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  1. jimbo92107
    Well, lookie there. High and tight, the exact pitch Gibson needs to throw.
  2. jimbo92107
    What a play by Gibson! Fielded that short hop and tagged the man simultaneously.
  3. jimbo92107
    Twins shifted themselves out of an easy out on that ball through short.
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    Am I wrong, or is Grossman looking like a very good baseball player? He looks like he's more than just a walk machine now; he drives balls to the gaps as well as anybody. Also, his D has gotten much better. No speedster, but he takes good angles now, and seems to make fewer mistakes out there.
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    Okay, hyperbole is fun, but if you ever dipped a toe in Lake Superior, then pulled out a painful, frozen toe-cube, the waters here in San Diego are NOT as cold as the mysterious -20F fluid they call water in Superior. I've been there, and I can't believe the rocks don't roll right out, it's so cold. As for the airport in the middle of town... ...hang on a sec... ...can't hear myself type... ...okay, the planes don't bother you too much after you get used to the world-renowned "OB Pause." That's where you stop mid-sentence and wait until the din dies down. Otherwise, it's as charming as reported. Don't bother going into the ocean; then you just have to dry off, anyway. Come join us in bars, that's where all the cool kids hang out.
  6. jimbo92107
    I'm going to guess Mejia weighs about 260. His body shape appears to accommodate a few extra pounds. Big, thick body, like the pitching horse he is destined to be!
  7. jimbo92107
    Mejia's stuff is better than Milone's, and his command is far better than Deduno's. Thursday against the Angels we saw some of the reason Eddie Guardado and LaTroy Hawkins are so high on this guy. His stuff can be filthy, like the change ups and curves he had ducking out of the zone. His heater is good, and mostly he keeps it clear of the middle. Admittedly the Angels helped by being impatient at the plate. Mejia is another pitcher that won't throw strikes unless you force him to by being disciplined. If your team is swinging, he won't give you anything in the zone. He might not fare so well against a lineup of Robbie Grossmans. Fortunately, we've got the only one. Just about everybody else will swing at junk, if it is thrown the way Bert does.
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    Gibson and Hughes to the pen. Duffey and Kintzler stay put. Belisle and Breslow go away, replaced by Busenitz and Hildenberger. And that kid, the one with the wild hair and herky-jerk delivery. Covfefe. I want him in there, too. Where's he from, Argentina? Throws like a soccer player!
  9. jimbo92107
    Wow, Polanco got a little lucky. I thought that was a tie.
  10. jimbo92107
    Let's all be honest: Who here really expected a pitching duel?
  11. jimbo92107
    I'm actually glad to see Alex Meyer pitching well. He was snake-bit for such a long time. Maybe this time he'll finally catch on. Good luck to him.
  12. jimbo92107
    I haven't seen a Twins triple play in a long, long time. I think it was when Al Newman was playing 2nd. You almost have to have a third baseman with a rocket arm, like Sano's, or back then it was Gaetti.
  13. jimbo92107
    A brand new Triumph Tiger 800 XCA. Extremely expensive, now even more so. Sigh.
  14. jimbo92107
    Embarrassing and I'm guessing a couple grand in new plastic. I always figure plastic costs thousands of dollars...
  15. jimbo92107
    I was going to watch this game live, but I had a little accident on the I5 going north to LA. Learning to lane-split is going to be expensive.
  16. jimbo92107
    How do we expect to colonize Mars, when we've barely visited Uranus?
  17. jimbo92107
    Baseball is a constant process of compensation. Pressly's early dominance depended on batters whiffing on his curve ball...until replays revealed that Pressly's curve usually isn't a strike. Then hitting coaches started telling players to hold up on anything Pressly threw that curved. That's when Pressly started falling behind in counts, which forced him to throw his fast, but relatively straight heater. There's a couple of things Pressly should work on in AAA. First, he should work on perfecting his stride and release point for his curve and his slider, so he can throw both of them for consistent strikes. Second, he should stop throwing his four seam fastball so much, going instead with two-seamers and cutters. Pressly needs to create lateral movement to get his heater off the sweet spot. Right now hitters are laying off his curve, and barreling up his heater. He can't be a big league pitcher if that keeps happening.
