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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    No where did I say that they will all succeed in the first year, that's why I think the team will play around the .500 mark. What I did say is that Darnell, Meyer, and May will all provide substantial upgrades to a rotation that is one of the worst in baseball now and that overall, they will show flashes of what will be. Some of them will have to succeed at the ML level for them to be a .500 team, but all of them will not have to.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    Mars perhaps... I agree with you, but at 6 games back prior to this fall, I'm not sure everyone on this board agreed.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    I would say b/c of the talent transition coming in. Hicks, Arcia, and Gibson should all be improved, as should Plouffe, Parmelee, and Dozier. Mauer will be Mauer. In the minors, you'll see Darnell, Meyer, May, Sano, Rosario, Tonkin, and Pinto all transitioning in at various points throughout the year (some will earn jobs in ST, the others will be moved in over the season). This will likely result in a dramatic improvement to the rotation as well as show some flashes of what could be. I don't expect the 2014 team to win the division, but I do think they will sit around .500 and give fans a lot of hope for 2015 and beyond.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    Wimmers - starting to throw, will be doing rehab games later this year. Bard - not sure, but a ways out last I heard. Chargois - not sure either, but I think he's out a while too. Someone posted how to pronounce Chargois earlier, but I don't remember the link. It's French (Shar - Gwa... or something like that).
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    Honestly, with May I've been watching the walk rate more than anything else. That is drastically improving. A lot of the previous bad innings have been walk related and defense related. While I don't see the ML defense helping him out a ton (minus the OF where Hicks, Kepler, Arcia, and Buxton should be above average), he can control those walks, and of late he's been doing that.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    His K rate dropped in FTM, did it not? I suspect more than anything that he's pressing a bit and swinging for the fences. I wouldn't be surprised if he started out next year in AA and got off to a similar start as Fort Meyers.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    back of the napkin math says they are picking 5th overall now... couple more sweeps and they could be in the top 3.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    Agree with most, though the pen has been a welcome surprise. If they weren't sure before, they should definitely know now that they are sellers.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    Well, he did end up killing the emperor, so he kind of redeemed himself there.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    Truthfully, you can tell the ones that will continue to perform year to year. Perkins is one of them. Fein has all the peripherals to indicate he may be of them too. But, he's also arb eligible, and as was pointed out here, about 30. Wouldn't be bad to move him too if high end pitching and/or a short stop came back.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    Call up that Butera kid, he can hit homeruns. Pinto homered. Sano with a pinch hit double and Rosario 2/5. May gave up for runs in 6 innings but struck out 6 and walked 1... I think he's figuring out the control thing b/c he's drastically cut down on that walk rate of late..
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, not seeing how this would match up at all.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    New strategy: Trade Perkins for a haul and install Fein as closer. Next year repeat. Install Tonkin as closer and use him for the next wave.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    I hope that's the case, but it's going to be hard to hear what the SS of the future is when you aren't listening to offers...
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Honestly 2 innings tells me little. 2Ks was nice. There are a lot of talented hitters in the GCL. Hoping that Stewart, Thorpe, and Gonclaves can make a nice trio of starting pitchers for them.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    Similar story with my parents. They got me and my sister a beater car that was a stick shift and forced us to learn it... Hated it at the time. My cars have all been manual since, though the big vehicle is an automatic.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    This... And this is very clearly manslaughter too. Problem with charging him with murder is that I'm not sure a jury will convict him of it.. Murder implies intent, and that is going to be very difficult to prove in this case. There's no motive.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    I didn't realize how good he's been doing. Did he pick up some speed on his pitches like Perkins, or what?
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    never owning anything but.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    Do you know who the other names that they snagged the other day?
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    Isn't that his 3rd home run in the last week or so? Nice to see the power coming back... Might actually have some value yet.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    That's a good thing.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    pillow talk.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    This bothers me... They should be listening. I don't have a problem with Ryan asking the moon, but they should be listening.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    1998 Honda Civic with 280K miles on it... Paid for and gets 40+/gallon.
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