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what's up with HBO... not running thrones until 12:30 tonight.... now they know why everyone pirates it.
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That seems high... 10/169 maybe... perhaps Dick has had too much to drink already.
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hmm... let's see. Follow the Twins or Game of Thrones.
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Yep. I suspect that is what it is for. Buxton will likely be going down given his inability to hit major league pitching.
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BREAKING NEWS: Miracle team signs petition asking Gordon to start sharing his hits.
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Truthfully, out side of these circles, no one has heard of any of them. I don't think Meyer or Berrios are going to put a lot of butts in seats except for their family who will most certainly be at TF when they pitch.
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the concern I have about using BABIP is that it is not as luck driven as is often implied here. If you put anyone in this forum on the mound, we'd have an insanely high BABIP that would never normalize b/c quite frankly, we suck at pitching at the ML level, which is why we aren't there. I like Meyer as a prospect, but I don't think you can just write off that BABIP, especially in conjunction with his walk rate. He had to make adjustments to get that down to a more normal level, and hopefully we will see sustained success. I do agree that he needs to be doing this for at least another month before we consider a callup, but if he does, I'd put him ahead of Berrios without question. That's no disrespect to Jose, except that Meyer is already on the 40 man, and Jose is not.
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That extreme move (in the case of Berrios) comes with a DFA for someone as well as someone else being bumped from the rotation. I think we have some candidates to bump, but like it or not, they deserve more than 3 starts to prove themselves. I'll say what I said before, with Berrios not being on the 40 man, I would not be surprised at all if Duffy, Dean, or Meyer get the call ahead of him unless there's a corresponding 60 day DL move to come to go with it.
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Well, he's played it, and if I remember right, made a catch. Sorry, but I have to think he'd be better than Sano out there. Mauer has an arm too. I know it's out of position, but I tend to think Sano is better than Nunez or escobar defensively at 3rd. Mauer is better than Sano in RF... and Park is better than Mauer at 1B.
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One thing that we should be clear of, right now SSS is a big deal for all the pitchers doing well in AAA. They all have some question marks, Berrios might have the least of them at this point, but I'd be a bit cautious in making extreme moves that are not dictated by injury at this point in the season. By the end of next month, I think that's a bit more realistic. We will see if Meyer and Berrios are still pitching this way, and if Duffey has turned it around. The reality is that you will have 3 pitchers making a case for themselves and your rotation has 5 spots, that for economic as well as performance reasons aren't going to easily free up. No one in the starting rotation is going to get benched if he's pitching well. If we are out at the deadline, some of them (Nolasco and Milone in particular) may get traded.
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You sure about that? I thought he was added to the 40 man last offseason.
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I know Molly doesn't want to do it, but with Plouffe out, I'd most definitely move Sano to 3rd, Mauer to RF and let Park play 1st. I think defense improves in that scenario too. Mauer has done some OF.
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I hate to say it, but I don't think you see any action for at least another month, and if Meyer keeps pitching the way he's pitched, being on the 40 man, he gets the call before Berrios... as would Duffey if he figures things out. That's the nature of that game as someone gets DFAd or moved to the 60 day to make room for Jose. I'd also add that you might see either Alex or Jose in the pen and not in the rotation if they do get the call. I'm not necessarily against that if it's temporary... then again, Trevor May was supposed to be temporary. With Milone, I'd have traded him this offseason, though even as a 4/5, he would have value at the deadline. Someone is always looking to shore up the back of their rotation. He's not going to get you a high ceiling prospect, but getting a decent hitting prospect in the low minors wouldn't be a bad get, and the org could use a few more of those.
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He did. Not sure it was on a 97 mph pitch, but he hit some out at 93.
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I'd like to see him pitch well for a few months (and outpitch Duffey). He was pretty bad last season... but he's on the 40 man, so one injury and suddenly he's in Minnesota. And then there's this whole Berrios problem.
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Hmmm... how about this one for fun. Park -1b Nunez - 2b Escobar - SS Sano - 3B RF - Mauer CF - Buxton LF - Arcia C - Suzuki
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Wade may get that promotion sooner than later. I think if he's continuing to destroy low A, he will be in Fort Meyer by say mid-may. At this point, it can definitely be an SSS issue. He's got a real good plate approach though, and if he continues to show success in high A, he's going to be on a lot of lists.
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So the moral is that the weather is a more effective member of the bullpen?
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Well, it will be up to the vaunted Twins bull pen to protect this lead.
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that was a heck of an at bat.
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Slap double!
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Dozier!
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Hughes with the quality start...
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flew out to Cali to catch the game and find out they are in Packerland. How unfortunate.
