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  1. ScrapTheNickname
    I always thought a 7-month grind (including March) with a four-day break along the way is too, too much for any sane person to endure. My "vision" has been to give players in-season vacations. Someone is always getting a week off while a minor league player is called up to fill their spot. They come back fresh and relaxed and ready to go. Like I said, It's just a vision I have while thinking of how damned exhausted they must all get!
  2. ScrapTheNickname
    But Hunter has 50 WAR, according to Baseball Reference.
  3. ScrapTheNickname
    and a willingness to hit a ball on the outside corner ... and if it's called a strike don't eye the umpire like he's an evil vampire.
  4. ScrapTheNickname
    That is the cold, hard truth folks.
  5. ScrapTheNickname
    If you take out Haley's AA performance in 2015, which was horrible, you will see that he has had a pretty stellar minor league career. Therefore, I am in the "wait and see what we have here" mode.
  6. ScrapTheNickname
    Haley "had" a chance and did not grab it? He has pitched zero games for us. His milb track record is fairly good; I look forward to seeing him pitch in April and May, not March.
  7. ScrapTheNickname
    I have to agree with you. He did well. Perhaps they listed him because he is having elbow problems this spring?
  8. ScrapTheNickname
    A quote from MLB Trade Rumors today speaks for me: "Just over a year removed from the 2015-16 offseason, nine of the top ten contracts handed out last winter are already looking problematic, Joel Sherman of the New York Post writes. Only Johnny Cueto turned in a vintage season in the wake of signing his pricey deal with the Giants last winter, while the other nine (David Price, Zack Greinke, Jason Heyward, Justin Upton, Jordan Zimmermann, Jeff Samardzija, Wei-Yin Chen and Mike Leake) ranged from slight to complete disappointments in their first seasons with their new teams." I
  9. ScrapTheNickname
    Vogelsong should not make the team. If he doesn't want to go to AAA, it's over. He's what my dad used to have a "has been." I hated when he said that but Vogelsong has zero redeeming value at this time in hs career and to use him in April or at any time would be games lost without real intention of winning them. The Twins need to attempt anyway to start out strong in April. No to the Bird Song.
  10. ScrapTheNickname
    119 major league players on 40 man rosters are injured and will not start the season, which averages 3.9 players injured per team. The Twins have 4. As usual, seeing injuries as homegrown incidents with fault laid on coaches, etc. would appear to be more imaginative thinking than sound thinking. A dove recently fell out of the sky and landed in the branches of a tree where it lay suspended for two weeks, then dropped to the ground where it lay for another week before mysteriously disappearing. I blame Sigmund Freud! http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/injuries
  11. ScrapTheNickname
    You, my friend, have never really learned to whine. It is an art form that is required even in the best of times. If you can't whine while you're ahead, then you should be sent back a grade. Am I not right, Van?
  12. ScrapTheNickname
    Delmon Young?
  13. ScrapTheNickname
    And the game is not played on paper. That's just silly.
  14. ScrapTheNickname
    I don't believe Dozier is selfish at all, he just happens to be much better at hitting high fast balls out of the park than drawing a lot of walks or hitting to the opposite field. I'm sure he would if he could.
  15. ScrapTheNickname
    Does anyone have access to a study done on preseason predictions? I am very interested to know the accuracy rates, etc. No one predicted the Twins would win 83 games in 2015, and nobody predicted they would lose 103 games in 2016. The whole prediction system is fraught with looking at the past to predict the future (can't be done). Anyone?
  16. ScrapTheNickname
    I was told by a reliable source that their is a problem nationally with Internet connectability today. Se la vie.
  17. ScrapTheNickname
    You're being too logical. This is a feisty crowd who wants it both ways and neither way either.
  18. ScrapTheNickname
    You mean (among other errors0 the dropped popups. How many? Two or three? Solidly absurd. He'll have to "see the ball all the way into his glove" this year, among other spring training cliches. Go Sano, baby.
  19. ScrapTheNickname
    The article says: Reporting to camp at 271 pounds after giving up alcohol and shedding 15 pounds, by his count, Sano would like to head north as light at 265." In other words, he had weighed 286.
  20. ScrapTheNickname
    You expect Gordon to grow muscles but you expect nothing from Vielma. That's what I'm reading. Could be otherwise, possibly.
  21. ScrapTheNickname
    Thanks for the right-up, Jeremy, but I'm left flummoxed by the #4 rating. Yes, his dad half-brother and and were professional baseball players of some stature. Add to that he has a tremendous work ethic. Okay. But then the reality of what kind of a player he is is revealed. "enough glove to stick at shortstop ... solid ... not flashy ... .952 fielding percentage." "potential .300-hitter each and every year [THE SOLE STELLAR TRAIT?) . . 19 steals ... caught 13 times." With poor success like this I would think he simply runs less often in the future. [i could be wrong, but all along we've heard that he isn't FAST]. ..."walk-rate .... 4.7%." I just fell over Delmon Young's dead body - and he's not even dead! How is this guy ranked #4 in our system? I wonder how much of it is the vaunted family he comes from overriding real observations? I personally don't know, don't get me wrong. Just thinking this is a worthy concern to bring up.
  22. ScrapTheNickname
    Matt Garza comes to mind as a human being devoid of positive character traits. Anyway, that's how he came off to me when I watched him pitch in Elizabethton TN when he was starting out. A cocky robot with poor manners. So the Twins must have been looking at the radar gun, etc., first on him. Just an example. Okay, I'm ranting now, but he's earned $67 million dollars to win 1/3 of his MLB starts. Glad he's long gone.
  23. ScrapTheNickname
    I was attracted to the site as soon as you guys merged your blogs. Very smart thing to do. Cheers to all.
  24. ScrapTheNickname
    Ball four. Good eye.
  25. ScrapTheNickname
    Now for the ceremonial beating of the dead horse ... "On base machine" seems like a slight exaggeration of Mauer's 2016 performance. He ranked 31st overall in OBP among qualifying MLB players. And OBP s the only stat he did relatively well in.
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