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  1. USAFChief
    Chief's not in this conversation. But if he was, he'd ask everyone to tone it down a notch.
  2. USAFChief
    Biggest problem? Just my opinion, but .209/.250/.326 and continued injury concerns are both bigger problems than SB technique.
  3. USAFChief
    No? //To answer the first part, I'd need to first know if Buxton goes north with the big club. If so, Arcia.//
  4. USAFChief
    3 or 4 man bench, hopefully 4. Almost nobody carries only 11 pitchers anymore, so 5 man benches are pretty much a thing of the past. One of those is guaranteed to be a catcher. One has to be capable of playing middle infield. That leaves two spots, at most. And because of the above, the term "5th outfielder" is virtually obsolete. 4 true outfielders, plus maybe a guy who can play OF, or maybe a full time DH that can play OF if forced to.
  5. USAFChief
    Arcia will make the team as the 4th OFer, Santana will make the team as a utility player. Both are out of options.
  6. USAFChief
    I hope he disappoints you 40 times this year.
  7. USAFChief
    Yup. The idea that velocity isn't important is pretty doubtful. I bet there are lots of pitchers out there with impeccable command and control of 70 MPH fastballs with movement, but they don't get to play professional baseball because velocity matters. Take any pitch at 89, make it 99, and it's harder to hit. Straight, not-straight, well located, or down the middle.
  8. USAFChief
    My guess would be if he moves off third for the entire season, that will end his third base career.
  9. USAFChief
    My guess is TR was being honest when he said he wanted to add, not subtract. He feels the Twins are better with Plouffe at third and Sano in right. Hence, he wasn't shopped. I think people are going to extraordinary lengths to find convoluted reasons for something that is simple and has been stated by the GM.
  10. USAFChief
    He "showed" his work: "every indication from the club," and a lack of traffic from "rumor hounds." Now, that's not definitive, but that was the evidence cited. Often, trades do come out of nowhere, but perhaps just as often, there's speculation on sites like MLBTradeRumors for days or weeks before a trade happens. So I think it's fair for someone to take a lack of such speculation, coupled with statements from the club, as an indication. Fair to disagree, as well, but certainly not reason to attack another poster for his interpretation.
  11. USAFChief
    And I look back fondly on my four years at Willmar State Junior College.
  12. USAFChief
    Wow, I must admit, I didn't even know Yale offered such a thing.
  13. USAFChief
    Good post bird. If I could add a perspective from the "spend!" side: something that also gets ignored, from the "don't tie up future payroll" side, is that money unspent today, is just as wasted tomorrow as money that's already spent. Not pending in 2014 is an opportunity that is gone, and we can be reasonably sure it won't be put in an account and spent in 2018. So there's cost to both methods. Either way, you're tieing someone's hands, sometime.
  14. USAFChief
    My guess is, barring an injury, Park is the DH for April and most of May, no matter what. The Twins didn't win the bid and sign him to a deal to send him to Rochester. The job is his for at least six weeks, and will have to be lost, not won.
  15. USAFChief
    Also seeing as the last time they actually experienced success, they did so with FA stars on the team.
  16. USAFChief
    Please explain why you won't be here in 2018, posting that "signing fee agent X sounds good NOW, but has consequences for the future." The exact same rationale will exist then, no? On the article...Sorry, but to me, this is nothing but a long, well organized excuse. "There was no need to spend money in 2011, we thought we were good. No need to spend money in 2011-2014, we sucked. No way to know beforehand we wouldn't suck in 2015. And BP says we'll suck in 2016. Wait for 2018. Of course, in 2018 it'll represent a bad investment, because 2022."
  17. USAFChief
    Nice work Nick!
  18. USAFChief
    Nice work, Seth!
  19. USAFChief
    It would be pretty cool, IMO, if the Twins were to approach 200 team HRs. Chiefs dig the long ball.
  20. USAFChief
    Now we've gone from Nick hoping for 200 to you predicting 376. People need to be realistic, ferpetesakes.
  21. USAFChief
    I think that slash line is reasonable for Park, but 170 HR seems a bit optimistic.
  22. USAFChief
    From: USAFChief Since moving to Tucson, I've had one foot in a freezer during winter months, and the other foot in a bucket of boiling oil during the summer months. On average, I should have been very comfortable year round.
  23. USAFChief
    The basis of that premise is in the first sentence of your cited article: "In baseball, teams have little control over the clustering of hits." That sounds to me like an unsupported theory, rather than proven fact. I'd go so far as to say those who assert such a thing should provide some level of proof, rather than asking us to take on faith that results which do not line up with their theory are due to things that are not controllable. Not to mention, if this actually is a "thing"--if a month-long run of "cluster luck" is enough to throw off the projection system for multiple teams, every year--the projection system is, by definition, useless.
  24. USAFChief
    Has anyone actually taken the time to figure out if the Twins got crazy lucky with chaining together hits early in the season? Or is "sequencing" just the latest buzzword used to explain away results that don't jive with theory?
  25. USAFChief
    The floor for any minor leaguer is "minor leaguer."
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