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  1. PDX Twin
    Channeling his inner Carlos Silva?
  2. PDX Twin
    Are the Orioles really this bad at hitting? I get that the Twins' starters are improved, but 17 shutout innings?
  3. PDX Twin
    I don't know. Quarkly?
  4. PDX Twin
    That's just Eddie. Yesterday he keeps Gibson's no-hitter alive with a circus catch; today he ends Berrios's with a circus flail.
  5. PDX Twin
    No, that was an opposite-field single that got away from him...
  6. PDX Twin
    I assume it's Logan K. Morrison?
  7. PDX Twin
    It's probably irrational, but I'm very optimistic about Rosario. If he can continue to improve his plate discipline, his pure talent will allow him to crush the better pitches he will see. I can imagine him as an MVP candidate with 30 HR and .325 average with a few steals and outfield assists catching the eye as well.
  8. PDX Twin
    It seems to me like we can't lose here. If Gibson is good, we win lots of games. If Gibson is bad, we get to see some of the youngsters a bit sooner. I'll look forward to either outcome. (Of course, he'll probably be just good enough to keep his spot but not good enough to win a lot of games...)
  9. PDX Twin
    With all the blue-chip FAs next season, it's hard for me to see Dozier getting the super payday he seeks. I see him as more of a mauve chip, or perhaps a pale azure chip in comparison. It wouldn't totally surprise me if he goes on the market, finds that the big-market teams are all spent-out chasing the Harpers and Machados, and decides that a reasonable offer to stay put with a young, competitive team is pretty attractive.
  10. PDX Twin
    Enough talking (well ... writing)! It's time! Play Ball!
  11. PDX Twin
    I just ran across a working paper from an economist named Carrie Meyer at George Mason University entitled "Effects of Major League Baseball on Economic Development in the Dominican Republic." The abstract follows: "This paper examines the growing economic impact of MLB on the Dominican economy. After introducing the Dominican baseball experience, it examines the rapid growth of salaries paid to Dominican-born major league players and provides perspective on how the growth in those salaries relates to growth in Dominican GDP. Because relatively few players account for most of the earnings by Dominican MLB players, the spending and investment patterns of these particular individuals are explored. The paper also examines the growing economic impact of the MLB academies at the grassroots level in Dominican neighborhoods." If anyone is interested, here is a link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3148304##
  12. PDX Twin
    "Byron Buxton, Miguel Sano, Max Kepler, and Jose Berrios should solidify the roster for the next decade." More like the next 3-5 years? If these players turn out to be worth signing when they reach free agency, the Twins will (as always) struggle to sign them.
  13. PDX Twin
    The "business of baseball" also involves putting fans in the seats and getting them to tune in so that you get more for your TV package. I think Minnesota fans (in particular) value loyalty and continuity. Not that 5000 people buy tickets to every game just to see Joe, but they buy tickets to see a product/team that earns their support. (Frankly, this is one of the reasons I'm highly disgruntled about the Sanó situation. How the Twins and the player handle it will affect how excited I am to watch them and him this summer.) As long as Joe performs well, he is much more valuable to the Twins than a replacement with the same statistics. I hope that they work out a deal that makes sense for both so that Twins fans can enjoy the celebration of his final season. I also hope that the rising generation of Twins stars can help Joe get to the World Series.
  14. PDX Twin
    Even without the concussions, would Joe still be catching regularly at his age?
  15. PDX Twin
    What would Gardy call him?
  16. PDX Twin
    I'd probably put Killebrew at 3rd, where he played for quite a few seasons, Oliva at DH because injuries forced him out of the outfield early, and Allison in RF. Admittedly, being an old codger, I have fond (and perhaps inflated) memories of the players I revered in my youth. No place for Morneau on the bench?
  17. PDX Twin
    "As for the baseball in his first offseason, it has been a little challenging. He notes, “It’s challenging because you don’t know what the Twins are looking for." Doesn't it seem like the Twins should be letting prospects know what they're looking for?
  18. PDX Twin
    This thread does raise an interesting question in my mind. What if a draftee gets a multi-million dollar bonus, and then decides two months later to quit baseball and follow up with something else, including college football? Or two weeks later? Or two days later? There must be some team protection built into such contracts, no? I agree that Stewart would owe nothing to the Twins at this point. He tried for several seasons, didn't do as well as he expected, and might think he would be better off trying out the other path. But what if he had made this change of course before giving baseball a real chance.
  19. PDX Twin
    There are so many dimensions on which to evaluate a young player that it's not clear that a univariate ranking makes sense. How do you compare pitchers vs. hitters? How do you weight together potential, time to majors, speed, power, glove, durability, bat speed, teachability, and, for pitchers, power, control, deception, and overall craft? At the very least it would make sense to have two rankings for hitters and two for pitchers: one for players expected to reach the majors within two years and one for likely overall eventual impact once they arrive.
  20. PDX Twin
    I can't wait until this doesn't matter because pitches are called correctly, every time, by real-time technology. Maybe this happens about the time that Castro retires?
  21. PDX Twin
    Sano for Archer, straight up?
  22. PDX Twin
    I'd like to be optimistic, but there are a few black clouds on my horizon. (Of course, there are always clouds on the horizon at this time of year in Portland!) First, the Twins were very lucky with injuries last year. Sano was out at the end, but otherwise I can hardly remember a key player on the DL. That won't happen again and I'm not sure that the Twins have the quality depth to win with 3-4 key players out of the lineup for a month or more. Second, there cannot be a happy ending to the Sano controversy. From the comments I've read, I won't be surprised if this is not an isolated incident. If there is more to come out, it's hard for me to see him having a productive season with the Twins, or maybe even having a season at all with the Twins. Escobar was surprisingly good last year, but I don't think we can expect the same this season. Third, I'm not confident that the Twins are going to acquire a good starting pitcher. 2018 may be a year of tryouts for Gonsalves, Romero, and a few others, which will help in the long run. But they will take their lumps in 2018 much as Berrios did in 2016. All of these things put together make me think that the Twins will struggle to repeat their 2017 form in 2018. I predict a .500 season, missing the postseason by 3-4 games. I hope I'm wrong!
  23. PDX Twin
    I agree on the podcasts. I never, ever listen because most of it is tedious and I, the listener, don't get to control the pace. In an article, I can skim through or skip paragraphs that I find uninteresting and linger over and savor the parts that are great. Listening to most podcasts is like watching TV with commercials. If TD goes mostly to podcasts, I'll go mostly somewhere else (with great regret!).
  24. PDX Twin
    I'd be one who would be interested in an occasional contribution. But I don't consider myself to be any kind of baseball expert and my knowledge of the players around the league and in the Twins' system is not at the level of the main contributors, so I'm not sure what role I could fill. I have on a couple of occasions started a thread in the forum section, but they have typically disappeared from the main page quickly as there were other forum entries getting comments and it appears that only the 5 or so more recently commented articles and forum posts stay there. That has discouraged me from using that forum (pun intended?) to share my thoughts. Maybe excluding articles that are already on the main page from the forum section would allow independent contributions that are presented there to flourish better?
  25. PDX Twin
    And Darvish has been paying zero income tax in Texas. Seattle, Texas, Houston, Tampa Bay, and Miami could offer this advantage.
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