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  1. djvang
    NEVER pitch to Gregorius. Walk him every time. I don't care if the bases are loaded. You can't let the same guy beat you over and over and over.
  2. djvang
    And opposing hitters are sad.
  3. djvang
    I'm fine with them not making a big trade. No teams were willing to pay the asking price for Syndegaard or Bumgarner. It wasn't just the Twins. Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.
  4. djvang
    I wouldn't give up much for Syndegaard. Too injury prone. I'm fine with them turning down bad deals. They need a starter and two relievers to help this year. That would be too expensive.
  5. djvang
    I have no confidence in Addison Reed.
  6. djvang
    We've been going to spring training since 2002. In the past if you got there 2 hours before game time you could watch the players who weren't in the lineup that day take BP on the field next to the stadium. Pitchers were shagging flies, Oliva & Carew were behind the batting cage and manager would talk to fans. That's changed this year. Player workouts end sooner so the only players working out are minor leaguers on the back fields. It's still fun to watch but you don't know who most of them are. It's was disappointing.
  7. djvang
    Was at the game today. Reed gave up a grand slam bomb. Duffey also got rocked. Time to pull the plug on both of them.
  8. djvang
    And all along, the answer was: see ball, hit ball.
  9. djvang
    So the new analytics type GMs are learning that huge, long-term contracts are not economically feasible, especially in the the last years of the contract. The gravy train is over.
  10. djvang
    No. He should be banned from baseball just for that ridiculous Karate Kid thing he does.
  11. djvang
    Three-batter minimum I would go with a two-batter minimum. Universal designated hitter Either way is fine 20-second pitch clock Definitely. But it has to be balanced between the pitcher and the batter. Mound visits Four should be enough. Roster size OK. Maximum of 13 pitchers on the roster. Anti-tanking Don't know how they would enforce that. Some teams are just bad. I would also ban The Wave.
  12. djvang
    Castro will pick up the slack in taking called third strikes and then complaining.
  13. djvang
    I expect the Twins to make the playoffs this year because expectations are so low. It's the way they baseball.
  14. djvang
    Bad seed. Steer clear of him.
  15. djvang
    Careful. That's what we heard about Buxton and Sano. I'm old enough to remember pitchers Gasser & Baumgarner who they wouldn't trade for anyone. Neither even made it to the majors.
  16. djvang
    I'm suggesting he could swing at a pitch that might be 1/4" inch out of the strike zone rather than hope that a lesser hitter drives in the run. His anemic RBI totals show that. Escobar drove in more runs and Garver & Cave drove in almost as many in far fewer AB.
  17. djvang
    It was always disappointing when Mauer would work a walk with RISP. How about trying to drive in a run once in awhile? They need to be more aggressive at the plate.
  18. djvang
    Cano? Nothing. Bad seed.
  19. djvang
    And they've already got Grossman to complain about taking called third strikes.
  20. djvang
    It's nice to have a player who actually goes to the plate looking to hit the ball instead of work the count.
  21. djvang
    Relievers are always a crap shoot. They seem to go from great to awful and vice versa with the flip of a switch.
  22. djvang
    Sano and Buxton having been busts so far got me thinking about Steve Gasser and Brian Baumgarner, two minor league pitching phenoms from the mid 80's that the Twins wouldn't trade for anyone. They never made the majors and eventually were traded to the Mets for .........Wally Backman.
  23. djvang
    Exactly. The line that floored me after Buxton came up is that he'd have to change his swing to be successful in the majors. WHAT? That's the whole purpose of the minor leagues! It's not to produce players who can be successful at AAA or AA.
  24. djvang
    September stats should be taken with many grains of salt.
  25. djvang
    I guess they needed a scapegoat for Sano and Buxton being flops.
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