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  1. USAFChief
    That's the problem though, Bri. MLB teams are only 25 players, and only 12 or 13 of then apply since the rest are pitchers. You make these broad statements about "25 players," but when an actual concrete example of one of them is examined, you tell us "but not Adrianza." I think your idea misses a couple important points. Generally, players improve by playing. However, in most cases you can use history to tell you how much improvement you might expect. When a player cant regularly catch up to MLB fastballs, no amount of coaching, Or playing time is going to improve him. Meanwhile, wasting playing time on him means you are depriving the better player of playing time to improve HIS game. Every game you give Adrainza in 2017 and 2018 lessens the chance Polanco breaks out in 2019. Adrianza isnt here to play every day. He's with the Twins because he's the best suited player they have to back up several infield positions. Potentially better players exist in the minors, but they stay there so they can play every day. Adrianza doesn't steal playing time from anyone. Unless you believe Adrianza is better, and should play every day, it doesnt matter how he does in a single game, or a week of playing to cover an injury. Same for every player, in every team. The Dodgers aren't giving lesser players extended aying time either. They just have better players, including reserves, but those reserves are still reserves.
  2. USAFChief
    In glad TD picked up Jeremy's option!
  3. USAFChief
    What this series demonstrated to me was the difference between talking a good game, and going out and getting the players to PLAY a good game. The Twins lineup can compete. They do not have the pitching staff to compete with the big boys.
  4. USAFChief
    I'm also sure glad we hoodwinked Houston into taking Pressly off our hands, strengthening our AA rotation
  5. USAFChief
    I'm sure glad we didn't trade for Verlander 2 years ago, as I wanted the Twins to do. Washed up, as I was told he was.
  6. USAFChief
    more like "least unimpressive." The distinction is subtle, but descriptive.
  7. USAFChief
    if Adrianza goes 4 for 4 I thank my lucky stars and put Polanco back in the lineup tomorrow. I have oodles of history to tell me my chances are better with Polanco.
  8. USAFChief
    Probably a permanent switch to a bigger pen? Cave is useless. Gonzalez can cover corner OF, they shouldn't be resting any of the three OFers more than once every couple months anyway.
  9. USAFChief
    Duffey completely lost his composure in that inning. Embarrassing. Not big league.
  10. USAFChief
    He always had great stuff. Too great to trade away.
  11. USAFChief
    Quoted for truth.
  12. USAFChief
    They need Kimbrel and another two arms at least. Rogers...check. Hildenberger, in small doses. May the same. Parker, ok I guess. Everyone else can go, and be replaced by relievers that slot in above Hildenberger.
  13. USAFChief
    It would still have been a bad trade. A bad trade is a bad trade, no matter how much lipstick you put on it later. Nor would Alcala being a worthwhile starter somewhere down the future change my opinion, since you couldn't know that at the time of the trade, but you absolutely, positively should have known the value of an arm like Pressly's to the 2019 Twins. And, uh, we didn't sign Herrera and Allen, as I recall. Nor would we have signed Cruz or Gonzalez if we had. I guess I'll reconsider if Falvine can flip Alcala and Celestin this week for a reliever better than Pressly, plus a minor league prospect to make up for the time Pressly wasn't a Twin. Of course, that's not going to happen, since nobody will trade a reliever better than Pressly for Celestin and Alcala, even if such a reliever was hypothetically available.
  14. USAFChief
    I don't see anything wrong with Baldelli's bullpen mgt last night. Trying to get more than a starter can give is always wrong, and if anything, Odorizzi was in the game too long, not too short. The game was close because Houston is good, and the Twins bullpen isn't. I'm surprised they got even one out from May, and Rogers was unavailable.
  15. USAFChief
    I believe tonight will be the first LH starter the Twins have faced in 2019.
  16. USAFChief
    At the point where Cruz isn't the next hitter in the lineup, with Rosario to follow.
  17. USAFChief
    Concur. Same thing happened, only not in the Twins favor, when Cron got thrown out at the plate to end the last Toronto game. Ball came out of the corner on a room service hop to the left fielder.
  18. USAFChief
    I blame Harper for that home run. He's not that good, he missed over the plate, and you can't just keep throwing curve balls and expect to get hitters out. EDIT: Actually, I changed my mind. I blame Falvine.
  19. USAFChief
    ...izzee up to it??
  20. USAFChief
    Really nice win, but that bullpen...yeesh. I don't see any way the current bullpen holds up through a long season.
  21. USAFChief
    That's not luck, that's how relays on those type of plays work. Polanco and Schoop were lined up between Rosario and the plate (with Gonzalez and Cron also in line, but spaced out closer to the plate) on purpose. Rosario throws it on line, hard and low, and one of them will be in position to accept the throw (and relay if appropriate) no matter how far Rosario throws it.
  22. USAFChief
    It is virtually impossible to throw curve balls past MLB hitters when they are expecting one. "Hanging breaking balls are a gift from god." -K Puckett
  23. USAFChief
    Let him be. If by June he's earned it, reconsider. The last thing the team needs is to move him up, he goes onto a funk, and here we go again.
  24. USAFChief
    As I've said...if you had any idea of competing in 2019, trading Pressly was a bad idea. "Just backfill in the offseason" was always going to be tough, and you likely weren't going to get someone with Pressly's arm anyway.
  25. USAFChief
    While I agree the cost of attending an MLB game is high, if you plan on eating there, it can be argued this hasn't had much effect on total attendance. Ticket prices, if you stay out of the high dollar areas, are often relative bargains compaired to other major sports. You can't get near an NFL game for the cost of a mid range MLB ticket. Total MLB attendance is virtually unchanged over the last 20 years, since 1998. https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2018/10/03/how-mlb-attendance-dropped-below-70-million-for-first-time-in-15-years/#5aa824dc61bf It is true there has been a significant drop since peaking in 2007. I do concur DSP shouldn't speak publicly.
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