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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    I haven't seen him play, but all his scouting reports remind me of Vlad Guerero for some reason... Not sure if that's a good comp or not, but he was a free swinger with some serious power.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    Didn't Torii Hunter miss the Detroit game the other day with an injury suffered having 'relations' with his wife?
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    . Oh, you were talking about the Royals... My bad.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    One of my more fond ones was hit by Mark McGuire against Cleveland back in the day. That liner was still going up when it hit the seats quite a few rows back.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    somewhere
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    I had a mild one a little over a month ago playing softball. As far as I know, it was my first, though I can think of a couple of other times that it could have happened. It took a few weeks for the headaches to go away for good, as they'd come back pretty every time I played softball or soccer. And I have to admit that concussion headaches are a different type of headache altogether. I don't really do anything that requires impressive hand/eye coordination like a professional baseball player, but I'd imagine, just from my limited experience, that these types of things don't necessarily return right away, and I don't know how someone would be able to hit a baseball while dealing with that.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    But the Beverly Hills Twins might carry a bit different meaning.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    The reason for this, in my opinion, comes down to risk. There was risk priced into that contract to begin with. If Hammer had a history of health instead of his history, there's no way he signs a 3/21M deal. It's much bigger. 3 months into it, that risk hasn't been mitigated. GMs know they are picking up a guy with 2 1/2 years left on the contract, and odds are good he's going to get hurt... and guess what, he did. That risk is largely mitigated this offseason. He doesn't have to go another year, he has to go a few more months. Teams will pay for that if he's an impact bat, which right now, he is. They'll pay... not a superstar prospect, but something with more upside than what we'd have gotten in 2012. My guess is that it would be a Trevor May type guy (not 2014 Trevor, but December 2012 Trevor). I know my position in 2012 was not to trade him if the results are underwhelming. What they were offered, we'll never know, but I highly doubt there was a ton on the table for him.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    Personally, I'm not a fan of making a trade for the sake of trading. Most of the 'experts' for what its worth, said a 4/5 starter. To me, that isn't worth it. Perhaps TR could have gotten a Trevor May type guy for him at the deadline, but that seems like quite a bit of risk given the situation. We really don't know if he listed to offers or not, he was quoted publicly of saying that he will listen on anyone. If someone called and said they'd offer a higher ceiling prospect for him, I think he'd have listened, even if his initial demands were more in the dylan bundy type range.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm pretty sure this was the case, and I know at the time I felt that it would make more sense to hold on to him if that's all he was going to net. We have plenty of those types of guys. Had he kept swinging well into 2013, I think he'd have netted a much nicer prospect. Given his play now and 2013 in hindsight, I'm guessing they might be able to get one or two high ceiling/high risk guys in A ball, which in my opinion is better than a 4/5 starter.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd probably add Pinto, May, and Vargas to your untouchable list. I might trade them, but it's going to be expensive as they all look to be well above average contributers at positions of need.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Speaking only to Morales, I have to think that one of the conversations that was had with him during the negotiations was that if the Twins are out of it, he may be traded. It's a 1 year deal. If it wasn't, there's some serious oversight somewhere. Morales may have made it clear he wants to finish out the season and TR may have said OK, or Morales may have said go ahead and trade me in that situation... we don't know. the lack of a NTC tells me that he's fine going to a contender if he's playing well.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    To each his own I guess I still think his value is rising. Dozier is looking more and more like a guy who deserves a long term contract this offseason. I think the BA will normalize a bit more. The power is legit. Strikes me as a guy who can hit .270 with 20+ home runs over the course of a season, while playing elite defense... That's pretty good for a 2B.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm fairly certain that quite a few people wanted to trade him 2012. The issue at hand was what another GM would have given for an oft-injured aging slugger with 2 1/2 years left on his deal. I'm guessing not much, as most GMs knew there would be a large risk of having 2013 Willingham happen to them. If he keeps mashing, you may get a decent prospect at the deadline. I'm not sure that would have been the case in 2012.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Let's not derail this thread into an indictment on management please.