown enough to deserve an extension". Sorry about posting this but I spent many years editing proclamations from corporate executives who were continually stating the opposite of what they meant. It's ingrained in me to clarify such writing. An easy cure is to take 15 seconds to read what you have written before hitting "Submit Comment".
  19. terrydactyls
    I guess that would explain his bad April? I've never heard of this disease. Glad you explained it.
  20. terrydactyls
    And yet, you seem willing to allow one bad month to cause you to reject a player? I believe that would qualify as a double standard?
  21. terrydactyls
    Actually September should count more because there are more "off" days and weather cancellations in April than in September.
  22. terrydactyls
    "His Raynauds"? Is this another new metric with which I am unfamiliar?
  23. terrydactyls
    1. Not a big loss. 2. Julien "has" what he's always had. It will just be for a different group. 3. I doubt Bell will take innings from Keaschell at 2B and Keaschall is not a 1B either. 4. The Twins haven't any 1B in the minors that are blocked.
  24. terrydactyls
    Or the Twins could wait until the "young group" get so old that they are never given an opportunity because they are "too old".
  25. terrydactyls
    The price tag on a top of the line first baseman glove is under $500. For Christmas, Falvey needs to buy one for Wallner, one for Larnach, one for Keaschall, and one for Lewis and tell them they have until training camp opens to figure out how it works. Best performance during spring training wins an all expenses paid trip to the 26-man roster.
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