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    This right here. ^^ Sure, Pressly's curve bends a lot, and it's well-nigh unhittable. But if he can't get it in the strike zone, what good is it? Meanwhile, Tyler Duffey's mind-bending curves zoom and slice through the air just as much, yet at some point in their crazy aerodynamic journey they usually cross the zone of strikeness. Same can be said for curves from Santana, Berrios, Santiago and Mejia. Their curves cross the zone, often just nicking an inside or outside corner, or drifting outside or beneath the zone just before a batter swings. If the curve is Pressly's best pitch, but he can't throw it for strikes, then Pressly doesn't really have a best pitch, does he? Unless he can learn to dominate with his curve, Pressly maybe doesn't belong in the major leagues.
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    That's exactly what people assumed about David McCarty. Pavin Smith's swing looks almost exactly like McCarty's swing did, all wrist. That's because artificial bats have unnaturally large active sweet spots. All you need do is flip your wrists to spray balls into the outfield. It takes about twice as much muscle power to get the same results with wood, and about twice the precision to hit balls consistently on the smaller sweet spot. That's why guys like Sano and Mauer are so rare. This is not to say a wrist flip is bad. Barry Bonds did a pronounced wrist flip. On the other hand, Bonds built up his forearms like a blacksmith, and pumped up his whole body with steroids to back up that wrist flip with massive muscle power. He also had great precision meeting the ball on the sweet spot. Too bad is was a chemically enhanced illusion. Smith's production is an illusion. It will go away the minute he tries to hit minor league pitching with a wood bat. That is my prediction. If he makes it at all, it will be as a light hitting 1B/RF. How's his defense?
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    Nope, nope, nope. Don't you guys recognize a wrist-flip swing when you see one? This guy's "power" is all in that fake bat, in that artificially huge sweet spot spread a foot wide along its length. When he goes to wood, HE. WILL. FLOP. Remember David McCarty from 1991? Meet David McCarty 2.0. This year, his name is Pavin Smith. The team that drafts this guy is going to have a light-hitting first baseman whose power disappears the minute he puts down his artificial bat, just like McCarty's did. When Smith faces professional pitchers with a wood bat and that tiny sweet spot, you can cut all his offensive numbers IN HALF, including his average exit velocity.
  21. jimbo92107
    Man, another reliever debacle. Is there anything at all in the minors? Jay? Chargois? Hildenberger? Bueller?
  22. jimbo92107
    I wonder how Fernando Romero would look in a Twins uniform... next week.
  23. jimbo92107
    Sorry, I've got a new cable package with tomorrow's shows today!
  24. jimbo92107
    And of course there's this: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansas-city-royals/article153251454.html Danny Duffy is out 4 to 6 weeks with an oblique strain, but from fielding, not pitching. He pulled it on a clumsy play covering 1st base. Bad luck can happen to anybody. Tuesday's debacle against Houston exposed the weaknesses in the Twins bullpen, especially Breslow and Belisle. If you simply DFA both those guys, it's hard to imagine there are no better options than that in AA and AAA. Melotakis surely could do better than Breslow. Any of the better AAA relievers will have better stuff than Belisle. Can't say I'm impressed anymore with Haley, either. We should see at least a few new names on the roster pretty soon. In the middle of this probably coming musical chairs with pitchers, I'm afraid it's unlikely the Twins will move the closest thing they've got to a really dominant reliever. Duffey won't come out of the pen until they have a few more guys in there that aren't a a complete disaster.
  25. jimbo92107
    Point to you - I did change the scope of my argument. Still, the pursuit of zen-like calm does seem worthwhile, given what it appears to do for Santana.
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