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  1. dxpavelka
    Meanwhile, back in the real world, if half those guys hit those ceilings there should be gridlock in Minneapolis because the streets will be filled with ambulances retrieving 30,000 rubes from Target Field with cartwheel injuries. A realistic expectation would be that 3-4 of those guys hit those ceilings and that 1-2 never even sniff the big leagues. If the guys in between become above average big leaguers all should be well.
  2. dxpavelka
    Could not agree more.
  3. dxpavelka
    It sounds like you've created a huge defensive black hole at 2B.
  4. dxpavelka
    What we've gotten thus far from Nunez is what we were led to expect from Escobar 3 months ago--with less defense. Things change fast.
  5. dxpavelka
    I'm really trying to get excited about Nunez. I really am. But then I remember that the things I'm being told I should continue to expect from him are the same things I was told I could expect from Escobar two months ago--minus exceptional defense. But I'm trying. I really am.
  6. dxpavelka
    Thought 1: The problem with drafting for need in baseball is that by the time a guy is ready to contribute your needs have usually drastically changed. Thought 2: Get Trevor May in the rotation and stop wasting his arm as a set up guy on a 17-40 team. 17-40 teams don't need to develop set up guys, they need to develop starters. STOP THE MADNESS.
  7. dxpavelka
    Not quite sure how or what you read into my comments to make you believe I view 2002-2010 as a failure on Terry Ryan's part. If the last 15 years and the last 5 in particular have taught us anything, that thing should be that it's a hell of a lot better to get to the playoffs and not win than to be relegated to playing meaningless ball by August, or July, or June, or May.
  8. dxpavelka
    See: Ryan, Terry: Circa: 2002-2010
  9. dxpavelka
    I agree about Dozier in the two hole-or any spot above 8. Problem is the same as when folks gripe about wanting Mauer moved down--better options are few and far between.
  10. dxpavelka
    Not trying to sell anything as failures. Just stating facts. To the other extreme we might also want to let them actually accomplish something before we crown their asses.
  11. dxpavelka
    Just to clarify: The 3 teams you identified as examples of using this two tiered approach, while admittedly trending in a positive direction--at least one of them is, and lets be honest one of the others is two games over .500 with a $223 million payroll, have thus far combined for ZERO World Series rings using this approach.
  12. dxpavelka
    Or they could be the same as in 2012 when he was a fairly serviceable big league pitcher. Guess that's why they play the games.
  13. dxpavelka
    Cuz extra points are too easy. Worked for the NFL.
  14. dxpavelka
    And in the last 6 times the Wolves have had an opening or every time the Wild have had an opening......????
  15. dxpavelka
    We don't KNOW that a call wasn't made. We assume. And we all know how that works out.
  16. dxpavelka
    If you want to make comparisons, compare the 2015 Twins to the 1984 Twins. After years on not competing both teams broke thru and got a taste of what being competitive was like. Then try to remember that between 1984 & 1987 they fired two managers and brought in a new GM. Next move(s)?
  17. dxpavelka
    Maddon was the rare guy who was in a position to call his shot, whether right away or waiting a year. When is the last time a guy in that position who even bothered to answer a call from a Minnesota area code?
  18. dxpavelka
    I wouldn't say they are INSISTANT on hiring a manger with no experience. It just so happens the guy they hired (who much if not most of the fan base currently griping also thought was the right guy-even as recently as 8 months ago) didn't have any.
  19. dxpavelka
    And yet Kingman's pretty much remembered as a joke of a player who did one thing well. But you may be right-I may be selling Kingman short. Especially when I compare his numbers to another current Twin who mostly seems to be able to do one thing reasonably well.
  20. dxpavelka
    If Gardenhire's being groomed as anything it might be as a potential manager. The current guy in that spot seems to be among the struggling. Don't see him being groomed as a potential GM.
  21. dxpavelka
    Slice .196 any way you want. Schmidt hit for power and raised his career BA to .267. Had he not done that he would be remembered as Dave Kingman,
  22. dxpavelka
    In what league is a .196 hitter "almost average"?
  23. dxpavelka
    And if Schmidt had stayed at those levels, he'd have been pumping gas in Altoona by his 4th year. Again, 187 PA for Buxton MAY be a bit early to be drawing firm conclusions.
  24. dxpavelka
    Is pretty much the only part that matters.
  25. dxpavelka
    And yet when Danny Santana's was well above the league average in 2014 it was heralded as a bad thing. Bottom line is it's way to early to sell Buxton short.
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