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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    I pulled both of my calf muscles in my early 20s.. It took about 2 weeks to heal up. I'm not sure my situation was either.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    This is his 3rd season if I remember correctly, and he was pretty decent in his minor league career. I wouldn't be surprised if he took a step forward...
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    I didn't realize the Phillies were down on Worley so much that he was the 54th starter.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    I was thinking this same thing... lots of day to day injuries that went 10 or more days before the guy could play again. That's going to skew the "days on disabled list" category. I'd also be curious how much they track minor leaguers, or for that matter, how far back they are gonig. The handling of Wimmers in particular was dreadful. Neshek and Baker, though not minor league, were both handled in much the same way.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    7 starters for 5 spots... someone is going to have to move.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, I'd go for Wallace now. Wright wasn't a bad replacement for Harvin. There's a drop off there, but it is easily replaced with Wallace stretching the field. Then they use their two first rounders to get another wideout and help at DT... Either that or they can use one of them and get Cruz.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    My apologies as I thought it was clear that I was referring to his current season. The key for any college pitcher is progression, which thus far, Anderson is doing. Now perhaps you are right and he's going to regress to the mean a bit. If that's the case, I don't think we'd be having this conversation. My point, though is this. If Anderson continues, he might not get good enough to go 4 over all, but he won't be there for pick number 2. The Twins, if they believe in him, could throw a much lower than slot value at him to save 2 mil and go after a tough highschool sign much later in the draft, much like Houston did last year. I get that it isn't a perfect strategy, but in so doing, they turned the number 4 overall pick into 2 very good prospects instead of 1.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    If he keeps it up, he certainly won't be there in the second round. That said, if the Twins are sold on him, I could see this as an opportunity to see if he will split the difference on slot between where he's drafted and number 4. If he did that, the Twins could go out and grab another tough sign similar to what Houston did. Not a bad option. He's likely starting A+/AA and would not be that far from the bigs.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, those can be life threatening. Glad they found it.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    Based on how he's done and what everyone is saying, I'm guessing he starts in AA.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    Yeah, I was in the camp for Gausman or Appel over Buxton as well. I'm not sure the whole BPA thing was clear either. Sickles gave Gausman a higher grade than Buxton, and I suspect he'd have done the same with Appel. Both of those guys were putting up 1/2 type numbers against competition that was closer to A+/AA. I think the move wasn't the brightest. Granted they weren't passing up on a Strasberg or Harper type guy to get Buxton, but with the ceilings on all being nice, the obvious need, and the fact that those guys were a lot closer, I'm still rather miffed about this one.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Point number 1: Sample size much? This was one game. One good game, but seriously this may be the best game of his career. One game should not make a decision on where he ends up. Point number 2: I'm not sure about the Hicks/Hunter comparrison, and to be honest, any Hunter comparrison is dangerous. Hunter was a late bloomer. That rarely happens. Hicks could do it, yes... and that's far more likely given that they are both hitting the bigs at a very young age, but to project that type of improvement on Hicks would hardly be fair to him. Not to mention the fact that their hitting styles are nothing alike.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    I have a tough time believing that a guy can make it all the way to AAA without an out pitch. He may not have an outpitch that is as effective as he'd like, but he had to have something to make it that far. He has a k/9 rate of nearly 8 in his minor league career with nearly 6.94 last season as a 23 year old in Rochester. That reason alone, whether or not anyone here "sees it", is reason not to give up on the kid. Kevin Correia won't likely hit 5k/9. He may not turn into an ace pitcher, but he could be a very servicable number 3/4 type guy for some time. That has value.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    Statfreak.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    I think the outrage that some people have over payroll is not the overpaying for a Grienke, but the fact that there were plenty of cheap options out there that would have been huge upgrades and were ignored. The Twins could have easily retained Scott Baker had they wanted to. They could have gotten several other pitchers as well. They didn't. They could have found modest upgrades up the middle. They didn't. They could have spent 100M and put a team out with a decent chance of winning 80 games. They didn't. They had no problems taking taxpayer money though. I can see why fans are angry about this. If I lived in Minnesota and had to pay those taxes, I'd be livid.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm probably a little bit of 1, 2, and 3, though I don't know if the word "angry" describes what I feel... Disappointment, sure. I do think that receiving public funding obligates the owners to spend a bit more to keep the team competitive. They did that in 2010, but not so much the last two years. I like what Terry Ryan is doing for the future with aquisitions like Meyer and May. Like Brock, I feel better aquisitions could have been made for the present that could take a 70 win team and make them an 80 win team. Even in 2009, when we had no business being in the playoffs, I was glued to the race because we were in it. Gardy has some problems yes, though as others have said, I wasn't a fan of his long before the last two seasons.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    Based on this list, Sano needs to go back to SS... Who cares if he cannot play defense. (that's a joke)
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    I'll add to this. I get that personal attacks need to be monitored as it can drive away people. On the same token, reaction to that (i.e. the word police) can accomplish the same thing. I am not a mod here, and if I'm overstepping my bounds I apologize, but the offense in this thread struck me as more as people being too thin skinned when it came to their opinions being criticized than personal attacks.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    For the record, Windle and Anderson are around 60...
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    since we are being nostalgic, I'd think a nice Dankind post would be appropriate.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    I hate the Sox. They have a history however of generally outperforming expectations while not being dominant... kind of like a team I cheer for. I'd take the over if forced, though I think a smart man would shy away from this bet.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    I really don't care where they put him. If he's finally healthy, he will be an upgrade. Ideally he'd bring some trade value at the deadline.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    The midwest league tends to depress offensive stats a bit. I'd hope for above average defense and being in the top 10-20% of the leauge's offense. Those numbers would likely not be eye-popping, but out of a 20 year old, that would get him onto the bottom of many to 100 lists.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    LOL Sadly, I could see that. That said, I don't think people should discount the fact that runners on does change things. I seem to remember reading that most pitchers don't pitch quite as well out of the stretch as they do using a normal windup.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    You are correct that they were not inline. He was also 24, and it is not unusual for kids to improve their game. Those AAA numbers followed up his breakout season in AA as well. You also have to consider that the Twins spent plenty of time tweaking his swing and approach, which sapped his power early on the minors as well. Those things don't show up in stat lines, but are well documented and need to be taken into consideration. I should add that no one is saying he will be a .350/.450 hitter. I could see him having a few .300 seasons as he peaks, but for him to be a .280/.360/.470 hitter (or something close) is not an unreasonable expectation. That would be about league average for a 1B and not a bad rookie campaign.
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