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  1. USAFChief
    From today's radio broadcast: Tigers leadoff hitter bunts foul with 2 strikes for strike 3: Attaberry -- "Gardy is having Lexi Casilla flashbacks in that Tiger dugout." lololol
  2. USAFChief
    Thanks Han. Which brings me to ... there are game thread opportunities remaining for June, everyone. Step up to the plate!
  3. USAFChief
    If we really want to get into this: 1) The trade would have been completed last year, when Verlander would have been more needed. He'd still be here today, by the way, and would be as big an upgrade as JD Martinez would be. And I'd wager a lot of money the Twins win that WC game if you hand Verlander a 3-0 lead in the top of the first. From there, who knows. The Twins would have been underdogs, but we all know that's not a death sentence in the post season. 2) Many of us asked for a RH hitting outfielder this past winter. JD Martinez was out there. I wouldn't have complained about signing him.
  4. USAFChief
    I also wanted to mention...last night's top of the 8th was why you put the contact play on. Escobar's at third, with one out. Sano hits a chopper that the pitcher doesn't field cleanly. If Escobar is running on contact, as he should be in every case IMO, he scores easily. Instead, he's left standing at third as Sano is thrown out, and now there's two out and you need a hit (or mistake) to score him. Sometimes you lose that gamble, and Escobar gets thrown out at the plate. But it's a much better gamble than waiting for a 2 out hit. Another mark in the "against" column when judging Molitor, IMO.
  5. USAFChief
    Well, the entire thread except the part about needing an extenstion.
  6. USAFChief
    IMO giving up 0-2 hits isn’t “unfortunate.” It’s an indication of poor “stuff,” poor location, and/or poor pitch selection. I didn’t view last night as at all unlucky. It was more of the same. Too many 90 MPH fastballs in very bad locations.
  7. USAFChief
    Verlander is on a contract through 2019. And was at the time of the trade. It wasn’t a half year rental. That was one of the attractions. He would still be a Twin. The rest of your post is speculation.
  8. USAFChief
    Maybe you have that backwards. Ask the Twins if they regret signing Addison Reed. He has had a pretty damaging couple weeks.
  9. USAFChief
    Not that it ultimately mattered, but was he asked why Grossman was still in right to start the 8th? There almost has to be something wrong with Reed, no?
  10. USAFChief
    wait for it... /// no.
  11. USAFChief
    Well, technically, it wasn't a one run game anymore for the last two.
  12. USAFChief
    1. I completely don't understand the "we're not one player away" theory. You're trying to get better, and adding a better player does that. Add more than one better player. But you have to start somewhere. If you really could determine that you were one player away, you'd never get there anyway, since you wouldn't make the moves necessary to get to where you were one player away. 2. It was never too costly. Are we, or are we not, a major league team interested in competing for a WS. Or are we the Washington Generals, just around to give the real teams someone to play? 3. It's possible he would never have agreed to waive his no trade deal to come to Minnesota. But he said the same about Houston at first, too. My guess is, when push came to shove, he just wanted out of Detroit, and would have agreed to whatever deal the TIgers arrived at. Which is what ended up happening, by the way. Verlander represented exactly the type trade a team looking to upgrade should be trying to find. A genuine difference maker, rarely available, but who circumstances had combined to make just so. And while we can't be sure, I'd be willing to bet that he wouldn't have coughed up that 3-0 lead in the AL Wild Card Game at Yankee Stadium. Which would have been worth the price, no matter the price.
  13. USAFChief
    And it turns out we signed not Addison Reed, but Ron Davis. http://cdn.sportsmemorabilia.com/sports-product-image/4-t5034261-500.jpg
  14. USAFChief
    non-concur.
  15. USAFChief
    Nothing falls but raindrops.
  16. USAFChief
    LOL. Nice throw Robbie.
  17. USAFChief
    Having failed to give up a hit on the first 0-2 pitch in the middle of the plate, Reed repeats his effort, and succeeds.
  18. USAFChief
    *one out triple.
  19. USAFChief
    uffda.
  20. USAFChief
    That's why you run the contact play.
  21. USAFChief
    You should go back to not doing math.
  22. USAFChief
    He had a 155 OPS+ in 2016 and was at 129 this year. He’s aging pretty well, IMO. This type catastrophic injury might not be age related, for that matter.
  23. USAFChief
    Nor our favorite team since 1991, amiright?
  24. USAFChief
    AFAIK there is no reliable data indicating some specific increase in innings year to year leads to injury. “The Verducci Effect” is sloppy science at best. There is no reason to set an innings limit today. If at some point he is fatigued, rest him. Let Romero, the pitching coach, and the medical staff determine that, if/when necessary. Pitchers are at risk for injury. All of them, every time they pitch. Pitch them when they’re healthy. They’re of no use if they can’t pitch, and resting him in 2018 does little or nothing to help 2019, IMO.
  25. USAFChief
    That was one potential roadblock. That was not the primary objection. And IMO, this thread is quite illustrative of the objections we see every day on TD whenever someone proposes a potential upgrade for the Twins. Too expensive. The other team won’t trade to the Twins. It’ll cost actual prospects. He’s really not that good. We can’t play in that end of the pool. We see the same thing today about Realmuto. Meantime, we’re under .500. Verlander was none of those things.
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