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  1. USAFChief
    Gametime is 3:10 PM. Wouldn't that normally be about the time of the high temp for the day? Mid afternoon?
  2. USAFChief
    I keep reading this. In addition to questioning what that opinion is based on...I ask what about that opinion makes the opening day roster ok? Why is "it'll change fast" somehow an excuse for the roster? If that's true, why wouldn't you start the season with the changes already made? Except for DL'd players, what's the advantage of starting the season with a less than optimal roster?
  3. USAFChief
    Forgive me, but this is...questionable at best. You don't get to claim "value" for having a guy around who's only there because of the short bench, when it was your decision to have a short bench in the first place. Put players on the team who help you win games, not ones who are so bad they're one reason you're losing games, but who are bad in a whole bunch of different spots instead of bad in just one. I very much want to give the new front office the benefit of every doubt, and realize they can't fix every problem over one off season, but man...I'm not impressed so far. At all.
  4. USAFChief
    If there's a really good chance they won't be on the roster by the end of the year, there's no good reason for them to be there now. That they are is an indication the front office failed to replace them with someone who is an asset, and likely WILL be there come September. "Eh, he's cheap and easy to replace" isn't the front office I want. I don't actually think Tonkin is the same as Santana, by the way. I don't see the "tools" you mentioned above for Santana, while Tonkin at least throws hard and gets K's. Thats upside.
  5. USAFChief
    My guess is, if you are worried, his K's have been noticed by MLB GMs.
  6. USAFChief
    I also don't have a problem with Tonkin getting another opportunity over the available options. At risk of repeating myself...it's the available options that is the problem.
  7. USAFChief
    Given the options, this isn't surprising. What's disappointing is...these were the options. I realize there weren't too manyoung ways to fix the starting pitching this winter. They've only been on the job a couple months....etc etc etc. But I DID expect a stronger effort to improve the pen. And from the rule 5 draft to FA dabbling instead of investing, little to nothing.
  8. USAFChief
    I was also at the game today and the Buxton double was pretty remarkable. It was a routine single to left...IMO the left fielder didn't even have to hustle over towards the line to field it. He took about 6 or 8 steps to his right, fielded the medium line drive on one hop, looked up to lob the ball in, because it was a SINGLE, and it was already too late. Remarkavle.
  9. USAFChief
    well played sir.
  10. USAFChief
    Mauer will lead the league in fastballs taken down the middle for 0-1 counts, 3 hoppers to second, soft flares to left, excuses offered on TD, LH batters box smoothing out, and aggravating Chief. He'll put up less than 60 RBI, a lower SLG than every regular first baseman in MLB, and spend time on the DL with some non specific ailment or another. Sorry....the guy just annoys me.
  11. USAFChief
    the only thing I'd add to this excellent post is....I don't think valuing the bullpen is a "new" currency. I think smart teams have always recognized the importance of dominating the last 3 innings, and it's been mainly saber types pooh poohing the importance of bullpen.
  12. USAFChief
    Fair enough, but on Brock's situation, there already was a pitcher in the game, who has now loaded the bases. You'd be bringing in someone mid-inning, so you need time for him to get ready.
  13. USAFChief
    You haven't answered the question. When do you start warming your best reliever? Do you use him if not needed?
  14. USAFChief
    When, in that situation, did you get your best reliever up and Warming? If you waited until it was high leverage to do so, it's too late. So you had to have had your best reliever warming to start the 6th. And you'll need to do the same for each of the next 2 innings too, at which point he's unusable tomorrow.
  15. USAFChief
    No.
  16. USAFChief
    Nice work, Tom.
  17. USAFChief
    Just my opinion, but Duffy will never be a successful big league starter. He doesn't have the pitches. He might be a very good reliever, though. Move him there now.
  18. USAFChief
    There have been broken fingers this spring around baseball from HBP's. We should probably not give him any PAs to prevent that.
  19. USAFChief
    I certainly agree I don't much care for the actual actions. I just agree that I don't think the Twin FO is trying to "rebuild," I think they are trying to win, and win now. And I support that approach. How they went about that approach is another story.
  20. USAFChief
    IMO there isn't anything very scary about a dive like that. That's a fairly routine dive, parallel to the ground, that happens all the time, and really shouldn't be a big injury risk for a healthy 20-something year old.
  21. USAFChief
    concur. I think the best answer is to have a bullpen full of good relievers, so that you don't have to worry so much about which one to use when. Since that's difficult, to say the least, you're left with how to use what you have. And planning for use based on situation is just extremely difficult to pull off.
  22. USAFChief
    Yes.
  23. USAFChief
    Tom: "I actually don't think the org is trying to get younger and build. I think they're trying to win." ​Concur. And I support that approach. I have no interest in a "rebuild," which really is more of an excuse than a strategy anyway. All it does is push off trying to get better players far into the future while giving ownership another reason not to spend money. Start getting better players now.
  24. USAFChief
    By that logic, you can never make a move. Can't make one this year, because it means there's another move you can't make next year. Lather, rinse, repeat. Same story every offseason.
  25. USAFChief
    We're talking going forward, and it's debatable whether singing Santana a fraction of the going rate for top free agent pitching is "of note," but I'll grant you this one. Signing Santana hasn't hurt the Twins one bit. He's probably their opening day starter, is a good bet to lead the staff this year, is only owed for this season and next, and his contract doesn't limit them financially in the least. Santana is an argument to sign more and better free agent pitching. As for Hughes, he was a cheap free agent pickup. It's the extension that hurts. In any case, I simply don't think there's an argument against seriously pursuing top free agents. At least not one based on something other than ownership's profit margins. They are going to supplement the pitching staff from outside the org...no team gets all it's pitching from its own system. Might as well supplant at the top.
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