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  1. D.C Twins
    Duran Duran...... I implore the FO to listen to the music and become inspired to test out a 5th starter with potential season changing upside. Service time shmervice time (not a band... yet...TM pending)
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    A fifth starter....please let me refer the FO to the many options across the street. I prefer Duran, but will obviously defer to their expertise.... as long as the rational for bullpen games is not to save service time.....
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    O-Doh!-rizzi.... FO nailed it with the one year deal. Had to give him another year after last year but too many alarm bells with previous years and the third time through the line up. No regrets.... and thank God we are not on the hook for a long term contract.
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    And Cruz! Never take an over 40 year old PROFESSIONAL hitter for granted!
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    This was an extremely well thought out and well written piece. Keep up the good work!
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    I'm very much OK with the slotted 5th starter consistently beating inferior competition. Last time I checked that is the definition of a superior 5th starter. I would focus the concern on our slotted #1 and #2 starters.
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    Yes, This! It was raining hits and walks in the first 3 innings....the runs were going to come eventually.... And we have 18-ish pitchers on our staff currently. Good Lord....sometimes a pitcher doesn't have it...that is when the manager has to find someone else!
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    The biggest problem with this team exposed: Short playoff series will favor teams with an ACE (or two) on their staff. We have a deep, balanced, and overall good team.... BUT unfortunately it will be at HIGH RISK during short playoff series against overall inferior teams with one or two better starting pitchers. The FO has done an admirable job overall and obviously did not construct the team with this weird season in mind, but I strongly recommend that all Twins fans keep their expectations in check!
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    Thanks Parker...Well thought out and well presented as always. Love the side by side comparisons. I think everyone is essentially saying the same thing on this one. Velo makes a huge difference, but only if you maintain commanand
  10. D.C Twins
    Our society is behaving like petulant teenagers with entirely predictable outcomes.
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    I stated about a month ago on this site that we were in the "bargaining" phase of our grieving process and nothing that has happened since in the whole country... to include baseball... has dissuaded me from this opinion.
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    I suspect that it is because, if we are being honest, there are some big question marks....essentially a wide confidence interval.....which is fair. Odo, Hill, Maeda, Bailey, Dobnak, Pineda....would not be surprised by the wheels falling off any of them... or having a great season
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    One last comment....foot injuries can be very rough...re-injury and aggravation rate is high. This is very much a big deal, especially over a 60 day season.
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    That being said... I love watching him play and am glad to have him whenever he can play over the next 3 years. i will also wish him the best an root for him when he leaves
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    Enjoy him for the next 3 seasons. If the injury trends continue, just cannot risk signing him to a long contract. We are not the Yankees. His speed will decline staring about next year and ergo is defense will decline too. Not for an extension and not for a long term contract (either he'll be injury prone by 2023 or he won't and he'll be waaaaaay to expensive for the backside of his career)
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    Thanks Parker. Good info, though it is a very tough subject to study, with soooo many confounding variables (and the plus fastball and plus slider combo seems to be used together often so hard to evaluate the impact separately). I'm always more excited about the sustainability of pitchers like Santana and Viola with a plus plus change up....
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    Sliders have ALWAYS been amazing wipe out pitches. The problem is they put tremendous strain on the elbow which leads to injuries. The Twins have two of the best examples in history. 1. Liriano: Damn near unhittable for 1/2 year (better than Santana in his prime good); 2006 I believe.....then injury and never that elite again 2. (For you older folkes) Scott Erickson in 1991... First half of the season,....absolutely unhittable....just dominating....then elbow problems and never the same....actually he was hanging on for dear life at the end of the 1991 season through the World Series. Wicked slider is great, but sooner or later most pitchers pay a price.
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    Lewis waaaaaay to high...#37-42 have a much better chance of helping the team this year
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    Yes....there is certainly a chance that we are firmly in the 'bargaining' stage of grief as a country....perhaps a big chance...
  20. D.C Twins
    Great humor as always! (though currently only the second funniest article on TD, ranking slightly behind the one that posits Royce Lewis as a potential MLB replacement this year for emergency )
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    Royce Lewis is not even close to an option. He will have plenty on his plate trying to succeed in AA. There is A LOT of work left to do. At this point he has more potential to be a bust that to be an emergency replacement for a Buxton injury in the MLB this season or next
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    Sooner or later, Kepler will be entrenched in the 3rd spot in the order, and dominate there.
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    Sano is missing.....and with all due respect to thorpe, he is 1b to Buxton's 1a..... if they both get going.....it may not even be fair for other teams
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    This is just a huge, huge year for Lewis. Tools or not, by any metric, he had an awful season (a strike out to walk ratio of 3:1 stands out most to me which really should have nothing to do with the batting in Florida) The majority of scouting reports that I have seen are concerned about his swing as he moves up in difficulty. Most, if not all (I'm open to examples) MLB superstars did not endure such a disaster of a season in the low/mid minors. Yes he is young, yes there was a glimmer of hope in the small sample size of the AFL, yes he is a wonderful human being by all accounts, BUT a sustained poor performance in A ball IS concerning for an overall#1 pick. This is SUCH a big year for him....and I am SO rooting for him!
  25. D.C Twins
    Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!!
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