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  1. jimmer
    Offensively yeah, very likely, but hopefully not defensively.
  2. jimmer
    With a better defense, our pitching staff wouldn't look the worse. It'd still be bad, but I think it's more accurate to say our defense is worse than our pitching when comparing to other teams' pitching and defense.
  3. jimmer
    Good chemistry and winning culture usually follow winning not the other way around. It's been a long time since we've heard of a really good team having bad chemistry and a losing culture. Seems it's been even longer, if ever, that we've heard of a bad team having good chemistry and winning culture.
  4. jimmer
    Yeah, makes one wonder why people have such issues when a good chunk of scouts say he's more than likely going to end up a reliever and not a hot shot front-line pitcher.
  5. jimmer
    There is zero surprise in this decision.
  6. jimmer
    GASP! Say Whaaaat? :-)-Stewie
  7. jimmer
    No surprise there, even before his last outing.
  8. jimmer
    Twins fans have been brainwashed by the announcers and the team about how evil the walk is, so people freak out about that. Announcers preach about how often the 1st batter of an inning scores if he gets walked, but we don't seem to get the same kind of preaching when we're talking first batter get on base by a single. Same result though, first batter is on base. I guess it's less of an issue since the batter earned his trip on the bases, but batters also have a hand in working a count to get a walk. It's not just the pitchers fault, it's often the work of the batter. Team takes pride in their usually low walk rates while avoiding the discussion about BAA. :-)
  9. jimmer
    I often wonder how much patience the Mariners would have had with his wildness had he been a right-hander.
  10. jimmer
    I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not freaking out about the Randy Johnson comparisons. I'm more laughing about them :-) And, you know, Santana is also being favorably compared to HOF Rod Carew on another thread. It's amazing how many of our players have ceilings/are comparable to HOFers. Quite the farm system we have :-)
  11. jimmer
    Well, he did have 7 more bunt hits than Mauer last year. Or, put another way, about 6% of his hits were bunts. It's nice to think Santana has a HOF ceiling though.
  12. jimmer
    Should Meyer start preparing his HOF speech now? Where are all the comparisons to the pitchers that were wild that crashed, burned and were never heard from again? :-)
  13. jimmer
    Yeah, even if he comes back down to Earth, doesn't mean he'll be horrible. The best player in baseball only had a BABIP of .349 last year. Saying Santana may crash to a .330 BABIP isn't actually saying he'll be bad at all. Only 35 qualifying hitters did that well or better last year, two of them former speedy Twins OFs.
  14. jimmer
    In any given season only a very small handful of players end up with a BABIP of .380 or higher, if any do. No qualifying hitter in the majors did it last year. But I like your confidence, both in your prediction and him. GO SANTANA!
  15. jimmer
    Can we quote you on that 'around 380' BABIP? Plus or minus how many points? Due to his speed, I believe he'll have a better than average BABIP, but .380? Mauer has been a top notch hitting machine, and his career BABIP is under .350. Mauer has also only had ONE season in the majors where BABIP was at .380 or higher. Next closest was his MVP season where it was .373.
  16. jimmer
    Think we can find another team to fall in love with his career ERA? :-)
  17. jimmer
    No even slightly intelligent GM is going to tell his fans or the players that they take service clock into consideration when deciding on opening day roster. Means zip. He's 'been clear' about a lot of things during his GM time.
  18. jimmer
    He's saying .700 is respectable, not good or great. There are 15 teams and 9 spots in teh order for each team. That 135 spots. 131 players had 300 or more PAs in the AL last year, 85 were at .700 or better. So .700 is respectable. If you're looking at what the player with the 65th best OPS was with 300 or more PAs (65 being right around the middle of 131) it was our very own Eduardo Escobar with his .721 OPS.
  19. jimmer
    'It's amazing he produces what he does (which should earn him no roster points).' We award him no roster points, and may God have mercy on his soul :-)
  20. jimmer
    There were 31 1Bs who logged 400 or more PAs, Mauer was 21st in wRC+. He was slightly below average. If he had reached his career wRC+, that would have put him in the top 10. If he had reached what he did in 2013 prior to concussion, that would have put him 6th.
  21. jimmer
    'I think that we put way too much importance on who is on the 25-man roster for game 1 of the season.' Back in the old days, the 25 man was less important than nowadays. After going to 5 man rotations and so many relievers, you run out of bench options quickly. We should be concerned with every player put on the roster. MLB should expand active roster to 27 or 28 players. If that happens, then we can be less concerned about who the last player on the bench is.
  22. jimmer
    He had more pitches per plate appearances last year than our new RF. He also had more pitchers per PA than last year's batting champ/hit leader Altuve, all world 2B Cano, and now retired HOFer Jeter. His OF defense, well, he shouldn't be in the OF. Not defending him, just putting certain comments about his game into context.
  23. jimmer
    Well, we need someone who can actually play an above average defensive CF because our corners are, um, horrible. Santana does not come close to fitting that bill, so hopefully he won't be out there again (though I admired his effort out there last year, his defensive deficiency out there was not on him since he's an IF)
  24. jimmer
    There were only 12 qualifying players who had an OBP in the .380s or higher last year. So yeah, if he can do that, he's a starter for sure.
  25. jimmer
    The only good thing about '95-'01 was if I bought cheap seat tickets we could be down behind the plate around the 3rd inning :-)
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