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  1. gil4
    I would think he had hiring and firing authority over them all, so no, it's not silly. The buck stopped there.
  2. gil4
    I think the plan if they aren't ready is to fall back to 99+ losses.
  3. gil4
    Forgot Nolan Ryan
  4. gil4
    Throwing hard and throwing strikes is a great start. Throwing more than 30 innings in the low minors would be an even better start. We just don't know enough about Berrios to make any kind of projection yet, and there are probably a dozen guys every year who look great in Rookie ball, and most never make it past AA. We should see if we can get him past low-A before we worry about promoting him to AAA this year.
  5. gil4
    Add a Leatherman and you can fix anything
  6. gil4
    I said this once before on a thread that might have been dormant: Frankie Rodriguez deserves serious consideration. Others that come to mind (without looking at stats to verify my memory): Ron Davis, Dave Stevens, Hosken Powell, Willie Norwood,
  7. gil4
    The average peak for a position player is 27. Anyone above that age in the minors I would consider organizational depth and nothing more. Colabello took an interesting route, but at his age he is what he's going to be. Now, what he is right now could possibly be useful in a limited role at the major league level, but that just makes him a somewhat intersting non-prospect.
  8. gil4
    If his OPS drops into the mid-.500 range this year and then bounces back up in 2014, then we'll know he has the Punto thing going.
  9. gil4

    David Arias is Back!

    gil4 commented on mnfanforlife's blog entry in by Matt Sisk

    I guess I see a little Big papi resemblance in the lower picture with Sano, but none in the upper one. He needs to eat a dozen extra cheeseburgers a week for about a year to really get there. (He makes Sano look small, which is pretty scary.)
  10. gil4

    David Arias is Back!

    gil4 commented on mnfanforlife's blog entry in by Matt Sisk

    I did, but I'm not sure exactly how it fit. One of my fovorite headlines of all time was for a little blurb in the old USA Today Baseball Weekly: Player Really To Be Named Later. It was about Arias informing the Twins that he preferred to go by Ortiz after he came to the team from Seattle as the PTBNL in the Dave Hollins trade. At the time I figured it was just a funny story about a guy we would most likely never hear from again.
  11. gil4
    This topic has been dormant for a week, but Frankie Rodriguez came to mind and deserves a mention.
  12. gil4
    I like the idea and prefer to avoid the off-color topics.
  13. gil4
    It could have been worse. He could have said MSNBC.
  14. gil4
    "What other players should be featured in this series?" It's tough to draw the line between guys who were fringe players brought up to fill out the roster and guys who were expected to do something but bombed. Bret Boone comes to mind, although he might not have been around long enough to do too much damage.
  15. gil4
    It's hard to draw conclusions from this when so many of the players in the minor leagues are just organizational filler, and the ages only really matter for the real prospects. If one team lets some young prospects struggle at AA and adds some filler at high-A, are they really better off than a team that signs a few vets for AA and lets the propects tear up high-A? I think maybe a breakdown of some measure of production by age at each level would be helpful, but it would be difficult to compile and would be subject to small sample size problems. Maybe a table showing WAR (or some other aggregated stat) by each age group and then the per-team average for league for each age group would tell us something
  16. gil4
    The only way I know for him to be an ace is the Danny Almonte way. If you know someone who can make him a really good fake birth certificate, he could probably dominate the LLWS.
  17. gil4
    Cut Kluwe and maybe the Jags will pick him up, too. Oh, wait, they just spent a 3rd-round pick on a punter, didn't they?
  18. gil4
    Both QBs have the same stengths (running ability) and weaknesses (throwing accuracy.) In the strength area Tebow is stronger. in the weakness area Tebow is weaker. Tebow seems like the better field leader, but he's also a more polarizing figure off the field. (For the record, I almost always agree with Tebow and think most of the controversy is caused by the preachers of "tolerance" demonstrating their intolerance, but any team that signs him needs to be prepared to deal with it.) Al that said, I think the biggest obstacle to success for both is the inability to throw accurately, and I think Ponder had a better chance of overcoming that obstacle than Tebow. I'm not sure that either is a great answer.
  19. gil4
    Ponder was better, but more lucky than good. A lot of passes that need some touch he just floats too much, including all three of the TD passes he threw. The one to Peterson was horrible - he ran the bootleg and looked up about 2 steps too late and then lobbed it out there. I was afraid Peterson was going to go out of bounds because it took so long to get him the ball. The stat line looked better, but he didn't play as well as it indicated. On long passes he's not accurate enough and on short passes he doesn't put the right pace on the ball. He could still improve, but I'm not sure he can be a QB that can win consistently.
  20. gil4
    When I clicked on the link, I had no idea who wrote the book, but based on the title I guessed it was Bill Smith.
  21. gil4
    I picked him for the Cy Young last year, so I'm gradually tempering my expectations
  22. gil4
    Allen is on the board with post #1. Hi Allen. Welcome! (I'm trying to pad my numbers - only about 35,000* posts to catch VodkaDave.) * - Estimate - might be slightly high.
  23. gil4
    [QUOTE=Fire Dan Gladden;73016]Anybody want to put a percentage chance that Liriano is an all-star next year? I say 40% I'd say closer to 40% than Allhopeisgone's .000000001% . And yes, I would have resigned him for that.
  24. gil4
    I would have preferred Liriano. His range is from dominant to horrendous. Correia's is from not very good to bad. With Liriano, as you said, you have to catch lightning in a bottle. With Correia there is no lightning there to catch. I'd rather take a chance on the guy who has a chance, even if the odds aren't great.
  25. gil4
    With a Baaastonian accent, to be precise.
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