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  1. jimbo92107
    Yeah, but I gotta tell ya, fame will change you. Before you know it, you start acting weird to the butlers and maids, and your only friends will be other famous comedy bloggers.
  2. jimbo92107
    To be totally frank, to me it looks like Pat Dean has better starter stuff than Kyle Gibson, who seems to have lost a lot of movement. I'd also like to see them try Taylor Rogers for a couple starts.
  3. jimbo92107
    It might take a while... They still have to convert all the starters to relievers, and all the relievers to starters.
  4. jimbo92107
    Hector Santiago... Are we certain he's not a witch? Everything went downhill right after the Twins traded Ricky Nolasco for Santiago. Before that, everything was going really well... We shall use my largest scales!
  5. jimbo92107
    Grossman's greatest value is as an example of how to squeeze these mlb pitchers, even when you don't have a big threat in your bat. No pitcher fears Grossman's awesome power, yet he still manages to get more walks than just about anybody in the majors. How can this be?? The answer is shamefully simple: Most mlb pitchers want to get you out with junk outside the strike zone. If a hitter seriously won't swing at their junk, then he can get a ton of walks. The whole baseball world even knows this about Grossman, and still he gets a ton of walks. What this really means is that every mlb hitter is swinging at far too much junk. Even cutting down on junk swings a little has made Eddie Rosario look good again, and he still swings at loads of junk. The sad truth of the matter may have more to do with MLB public relations than anything else. Teams and the league don't want to fill the bases with walks. They want to shorten the game by getting players to put the ball in play. Grossman's patient style is effective, but it's boring to watch. It's okay to have one or two guys like Grossman in the league, just as it's okay for Boston and one other team to have a knuckleballer, as a novelty. But what if a team developed a whole staff of really good knuckleballers? The league would not tolerate it. If you're wondering why there's no market for Grossman, it's because his style of ball doesn't fit what the league wants to put out there. Even if it works, it's not what MLB wants to see.
  6. jimbo92107
    How to put it... Taint no way this team needs him. Taint just about his age. Taint just because he's a Yankee. Taint like we ain't got better guys already. Let's steer the ship clear of the A-Roid. Taint nothing he or Barry Bonds or Mark McGwire or Sammy Sosa have that the Twins need.
  7. jimbo92107
    I don't think Rosario's problems at the plate are physical or psychological. I think after he came back from injury and his suspension, he decided his fastest route to the bigs was to get more aggressive at the plate. Rosie did indeed get to the bigs quickly, based a lot on Paul Molitor's admiration of his swing and his generally aggressive attitude towards playing baseball. Now that we have all seen what Rosario can do, the question is how he will evolve as a player. Twins sent him down for a while to narrow his swing zone to match the strike zone, and so far that has worked pretty well. He is now getting into better counts more often, and it's paying off with better pitches to hit. Molitor doesn't want Rosario to go full Grossman, trying to squeeze a walk out of every at bat. Rosie's got game-changing pop that they want somewhere in the middle of the order. What I'm seeing is Rosario and the Twins looking for an optimal balance between aggressiveness and patience at the plate. He's not going to dominate at the mlb level the way he did in the low minors, but he can still be a star. I think Rosario wants to be a Bryce Harper type player. I don't think he's that far off from accomplishing that lofty goal.
  8. jimbo92107
    Almost forgot - good job by Duffey. He was firing his finger missiles!
  9. jimbo92107
    Wow, 95mph sinker at the knees by Kintzler. Winner.
  10. jimbo92107
    To me, "adequate" for a major leaguer indicates an ability to throw a baseball with velocity and accuracy I could only dream of. I can't even imagine throwing a baseball like Sano. My arm would fall right off. Heck, even Sano's arm got hurt. TJ surgery for a third baseman... yikes. Mainly, it looks like Polanco's arm will suffice for most plays at SS. But if he goes deep in the hole, he won't throw out a fast man. Escobar's arm is stronger. Also, I hear Engelb Vielma has a gun, and same goes for Nick Gordon, somewhere down the line... Good news, Polanco can play three infield positions, and hits lots of line drives!
  11. jimbo92107
    'Tis but a scratch! ;-)
  12. jimbo92107
    Looks about the same strength as Dozier's arm. Adequate, not a bullet like Sano's.
  13. jimbo92107
    "Six unintentional walks." Ball four. Seven unintentional walks.
  14. jimbo92107
    Hoisted on my own grammatical petard! It appears that Polanco, even in his sleep, could hit McHugh! Meanwhile, if Centeno's liner were a couple feet lower, McHugh's day would have been done.
  15. jimbo92107
    The difference between comedy and tragedy is when you end the story. ;-)
  16. jimbo92107
    Geeze, Polanco looks like he can hit McHugh in his sleep!
  17. jimbo92107
    Bert has talked about it lots of times, and it's also true in tennis: If you want the ball to bite downwards, you have to punch your fingers over the ball at the release point. If you don't fire those finger missiles, the ball won't bite down. For instance, lots of people can swat a tennis serve very fast, but they have no idea why it sails flat and long. Opening up too soon and not jabbing your fingers are the two reasons the ball sails long. Same thing must be true with pitching. I wonder if Neil Allen just told Duffey that...
  18. jimbo92107
    Danny Santana just found out why the Twins need Murphy, Turner or Garver behind the plate. We gotta have a guy back there that can throw out runners. Seriously, batting average is a secondary concern.
  19. jimbo92107
    Did you see what McHugh just said after the ball went over Gomez's head? I could lip read: "WTF is he doing?"
  20. jimbo92107
    I am liking Jorge Polanco. This kid can flat out hit, and most of his hits are very flat.
  21. jimbo92107
    Even dumber than that... My buddy and I were trying to make nitroglycerin. The teacher wouldn't tell us how.
  22. jimbo92107
    When exactly is Juan Centeno gonna field a bouncer without it skipping away from him? I'd really like to see him block three in a row successfully.
  23. jimbo92107
    Way back in high school chemistry class, I met a kid that liked to screw around after class mixing chemicals randomly, like me and a buddy of mine. I noticed that he was missing the ends of a couple fingers. How did that happen? He'd been making gunpowder with a mortar and pestle. What?? He was grinding the powders...together?? He hadn't thought of that. My point is, when Tyler Duffey throws his flat four-seam fastball in the strike zone, he's asking for an unpleasant explosion. Duffey should never throw that pitch in the strike zone. You could lose a finger that way.
  24. jimbo92107
    The important thing for Duffey is getting his fingers over the top of the ball, so it bites downward. So far he's doing a great job of getting over the ball.
  25. jimbo92107
    I like what I'm seeing from Duffey. His heater is tailing down nicely. First two pitches to the second batter were impressive. First pitch was a couple inches low. Second pitch was two inches higher for a strike. That is called command.
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