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  1. jimmer
    Yeah, I'm saying if a person is just looking at how old a player is when drafted to base any idea about how good someone is, they're missing the boat. Nothing 'funny' about it when you realize one went to college and one didn't. But yeah, as far as comparing numbers, it was like people comparing Buxton's numbers in his first stint in the majors to Trout when Trout had his first stint in the majors. Trout was two years younger during his first stint. And yeah, I was 18 once. Looking up stock numbers on microfiche with only two stripes on my arm, not having a cell phone, loving my Atari 2600, being in love for the first time (and no, I don't mean my Atari 2600 :-)).
  2. jimmer
    Has Antony ever even been mentioned in an article about interesting GM candidates, or assistant GMs teams covet, or anything like that? I, personally, have never seen him in any article saying this is a guy teams should be targeting for open GM spots.
  3. jimmer
    There's no rule that says you have to :-)
  4. jimmer
    Well, yeah, Dozier didn't get drafted till he was 22. He went to college, like Kris Bryant (also drafted at age 22). You think Polanco is better than Bryant too, based on how old he was when he was drafted?
  5. jimmer
    Twins Win!!!!
  6. jimmer
    think their opinion changes if the team is playing .650 ball? :-)
  7. jimmer
    Wait a minute. A team values defense? Is that allowed? :-)
  8. jimmer
    His OBP, OPS and wRC+ on the TEAM is average? As far as RBI goes (a team dependent stat) he does pretty well with RISP. Not as well as his career numbers are for sure, but certainly not horrific. Might there be other reasons why he may not have as many RBI as some would suggest he should have. He still provides value to this team. Not as much as we would hope for sure. I am also disappointed in his overall offensive performance and admit I was fooled by his good start (because of his history, not because of SSS alone), but this whole roster is a disappointment and hes certainly not high on the long list of issues, IMO.
  9. jimmer
    where does he rank in getting on base on the team or OPS or wRC+? How about on defense?
  10. jimmer
    One of the things I said back in February was: 'What might have been a good idea is if they had decided to alternate Mauer and Sano between 1b and DH and then sign a guy like Fowler to play a corner for two years. Then they wouldn't have needed Park, and Sano wouldn't be in the OF.' And later in February this: 'They could have decided to DH Sano or Mauer and play the other at 1B, while signing an OF (and not signing Park). That would have kept Sano out of the OF, by putting him at 1B or DH, while improving our OF defense instead of hurting it.. They could play him at 3B (if they thought he could play there like we were told for years). If they decided he wasn't going to be able to stick at 3B in the majors they could have moved him awhile ago. It's absolutely mismanagement.
  11. jimmer
    If he could play any position well, or steal bases, or hit, he'd have value. But he holds the goose egg.:-)
  12. jimmer
    Exactly, as was discussed quite a bit back when others were defending the move of Sano to RF. Of course when he was signed we didn't know the ridiculous decision to move Sano the OF (so athletic, you know) would be right around the corner, which was the main reason why getting Park was a bad idea.
  13. jimmer
    Be hard to lose my DoD job as well. I'd have to do some extraordinary bad things for that to happen. Even if my position is dropped, they have to find me a spot
  14. jimmer
    Mauer is an extremely good fielding 1B. Park would have to get much, much better to get to Mauer's level on defense.
  15. jimmer
    For me, while tapping into the international market is a good thing, getting yet another 1B/DH type for this team (Park), was poor roster construction. Even if it worked out, which was questionable considering all his Ks in a league that's mostly like AA,, we didn't need more 1B/DH types on this team. And it was the start of the moving on Sano to OF. The decision to get him was slammed way before his performance at the major league level because of those reasons.
  16. jimmer
    Very nice intro!
  17. jimmer
    Oh please, putting a man of Sano's size in the OF, in addition to having zero history of playing OF, was ridiculous. Expecting him to adapt and play well out there was a foul's folly. That blunder is not on Sano. That's not making an excuse for Sano, it's just the truth.
  18. jimmer
    I think we are quite a few seasons away from being a real contender.
  19. jimmer
    You people and your expectations... :-)
  20. jimmer
    Well, I gave my honest opinion of Ryan's 2nd tenure /contributions to our future and I was told to stop it by my personal public chastising moderator, so I thought I'd drop this quote and let others who are allowed to give their opinions say what they had to say :-)
  21. jimmer
    Along with Antony, internal candidates such as scouting director Deron Johnson, Vice President of Baseball Operations Mike Radcliff and special assistant to the GM Wayne Krivsky could pursue the job as well. “We’ve always wanted to promote from within,” Pohlad said, “so [Antony] will certainly be a prime [candidate].”
  22. jimmer
    not surprising he thinks that though because, well, Santana is fast. he should have been fired too.
  23. jimmer
    Yeah, LaRussa had a impressive list of candidates...and he chose Dave Stewart. Let's hope our team doesn't repeat that horrific blunder. :-)
  24. jimmer
    Yeah, a lot of the quality talent we have, that we're excited about, was either brought in during Smith's time or due to having high drafts picks from losing so much. All teams draft, that's not unique to this organization. And, really, most of the guys from this supposedly great farm system that have actually seen time in the majors are looking/have looked severely over-matched. How much talent that we are excited about is due to Ryan trading off talent to get prospects? Meyer? (yeah, not so good), May? Nice pickup then decided to use him completely incorrectly. We have failed to trade players for prospects though. We have brought in bad FAs and extended players we should have never extended. We signed a player that supposedly made it necessary to make one of the dumbest decisions, moving Sano to the OF. Could not have been easier to make the call that would be horrible, and it was. And that player acquired that made that ridiculous decision necessary had to go to the minors because, well, he's over-matched. In any event, in this ode to Ryan's (and the Twins organizational) greatness, there's a lot of, um, questionable assumption that seem premature A: a bunch of these guys are going to stick B: that they'll be difference makers C: we're going to emerge contenders because of them (and by extension Ryan) It is, however, good to read how the fans critical of Ryan and hte management part of this organization are so very wrong, wrong, wrong :-) Like Dan S (the guy who does ZiPS) said yesterday, this move was overdue.
  25. jimmer
    These announcers crack me up. Making every excuse in the book to explain how Sano can't play defense, anywhere. Then they say he can be a GREAT third baseman. Lord have mercy.
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