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  1. USAFChief
    I posted a month ago or so, semi-joking, that Rob Antony was the front runner. I will be mildly surprised if he's not in one of these two positions, likely the GM chair.
  2. USAFChief
    1. 3 2. 6 3. 2:49 4. 13 5. 2 6. Mauer (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
  3. USAFChief
    On a serious note...great job on the game threads, twinssporto!
  4. USAFChief
    False. 7 - "no"
  5. USAFChief
    What a sad spectical TF has become, so few years after being the hot place to be in the cities.
  6. USAFChief
    Concur. There's absolutely no reason to dump Park. The money's spent (and it's not much money anyway), I believe he has options remaining, and depth is a good thing. It would not be real surprising, to me at least, to see Park be a better hitter than Vargas next year.
  7. USAFChief
    I opened this thread expecting it to be about the alleged steroid use of the guy on second.
  8. USAFChief
    We have the same setup! Except I see Mr Fancy-Schancy HBD went with the optional large screen monitor. Well, lah dee dah, ain't you just something!
  9. USAFChief
    We don't have relief pitchers that can go through one inning, Mike. And you think they can find a whole slough of em who can go through three innings?
  10. USAFChief
    The way to improve next year's rotation is to keep this year's rotation?
  11. USAFChief
    your new appreciation for whiskey will help with that
  12. USAFChief
    Horrible footwork by Murphy. What's he doing up the first base line?
  13. USAFChief
    Looked safe in real time
  14. USAFChief
    Stay with the tag, Polancozee.
  15. USAFChief
    Too many?? Too few, I think.
  16. USAFChief
    Welcome to the boards.
  17. USAFChief
    Still having them.
  18. USAFChief
    1. I must have missed it...where did "7 wins" come from? 2. "Imagined injustice"? Did I imagine the sac bunts called for by Molitor? 3. The Twins played 10 interleague games in NL parks this year (interleague home games are irrelevant to the discussion--pitchers don't bat). 1/16 of the schedule. "Significant" is open for interpretation, but IMO that is not a "significant" portion of the schedule. 4. In the specific case of the Twins, their pitchers had only 2 successful sac bunts in 2016, and I doubt anyone here is complaining too loudly about those (although in my case, unless there's 2 on and no out, I would even be reluctant about having a pitcher sacrifice, unless I knew him to be close to incapable of putting the ball in play.) 5. Looking only at successful sacrifice bunts ignores both the good (the occasional base hit or fielding error on a sac attempt), and the bad (force play at 3rd or 2nd instead of advancing the runner(s), an out with no advance, or as often happens, a combination of called strikes and fouled bunt attempts puts the hitter in a 2 strike hole from which he never recovers.) I submit to you the bad happens more than the good, although I have no numbers to back that up,and combined with the limited value of successful sac bunts, makes the entire strategy pretty cost ineffective. Particularly in the case of a team like the Twins, possessed of a pitching staff that makes playing for one run early in a game the definition of penny wise and pound foolish.
  19. USAFChief
    I’m Straight Outta Compton… Well… No Not really… I’m from Minnesota so that would be silly. I eat hot dish.... when the weather goes cold… I dress warmly when it’s 20 below. I take walleye… from the lake… the DNR tells me how much I can take. Officer Jim… he is my neighbor… when I need something… He’ll do me a favor. Uffda.
  20. USAFChief
    It's not the only way to judge a defender, for sure. But reliably turning the chances you get into outs is at least as important as range. Probably more. Getting to 15 extra balls per year is nice. But it doesn't outweigh booting 20 extra ground balls. Nor is range more important than knowing how to play the game, anticipate plays, and be in proper position. That's one reason why all the angst of the sabremetric community over Jeter was terribly misplaced. He didn't have range towards the end, but the Yankees kept playing him there because, in total, he was still a very good SS. He made the plays he got to, and almost never made the wrong play or was caught out of position.
  21. USAFChief
    My impression, based on entirely too little information, is that it isn't Polanco's arm that's his primary problem, nor his range. It's his "hands." Playing SS involves accepting and catching so many hard chances that someone with a bit of a case of "iron hands" is probably destined to fail. I haven't seen enough, though, to form any kind of solid opinion. Based on lack of SS play in his recent minor league history, I'd guess the Twins already decided he's not going to be able to play the position long term. Teams don't often move players off SS in the minors until they're forced to. SS's are too valuable.
  22. USAFChief
    I know I want to watch more of Beresford.
  23. USAFChief
    Finger holes?? Pfft. I palm the sumbitch.
  24. USAFChief
    Show of hands...On opening day, who here had Schafer, Polanco, Vargas, Grossman hitting 2-3-4-5 for the Twins in a September game?
  25. USAFChief
    Excuse me, Principlal Glunn? Will milk be made available to us?
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