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  1. nicksaviking
    So who's getting DFA'd to add Juan Centeno or Carlos Paulino to the 40-man for their call up tomorrow? I know Dean has been a near unanimous target, but I think it's Vargas.
  2. nicksaviking
    I think I like Murph more. I think. Start him the rest of the series.
  3. nicksaviking
    Lane must be thinking that this is the last tolerable day outside in Houston until October so he might as well drag this game out. For the fans sake.
  4. nicksaviking
    Murph, don't talk to the ump! Berrios screwed.
  5. nicksaviking
    Murph, don't swing.
  6. nicksaviking
    Eddie, don't swing.
  7. nicksaviking
    Oh for shame, I guess it's different when Keuchel doesn't get his pitch.
  8. nicksaviking
    I think another mistake of youth is thinking he'll get the same strike zone the reigning Young winner gets.
  9. nicksaviking
    OMG Jack Morris just coherently summed up why it's near impossible to call up young pitchers in the most ideal scenario. Well done sir.
  10. nicksaviking
    I was thinking belts. I mean seriously, are we playing a sport or going to work? If a team wants nine infielders, I'm cool with that.
  11. nicksaviking
    There are plenty of the "establishment" types who have long feared the long term effects of Cruz. Surely most suspect that Trump is a short term nuisance. I suspect guys like John Boehner aren't happy with losing this election but are grateful they may be able to kill two birds with one stone in the process. Cruz is done after this, and Trump is likely an anomaly, the Republicans will likely regroup and figure out how to figure out how to get the "anti-establishment" voters back. If that's possible.
  12. nicksaviking
    If someone worries about promoting young guys out of fear of what hypothetical free agents might think of them a year later, they have no business running a team. Plenty of teams demote, DFA or trade vets in favor of young players when their teams our out of it. It's the norm, not an exception.
  13. nicksaviking
    So a few weeks ago Cruz and Kasich made their gentleman's agreement (sarcasm intended) to divide up the remaining states and go at them individually to try to stop Trump. Cruz got Indiana, and he's currently getting slaughtered by Trump there. Is it just me, or did this plan have a clear and laughable possible flaw to it? Obviously these guys thought that Cruz voters would instead vote Kasich and Kasich voters would instead vote Cruz. Did they not consider the possibility that Ted Cruz is such a completely unlikeable guy that Kasich voters very well may prefer Trump, and if not Trump, they likely just won't vote at all? The worst thing about Ted Cruz? He makes me root for Donald Trump simply because nothing is funnier than Ted Cruz with egg on his face, and Trump has eggs with Cruz's name written all over them.
  14. nicksaviking
    Well this is actually why I tend to think the 6 block walk is a positive, not a negative.
  15. nicksaviking
    Well I'm going to sound negative, but my intentions are positive: I sure as hell hope they don't. Another season where they kind of compete, but are still really far from a contender will only keep this team from making the difficult decisions that need to be made to get this team ready for next year. 2015 was more fun than past years, but I think we all knew it was a bit of a facade, and it also prevented multiple opportunities for the young guys to get reps.
  16. nicksaviking
    2013 saw Chris Parmelee replace Ben Revere and Pedro Florimon replace Alexi Casilla, the replacements were far and away more strikeout prone. I've mentioned several times that Brian Dozier completely changed his approach in 2013. In the minors he was a low power but high contact guy, which wasn't working in 2012 and saw him demoted. In 2013, he was a different player and my argument has always been that once Josh Willingham (and Trevor Plouffe) showed everyone how to crush the ball to left field, Dozier took up that approach as well. He wasn't good offensively in 2012 but had a 17% K rate, while he became pretty solid in 2013 while increasing that number to 21% (and only going up from there). This might have been influenced by Brunansky, but it also could have been an organizational decision, but even so, for the better part of 2 1/2 years, it was a good one. I'm not sure that Brunansky really has the pull to tell him to knock that crap off at this point.
  17. nicksaviking
    Hey, everyone knows what happened last time both the Twins and Braves finished last in their divisions! They got really high draft picks the following year.
  18. nicksaviking
    Well the Twins heavy focus on power/strikeout type players in the draft and international free agency also coincided with Bruno's hiring. I'm not saying he's a good hitting coach, but we've known what Sano, Rosario, Vargas, Santana, Arcia and Park were long before Bruno ever touched them, was he supposed to turn those ducks into geese?
  19. nicksaviking
    There is only one consistently good catcher in the game today. Unless they target Buster Posey, there probably shouldn't be a significant trade to make. I want the Twins to fix this, but it's not like the team is on lack-of-catcher-island alone, this is just a really, really bleak time in baseball history for the catcher position.
  20. nicksaviking
    "His ball does that thing that Twins haven't seen, or tried to replicate, since Santana was traded."
  21. nicksaviking
    The Phillies are surprisingly in contention and they just lost their token veteran lefty in the rotation. It looks like they have a couple of young catchers in AAA and AA which look close, but not so exciting that they'd take a ransom. They already have their catcher of the future, and their veteran leader at the MLB level. A trade thus far hasn't worked the first time, but drafting hasn't been working either and good catchers rarely ever become free agents. If this team is going to get another useful backstop, I think continuing to try the trade route is still the best bet.
  22. nicksaviking
    Than you'd really hate to know this is my third beer break. But you wouldn't hate it as much as my wife, so mums the word.
  23. nicksaviking
    I just took a beer break from doing yard work and listen ending on the radio. My question is, why are there six pages already?!?
  24. nicksaviking
    Until Josh Willingham destroyed the left field seats at TF, Dozier was a high OBP, hit-to-all-fields hitter. I am still surprised he didn't give up his super-pull tendencies this year after his prior approach failed the second half last year. I know he'll get a much longer leash, but I'm ready for Polanco, the team needs his on base skills.
  25. nicksaviking
    How would anyone measure and evaluate that? Arcia clearly is passionate, unfortunately he has too often been villainized and likely in no small part because of his temperment. Sano too appears to be an emotional and vocal player as do Santana and Rosario. If we are OK with the emotional leaders being non-American, I think there is plenty of fire here to work with.
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