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  1. jimmer
    Didn't the Twins almost double in value this last year? They're making money.
  2. jimmer
    Cuddyer, Kubel?
  3. jimmer
    I might be misreading some posts so I'm curious. Are there people taking Santana's side on this and/or rationalizing/minimizing his actions? If he needed it for medical reasons it's really simple. take the prescription to MLB. Let them know about it. Then it's all good.
  4. jimmer
    We will win today's game. Go Twins!
  5. jimmer
    Yadier Molina's framing just got a strikeout of Rizzo on a ball 3 inches off the plate.
  6. jimmer
    I hear ya, but full disclosure: Royals starters had the third most IP in the AL last season. Guess which team in the AL had the least amount of rotation IP? :-)
  7. jimmer
    Well, we can see if your belief s true about the whole circle thing :-) http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-twins-may-have-weakened-a-weakness/ If you go to the link provided, in a stroy entitled 'The Twins may have weakened a weakness, you will see the chart for Heyward and Hunter. It's right below this paragraph: 'It’s difficult to be too hard on Hunter, of course, because he’s 39 years old. The expectation shouldn’t be that he’s going to be anything other than brutal in the outfield, and while you don’t really need a visual aid to compare last year’s worst right fielder to the best, I’ll show you the made/missed charts between Hunter and Jason Heyward anyway:' I don't think having Hunter would be so bad if he had an above average CF next to him and at least an average corner on the other end. Just my opinion
  8. jimmer
    I think if a team has ONE bad defensive corner OF starting for them they may be able to lessen the effect by shading a good-great defensive CF that way while allowing the okay to good OF on the other corner hold his own. I've seen a lot of that over the years. Having TWO REALLY bad defenders on both corners plus, at best, an average defensive CF, is going to cause problems as it has the last few seasons. Especially when the pitching staff has underwhelming stuff that results in a lot of contact.
  9. jimmer
    we aren't a good team though. our pitching staff, such as it is, doesn't need more handicaps than the ones their own mediocre stuff creates.. seemed to have a pretty big impact on our team the last couple years as outs became singles and doubles which extended innings and allowed runs to score when it would have been three outs. didn't help our CF defense wasn't any good either, and this year it likely won't be either. I'm curious where does defense matter on a team, if at all?
  10. jimmer
    I'm not sure having two of the worst fielding fielding corner OF in the game play MORE will make the OF defense BETTER, but one can hope.
  11. jimmer
    thanks.
  12. jimmer
    What was average starter ERA and average reliever ERA in the NL last year?
  13. jimmer
    I get your point and it's valid, but if you are just looking at average starter ERA compared to his, that isn't taking into account ballparks or run environment. That's why I look at ERA+ instead of looking at average ERA. I mean, if I have to talk ERA.
  14. jimmer
    And we also have to take into account ballpark, which ERA+ does. It's not just about what the starting pitcher's average ERA was across the league compared to his because they all pitch in different parks too. So when just comparing ERA across the board, a key component of ERA+ is missed. 'For instance, if the average ERA in the league is 4.00, and the pitcher is pitching in a ballpark that favors hitters, and his ERA is 4.00, then his ERA+ will be over 100. Likewise, if the pitcher is pitching in a ballpark favoring pitchers, then the pitcher's ERA+ will be below 100. As a result, ERA+ can be used to compare pitchers across different run environments. In the above example, the first pitcher may have performed better than the second pitcher, even though his ERA is higher. ERA+ can be used to account for this misleading impression.' It's why I took into account ERA+ and not ERA. And, to be honest, I'm not a big fan of judging pitcher by ERA anyway, but I know many are, so I showed that and also WAR. I was going to break out FIP, you know.
  15. jimmer
    When looking at ERA+, he was a below average starter last year and has been a below average starter two of the last three seasons. When looking at WAR, he averaged around a 2.8 WAR the last two seasons but if you go back another year he's been below a 2 WAR pitcher on average over the last three seasons. ZiPS projected him to have a WAR under 1 this year before the suspension. Not sure how much we are really losing by having him gone for 1/2 a season. His best attribute is that he normally pitches a lot of innings, which is valuable but more valuable when you are really good.
  16. jimmer
    Overall team defense was a huge factor the last couple seasons, especially OF defense, and made the pitching look even worse than it is. We have done nothing to address that.
  17. jimmer
    'It's almost funny how so many are getting worked up about the opening day roster.' Every game in the season counts the same. Wins in April count the same as wins in September. Losses do too. I don't think it's surprising that people prefer to have the best team possible right out of the gate. Now whether or not a consensus could be reached between 20 fans on what the best 25 man roster would be, much less the whole fan base, is a question to which the answer is almost assuredly no.
  18. jimmer
    Maybe. Not sure about his body type though. He seems more, um, filled out than Magglio was in his younger days. But maybe his style of game. Not sure.
  19. jimmer
    Ah, those :-)
  20. jimmer
    I am, as always, looking forward to the season as much as I always have. Took Monday off to watch a bunch of games. Used to be a tradition for me, but with all the deployments and such, kind of got away from doing that. But I'll have the grill going and I'll be enjoying the game with a burger and a beer this year. Three Days till our season starts. GO TWINS!!!!!
  21. jimmer
    speaking of new uniforms, which ones did we say goodbye to?
  22. jimmer
    Not sure about this year, but I could see it in a year or two. There's something about this guy that intrigues me for sure.
  23. jimmer
    Hey there! I don't think he reaches 3000. either. If he somehow could, he'd be the first guy who was primarily a catcher to get over 2637 hits. There are only 7 guys in history who were primarily catchers to reach 2000. He could exceed the 2637 though. And yes, I get the frustration over seeing him have that big year in power and then not ever do it again, but I also get players have years that are just so out of whack in some areas in relation to the rest of their careers that what I do is enjoy that year for what it was. An extreme outlier. And that's what Mauer's HR power was that year. Some of those doubles/outs went a bit further than normal in a climate neutral environment we no longer play in.
  24. jimmer
    I admire your optimism and wish I could agree with your overall point of view on the state of our team. I am hoping you are right.
  25. jimmer
    What would be ideal (and somewhat doable) is that we go half the season the way it is, Rosario takes over CF at the break and then moves to a corner next season whenever Buxton joins us. Around the ASB.
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