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  1. jimmer
    WHY are we bunting and WHY can't he bunt? Suzuki stinks.
  2. jimmer
    Have the lineups been announced yet?
  3. jimmer
    perhaps for people who have played outfield before and aren't 270 lb.
  4. jimmer
    Escobar was batting .444 going into today and he now has a .348 BA. Nunez has started one game and had a .000 BA going into today. Escobar is doing fine. Nunez will probably get the next three starts because of this one game.
  5. jimmer
    If Jepsen has to be our closer, we might as well truly give up on the season.
  6. jimmer
    Problem is, defense ties in with pitching, which is considered huge. A quality defense makes a bad rotation look a whole lot better or a bad defense can make a good rotation look worse than it is. Pitching has a symbiotic relationship with defense.
  7. jimmer
    Oh my goodness, seriously? Doesn't matter? This is the major leagues, not little league, softball, etc. Defense matters everywhere. Even in high school, the idea of your worst fielder playing RF is tossed out the window. Your best OF arms played RF, it wasn't where the worst player played. In the majors, LF or 1B has been where people have been 'hidden'. There's guys like Manny, Hanley, Delmon, Willingham, etc for LF and a huge line of people for 1B there's no point in even naming them. But again, this is the major leagues. A bad RF can burn/cost a team big time. Certainly doesn't hurt you any less than a bad LF or 1B. Might not matter as much as a poor catcher (which we have) or poor MIs, but the idea that RF is where you hide your worst players at higher levels of baseball is false.
  8. jimmer
    no worries, 20 or so wins in May again will cure all ;-)
  9. jimmer
    like I said earlier, 'worse plate discipline on the team facing the best reliever in baseball over the last three years.'
  10. jimmer
    this is getting old quickly. I know, it's only 4 games. How many games until it matters, again?
  11. jimmer
    worse plate discipline on the team facing the best reliever in baseball over the last three years.
  12. jimmer
    son of a gun!
  13. jimmer
    3 Ks by Sano not enough? :-)
  14. jimmer
    better not sacrifice!
  15. jimmer
    Jepsen...
  16. jimmer
    There are plenty of players who were/ are young who didn't get better in time even their own positions much less positions they had to learn in the majors. We have had a few on our team over the last few years. Experence won't always equal getting better, either in the field or the plate and defense peaks sooner than hitting.
  17. jimmer
    Well, I'm not sure I'd say Nolasco would be one of the better #5 starters in the game and the problem is, our rotation consists of only #3-#5 starters. A Nolasco is easier to stomach when a team has a couple guys who slot into 1-2 spots. Kind of like our lineup. Rosario would be a decent #9 hitter but we have Suzuki/Murphy and the young Buxton that hit below him. Not sure why Escobar does. That is compounded by not having decent choices for lead off either.
  18. jimmer
    Been saying a lot this off season that with our OBP last year (dead last in AL) and our OPS being 13th in the AL last year, only through very advantageous sequencing did we end up middle of the AL in scoring (8th). Can't count on that.
  19. jimmer
    'If there's one thing last season taught us, it's that we shouldn't put too much stock into rough beginnings. As we all remember, the 2015 Twins lost six of their first seven games, getting outscored 45-16 in the process. By the end of May, they were in first place.' Did last season teach us to to count on a 20 wins May for things like that to happen? :-)
  20. jimmer
    2 DPs a game would be quite something. That'd be some kind of untouchable record to average 2 DPs a game. And I'm pretty sure it has zero to do with his desire to not strikeout.
  21. jimmer
    Strikeouts are helped by the yearly expansion of the called strike zone since 2009.
  22. jimmer
    Both horrible RFs, one retired.
  23. jimmer
    Next article might need to be Buxton and the strikeout.
  24. jimmer
    But those tickets were originally bought by someone, right?
  25. jimmer
    yes and yes
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