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  1. jimmer
    Originally, this was the series I planned to see in person for my birthday, and then I moved too far away to get there in a day, so MLB TV it is! Go Twins!
  2. jimmer
    I already gave a link, right after it was asked for.
  3. jimmer
    He won't be ready until Ryan promotes him to the majors.
  4. jimmer
    "Conventional wisdom among coaches and managers is that restricting innings for young starting pitchers, and slowly increasing the number of innings pitched over several years, gives pitchers' tissues sufficient time to adapt to the workload of a major league season," said Thomas Karakolis, lead investigator on the study. "But all our data shows that these strategies really make no difference in preventing injury." '"Injury is the result of workload exceeding the capacity of the body's tissues, so while counting innings is a tempting way to measure workload, it's actually a very flawed method," said Karakolis. "If coaches are looking for ways to prevent injury, simply limiting the number of innings is not the answer. They have to look at how hard a pitcher's body is working during each inning, each pitch." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150406121354.htm
  5. jimmer
    I think of the playoffs as just a post season tournament for qualifying teams. The WS winner is very often not actually the best team, just a team that got hot at the right time.
  6. jimmer
    Think that's bad? What about the team in 3rd place in that division? A better record than 4 of the 6 division leaders and will likely have to play a one game playoff game on the road.
  7. jimmer
    I love the use of the word 'boldly' in that sentence :-)
  8. jimmer
    Twins are still in it and it's almost September. Really loving that!
  9. jimmer
    Ryan is not going to go after a top flight starting pitcher. It could be the best FA SP class in history and they still wouldn't do it.
  10. jimmer
    Love me some Span!
  11. jimmer
    Span is back! Go Denard!
  12. jimmer
    http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-05-07/154-game-schedule-season-rob-manfred-162-expand-playoffs-wild-card-national-league-dh
  13. jimmer
    They should cut back to 152 regular season games and make the wild card game a 3 game series. I've heard rumblings that they are talking about taking away the divisions altogether and just having the teams with the best 5 records from each league make the playoffs.
  14. jimmer
    Clearly the Twins DIDN'T give him every opportunity to start, because he did zero to lose his spot. They yanked him out of the rotation and slowed his development as a starter. This isn't a guy 21, 22 years old. He's already starter his prime years. IF, and that is a big IF, he's ever back in the rotation full time, they will have to baby him again with his innings. They have really messed up with him if the goal is to make him a quality starter.
  15. jimmer
    Yeah, except May was already striking out more than 7 per 9 as a starter (the most of any of our starters when demoted). He was already a K guy. Pelfrey is 88 out of 89 qualifying starter in Ks. The one guy behind him has one less start and 10 less innings pitched and he's only 3 behind him Pelfrey.
  16. jimmer
    I don't know why anyone would want Pelfrey in the pen. Guy can't strike people out. Don't we have enough of that in our bullpen?
  17. jimmer
    Yeah, the contracts aren't killing this team one bit. By the time we need the money to sign the players we hope deserve big contracts, all the big contracts will be gone. What's killing this team is lack of proven MLB quality talent.
  18. jimmer
    a lot of the talent came from when Smith was GM too.
  19. jimmer
    We are tied for 28th in wRC+ for our OF this year and in the AL, no OF has a lower wRC+. So we can worry abut whether or not Hunter may or may not provide a dental floss thin more offense than Buxton may, or we can improve CF defense some and RF defense a ton by putting Buxton in CF and Hicks in RF.
  20. jimmer
    and you get an upgrade at two defensive positions.
  21. jimmer
    As long as he's showing the team how to win, doesn't matter what his offensive and defensive contributions are. He was a great pickup and may very well another great signing by TR next year. Because everyone knows it's because of him that we are even close to a playoff spot right now.
  22. jimmer
    I wish I could easily accept what they say as true.
  23. jimmer
    I see a movie in the near future :-)
  24. jimmer
    We got to see a bunch of youngsters, we will likely still play some meaningful games in September. This season, for me, has been successful. We are slowly moving in the right direction. One of my biggest issues is that it seems they have decided that May is a bullpen guy. It is unfortunate because I think he's easily a #3 pitcher (at worse) and those guys have real value.
  25. jimmer
    Since the Blue Jays traded for Tulo, they have sold half million tickets according to the game day broadcast from the game going on right now. There was a huge surge in people buying tickets.
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