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  1. jimmer
    I keep hearing about how there is too much negativity on this site lately. Seems to me that after we've endured 4 seasons like we have the last 4 seasons and see the team go into this season with the roster they have, it's hard to see the positive unless we only want to talk about how the kids in the minors might do if/when they arrive. I imagine most team sports sites are way more positive when a team is very good and they have been winning and when that time comes for the Twins, the negative to positive comment ratio should tilt to positive.
  2. jimmer
    Ah, those :-)
  3. jimmer
    I am, as always, looking forward to the season as much as I always have. Took Monday off to watch a bunch of games. Used to be a tradition for me, but with all the deployments and such, kind of got away from doing that. But I'll have the grill going and I'll be enjoying the game with a burger and a beer this year. Three Days till our season starts. GO TWINS!!!!!
  4. jimmer
    speaking of new uniforms, which ones did we say goodbye to?
  5. jimmer
    Not sure about this year, but I could see it in a year or two. There's something about this guy that intrigues me for sure.
  6. jimmer
    Hey there! I don't think he reaches 3000. either. If he somehow could, he'd be the first guy who was primarily a catcher to get over 2637 hits. There are only 7 guys in history who were primarily catchers to reach 2000. He could exceed the 2637 though. And yes, I get the frustration over seeing him have that big year in power and then not ever do it again, but I also get players have years that are just so out of whack in some areas in relation to the rest of their careers that what I do is enjoy that year for what it was. An extreme outlier. And that's what Mauer's HR power was that year. Some of those doubles/outs went a bit further than normal in a climate neutral environment we no longer play in.
  7. jimmer
    I admire your optimism and wish I could agree with your overall point of view on the state of our team. I am hoping you are right.
  8. jimmer
    What would be ideal (and somewhat doable) is that we go half the season the way it is, Rosario takes over CF at the break and then moves to a corner next season whenever Buxton joins us. Around the ASB.
  9. jimmer
    Yeah, he was brutal with us, but he only played 1/3 of the season with us in the OF and our OF defense still managed to be horrible without him when he got replaced. And he was hurt/had a bad back. Hunter is just bad now because he is. And at almost 40, you would expect him to be :-)
  10. jimmer
    Those aren't my quotes though, those are Fangraphs. But I will say that Arcia is replacing Willingham and Hunter is replacing Arcia. Arcia is playing a new position (and is really bad out in the OF) and the soon to be 40 year old is taking RF. That almost 40 year old's defense is in big decline, like one would expect from someone his age. I don't think it's any kind of improvement honestly. I think if we didn't have in our mind how Hunter used to be, if that bias didn't exist, there would be less debate about it. Like the guy said, he saw almost all of Hunter's play while he was with the Tigers and he was very bad. That's what I saw too. And I have no idea what the author of that piece says about Willingham. Where is he playing? Is he even on a team? Edit: he's retired.
  11. jimmer
    Hunter and his agent were able to convince a team to pay him 10M this year. He deserves a bunch of credit just for that alone.
  12. jimmer
    Meyer was auditioning for a spot in the rotation the same way Pridie and Span were auditioning for the CF job in ST 2008 :-) That being, there's no way in heck you're getting this spot.
  13. jimmer
    If they had realized he couldn't play shortstop a lot earlier and, therefore, moved him to 3rd base earlier, he might have turned out better sooner.
  14. jimmer
    you're right, though it's much less funny now. buzz kill :-)
  15. jimmer
    I think they are using ZiPS projections in this . I know that when talking with Dave Cameron AND the guy who creates ZiPS, Dan Szymborski, they both actually said they didn't personally predict that the Twins would win that many, though they wouldn't be surprised if they did.
  16. jimmer
    'Two of the biggest success stores on our team right now are Dozier and Plouffe. I looked at minor league baseballs top prospects from 2009 to 2011 and neither was listed as a top 20 prospect. Both came up around 25.' Yeah, but then again Plouffe was a first round pick who spent the max time he could in the minors before finally sticking by beating out Hughes. He's finally figured it out and that's great. I'm not a basher of him, but we shouldn't be like, 'Wow, out of nowhere came Plouffe, what a pleasant surprise' either :-)
  17. jimmer
    And this was my guess. .270/.315/.400. So we aren't too far off on the OPS.
  18. jimmer
    yeah, nobody wants to see that. :-)
  19. jimmer
    Here's what a guy from Fangraphs said in his organizational rankings for RF about Hunter: 'In one sense, bringing Torii Hunter home for a curtain call in Minnesota is probably good for business. The fans will enjoy it and Hunter and Twins seem to get along pretty well. But in another sense, it will make for some very annoyed pitchers. Hunter has some life left in his bat, but Jason Heyward could probably out-defend Hunter if he had to use his cap instead of a glove.' And this isn’t just the metrics talking (-28 DRS, -22 UZR since 2013), I watched nearly every inning he played while in Detroit and I was constantly explaining to my newly adopted dog that most teams have right fielders that can get to routine fly balls.' :-)
  20. jimmer
    With his speed, he's normally going to sit higher than average on BABIP, but even if he drops down this year to a very good .320-.330 BABIP, that kills his OBP. Having a BABIP over .400 is just crazy.
  21. jimmer
    If Buxton is up 1 May I will streak through my town :-)
  22. jimmer
    I think he ends up back in CF after our less than inspiring CF platoon fizzles and then Escobar slides back to shortstop. .270/.315/.400
  23. jimmer
    'It's hard to make sense of what he did in 2014.' His BABIP explains those numbers. Over 100 points better than league average
  24. jimmer
    I agree.
  25. jimmer
    A normal Mauer is a run creator. But he doesn't do it in the ways everyone can easily point to like the HR. But he creates them, His OBP has value in the TEAM scoring runs. His ability to put bat on ball a lot and move runners over, is valuable. You would surely get more HR from the others, but you'd also lose like 60 points or so in OBP and 50 or so in BA and add Ks and so on. And lose on D too. The HRs would look pretty, but there is more to creating runs than that. So, now, until these guys prove they can score a wRC+ in the 130s-150s, I still believe that a regular Mauer will help our offense more because we'll have more opps to score runs based on his skills. Having said that, I think it'd be best for Mauer to waive his no trade and let the Twins move him if they actually want to.
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