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  1. Platoon
    "the odds of him returning are about the same as me dating Scarlett Johansson">>>>>>. So you’re saying we do have a chance? .
  2. Platoon
    I think the new FO has made some excellent moves in administration and in hiring staff and coaches, and installing a better system that had been in place. Drafting decisions take years to evaluate. I am not as sure I think the cupboard is as full as Ted thinks, but only time will answer that question. This is STILL a team with questionable starting pitching, an average pen, an excellent (at least last year) offense, a bottom of the league defense from the outfield grass to the backstop, and an exceptional defensive OF when all hands are on deck. As for the perception that the Twins will join baseball in the $100M FA contract club? That will likely happen. But sadly it will be when the going rate is $125-$150M!
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    "The moves will likely disappointTwins fans, who have been waiting for the team to achieve its offseason goal of adding “impact” pitching, as neither pitcher represents impact pitching, or even an upgrade to last year’s starting rotation. They do, however, establish a “floor” for the starting rotation"........ By now it should be very difficult to disappoint Twins fans. Very. Difficult. I also don’t think the Twins need to establish a "floor" for the starting rotation. They been doing that for years and years. We are quite familiar with the floor, it’s the ceiling that’s the problem!
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    Am I the only one who thinks we have too many Taylor’s, Tyler’s, and Trevors in the pen? Probably. It looks like the Twins will yet again go offense first? I know it’s awfully hard to build an elite pitching staff, it generally has to start in house. Unfortunately I don’t think Berrios has turned out to be the "ace" many hoped for. The disconcerting thing about the yet again offensive bent to this team is that despite career or near career offensive years by a lot of players, the playoffs were remain nothing but a glorified exhibition series. That dynamic will not change until somehow they change the level of pitching and defense. I know bombas sell tickets, and win games during a long season. But we been dere, done dat. It’s time to up our game!
  6. Platoon
    This should be a staple going into every winter for Twins fans: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice? hmmmmmmmmm I can't remember the rest, but 43 had it down pat! Or one could accept the reality that the Yankees had 400M MORE revenue than the Twins. At a 50% ratio, that gives them 200M more to spend on payroll and remain within the MLB "accepted" criteria.
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    If you wanted to sign all the players who have tormented the Twins in recent history, you're gonna need a bigger dugout! Come to think of it, there are players who have tormented the Twins, who still play for the Twins!
  8. Platoon
    The team has to make a decision on moving Sano to 1B. I wish i knew more about how he would handle poor throws at first, as that seems to be our forte. Sano is headed to first or DH sooner or later. He could maybe have squeezed by at third in the old format of baseball. But the shifts have changed the requirements for the position. They just cannot keep putting this IF out there and succeed. I don't know if it's Didi or not, but anything that moves Polanco away from SS improves the teams defense.
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    MLB teams seem to operate on a philosophy of salary levels based on percent of revenue. The number I hear often is approx. 51%. If one compares the Twins revenue with the Big Boys it's significantly lower. So it's likely this team isn't going to go toe to toe with large market teams. Of course JP could spend some of the money Carl left him and the boys on a big ticket FA. But anyone who has watched the Twins since Eloise made Carl buy her a baseball team knows that is never going to happen. Weeping and gnashing of the teeth won't help. What JP has done is install a FO that accepts this and knows that they must succeed using a different format. Draft, develop, promote and utilize with innovation and a certain amount of aggression. So far they are headed in the right direction. I am sure that they will be competitive on a regular basis in the regular season. Getting over the hump in 5-7 game playoff series is the next step. The route the FO has been tasked with takes time, real time not ownership public relations time. I think this FO will produce credible and competive teams going forth. I also think they will eventually improve the IF and catching defense. While a few mid level FA signings will help, the large part this will have to come from inside the orginisation. Waiting for JP to green light a huge contract for a high level FA just isn't something that's going to happen. Even Santa couldn't pull that out of his bag of goodies!
  10. Platoon
    Mikelink45 has a good point. Exactly what does TC Bear have to do with the Twins? Secret Hamms Beer reference? Or, for a decade we couldn't "bear" to watch the team? And, why was the previous bear actor dumped? What does a bear do in the woods? And do we know about it? There's too many unanswered questions regarding the TC Bear. As for the Smurf Blue? Ugh! UGh! UGH,
  11. Platoon
    When you watch a Suzuki and a Garver attempt to block a wild pitch it's pretty obvious that there is an enormous amount of difference in their ability to do so. I wasn't a huge Suzuki fan, but that guy could block the ball. His technique and his determination to square up to anything in the dirt was amazing. Garver likely lacks Suzukis natural quickness, and definitely lacks Kurts inherent ability to present a flat presence to a ball in the dirt. Garver came up to the Twins with some of the worst hands I have ever seen in a MLB catcher. He has improved in the last year, but still borders on "klunky"! I have no doubt that the extreme focus put on his pitch framing cause him to be locked into inflexible positions. One of which is the leg out position so as to lower his presence. The concept in and of itself is good, but the consequences can be more than one would prefer?
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    I played high school age ball against a kid who pitched exactly the same way. The switch was so quick you could barley see it happen.
