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  1. spinowner
    Actually, with all due respect (you should try respect sometime, it can be effective) their best reliever pitched two innings. Boyer hasn't allowed a run in his last 13.1 innings.
  2. spinowner
    Most baseball people say that on a major league team your player with the poorest defensive skills (other than the DH) belongs in left. Even though left field is larger than right in Target Field Hunter and Hicks both have better arms. A year from now I hope to have Buxton in center, Hicks in right and Arcia in left with Rosario as the fourth OF and backup 2B.
  3. spinowner
    He's still a young man by baseball standards (just turned 24) so no way do I give up on him. Maybe some more time in AAA, I don't know. What I do know is that I envision a 3-4-5 batting order of Sano, Vargas and Arcia and think that there could be 120 home runs a year there. In fact, with those three it makes me wonder, what is the longest total distance of back-to-back home runs in MLB history? Sano and Vargas both have the ability to clear the third deck in left at Target Field and Arcia and Vargas both have the ability to hit the B ramp in right.
  4. spinowner
    DL him if possible, but I agree with most of us that Schafer is the one to be taken off the 25-man. His main problem in the majors has been that it's against the rules to steal first base.
  5. spinowner
    I agree, to the point where I clicked Like. Even so, hindsight is 20/20 and going into the 2013 season it looked to a lot of people like Hicks was worthy of a shot.
  6. spinowner
    As I said in the other thread, I want the Twins to do what is best for Aaron Hicks' development. I hope they have guessed right and that he's ready.
  7. spinowner
    LOL. Comrade.
  8. spinowner
    No. No no no no no no no. Santana is the SS of the near future. Do not waste precious development time by making him play CF. We don't want him to play CF. We don't need him to learn to play CF. We have this prospect named Buxton who'll be there soon.
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  10. spinowner
    A finer point cannot be put on it. This is the crux of the matter. The Twins (and judging by the number of posts on this thread the vast majority of posters to this board) want and need Aaron Hicks to fully realize his considerable potential. Some players benefit from being pushed too fast and some don't. It seems pretty clear to me that Hicks is in the latter category. If what's best for Hicks means making do with Jordan Schafer for now, so be it. If that means worsening the major league team's 2015 win-loss record, so be it. Only in an emergency (such as Schafer and Robinson both blowing out a knee or something like that) should Hicks be rushed. And moreover, if and when Buxton is promoted to AAA it should have no bearing on Aaron Hicks, other than the fact that with Buxton in the organization Hicks belongs in right field. As for me, I'd guess Mike Quade would be more than happy to write Buxton-8 and Hicks-9 on his lineup card every night.
  11. spinowner
    Bingo. Look at the entire organization from top to bottom. While the major league team happens to be riding a hot wave fueled by a good-hitting lineup, the organization is still rebuilding. As such, the front office should be and appears to be looking at 2016 and beyond as a realistic target for contending for postseason play. Do what's best for Hicks without regard to the major league team's 2015 win-loss record.
  12. spinowner
    I felt the same way most of us did after the 9/11 terrorism, which was the impetus for GBA being performed during the stretch, but I wish we could lose that. No one team would do it on their own so an edict would have to come down from the commissioner. There would be a great hue and cry for a week or so but then everyone would forget about it and we'd have another minute shaved off of the length of the game.
  13. spinowner
    By next year I hope I see Arcia as the primary left fielder, Buxton as the primary center fielder and Hicks as the primary right fielder with Rosario as the fourth outfielder and backup second baseman. Hicks can play center when Buxton has a day off but with his arm he can be one of the best defensive right fielders in baseball. Vargas will be the primary DH for now which means Arcia will have to play left to be in the lineup.
  14. spinowner
    So how about foreign players? Why should they have to act like they are patriotic during the national anthem when they are citizens of other countries?
  15. spinowner
    There are good reasons to call him up now and there are good reasons not to. What I want the Twins to do is whatever it takes for him to realize his potential and be a contributing part of the Twins outfield in 2016 and beyond. I hope they guess right. And I'll always remember the time he accidentally threw the ball 320 feet on the fly to get Vernon Wells out at third base in Yankee Stadium.
  16. spinowner
    Another way to figure the magic number for clinching is not to calculate one but to calculate four: one vs each division member. As of now: vs KC: 137 vs Det: 136 vs CWS: 132 vs Cle: 130 It should be noted that this method isn't perfect. For example, say that the Tigers and White Sox are tied for the lead going into the final three games of the season and the Twins are two games back. Since the Tigers and Sox play each other those three games it would be possible for the Twins to finish ahead of either team but not both.
  17. spinowner
    OK, then, edit my previous comment to a 91-94 straight ball. Excuuuuuuuuuuse me!
  18. spinowner
    I'm not a pitching guru. Far from it. But knowledgeable people say that sinkerballers walk a fine line. Human beings are not machines that can be fine tuned to impart the exact optimal velocity and angular momentum to a baseball every time. The sinkerball is an extremely effective pitch but if the pitcher's mechanics are even slightly off it becomes a 90-mph straight ball, and we know what major leaguers do with those.
  19. spinowner
    Time to take them seriously? Uh, no. Baseball history is littered with teams that did well for a couple months, then faded away. But for the time being at least it's fun to follow a winning team.
  20. spinowner
    Another way to interpret these seemingly contradictory stats is to say that he's a clutch player. Getting a GIDP requires throwing a good pitch at the right time. Most people feel that Gibson's sinkerball is his best pitch, and throwing a good one in a key situation could be why he has been able to escape trouble. And that IS a talent.
  21. spinowner
    I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Hicks has wheels, hands and a cannon.
  22. spinowner
    Because of Hicks' superior defense, if he can hit .250 or so I'd rather have him than Schafer or Robinson. Having Arcia, Buxton, Hicks and Rosario as my four outfielders sounds good to me. Rosario would play in left, Buxton in center, Hicks in center or right and Arcia in left or right.
  23. spinowner
    Probably better to have Beresford playing every day in AAA and Bernier hardly at all in the majors than the other way around.
  24. spinowner
    If I were TR I wouldn't set any timeline. He'll be ready when he's ready. That could be in 1 month or it could be in 1 year. As for me, I'd want to see how he does in AAA. We also need to keep in mind that someone will have to come off the 40-man when he's added.
  25. spinowner
    What is best for a player's development is to face competition at or slightly above his current level and to play as many games as possible. If that happens to be in the majors, then that's where he should be, but at this stage of the rebuilding program player development should trump any attempts at improving the team's 2015 win-loss record.
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