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  1. Cap'n Piranha
    Padres play-by-play guy: "Mauer hits it right up the middle, and it goes all the way to the wall". That is one hell of an extreme outfield shift.
  2. Cap'n Piranha
    Both of the Padres radio announcers are decidedly fast talkers. I'm going to need a nap by the time the game is over. I'm sure that need is in no way related to the fried chicken.
  3. Cap'n Piranha
    Well, so long as you've never heard one, then we're good.
  4. Cap'n Piranha
    Hey ChiTown--this is my favorite t-shirt ever. http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODk1WDEyMTc=/z/c0EAAOSwd0BV541l/$_35.JPG
  5. Cap'n Piranha
    As concerns today's theme, here's a song the Fab 4 wrote about Bartolo Colon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqbZjr5PY1w
  6. Cap'n Piranha
    Hey everyone, I think we got this game today. I just finished off my lunch, which was actually a chicken dinner.
  7. Cap'n Piranha
    Legit hit. Tapper that Sano made a nice barehanded play on, just took too long with how slow the ball was moving.
  8. Cap'n Piranha
    Buck a little rusty--he got 6 balls in that AB, but somehow still ground out.
  9. Cap'n Piranha
    Eddie Rosario OPS's .816 against righties. Zach Granite OPS's .652 against righties. Naturally, with a righty on the mound, Granite is in the lineup. Also, my iPhone tried to autocorrect Zach to Zachary. Siri hates informality.
  10. Cap'n Piranha
    To make the playoffs the Twins have to outperform at least 2 out of the CLE, KC, NYY, BOS, and TB group, to say nothing of the Mariners (1.5 up) and the Angels (only 0.5 back). Even with Kintzler, Garcia, and a couple more relievers, I don't think that happens. So rather than finish 84-78, and miss the wild card by 7ish games and the division by 9ish, then get nothing for Garcia, nothing for Kintzler, AND have a weaker farm system, we very much improved our depth, and can still sign both Garcia and Kintzler if we want. This was absolutely the right thing to do.
  11. Cap'n Piranha
    Because if the player isn't actually hurt, you need their cooperation (perhaps a better word would be collusion) to make that move. If Polanco is not hurt, and not interested in a trip to Rochester, he or his agent can simply call foul on an attempted DL placement. That being said, it also doesn't make any sense to avoid playing Polanco to try an win, since we're calling the season anyways. Let him play and develop, or play and help us lose, either way is a win for the team at this point.
  12. Cap'n Piranha
    Littell is 21, and doing extremely well in High A and AA. Ynoa is 19, and struggling (although SSS does apply) in advanced rookie ball. This is a very rudimentary analysis, but I'd say Littell>Ynoa, so to get Enns as well is a very nice move by Falvine. Unless the Braves are in love with Ynoa, they have to be pissed.
  13. Cap'n Piranha
    Sell Santana if you get any kind of reasonable offer, since he's not likely to repeat this performance next year.
  14. Cap'n Piranha
    Let's hope it's because either Colon is retiring or they're close to trading Santana or Garcia for a nice package.
  15. Cap'n Piranha
    Since Jose's ERA and bb/9 have increased every month, and his k/9 has decreased every month, maybe we should trade Santana away so he stops mentoring Berrios.
  16. Cap'n Piranha
    While it sort of explains the Recker acquisition, the FO still messed it up, in my opinion. Essentially, we lost Haley in order to keep Recker over Rohlfing. I think I'd rather have Haley and Rohlfing than Recker; so unless the Braves were insistent that we take Recker in order to get Garcia, I don't understand the move.
  17. Cap'n Piranha
    As for the double switch controversy, let's just add the DH to the NL. Problem solved. For pace of play, give the pitcher 20 seconds from gloving the ball to throwing the pitch, so long as the batter is also in the box. Allow a batter one timeout per AB, and prohibit him from stepping out of the box in between pitches. Limit catchers to three mound visits per game, with a 30 second limit. Starters are limited to one trip from a pitching coach, relievers as a whole get one visit from the pitching coach. Failure by the batter to observe the rules is a strike, failure by the pitcher to observe the rules is a ball, and an extra visit by a catcher or coach is an automatic walk where every base runner advances a base. If the bases are empty, it's a two-base walk, to ensure visits aren't used as intentional walks.
  18. Cap'n Piranha
    In the standings section, are you trying to show how far the Tigers and White Sox are behind the Twins? Because the Tigers are indeed 4 back of us, 8.5 of the Indians, but the Sox are 9 back of the Twins, 13.5 of the Indians.
  19. Cap'n Piranha
    I don't know about anyone else, but I definitely thought Boshers and Belisle would combine for 2 perfect innings with 4 strikeouts on 25 pitches tonight.
  20. Cap'n Piranha
    Scratch that, never mind.
  21. Cap'n Piranha
    This would seem like a good place to use a lefty reliever if you're the dodgers, no?
  22. Cap'n Piranha
    Joe is far too polite to bang anything. He'd prefer to lightly and apologetically tap.
  23. Cap'n Piranha
    The Rockies confiscated your backpack and redistributed it to other fans? What kind of great gifts did you presciently pack it with?
  24. Cap'n Piranha
    The fact that we've had issues in the past with trading for NL pitchers should not color our decision making process at all. Should we pass on acquiring Kershaw or Scherzer because they're from the NL? Each player should be based on their merits/similar players, and league played in is not a significant enough differentiator.
  25. Cap'n Piranha
    It behooves the Twins to start getting an idea on how many legitimate options we have for next years rotation. We have 3 locks in Santana, Berrios, and Mejia. Santiago is probably gone, and we shouldn't count on Hughes being able to ever start again. That leaves Gibson, Slegers, Jorge, Gonsalves, and Romero as guys who could potentially contribute next year. I think it makes sense to start finding out if the potential is real or not, rather than experiment with a bunch of has-beens, and never-weres.
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