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  1. jimmer
    But apparently that caution hasn't applied to July stats :-) http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=vargake01&year=2016&t=b
  2. jimmer
    Yeah, I'm not missing any point. You want to say he'll be great defensively right away and what is this based on? Fielding %? Additionally, Russell was a much higher prospect than Gordon and much better offensively in A+ ball than Gordon (with though Russell had a worse BABIP) and yet Russell has still only managed to be around average offensively in the majors and he isn't great himself. Correa, Lindor, Seager, Bogaerts, Crawford. THEY are great shortstops. Russell is above average who could be great one day. His bat, so far, prevents him from being great. If Gordon comes in and plays great defense and has a 60 wRC+, he won't be GREAT. He'll be ok. Buxton, for example, played great defense, but he's not great yet (though, September looked promising) Expecting Gordon to be great right away sets him up for disappointment, like the expectations put on Buxton. If he comes up and is just ok his first year, that will work. Greatness will, perhaps, come later.
  3. jimmer
    I never said batting makes the shortstop, but the person I responded to said he'd be GREAT for us in 2018. 'GREAT'! If he sees the majors in 2018 it will be a September callup. No chance he is starting shortstop for us opening day 2018 (or early in the season) and I very much doubt he comes in and is great right away (see Buxton, Byron, CF). I like how every prospect in our supposed fantastic farm system gets predicted to come up fast and be awesome right away, but really,...yeah, not so much. Really, not close. Sano's bat was great for half a season last year while not playing defense, that's about it. BTW, Addison Russell's wRC+ in A+ ball was over 20 points higher than Gordon's and his BABIP wasn't in the .350s. Russell's ISO in A+ was over .200, Gordon's under .100.
  4. jimmer
    My offseason plan is to lose the weight I gained from having hernia operation followed by tearing my ACL and the inactivity those two events caused.
  5. jimmer
    Gordon didn't even dominate A+ ball, hasn't even hit AA ball, and he's going to be GREAT in the majors in 2018? Haven't we learned to not count our rookie chickens?
  6. jimmer
    There's also this: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/state-aide-sought-change-classification-clinton-email-42860301 'A senior State Department official asked the FBI last year to help reduce the classification of an email from Hillary Clinton's private server, according to FBI investigative files made public Monday. It was to be part of a bargain that would have allowed the FBI to deploy more agents in foreign countries, according to the files.'
  7. jimmer
    Actually what it says is some scouts feel he will move to RF or 1B. Fangraphs scouts didn't say it, nor did they say they agree with the scouts that did or say it's a good idea. They also say one reason is his defensive problems at 3B (lack of quick first step and arm accuracy) would cause the move, not that his skills said he should play there. And last I look, when spring training happened, and he was 270 or more pounds, they continued with the plan instead of saying, 'um, he didn't lose 20-30 pounds, he gained weight (or stayed even), so it's probably not a good idea to proceed.' Instead, they carried on. See, here's a guy who has never played the OF, ever, and now you want a guy who has never had to judge routes to fly balls at any professional level to maneuver that weight out there, changing routes having to stop all that weight and re-direct and having to do it at the major league level. It was a horrible plan and not one person is saying it was just because of his weight that it was a bad idea.
  8. jimmer
    Or, you know, California math ;-) BTW, couldn't agree more.
  9. jimmer
    Maddon manages a team with an embarrassment of riches in regards to position players. He has to be creative to get everyone some time. We don't have such issues. Additionally, Maddon never said, 'Hey, let's put a 6 foot 4, 270 pound IF who has ZERO experience in the OF and make him our FULL TIME RF.' The decision was a boneheaded move that was easily predicted to fail miserably, and it did. I can't believe people still want to justify it as a smart or innovative move. It was neither.
  10. jimmer
    15 teams in the AL 11th in wRC+ (bottom third) 11th in OBP (bottom third) 13th in K% (bottom third) 8th in AL in HR (average) 8th in AL in OPS (average) 9th in AL in slg% (below average) 9th in runs scored (below average) 'Among the challenges that puzzled the 2016 Twins was putting an optimal defensive lineup on the field.' They intentionally chose to put a huge man in the OF who had never played OF as a pro before. I think the real challenging puzzle was the FO trying to figure out a way of trying to convince fans they cared at all about defense. The puzzle was not solved. So an average offense at best (and only if looked at in certain ways) that comes with those players playing a far below acceptable defense.
  11. jimmer
    you're welcome.
  12. jimmer
    126 pitches for Morris that game
  13. jimmer
    I've listened to all of them quite a bit. Hawk is the worst, for sure, and Toronto and Philly announcers are horrible as well. There are some truly good ones, though.
  14. jimmer
    yeah, I believe at work we called it the Intranet for the reasons you stated.
  15. jimmer
    I had no other Twins fans around me when the Twins won that series. I was overseas and no one seemed to care about baseball in my Flight. I had just gotten married to my first wife, and the internet wasn't exactly hopping in discussions about baseball at the time. In fact, I didn't have a home computer and work computers were limited big time. I'm not even sure internet was even mainstream at that time.
  16. jimmer
    Double major from Harvard, graduated with honors.
  17. jimmer
    Man, for a second I thought you were talking about Gardy in postgames.
  18. jimmer
    Yeah, not sure when being Ivy League was a negative, but times they are a changing. Why can't we get someone from a real school where smart people come from, like University of Alabama. Go 'Bama, Roll Tide! :-)
  19. jimmer
    When demoted, May had more K/9 than any starter we had in the rotation and THE BEST FIP. He had the second best BB/9 ratio. His HR/FB rate was very good. His HR/9 was good. What hurt him was the BABIP against of .344 (as opposed to , say Gibson and his .287 BABIP against). He ended up 3rd in WAR for our starters even though he only started 16 games.
  20. jimmer
    Oh man, that doesn't sound good. Now, we'll probably see Law get some kind of thrashing for those comments.
  21. jimmer
    Oh, I didn't say they were messing up advanced stats. I mean common, old school, been around 1000 years, stats that they can't get right. Even about players on their own team or about the team overall.
  22. jimmer
    Yeah, when I say wrong I don't mean things that are opinion, I mean stats they quote being blatantly and easily identified as wrong. Like you hear it and KNOW it's wrong, then you go and check and see that it is. But yeah, I think the Twins should just ignore smart fans when doing broadcasts. Makes it easier to switch to listening to teams broadcasts who care to put a quality product in the booth. Baseball has evolved, more is understood about the game than ever before, and it'd be nice to have a booth that reflected that.
  23. jimmer
    I think they've actually shut down some of what made it a red light district, and in some ways I applaud that. One way I applaud it is where they cracked down on human trafficking. Haven't been there for like 10 years, so I have no idea how far they took it.
  24. jimmer
    Loved Amsterdam. In the area of Amsterdam I went to, so much wild stuff happened it was like common place, which was awesome. Basically, San Fran on 20 cans of Red Bull :-)
  25. jimmer
    Watching a broadcast is the way most people digest baseball. To have such a horrible broadcast team could turn a lot of viewers off, especially when the product on the field is also very bad. With few exceptions, I find myself picking the other team's feed for games (because I have to get MLB Extra Innings to get Twins baseball). Would I rather watch and listen to Twins broadcast, yes. Problem is, when it's so bad and predictable (saying the same things practically every game) along with getting easy things wrong time and time again it's just painful. Basically, Twins TV combo is good for playing drinking games if the point is to get hammered.
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