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  1. jimmer
    Quintana is pretty under-rated. The way Carrasco is in Cleveland (except Quintana has a longer track record). I'm not 100% sure I wouldn't rather have him at four years/38M than three years/38M of Sale.
  2. jimmer
    It'd take quite a bit to get him, I believe.
  3. jimmer
    Eaton is under team control through 2021 (5 years) at a very good salary (38.4M).GREAT value there. He was a 6 WAR player last year, 12.8 over the last 3 years. Dozier is older and under control for two years He was at 5.9 WAR last year and 13.9 WAR over the last 3 years. Eaton has considerably more value.
  4. jimmer
    royals have one of the best defensive OF in the game. One might argue when a healthy Gordon, Cain and Dyson are out there, they have the best defensive OF in baseball. And Orlando is awesome too. They led the majors in DRS for OF and were 2nd in UZR.
  5. jimmer
    Dave Cameron nailed this trade in July. Moncada, Kopech,and some sweeteners.
  6. jimmer
    So the prospects guy on Fangraphs had his chat today. He was asked if DeLeon was a top 15 guy, he obviously said no. Then he was asked if Bellinger was top 20 he said yes. Now, he wasn't asked about Alvarez in the chat, but in his top Dodgers prospect list he put out last month, he had Alvarez 1 and Bellinger 2. Something to think about when ideas of Bellinger and Alvarez (plus whomever) is being floated about for two years of Dozier :-)
  7. jimmer
    Danny Santana for Trout and a prospect?
  8. jimmer

    Blanta

    jimmer replied to joethastud's topic in The Sports Bar

    When I was in Panama, I played Santa at an elementary school. I was the first white Santa they had ever seen. They were so enthralled.
  9. jimmer
    DeLeon and Bellinger would be incredible.
  10. jimmer

    Blanta

    jimmer replied to joethastud's topic in The Sports Bar

    The depth of stupid and horrible people can reach is infinite. Another example http://nypost.com/2016/12/02/teen-shot-struck-by-car-for-helping-dying-woman/
  11. jimmer
    I am not trying to nit pick. It's not a big deal. Wasn't sure if you remembered his rankings so I posted the link and some info
  12. jimmer
    your post read differently, like he was only in the top half of the top 100 one year, but okay.
  13. jimmer
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=hicks-001aar Top 50 in Baseball America for three straight years. Top 50 in 3 years of a 5 year span with Baseball Prospectus (and 51st in one of thee other years).
  14. jimmer
    What I mean is, if you have a good pitching staff that is really close to the strike one a lot, Castro will likely get the strike on those borderline pitches. He'll frame it well. But first the pitches need to be close enough on a consistent basis so he can utilize that skill. A painter can't paint without paint :-)
  15. jimmer
    My guess had to do with a higher % of Ks due to better pitching in the majors and a league average BABIP due to better fielding. But you could be right. Not sure we'll ever find out.
  16. jimmer
    not at the rate he likely would, especially since it would come with an OBP in like the 260s :-)
  17. jimmer
    if he ever gets to the majors for them, maybe he will hit some HRs during the 50% of time he doesnt strike out.
  18. jimmer
    We are definitely going to find out. For the record, i never said i think his framing would tank whereby he would hit Suzuki framing territory. I just think we will see a decent dropoff from the framing numbers he has posted the last three years.
  19. jimmer
    If the Twins are requiring DeLeon, Alvarez and Buehler/Sheffield/Lux/Barnes for two years of 30 year old Dozier, he isnt going to the Dodgers.
  20. jimmer
    hard to say what qualifications it takes for a player to be called a 'veteran'. I used to think it was a player who, at minimum, had completed their mandatory 6 year mlb service time. But then I have seen where people call Gibson a veteran. He has less than 100 starts and this is his 1st year of arbitration.
  21. jimmer
    Good friends. http://www.startribune.com/more-on-hardy-a-couple-camp-notes/84605822/ And Hardy was at Mauer's wedding. http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/12/05/twins-catcher-joe-mauer-gets-married/
  22. jimmer
    Yeah, Gardy had issues with Hardy (probably because he wasn't Punto, who knows). Gardy even said, before Hardy was traded, that Casilla would be in the running for shortstop in 2011 because a shortstop needed to be fast. Then Hardy was traded. Nothing to do with Mauer (don't know who Mauerer is:-)) But hey, Mauer is the reason for all of our woes, so why not add the loss of Hardy to the huge list :-)
  23. jimmer
    The issue I expressed with Castro is that while his framing numbers are impressive, part of framing is having quality pitchers near the plate a lot where they get the benefit of the doubt. Huge difference between Astros pitching staff and ours. A day or two later, Cameron expressed the same concern in his chat. He wrote, 'If the team that employs Mike Fast isn’t interested in bringing you back, maybe your framing value isn’t as likely to continue as the Twins are hoping.' So, he doesn't have a very good arm, isn't really good at blocking balls, and isn't good that good at the plate. If his framing drops, people may be disappointed. Worth the shot, I'm glad they took a shot, but still. A lot of people seem to have issues with Kepler's defense. Not sure if it's because he's lanky or not but Kepler has impressed me with his defense. He's above average out there. I'd feel comfortable with him in CF too, to fill in for Bux on an occasional day off if needed or if Bux got hurt. Bux is awesome on D, of course. Rosario was shaky on D last year. Made fundamental and mental mistakes a bit too much and didn't seem to read the ball as well either. Took a step back on D, IMO. As far as our IF defense goes, Dozier is average and Mauer is above average. The rest is hard to watch (though I don't think Polanco is quite as bad as others do, but metrics disagrees with me).
  24. jimmer
    Agree with all of this
  25. jimmer
    I liked a lot of things Smith did as GM. I like that he pushed to strengthen positions in the offseason before 2010 after we barely made the playoffs in 2009. Even though it didn't work out, I liked his thought process of trading from a supposed area of strength to get an area of weakness(the D Young trade). Like Ryan trading Span for Meyer, I thought it was the right thought process, but bad execution. He also did really well on the international market. So, I liked him and thought he got vilified too much after one losing season. I hope he moves on to something he'll enjoy.
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