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  1. spinowner
    That would be way cool, but I'm pretty sure MLB limits jersey numbers to two digits.
  2. spinowner
    It will be interesting to see if he keeps that number in the future, and even more interesting to see if Buxton keeps 25. Players don't always keep their first number. Hrbek wore 26 in 1981 before switching to 14 the next year. Justin Morneau wasn't always 33. He wore 27 his first year. Buxton has worn 7 through his entire professional career, and I've wondered if the Twins would be allowed to use 07 if that's what Buxton wanted.
  3. spinowner
    Corey Provus made a point during last night's broadcast that Dozier scores over 50% of the time he reaches base and that there are very few players who do that more frequently. I thought that was interesting. Any of the stat heads here care to flesh that out?
  4. spinowner
    I'm having a last-four-years flashback.
  5. spinowner
    I think that's it in a nutshell; they don't feel he's fully rehabbed yet.
  6. spinowner
    21.6. Must have been a fat-finger slip.
  7. spinowner
    So this game could be significant for a pitcher. Lohse defeats his 30th team or Meyer gets his first win.
  8. spinowner
    OK, here's the answer. It's Felipe, Matty, Jesus and Boog.
  9. spinowner
    Moises was a son, not a brother.
  10. spinowner
    The bullpen has been activated...
  11. spinowner
    Bring an umbrella.
  12. spinowner
    Can anyone name the four Alou brothers?
  13. spinowner
    Cripes! Do we have a hard-throwing right hander in the pen?
  14. spinowner
    The Yankees used to have one too. Babe.
  15. spinowner
    Hicks catches that.
  16. spinowner
    Well, at least you look older than your brother
  17. spinowner
    Uh, you do know that Miller Park has a roof on it? And that it's closed tonight?
  18. spinowner
    The Twins are the only team Lohse has not defeated. But in spite of his extensive experience he still doesn't know that you never, ever throw Dozier a high fastball.
  19. spinowner
    The thing is, there are already six other starters on the Ft. Myers roster. I thought I had read that the plan was to use him in relief for now and then work him in as a starter next spring. Guess we'll see.
  20. spinowner
    To talk a little further about what I said about installing Meyer as a closer...I don't think the Twins should give up or have given up on finding out if he can succeed as a starter. If he can, he's probably more valuable doing that than relieving. That said, a shut-down closer is just as hard to find as a power starter and also very valuable. The best closers have power pitches, good control and nerves of steel. And throw right-handed. Perkins has the most important three of those four attributes. Meyer certainly has two, and if he can develop the control and cultivate the attitude he could be a ninth-inning (and occasionally eighth-inning) stud. It's way too early to know what will happen and it's not something that happens overnight--it took Aguilera a year to make the transition--but I'm sure there are people in the Twins organization who will be keeping that thought in mind as the next few years play out.
  21. spinowner
    Move Perkins to LH setup and install Meyer as closer. (Mostly but not totally kidding.)
  22. spinowner
    It would be nice, but that's a big if.
  23. spinowner
    It's very rare for a pitcher to make the major league roster in the same season in which he's drafted, even just as a September call-up. Brandon Finnegan is very much an outlier, and to expect Jay to be on the Twins roster this year is probably unreasonable. He just turned 21. There's no reason to fast-track him unless he blows everyone away and moves up through the minors quickly.
  24. spinowner
    I remember the game when Gardy tried to stretch Nathan for 3 innings. He had rookie Jesse Crain and his 98-mph (straight) fastball in the pen but didn't want to bring him in because of his inexperience and the fact that this was a postseason game in Yankee Stadium. Retrospect is easy, but as soon as Nathan put a runner on base I'd have brought in Crain and told him if he gets the save he's the hero and if he doesn't it's the managers fault for mishandling the bullpen and bringing a rookie in to face Jeter and A-roid so go ahead and try to blow them away.
  25. spinowner
    That's still too often to see the Brewers or the Phillies.
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