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  1. 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.
  2. USAFChief
    You haven't answered the question. When do you start warming your best reliever? Do you use him if not needed?
  3. 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.
  4. USAFChief
    No.
  5. USAFChief
    Nice work, Tom.
  6. 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.
  7. USAFChief
    There have been broken fingers this spring around baseball from HBP's. We should probably not give him any PAs to prevent that.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. USAFChief
    Yes.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. USAFChief
    How about we start with one. single. FA. of note in one single off season, and then see where we're at?
  16. USAFChief
    My original statement was that the Twins shouldn't shut themselves off from pursuing top free agents. They should never do that. Obviously, they can't go out and sign a dozen. No team does that. But that's not, in any way, "spending like a drunken sailor." That's just operating in the environment of professional sports, in a way that increases the odds of winning.
  17. USAFChief
    If you define something as "spending like a drunken sailor," and then say you're against "spending like a drunken sailor." you've sort of set the terms of conversation in such a way as to prevent conversation. The point is, there's a pretty good argument that purchasing top free agents is not actually "spending like a drunken sailor." It's paying market rate for something you think you need now, to hopefully achieve goals now, that might end up hurting your pursuit of later goals. Against that? Fine. But it's not "spending like a drunken sailor."
  18. USAFChief
    Great teams don't have "Jason Tyner, DH" as a lineup feature.
  19. USAFChief
    I think refusing to compete for the best ML free agents is a mistake. No different than chosing not to pursue other talent, such as trades or int'l free agents. It's self limiting and short sighted.
  20. USAFChief
    Sano really has lost a few pounds this winter.
  21. USAFChief
    I disagree with every word in this post. ML baseball is played at the very edge of human performance. That's both a requirement to succeed at this level of competition, and part of the reason we watch. If Buxton, or any player, backs off from max effort, he's not helping the team. Players get hurt, always have always will, and there is no level of "back off" that will prevent that from happening. Should he also jog to first base every time he makes contact, to avoid hamstring pulls and ankle sprains? Stop stealing bases? Throw at half speed? Play ball, Mr Buxton. Play hard.
  22. USAFChief
    All true. Let's hope. Hughes represents a chance for some serious positive regression. Something approximating 2014 would be a pretty welcome sight.
  23. USAFChief
    It's easy to write off HRs off Hughes' changeup as "working on a pitch in ST." The problem with that, of course, is that off-speed stuff has been Hughes primary weakness throughout his career, in particular lack of a deceptive change. So, while it's good that he's working on it, it's also concerning that it appears he's not fooling anyone with it.
  24. USAFChief
    Jake Bauers...That's Jack Bauer's kid, id'n it?
  25. USAFChief
    Peaked too early. I'm positive.
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