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  1. USAFChief
    Benetti and Stone are the best in MLB. Hands down. Stone is fantastic.
  2. USAFChief
    Again...Kyle Garlick didnt get just 200 PAs over the last 4 years. You're forgetting (or ignoring) 1800+ MiLB PAs that tell us quite a bit about Kyle Garlick. You're forgetting (or ignoring) 150 years of baseball that tell us platoon splits are a real, and persistent thing for virtually all hitters (and I don't trust the few outliers). It's getting harder and harder to do with benches getting shorter and shorter, but platoons are one of the easiest and most reliable and predictable ways to squeeze more offense out of available resources. We don't have a corner outfielder who hits at a level where you just let him play every day if you don't have to. I wish we had Mike Trout in left field, but pretending Kyle Garlick might someday be one if only somebody invested 2500 PAs in him against RH pitching would be, quite honestly, dumb.
  3. USAFChief
    If she was so concerned about me she could have offered to pick up the tab.
  4. USAFChief
    And took the ball when asked.
  5. USAFChief
    As i see it, the real problem is even if all the above perform near career OPS level, this isn't an above average offense.
  6. USAFChief
    Waddaya mean "attempting?"
  7. USAFChief
    It's possible, but perhaps your 1800 minor league robbery history--in which you didn't do so good at controlling right handed crowds-- shows HE didn't limit you...the Good Lord did.
  8. USAFChief
    I wonder if perhaps your crew chief considered the long history of right-handed Riverbrians being better at putting left handed money in bags, or your personal minor league criminal history when you were robbing liquor stores instead of banks and doing all the work yourself?
  9. USAFChief
    Why?
  10. USAFChief
    Per the MLB.com box score, 85 pitches, 57 strikes. The article says 65 pitches. 57 strikes...pretty clearly a typo.
  11. USAFChief
    Grienke on the mound. It always perks my spirits up watching someone older than me.
  12. USAFChief
    Right. Nobody in MLB thought Cotton was better than the worst reliever on their 40 man.
  13. USAFChief
    What? The Twins have averaged 5 runs/game 6 times in their entire history. They've never averaged 6 runs per game. Not even once. And this current version featured Gio Urshela and Kyle Garlick hitting 3rd and 4th tonight. Less than 4/game isn't out of the question.
  14. USAFChief
    No. It's wrong to STOP drinking if you're bored.
  15. USAFChief
    The offense won't continue to be this anemic, but only on TD was the offense "expected to be one of baseball's best." No 1.000 OPS hitters. Polanco and Buxton should be good hitters. Correa maybe very good. Other than that...where are the good to great hitters? We had Urahela and Garlick hitting 3 and 4 tonight. That's not "one of baseball's best." That's putrid.
  16. USAFChief
    A team cutting someone from their 40 man would simply give that $700k to Cotton instead. Money isn't a factor here. Not one other MLB team thought Cotton was better than their worst 40 man rostered pitcher.
  17. USAFChief
    I can't see any way to tie up 7 spots on starters. The math doesn't work. That's why it isn't being done.
  18. USAFChief
    Rogers was much more important to the Twins in 2022 than Paddack and Pagan.
  19. USAFChief
    Bring home a W. I shall be bowling with some of the grandkids. I plan to spot them 10 pins/game and see if I can snooker them into bowling for $1 a pin. Heh. Suckers.
  20. USAFChief
    NO BUXTON??!!?!?! OH. MY. GOOOOODDDDD! SURGERY IS INEVITABLE!!!!!!!!!!
  21. USAFChief
    I guess with the 28 man roster, and 14 or 15 man staffs, you might be able to work some sort of "piggyback" schedule. But with a 13 man staff-already limiting yourself to 13 position players-it's really difficult to tie up 7 spots to starters. And that's what you're doing...7 spots for guys that only pitch every 5th day. That leaves you 6 relievers, to cover at minimum something like 11 innings those every 5 days. And that's if everything goes perfectly...you get 6 IP from the regular starters every day, and 8 from each of the 2 piggyback days. No extra innings games. You can save an inning on the road in losses, but in reality, we all know it won't work perfectly. You'll be asking for way more than 11 IP every five days from those 6 relievers. Way more. And that ignores the simple truth...do we HAVE 7 guys capable of regular 4 or 5 inning stints? I'd question whether we have 5, much less 7. There's just no way that works. I think it's near impossible, which is why nobody is doing it.
  22. USAFChief
    Who was that crotchety old fart who made enemies all winter insisting the bullpen wasn't very talented or deep? And threw a fit when they traded away their best reliever for "roster management?"
  23. USAFChief
    This is perhaps unfair, but IMO Duffey seems like the profile of someone who temporarily benefitted from the use of grip enhancers, but no longer can. Fastball velo and location suddenly jump, curveball bite suddenly jumps...and then last year it's all back to the Duffey we saw prior to 2019.
  24. USAFChief
    If MLB teams know what's best for their pitchers, why do we seemingly get less and less production with no reduction in injury? In fact, it's a guess, but MORE time lost to injury than any previous period in history?
  25. USAFChief
    You'd think so, but thr results certainly call that into question.
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