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  1. dxpavelka
    Span never hit the big leagues until Hunter left. Not sure a few weeks in spring training qualifies as a big time mentoring experience.
  2. dxpavelka
    Although most fans haven't figured it out yet, this team has been moving away from the "pitch to contact" philosophy for years. The problem is that it takes a long time to change an organizational philosophy and you do so from the the bottom of the system up. The power arms will start hitting the big leagues soon enough. Phil Hughes is somewhat of a high ball/fly ball pitcher and the outfield defense didn't negatively affect him. Why? Because he is a good pitcher, throws strikes and takes care of his own business.
  3. dxpavelka
    Our rotation (and our fan base) should spend more time worrying about doing their own job and less time looking for excuses.
  4. dxpavelka
    Jason Heyward's defense is so good--They traded him.
  5. dxpavelka
    Milone may "currently" slot in as our 6th or 7th starter but I don't see 5 Cy Young candidates slotted ahead of him and things change fast. Keep.
  6. dxpavelka
    Not only might he have peaked in 2014 he may have done so with a .242 average. Power can be fleeting. 23 home runs is not a lot for a .242 hitter especially when only 5 of them came after the All-Star break. Eddie Rosario, Jorge Polanco, Levi Michael, maybe even Nick Gordon. Lots of guys who may be quite capable of playing second base in the near future at the level that we've been led to believe Dozier is a near all-star at.
  7. dxpavelka
    Arcia in LEFT field?
  8. dxpavelka
    This has pretty much been the standard in "reporting" since the advent of the internet. Guys constantly report stuff that may or may not be factual because they don't want to be the guy who got scooped by someone else. "Brett Favre is going to retire." "Brett Favre is going to not retire." "Percy Harvin wants to be traded." "Vikings management wants to get rid of AP." "Vikings management wants to not get rid of AP." "Tim Tebow this." "Tim Tebow that." Aaron Hernandez may or may not have murdered someone." Sound familier?
  9. dxpavelka
    More often than not, teams that sign pitchers to contracts longer than 3 or 4 years, regret those contracts on the back end, regardless of the dollar amount of the contract. See Santana, Johan, New York Mets.
  10. dxpavelka
    In 2105 we'll have the best metric of all for measuring his impact--wins & losses.
  11. dxpavelka
    Looking backward is going backward.
  12. dxpavelka
    Yeah. So?
  13. dxpavelka
    Unless the guy has Johnny Bench's bat I can't imagine any manager, old or new, staking his future to a guy who after 9 years of minor league ball is still nowhere near being even an average defensive catcher. Not quite ready to say he's got Johnny Bench's bat.
  14. dxpavelka
    16 of the 29 guys drafted ahead of Michael have yet to hit the big leagues including 6 who also played college ball. It's not a race.
  15. dxpavelka
    I don't care if they hire from outside the organization or inside the organization. I would not have cared if they had been the first team to fill their managerial opening and I won't care if they are the last. The only thing I care about is that the choice they make is the right one as validated by sustained success on the field. If the choice is Molitor, I'm OK with that. But if it is Molitor, please don't rationalize the choice with any statements that includes the phrase "He's a Hall of Famer." The entire list guys who have won a World Series ring as a manager AFTER being enshrined in Cooperstown as a player includes-NOBODY. It's never been done. So please don't use it as a selling point.
  16. dxpavelka
    It's not a race. The object isn't to get it done first. The object is to get it done right.
  17. dxpavelka
    Always amazed at fans that think that since Mauer moved to first base he's suddenly going to become something he's never been and most likely never will be--a power hitter. Why would you expect a guy who has only hit more than 13 home runs once in eleven years to hit 30 big flies? It's not going to happen and that's not the reason he was moved to first base. He was moved to first base to avoid an even steeper decline in his productivity than he experienced in 2014. And, yes, it is possible, maybe even likely that 2014 was just a blip on the radar screen and for the next few years he reverts to being a .300 plus hitter with an .850 OPS, 15 home runs, 40 doubles and 85-90 runs scored and RBI. But he is NEVER going to be a monster power hitter. Stop fooling yourselves.
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