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  1. Platoon
    That's a good point. I admit I had not considered that aspect. Duh! The easiest solution is to have Pressly pitch an extra game or two during the week. For Lords sake, I noticed there are weeks when he only appears in 5 or 6 games. .
  2. Platoon
    This year the Twins remarkably seem to have an excess of SP, assuming Santana and maybe May comes back. And a few stashed in Rocherster. So why not a 6 man rotation? There really doesn't seem a serious falloff for any of them currently. While they are all likely 3's in a really good rotation, there's worse things that can happen. This just seems like a staff where a 6 man rotation would work for several reason, one of them Romeros inning count.
  3. Platoon
    You rose to the bait........ You never disappoint.
  4. Platoon
    Normally I don't do math, but does this make us over twice as successful?
  5. Platoon
    . That might be the winner......
  6. Platoon
    >>>>>>>>>>>Think of the trade value once everyone catches on to this. Belisle will be our way forward to a catcher who can catch a baseball. Belisle for Realmuto even up. (Though the FO will have to deal with some harsh critiscm for giving away Belisle)
  7. Platoon
    It would be far easier to "get out of the fire", if you were not shackled to it. MiLB players have approximately the same amount of mobility as a turtle turned over on its back. In the corporate world, those who feel they have given their best, and for whatever reason it wasn't enough to elevate them into the executive suite, are free to move to a like company in the same industry. This at least satisfies the question most people would have. Was it me, or the orginisation? In MiLB you can't go from the Twins farm system to the White Sox. You have to abandon your career path completely.
  8. Platoon
    Speaking of: The raccoon on the bank building and Belisle on a MLB roster. What do they have in common?
  9. Platoon
    While there's lots of info on "that site" I cannot believe they have not been covering the raccoon going up the bank building. It's that type of coverage that drives me to peruse Twinkie Town, ocassionaly.
  10. Platoon
    And of course how long will they go with a 3 man bench? It must be extremely discouraging for the MiLB players to work their ass off and see the FO bring in a retread instead of them. One can be "challenged" only so often before the challenge becomes a discouragement.
  11. Platoon
    Molitor, among many, have referenced the idea that Sano is late on the FB, and in an attempt to compensate is jumping the FB and getting eaten alive by the off speed stuff. This begs a question. Why? Why is Sano not keeping up to the FB? What's changed? Rust should be gone. I dread going here, nor will I speculate on cause. But has his "apparent" lack of conditioning stolen some bat speed? While we may think it's a lack of recognition, it instead could be an attempt to compensate for being behind on the FB, making him look like a guess hitter? In lesser hitters that's what makes off speed stuff so effective, they low up for the FB and flail at the slow stuff.
  12. Platoon
    He may be seeing a higher % of FB's, but are they strikes? Or are they show me pitches, setting up the breaking ball. Since Sano isn't a dead pull hitter he should have a leg up on say a Dozier in combatting breaking stuff away. Plus he doesn't need to pull a ball to hit the seats, in any park. Also you posted a ton of numbers to show that he wasn't that far off spec, but you woulda fooled me. Sano has put himself at a level where he has almost no control of the AB. If the pitcher, any pitcher executes his pitches, Sano is toast.
  13. Platoon
    Trout? Totally overrated. Something like 1-12 over the weekend. Get someone in that lineup that could hit with RISP and they would have swept the series. Twins pitching handled him with ease.
  14. Platoon
    I don't know who's responsible, but regardless the teams record at the end of the year, this is not a fundamentally sound baseball team. And it's not just one or two players. Throws to wrong bases, missed cutoff men, guys picked off second, you name it, we got it. Sooner or later this orginisation has to clean up its style of play. Winning a game you played poorly doesn't change the fact you played poorly. It simply covers up the issue temporarily.
  15. Platoon
    Nice story. I seriously doubt that I knew Denny Hockimg was ever a catcher. A few years ago I went to CR for a game that was the end of a series, and the next day followed the team to Clinton for the first game of that series. The park was old but clean, with a lot of character. But definitely a step down from CR. I highly recommend a road trip to IA for those who like baseball. It's an easy drive, and it's not at all hard to tie in another activity like the Amana Colonies or catch Field of Dreams on the way home. BTW, the signs on the freeway coming into CR warning of photo speed tickets are for real. They may not use robot plate umps in baseball, but they do use robot cops in CR.
