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  1. jimmer
    I think we all hope they make a big splash.
  2. jimmer
    Or: Woman Reporter: (Running to catch up with McGinty heading to the locker room for halftime) Coach, what will Washington need to get back into this game? Jimmy McGinty: (pause) You've got to have heart. Woman Reporter: Can you elaborate? Jimmy McGinty: (striking his chest with his roll of papers) Miles and miles of heart.
  3. jimmer
    I think he was asking if the Twins have given any indication that they will make a big splash during the offseason. I don't think anyone was saying one should or shouldn't be optimistic. That's an individual choice.
  4. jimmer
    Who do you envision them trading to get starting pitching?
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    I can't see any evidence to support that optimism. We get this kind of optimism from some every year. We are the Charlie Brown of fans and the combination of the Twins FO and Ownership are Lucy.
  7. jimmer
    Lester was worth 2.7 fWAR this year (so over 21M worth and more than he got paid). And he was supposedly bad this year. Ervin Santana was worth 2.9 fWAR. How was his year looked at by the majority of Twins fans? A success right? Lester wasn't good at 2.7 fWAR, Santana was very good at 2.9 fWAR. Lester was also very underpaid his first two years in Chicago. He was worth almost 3 times what he was paid in 2015 and twice as much as he got paid in 2016. No one seems to take into account the years when a player is underpaid or well underpaid when talking about contract being bad towards the end. In his three years as a Cub, Lester has already provided 48M in excess value, which is more than what he'll get paid the next two years. His contract was a winner.
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    and that was on how many total pitchers? What's his biggest signing? Anyway, doesn't matter what he did anymore, though this whole thread seems to be about defending his course of action, so it's hard to stay on topic without mentioning him. Hopefully the new FO finds a way to get some dominant pitching for this team. Cause while we managed to get far with the pitching this year, the pitching was still horrible and it wouldn't be a good idea to just keep adding to the backend of the rotation.
  9. jimmer
    So are we saying that Ryan didn't spend like perhaps he could have because of the Pohlads, not because he was risk adverse and had a misguided/outdated belief of what players are actually worth and wouldn't go over that?
  10. jimmer
    If he can find some consistency, yeah. I think he'll be more of a high 3 when it's all said and done which is absolutely a quality pitcher, but which leaves us two of those (Santana and him).
  11. jimmer
    So we should just follow Ryan's plan cause even though we didn't get much out of it, and haven't had an elite type pitcher in 10 years, at least the Pohlad's didn't lose big on the huge FA busts other teams did? Now, some of us have pushed to trade quality veterans to try and get young quality pitching, but then people balk at that too. So, I mean, we can't trade quality aging veteran's for young pitching (cause we might not pick the right guy), and we can't buy quality pitching (cause we should be scared of the wasted money), so our plan has to be about developing quality pitching which I am for but which we've failed miserably at for so long. The Twins won't go get high priced FA pitchers/players anyway, so hopefully this new regime will figure out how to get the system to develop quality pitchers cause if we are just pushing to keep the status quo on FA, we better figure out a better pitching philosophy to teach the guys we draft.
  12. jimmer
    Wow, that's hilarious.
  13. jimmer
    If our plan is to count on the starters we have and then add to the BACK part of the rotation, that is a bad plan. Cause we have enough back end starters, in fact, that's mostly what we have.
  14. jimmer
    The Astros were 6th in MLB for pitching fWAR at a robust 20.8 fWAR. They were also 2nd in K/9 IP, 6th in FIP and 3rd in xFIP. I want that kind of mediocre pitching for the Twins, cause that's championship caliber pitching.
  15. jimmer
    From the original post, perhaps the biggest myth written in it is the paragraph that basically says Kyle Gibson has finally figured it out. As far as Buxton goes, hopefully he'll stop slamming into walls. A healthy Buxton who plays aggressive yet smart is more valuable than a Buxton who makes a great catch and then has to sit out weeks because he tried to run through a wall.
  16. jimmer
    So, no chance for Royce Lewis to take the top spot? Interesting.
