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  1. nicksaviking
    Well yeah, but had Duffey been facing the Twins he would have had double digit Ks despite not even going 5 innings.
  2. nicksaviking
    I'm comfortable with 17 since we still have Milone. He's basically #18 as he's now a better offensive option than a pitching option.
  3. nicksaviking
    More like a scapegoat. Who shot DT? Some Canadian guy officer! I swear.
  4. nicksaviking
    Great, I love when I come downstairs from putting the kids to bed and the game's already over. Stupid East Coast blowouts.
  5. nicksaviking
    How is Duffey going to prove that, if he isn't actually given a shot to prove it? I don't have high expectations for Duffey, but he did well last year and I'm not willing to toss that aside and yell "Fluke" without him getting a chance to prove it wrong. This team isn't a contender, the batters are young and too strikeout prone, the lineup isn't balanced or constructed well, the bullpen is still relying on middling vets and AAAA guys and the starters are spectacularly unreliable for guys who's most glowing praise is always "experienced veteran". Unless we want to continue pushing back the timeline because the young starters and relievers haven't had a chance to take their MLB lumps, they need to get called up this year and get considerable reps. I would rather watch Meyer, Berrios and Duffey lose 85 games than watch Nolasco, Hughes and Milone lose 80. And frankly, after watching the Twins young bats last year and the young players league-wide, I really see very little reason to expect the veterans to outperform the young arms.
  6. nicksaviking
    I don't care who the Twins best starters are right now, if and when this club is ever a contender, they aren't going to be the best starters then. Game-to-game and year-to-year Nolasco and Hughes are as inconsistent as starting pitchers come, inning-to-inning, that title might fall on Milone. You don't have to milk the cow until every last drop comes out, if it's nearly dried up and a new cow has a good chance of producing more, move on to the new one. Also, why are you putting 100% of your Duffey evaluation on his unspectacular but still capable minor league numbers and 0% on his performance last year? Most folks would objectively say that earned him another good look. Edit: I've never been on a farm, is that how cows work?
  7. nicksaviking
    Also, aside from Santana, it's not like we're talking about some low-ceiling, boring-but-consistent starters like Mike Leake or Bronson Arroyo, we are talking about some of the most volatile starters in the game. On any given day, heck, any given year, these guys can and have been among the worst starters in the league. At this point we are basically equating the term "depth" with "experience".
  8. nicksaviking
    The Twins are 5-11, with a young lineup that isn't ready yet to legitimately win it all, and a rotation full of low ceiling veterans only one of whom has a history of being anything close to reliable and stable. What kind of team can afford to chose youth over depth if not the Twins?
  9. nicksaviking
    The season is young but it's interesting to see that Daniel Palka's K rate has remained the same despite the promotion. It's still high at 28% but that's what it was in High A, for comparison, Adam Walker was at 28% in High A and jumped to 34% upon his AA promotion. We'll have to see how the rest of the year plays out, but that's encouraging seeing as the strikeouts where his biggest bugaboo.
  10. nicksaviking
    Well when you construct your roster in a way that the best pitchers have to take a back seat to preserve depth, you kind of cancel out the positive benefit of the depth. Milone traded/DFA'd, Nolasco and Hughes to the pen, all three of Berrios, Duffey and Meyer up by June. It wouldn't be popular and it would never happen, but if this club ever cared about getting the most peak years out of their young arms, this is what they should be doing.
  11. nicksaviking
    See what happens when you go with the pitch Dozier?!
  12. nicksaviking
    When my fingers got too fat for my iPhone.
  13. nicksaviking
    I hope pulling Milone in the 4th after only allowing one run is a sign that the team has already identified Berrios' path of least resistance.
  14. nicksaviking
    Nunez replaces both? Do we get to use ghost runners now?
  15. nicksaviking
    Family reunion of 105 in Mantiwok county?
  16. nicksaviking
    I'd play him just for his OBP.
  17. nicksaviking
    Ish. Young players get their butt chewed for that. I doubt Dozier gets more than a dirty look. Not complaining, just wondering what the tension in the dugout is like when the rookies are silently resentful that they'd get called out for not running out a grounder.
  18. nicksaviking
    He'd look good in late innings in KC.
  19. nicksaviking
    Sano will have three HR in the next four games.
  20. nicksaviking
    So basically through two turns through the Miracle rotation, Gonsalves is fifth best out of the six starters? And he has still been really good? If I was in the Chattanooga rotation, I wouldn't feel very comfortable about my prospects of remaining a starter for the entire season.
  21. nicksaviking
    Not bad. Save the taking a crap excuse to check your phone for the next date.
  22. nicksaviking
    So the night ended at 10:30? Or you told her you had to take a crap, then came here to tell us?
  23. nicksaviking
    Dozier can now be sure there is nothing that will let him see the field tonight.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'd feel much better about this game if Twins pitchers didn't have to come back onto the field.
  25. nicksaviking
    Whoever this new guy 42 is, I think he has a shot at going the distance. Probably helps that he's ambidextrous.
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