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  1. dxpavelka
    Nobody "hopes" for injuries but they do happen. The best thing that happened to the Twins in 2014 was that that finally had sufficient organizational depth that when callups needed to be made they were bringing up legitimate prospects like Santana & Vargas (& even Polanco briefly) instead of guys like Doug Bernier. Pretty sure that the addition of one proven big league starter does not take this team from a position of having the worst starting pitching in the league last year to one of having such a wealth of talent that youngsters are getting blocked.
  2. dxpavelka
    30-35 year old starters with $10 million contracts can always be moved, usually around the deadline, if your expected return is reasonable.
  3. dxpavelka
    If he's not good enough to stick with them, should we be excited to get him back?
  4. dxpavelka
    There is usually a pretty good trade market for excess starting pitching. Not that making no additions to the worst starting pitching staff in the league last year has yet convinced me that we have such an excess-or will in the next few years.
  5. dxpavelka
    Sometimes the best moves are the ones you don't make.
  6. dxpavelka
    Our vaunted farm system is that vaunted but most of those pieces are not as big league ready as our fan base would like them to be. Thus the one year flyer on someone like Torii and possibly the same on guys like Anderson or Liriano. Some of us are perfectly content going with status quo and building for the future even if it means another sub .500 season but many are not.
  7. dxpavelka
    Yes trade Plouffe so I can spend the next 4 years hearing about another guy who left here and flourished elsewhere.
  8. dxpavelka
    You can never have too much pitching, especially quality starting pitching. If you do, there is always a market for it. I have no problem bringing in more arms and making every guy who shows up at Fort Meyers fight for a job.
  9. dxpavelka
    who cares
  10. dxpavelka
    No I can't say with certainty that Hughes would not have been even better with better outfield defense behind him any more than you can say that he would have. However, the fact that he pretty much put up the best year of his career leads me to believe that his ceiling wouldn't have been much higher.
  11. dxpavelka
    Because I believe EVERYTHING a GM says.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. dxpavelka
    Our rotation (and our fan base) should spend more time worrying about doing their own job and less time looking for excuses.
  15. dxpavelka
    Jason Heyward's defense is so good--They traded him.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. dxpavelka
    Pinto's been in the minor league system trying to learn how to play catcher for almost 10 years. Have a sneaking suspicion it ain't gonna happen.
  19. dxpavelka
    Arcia in LEFT field?
  20. 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?
  21. dxpavelka
    He may have been a catcher when he signed the deal but NOBODY expected he would be a catcher for the last half of the deal. He probably just switched positions a year or two earlier than expected. Baseball's a funny game you don't always get paid WHEN you produce but when hit free agency. He got paid less than $18 million combined for the three years he won batting championships.
  22. dxpavelka
    Trading Arcia could make sense or could turn out to be an Ortiz type blunder. If it goes bad don't forget suggesting it.
  23. 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.
  24. dxpavelka
    In 2105 we'll have the best metric of all for measuring his impact--wins & losses.
  25. dxpavelka
    I may take you up on that
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