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  1. spinowner
    Well, your problem is that it's East Just OK Forks that's in MN. Just OK Forks itself is in ND.
  2. spinowner
    Big rain is rapidly approaching. This game will be delayed.
  3. spinowner
    If we finish first in the AL Central it won't be because we won it, it will be because the other teams lost it. Do not give up one prospect. Whether we make a trade or not, the best we can hope for is to lose the wild card game or to get swept in the ALDS.
  4. spinowner
    Reusse says signing Colon is desperation. I think it's more like, we are extremely unlikely to make the postseason, we've got nothing to lose, he's cheap, might as well see what he can do for the next couple months.
  5. spinowner
    I don't think of this team as being "in the hunt".
  6. spinowner
    It's now the second inning of the first game after the break. I think we now know that we are not buyers.
  7. spinowner
    Way like!
  8. spinowner
    It does. But what about last year? By this reasoning shouldn't the team have traded all their minor league prospects to try to win it all? They probably could have done it, but they would have had to accept 100-loss seasons for the next 5-7 years. Say the Twins are playing a game that they want to win at all costs. Santana starts. He gives up two singles to start the game so Molitor pulls him and puts in Berrios. He gets out of that inning but gives up two singles to start the second so Mejía comes in. And so forth until every pitcher on the staff has worked. The Twins win the game but now their pitching staff is totally screwed up and they lose the next four games because of it. Is that a good approach? Of course not. This is what I'm saying. It takes time to build an organization. It's not just about this year's major league record. It's about the whole organization being in a position to support a winning major league team every season. *Every* season. We're not there now but with good decisions and a little bit of luck we can be there in a few years.
  9. spinowner
    Literally LOL. There is one thing I hope is different about Granite compared to Lew Ford. I hope that Granite would never think that ironing a shirt while he's wearing it is a good idea.
  10. spinowner
    This is particularly insightful. Reminds me of the best sentence that Jim Souhan ever wrote. He described Matthew LeCroy as a baseball player trapped in the body of a softball player.
  11. spinowner
    Strongly disagree. I think it's more likely that the Zack Granite call-up was: a.) a reward for having a good minor league season, b.) a chance to give Buxton an extra day off heading into the break and c.) a prelude to trading Granite, Grossman or Rosario.
  12. spinowner
    What I want (and know I won't necessarily get) is for the Twins to be an organization that supports a major league team that is in contention every season. That's a formidable but achievable goal. It means having a steady stream of improving prospects, which in turn means having quality people throughout the organization, especially scouting and player development. Trades and free agent acquisitions will also only be successful with good scouting and player development. We are not there yet and it will take a number of years to reach this goal. In the meantime trading to win now is contrary to this goal. I hope that in 5 years we'll be in a position to make such trades.
  13. spinowner
    I didn't minimize anything. I stated facts. That team would not be in the postseason today and they only had to win 8 games (with a home field advantage) to become World Champions. This year's team is highly unlikely to win its division, meaning they would have to win 12 games (without home field advantage) against better teams than they faced 30 years ago.
  14. spinowner
    You can't always get what you want.
  15. spinowner
    Falvine have been around enough to know that the idea behind a trade is either to win it all within a year or to improve the overall state of the organization. In the case of the former you usually sacrifice the latter, and vice versa. This team has overachieved. Houston and the Dodgers are both head and shoulders above us and pretty much everyone else, and they will almost certainly try to make a couple moves to go for broke this season. Trying to win big this year would be a very poor gamble. I'd be way more inclined to listen to offers for our veterans than to make offers for other teams' veterans. And don't try to bring up the 1987 Twins as an example of what could happen. I was beyond delirious about that team, but there has probably never been a less deserving or more fortunate team to become World Champions. Under today's format that team would not have even made the postseason. Moreover, the rotating home field advantage format favored the Twins both in the AL postseason (just one round, not three counting the wild card game) and the WS. That type of thing will almost certainly never happen again. I'm not saying sell, but I am saying don't buy.
  16. spinowner
    This is a very low risk signing. And I don't think it's out of desperation, which, as most of us know, is Reusse's take. My guess is that Falvine are hoping he'll be available for a spot start or two, especially after Sept. 1. If so they'd have to find room for him on the 40-man but if he doesn't show us enough in Rochester then we congratulate him on a great career and wish him luck in retirement.
  17. spinowner
    As of this morning the Astros are on a pace to win 110 games. And as of this morning the other 4 teams in the AL West are a collective one game under .500 in games outside the division, indicating that the Astros are not "padding out their record" against inferior opposition. It seems obvious to me that the Astros are head and shoulders above the rest of MLB with the exception of the Dodgers.
  18. spinowner
    We have players to offer, but we won't offer more than other teams. And that's fine with me.
  19. spinowner
    There will probably be several other teams who will offer more than the Twins are willing to offer.
  20. spinowner
    Winner winner oriole dinner!
  21. spinowner
    I noticed the same thing. Now if it were a half inning sooner that would be the appropriate thing to say. Of course he wouldn't be warming then.
  22. spinowner
    Bullet dodged. Again.
  23. spinowner
    That makes two runners you would have gotten thrown out at home this inning. Talk about a rally killer!
  24. spinowner
    Yes it was. Wait until the video is available and watch it. You'll see what I mean.
  25. spinowner
    I guess that makes up for the ladder ball in Fenway last week.
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