  13. Platoon
    Excellent observation. A tech I knew some years ago cut his thumb off in a home shop accident with a power saw. (Said he never felt it) They could not reattach it so he was short a thumb. About a year after the accident I ran into him again, and eventually noticed he had "grown a thumb". Turns out they transplanted one of his big toes. He said it wasn't as flexible, but did work. It really wasn't easy to see that it wasn't a normal thumb. While this is an interesting, to some?, tale I am not sure moving one of Cron's toes to his glove hand would help?
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    Maybe Mauer spoiled me, but I didn't see much of a defensive benefit of having a CJ Cron at 1B. Not only was his glove work questionable, so was his range, or lack thereof. The good news for the Twins is that he has no more thumbs. Both should be in tip top shape moving forward.
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    Yes
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    Faint praise indeed! :)
  17. Platoon
    At the time of the Schoop signing they probably got the best they could. He improved a leaky IF, and replaced some of Doziers power, which in hindsight was never missed in the first place. But I also wonder IF the bounce factor of MLB baseball returns to the land of reality in 2020 it will be interesting to see of the reduced HR numbers by numerous players will be treated with as much despondency as the increase this last year was treated with such enthusiasm? Players have definitely used different techniques to improve their HR rate. Today it's using analytics and training to adjust your swing. Yesterday it would have been called "swinging outa yur a*^ on every pitch" .
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    Reviewing the players who initially set "the bar", it seems the bar wasn't raised as much as someone finally picked it up off the ground! And I too wonder how much Joe Mauer would have helped the Twins IF? Actually I really don't wonder, I know he would have.
  19. Platoon
    No matter which player anyone proposes to trade, there is an argument to be made to keep said "can't let him leave" guy. The question simply should be, can you get something you need more desperately for said player, and do you have a reasonable replacement. Without knowing the other end of a deal, that's an impossible calculation. But the fact is the Twins need SP. to get it someone will have to go. Thinking JP will spend the money to acquire a top end FA SP is an exercise in self deception. As it stands currently, next years team will greatly resemble this years in manner of construction. But will that formula garner another 100 wins? No one knows, but relying on the types of offensive seasons that so many players produced to replicate itself, is a questionable philosophy.
  20. Platoon
    I still see Arrez as a solid hitter. Still above .300. More or less the same for Polanco. He could always hit, and likely still will. Cruz? Maybe he will be ageless like Big Papi? Garvers regression may/will come mostly from the HR. He hit HR's at an extrapolated rate of 54 for a 162 games. I know catchers won't play that many games, but looking at his history he can hit to a degree, but there is nothing there that puts him at that elite power level. More or less the same for Kepler. Decent bat but the HR's will drop significantly.
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    I like the idea overall. I don't think that throwing from third is any farther than from SS in many instances. And less in some. Also, it seems to me that the harder the ball is hit and the less time Polanco has to react to it the better he plays. The 3 hoppers eat him up, as do the tag plays at second base. Bottom line, he is a good hitter and a lousy SS. Whether this particular move is a good idea, or is made, I hope the day does not come when MLB becomes an all bat game, and defense is simply something to do before your next AB!
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    Platoon commented on mikelink45's blog entry in mikelink45's Blog

    Why would he introduce Bert to his wife? Shouldn't he have already known who she was?
  23. Platoon
    Briefly, I am all in on doing the best we can to get some quality SP. at least one who precedes Berrios. I think two is asking a lot. After that, don't spend money on pitchers, just to spend money on pitchers. I do think the offense should be fine, but it's at the expense of the defense, with the exception of the outfield. But since every position from the OF grass to the backstop is so defensively challenged, I am not sure how one can correct that without massive trades? But without dominant pitching, mediocre defense is more problematic than it should be.
  24. Platoon
    Well if they are I feel Mitch Garver will be one of the lower paid catchers in baseball year after year. I wish that we would put as much expectation on the players as we do on the officials. Don't get me wrong, I have barked at many an umpire in my life, way many. But that does not change the fact that we expect perfection from them, and at the same time seem quite enthralled with an entire infield that can do only one half of their proscribed duties, the offensive half, with any apparent proficiency. We are enthralled with a catcher who can hit, but couldn't block a four year old from getting into the candy drawer. A cleanup hitter who swings at pitches in a different zip code. But have an umpire miss some close pitches, even say 10 out of 250, and we want to mechanize it? For the players we cheer lustily for their successes and excuse their faults. For the officials we ignore their abilities, and demean their mistakes.
  25. Platoon
    I am sick of lots of stats........ Why? Because they are simply new ways to emphasize, and yes account for, things that have been baseball staples for years. And I imagine a lot of fans enjoy fine tuning the numbers. Anyone who has ever played, umpired, or even watched with attentiveness has known for years the value of framing. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that some catchers just aren't good at it. Nor do I need exit velocity, launch angle, and spin rate to know that the harder you hit the ball, in the air the further it will go. And the more revolutions you can impact unto a baseball the quicker and further it will change course. Oh, btw, just to be clear none of the above causes me to change my dislike of the Robo ump possibility.
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