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  1. Platoon
    I am not ready to throw the new FO under the bus just yet. That said the bus is coming down the street and it will probably get here around the middle of June. Hopefully those two aren't standing too close to the curb at the time! .
  2. Platoon
    Just think if Rip Von Twins fan woke up from his long sleep. He rubs his eyes, and asks what year is it? Informed it's 2017 and spring training is winding down he asks how the Twins did during his 7 year nap. Informed of the carnage from those years, he looked at last years roster, and then this years! His comments cannot be repeated verbatim on TD, but they alluded to the Twins retaining Terry Ryan after a 103 loss season based on the fact that this new roster was obviously Ryans handiwork! When informed Pohlad had actually dismissed TR and brought in the two headed Falvine, Rip was hear to mutter WTF, and announce he was going to take another nap!
  3. Platoon
    This team will either hit well enough as is constructed,or will learn to. If they don't, the future is really bleak. That's why my bench would be defensive in nature. I do not think enough emphasis can be placed on a decent OF. Making RG the fourth one would border on FO malpractice.
  4. Platoon
    I am so glad the metrics guys came up with the term "sequencing"! Before they did that all we had to rely on was Dumb A*^ Luck.
  5. Platoon
    IF we would platoon Grossman based on who was pitching, this could conceivably give RG 3-4 starts a week in the OF. And you either move Rosario to RF if RG hits for Kepler, or you put RG in RF with that grade 20 arm? On a team that still specializes in PTC? :(
  6. Platoon
    Good post, but you forgot #3. The Contract.
  7. Platoon
    I always believed as a rule, that GM gave their managers the team, and they managed what they got. I know from listening to and about Gardenhire he wasn't that discreet about the fact he didn't get what he wanted for his roster.
  8. Platoon
    And it's also his right to steal third standing up if no one is covering the bag! Or it be if you aren't named Eddie Rosario!
  9. Platoon
    While I am not a Ryan fan, he and Bill Smith did not necessarily leave the cupboard bare. But while they have left a better than serviceable OF, and some potential offense, they never could figure out a way to acquire what is likely the two most important parts of a baseball team. Starting pitching and SS. They either truly believed you could consistently club other teams into submission, or found it easier to acquire players of decent caliber at less sought after positions. Tom Kelly was a fixture in this orginisation for decades, but his belief in SP and defense apparently did not migrate uphill in the chain of command.
  10. Platoon
    The is one indisputable factoid about Brian Dozier. And because the Twins have been irrelevant for so long, it could be considered a SSS point. But it's this: The Twins have had only two timeframes of possible contention, or if you prefer, general interest in the last 7? years. One is the last part of the miracle 2015 race for the second WC spot, and then the following year when hope sprung eternal. And BD was nowhere to be found. He is not the only player in history to be tarred with that particular brush, and the Twins have afforded little opportunity to enlarge that SSS. But it exists. Dozier is the best player on the Mn. Twins. Which is a lot like saying John Smith was the best Captain on the Titanic. But despite dangling him from a yard sign for 3 months on Falvines front yard, all we were offered is a decent level SP prospect. That's still troubling. The potential for Twins future success in the area that the position players contribute to will not be driven by Brian Dozier, but by Sano, Kepler, Buxton, Rosario, Polanco, and a SS TBD. If someone from that group does not become the leader and the face of the Twins, TF will be a very large food court at best.
  11. Platoon
    I agree that a manager might not win more than a handful of games in a year with strategic moves, such as stealing at a crucial time, challenges, or even pitching moves. But that's on a per game basis. Where I think a manager wins games, over a season, is by not losing them. And I find it impossible to believe that Molitors style of management, i.e. incomprehensible dart board lineups, disciplinary favoritism, and really questionable bullpen usage did not lose games. As I have noted before, that SP and defense weren't a winning combo, but it didn't have to lose to the tune of 103 either.
  12. Platoon
    Flexibility is a key complement in this matter. Two years ago the team could have made a run if the FO had purchased a front line rental. But that team, and this one cannot trade it's youthful postion players to acquire one. They were on the right track with the Dozier idea, but it didn't pan out. This season, win or lose, will go a long way to determining what they chase next winter. If it goes as I think it will, they throw everything and the kitchen sink into finding a #1 or #2 SP, without trading anyone under 30 years old. Basically cash. There aren't a lot of trading chips that we can move. So it will become a test of whether the perception of the Pohlads frugality is indeed just a perception.
  13. Platoon
    Since I didn't know any big words like "framing", we used to refer to it as dragging the ball off the plate. We weren't dealing with late breaking 92 mph sliders, or exploding FB's though. But there were plenty of late breaking curves, caught while sliding your glove across the plate and dragging it past the zone. Different level, same effect. It was nice to hear Castro discuss giving the ump a view, and that size does matter. That factor may be more important than framing in the amount of strikes called, or not called.
  14. Platoon
    . Molly maybe be harkening back to 2015 when the Twinksters scored runs in some pretty unfathonable ways? Or he may have absolutely no idea what he is talking about? I was going to start a new thread on the topic, but then it dawned on me that, "absolutely no idea what he is talking about" fits nicely in Whine Line! .
