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  1. USAFChief
    I prefer a team puts a minor leaguer in the lineup when he forces his way into it. When he's better than the player he replaces, or likely soon will be. I don't like letting clearly inferior players lose games in the big leagues in the hope they might someday be better. Right now, I doubt Alex Meyer helps the Twins win more games. I would, for example, let Buxton play CF for the Twins, because I think he's better than Santana, or soon will be. I wouldn't pay much attention to 2017, much less the years after that. It's difficult to predict next week in baseball, much less next year. Thinking you can plan 3, 5 years ahead is folly.
  2. USAFChief
    Provided he has success in Rochester, he'll get another opportunity in Minnesota. It's a long season and a rotation spot will open up. Personally I don't like his chances of harnessing his stuff and being a good big league starter, so I'd bite the bullet, put him in the pen, and hope to have him up and contributing in a month. But I understand the lure of hoping for a dominant starter, so I can see why others might choose that route. Either way, I'm not that upset with this past week. He got an opportunity--not a long one, but an opportunity--and crapped the bed. Twice. Go down and earn more opportunity. If he's truly ready, that should be a snap.
  3. USAFChief
    concur. And I might be in the minority, but I really don't want to watch a team that gives up on the season on May 4th. I expect a MLB team to try to win. Every. Single. Game. If you want to run out a AAA lineup in late September against another team also running out a AAA lineup, fine. I guess I can live with that. And I can understand playing some youth the last couple months of a season if that makes sense. But I do expect more from the organization than throwing up it's collective hands in early May and pretending that's about 2017, and not about just plain having no idea how to make the present any better than it is.
  4. USAFChief
    I would not describe the first two innings as 'cruising." He gave up no runs, but showed zero ability to locate anything. He used 66 pitches to get 8 outs. And for the record, he does not have 7 innings of history. He has 5 years and 450 IP of professional history.
  5. USAFChief
    I'm not sure why we're discussing Berrios in this thread, but IMO, yes...Berrios is much closer to being a viable MLB starter. He can repeat his mechanics, he'll settle down and locate the ball, and he'll be able to do that consistently. Meyer is half a decade older and can do none of that.
  6. USAFChief
    I think what we mostly have is a good number of posters who have a lot of posts invested in the idea thatMeyer is an answer, and look for people to blame when he shows himself nowhere near ready to pitch in a MLB rotation.
  7. USAFChief
    "Patience with JRM. As Seth said, he's hit at every stage of his career." .733 career minor league OPS. That's not "hitting at every stage of his career." That's "not being terrible, but not showing the kind of bat that often translates to major league success."
  8. USAFChief
    Grab the refrigerator box. Room for a nice loft.
  9. USAFChief
    "...the season is likely over..." I know. I just sometimes have a hard time accepting "mostly dead" as "all dead."
  10. USAFChief
    Fair enough. I do think it means if he's an MLB pitcher, it's going to be as a reliever though. Short stints, regular work, reduced pitch mix, couple extra MPH.
  11. USAFChief
    Dry. Dry humor. My kind o' guy.
  12. USAFChief
    I have something against blaming Molitor. And I don't particularly like Molitor. EDIT: And I'm pi$$ed off that a season that I had been looking forward to, appears to be in serious jeopardy before May 1st, so perhaps I'm not viewing things totally objectively.
  13. USAFChief
    Proven veteren pitchers often have the wheels fall off if they skip a start? No. No they don't. If they do, they never get the chance to be "proven veteren starters." The "too much time off" thing is a canard, as far as I'm concerned. It has nothing to do with anything. Nine days is not too much time off.
  14. USAFChief
    Or, he put Meyer back out there to have a chance to pitch a clean inning, with the "nerves" relaxed a bit, and rebuild a little confidence. The excuse making for Meyer is...excuse making. You want to be a big league pitcher? Perform like one. It ain't Molitor's fault.
  15. USAFChief
    I imagine that would have went over well with the board, too. In any case, he sat an extra 4 days. He would have waited five days minimum between starts in Rochester, so they essentially skipped a start. If that's enough to throw his entire game off, you're right. He should be in AAA, and he should rot there, because he's not a big league pitcher.
  16. USAFChief
    I keep Molitor, if forced to chose one.
  17. USAFChief
    What would you suggest he have done? Bring him into a winnable 1 run game, so he could put up that performance and actually cost the team a game? If anything, he put him into a situation where he should have felt as little pressure as possible. The game was pretty much over. He STILL crumbled like a 2 week old cracker.
  18. USAFChief
    Does Alex Meyer bear NO responsibility for his resutls? He did the same last year.
  19. USAFChief
    That's one way of looking at it, I guess.
  20. USAFChief
    He'd be throwing in the bullpen between starts anyway.
  21. USAFChief
    I can't see any possible way Alex Meyer is a reliable big league starter. None.
  22. USAFChief
    See? Huge difference between Meyer and Fein. Meyer is taller.
  23. USAFChief
    BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
  24. USAFChief
    If by picture, you mean "cave drawing," then maybe.
  25. USAFChief
    Good use of the arb process on Fein, Mr Ryan.
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