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  1. jimmer
    Everything evolves. Baseball is no different. Some of the changes being suggested will barely be noticeable and not even be worth talking about after a couple years of implementation. I, personally, dont care about pace of play issues, but if making a few small changes speeds it up a tad and brings more fans to the game, I am all for it. Another thing that might bring more people to the game is marketing their young talent. Basdeball is horrible at this on the national level.
  2. jimmer
    you forgot the whole get off my lawn speech ;-)
  3. jimmer
    And boy we have a great track record of doing that...one in the last 11 years or so.
  4. jimmer
    Darvish in his six years has produced 19 fWAR for 56M...and he missed one season. So he gave roughly 85M in surplus value (again, even with missing a year). He was a steal. And, btw it's funny people are ragging on a guy for his 2017 W Series appearance when he made 11M in 2017 which is relative peanuts in today's game . ANYWAY, is a 6 year contract bad if a pitcher makes, say, 22M a season and is worth: Year One: 30M Year Two: 28M Year Three: 25M Year Four: 18M Year Five: 16M Year Six: 13M Yeah, towards the end, it'll look bad, but the team still gets it's money's worth AND hopefully during our window of opportunity he's doing his best work (if you figure our window is now).
  5. jimmer
    Santana and a few others openly questioned management when they sold at the trade deadline in 2007 instead of buying. Selling at the deadline was an odd move considering they had won the division 4 out of the previous 5 seasons. He asked why should he stay if the team was always going to look to the future and not help the team when it was time. Nothing to do with the big stage and everything to do with Santana feeling like management was content to just compete for division titles.
  6. jimmer
    My favorite Twins Pitcher of All Time
  7. jimmer
    Chances are that three of them may not be doing anything with the Twins in 2019. Rodney (with his meager buyout), along with Hughes and Park. If Rodney works out in a reliever role, he could be a bargain for 2018 and 2019. The Hughes extension and Park signings were mistakes the new FO is going to have to deal with, though I thought I read Park left money on the table in order to leave. Anyway, I think the Reed signing is a very smart signing.
  8. jimmer
    so based on the WS games? Pitchers have bad games. He did awesome in NLDS and NLCS. Back in the offseason after '91, the Blue Jays probably said 'Wow, we need Jack Morris for the W Series. Lets get him' although they won the W Series,it certainly wasnt due to Morris' W Series performance, or his ALCS performance for that matter.
  9. jimmer
    um, KERSHAW? Sale? Kluber? Also, pitcher win totals shouldnt be the stat we are looking at when determining their value. On top of that, most FA players decline at the end of their FA contracts. Saying an FA wont be worth his yearly salary in the 5th and 6th year isnt particularly an unknown factor. Question is, how much will he be worth than his salary in the early years and will he be a key factor in the team taking the next step? Im also not sure we should sign Darvish. I worry about his health, myself. He has pitched 200 or more innings in one season. But he does give a quality 160-180 innings. I wouldn't go over 6/140 for him.
  10. jimmer
    Good for him. One of my very favorite Twins of all time.
  11. jimmer
    And 30th in RZR and tied for 23rd in DRS (with Escobar). That DRS ranking almost assuredly gets lower if he plays a regular amount of innings at 3B. And the OOZ ranking you stated earlier stays 22nd (actually tied at 22) even if you are looking at 26 3Bs who had at least 650 or more innings. He's a bad defensive player who DOES do a couple things very well (coming up on slow hit balls and his arm), but those two things don't make him a quality defender. But some still insist he's a good or solid defender and they are certainly entitled to their opinion. I don't buy it and I think it gets worse as he gets older and his body breaks down carrying his weight.
  12. jimmer
    Kyle and Miguel are similar in that they are one dimensional players. The situations are different cause the Twins have a DH spot available for them to use for such a player.
  13. jimmer
    I believe it's pure fantasy to think the Twins will ever sign Darvish.
  14. jimmer
    Besides the fact that there's a 24 point difference... :-) Anyway, is there a hitter who has a career BABIP over .365?
  15. jimmer
    Yeah, I'm not sure one can really expect a player to improve on and maintain a BABIP over .362. That's extremely high already. It's amazing he's busted that number twice already. But he does pound that ball and since he's done it twice, I suppose he could do it on a regular basis.
  16. jimmer
    I think if anyone believes Mauer will sign for only 8M a year or less a year they are kidding themselves.
  17. jimmer
    I'm a fan of Sorkin. I've greatly enjoyed practically every movie and show he's written.
  18. jimmer
    I also saw The Greateat Showman and, like you, I loved it. The Darkest Hour is next on my list. Hope it is better than Dunkirk which so many seemed to love and which I found a boring mess.
  19. jimmer
    I don't know too many people who look at FIP for closers (or even relievers).
  20. jimmer
    The numbers he had pitching in the steroid ERA AND AL East in the 1990s-2000s, HOF worthy.
  21. jimmer
    Mussina, for me, is a definite HOFer.
  22. jimmer
    Rooker has played 40 games in A+ ball. Not a minute in AA ball. We really think the Twins are going to bring him up next year?
  23. jimmer
    Is his first name Clayton?
  24. jimmer
    That's awesome!
  25. jimmer
    It was as close as I could get to having 30 catchers :-)
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