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  1. jimmer
    I like to approach topics and ideas from a realistic point of view. Like to face it head on. Let's me enjoy the good baseball times even more when they arrive.
  2. jimmer
    Well, one of the realities is this: In four of the last five full seasons the Twins have lost at least 92 games. After a season off from that futility (at least record-wise), we are now looking at a very real possibility of finishing with triple digits losses. Is there any way my attitude and mind set will change that?
  3. jimmer
    Park was a bad idea for multiple reasons. Logjam at the spots he plays, Sano is moved to RF in part because of him joining the team, and of course his main problem: tons of strikeouts. It was his problem in Korea, his problem in the majors, and his problem in AAA. He managed to produce in spite of them in AAA and Korea (in other words, inferior talent).but against the best competition (MLB), he couldn't. It was an injury stopping him in the majors but he managed an OPS 140 points higher in AAA? Bad, bad call. And the dominoes fell.
  4. jimmer
    i would have prefered to have been greatly and overwhelmingly wrong :-)
  5. jimmer
    cant like this post enough
  6. jimmer
    I've always thought she was awesome. NOW, even MORE awesome!
  7. jimmer
    yeah, Suzuki did a 'Great' job of framing that. cause that's his strength....
  8. jimmer
    I had Duffey (on the linked thread) and Gibson on this one but I also said we didn't really have the kind of talent on this team where playing poorly would be considered a bust. 'I'm not sure that this team has the quality of players where one could have such high expectations they would be considered busts if they perform poorly. Sano has high expectations. Some have high expectations for Buxton for this year. Maybe Gibson? Hear a lot of people talking about him taking the next step.' Additionally, I didn't have Rosario as a bust candidate because, well, I didn't expect much from him based on the his BABIP and the triple boosting his slg%.
  9. jimmer
    Wasn't Tim Horton the first person to hear a Who? :-)
  10. jimmer
    At this point, I think it's more of a cover your behind thing. Enough have bought into it and if you do something away from the norm, and a player gets hurt, you have a lot of splainin to do :-)
  11. jimmer
    Right now, I have one poster that I use this function for. I don't use it for people I often disagree with because I like hearing opposing views. Only the truly ridiculous get put on the list and overall, this site's regular posters are very good, so that list is but one poster. Having said that, I'm sure I'm on many people's ignore list :-)
  12. jimmer
    Defense and overall baseball fundamentals may need looking into as well. Having a team so poor in even basic fundamentals on top of having the 2nd worse defense in baseball makes for some rough baseball to watch.
  13. jimmer
    I get giddy every time I see a Game Thread started by Riverbrian :-)
  14. jimmer
    I want every Twin to succeed, even ones I don't think are very good. GO TWINS!!!!
  15. jimmer
    And he's been awesome. Was just named player of the week. The game he played after he found out, he celebrated by hitting two HR. But he hasn't had that many PAs, so he could technically be called a prospect :-)
  16. jimmer
    The problem with being okay with the position players because our offense is 9th in the AL out of 15 in scoring is that these are the same guys who also play the field and our defense is 14th in the AL. So now we are looking at our position players being ranked 11th out of 15.
  17. jimmer
    Last year, the discussion about trading Gibson came up. I was a proponent of it, many others said it would be a bad move because he was turning a corner and about to be a quality starter. Is it okay to trade Gibson now (or just not tender him a contract), or are we going to bank on the supposed potential of a guy who will be 29 in a few months?
  18. jimmer
    Presumably he was still dealing with the nagging hand and wrist injuries in the minors, yet his OPS was 140 points higher in the minors. And he's always been a strikeout machine, which seems to be his biggest problem anyway no matter where he's played. It's just that while playing against inferior talent (Korea and the minors), he was able to overcome it more than when playing against the very best (MLB).
  19. jimmer
    Another way to look at it, AL WAR rankings each year for 10 years. (2005-2014) plus a few accomplishments. 2005: 31st. 2006: tied for 4th (1st batting title ever for an AL catcher, All Star, Silver Slugger, 6th in MVP voting) 2007: tied for 28th 2008: 6th (2nd batting title ever for an AL catcher, All Star, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, 4th in MVP voting) 2009: 2nd (3rd batting title ever for an AL catcher, All Star, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, 1st guy in 30 years to lead AL in BA/OBP/SLG and first AL catcher to ever do it, MVP). 2010: 10th (All Star, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, 8th in MVP voting). 2011: 86th (only played half a season). 2012: tied for 10th (All Star, 19th in MVP voting) 2013: tied for 10th while only playing 113 games. Guy he tied with played 160. (All Star, Silver Slugger). Those were the pre-concussion years, mostly catcher years. That's 9 years of pretty great work and an average of 4.2 WAR with 6 out of 9 years being in top 10 in AL WAR. 2014: 82nd (post concussion, position switch).
  20. jimmer
    That's an interesting yet warped idea of how to look at it. Take Mauer's 2009 where he was 4th in WAR and make it 39th. Your look kind of throws out the whole idea of consistent quality performance through a long time span, which is what the HOF should be about, IMO. Averaging 4.4 WAR over a 10 year span (which is what he did from 2005-2014) shows quality performance over a long period. That's averaging at an all star level over a 10 year span. But interesting nonetheless.
  21. jimmer
    Mauer, from 2005-2013 (9 year span from his first full year to 2013 when he had an OPS of .880, his 3rd best of his career). 7th in the MAJORS in fWAR and 2nd in fWAR in the AL (to, um, PED enhanced ARod). .323/.406/.466 wRC+ of 134. 3 GG, 5 SS, 3 batting titles and an MVP (where he lead the league in BA/OBP/SLG% making him the first AL player in 30 years to do that) If you expand that to 2005-2014 (making it a 10 year span), he was still 7th in the majors in fWAR and still 2nd for the AL in fWAR. If you extend it to right now, so 2005-2016 (almost a 12 year span), 11th in the majors for fWAR, 6th in AL.
  22. jimmer
    Well, we HOPE that's the reason why he wasn't able hit well enough to stick. He had an OPS in the .800s this season in the minors. His main problem was striking out as has always been his problem including where he played before we got him.
  23. jimmer
    The Twins may not hit 100 losses, but they have to win at least 24 out of their final 37 games to avoid losing at least 90 games. I don't like the odds of the Twins avoiding at least another 90 loss season.
  24. jimmer
    But certainly with the top notch farm system Ryan built, we have all the prospects we need :-)
  25. jimmer
    And yet my 75 year old mothers loves Famous Daves. Guessing it's because she spent 50 or so years in Cali where there is no BBQ ;-)
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