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  1. Vanimal46
    Baseball is LIGHT YEARS behind basketball and football when it comes to social media and promoting their players. There's so many young, fun players to follow in baseball. Unfortunately a casual sports fan couldn't pick out Mike Trout in a 3 man police lineup.
  2. Vanimal46
    Ohhh boy! Good luck to Poppen.
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    Why are they comparable? They're both left handed? Here's a comparison with Justin Verlander, who also was a work horse with tons of mileage on his arm. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/verlaju01.shtml
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    I mean, he's 29 years old... The wheels aren't falling off quite yet.
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    Seems like he's been turning it around over his last 5 starts... 6 IP average - 3.19 ERA - 7.5 K/9 - 9 BB in 31 innings. If you believe the Twins are ahead of San Francisco in the analytics department (I do) you should feel confident the Twins will find ways to optimize him.
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    And his OPS has dropped 96 points in a week.
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    Ick.
  8. Vanimal46
    Ahh... That's the good stuff! I love me a strong hawt taek! .997 OPS in high leverage situations...
  9. Vanimal46
    If there's real momentum to get framework of a trade done with San Francisco I hope Falvine pursues it. We as fans can paralyze ourselves investigating options and waiting for the mythical "perfect piece". I hope our FO doesn't do that, knows what they want, and go for it.
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    His impeccable post season resume is why I'm still very interested in him. 2.11 post season ERA would make me feel very comfortable trusting him to start 2+ games in a series.
  11. Vanimal46
    Re: Early Polls I stumbled upon the CNN docuseries "The 2000s" on Netflix yesterday. A friendly reminder that Hillary was leading Obama by 30 points as they went to the Iowa caucus... We all know how that turned out. Lots of game left for a Dem candidate to overtake Joe Biden for the top polling candidate. Watching that documentary also reminded me of the cheap play McCain played after Hillary was defeated... Using Sarah Palin as the woman who could break through the "glass ceiling."
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    #Kenbomb
  13. Vanimal46
    In typical Minnesota sports fashion, there is no Verlander available this season. I'm still a big fan of Mad Bum, but also acknowledge he's not the same pitcher he was 2 years ago.
  14. Vanimal46
    I've been waiting for this moment for a long time... Now my constant pleads to trade prospects for MLB players will be taken seriously!!
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    I could have noticed but obviously it didn't resonate with me. It's not like I saw Tony Gwynn with a dip in, investigate what it was, and actively pursue it. No organization is supportive or encourages dipping in the office. Of course they want all of their employees to be healthy. I know a couple of kids that dip at my work. It's easier to hide than smoking cigs for sure...
  16. Vanimal46
    Successful teams come with higher expectations... A team needs to have a good bullpen to win and move on in the playoffs. That's why we agonize over this weak spot on the team...
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    For sure. Didn't intend to compare Achter and Reed's stuff... Most casual fans just take a glance at a player's B-Ref page, see the eye popping numbers, and clamor for the player to be called up. Jake Reed's case reminds me of that.
  19. Vanimal46
    I'm right there with you Mike. Moving Romero to the pen was ill advised and now this is a lost year for him. He's unrecognizable from last season. His delivery in 2018 was so smooth and effortless. He threw plenty of gas consistently at 95-97 MPH. Wes Johnson has done a lot of great things with the pitching staff, but he probably should have let Romero continuing to do his thing without trying to add another 2-3 MPH of velocity. I'm done with the experiment and think he should spend the rest of 2019 in the minors ramping up to start again in 2020.
  20. Vanimal46
    Reminds me of AJ Achter back in the day. Eye popping numbers in the minors, and always passed up for other players. When he did get his chance he wasn't very good at the MLB level. I trust these guys see something that won't translate well at the MLB level... Hence why he's continuously denied the promotion.
  21. Vanimal46
    I don't have any expectations he will be the savior we're looking for in the bullpen. I guess it doesn't hurt to see if he catches fire for a couple of appearances. I was hoping they would rifle through all of these options last year when they weren't in contention.
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    Shocked... Shocked I tell ya!
  24. Vanimal46
    I think we may be giving kids too much credit paying attention to what's inside a baseball player's mouth. Growing up I never noticed Tony Gwynn and other baseball players were using chew on the field. If we want to deter kids from using chew play the summer carnival scene from The Sandlot on an endless loop.
  25. Vanimal46
    I think they need bullpen help for the regular season and post season. Can't get too comfortable with our current standing in the American League. I don't know what, if anything, has changed since Romero was last called up. His outings in AAA were uninspiring to say the least. Kind of feels like the definition of insanity... Because of their inactivity this offseason, they're going to have to overpay now at the deadline. July isn't the time of year where teams find bargains... Every contender, hell, every team in baseball needs additional bullpen arms. We'll see if they can compete with Houston, New York, Boston, etc. for the best trade chips this year.
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