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  1. jimmer
    I lost mine in an ill-advised poker game.
  2. jimmer
    I figured it would if there was a British version of this site, but not necessarily the American site :-)
  3. jimmer
    Ah Luigi. the Aquaman of the Mario world. :-)
  4. jimmer
    Tell me that you have one of those helmets, cause that'd be awesome!
  5. jimmer
    Does Mean Joe Greene count?
  6. jimmer
    Coors FIELD, my friend. ;-)
  7. jimmer
    Yeah, I like Coors FIELD a lot. One of the best bang for you buck, seating wise, is 200 level seating, 1st row just off home plate. Great, great view of the field. Every bit as good as lower level, if not actually better. I made the mistake of buying the same number seat at target once and it felt like I was watching the game from from the moon because turns out 200 level isn't 2nd level, but much higher up.
  8. jimmer
    I'll take Flubber. He's awesome!
  9. jimmer
    When people wail about how much a player is getting paid relative to how much they think he should be getting paid, it always seems to be when he's getting paid a ton. It's never when he's getting paid relatively little (in baseball terms). If the outrage is about performance and pay not being equal, why not also complain when a guy is worth 40M+ a year and is getting paid 6M? No one was howling about under-paid Mauer was when he was worth almost 50M in 2009 but got paid 10M, or when he was worth 35M in 2008 and got 6M. Or when he was worth about 28M and got paid less than a million. Where was the pay to performance outrage then? Anywho, when he leaves, they can use that money to get two to three middle of the road starters. Or, better yet, so we can overpay someone else. So we have that to look forward to.
  10. jimmer
    Your game Intros are awesome!!!! If you haven't been there yet, check out Camden Yards. Probably my favorite.
  11. jimmer
    Well, that's not true. Dozier was drafted at 22 and the two top 100 lists Polanco made were both pre-2016 (BA and MLB) when he was 22. Unless there are others you're talking about other than BP, BA and MLB dot com. In any event, if you follow the conversation, this has been discussed at length and like I said earlier, the amount of posts I've written on this is was out of proportion to the amount I care about it. If people want to keep hashing it out, they can do it without me participating.
  12. jimmer
    That's interesting because people have always said he's an exceptionally smart base runner. Fangraphs has him as above average base runner as well even without the speed. In fact, they have him as the 5th best baserunner among 1Bs. Not bad for an older player who used to play catcher. There are 3 current Twins who are rated better. Dozier, Buxton and Rosario. Do we want Buxton and Rosario batting in the top 2 spots? He's baseball smart and has good instincts. But yeah, not fast. I'll take the guy with 80 or more OBP points getting more PAs than a fast guy with an OBP 80 points lower.
  13. jimmer
    which is where he is being used more and more, like people have been wanting for years.
  14. jimmer
    If the guy can't slug, and his offensive skill set is getting on base, why drop him in the order? Shouldn't your high OBP/low slugging guys be in the one and two spot to set up the sluggers? Should we shove our speedy guys who can't get on base in the top spots instead and let the guy who makes the least amount of outs get a significant amount of PAs less than them?
  15. jimmer
    Now those are bold, bold statements. Here's to hoping.
  16. jimmer
    And now you know, the REST of the story. Great info Parker, thank you very much.
  17. jimmer
    Below is the quote I was responding to. I was apparently missing the point, so I guess my bad. 'Heres the funny thing.. slightly better.. Polanco made it to the MLB at 21, Dozier wasn't even drafted until he was just over 22 years old.' Anyway, my post number on this one thing is extremely disproportionate to the amount I care about it. :-)
  18. jimmer
    It was about the age thing when drafted part having some sort of meaning...that's it. If you feel like it didn't make sense, that's fine. Doesn't matter.
  19. jimmer
    With some of the quotes from Ryan, it seemed he would use the info given by Goin if it matched with his thought process and if not he discarded it (at least in player acquisition transaction). It may not have been really the case, but if it was, no point in even having an analytic department if used like that.
  20. jimmer
    I'm fine with trading him too. he might even be retired when it's time to compete gain. It would be the right move.
  21. jimmer
    makes more sense, if you read the quote I was quoting when I wrote that. Or maybe it won't :-)
  22. jimmer
    This
  23. jimmer
    I agree. :-)
  24. jimmer
    I like this thought process.
  25. jimmer
    Yeah, I'm saying if a person is just looking at how old a player is when drafted to base any idea about how good someone is, they're missing the boat. Nothing 'funny' about it when you realize one went to college and one didn't. But yeah, as far as comparing numbers, it was like people comparing Buxton's numbers in his first stint in the majors to Trout when Trout had his first stint in the majors. Trout was two years younger during his first stint. And yeah, I was 18 once. Looking up stock numbers on microfiche with only two stripes on my arm, not having a cell phone, loving my Atari 2600, being in love for the first time (and no, I don't mean my Atari 2600 :-)).
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