  15. Platoon
    While seniority and long term big dollar contracts make competion for starting spots a charade, a manager could make his life easier, and his job more effective by not being quite as specifically chatty. Good grief, it's the first week in March, what's the rush. All you do is comlicate the flexibility to respond to future developments, without any perceptible gain for the players, the orginisation, or yourself.
  16. Platoon
    In a manner I agree. But they could win around 70 and the young untethers could have nice years. It's the pitching that could hold them back. Time will tell, but a couple pitchers have to come out of the woodwork to make this a .500 team.
  17. Platoon
    And for a team rebuilding for allegedly the last six years, or allegedly should have been! .
  18. Platoon
    Dissing ABBA should result in at least 3 warning points, and being sent to bed without supper!
  19. Platoon
    And unless I am mistaken I acknowledged that Mauer would translate better to one, than Dozier to 4. It's been awhile since I thought Mauer was a 3 hitter. I agree that after decades of Ryan changes are due. And if BD can move to the 4 hole, and still hit 42 dingers, good for him. But he has hit 3-4 and the results, while SSS, have not been good.
  20. Platoon
    When saying Mauer should hit first and Dozier should cleanup, one has to assume that each player would replicate his career stats in those differently pitched environments. I am not sure that would be the case. Mauer might translate better from 3-1 than Dozier from 1-4. BD is a mistake hitter, and it's a fairly singular mistake. Could he adapt and drive the ball consistently when pitched with more focus with two guys on? Maybe? But would he get as many get em over cookies as when no one was on? That's highly doubtful. There is a reason he likes hitting in the one hole. The poster who said the game is played on the field is correct. Players are not stat machines, thankfully. They have personalities and opinions of themselves, formed over years. They may be right, or they may be wrong, but they are. And to discount that would also require one to simply put the stat sheet on the lineup card!
  21. Platoon
    There weren't any numbers for the "plummet" that was referenced about Dozier further down in the order. I assume meaning 3-4? But my memory and eyes agree he was ineffective there. As for FO making regular suggestions as to starting lineups, and frequent conversations on those lineups, I am not sure I concur. The info should be shared as much and as often as possible. But I think it's the FO who should put a team on the field, and it's the manager who should make the daily lineup decisions. You cannot manage with someone questioning day to day moves. Those questions should be on the body of your work, not the singular parts. If as a FO you believe in decent pitching, good defense, and smart baserunning, but have a manager who believes in mashing the ball, you might need a new manager, because you aren't going to change the core beliefs of anyone who got that far in the game. I am not a Molitor fan, but if he has to make out his lineups wondering what Falvine will think of today's version, he has my sympathies!
  22. Platoon
    If that's the case, you keep Santana, and get rid of Molitor! Frankly Santana is probably as valuable to the Twins as Molitor. That aside, Jackemp (sp) has some valid points. As does Ruesse. Santana is not a starting SS, and neither is Polanco. Nor do the Twins at this time have anyone who should be called one. In this era especially on this team, of long pitching staffs and short benches, DanSan fills numerous spots. And no they aren't all performed at an extremely high level, if they were we wouldn't be debating this. Options? Grossman fills how many? A decent OB average, the ability to not swing at a ball of the plate, and can kill small patches of grass only in LF. A third catcher? Another DH/1B? EE is a decent utility IF, but absolutely should never go into the OF except to run sprints. So the real question is, is DanSan your best option as the 25th guy to fill numerous spots? That's his position. If they can acquire one, or are hiding one in MiLB, go for it. Otherwise Santana still seems to be that guy, on this roster. Perfect? Nope, but no one else checks as many boxes on the job ap.
  23. Platoon
    It's simply marketing. If you don't work it to hard, anything runs on 87 octane, even my HOG. Some companies use 89 as a good product to up the retail, with little added cost of product. And premium (91-92) comes in two varieties. With or without ethanol. The only thing I keep away from ethanol is my two cycle engines. And if possible, and if I had one, I would avoid it in old collector vehicles. Their gaskets and old gas tanks don't get along with ethanol that well. Almost all grades are blends of the different grades to make the math come out. For example ethanol adds about 2.8 points of octane, so a lot of 87 is 90% 84 and 10% E. And almost all premium includes at least 2 different grades and E. All gas is the same, it's the additves injected at the loading terminal that make it branded. This is about 7 gallons of additves to around 8700 gals. of product. And no, stations do not add water to their tanks! In about 3 hours it would sink to the bottom, taking along all the ethanol with it. And that ain't cheap to correct!
  24. Platoon
    My first view of any GT this year, and I must say those who participated were bright eyed and bushy tailed. Btw, kudos to MLB and the Twins for not allowing this game to be televised. It would have left even the venerable Les Nessman speechless!
  25. Platoon
    I would barely take the over. Barley! It's a long haul from 59 to let's say 75. There is no improvement from the pitching staff to speak of, either starters or pen. There is no actual closer at this time. The left side of the IF defensively is "questionable", the right side is defensively slightly above average. And while the projected starting OF should be pretty good, or better, defensively, Molitors dart board lineups virtually require one of them to sit daily. If as is very possible RG is the fourth outfielder, that tilts that positive considerably south! While there is an occasional abberation, few baseball teams play .500 bal with a lousy defensive SS and lousy pitching.
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