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  1. USAFChief
    He probably wasn't available when the Twins picked.
  2. USAFChief
    Uffda
  3. USAFChief
    If did, but he kept the ball on the ground. I wouldn't have liked Mejia's chances of that.
  4. USAFChief
    How do the Yankees have a LHer they can call up who can hit 97?
  5. USAFChief
    It always baffles me when I read RBI aren't a valuable way to measure offensive production. Getting a pitch to hit, and often doing something with it, is absolutely a skill, and an important one.
  6. USAFChief
    I'd take him over all but two current Twins starters. I wouldn't give up a lot, but As a straight salary dump, he'd be a good target.
  7. USAFChief
    Nothing, except I think it proves that there are reasonable trade targets out there if Falvine decide to act. This deal doesn't alter the market.
  8. USAFChief
    Today was Gimenez, not Castro. And both infield flubs today trace back to the manager not having his team prepared to play a major league game. That's part of his job description.
  9. USAFChief
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/12/25/03/2F9B053300000578-3373815-image-a-1_1451013328805.jpg loosah.
  10. USAFChief
    well, considering the current alternatives you have a point. But regarding the OP...I've seen enough.
  11. USAFChief
    And those two cheap runs in the 7th really, really hurt now.
  12. USAFChief
    I still have hopes for Pressly. He is one Twin reliever who actually does have swing and miss stuff.
  13. USAFChief
    Completely acceptable? Four runs in six innings. Dancing on the edge of worse damage in several innings. Can't put hitters--even bad hitters--away. As for "pitching like a #5," that means he's in the bottom 20 percent of MLB starters. Nobody plans on having "a #5" in their rotation. They settle for that because they don't have anything better. You don't win pennants with #5s in your rotation. And I question whether he's even that. Not counting today, his OPS against for the last 28 days is .911. Slightly worse than his OPS against over the past year. He's been an awful MLB starter for a while now, and it's not been getting better.
  14. USAFChief
    That does nothing to solve the Twins problems. Nothing.
  15. USAFChief
    Just about the worst exhibition of baseball imaginable. GIbson is allowed to come out for the seventh, for no good reason apparently. Walks the leadoff hitter. THEN Molitor decides he's seen enough from GIbson. The runner knows he can get a jump on Hildenburger, and starts before Hildenburger even begins his motion to the plate. Easy out if you're just paying attention. Then you get exactly what you need, a ground ball to third, which should have prevented the runner from advancing. But Escobar never looks at the runner, who was 30 feet off second base and a dead duck (if Dozier is moving to second like he should be), and the runner takes off for third on the throw. Overthrow, run. Double down the line, runner notices the Boshers is paying no attention. Steals third. Then comes home on a strikeout in the dirt, because the Twins can't execute a throw to first and back home in time. Awful. And a lot of that is on the manager.
  16. USAFChief
    yes.
  17. USAFChief
    Well played, Twins.
  18. USAFChief
    What's the point of sending GIbson out there for the seventh, if you're just going to take him out after one hitter anyway? Honestly, Molitor is awful at running a pitching staff.
  19. USAFChief
    Salary dump, and we know the Twins won't be in on anything like that.
  20. USAFChief
    I wish he'd stay out every inning.
  21. USAFChief
    Commercial break again... Anybody else hear the Swedish Navy is experimenting with putting barcodes on their warships? The theory, as I understand it, is that doing so will allow them, when the ships dock, to Scandinavian.
  22. USAFChief
    when we're not napping.
  23. USAFChief
    It's amazing to me a major league team can abandon the right side of the infield, and a hitter like Dozier can't take advantage of it. One reason teams can shift more now than in the past is, teams put a premium on training hitters how to handle a bat. It's not all that hard to intentionally poke a ground ball the other way. You just have to be willing to put in the work, and put away your pride.
  24. USAFChief
    maybe not, but I did.
  25. USAFChief
    Anybody else catch the end of the inning, with Dick telling a story just as the ground ball to short end the inning? "...a really good inning for Gibson...it happens about once or twice per year..."
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