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  1. jimmer
    Do I need to go outside, turn around three times, and spit cause I said that? :-)
  2. jimmer
    Players are creatures of habit and many are superstitious. I, for one, always wore #6 or #16. A ridiculous comfort level thing that makes no sense looking back (like many superstitions and beliefs in, and about, the game) but was a thing in my mind in the first half of my life.
  3. jimmer
    Chris Young is going to get smoked
  4. jimmer
    To me, whoever the 'powers that be' figure are the best five that's the five that should be in the rotation. I'm not married to my list, it's just who I would go with. I'm not claiming my list is 100% correct. We all have different ways we evaluate pitchers. If someone else, like you, has a different best five and the 'powers that be' agree, let's go with that five. Doesn't matter to me. The whole point was, whichever five are the best should be in the rotation instead of giving starts to the sixth best, whomever that may be. This is, of course, if the goal is to try and wins as many games as possible this year. I honestly don't see us making the playoffs, so maybe our course of action should be guided by different goals.
  5. jimmer
    exactly, and then there's the added benefit of paying them more to pitch less :-)
  6. jimmer
    Even if a starter could come in and pitch an inning or two in relief during his normal throwing day, there's a huge difference between throwing bullpen not in game as part of a routine and throwing in relief during an actual game. Pitchers don't throw all out during the regular throwing days they have nor do they face batters. it's just about the throwing.
  7. jimmer
    No need to apologize. We're just chatting and you certainly we're rude ;-)
  8. jimmer
    A six man rotation, if done over a 162 games season, has a pitcher get 27 starts. I know, as a manager, I wouldn't want to give 5-7 starts of King Felix to Joe Blow. Over the course of 5 seasons, that's roughly a years worth of starts less.
  9. jimmer
    I was clear to say it was my opinion on who the top were, not that my list was the best 4 for a fact.Then I said it doesn't matter, we just have to agree that we do have pitchers that are better than others in our rotation. And when we agree on that, then we know that if we got to a six man rotation....well, you know.
  10. jimmer
    Look at post #31, first sentence. :-) And there are others that are saying they are pretty much all the same.
  11. jimmer
    And if baseball does go that route, and it may, then rosters will have to be expanded past 25. At some point they are just going to have to expand rosters. IMO, it should have already happened. Before we had 4 man rotations and smaller bullpens, and a 25 man roster. Now we have 5 man rotations and larger bullpens...and, still, a 25 man roster.
  12. jimmer
    It stops at the exact point the Twins decide it does :-) And expanding rotations don't stretch arms out, they pitch less not more.
  13. jimmer
    Ball players are creatures of habit. They do better when they have a routine to follow and aren't jerked around.
  14. jimmer
    Seems pretty sarcastic and I don't know why what I've written warrants that, but whatever. Do you think the 5 we have right now are all performing at the same exactly level? At present, I personally believe based on what I've seen along with historical pitching and stats I value, I'd say the four guys who should remain in the rotation when Santana comes back and joins it are: May, Gibson Hughes Pelfrey Those four plus Santana would be my five guys unless a trade can be worked. But that doesn't matter. Point is, they are not all the same. If there is at least one guy better than the others, he will get less starts than he would in a five man rotation in order to have an inferior pitcher start. This isn't theory. Whether or not it will hurt the production of the rotation overall is the debatable part. Then there's the possible addition to the number of pitchers overall we have and a smaller bench.
  15. jimmer
    'If your rotation has an elite caliber pitcher, yes, you would be reducing the amount of innings provided to that arm. The Twins, however, do not have that type of starter at the present.' There are pitchers better on this rotation than others. They are not carbon copies of each other. Any way you slice it, any time you make a rotation larger, an inferior pitcher will pitch in games where a better starter could have pitched. 'On the whole, the rotation is decisively average. In theory, stretching out the arms is one way to increase production.' How does this stretch out their arms by pitching less games? It limits innings. 'Second, a pitcher's career prior to the majors did not always follow the four-day rest schedule. For instance, Berrios has had anywhere from five-to-seven days between some of his outings this year.' What are Pelfrey, Santana, and Milone used to? I said many not all and when in the majors, the routine is every five days, doesn't matter what they may have done in the minors at some point. 'My biggest hesitation to the six-man is having that many pitchers and reducing the bench (although the bench hasn't been great either).' I said this in my post. If we don't care about giving our team the best chances to win as many games this year as we can, then go with a 6 man rotation. Pitch inferior pitchers and mess with their routines instead of making a tough decision.
  16. jimmer
    6 man rotations takes starts away from better pitchers and give starts to inferior pitchers. It also messes with routines many have had their whole career. It could also mean an even larger overall pitching staff and less bench. It's not a good idea.
  17. jimmer
    69 games, 10 HR, 13 2B, 2 3B, a slash of .274/.378/.460. OPS+ of 133, wRC+ 133. Yeah, I'll take that. If Sano comes close to this for the remaining of the year, we should line up and do back flips. And Bryant isn't even the most impressive rookie this year.
  18. jimmer
    I think Pedroia is still right there with both those guys and he's consistently good. Kipnis is on and off while Dozier just keeps getting better. No 2B in the game has been better than Dozier since 2014, and this is even considering his defense is under-rated, IMO, by metrics.
  19. jimmer
    In almost 2.5 seasons with the Twins, he's been worth a hair under 15M. Definitely got what we paid for, such as it is.
  20. jimmer
    Congrats to Meyer for getting the call. He'll be fun to watch. I won't call him a kid, cause at 25 I don't think he is that, but it's nice to see more rookies being called up.
  21. jimmer
    it depends on what one looks at. If one looks at ERA he ranks 25th out of 103 qualified starters. So if ERA is your stat of choice, top 25%.
  22. jimmer
    I think it was Pete Rose. (though he was a manager).
  23. jimmer
    only if we stop looking at the actual numbers.
  24. jimmer
    How under-rated is Dozier? Today's Fangraphs chat: Comment From hscer How many of the current top 6 second basemen in 2015 WAR do you think you could name? Dave Cameron: Kipnis, Gordon, Panik, Wong are easy. Is Travis still in that mix, despite a month on the DL? Espinosa, maybe? Peterson?
  25. jimmer
    Hunter has been an ever so slightly below average overall RF this year (WAR). Averagish offensively (tied for 15th out of 27 in wRC+), well below average defensively (20th out of 22 in DRS). We have worse problems than him at this point.
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