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  1. dxpavelka
    Buxton is also younger today than Schmidt was when he debuted and to this point has 300 fewer career plate appearances than Schmidt did by the end of his rookie year so I'm thinking there may still be some time and hope for the lad. I'm less concerned about Schmidt's Babip than I am encouraged by the fact that Buxton is hovering near the league average in that overhyped area.
  2. dxpavelka
    Start with Mike Schmidt.
  3. dxpavelka
    Looks like I need to go to the archives and pull out everything I posted about Aaron Hicks from 2013 to May 2015.
  4. dxpavelka
    If his BABIP was at the other end of the spectrum (See, Santana, Danny, 2014) I'd be inundated with posts on here about how he would be a candidate for a huge regression to the mean. Should not the same apply in the opposite direction in this situation? Of course a wise man once said that advanced metrics are a wonderful tool--for predicting the past.
  5. dxpavelka
    Needs to be a leadoff hitter. Dozier is NOT a leadoff hitter. Is Dan Gladden available? Lou Brock? Ricky Henderson?
  6. dxpavelka
    FIND A LEADOFF HITTER
  7. dxpavelka
    I've been on the use Plouffe in a Super U role bandwagon since the day Sano first set foot in the big league clubhouse. Have him start 5 game a week-one each at each of the corner infield and outfield spots and one at DH. Unless we some indication that Buxton and / or Kepler is ready to be the every day lead off hitter, any trade needs to net a lead off hitter. Dozier is NOT a lead off hitter. He is a # 6 hitter-as are Park and Rosario unless Plouffe is traded, at which point Park should be able to be your # 5 hitter. This team has lots of pieces. Sometimes the toughest part is putting the right pieces in the right places at the right times.
  8. dxpavelka
    Short term, Sano shouldn't play right field after lunch.
  9. dxpavelka
    Been saying it for years. The reason Mauer has spent most of his career in the 3 hole is because he is the best pure hitter they have. That has not changed. Mauer should bat 3rd, Sano 4th and Plouffe 5th. Part of the problem with this lineup is that Rosario, Park and Dozier should all be # 6 hitters. There. I've said it. Dozier is not, never has been, and never will be a leadoff hitter. Unless or until either Buxton or Kepler wins a job and proves to be a leadoff hitter one of those three should be traded for a leadoff hitter. It won't be Park.
  10. dxpavelka
    Be nice if they could hit a little bit though.
  11. dxpavelka
    The fact that Cabrera weighed 220 pounds when he switched to the outfield does nothing to lead me to believe that Sano will be successful doing so at 270.
  12. dxpavelka
    I spent the entire offseason warning of just such a possibility and was assured by some folks on this page who claim to be a whole lot smarter than me that I was just pulling impossible **** out of my ass.
  13. dxpavelka
    Maybe people keep bringing up weight because the number of players who have not been major disappointments as outfielders at Sano's weight can be counted on with one hand.
  14. dxpavelka
    The move to RF should have been Plouffe from day one. Put the guy who has the chance to be the offensive cornerstone of your team for the next decade and a half in the defensive position he played over 90% of his minor league games at. This ain't rocket science. Move Plouffe to the OF to showcase his versatility thus increasing his value for the inevitable trade. Hello McFly (Terry Ryan & Paul Molitor) anybody in there?
  15. dxpavelka
    Have the Twins ever considered hiring Tommy John as a pitching coach?
  16. dxpavelka
    My question is how many of those guys on the single season leaderboard had a manager who saw fit to bat them in the # 3 spot in the order? I'd much rather see him hit 4th and have a better chance of having more runners on base which would hopefully lead to him seeing better pitches and replacing a few of those strikeouts with base hits and home runs. If Buxton struggles in the 9 spot this only becomes magnified for Sano at 3. I'd put him in the 4 hole and hopefully not move him for a decade and a half.
  17. dxpavelka
    I got the Cubs in this race.
  18. dxpavelka
    Future big league manager?
  19. 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.
  20. dxpavelka
    or not
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. dxpavelka
    Same way I've forgotten about Len Dawson, Larry Csonka, Franco Harris & Clutch Biletnikof
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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