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  1. Loosey
    I'm not saying that happy veterans will make a difference. I was trying to make a point that there is no way Molitor can actually believe what he was saying. For his own benefit he has to say that. If he didn't his own job gets much more difficult than it already is with unhappy vets.
  2. Loosey
    That Molitor quote is something someone would say when they are about to lose their job and/or about to lose their veteran players. Of course he has to say something like that. If he says were going to start playing the kids soon, the veteran guys are going to be pissed and there will be even more issues than there already are.
  3. Loosey
    I think Jim Pohlad said it best (I can't believe I just said that), Its a Total System Failure. In my mind that means ownership, front office and on-field management/coaching as well as the players. Terry Ryan is to blame for a most of this mess. Fans were clamoring for years to spend money, and he wouldn't do it. Then out of nowhere he goes and does spend money, but he went half-ass in my opinion. Giving Hughes and Nolasco decent sized contracts (in a Terrible FA pitcher class year). He could have waited a year and tried signing one very nice FA pitcher instead since 2014, was not going to be a good year. But Terry Ryan is risk averse, and signing two medium sized contracts, in theory, have a better chance of not blowing up as easily as one very large signing would. But in this case both now have. Now they are both unmovable and at the same time blocking other potential starting pitchers. And that is just one blunder.
  4. Loosey
    Here's a question to chew on: Let's say the Twins do decide that he is no longer a viable starting pitcher and has to be moved to the pen due to him not being able to exceed 60+ pitches. That's essentially a $12M a year middle reliever they will have to deal with. Will this move effect the front office's thinking when/if it comes time to trade Nolasco? If the Twins get an offer for Nolasco but have to eat a bunch of his salary for the deal to go through will the Twins balk at it because they are already basically eating Hughes' salary as well? That is concerning to me.
  5. Loosey
    Man, this bottom must be deep. I think we say this on an every other day basis. We keep digging and keep finding rock unfortunately.
  6. Loosey
    This isn't little league. Some players are more important than others. Berrios is one that should be handled differently than other young pitchers. Berrios a big part of the long-term plan and success of the Twins future. So, yes I would give him more "free passes" than others.
  7. Loosey
    I personally would have gone the complete opposite direction that Twins went with Berrios. Instead of optioning him back to AAA I would have started him again on Thursday since he only threw 39 pitches and told him to get back out there and RELAX, have fun and go dominate. He won't be punished for a bad game or 2 or 3. But that's just me.
  8. Loosey
    Maybe the Twins can bring in Mike Yeo to smash some bats and swear a lot. That seemed to work for the hockey team occasionally.
  9. Loosey
    I know Seth and a few others have reported he had shoulder fatigue, but at this point I am wondering if there is actually more to it than that. I'm sure the Twins are not saying anything officially because he is not on the DL and they don't have to. The ones saying shoulder fatigue were probably told that is the issue if asked. I hope everything is alright with him and it really is just his shoulder, but my gut says there is more to this and that might be a smokescreen
  10. Loosey
    So on a contending team the Twins are fine with leaving AA quality relief pitcher in the bullpen all year long even if it means one less roster spot to help the team. But in a lost season there is no room for the potential future Ace of the team find his way. Ok, got it.
  11. Loosey
    They have no plan. Or if they do it changes daily. Today their plan is to use borderline MLB players with no long-term future to win a few extra meaningless games. In 2 weeks it will be to bring up prospects and then send them down if they have a bad game. If they treated every player like they treat prospects the Twins would have no players on the team. Joe Mauer went 0-5 last night. If he was a prospect he would be in AAA since he failed all 5 times at the plate in one game.
  12. Loosey
    I agree with all of what you said except the Buxton thing. Buxton needs to learn pitch recognition and make it a permanent thing in his head. Give him another month.
  13. Loosey
    This organization has become a laughing stock. Everything is so disjointed right now. The Twins need to know this season is toast, no 15 game winning streaks are going to save this season. Unfortunately this season needs to be about developing the future, not scrapping together rotations with Pat Dean plugging AAA cast offs into the Major League outfield. Their development of minor leaguers is fantastic in the minors, yet once they get to Minnesota they are are completely different players. I don't believe that all of the ML struggles are due to the player not being ready for Major League competition yet. It is the way they are handled once they are here. Molitor/Ryan/Managment is going to ruin these guys if they continue to treat them the way they currently are. Meyer, Berrios, Kepler, Polanco all have bright futures but are not allowed to develop their major league games. They are allowed to play until they struggle and then are sent back down. From July on this should be about the future and the kids. I want Berrios, Meyer, May in the rotation. I want Buxton, Kepler, Arcia in the outfield with Polanco in the infield with Sano. They will probably have about a .300 winning percentage, but it will prepare them for the future.
  14. Loosey
    Any official word yet on what is going on with Meyer? I still don't see him in any of the starting pitcher upcoming games for Rochester, they are all TBD from tomorrow on.
  15. Loosey
    My problem with this is if the Twins really did like him last year they could have found a way to keep him in the organization and open up a 25 man spot when they realized they were in contention. I doubt Atlanta would have needed much in return for the Twins to keep him and stick him in AAA. I mean he just got traded for a "PTBNL or cash" less than a year later.
  16. Loosey
    Tell me if I am completely wrong on this thought, but right now doesn't it make more sense to have Beresford up instead of Polanco for the Escobar DL stint? First of all Polanco is probably a better overall prospect who once completely up will be a starter. Beresford not being the level of prospect Polanco is will be more of a bench player, utility guy. He should be up getting used to sitting coming in cold, playing every 4-5 days etc. Polanco needs to play daily in my opinion.
  17. Loosey
    That's almost a given.
  18. Loosey
    Well Hughes has been averaging 3.2 innings his last 3 starts. Just don't have May pitch in the few days prior to Hughes next start and then give him the 4th -7th and stretch him out that way. There's a good way to get him started.
  19. Loosey
    If I recall, last year there was a debate about who was going to go to the pen, Pelfrey or May. Then May had a really bad outing and was moved to the pen. It's almost as if Molitor was waiting for a bad start from him to move him there no matter how good his other starts were or weren't.
  20. Loosey
    Front office to do list: 1) Sit on Hands 2) Make random transaction that makes no sense 3) Continue with Hand Sitting
  21. Loosey
    And I would take a salary dump.
  22. Loosey
    Nolasco whom? Outside of getting rid of Nolasco (good) their farm system is depleted and the actual return would be minimal (bad).
  23. Loosey
    I said all of it was based on assumptions that I have no knowledge of. I don't work in the baseball business. The whole thing was hypothetical however, and I was using a pitcher as an example as that was used in another post. I was by no means stating fact. Mainly I was wondering if they have a staff of people who do this sort of attendance analysis. Bottom line is if they want butts in the seats, the best way to do it long term is to win baseball games. Which is a whole other analysis predicting success with team salary and attendance. But like I said all hypothetical.
  24. Loosey

    Jim Palmer on Berrios

    Loosey commented on huhguy's blog entry in Blog huhguy

    He's pitched in 3 MLB games and in my opinion has more than held his own. He has shown he definitely has the stuff to be very good. Now he needs to learn how to harness that against MLB hitters so he doesn't end up throwing 90 pitches in 5 innings. I think he will adapt and learn quickly.
  25. Loosey
    I thought I read that Alex Swim decided to retire from baseball. So there is one more spot.
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