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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    Kahlua makes a great ice cream topping... just saying.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    But whatever you do, don't tell your wife (or any woman for that matter) that a baby (or your baby) is not cute.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    It's so they can fix the results... You think it was coincidence that LeBron ended up in Cleveland?
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    There's got to be a joke in here somewhere
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    I seem to remember reading somewhere that he was currently not using everything in his arsenal to refine some of his pitches. That would explain the low K rates when he's only throwing 2 pitches. One of the things that bothers me about strict stat analysis is that the stats don't always capture the reasons things happen. If he's doing something like say shelving his fastball in favor of honing a sinker, then naturally he's going to get less Ks. The stat lines say that he's not getting Ks in A ball, but they missed the underlying story. I'm not too worried, especially since that K rate has been generally rising.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    Pentecost ahead of Jackson?
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    Me doing a sasquatch impersonation?
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    Assuming there were some walks in those plate appearances.... so why on earth hasn't Gardy been using KC to pinch hit for Florimon?
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    This is really a plea to bring Mark DeRosa out of retirement.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    my guess... right around the minor league all star break.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    Don't know about Johnson, but Darnell was showing that potential in AA last year. He struggled a bit during his promotion. He wasn't donig 1k/ip, but he was doing very well.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Time for him to adjust now. He can alter his approach to hit inside pitches. That's more a timing thing than anything else.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    one heck of a game tonight. He's got to bring those walks down a bit. He might have gone all 9 had he been able to do so.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    Given his age, I'd think that ship has sailed.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Religion vs. science?
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    He's got a K/9 greater than 9 right now in AAA. That's not a Twins type pitcher... Perhaps he's another Johan Pino type guy, but I think he's got a decent major league future.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    I doubt anyone has a problem expanding it, but do keep in mind that hindsight is 20/20. In the case of both Parmelee and Revere, the Twins weren't drafting in the top 5 and passed over sure things. Anyone you get in the bottom of the first round is likely to have question marks.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    Just a moderator note here, but there's a few posters starting to snipe back and forth. Please refrain from that and keep this discussion civil. Thank you.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    Thing about extending him is that with Catcher, more than any other position, the every day guy is still only catching maybe 100 games over the course of the season, so having a good second tier option is worth it. With Suzuki, it's still the SSS category to see if he's legit. It means that we won't be getting anything decent at all for him if he was traded right now, and I don't see any good reason to extend him just yet... If he's figured it out, I'd probably extend him, because besides Garver and maybe Koch (both of whom have a fair amount of question marks), I don't see much in terms of help for Pinto in the near future, and I'm not sure either will be ready by 2016.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm pretty sure the only comp picks than can be traded are the competitive balance picks. I don't really see the Twins aquring one. I could see a competitive balance team trading one near the deadline if they needed a guy to fill out a spot, but any competitive balance team that isn't very good is going to want to keep the picks. Not sure what the Twins would have to offer to get one.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    A cup of coffee for Vargas wouldn't have been a bad idea. He could function as a pinch hitter and be an upgrade over Herrmann, but in the end, I'm not sure this is really going to have much of an impact either way. I suspect Colabello is going to get optioned on Saturday for Arcia or sooner for Willingham, and Herrmann will get returned to the minors as soon as the other is ready.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    I think you may have misunderstood me here. May is a prospect, and as I said, he's looking more and more like he can be a solid mid-rotation arm. I wouldn't call him a top prospect, and I didn't do this in my original post. May was at one time a top prospect in the Philly system, but he was already sliding when the Twins aquired him. In the end, I'm still rather surprised that the Twins managed to get both Worley and May for Revere. He was worth more than I thought he would be... Regardless of how it turns out, it was the type of move Ryan needed to make.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    He has to remain in the minors for (I think) 15 days before he can be called up. It's a rule with exercising an option.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    I would think he'd need to bring the average up a bit and someone else who is high OBP would need to move into the leadoff spot... In a few years, we could be seeing Buxton, Mauer, Dozier if he keeps hitting those home runs...
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    I saw that yesterday... Not an insider, so not much help here. That said, let's keep the conversation civil
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