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  1. nicksaviking
    Ah yes, once again trying to hide my tears with a terrible joke.
  2. nicksaviking
    Possibly he already knew, but if he didn't, I wonder if Falvey would have thought otherwise had he understood the new sheriff in town was going to try to turn the team into the Pittsburg Pirates.
  3. nicksaviking
    If the front office knew ownership was going to choke the life out of the payroll, I doubt they sign Correa last year. On that same line of thought, weren't Falvey and/or Levine being considered for Red Sox jobs early in the off season but they withdrew their names? Or at least Falvey did? Then Joe Pohlad dropped the bomb about a month later.
  4. nicksaviking
    Povich has been awful prior to his four outings this season. Steer is the only one of those players the Twins will miss long term. And the irony of that trade was, had the Twins tried to get a Reds starter prior to the season (instead of signing Archer and Bundy), the price to get Mahle, heck, maybe even Castillo, would have been Miranda. Steer would probably still be a Twin as he didn't break out until the Twins were done dragging their feet and admitted they were desperate for pitching.
  5. nicksaviking
    I really don't care about 'starter depth' because if you have to stick a bunch of washed up vets or non-prospects into your rotation, you're not playing for a championship anyway. This was never about missing out on Maeda and Keuchel replacements, it was about not replacing Sonny Gray. Everything after that was basically just deciding how long they could tread water before they inevitably drowned.
  6. nicksaviking
    Good. Seems like another reason to keep him out of the lineup.
  7. nicksaviking
    Margot was an exponentially better fit than Taylor. Of all of the bungled offseason moves, this one at least showed that they knew the strikeout problem was a problem. Taylor struck out at 33% of his PAs last year and 38% so far this year. He's not a good player. They still got it wrong though, because the answer to 'Who should we get, Taylor or Margot' was always, and obviously, C) None of the Above.
  8. nicksaviking
    Ok, others need to start making these player pages, this coincidence is too eerie for me:
  9. nicksaviking
    Or just drunker.
  10. nicksaviking
    The gaping hole in the offense is why this team keep losing.
  11. nicksaviking
    I still believe in Julien, but he's still leading off? Come on Rocco, have to move him down even if it's just to take some pressure off of him. At least they moved Buxton down in the order. A tiny bit. And they just had a day off. Santana AND Farmer instead of Miranda? Is he injured? Makes no sense.
  12. nicksaviking
    Seems like the obliques are the issue for our pitchers these days. Forget about this dude, I want to see a pitcher who throws with both hands at the same time. Think of the force you'd get behind such a pitch.
  13. nicksaviking
    PFT is now also swimming in reports about how involved Josh Harris is getting with Washington's pick. Snyder may be gone, but looks like ownership meddling isn't changing. That likely doesn't help the Vikings in getting the QB they want, but I'm all for the Commanders drowning in dysfunction for another couple of decades.
  14. nicksaviking
    I honestly don't think it's that weird. This is the exact reliever profile the Twins have found success with for decades. Not just Jax, but Duffey, May, Rogers, Perkins, Duensing, Guardado, Hawkins. The minor league starters who were just not quite good enough to cut it in the rotation at the majors have long been this team's bullpen success stories. I had my money on Winder pulling off the trick, but I had reasonable hopes that either he or Sands would prove to be useful.
  15. nicksaviking
    It's not the personnel, it's all the strikeouts and stranding runners in scoring position. Even the guys who don't strike out too much are still striking out at career highs. They were bad for four months last year, were good for two months last year and now are bad the first month this year. If there's an outlier, it's the two good months. And those last two months had nothing to do with Popkins and everything to do with finally swapping out Gallo, Vazquez and Farmer for Wallner, Jeffers and Julien full time. But even while they played better in those two months, they were STILL striking out and stranding runners at an unacceptable pace. I'm not blaming Popkins, but only because I'm not sure who's idea it has been to get into so many 0-2 counts. It could be Baldelli, it could be Falvey, maybe TC the Bear. Whoever it is needs to reverse course and say, 'this isn't working' and go back to trying to hit like normal teams, even if it means taking fewer pitches.
  16. nicksaviking
    Agree about getting a QB being more important. Not to pile on, and surely they won't feel this way, but I think the Patriots are going to have lots of chances to pick a franchise QB in the next decade. I'm pegging them as a team to be picking in the top ten a lot going forward, with or without a good young QB. This franchise looks to be in good shape to be a dysfunctional mess for the foreseeable future.
  17. nicksaviking
    Yes, mistake on my part.
  18. nicksaviking
    Nothing to back this up, but I think if the Patriots don't trade back, they pick Marvin Harrison instead of one of the QBs. No reports out, just a hunch. It's obviously the worst landing spot for a QB and I'm sure they know it. I'm going to go with they think Penix/Nix with Brissett as a mentor along with Harrison is a better situation than Maye/McCarthy and a much, much lesser WR. As a team with a history of winning with a strictly pocket passer who can make all the throws, I'm putting my money on them trading back into the first round to get Penix later on Thursday. Anyway, I've had a couple and thought I'd put my prediction down before all the draft wonks decide they like my take too and snipe me.
  19. nicksaviking
    For sure. Add Vazquez, Gallo, Taylor, Farmer, Bundy, Archer, Simmons, Shoemaker, Happ, Colombe, Robles, Jason Castro, Marwin Gonzalez and Martin Perez to the list and there's a clear through-line going through these aging, hope-and-a-prayer kind of players. So if the arrow can be drawn to ONE person (Levine) than there is a really, really simple path to getting out from under this same decision every year. I think it's him, but maybe it's not. In any case, this nonsense needs to stop and I'd start by trying a new GM to see if it fixes this philosophy that doesn't at all mesh with developing cheap young talent.
  20. nicksaviking
    For all we know Tony Perez could handle a nasty 89 MPH slider as well as Miguel Sano. Hitters are seeing exponentially tougher pitches than Pete Rose and the gang did. Most likely, some if not all of those hitters would have struggled mightily to translate that success. Players have gotten stronger, faster and quicker in all sports. I'm sure Ozzie Smith could have handled SS defensively today, but sorry, Jorge Polanco would have likely been a perfectly adequate defensive shortstop in 1985 and his superior bat would put him in consideration as one of the best in the game. 1980s-90s sports are what I cut my teeth on, but I'm more than willing to admit that players have evolved since then.
  21. nicksaviking
    We can agree that there has been an evolution to the position, but even the best of those 60’s-80’s teams would lose 90 games a year now. The best athletes have always played SS, but the best athletes now hit the cover off the ball too.
  22. nicksaviking
    Yup, still encouraged by the core of this team. Most of the young guys are playing well enough, Lee was close to making the opening day roster and E-Rod is already in AAA. Pretty cloudy at the moment but the future forecast is still sunny.
  23. nicksaviking
    Oh, I've got a list. And it's starting to get pretty long.
  24. nicksaviking
    I bet he fins his way into the starting lineup before Camargo does.
  25. nicksaviking
    Yes, and what will happen if the pitchers start throwing softer and with less spin? What team is going to willingly give up that advantage?
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