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  1. USAFChief
    If only a few franchises have the means to assemble the roster to consistently pursue a WS title, how are the Twins to "assemble a consistently good roster"? One good enough, for long enough, that from time to time the cards fall right? You seem to be arguing against yourself. I actually agree with you, by the way. I too want to assemble a roster good enough to win a WS. I just don't think that happens by punting years, and positions. Try to win now, AND next year. Every year. That wouldn't hurt Buxton at all.
  2. USAFChief
    Thanks for the heads up, I didn't know season 2 was starting.
  3. USAFChief
    USMC: I'll second the thank you's for your service. No need to leave the conversation. I also say I'm truly ashamed of our country if your VA healthcare wasn't what it should be. You deserve better. I'd also say, if you can access it somewhere else, give it another shot. My own experiences with the VA have been largely positive. I've been pleased with the care, with the caveat that it is sometimes hard to access it. When I talk with other vets, I find their opinion on the VA is often tied to their location. Maybe I'm just lucky here in Tucson.
  4. USAFChief
    Only one poster in this thread has called winning the WS the only measure of success. And it's not Mike. //sorry, Mike, perhaps I shouldn't speak for you//
  5. USAFChief
    If Toronto was a failure, then Terry Ryan has never had a single successful season as a GM.
  6. USAFChief
    My guess: the Twins are healthy through camp and start the season with Milone and Nolasco in the rotation, Duffey in a long relief role in the pen, and Berrios in Rochester. I could possibly see Nolasco and Duffey switch roles, but I think the most likely scenario is the one above.
  7. USAFChief
    Not even worth money? What would a couple more wins have been worth last year? I'd be fine with sending Buxton to AAA, and letting him force his way past a good player into the Twins lineup. I'd be fine with Buxton starting in Minnesota if the judgement is he's better than anything they could get. What I have a problem with is doing neither.
  8. USAFChief
    I think you're confusing me with another poster...one who advocates, for example, keeping Buxton in AAA, so as not to potentially hurt his long term development, while doing little to nothing about THIS team. I'm the guy who would put Buxton in CF, and let him develop-- maybe even sink or swim--but do my best to surround him with the talent to win now. Let the future take care of itself. If Buxton/Sano/Berrios don't lead us to the promised land in 2019, at least I haven't wasted another 3 years finding that out. If I have the choice to win now, and perhaps tomorrow, I take that every time over losing now, in hopes I MIGHT perhaps win tomorrow.
  9. USAFChief
    I have a hard time holding KC up as a model for "long term success." They went a couple decades without making the postseason, all the while building for the long term success you seek. And it was only after they traded their best minor league asset did they actually achieve said success.
  10. USAFChief
    Mandating health insurance at least does a little to prevent the violence of using our tax dollars to pay for the health care of those who don't purchase it. Someone is going to pay for an emergency room visit. It can be you and I, or you and I with some help from mandated insurance coverage. Insurance coverage paid for by the person getting the health care.
  11. USAFChief
    But this year isn't one of the "several years in a row?" Another word for putting off winning is "losing." The goal should always be to win. Always. For one thing, I don't like watching a losing team, for obvious reasons. For another, losing now does nothing to guarantee you'll win in the future. Nothing. All it accomplishes is loosing now.
  12. USAFChief
    What does Austin's potential salary have to do with it? Either he's a guy who fills a need and helps the Twins win more games in 2016, or he isn't. His salary, be it $8 or $8m, isn't relevant. It's a one yr deal, and the Twins clearly should have the money.
  13. USAFChief
    For the record, Twins starters averaged under 6 IP per start last year. They faced an opposing hitter for the 4th or 5th time in a game only 88 times all year. That's not going to be significantly different in 2016. The bullpen will be in the game by the 6th inning more often than not.
  14. USAFChief
    I mostly agree, bird. There werent big league ready arms bursting from the minor league seams. and i'll contend there still aren't as we approach the 2016 season, either. If by mid season one minor leaguer is an actual bullpen asset, they should consider themselves fortunate. So you're right...the "Twins have a strategy to play crappy veterans instead of MLB-ready young players" theory is wrong. In its place is a strategy to play crappy veterans in place of quality (and expensive) veterans.
  15. USAFChief
    "The victim was able to free himself and Young left the scene but when the police caught up with Young at his residence, Young answered the door "naked from the waist down" and used more racial slurs while being arrested shortly thereafter." In my youth, we referred to this move as a "meat n greet." Sorry, couldn't help myself.
  16. USAFChief
    I think it's been obvious for a couple months the Twins weren't in the market for anyone costing much more than the minimum. It's finances, not player evaluation, that kept them out of the reliever market.
  17. USAFChief
    Curves are generally described using a clock face as if looking from behind the pitcher. 1-7 or 2-8 are the normal "flight paths" used to describe a curve from a RHer, since few throw from directly overhand ("12"). A combination of break down, and away from the pitchers arm side. 12-6 would be an overhand curve that breaks straight down with no lateral movement. Those are very rare, despite comments on TV. 12-5 would have a screwball action. Nobody is throwing an overhand screwball that breaks into a RH hitter. Some pitchers are able to get a little same side tail on their FB, some change ups can have a little fade, and depending on who you believe, some pitchers have been able to throw an actual screwball, putting reverse spin on and getting "backwards" break. But Duffey's curveball breaks toward the LH box, not the RH one.
  18. USAFChief
    A 12-5 curveball? No. That would mean it's curving TOWARD a RH hitter.
  19. USAFChief
    Carolina wins easily.
  20. USAFChief
    Wrong thread. Jim Kaat belongs in the "Twins sign another LH bullpen candidate to minor league deal" thread.
  21. USAFChief
    Didn't take Park long to figure out a method of avoiding the autograph hounds, did it?
  22. USAFChief
    But not Luigi?
  23. USAFChief
    I'd rather they find someone that can hit. ba-dum-tssshhhhh
  24. USAFChief
    Or perhaps there wasn't any real change in approach, a few more flares just found holes, and when they stopped finding holes, things stopped appearing different.
  25. USAFChief
    I might be in the minority, but I want no part of any plan that counts on Nunez as a full time third baseman. Ditto for Polanco, at least for the foreseeable future. Plouffe is a significantly better player than both.
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