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  1. USAFChief
    I've, too, often been described as "hardly working."
  2. USAFChief
    And his six XBHs per month!
  3. USAFChief
    What I think: You might not build a staff in one offseason, but you don't build one by sitting the offseason out, either. Get started already, for Petesakes...or we'll be having this conversation every year. The Twins WERE positioned to be in contention a couple weeks ago, "sequencing" or not. Adding some quality pitching last offseason would have possibly helped to lower that magic "baseruns" number, added a few wins, and helped avoid this disastrous road trip, where the bullpen is the reason they're not having a winning trip. Side notes: using terms such as "fanciful, laughable" to describe other posters is out of bounds on this place. Please don't. When TD owners pass away and leave me this place in their will (I'm going to outlive them all), I'm going to ban the word "sequencing."
  4. USAFChief
    That still left them an entire offseason and spring. There's been a non-trivial change at the top, but we're still waiting for non-trivial change elsewhere. I realize Rome wasn't built in a day, and I still have hopes for the hires, but I'm also not going to give them credit for accomplishments that haven't been accomplished yet.
  5. USAFChief
    Here's a list of completed deals last offseason: https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/11/3/13470044/mlb-trade-rumors-tracker-2016-2017-offseason Lots of pitchers changed hands. The Twins are absent from the list, and I find it difficult to believe that's because they couldn't make an effort. And this list is just trades...it doesn't include FA deals.
  6. USAFChief
    So is the situation the same going into 2018? 2019? It's forever hopeless? "...not possible" is actually the unrealistic position to take, IMO. Of course it's possible. It certainly takes smarts, courage, and decisiveness. It probably takes money. There will certainly be some luck involved, with injuries if nothing else. But I'm simply not buying "nothing could have been done."
  7. USAFChief
    Nobody said it would be easy, but that's the job. "It's too hard, let's do nothing" isn't the answer either.
  8. USAFChief
    True, but don't taunt Mrs Chief
  9. USAFChief
    Concur. concurconcurconcurconcurconcurconcur. Not to mention, it's legal to acquire help between opening day and July 31st, too.
  10. USAFChief
    All of that is fair, I just look at it differently. All but the bolded part, that is. I see this often, and it just boggles my mind. If quality relievers are so easy to find, we must have the worst string of GMs in the history of baseball. And one look at the trade deadline should tell you that isn't true...virtually every team in contention is looking for pen help. In actuality, quality relievers are very difficult to find. Highly underrated, too. If it was my money, and I was forced to scrimp somewhere to spend elsewhere, the last place I'd try to limp by is the bullpen. I can find a corner OFer relatively easily, and by perhaps platooning, get decent production with little risk. But when my bullpen is littered with question marks, I'm going to lose lots of games I should have won. Lots. Guar-own-teed.
  11. USAFChief
    Speaking only for myself, I'm disappointed that the self-fulfilling prophesy of "we can't compete with these holes" while doing nothing to fill those holes is somehow vindication for yet another wasted season. "Play for 2019" does nothing for me. It's what the de-facto farm teams that always seem to be providing talent to the real teams do.
  12. USAFChief
    Sad. Twins had the type of team over the winter that was obviously ready for a step forward, but had some easily identifiable holes. They do virtually nothing to address those holes, then watch as those holes tank a somewhat promising season. Then dump, for what appears to be most likely org filler. Not my idea of how I want this franchise run.
  13. USAFChief
    no. Don't be ridiculous. I could never pass for 87.
  14. USAFChief
    Well, who really knows? Can't trust those Arizona birth certificates.
  15. USAFChief
    Young players like Bellinger?
  16. USAFChief
    Please explain how the umpires "handled it horribly." Specifically.
  17. USAFChief
    It wasn't the umpires fault. Molitor screwed up, then wouldn't admit it post game. If it was the umpire's mistake, don't you think Molitor reacts differently during the game? Sheesh. And don't blame Roberts, either. He did exactly what he should have, and what I'd want Molitor to do. This is big league baseball, not little league.
  18. USAFChief
    Molitor dorks up a double switch and you don't think he needs to take the blame? Who should?
  19. USAFChief
    I drove 409 miles to see a go ahead 3 run HR on an 0-2 pitch.
  20. USAFChief
    we are down the right field line just past 1st base, a couple rows above the beautiful people seats, field level. But tomorrow night, pay attention...look for blue "Twins daily.com" tee shirts when the view is of a LH hitter.
  21. USAFChief
    I agree with paragraph 2. Not so much with paragraph 1. Some teams/front offices are very aggressive. Some aren't.
  22. USAFChief
    Rogers does not have the same results against LH and RH hitters. That was some awful managing. He shouldn't even have been warming up. Why is your best reliever even warming up in a 6-0 game?
  23. USAFChief
    Predicting next inning is difficult. Predicting 2-4 years in the future is next to impossible. But if we're going to do so, I'll predict Burdi never throws a pitch for the Twins
  24. USAFChief
    I'm confused. A team in a race, starting Bartolo Colon, has a chance to add an average starter at the cost of a AA reliever 2 months off TJ surgery, and people think that's TOO MUCH?? If so, forget about the Twins ever making a deal.
  25. USAFChief
    yeah, stash on the 60 day, but I forget the rule...doesn't such a case still need X number of days on the 25 man to become the claiming team's property?
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