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  1. Cap'n Piranha
    Yes.
  2. Cap'n Piranha
    You're right. Falvine deserve all the blame for only getting two relievers at the deadline, and none of the credit for the team playing at a 100 win pace.
  3. Cap'n Piranha
    They did the same against Berrios last night.
  4. Cap'n Piranha
    Perez against the 7 above .500 teams he's faced; 38.1 IP (less than 5.2/start), 4.69 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 6.6 k/9, 3.3 bb/9
  5. Cap'n Piranha
    This is an odd start for a pitcher hoping not to be relegated to the bullpen.
  6. Cap'n Piranha
    Red Wings play in Rochester NY, not MN.
  7. Cap'n Piranha
    I mean, I assume the Twins had Stewart fly last night. If they need to get another reliever after today, he'll also fly tonight.
  8. Cap'n Piranha
    First 3 runs came against the starter. Next 3 came against two guys who rank 3rd and 4th by FIP and 1st and 4th by xFIP in the Atlanta pen. They also have 87 IP between them, so it's not like it's SSS (at least for relievers). I think it's quite likely the Braves would've handled their pitching largely the same regardless of how many runs they had.
  9. Cap'n Piranha
    I'm fascinated that the Indians are playing two today--I assume they were forced to do this. If I were Cleveland, I would leave that middle game to the end of the year, for several reasons Keep the bullpen rested heading into the most important series of the year Remain on the earlier travel schedule (they would have finished the game around 1 Eastern, and arrived in MSP somewhere between 5 and 6. Now, they'll finish game two somewhere around 5 Eastern, and arrive in MSP somewhere between 9 and 10. If there are extra, or delays, they could easily arrive after midnight). If the Indians finish at least 1/2 a game away from every other team, the make-up game is irrelevant anyways. If it turns out they do need to make it up for playoff seeding, odds are they would get to play it against a Texas team whose season is over, and therefore will be completely checked out.Cleveland playing two today is a huge win for the Twins.
  10. Cap'n Piranha
    Stashak down, Stewart up. If we burn a bunch of pen options today, either Stewart or Littell will get "injured", and we'll bring up Thorpe.
  11. Cap'n Piranha
    Couple things about this game; Garver starting as he should against a lefty (1.176 OPS and 197 wRC+). However, this means he is catching a day game after a night game, which leads me to wonder why Rocco played Castro on Monday and not Garver; it seems like he didn't look two days in advance. It also means that Castro will in all likelihood catch 2 of the games against the Indians, when you could have had Garver go 3 times (Thursday, Friday, Sunday). Bad planning I'm not a huge fan of both Kepler and Arraez sitting for this one. Granted, both Cave and Schoop have performed acceptably against lefties, it just feels like a very subpar lineup being run out.
  12. Cap'n Piranha
    I put this loss on Rocco. When he sent Berrios out for the 6th inning despite Jose already having allowed 6 hits, 3 walks, and 5 runs, to me Rocco was signalling saving the bullpen was more important than winning the game. If Stashak is given a clean 6th, and Littell a clean 7th, perhaps this game is more like 7-6 or 8-6 going into the 8th.
  13. Cap'n Piranha
    I really wish the Twins had made a trade yesterday, so we didn't have to put up with a leaky bullpen.
  14. Cap'n Piranha
    https://blogs.fangraphs.com/estimated-tv-revenues-for-all-30-mlb-teams/ This is from April 2016, but it puts the Astros at $60M (top 10), compared to the Twins at $37M (bottom 10) Forbes also put their 2015 revenue at $270M, compared to the Twins at $240M. I'm going to bet the Astros are doing more than that now, while the Twins are about the same.
  15. Cap'n Piranha
    Dallas is "down the road" from Houston in the same way Hibbing is down the road from Minneapolis. The Astros market also probably includes much of Louisiana, as well as San Antonio, which is the 24th largest metro area on its own. Let's stop pretending Houston is a mid-size market all of the sudden.
  16. Cap'n Piranha
    And you know that LEN3 is not in contact with any individual in the Met's organization...how?
  17. Cap'n Piranha
    My wife is a fairly reasonable woman, and understands that sometimes there are excuses, and sometimes there are reasons. I'm fairly confident she would not blame me for rain or getting rear-ended, nor would she have preferred I strand our child at school in order to mow the lawn. Although that being said, as my wife and I are childless and live in an apartment building, this is completely theoretical on my end.
  18. Cap'n Piranha
    Of course there were questions before the season, but in a season that started with hopes of competing for a wild card. Blaming Falvine for not seeing the best offensive season in baseball history coming seems a little much. If they did think they were going to be on 100 win pace for the entire season, then yes, I would absolutely question their decision to bet everything on Rogers, Hildenberger, and May. I also have no problem with speculation, I have a problem with leveling absolutes based on merely speculation. If people want to speculate Falvine is balking at asking prices, that's one thing. Instead, people are speculating that Falvine aren't really doing anything, other than perhaps leaking some false reports so they don't look bad when they don't make a trade
  19. Cap'n Piranha
    This is an analogy, and therefore these are not little distractions. The faulty spark plug is an injured prospect, the rain is a team not being interested in your prospects, picking the kid up from school is working on a separate deal, and getting rear-ended is another team swooping in and stealing the player you were trying to acquire. None of those are little distractions, and are all things every baseball executive must deal with. Demanding something get done despite insurmountable obstacles is a good way to make calamitous decisions.
  20. Cap'n Piranha
    In this analogy where the mower is the prospects and the yard is the trade return, I assume the Twins neighbor (another MLB club) isn't going to let them use their prospects to get a deal done, at least not without some cost. If it's a beer, fine. If it's your brand new car, not so much.
  21. Cap'n Piranha
    Sure, because we all know that spark plugs only fail in winter, and when they do fail, loudly announce that fact immediately.
  22. Cap'n Piranha
    Again, a lot of assumptions here (unless you have proof I haven't seen). It's entirely possible this wasn't dumped, but leaked. I can't fault Falvine if an unidentified staffer has a beer too many and blurts out something to a reporter they shouldn't. I also can't discount that it could've been someone from the Mets putting that report out--maybe they would have been happy to get Buxton, but they were actually trying to drive up the price with another organization. There is just so little information out there, not to mention the meaning behind it, that it is impossible to gauge the effectiveness of a front office's efforts unless you are on the inside. Since none of us are, I choose to believe that our FO is good at what they do, given the results on the field, and the general misery of assuming otherwise.
  23. Cap'n Piranha
    So if you go out to mow your yard, but the mower won't start because of a faulty spark plug, and once you've replaced the spark plug, its started to rain, and once it stops raining you have to go pick up your kid at school, and once you've picked up your kid you get rear-ended on the drive back home, and once you've finished dealing with the police and insurance the sun has gone down, leaving the yard unmowed, it's because you didn't try? Yoda, by his own definition, is also a failure. He did not prevent the rise of the Sith, leading to the creation of the empire, and the death of millions, if not billions of sentient beings.
  24. Cap'n Piranha
    I would love to know where I said that. I have offered only rationales for why the FO has not completed any deals bigger than Romo, while stating that lack of results is not the same as lack of activity. If you read some of the posts on here stating the level of irritation posters would have if no trade is completed, it's quite clear that a number of people think they're not really trying.
  25. Cap'n Piranha
    No one is saying Activity > Results. I (and others) are saying No Results <> No Activity.
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