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  1. jimmer
    It's a kids game, but it's also their job, for which they get paid tons of money, and they are adults. Suggesting adults shouldn't act like adults and excusing/encouraging violence because they play a kids game as their profession seems very silly to me. Maybe their paychecks should be given to their parents to put into a trust?
  2. jimmer
    I love it when players and fans advocate throwing a 90 plus MPH pitch at player on purpose. Nothing childish about that.
  3. jimmer
    Exactly. Instead of saying we made a decision that backfired and our pitcher threw up a meatball, lets deflect it onto the batter who made us pay for the decision our manager made and lack of execution on the part of the pitcher. That kind of behavior isn't childish AT ALL.
  4. jimmer
    Or how about not doing anything about it because getting mad about it is stupid to begin with? Maybe they can pretend for awhile they aren't children?
  5. jimmer
    I'm just happy we are 158 games in and still well within reach of making the playoffs. Were there decisions made that were questionable (like taking May out of the rotation) that maybe cost us? I think so. But we are still in it which means there was a lot of things done right too. So I'll applaud the effort by the players, the coaching staff, Molitor and the FO. Not sure it's repeatable with the talent on this team, but that's a discussion for the offseason. For this season, we're in it.
  6. jimmer
    We have a lot of starting pitcher depth but no #1s or #2s (and our #3 types are iffy).. Every time I read about our starting pitching depth I have flashbacks of what was being said about our rotation prior to 2011.
  7. jimmer
    Iwakuma is going to be a FA after this season.
  8. jimmer
    this is clearly true, considering Suzuki is/was our starter to begin with. The depth at catcher was bad to begin with and started with him being our starter.
  9. jimmer
    For clarification, when you wrote: 'Run prevention has been a sizable issue for Minnesota over the past several seasons, and lousy outfield defense has been an overlooked culprit in that equation' did you mean by team leadership? Cause I think it's been a glaringly obvious, extremely detrimental weakness for quite some time including going into this season. I understand some minimize the importance of defense, especially OF defense (specifically corner OF defense), but plenty weren't in that camp.
  10. jimmer
    I find it funny how so many bought into the Royals making the bullpen a priority but discarded another important part of their success: Quality defense all over the field including corner OF defense. So many discount the defense part of the game, minimizing the importance, but it is important and a game like this is a good example. Our OF defense shined, their OF defense cost them the game (though the guy who blew it is normally very good).
  11. jimmer
    Fangraphs chat today: Q: It seems like most relievers are essentially recycled starters. Does any team regularly acquire guys specifically to be relievers (ceiling = closer, of course) through the draft or international signings? Jeff Sullivan: You see relievers get drafted on occasion, but I don’t think it’s part of any organization’s routine plan. Everybody wants starters; everybody believes they can turn failed starters into relievers
  12. jimmer
    MLB Tonight crew talking about Grienke being the frontrunner for the NL CY Young. Harold Reynolds get contradictory and says that yeah, he's got the great ERA but he never finishes games. That's his complaint. They try and explain it's a new age, and Reynolds keeps going on. The man does only have one CG this year, but he also leads the NL in innings pitched.
  13. jimmer
    Liriano walked two of the first three batters he faced in today's game.
  14. jimmer
    Originally, this was the series I planned to see in person for my birthday, and then I moved too far away to get there in a day, so MLB TV it is! Go Twins!
  15. jimmer
    I already gave a link, right after it was asked for.
  16. jimmer
    He won't be ready until Ryan promotes him to the majors.
  17. jimmer
    "Conventional wisdom among coaches and managers is that restricting innings for young starting pitchers, and slowly increasing the number of innings pitched over several years, gives pitchers' tissues sufficient time to adapt to the workload of a major league season," said Thomas Karakolis, lead investigator on the study. "But all our data shows that these strategies really make no difference in preventing injury." '"Injury is the result of workload exceeding the capacity of the body's tissues, so while counting innings is a tempting way to measure workload, it's actually a very flawed method," said Karakolis. "If coaches are looking for ways to prevent injury, simply limiting the number of innings is not the answer. They have to look at how hard a pitcher's body is working during each inning, each pitch." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150406121354.htm
  18. jimmer
    I think of the playoffs as just a post season tournament for qualifying teams. The WS winner is very often not actually the best team, just a team that got hot at the right time.
  19. jimmer
    Think that's bad? What about the team in 3rd place in that division? A better record than 4 of the 6 division leaders and will likely have to play a one game playoff game on the road.
  20. jimmer
    I love the use of the word 'boldly' in that sentence :-)
  21. jimmer
    Twins are still in it and it's almost September. Really loving that!
  22. jimmer
    Ryan is not going to go after a top flight starting pitcher. It could be the best FA SP class in history and they still wouldn't do it.
  23. jimmer
    Love me some Span!
  24. jimmer
    Span is back! Go Denard!
  25. jimmer
    http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-05-07/154-game-schedule-season-rob-manfred-162-expand-playoffs-wild-card-national-league-dh
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