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  1. jimmer
    Do we have awesome defenders coming? Right now his FIP is 4.64, his worst in 3 seasons, so I don't know. Not sure he can use defense as an excuse.
  2. jimmer
    Been saying this for at least two years. DH him. It's where he will end up. In any event, I'm not pushing to keep Plouffe, but this idea that we should just let him go for nothing seems like an unfair view of what Plouffe worked his behind off to become.
  3. jimmer
    I'm right there with you. Don't do Facebook, don't do twitter, none of it.
  4. jimmer
    Yup. And, as a bonus, he was a 1st round pick. another top notch selection. 11 first round picks from '06-11, not a good one in the bunch.
  5. jimmer
    There are also people saying Plouffe should just be let go when he was worth over 6 WAR between 2014 and 2015. I still think he wasn't traded because Ryan never tried to trade him.
  6. jimmer
    I didn't say it was his fault, whatever that is supposed to mean. I said one needs to look at who he was pitching against before letting this game get everyone ramped up again about Gibson's potential. I also never said don't offer him arbitration. I wouldn't, however, buy out any free agent years.
  7. jimmer
    Metrodome, for all it's faults, was still better than what the As have to play in. What a dump.
  8. jimmer
    Plouffe has had an off year for sure (mostly due to injury I imagine) but this is a guy who was worth over 6 WAR combined between 2014 and 2015. He may be the least wanted Twins on the team now that Nolasco is gone, but we could very well be giving away real value if we just let him walk.
  9. jimmer
    I'm glad he had a good game, but some perspective. Last night was his 7th quality start in 17 attempts this year and it was against the team that has 23 less runs scored than the team that is 29th in scoring. In fact, he's only had 4 quality starts this year against top half offenses (Boston, Texas, Baltimore and LA Angels).
  10. jimmer
    All MLB players have good games here and there. Even bad defenders make an occasional great play. Even horrible hitters can have a nice streak, etc. Gibson has had 7 quality starts out of 17 games started this year. He'll be 29 going into next season and we're talking about his potential still? Had these same conversation last year around this time when so many said he had turned corner. He is what he is now. He's not anything close to a consistent MLB starter (or a good one, for that matter). He's a borderline #4/#5 starting pitcher, at best. He not the kind of guy you plan to keep past his arbitration years.
  11. jimmer
    Buxton was drafted in 2012. Preseason 2013, after only playing in rookie ball for 48 games in 2012 and not having even reached A Ball, he was listed: 10th by BA. 19th by MLB. 8th by BP. He has, quite literally, never been out of the top 20 as a prospect in a preseason poll by the big three in which he was a professional player
  12. jimmer
    Yes, some people are frustrated. Some people have ridiculous beliefs, like believing a #2 draft pick who has been a top 20 prospect for four years straight and a top 2 prospect for three years straight should not be completely and utterly overmatched at the plate. I'm not sure why it's wrong to hold that player to higher expectations than we would a 5th round player not in the top 100. It's not that he isn't reaching ridiculous expectations. He's not meeting the mildest expectations. he doesn't look close to being able to meet even modest expectations. Oh, and P.S., I doubt too many people truly believed Buxton was the next Trout. Trout is a once in a generation player. May end up the best player a good chunk of us have ever actually seen play while we were alive and baseball fans.
  13. jimmer
    Well, considering Kepler's BABIP is like 135 points lower than Santana's was his rookie year... Of course, Kepler could fall off an have a slump, but if he does, it'll be for different reasons.
  14. jimmer
    I figure we should give Buxton at least another 4-5 years to figure it out.
  15. jimmer
    FTFY :-)
  16. jimmer
    yeah exactly. being able to only point to one guy and say it worked for him is actually a point against it happening not a point for it happening. there was this ONE tall guy and he ended up an inner circle HOF pitcher...:-)
  17. jimmer
    'The Twins didn't make great selections with their trade picks (though Revere's lack of development and Span's up-and-down injury history hardly make the trades total losses)' Span trade was a 100% lost for the Twins. Not only in value for what he was worth versus what he was paid, but also taking into account that, in four years since he was trade, we STILL haven't replaced him AND then what we got for him became a total BUST. Guy was worth over 70M in the last three years we would have had him (under the contract he signed with us before he was traded), and he was paid around 20M. That's 50M surplus value and we got a player who hasn't done anything. So yeah, 100% lost on the trade.
  18. jimmer
    yeah, it really hasn't come close to Mauer posts actually :-)
  19. jimmer
    If AJ can throw you out, you have issues :-)
  20. jimmer
    I never tried golf until I was 27. A friend of mine took me out one day and I found out I could drive the heck out of the ball off the tee, but it would slice like crazy most of the time. Once I figured out how far to stand, I had driving the ball down. Then came progress in the irons. My putting always seems to be good. My last round that year I shot a 90 on a par 72. I've played sparingly ever since. In fact, I haven't played since I retired from the Air Force.
  21. jimmer
    his .400+ BABIP since 1 July ;-)
  22. jimmer
    Now give us a list of all the players who were this bad to start their MLB career who never amounted to much of anything, if anything at all, in MLB. Wonder which list is bigger? :-) There are a bunch of young guys the last couple years who have come up and hit the ground running. This guy was the #2 pick, was a top 10 prospect his first year and a top 2 prospect the next three years. Buxton keeps having to go down because he has no clue at the plate. He Ks more than 36% of the time, his BA is under .200, he gets on base less than 25% of the time and his wRC+ this year was 46. And it bothers you people are showing their disappointment?
  23. jimmer
    Yeah, like I mentioned, his BABIP is like .400 since July. That's why his OBP rose (and now falling again). Nothing has changed about his approach other than more are dropping in for hits. I haven't really seen much of a difference. Either way, I doubt this team gives up on him. Nor should they. He's a nice #4 OF.
  24. jimmer
    BD can't bring back a front of the rotations starter.
  25. jimmer
    never got a sniff, except the very first year of his 8 year contract that is:-)
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