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  1. gil4
    What an ugly bunch of guys, and Romo (#5?!?!) needs to be 27 (he gets cut just so he doesn't make the top 26.) If my daughter brings home someone who looks like Romo, we're going to have a talk.
  2. gil4
    I agree completely - at a loss for words over the lunacy. We spent whole off-season complaining because we still need a #1 starter, and the Astros have two of them. Ok, this is stronger than my real opinion. I just liked reading between the lines of the blank comment. There certainly is some added injury risk with older pitchers, and the Twins have better options a the back end of the rotation. Nobody would be surprised if both of these teams made the playoffs, but to win in October it helps a lot to have a couple of guys pitch like aces. Pitchers who have long track records of being aces are better bets to do that.
  3. gil4
    Does anyone else think we need a new name for this? We're not going to know who the real sire of Ft Myers for 2020 is until post-draft 19 years from now.
  4. gil4
    There were times during the past regime that it seemed like there were a dozen or more folks on TD who would could have done a better job making baseball decisions. With the new group, there are times when we criticize and it makes sense, but I'm not ready to turn the reigns over to any of you now. I like the direction of the franchise.
  5. gil4
    Dear __________________, We thought you would like to know that your Lulu order has shipped on 1/16/20 6:46 PM via FedEx. It's getting close... Edit - Estimated delivery date: Jan 24th. Patience is allegedly a virtue.
  6. gil4
    If the Twins sign him now, they assume all the risk of injury. If that doesn't buy them a substantial discount, there is no point. This is year 1 of arbitration for him - if he wants to wait, we can wait.
  7. gil4
    Gotta keep the collection up to date. It gets better every year (and year one was pretty darned good.)
  8. gil4
    Except pitchers injure their arms all the time. I have yet to see the "hit by a bus," and the closest I have seen to West Nile Virus is Kyle Gibson last year (and his e coli and ulcerative colitis, or whatever he had, didn't affect his contract as much a poorly timed shoulder impingement would have.) Berrios might be looking at Wheeler money in - what is it, 3 years? - if he stays healthy. That's a long time in a pitcher's life - if he can get some guaranteed money now in exchange for a discount off current value later, he might want to consider it.
  9. gil4
    Bummer. I missed that, but I had a knee replaced two weeks ago, and opening the laptop required more effort than operating the TV remote.
  10. gil4
    33-yr-olds who "hit .208/.342/.406 and a meager 22 home runs, in the year of the (allegedly) juiced ball" are normally washed up. I wouldn't mind bringing Cron back, if his wrist is OK (or hand, or whatever was bothering him.) When he was healthy, he was good.
  11. gil4
    Some folks around here mentioned 3 years / $75M as an expected contract for him, so the extra year and extra $5M aren't issues. The issue is do you want him at the top of your rotation?
  12. gil4
    If Taft can make it to the 7th inning, you can too. (Chief will let you go buy him a beer during the 3rd inning if you really need to stretch.)
  13. gil4
    I'll have some of what you're drinking
  14. gil4
    Unfortuantely, Falvey/Levine aren't posting here (unless they are using pseudonyms), so the site would be lacking in content or purpose without us GM-wannabe's
  15. gil4
    My guess is he will get more than that. He got $10m over two years knowing he would only be pitching one of those years. I bet he could get at least 2/$15M coming off a healthy year.
  16. gil4
    Anyone know how much longer Pineda's suspension has on it? I'd like to have him back, but there are negatives/unknowns: 1. We don't know if he wants to come back. 2. His injury history isn't great. 3. His suspension was for a diuretic/masking agent. What (if anything) was it masking and how much of his recovery was from this. 4. How expensive will he be?
  17. gil4
    This past year, 8 of the top 10 pitchers ranked by bWAR were drafted in the 1st round. deGrom was drafted in the 9th round and Rodriguez is from Venezuela and was not subject to the draft.
  18. gil4
    The good news is the Twin Cities aren't Buffalo. It might be a deal-breaker for some, but not nearly as many as Buffalo would be.
  19. gil4
    I've flown on worse - take-off only. (My one and only skydiving trip. The plane was painted silver - it looked like primer. The instrument panel looked like an old VW dash with the radio and a couple of gauges missing. I think it was motivational - to make sure we felt safer jumping than staying.)
  20. gil4
    It appears the White Sox did. Hanging curveballs to Schoop aren't any better.
  21. gil4
    Some deal with things like that better than others. My son's college roommate managed to make ESPN's Not Top 10 - he was a soccer goalie who managed to drop-kick the ball off a teammate's head and back into the goal. He had fun with it and seemed to enjoy the attention.
  22. gil4
    I think we can squeeze that one in during the middle of the 4th inning. Maybe add America the Beautiful for extra innings. (As a compromise, we don't have to do all four verses.)
  23. gil4
    At least she had the good sense to chicken out and go low on that last note. She really needed to have her hair put up, but I thought she fought through the distraction of having it blowing in her face reasonably well.
  24. gil4
    Was anyone else concerned that Berrios' fastball was sitting at 90-91? Maybe it's nothing - Rocco and Wes didn't seem to worry about it. Was it normal fluctuation? A faulty radar gun? We're Twins fans and worrying is what we do best. I can't be the only one concerned about this, can I?
  25. gil4
    39th round pick this year out of UCLA. The only times he has ever hit are in the Northwoods summer league after his sophomore year (.775 OPS) and then in his junior year at UCLA (.840 OPS). He didn't get drafted after his junior year and then posted a .606 OPS his senior year. He hasn't hit much in the GCL either. My guess is his main qualifications for AAA are having a pulse and owning an infielder's glove.
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