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  1. ScrapTheNickname
    GArcia would have caught that lazy liner in right.
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    By the same token, Buxton has got off to an awful start at the plate. If this continues long enough, the management may well have to send him down to the minors. Calling him good, and batting him third can only do so much; the player has to do the rest.
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    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.
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    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.
  5. ScrapTheNickname
    I have to agree with you. He did well. Perhaps they listed him because he is having elbow problems this spring?
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. ScrapTheNickname
    Delmon Young?
  9. ScrapTheNickname
    You expect Gordon to grow muscles but you expect nothing from Vielma. That's what I'm reading. Could be otherwise, possibly.
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    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.
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    I was attracted to the site as soon as you guys merged your blogs. Very smart thing to do. Cheers to all.
  12. ScrapTheNickname
    Ball four. Good eye.
  13. ScrapTheNickname
    I have to agree. With health and improvement Park could easily swat 30+ home runs in a big league uniform, therefore I would think another team would sign him. However, given that the article is about redundancy, I wonder if any major league teams need a questionable DH at this time?
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    I have always blamed the rubber mat and I'm serious. He slid and his leg buckled into a man-made substance that wasn't meant to give. He blows out his knee - a month into his career. BS.Rubber on a baseball field. The next two years is very simple: further decline.
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    Far far too early to say, I'd say. He only had 98 ABs last year in E-Town, He must have been injured part of the year. And as others have mentioned, he performed poorly when he did play. But here's to hoping that one day we have Granite and Cabbage starting for the Twins, just because of their names.
  16. ScrapTheNickname
    I don't think his BABIP will go up in the future because defenses know almost exactly where he is going to hit the ball, and they've known it for a long time. Further decline in my crystal ball.
  17. ScrapTheNickname
    shirsey = part shirt, part jersey. I get it. Very clever slip on the icy keyboard.
  18. ScrapTheNickname
    After saying it a few times it sounds like I'm saying "sad" with a lisp, which starts to really sounds sad.
  19. ScrapTheNickname
    Excellent (and fairly obvious) point. Small-mid-market teams spring up regularly because of the parity-inducing draft system, etc. ... but they can't stay there. The Twins' run from 2001-2010 far exceeded the normal window of opportunity (do I have to say in my humble opinion?).
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    I guess I did contradict myself. But what do you mean: there are no playoffs in baseball? Is it "called" something else? Because they are playoffs.
  21. ScrapTheNickname
    I believe a more accurate accounting is to look at who made the playoffs (the World Series is a crap schoot within a crapshoot within a crapshoot based on who has the best 2 starting pitchers and best fireballers at the end of the bullpen - it just kind of becomes boring), but that's beside the point I'm making.) Look at the top 13 team salaries for 2016. What do you see? You see that 10 of them made the playoffs (77%). The Indians this year and The Royals last year are definitely outliers, and isn't it shocking that the Yankees and Cardinals (and to a lesser extent, Detroit) not make it? 2016: 1 Los Angeles Dodgers 2 New York Yankees Boston Red Sox 4 Detroit Tigers 5 Chicago Cubs 6 San Francisco Giants 7 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 8 Texas Rangers 9 St. Louis Cardinals 10 Washington Nationals 11 Toronto Blue Jays 12 Baltimore Orioles 13 New York Mets
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    I thought when the Indians signed Rajai Davis it was a sign the FO was wasting their time on old mediocre fill-in veterans. He didn't have a great year, but he did steal 43 bases ... maybe something about chemistry that defies the stats as well ... and ... today is Davis's 36th birthday. Oh, ain't that sweet.
  23. ScrapTheNickname
    Touche. Well done.
  24. ScrapTheNickname
    Dozier is in a mini-slump. 1 for his last 22. .045 BA. Which sucks.
  25. ScrapTheNickname
    Buxton must run, damn it.
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