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  1. dxpavelka
    Future big league manager?
  2. dxpavelka
    And lets be honest, Eduardo Escobar is not exactly Cal Ripken or Ozzie Smith. We could easily be sitting here in 3-4 months wondering how 2014-15 Escobar became 2012-13 Escobar. Hopefully not, but stranger things have happened.
  3. dxpavelka
    or not
  4. dxpavelka
    The kicker to that is that even those guys are big money guys in the eyes of the Twins, they are actually fairly affordable in the eyes of big market teams.
  5. dxpavelka
    I would hope that guys like Meyer, Oliveros, Tonkin, Burdi, Chargois, Peterson & Jones would fill that need out of the pen sooner rather than later.
  6. dxpavelka
    Same way I've forgotten about Len Dawson, Larry Csonka, Franco Harris & Clutch Biletnikof
  7. dxpavelka
    I don't remember there being an arbitration component but I could be wrong about that. He appeared in 30 games and 86 innings in 2001 and 15 games and 43 innings in 2001 so he already had quite a few innings before 2002. 2002 was the specific season where he had 14 starts and 13 relief appearances combining for 108 innings. And I stand corrected, he did pitch out of the bullpen in the 2002 playoffs. My memory was blurred by the fact that he SHOULD have been the # 1 starter after striking out 137 batters and compiling a 2.99 ERA in those 108 innings.
  8. dxpavelka
    May's 2015, and, I suspect, 2016, remind me a lot of 2001-2002 Johan Santana: He spends half his time in the bullpen and at the end of the season you look up and realize that we don't have a better starter.
  9. dxpavelka
    .500 (at best) finish here we come. A rotation full of average starters gets you an average (at best) finish. Mediocrity rules.
  10. dxpavelka
    The 1950s called and want you to come home.
  11. dxpavelka
    Head in the sand is how folks like Donald Drumpf win elections.
  12. dxpavelka
    I don't see a Johnny Bench in the bunch but I don't see a Hermann or Fryer either.
  13. dxpavelka
    That and a quarter will get you a cup of coffee. Not the good kind but the kind you get for a quarter. Suck it up buttercup. He's not going anywhere. He's not retiring. He's not re-structuring his deal. And whether you like it or not, come April 4, he'll most likely be penciled into the 3 hole in the batting order. And no, Sano is NOT a better fit for the 3 spot. Sano spending the next decade and a half anywhere but the # 4 spot should be considered a fire-able offense for anyone making such decisions. Slot Park in at # 5 if you like. Plouffe fits nicely as a 6 hitter. But whether you like it or not we don't have anyone else who is a better fit in the 3 hole. Deal with it.
  14. dxpavelka
    I know he didn't show anything at Rochester but C'mon Man--2 words: Shane Robinson!!
  15. dxpavelka
    Rest assured, you were NOT the only one appalled with the handling of Arcia last year. It may have been a relatively small sample size but Eduardo Nunez was the only guy on the club to finish with more at bats & a higher batting average than Arcia last year. Could very well have been on his way to turning the corner but we may never know.
  16. dxpavelka
    Keeping Sweeney or Quentin over Arcia or Santana has the smell of a bonehead move that bites us in the ass for years to come.
  17. dxpavelka
    Wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for him to pitch to the level of his contract and force his way into the rotation.
  18. dxpavelka
    Like I said, he's only gonna get the chance if a lot of stuff goes wrong in the Zoo. But he's someone who, given the opportunity, I got a feeling he'll run with it. That said, he's not even the first guy named Aaron who is in line for increased opportunity there.
  19. dxpavelka
    Aaron Judge is just an old guy with a big nearly expiring contract falling and breaking a hip away from taking Yankee Stadium by storm.
  20. dxpavelka
    What would REALLY be fun would be to put him at 3B (move Plouffe to the OF if you want to move somebody) pencil him into the lineup in the # 4 spot and not look back for 15 years. Eventually, inevitably he moves across the diamond and eventually back to DH but those things sort themselves out when time comes. My biggest fear is that as a young kid he could take any defensive struggles he might have with him to the plate. I've been called crazy for worrying about such things but stranger things have happened. Why mess with the kid? Put him where he's comfortable and for the first time since the early '70s we can look to a decade of no concerns about the cleanup spot in the order. Seems simple enough to me. Why complicate things?
  21. dxpavelka
    The only level of certainty regarding the SS position is that is still a position that needs to be upgraded if we wish to be a serious contender. Just sayin
  22. dxpavelka
    The game is still played on the field by guys who can pitch, hit, catch, throw and run. When the analytics guys master those skills I'll put a little more faith in them.
  23. dxpavelka
    May HAS proven he can get big league hitters out, something neither Berrios nor Meyer has done. Granted, Berrios has not had the opportunity. Regardless until one of them comes up and actually performs he's a hell of a lot closer to being an ace than either one of them. It is also highly unlikely that anyone who will leave Florida as a member of the rotation has a better chance of being an ace either. As far as Berrios & Meyer are concerned, I'd have no issue with the two of them and May being part of our rotation by the end of this season and for many years beyond. As far as who gets to be considered the "ace", it's all just semantics anyway, let them decide that over the next 5-10 years on the field.
  24. dxpavelka
    May to the pen is a foolish move. He's got the best chance of anybody to become an ace capable of giving us 200+ lights out innings a year and we're wasting him in a role where MIGHT pitch half that many innings. Get with it Twins.
  25. dxpavelka
    Noticed a few comments about spending money on the pen. Bullpen is probably the last place you should spend money. For every Kevin Jepsen who gives you a reasonable return on your money, there's a Matt Capps-and a Ron Davis--and some years a Blaine Boyer AND a Tim Stauffer. Most teams that successfully rebuild a bullpen do so with young arms from the farm. No need for this team to do otherwise.
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