  16. Platoon
    Nice job, I see most of the games but I never miss your write up. Thank you. . Btw, dont worry about child time. Eventually they will change their mailing address, but they never leave home.
  17. Platoon
    Speaking of Dick Bert, and I know this is off topic since we aren't extending RG but: In the game he played left field did he really catch a run of the mill fly ball in medium LF and have a guy tag and move up to third? That's what I remember, but I can't find anything on it. I would have thought such arm strength bes ever a notation. I have never saw it in MLB, not like that one. Dick/Bert called it throwing to the wrong base. You normally wouldn't get away with that in HS.
  18. Platoon
    Currently Esco has Dozier in HR by I think 3 RBI by ten, Dozier hasn't been good with men on base and average by around 20? But the kicker is I looked in 3 different sites, and cannot find him charged with an error? Is that possible? And BD I think was at 6, and those don't count that lame throw home on the double steal, and if I could read the tv right that cutoff throw home which moved the guy to third, which was completely ignored by Dick/Bert. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Esco is a Lindor or Correa but he has been an awfully good player in the last calendar year.
  19. Platoon
    "binge again later this year". That may be the problem.
  20. Platoon
    I too would try and keep Escobar. But still as a utility player. He isn't a true SS, or 3B but as someone noted I sadly have come to the conclusion that those position requirements are changing. Versatity has value. I also consider him the teams top "clutch" hitter this year, and a lot of last year. He is unflappable. But it would be careful also. He looks a lot shinier standing next to some of the rest of this dreadful lineup. Rosario would be very hard to extend. (I wish I had a dollar for everyone who wanted him in Rochester earlier this year) I too would hang unto Gibson if possible. His string of success has passed fluke stage. Buxton and Sano? These are the two who make or break this team, and these are the two that Falvine will earn his money on. Both a quandary. I would definitely extend Buxton. He alone could make this team offensively capable. He also completely changes the OF defense for all three positions. He is that good. I still think he will "get it", and I would gladly spend JP's money on him. Sano is another matter. If I was Falvine that decision would be far more based on my opinion of Sano's personality and work habits. Not the ones the press office and the beat writers feed us, but the real ones from people who know him. If the FO perceives him as someone who want to be here and work at it, I would extend him. If they don't, I would move him as soon as I could. He may rake somewhere else, but that doesn't do us any good here.
  21. Platoon
    I watched the first game on TiVo. I did not know they gave Dozier a hit on the 8th? So, if you hit a two hop GB to the third baseman. He kicks it over his head, then makes a nice clean pickup with plenty of time to get the runner. THEN he short hops the ball to First base. That throw which Mauer would have taken back to the dugout for the third out pops out of Abreu glove with BD short of the base by a step. Are you really telling me that's a hit in MLB?
  22. Platoon
    Tom, I forgot to add that I am not in anyway discounting the overall theory of certain catchers making pitchers, "pitch better". I have seen it done in person, but obviously not at the MLB level. Whether Garver himself has that ability? Now, therein lies the question.
  23. Platoon
    I am sure your figures are correct. But I would also need to know who each guy was catching. And I say that with no idea if there is a pattern here, but it is also a statistical SSS. I think Garver is athletic enough, and the arm strength is sufficient. But he has absolutely horrid hands. When you watched him and the Cleveland catcher the difference in how they received the ball was startling. Soft hands are a gift, like quickness.
  24. Platoon
    TRyan Jeffers has 55 raw, chance to catch. Big-bodied guy with enough arm strength to catch but mobility issues and maybe receiving issues catching pro stuff.>>>>>>>>>>> The thing about catcher is simply this. Your defense, or lack thereof, impacts the game on so many pitches, it has to be at a minimum adequate, or your bat has to be exceptional, for you to be a plus player on your team. We are currently doing live time research on this scenario right now. A catcher with a very average bat, and serious receiving short comings. It doesn't take long to see the amount of offense one has to generate to overcome the lack defensive abilities. (I think there is a non zero chance anyone will agree with this)
  25. Platoon
    I am glad to see that our offense has been completely cured in three games, and that what were previously 3 career black holes in the bottom of the order have now turned things around. The end result in the Central will likely be determined by which team straightens out their BP first. I doubt averaging something like 9 runs a game either practical or possible.
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