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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    I get that dominating can be different to different people. But remember the kid just turned 18, and much of his competition has had success at much tougher levels.... Luke Hughes mashed at AA one season. I get the whole league quality thing, but I see a kid who is excelling against competition that is much more advanced... quality of the league aside. To me, that's a great pospect. I know this, I'll be following him this season.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    Losing is a disease... ...as contagious as polio. Losing is a disease... ...as contagious as syphilis. Losing is a disease... ...as contagious as bubonic plague... ... attacking one... ... but infecting all. Ah, but curable Sorry, coudn't help myself Great movie. Back on topic now.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    I wonder if him not moving up to Etown had something to do with the fact that he was still in high school last season.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    I had the same thing happen this weekend on (I think) the same article. I'm pretty sure that's an add as well. Brock may know more about that though. Security essentials claimed to have found 3 viruses. I had to do an end task on my browser to kill it. I'm not sure if it was one of those fake AV malware items, but I wasn't going to find out.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    With Nolasco, I'm hoping for a sub 4 ERA in 30+ starts. I'm hoping Hughes and Pelfrey can be right around 4 in the same amount of starts. Biggest thing I want is that they all stay relatively healthy so we aren't calling up the PJ Walters of the world.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    Knobby was my favorite player growing up. If I were to dig up my old baseball cards, I'm pretty sure there is still several pages in an album full of his cards. I was on a mission at one point to get every rookie card of his ever made. For 1991 alone, he was worth it. I was depressed when asked to be traded, and I still to this day do not understand the dome dog incident. It turns out that he wasn't as classy a guy as I had originally thought, but truth be told, that's probably true of a lot of athletes. In all, he deserves this honor.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    I haven't seen Thorpe pitch, but he's a lefty that can hit 95,and he's starting his age 18 season this spring. If he lived in the states, he's be eligible for the June draft and scouts are saying he'd be a first rounder (in a deep draft I might add). This offseason he was facing talent well above his current level and doing quite well. There's a lot to like about this kid, and yes, he has a ways to go. TINSTAAPP applies here. But that said, with guys like Stewart, Gonsalves, Thorpe, Rosario, and Jorge, I'd say the Twins are going to end up with one or two very nice pitchers out of them when it's all said and done.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    When Guerrier was healthy, he was a pretty good pitcher. I'd argue that is high upside. The same can be said on the offensive side for Kubel and Bartlett. Both were pretty good players when they were healthy. If they can recapture that, they get flipped to a team for a nice prospect at the deadline.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm surprised the twins were 5th here. I know we talk about Gardy's reluctance to platoon quite a bit around here.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    I've made my statements on Drew on many occasions. I don't see the big deal either way. That said, am I the only one who thinks we shouldn't be discounting Escobar? The guy has shown flashes in his career of being able to hit quite well, and he's young enough that it could still translate in the majors... /and I really really really want to be able to run the Liriano trade into Sox fans.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    There were some pretty good players on that list...
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Keep in mind it's a deep draft... there will be more than 30 guys getting a first round grade this year... but I do get your point. I suspect the price is definitely a part of the deal. That and the health and character issues. I think most people would take Drew for the right price. I for one would, but Drew is not a sure thing... He should have thought about that when he turned down that qualifying offer.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    Baring injury or implosion of Pinto, I expect Suzuki to start about 60 games this season. I suspect he'll get opening day out of courtesy as well. I expect Pinto to "earn" the job. I don't see him being given the job.. especially given how Hicks and Parmelee handled that the last two seasons. He's going to have to look the part of a major leaguer. His resume to date says that he deserves the job. I don't have a problem making him earn it though.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    Honestly, if this was anyone else, this is no news. I don't see what the problem is here. Minor league signings happen every year. Every team does them. The fact that we go with a guy with upside that we know doesn't bother me at all.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    And he's spent the last 2+ seasons on the DL. Baker knew full well he was going to get a minor league contract. He knew full well that he was going to need to sign a 1 year deal with a team that is going to give him a realistic shot to start... so it isn't going to be with his former team who has already signed 3 FA SPs and have a 4th under contract. The Twins options were to not sign one of the other three or give Baker a major league contract. Would you be applauding them for doing either? I think there would be a lot more people upset here... and for good reason. No one wants to see the return of PJ Walters, and very few people would have been happy had Baker been considered a FA signing.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    I think these tools are neat and funn to talk about, but the one thing I don't see a lot of is people going back and looking at what they predicted to how they actually did and compared the tools to each other and to the "experts"... I don't think it's too much to ask that we look at the actual results of said tool before we start placing value in them.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    I think Buxton starts in AA next year. As it is, that's pretty agressive. I'm guessing he'll spend 2014 in the minors, but I think he's going to be playing opening day at TF in 2015.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    Sano has 80 power, at least according to scouts... that's Thomesque... I don't think he's going to have problems mashing taters at TF. Right now, he needs to improve on contact more than anything else. I do think he can do that. His avg got sapped quite a bit in AA, but between the arm injury and the adjustments he had to make against tougher pitching, it wasn't terribly unexpected. I don't know if he starts in AAA or AA, but I think he goes right back to doing what he did in the low minors... hit.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    It's nice praise given that Law doesn't seem to be a big fan of the Twins in general. He loves his tools too, so I wouldn't be surprised if he has a lot of Twins in his top 100.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    Personally, I think if you are here on green card status, there should be little tolerance to breaking the law. I can live with speeding tickets and that type of thing, but I think any sort of conviction for any type of misdemeanor or felony should be an automatic deportation. It's not hard to write the law to say as such.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't have a problem with that goal. I do hope the kid hits it, but if he doesn't, I hope he knows how to deal with dissapointment. That's a tough task. Good luck to him.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    I definitely think there's good reason to question the projection. I tend to think this is a 70-80 win team right now, and if things break you may see that swing up if guys like Meyer and Sano hit the ground running when they get called up. That said, I think there's good reason to find faults with a few things. Mauer will regress at one point, but there's no real reason to think it will be this season, and going from an .880 OBP to a .750 OPS is quite odd. Likewise, Hughes and Nolasco should be pretty massive upgrades over the guys they trotted out last season and there's reason to think Pelfrey will move a bit closer to career norms as well. Willingham will likely bounce back too. There really wasn't anyone who had a season that screams "regress to the means" on the other side of it, so prediciting 90+ again seems odd, especially with reinforcements arriving. The biggest difference I see is that this year's Twins team should be much more watchable.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    The Twins found out last year that you need to be agressive early on in FA or you will be at the mercy of the market. Garza was banking on the losers of the Tanaka deal and I don't think it quite worked out for him. The problem as I see it is that Garza wasn't going to sign for 4/52 early on in FA as he expected to make more. Nolasco on the other hand thought that was as good a deal as he'd get, so he took it. If the Twins decided to hold out for Garza, I'd argue that they: 1) would have had to pay more than 4/52 2) would have run the risk of not getting either guy.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    I think the season ticket base will drop next year. That's the downside to a rebuild, and I'd think management would understand that... of interest though, that might be a good time to buy them. 2015 should be seeing Buxton, Sano, Meyer, and Rosario all up for good by then and guys like Arcia, Pinto, and Hicks really starting to blossom as players. I'd half expect them to be in the thick of things Sept 2015.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    Santana's problem is health... I'd take him over Pelfrey or KC in a heartbeat in terms of upside. Not sure if I'd part with a pick on him though.
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