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  1. nicksaviking
    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.
  2. nicksaviking
    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.
  4. nicksaviking
    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.
  5. nicksaviking
    Yeah, pretty sure some of my irrational ranting posts about sinkerball pitchers have gone 2000 words easy.
  6. nicksaviking
    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'!
  7. nicksaviking
    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.
  8. nicksaviking
    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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    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.
  10. nicksaviking
    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.
  11. 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.
  12. nicksaviking
    I just hope this isn't actually Defensive Over-reactions. I'm fine with Castro, but it's not like he's on a team friendly deal. Adrianza? Ugh, OK I guess, but again he doesn't look like he can hit, neither can Drew Stubbs. I understand this team needed to improve defensively, but I don't think it's wise if this team commits to 4-5 of their 12 batters being offensive black holes. In the case of Adrianza and Stubbs, even if they make the team, they're unlikely to start. Their glove doesn't do the team nearly as much good on the bench. This is starting to look like an overcorrection to me, like the when the Twins finally realized they needed to stop prioritizing control over velocity in the draft and then went out and drafted a dozen hard throwing relief pitchers.
  13. nicksaviking
    Yeah, too many guys who aren't terribly good but also not too terrible that you willingly want to DFA them.
  14. nicksaviking
    I don't think he is either, I thought I was clear on the hypothetical situation. I was just wondering if there happened to be a slam dunk pick if both team and player would agree to preventative measures seeing as how much money is at stake for both parties.
  15. nicksaviking
    Yeah, the biggest thing for the Patriots was how much they had the ball. The first half Atlanta couldn't have done much about it because the Falcons scored using a pick six and a handful of big offensive plays, it's not like you're going to regret those points simply because you didn't hold the ball longer. But that last drive was Atlanta's chance to manage the clock to their advantage. And their O-line should not have been gassed. They should have been stiff and stale if anything, they hardly were ever on the field.
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    Triple 'Like'. I wonder if there would ever be a HS arm considered the consensus top pick this early in the year and both the team and the player know going in that he'll be the choice so to prevent injury there is a mutual agreement that he doesn't pitch competitively (strenuously?) but instead only does simulated or side sessions working within a throwing program and with an instructor endorsed by the team? Not that I'm suggesting Greene is that guy, just a hypothetical I was thinking about the other day; an already anointed pick, like if Bryce Harper had been a pitcher or Stephen Strausberg had been a high schooler.
  17. nicksaviking
    I was hoping for that opportunity, but really only because I wanted to see Bryant miss the kick leaving the Falcons in the exact same spot to lose as the Vikings did in the 1999 NFC Championship game. Football may be the only thing that brings out the schadenfreude in me.
  18. nicksaviking
    Unlike baseball, lately I've had a hard time rooting for any football team. I was cheering against the Falcons because I'm still sore about 1998, but also because I'll be damned if another championship-less team wins a Super Bowl before my Vikings do. Unless that championship-less team is playing the Packers, Bears or Cowboys, then win away.
  19. nicksaviking
    If we're playing predictions, mine is Kintzler, Pressly, Chargois, Belisle, Hughes, Rogers and O'Rourke. But I would like to find room for Tonkin initially and Melotakis, Duffey and Hildenberger in short order.
  20. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I like riding my bike. It's been a little tough the last couple years though because my kids are old enough to bike, but too young to bike far. It's kind of hard to tell my kids I'm going out to ride my bike without them.
  21. nicksaviking
    My dad tore his in high school and I kind of think that stuff is genetic. A few years back after trying to get in shape by running (yuck) I got tendonitis in my achilles. Now I can't run more than about a mile without it feeling like it's on fire. Or so the excuse goes when my wife tries to get me in shape again.
  22. nicksaviking
    ***Mod Note*** I moved the Park related posts to the new Park thread created by Seth.
  23. nicksaviking
    Interesting, he used to be a "sinkerballer" back in the day: http://www.brooksbaseball.net/outcome.php?player=279571&b_hand=-1&gFilt=&pFilt=FA|SI|FC|CU|SL|CS|KN|CH|FS|SB&time=year&minmax=ci&var=pcount&s_type=2&startDate=03/30/2007&endDate=02/03/2017 He now only uses his sinker very sparingly. Maybe he was brought in to try to show Gibson and Stewart that it is possible to be cured of that disease.
  24. nicksaviking
    It seems Tonkin is the guy most see as the odd man out. He's actually the kind of guy I want to see if Falvey's new strategies will benefit. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/24826-article-how-will-derek-falvey-improve-twins-pitching/ A mid-90s FB and a slider are my two of my three favorite pitches. The first being a high-90s FB. At times he has looked really good. Looking at which bullpen options on the 40-man should get the boot, it kind of seems difficult. The pen was terrible last year (last decade) but it looks to me that there are a lot of guys that are just good enough or just young enough where you don't really want to toss them out. So I can see how Tonkin could be first on the chopping block. I can also see how Justin Haley might not make the cut which would cause a lot of us to wonder how the worst team in the league, with the first pick in the Rule V draft couldn't find room for a guy.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'd guess many of our educators on this board would disagree with this take. Coming from a family of educators, I believe that typically new curriculum and techniques get the kibosh at the administrative level, not that instructional level. In this case the administration appears to be very open to new curriculum and techniques.
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