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  1. USAFChief
    Are you sure you want this as the standard in your next job performance review? I don't know what you do for a living, but let's say you are a salesman, one of thirty. At the start of the year, your boss tells you your goal is to sell more product than the other 29 company salesmen. You finish 2nd. You're OK with him firing you, right? You didn't meet your goal...you were unsuccessful.
  2. USAFChief
    Jones was part of a MLB team that played Post season exhibition games against Japanese teams while I was stationed there. He and teammates (including Torii Hunter) made a visit to Yokota Air Base for a clinic for little leaguers. Jones could not have been more gracious and friendly to my two boys...of course, both boys were decked out in Twins gear, but he went out of his way to spend extra time with them and stayed late to visit. He seemed like such a nice man. I'm sure he'll make a great guest.
  3. USAFChief
    I don't think it's safe to normalize chances for a double play. Just looking at the AL for 2014, Texas allowed 2015 runners via hit or walk, Oakland allowed 1675. That's around 2 more runners per game, which means a lot more DP chances. Nitpic, same subject: shouldn't you be using 162 games times 15 (2430) rather than 152 times 15?
  4. USAFChief
    I can't imagine a scenario where either Dozier or Plouffe hit the waiver wire in 2015, much less both.
  5. USAFChief
    Wasn't it a GM that inked those contracts?
  6. USAFChief
    I agree with this. I would be very surprised if both May and Meyer don't get opportunities to pitch out of the rotation in 2015, even if neither are in the rotation out of spring training. Keep in mind Meyer only threw 130 innings last year, so it isn't realistic to think he would be in a big league rotation for six months anyway. Lets get into May or June before worrying the Twins have too many starters, or refuse to put the correct ones in the rotation.
  7. USAFChief
    The Twins had a great April offensively last year, with their second highest run total by month. In fact, April was the only month last season with a positive run differential. They went crazy offensively in August, that's true, July was dismal and September didnt quite get to April levels.
  8. USAFChief
    "Harrischer."
  9. USAFChief
    Sorry, Levi...I couldn't resist.
  10. USAFChief
    My new all time favorite TD post.
  11. USAFChief
    Did the Twins just win the AL Central by NOT making any moves?
  12. USAFChief
    It's good to know they're serious. Serious enough to meet with the agents of TWO of the four pitchers mentioned. How did Ryan manage to squeeze all that in?
  13. USAFChief
    When was that string of 8-9 inning starts? Liriano had no 9 inning starts last year. He had only one 8 inning start.
  14. USAFChief
    If by full, you mean in the same way my wallet is full because there's twenty $1 bills in there...no room for $5's, $10's, $20's, or heaven forbid Benjamin's, then yeah. It's full.
  15. USAFChief
    Well, that wasn't the press conference anyone had in mind, I'll wager.
  16. USAFChief
    I think perhaps one lesson we can relearn from this is the problem with " wait until you have specific needs and/or are one player away before signing a free agent" line of reasoning. The Twins pretty clearly needed an OFer...and the choices available were unimpressive, to say the least. I think it's always better to add to what you have when you can, no matter where you are on the "competitive curve" so you aren't forced into worse choices later.
  17. USAFChief
    It was a better team...despite bad corner OF defense. Perhaps it's not all that critical.
  18. USAFChief
    I think maybe the brass views Hunter as someone who can demonstrate the necessity to play hard every day, to play through minor injuries, who doesn't accept losing gracefully or casually. This is a profession and there are others out there trying to take wins away from you, and they will do just that if you let them. Whether Hunter has enough in the tank to demonstrate those things is questionable. But I absolutely agree with them that those things have value, the Twins have been sorely lacking in them, and current veterans (coughMauercough) don't provide them. Talent is the biggest Twins problem, we all get that. But it's not the only quality lacking.
  19. USAFChief
    That's why I don't like the deal. It has little to do with corner OF defense. He's not going to move the needle much anywhere, and IMO he probably represents the only position player addition for the winter of any consequence. He's just another "veteran innings eater" disguised as an OFer.
  20. USAFChief
    I would be fine with leaving Arcia in RF. I just don't think moving him...if they do...is going to make much difference. BTW, the last time Delmon Young was the Twins full time left fielder they won 94 games and gave up 671 runs on the season.
  21. USAFChief
    Is it possible Goin's advice to Ryan doesn't concur with the general consensus here at TD? Perhaps they don't think corner OF defense makes as much difference as is assumed.
  22. USAFChief
    I think you have that backwards...Arcia in left is almost surely better than Nunez and Willingham. The move from RF to LF isn't like moving from RF to SS. The two corners are mirror images of one another, and spring is plenty long enough to learn the move. Arcia isn't a good outfielder in either corner, but he's not going to be significantly worse by switching sides.
  23. USAFChief
    Keep in mind defensive metrics are a recent development. UZR, for example, was first developed in 2003 IIRC, and has undergone a couple fairly major revisions since then. Other metrics are even younger. So DWAR for years prior to that is based on, um...not sure. Can't seem to find an answer.
  24. USAFChief
    Maybe TR was h*ll bent on proving to himself that he really CAN "give our money away."
  25. USAFChief
    Hunter was one of my all time favorite Twins. He would literally run through a catcher in a mid season game to score a run. I don't ever recall seeing less than his best effort, day after day. There's value in that, tangible and intangible. That said...it is hard to see how this move does much to add wins in 2015. And that's what management should be focusing on, IMO. I also think the money DOES matter, because they've already told us they aren't going to spend much this winter.
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