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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. USAFChief
    Carolina wins easily.
  5. USAFChief
    Wrong thread. Jim Kaat belongs in the "Twins sign another LH bullpen candidate to minor league deal" thread.
  6. USAFChief
    I'd rather they find someone that can hit. ba-dum-tssshhhhh
  7. 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.
  8. USAFChief
    The only way Park doesn't make the opening day roster is the DL. The only way Quentin DOES make the opening day roster is multiple OFers on the DL.
  9. USAFChief
    I'm looking to get a head start on my best season ever. I lost 5 lbs this offseason.
  10. USAFChief
    Actually, I think that would make him an optimist!
  11. USAFChief
    Yes.
  12. USAFChief
    If it would have taken Kepler, obviously "no." But I don't see any way Dickerson is a comp for Kepler. Arcia is probably too low, but probably a workable starting point. Good minor league hitting history, some warts. Arcia is also a couple years younger. And for the record, it's a bit of a stretch to call Dickerson an "everyday" guy. He's most likely a LH hitting part of a platoon.
  13. USAFChief
    We'll see. I'm doubtful.
  14. USAFChief
    How confident are you the Twins even asked the Rays about McGee? $4.8M in 2016. The Twins are not taking on payroll, that's pretty obvious, no?
  15. USAFChief
    I think "everywhere except Coors" is a pretty fair standard for any player.
  16. USAFChief
    Shhhhhh...don't mess with the narrative.
  17. USAFChief
    nitpic: Fien: "Only 20% of his arbitration contract isn’t guaranteed." I believe that should be "is". Only 20% of his contract is guaranteed.
  18. USAFChief
    I'm skeptical, on several fronts: Twins scouts were the only ones to pick up on this? With LH relief always in demand, Oakland lets Abad go for nothing? No other team offers more than a minor league deal? 2015 is an outlier, but less so than 2014, Abad's only really good year. He started tipping pitches over the 2014-15 offseason? He hasn't been dominant, even against lefties, in his career. He's allowed a .700+ OPS against LH hitters. Less than 8 K/9 overall. Also, nitpic (or maybe not)... I'd put more stock in the article's clips if they were from the same game, preferably the same hitter. Pitchers sometimes change motions over time.
  19. USAFChief
    If the Twins view Taylor Rogers as a bullpen piece, it makes no sense to me to put him in the Rochester rotation. He's 25, repeating AAA. He's not listed among your top 8 Twins starters. Put him in the pen where he can focus on learning to warm quickly, and get used to pitching on back to back days, and then maybe pitching 3 days in a row.
  20. USAFChief
    The overwhelming majority of LH hitters do not hit as well against LH pitching as they do against RH pitching. This was true 100 years ago, is true today, and will likely be true 100 years from now. Having a tough LH reliever, who in addition to being tough, throws LHed, is a tried and true method of reducing the effectiveness of opposing LH hitters late in a game. I agree that spending money on LH pitchers who cannot get ANYbody out makes little sense. I do not agree lacking a decent to good LOOGY wasn't/isn't a need.
  21. USAFChief
    you specifically said there wasn't a correlation between payroll and postseason, which isn't true. There is a correlation. ..a fairly strong one.
  22. USAFChief
    There were 8 playoff teams until 2012. So in fact, your numbers show that those top 33 percent of payrolls comprise more than 33 percent of the playoff field in every year except one. The top 33 percent have filled 43 percent of the playoff field, the bottom 67 percent just 57 percent. What actually makes it MUCH more likely to miss the playoffs is being one of the bottom 67 percent of payroll.
  23. USAFChief
    In all seriousness...do you feel the bullpen is a weak spot? If so, (since we're in a thread about Bastardo), do you feel that LH relief pitching is a specific 2016 weakness, and would adding a quality LHer lessen those concerns?
  24. USAFChief
    and were told "not to worry...plenty of options left."
  25. USAFChief
    lunch.
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