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  1. USAFChief
    Three June games still needing a game thread vol: 6/22, 6/29, and 6/30. Plenty of July opportunities as well. Do it! Do it NOW! http://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/arnold-schwarzenegger-gif-18.gif
  2. USAFChief
    Check the number of games played by each team. Hint: The Twins have played the fewest games in the majors, so counting stats are going to be a little misleading. Rate stats, less so. /// Also: Pressly's numbers by month: Apr: 0.59 ERA, 1.109 WHIP May: 4.15 ERA, 1.462 WHIP Jun: 9.00 ERA, 1.833 WHIP Some of that might be SSS noise, but the trend is pretty striking, no? So I'm not sure he really "likes" the way he's been worked. And I'd like to see where his ERA ends up at the end of the season if he keeps appearing in every other Twins game as he has so far.
  3. USAFChief
    The Twins have played 68 games. Pressly has appeared in 36, Reed/Duke 32, and Hildenberger 31. At that pace, Pressly will make 85 appearances, Reed/Duke 76, and Hildenberger 73. For reference, those numbers would have been 1st, 4th, and 5th in the majors last year. 79 appearances led the majors. Rogers led the Twins with 69 appearances (but only 55 IP), Matt Belisle was second with 62. No other reliever had more than 57. All four of Pressly/Reed/Duke/Hildy are, or certainly appear to be, overworked IMO
  4. USAFChief
    I guess you changed your mind again.
  5. USAFChief
    "I do know this: It takes some contorting not to see him as part of the problem." Bingo. My personal opinion: His baseball IQ actually works against him. He takes things for granted--when/how to take an extra base for example--because they are second nature to him, and always have been. He just assumes others view things as intuitively as he does. The result is, details get ignored, and it shows in the quality of play. And I don't think it's unfair to say the quality of baseball this team plays is not upper level MLB. Also my opinion: really poor at pitching decisions. Reactive, rather than proactive. Removes pitchers immediately after disaster, rather than anticipating it and reacting before disaster strikes. No manager can avoid having his pitcher give up runs. But when a starter is obviously tiring, and you watch a lead disappear, over and over again...well, that's on the manager, not the pitchers. I also think it's fair to say he overuses certain relievers, and ignores others.
  6. USAFChief
    You must have changed your mind. Here's your take from last August (1st page of posts in this thread): Bingo.It's short-sighted.Why on earth would you take on the last years of this type of contract and give up prospects.If you are going to spend the money associated with this type of SP, go get one next year that is 3-5 years younger and hold on to our prospects to boot.Don't spend $28M/yr and only get the years that they are very likely to decline.Go get someone still in their prime and keep the prospects. Plus, Nicksavings is likely right about his willingness to waive his NT clause.
  7. USAFChief
    Agreed. The Yankees have an advantage, and they use it. They buy wins, both with money and trade.
  8. USAFChief
    It's ok, you can say "heck" here at TD.
  9. USAFChief
    Or can you support either of these statement?
  10. USAFChief
    I predict between today and Aug 31 prospect for veteran trades will occur, including some prospects from top 100 lists. So I do not agree your premise.
  11. USAFChief
    Precisely.
  12. USAFChief
    Tell me which 5 or 10 prospects from this year's top 100 list will be above average MLB players 5 years from now. Tell me which 50 will flame out without spending even 2 years in the majors. Tell me the 40 or so that will spend a few years in the big leagues without ever being more that part time players. Then tell me the same about prospects who aren't in this year's top 100 list. Mike Trout was a great prospect. So was Bryon Buxton. So were Neftali Felix and Chris Carter and Brian Buchanan and on and on. Prospects are way overrated....because they're prospects. Every team needs talent infusion, and hitting on a prospect is a fantastic way to get it. But when you can trade a "maybe" for an "already is," you should always consider it. And often do it.
  13. USAFChief
    Running speed typically peaks in a man's early 20's. https://travelingtrackster.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/track-field-peak-athletic-age/
  14. USAFChief
    In terms of yesterday's game, he also was a part of the RBI-deficiency problem.
  15. USAFChief
    Particularly galling to me was Mauer watching strikes 1, 2, 3, and 4 sail by without so much as a swing, with 2 out and 2 on. All four pitches were clearly strikes, too, including the first pitch which was called a ball. Swing the bat, ferpetesakes.
  16. USAFChief
    "Prospects" on the whole are the most overrated thing in baseball. Every team has a hundred of 'em. Every team will add 25 or more this summer. Today's "top 100" won't look much like next June's "top 100," and few from either list will end up having much impact on the major leagues.
  17. USAFChief
    I don’t think there’s anything magical about the number 20. It’s not like 19 is clearly not enough, but 20 is.
  18. USAFChief
    Dang it...another bar I can no longer jump over.
  19. USAFChief
    Complete the sweep. It’s what I want for Father’s Day. Oh, and a nice steak, medium rare, with baked potato and grilled asparagus. With a glass or four of good Chianti.
  20. USAFChief
    Neither of us know if Verlander would have agreed. That's completely irrelevant to the discussion of whether the Twins should have pursued him, or similar trades.
  21. USAFChief
    I’ve written that “building the farm” is a completely meaningless term. Everyone builds the farm. The Twins will build the farm with 25 or so new players in the coming days. What you are advocating is trading away major league players for minor league players. I have zero interest in that. And by the way, if trading for Realmuto “empties the farm” then the Twins have no farm anyway. And to end this, where it started, the Twins should have tried hard to trade for Verlander last summer. They’d be better off today. They should be looking into trading for Realmuto today. They should look to acquire any good major league player that circumstance has put into play. Good major league players are what you HOPE those precious minor leaguers become some day. Let someone else play for 2021.
  22. USAFChief
    Nice job, NofT.
  23. USAFChief
    No, I think it’s more than that. He still falls behind hitters, except now he doesn’t feel he “has to groove one.” More 4 seamers, fewer 2 seamers. More breaking balls. End result, walks are up, hits down. Hard contact down. K’s up. WHIP down. ERA down. He’s not pitching the same, IMO.
  24. USAFChief
    I imagine you wrote off the Twins last summer too. Either way, I have no interest in watching the Twins decide “we’re not contenders now, nor will we be in the next few years.” I want them to do what it takes to BE contenders. If Buxton/Sano are busts, oh well. We’re in big trouble anyway, and the road to a WS is long no matter if they “build the farm” or not. Realmuto fits on this team. Other that Lewis, anyone in the farm should be available to go get him. That’s exactly what real big league teams do. They get good players. In every way, not just by waiting for their farm system to poop them out.
  25. USAFChief
    There were not “numerous discussions about Sonny Gray for Berrios.” There was one article years ago in which a couple posters proposed the idea.
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