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  1. jimmer
    Ok
  2. jimmer
    Since when does defense seem to be an important consideration on this team?
  3. jimmer
    At home he batted .302/.354/.407 BABIP over .410 Away he batted .246/.293/.406 BABIP under .290.
  4. jimmer
    If the guy was going to be a big time starter, he'd be one by now. Yes, there have been some rare, HOF players like Big Unit who bloomed late but those guys are rare and even Unit had a full season of starts under him at 25 and was an All Star at 26. Meyer is 26 and is still working on his pitches and being shuffled between being a reliever and a starter in the minors. Maybe one of these days he'll be a serviceable reliever. He's in our organization so I'm rooting for him, but so far, it's been ugly.
  5. jimmer
    Well, we don't have a clear #1 or #2 type starter, so it's a coin toss. Based on the guys who will be in the rotation to start the season, I'd give it to Gibson.
  6. jimmer
    I have to admit, I had the same man love for Mienkie's defense.
  7. jimmer
    Murphy played half his games in Yankee Stadium, had a season BABIP in the high .350s, and ended up with an OPS in the .730s. I'm not sure he can sustain a .700 OPS at the MLB level away from a hitter's park and without a very high BABIP. His minor league OPS was only in the 730s.
  8. jimmer
    I believe that once you are in the majors you should be able to play your position at a MLB caliber level. The major leagues shouldn't be where one learns a whole new area of defense for the first time (IF or catchers to OF, for example), nor should a player ever be put in that position. It's not fair to the player and it's not fair to the pitching staff and the rest of the team who has to deal with the results. The Twins have decided to send Sano out to OF where he's never played and do so at the major league level. Like Santana a couple years ago in CF, I give him Sano credit for going out there and trying for sure. It won't be Sano to blame for the guffaws that occurs out in RF this year, it will be the Twins' fault.
  9. jimmer
    Nothing lame about it. It's a legitimate baseball question based on a huge point of conversation this offseason. That point of conversation being moving Sano to the OF. That's a play that has to be made by an OF. Especially a person playing OF at the MLB level. Since they decided to make him a starter there, he should be held to the same fielding standards as other RF are as opposed to finding a way to make an excuse for a poor play. .
  10. jimmer
    As a Twins fan and with the White Sox being the team I dislike the most, this situation can do nothing but help us.
  11. jimmer
    To me, it's not whether or not anyone agrees with the idea of having your kid with you at work all the time (and for me, I don't think it's my place to comment on his parenting). For me, the point is he was told he could. It was a condition of his signing with the team. If someone signed with a company and that someone negotiated a corner office with a great view, I imagine they would get pretty ticked off if they had to vacate that office a year later because the company decided that you needed to be with the company for 10 years, regardless of experience in the field, before you could get such and office and now that someone had to move out of it. A condition of agreeing to employment. If the team had an issue with such a condition, tell the player before he signs with them and the player can move on. Once the team agrees, honor your agreement.
  12. jimmer
    Trout is 225 and has played OF his whole career, as had Hamilton as had pretty much every big man example that can be thrown out there. Sano has never played OF in his pro career and dwarfs Trout in every way. They aren't close to comparable.
  13. jimmer
    I see your point Chi, but he got told not to bring his kid AT ALL this spring training. He signed with the White Sox with the agreement he could bring his kid and after going a whole season of being able to, it gets completely changed. If Williams had said last year LaRoche could never bring his kid, he never would have signed with the team. Being a retiree, I know all about having terms of employment changed with no way to fight it. Even stuff written in contracts. Things like, you signed a 6 year contract that will take you to a certain amount of years in service only to have them reduce how long a person of your rank can serve three years later. I know how upsetting that can be. Employees are expected to abide by the conditions put forth when agreeing to work for someone. Employers should be held to the same standard.
  14. jimmer
    http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/15007382/mlb-statement-adam-laroche 'Prior to signing with the White Sox, my first question to the club concerned my son's ability to be a part of the team. After some due diligence on the club's part, we reached an agreement. The 2015 season presented no problems as far as Drake was concerned. (My bat and our record are another story!) With all of this in mind, we move toward the current situation which arose after White Sox VP Ken Williams recently advised me to significantly scale back the time that my son spent in the clubhouse. Later, I was told not to bring him to the ballpark at all.'
