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  1. PDX Twin
    I never loved Carneal, maybe because of the Southern drawl. But Ray Scott and Halsey were wonderful! Thinking about the latter takes me back to being a 10-year-old Twins fan!
  2. PDX Twin
    As far as I can see, the Twins have already established themselves as a non-competitive team this year. They were non-competitive last year. It's long past time to push some of the prospects, let them get a bit of experience and, perhaps, take some lumps. If necessary they can go back down. But there's just no excuse for running out mediocre re-treads regularly at positions where we have young players ready to give it a try.
  3. PDX Twin
    This team has had a loser mentality for the last two seasons. Why? It's up to the manager and the leaders in the clubhouse to inspire some confidence. It's not happening. None of us knows what happens in the clubhouse, but I can't imagine that there are many smiles. Rosario and Astudillo were two Twins that had personality. They were good for the fans and probably for the players, too. Are there any real personalities in the dugout now? Or just "arms and bats."
  4. PDX Twin
    This is one of the biggest reasons that I abandoned pointy-ball about a decade ago for real football.
  5. PDX Twin
    Yup. On current evidence, we traded one year of excellent relief for 3 years of lousy starts.
  6. PDX Twin
    The rational choice is to bet against your favorite team. It diversifies your risk. If your team wins, you're happy about it. If your team loses, you are happy about winning the bet.
  7. PDX Twin
    Perhaps this is how "respected" writers start to lose respect?
  8. PDX Twin
    What do the stat-heads think would be the record of a team of replacement players? Because that's what this lineup looks like right now. Correia and Polanco are playing at that level and the rest of the lineup (I'm looking at Monday's lineup against the No-Longer-Yellow-Sox with Garlick at cleanup) ARE replacement-level players.
  9. PDX Twin
    I made this comment a week ago on another thread, so apologies for repeating, but it's relevant here. Rod Carew was in the booth for a couple of innings of a spring game and commented on Arraez (very complementary) and Sano. He basically cut off discussion of Sano saying something to the effect of "He doesn't follow our advice, he just goes up and swings as hard as he can."
  10. PDX Twin
    At least the Twins eventually got a hit. One better than the Saints (who could potentially be called up to improve the offense?). Seriously, one has to question now whether Kirilloff will ever be a major-league player.
  11. PDX Twin
    Target Field is too far from Portland for it to matter to me personally, but I'm curious: Does a general-admission/SRO seat entitle you to sit in an unoccupied seat, or is it literally standing only unless you are in a restaurant?
  12. PDX Twin
    Obviously, power is a good thing, ceteris paribus. But we seem to have a lot of guys with poor hit, run, and field tools at the expense of great power tools. It's so hard to judge the hit tools of draftable players because they are not facing professional pitching. It seems like power and speed are easier to assess. But, for balance if nothing else, I'd really like to see more guys like Miller and not so many like Sabato.
  13. PDX Twin
    I'm really interested in someone who isn't a power hitter! We have so many of those all the way through the system. Everyone on your chart has at least 7 HR in, what, 30 games?
  14. PDX Twin
    Given their reputation in Minnesota, I found it surprising that they are considered a delicacy in Slovakia, especially for Christmas dinner. Around mid-December large metal tanks (like livestock troughs) appear outside every grocery store and are filled with live carp. Slovaks buy them and keep them alive in their bathtubs until Christmas.
  15. PDX Twin
    Re the Cedar Rapids game: The score was 1-0 for most of the game after a most unusual first-inning run. With one out and the bases loaded, The batter struck out, the catcher threw to first to try to catch the runner off base, and the runner on third (leadoff hitter Anthony Prato, who had stolen second earlier in the inning) took off and stole home. That's one way to avoid being shut out with the bases loaded. I could see Buxton doing this (but maybe not Sano).
  16. PDX Twin
    I asked this in the Twins' game thread but got no response: What the heck is a Sky Carp?
  17. PDX Twin
    Have they already scratched the game scheduled for Monday?
  18. PDX Twin
    Just hoping that Buxton does not pull a hamstring rounding the bases after his lead-off homerun!
  19. PDX Twin
    I'd be interested in knowing how many (or, actually, how few) times a Twins starter went more than 5 innings all of last season.
  20. PDX Twin
    In the text it says Canterino for Wichita but in the list of games it says Woods-Richardson???
  21. PDX Twin
    I'm guessing that this might be the first bullpen in MLB history with three first names starting with "Jh."
  22. PDX Twin
    I totally agree with this take. Going against the grain and buying the qualities that don't excite the big spenders is a good strategy for mid-market teams, we long as the quality is there. And this year the Twins have taken it a step further. I wonder if they drafted Petty specifically knowing that teams would overpay for his velocity in a trade, as likely happened. And in his case, they cashed him in before possible shortcomings as a pitcher were revealed.
  23. PDX Twin
    Are we forgetting Tyler Jay? Worse even than Stewart, and less excuse because he was a college pick.
  24. PDX Twin
    The teacher/student relationship is complicated. If the teacher can help the student fix his shortcomings, it will work; if the student's problems are not ones that the teacher is good at fixing, there won't be much improvement. I'd be very interested in seeing a more detailed analysis of *which* pitchers have improved with Johnson and what aspects of his pitching improved, and *which* pitchers did the same or worse under Johnson and what were their weaknesses that Johnson seemingly did not improve.
  25. PDX Twin
    I guess that the FO perceived a "hair deficit" after Ryan's trim.
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