  17. jimmer
    Since this is just about defense, there are concerns at 3B and 2B more than SS. Our team was 24th in DRS at 3B. No significant difference between the defense provided by Escobar and Sano. Both bad. Our team was 22nd in DRS at 2B. Dozier has no business as a GG finalist. Our SS position was at 17th in DRS. Polanco was better at SS than Dozier was at 2B. Thank goodness for 4th ranked 1B and 4th ranked OF in DRS.
  18. jimmer
    I have no idea how big of a factor it is, but it seems to me it is somewhat a factor.
  19. jimmer
    I ask my kids, my niece, my nephews and the friends of those kids why they don't like baseball and one thing they've almost all said, in one way or another, is that the players seem to not even care. They do something awesome and it's like ho-hum. Then they see football players and basketball players get excited and it's fun for the kids to see that.
  20. jimmer
    I have no issue with the bat flip, obviously.
  21. jimmer
    So, a moderator initiated a PM to me today for no other reason than to take a personal shot at me. Just a straight up, no doubt about it, personal shot. Is this something the owners/people who run this site want to happen?
  22. jimmer
    I'm not missing any point, I think the point is ridiculous. People can't even agree on where the line is. Who gets to decide? It's arbitrary. Besides, iIt's only considered belittling because it's been burnt into our heads that it is. It could be taken as just having fun playing a kids game and people could look at it that way, like they do in Latin American countries. People mess up, they get upset for messing up. So then they see the opponent having fun, they get offended. Thing is, they were already butthurt and looking for any excuse to show that emotion, and when offensive players show that emotion, the butthurt comes out but it's perfectly okay to be butthurt cause the mighty unwritten rules have been broken. Let's take the attention off me messing up by giving up the HR and put it where it belongs, on the batter 'showing me up'. THAT'S the childish part. Deflecting the responsibility for messing up on others and not taking responsibility for their own mistakes.
  23. jimmer
    In the last two months, Santana's ERA and FIP were better than Gibson's. They gave up the same amount of HR, though Gibson had 10 less innings. In August, Gibson's HR/FB rate was 14.3%, Santana's was 8.7% In September/October, Gibson's HR/FB rate was 18.5%, Santana's was 7.5% Yeah, Santana's early start was unsustainable, everything pointed that out, but he was still better than Gibson in the last two months.
  24. jimmer
    MLB apparently should stand for Mundane Lifeless Baseball? ;-) People wonder why baseball, the greatest game ever, is losing young fans. One reason I'm always told by younger generation people is because it's boring. Not the game, but because the players act so much more robotic. Yeah, pace of play is a problem too and baseball CAN and hopefully WILL do somethings to address that, but it's a boring game for many youngsters. The old guard wants to keep the game all reserved/prim and proper, instead of letting the players have fun. Failure to realize things can and should evolve. I loved watching games in Latin America because they understand the game should be FUN. Players allow themselves to get butthurt about little things and one reason why is that they've been told forever they SHOULD get butthurt because 'That's not how the game is played'. Well, that's one reason. Another reason is because it's a great deflection mechanism. Turn the pitcher's failure into a problem with how the batter reacted. 'Yeah, I gave up another HR, but look how he's reacting that's sooooo wrong. Let's focus on THAT.'
  25. jimmer
    You assume we would have drafted Gray, Bregman and Rodon or that it would have mattered if we had drafted Gray or Rodon (meaning could we develop them?) Anyway, we've drafted pretty high most of this decade. In the last 6 drafts we've drafted, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 15th. This isn't high enough?. Yeah, it wasn't three #1 in a row like the Astros had but only one of those will amount to anything for them anyway (yeah, he's awesome). Going into this season we had the worst record in baseball this decade, I believe. If not, very close. We've had opportunity. Twins don't draft top notch starting pitchers and/or we can't develop them(unless we're including the rule 5 draft then we did it once). Either way, at some point, it turns into an organizational failure which I believe was the case. That is one of a few reasons why I'm glad the new guys are on board.
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