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  1. Vanimal46
    We just need to find out exactly how much he weighed in April 2017 and make sure he weighs exactly that from here on out. If he's a pound over that April 2017 benchmark he has to run on the hamster wheel. If he's lucky, maybe he can eat a leaf of lettuce. No dressing of course. Every calorie counts!
  2. Vanimal46
    I don't think we have to worry about the possibility of him signing a 10 year contract here. Why would he stay here when every season comes around his weight, work ethic, and attitude are questioned?
  3. Vanimal46
    Where did I type that? I responded to another poster who said his ideal weight is less than 230 lbs. And Sano said as much 5 years ago when he was 19 years old.
  4. Vanimal46
    So you believe a person's ideal weight stays the same from the time they're 19 going on 20 years old? That's how old Sano was in 2013. At 19 my ideal weight was 175 lbs. Now at 27, and well after the discovery of delicious craft beers, my ideal weight is less than 200 lbs.
  5. Vanimal46
    Link? I don't think that boy has weighed less than 230 since he was 17 years old. Athletes get bigger, faster, and stronger every year. If he's hiding 80 lbs of fat he does a good job hiding it.
  6. Vanimal46
    Right. If someone like Buxton, who earned most of his value Fielding showed up at 300 lbs we'd have a serious problem. With Sano he earns his value with the bat. As long as his beer belly doesn't get in the way of crushing a low fastball, I'm fine with whatever weight he is.
  7. Vanimal46
    It wouldn't be spring training if there wasn't a "Sano needs to lose weight" article written. Plus, isn't it hard to work out and train when you're recovering from a stress fracture? I'll never understand fans ripping on Sano.
  8. Vanimal46
    It looks that way on the surface... Though I'm intrigued to find out what ideas Falvey has to tweak his game.
  9. Vanimal46
    I'm happy with this news. I'll gladly trade an A-level #20 org prospect for someone who can help in the majors right now. He's arb-eligible for 1 more year so it's not a rental either. Hopefully he returns to #3 starter performance this season and fix whatever went wrong for him last year.
  10. Vanimal46
    He allowed a 37.4% hard hit rate last year. It's going to be ugly. What are we hoping for here? Something better than Colon last year for 10 starts?
  11. Vanimal46
    Sigh... Yeah, it looks like they're going to ride the waiver wire carousel this year again. I don't have a strong opinion anymore about who to sign. Let's go after someone who had an ERA better than 5 last year.
  12. Vanimal46
    You can't aim any lower than what they did. Awful.
  13. Vanimal46
    I appreciate pitchers like Gonsalves. He hasn't been able to get by on a 97 MPH fastball or a Wipeout slider throughout his life. He's had to learn how to adjust at every level, and so far he's been able to do it. I think it would do him a world of good to take things slow with him. I'd feel comfortable assessing the situation again after 15-20 more starts in AAA.
  14. Vanimal46
    Over/under 2.5 "feeling great!" stories about Hughes from Twins beat writers in March?
  15. Vanimal46
    Concur from my perspective in Austin. I guess Dallas could be perceived as a high end city because it's littered with what we call '$30,000 millionaires'. The ones acting like hot shot millionaires but only make $30k... Houston is a concrete beast of a city with 7+ million people. Worth visiting, but I wouldn't want to live there.
  16. Vanimal46
    What do you do with a bobble head once you acquire a bobble head? I ask that as someone who has probably 10 of them packed somewhere in a storage unit.
  17. Vanimal46
    We're also starting a protest in a furniture store later today! It's called "Bummin' it for Bumgarner" We will refuse to get off of the couches in the showroom until the Twins trade for him! Hmm, this may take a few days.... So we're switching up the location to IKEA! We'll stay nourished on sweedish meatballs until something happens!
  18. Vanimal46
    I liked Lincecum back in 2011!
  19. Vanimal46
    I forgot about that. Great point. At the very least, wait until whatever that date is to get the additional year of control. Like you though I want both of those players to get a month or 2 of AAA experience before considering a call up.
  20. Vanimal46
    Right, Berrios struggled mightily in the majors even with sparkly AAA stats. So Romero and Gonsalves are different and do well in the majors with no AAA experience to think of? I don't think some realize how huge of an ask it is to jump from AA to MLB as a pitcher.
  21. Vanimal46
    Exactly. I will praise the regime when they do something well, and criticize when they blunder. I'm not happy they "tried their best" to get the only player they specifically targeted to sign this winter. They didn't get it done, and it's a failure. Simple as that.
  22. Vanimal46
    Because it's more realistic than finding the magical #1 pitcher. Do you think Archer's getting traded anytime soon? I don't. They can continue to search for a #1 pitcher and look for a more realistic target like McHugh.
  23. Vanimal46
    Right now there doesn't appear to be any plan at #4 or 5 in the rotation other than throwing numbers at the problem. So I would say they have holes throughout the rotation. The Twins' priority should be acquiring any pitcher who projects to be better short term than Slegers, Jorge, Gonsalves, Hughes, etc. Which shouldn't be that hard to do.
  24. Vanimal46
    FWIW, Lavelle E Neal 3 was just on 9 to noon with PA, and he said there's a "zero percent" chance the Twins sign Arrieta.
  25. Vanimal46
    I don't think that's fair to say at all. Darvish was the hope being sold all winter long... We discussed creative ways to sign him, discussed signing him regardless of the price, broke him down to the studs, and discussed the open windows Minnesota has to make a move such as this. It sounds like you got inside information weeks ago to make this news easier to handle. Many of us simpletons that followed this all winter just learned about it yesterday. When we were sold hope on him all winter and it doesn't happen aren't we allowed to be frustrated about it?
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