  15. jimmer
    Except that wasn't your argument. You didn't even mention 3B or 162 game season. You said, 'Have you ever played outfield?Sano is more likely to dislocate his jaw yawning in the outfield, than to get tired in the outfield.' Right there, no mention of 3B, no mention of 162 games season, and you asked a poster if he ever played OF. implying if he had, he'd know Sano was more likely to dislocate his jaw yawning than by getting tired in the outfield. So yeah, you were comparing the efforts/experience of common fans to what OFs/Sano will have to deal with.
  16. jimmer
    So is your contention is MLB OFs don't get tired and worn down over the course of a 162 games season played over about 180 days? Cause it's not whether or not he's tired after one game. And your argument is comparing how some fans played OF at whatever level and for however many games they play in their seasons to how MLB OF are expected to play for as many as the play? Even OFs who know what they are doing and have played OF their whole lives would get worn out and tired playing OF at the major league level over the course of 162 games in 180 or days while also traveling a bunch and having workouts in between games. Comparing that to fans that played at the level most of us have is, just, well, not a good comparison in the least.
  17. jimmer
    Mauer hasn't been anywhere near horrible defensively at 1B and Santana was developed as a shortstop. That's not a change in position.
  18. jimmer
    Why? Because he's 2 inches shorter and 40 or so pounds lighter than Sano along with always being an OF in his pro career as opposed to Sano never being an OF in his pro career?' Comparing Trout's situation to Sano's situation is like comparing food to skyscrapers.
  19. jimmer
    Well, Chris Sale will be leaving as soon as possible. Hard to believe he'll want to stay there now. Of course, he has no choice till after the 2019 season.
  20. jimmer
    Yeah, I agree. Especially during a time in baseball evolution where defense is being valued more and more. Seems to go way against the flow to say we're going to go with a guy Sano's size in the outfield. Not to mention the fact he's never played OF in his professional career. I'm guessing the guy 46 years ago had at least some experience out there before hitting the majors, though not sure. As far as Frank Howard goes. He started 1409 games in the OF over his career. That's a bit less than 9 seasons worth. For his OF career, he had -95 total zone. That averages out to almost -11 TZ over 162 games started. That is considered poor with -15 being awful. Disclaimer: TZ is a good stat, but UZR and DRS are better. Problem is, DRS and UZR aren't available for Howard at Fangraphs. 'TZ and TZL are both good metrics, although UZR and DRS are still considered the more accurate fielding metrics. However, UZR and DRS can only be calculated for modern-day players due to technology constraints, so TZ is the best historical fielding statistic available. If you want to compare a modern day player’s fielding with a player from the 1940s, TZ would be the statistic to use.'
  21. jimmer
    Your side of the debate is appeal to authority. That's not coming up with your own reasons or debating the merits of a decision, that's falling back on, 'Well whatever the Twins think and do is right." That is what you did: 'Santana was a good enough CF to keep Aaron Hicks in Rochester, so I'll go with the Twins evaluation of Santana's outfield abilities, while you can go with your own.' followed by 'All evidence also indicates their judgement was good enough to get them baseball employment. Otherwise they would have been blog posters.' So yes, while all teams get things right or wrong, to use a statement like, 'I'll take their evaluation over yours because they are are in baseball' doesn't really prove much because their evaluation of a players' abilities end up wrong quite a bit (as was pointed out and when it was pointed out, the surface was just scratched). In other words, just because they work in the game doesn't mean their evaluation of a player's ability is always right. They often aren't, especially over the last few years. Hard to use the appeal to authority card for player evaluation discussion with what we've seen here the last few years.
  22. jimmer
    Well, Ryan and the rest of us have something in common. None one of us have built a team that has reached the W Series. But since we should defer to the FO thinking at every turn, maybe all the debating on this site should cease. What's the point in debating/talking about decisions?
  23. jimmer
    I haven't watched DD2. DD1, Watchmen and Winter Soldier are my favorite superhero offerings.
  24. jimmer
    And um, what evaluation are you referring to? The one where they pulled him back in the IF the following year? The only reason he went to CF is because of poor roster management that forced them to throw an athletic IF to the OF because they trade two CFs and their backup plan wasn't ready. You can appeal to authority at every turn as your argument if you like, because all evidence points to the Twins making the right call in regards to FA pickups, where to play players, etc. Like Twins said Correia would be good, Pelfrey would be good, Bartlett could play OF and on and on. Excellent evaluations. But since he's a poor infielder and they decided not to keep him as a permanent OF, I doubt they really think he's good enough to stay an OF. And unbias metrics said he was a -5.4 UZR CF in only 500 something innings with zero defensive runs saved.
  25. jimmer
    Yes they do, comparatively speaking.. So do IFs who have almost never play OF in their professional career.
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