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  1. USAFChief
    Assuming there IS significant additional injury risk playing CF, How would there be less injury risk playing CF in St Paul vs Minneapolis?
  2. USAFChief
    All the more reason to go for it when you ARE. Continually implementing a five year plan every winter is folly, which is what we're discussing. BTW you'll get no argument from me that the Twins can and should be spending more. And they should be much less concerned about 2025 and more concerned about 2022.
  3. USAFChief
    I generally find national announcers don't really know the teams involved well enough to give us good insight. That was the case last night.
  4. USAFChief
    Oakland, Cleveland and Tampa have combined for two (2) World Series appearances in that time, with zero (0) championships. Add the Twins (#4 on your list), and...those numbers don't change, as we're all painfully aware. Maybe they should have gone for it more often. What they're doing ain't working, in my estimation. Hell, just using "90 won seasons" you've combined to list fourteen (14!) teams, nearly half of MLB, and they've put up only a combined fiftysix (56!) 90 win seasons in over 20 years. That's out of a possible two hundred ninety four (294) for those 14 teams. That's a 19 percent success rate, for a relatively low bar such as a 90 win sesson.
  5. USAFChief
    I doubt anyone thinks Smeltzer can continue posting a 2.38 ERA and a .97 WHIP while K'ing 4 per 9. He's going to regress. But he HAS given the Twins 6 absolutely vital starts at a time when the rotation was mostly in dire need. The man deserves applause.
  6. USAFChief
    Smeltzer has really been a godsend.
  7. USAFChief
    Outside of a couple mega-spenders, It's very difficult, dang near impossible in fact, to predict which teams will be good a month prior to opening day, much less the following year or later. Do your best to assemble minor league talent and develop it, sure. But when you have any chance of winning, go for it. Holding onto decent prospects because you may need them in 2023, much less 2924 or later, just doesn't make much sense. Most of them won't be who you hope they'll be. Or maybe a couple are, but your team isnt any good. Meantime, you've handicapped yourself when you had a chance. I don't think you trade mega prospects, at least not lightly. Acuna Jr. Griffey Jr But we don't currently have anybody like that.
  8. USAFChief
    dang shame.
  9. USAFChief
    Rehab halted, hasn't pitched since 1 inning over a week ago. Elbow issues Who knows, but doesn't sound good. At best, it'll be a while. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/06/cody-stashak-to-undergo-season-ending-shoulder-surgery.html
  10. USAFChief
    Possibly. He might be even if Lewis is still here. How about Zander Bogearts?
  11. USAFChief
    Sell high.
  12. USAFChief
    Seems awfully negative to me to question Twins strategy.
  13. USAFChief
    I dont think they coach it as much as seek out (and pay for) guys who have the ability to do that. It's tough to teach that skill. Luis Arraez just has the ability to recognize, and fortitude to lay off, a lot of pitches out of the zone. I don't think that's something somebody actively taught him how to do. Even a guy like Gallo. Tons of swing and miss, but...at pitches that are in the zone, for the most part. Where, once in awhile, he'll hurt you. And he'll draw his walks if you don't throw strikes.
  14. USAFChief
    And Hicks should buy him a beer. High dollar one, too.
  15. USAFChief
    That should be it. Ryan can take his slot Tuesday in Seattle.
  16. USAFChief
    I felt like the Urshela baserunning blunder was the point at which the Twins remembered who they were playing.
  17. USAFChief
    1. Ryan has to take Bundy's next start in Seattle, no? 2. Polanco had a pretty brutal game. 3. It seems like every inning is an entire game against that lineup. They force you to get them out WITHIN the zone. And finally, while I think we'd all have accepted 3-3 against Tor/NY a week ago...that was really deflating.
  18. USAFChief
    Well sh1t.
  19. USAFChief
    Once again...Donaldson can be on my team any day.
  20. USAFChief
    Of what year?
  21. USAFChief
    LaMahieu, Judge and Rizzo all came to the plate 15 times in series.
  22. USAFChief
    If only they'd listened to Chief.
  23. USAFChief
    Decades long.
  24. USAFChief
    Yeah, but in a baseball thread, "John" works so well.
  25. USAFChief
    ? We have a four gamer in NY in September. We'll sweep.
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