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  1. nicksaviking
    Was that before or after the Falvey and Lavine hiring and the Johnson & Johnson scouting director switch? Just wondering because Wright looks more like a vintage Terry Ryan kind of pitcher. On the other hand Deron Johnson lately seemed to go the other way and take the bigger FB/higher ceiling arms.
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    That's the feeling I get, though to be fair, they probably do actually care about the players and do want them to have success, it would be hard to get into coaching if you don't have at least some interest in young people. They just seem to care about their job security much, much more. Unreasonably too considering college baseball coaches don't get fired nearly as much as their counterparts in the higher profile football and basketball ranks. I'd bet they justify it to themselves because the pitcher says he wants to go out there for another inning, they then conveniently forget that athletes, and young men in general, have a tendency to have low impulse control and a vision only of the here-and-now and these young men need an adult with a big picture view to reign in their recklessness.
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    After Greene I've been most interested in Faedo. That might change though if he keeps throwing 120 pitches per game. Man, the velocity will leave his FB before he's 25 if he keeps getting abused like that. Seriously, It's still February, some of those coaches from big programs seem to have next to no concern for anything past the June college WS. A playoff by the way that Florida is almost certainly going to be part of whether Faedo throws 119 pitches in February or not.
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    Why would you think he can't play defense? I've never seen anything to suggest he would be a liability.
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    I went into Goliath wanting it to be both smart and realistic in terms of how the legal system and those within the profession worked. It wasn't terrible but it seemed like a John Grisham story with a genius do-it-all protagonist lawyer and an evil-beyond-reason villain. John Grisham stories weren't bad, and there was a reason all of them got made into movies, but I think I've been spoiled by TV lately, I wanted something different. Better. Maybe my perspective was simply based on my mood as well.
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    Ozzie Smith didn't get into the HOF because of his bat. The only reason people wouldn't say that he couldn't hit was because he is a beloved icon and it would seem rude to do so. Vielma also has a career .327 OBP, which isn't very satisfying considering there is no slugging to prop it up.
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    He had a .663 OPS in AA last year which represented a career high. Unless someone wants to single out a stretch or two of simply not having a terrible batting average, I think the opinion that Vielma can't hit is more than valid.
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    I only made it through two episodes of Goliath. I liked Billy Bob, but the law aspect had me shaking my head again. Right off the bat it was another show where lawyers have two jobs, their judicial duties plus of course they have to do all the detective work because the cops are incompetent and/or corrupt. I'm not a law expert, but shouldn't the conversation go like this: Client: I know it was listed as a suicide, but I don't think So And So killed themselves! Lawyer: Cool, why don't you go talk to a detective then come back to me when you have a case for wrongful death. Also, maybe tables turned or plots thickened, but I'm kind of over having the bad guy unequivocally bad and spiteful. Maybe there was more that I didn't see but William Hurt seemed villainous for the sole purpose of making Billy Bob's job difficult.
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    Huh, looks like my memory is going. I guess he just had the build and the repertoire of a crafty lefty.
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    The Twins haven't had a year-in-year out reliable lefty in the rotation in over a decade. I am normally all about the ceiling and have little concern for the floor with young guys, but the Twins have spent years shoehorning lefties into the rotation, even when they weren't one of the five best arms. If they found a lefty who for the next five years was indubitably a lock for rotation because he was actually a solid pitcher, then they hopefully don't have to keep kicking young arms to the pen and AAA for inferior talent simply because they NEED a lefty.
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    For some reason left handers seem to be able to pull this off. David Wells, CC Sabatthia, Carlos Silva, Eddie Guardado. Also, for some reason velocity tends to play up for lefties.
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    Yeah, pretty sure some of my irrational ranting posts about sinkerball pitchers have gone 2000 words easy.
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    Seth's 'Stop By, Say Hi' thread really helped bring some of our long time viewers to their keyboards. Now we just need a 'Stop By, Write a 2,000 Word Story'!
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    There seems to be far too many veterans at the AAA and MLB level. With the last front office, we could be extremely confident that the pecking order was almost always based on age then experience. I really hope that's not the case anymore. I'd really hate to think that guys like Hughes, Santiago, Vogelsong, Tepesch, Greenwood, Rucinski and Pino are going to get the first looks instead of the young guys at their respective levels. I really hope the first thing every pitcher over 26 was told yesterday when they reported was that they better be prepared to head to the pen and there better not be any grousing or campaigning to start if the younger arms are looking good to go.
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    My wife and I watched it too. Some really good laugh out loud moments. Walking Dead level of gore but a comedy. It was great. Also, I am beyond bored of the angsty teen trope, however the daughter in this one somehow didn't get on my nerves like those stock archetypes typically do. Well done all around.
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    I would agree, but color me extremely skeptical that Joe Mauer is going to see any significant reduction in playing time, baring injury of course. Even if in theory the front office is game to it, it will be Molitor, not them who will be omitting Mauer's name from the lineup and dealing with any awkwardness and repercussions.
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    So Brock, or any other comic book fan, does Marvel really have a character named Sydney Barrett? Or was that a made up character for the TV show? Obviously this character is inspired by Pink Floyd's original lead singer who had terrible mental health issues.
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    Wow, a new record. Five minutes into Legion and I'm hooked. So this is what X-men would look like if Kubrick directed them?
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    Uncas gets killed by Magua, in both the book and the film. Chingachgook is the Last of the Mohicans. And Hawkeye is an avenger, one of the worst ones too. Alda should be forgiven though, he's like 80, not bad for a superhero. And he's still better than Hot Lips who I don't think has any superpowers but is only there for eye-candy.
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    Also, Daniel Day Lewis was not the Last Mohican. Maybe Cruise or Lewis might be The Last Jedi though. No one knows! The suspense is killing me!
  21. nicksaviking
    SS perhaps, but I'd think there are going to be more times where the team needs a bat off the bench late in the game than there will be times when they need a defensive upgrade at the OF position.
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    Pretty sure I saw a preview of Matt Damon in samurai gear. You know how it goes, us white folks always have to go and teach everyone how to be good at everything.
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    I don't have a problem with them coming in on minor league deals so much as I have a problem that in doing so, they probably have stopped the club from bringing in a professional hitter on a MLB deal. Ryan Raburn was my guy, and a modest ask at that. The guy destroys lefties, I'd rather have that on the bench or in a platoon. As far as the current projected starters go, outfield defense wasn't an issue. I don't think the Twins needed to prioritize a glove over a bat for the 4th/5th OF gig since the starters are solid and Granite is lurking.
  24. nicksaviking
    If I'm in charge of this team (fingers crossed!) I give Dozier reps at 3B this spring. Not that I want to take Sano's glove away, but if it comes to that due to injury or ineffectiveness I think a Dozier-Escobar-Polanco infield would be fine, assuming Dozier doesn't have any issues learning another position.
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    Yeah, I'd think they're going to need about as an iconic of a villain as the Marvel movies will allow them to have. Kingpin is probably it. He's going to need an army, or something else quite powerful on his side though. So far none of the stand alone shows have had a villain that would have been overly difficult for a team of superheroes to take out, except for Kilgrave, but they went and killed him. I think that was a mistake.
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