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm not against them selling. Not terribly against them going for it either. Selling on Hughes though is a bad idea. Morales, Suzuki, and KC are all free agents this offseason, none of which are getting a QO, so I don't see a problem trading them if the Twins don't feel they are in the long term plan. The fact that they signed Morales though indicates to me that they have no intention of selling.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't think the mods are here to tell you what you can and cannot argue. I really don't care if you think FIP is the worlds greatest stat or you prefer ERA, fWAR, bWAR, or some other alphabet soup. Telling people what they are allowed to think and are not allowed to think is a pretty dangerous precendent for anyone to set. We are saying that discussion needs to be respectuful, and that is not happening in this thread. I think I can safely speak for Chitown when I say that when you speak in absolutes (especially when it's very clear that others around you don't share those same absolutes), that you aren't arguing 2+2=4. It may seem that way to you, but there are a lot of very intelligent people here who clearly disagree. Regardless of how dumb their position may be, choosing to refer to other views as though they were written by a 3rd grader or from outerspace IS A PRETTY CLEAR VIOLATION of the rules set forth by the owners of this site. At this point, I think it's time for this thread to take a break. If you want to start up a thread about the greatest metric of all, feel free to do that in the baseball thread. But be respectful, especially knowing that there will likely be some reprocussions to this thread. For the time being, I'm closing this thread. My apologies to the bulk of the posters here who tried to keep this civil.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    Put it in the freezer for a couple hours and then try putting it back in the system. It won't fix things per say, but it might get you a couple hours of usability to recover your data.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    Using this logic we should dump Phil Hughes too, as his last 1000 innings and this season are about as extreme as Pino and this season. People can improve. Perhaps Pino has figured something out... who knows. I'm not saying Pino is the answer here, but I don't think it's worth getting worked up about calling him up. As Dave pointed out, he's doing something right. There's no harm in letting him try it out at the ML level for a few starts to see if it translates. As well, in terms of results, Pino is gettin them... luck or not. Perhaps he comes up and just gets shelled, but I see no harm in giving him a shot.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    This is what bothers me about SABR in general. Some of the stats give you the why to the other stats and I take issue with the idea that BABIP is simply a luck stat. Pino has a WHIP of less than 1... think about that for a second. That's rare. That's also why only 8.5% of his runners are scoring. Teams are getting less than 1 baserunner an inning. It's pretty hard for guys to cross the plate when that happens. As for BABIP. If this was purely a luck stat, any one of us could go out there and notch a bunch of 0K performances with an ERA around 9. The reality though is that the reason none of us pitch is b/c our BABIP would be through the roof. Major league hitters would tee off on us. What you see at the major league level is a bell curve like distribution of the best of the best.... and yes, it fluctuates. I won't argue that there's some luck in there, but right now, Pino is pitching better than Meyer, and all the stats back that up, even if Meyer does have a higher ceiling.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    Not to be contrarian here, but Pino has out performed everyone else at AAA by a pretty significant margin... For all the people talking about win now, he probably gives them just that chance. I'll say this, he's pitched well enough that he deserves a shot, whether that's as a starter or as a reliever. I have no problem letting him have a few starts to see if he hack it. If he does, then you have a trade chip.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    I suspect that happens in September.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    I get the distinct impression they are lining up who it is they are calling up. May has been lined up with KC and will replace KC when he's traded or let go. Darnell was lined up with Deduno and will be getting a major league start on Thursday... That's my theory at least. I don't think they let May go as long as he went yesterday in order to call him up to start in 2 days... talk about setting a guy up to fail. As it is, both are on the 40 man, and I'd argue both have more of a ML future than Pino or Johnson. Meyer still needs a bit of work and is on a count, so I doubt we see him until September.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    I suspect that the big picture involves getting something of value for KC. Like it or not. And as long as he's pitching well, that's going to be the position of the FO. They have May lined up with him in the rotation right now. I suspect that means that they full expect May to replace KC at some point in the near future.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    Book 4 in particular was pretty bad. I thought book 5 kind of picked things up. Looking forward to Winds of Winter... whenever it comes out... Martin is acting as a consultant on the HBO series, so I have to think he's steering it a bit. In the same token though, they are starting to make some changes that didn't happen in the books. I'm somewhat curious what they do with them.
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