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  1. JDubs
    When people were howling about Lewis being sent down, one of the retorts was "do you want a guy with a surgically-repaired knee running all over the outfield, potentially running into walls?" and sure enough, he doesn't even get through a full game in center before he injures the knee. Here's hoping it was nothing too serious, but it is worth noting there aren't any walls in the infield in St. Paul.
  2. JDubs
    Speaking of annoying contrarians, remember how many people on here last year were just excoriating the Twins for losing Akil Baddoo in the Rule 5 draft? Yelling about how dumb the Twins were for losing an obvious superstar. Anyway, I'm sure they're losing a lot of sleep about not having his -0.6 WAR on the team right now.
  3. JDubs
    They already do that! That's the point! They're in the upper-half of innings pitched by starters! It's not currently 1975!
  4. JDubs
    Friend, you need to watch some baseball played by other teams as well. No one is regularly letting their starters throw that many pitches so far this year. The average number of innings for starting pitchers this year is less than 5. You can have problems with that, but it's not a Rocco thing, it's an everyone thing. Hell, last year the Twins were one of the leaders in terms of innings pitched by starters across all of MLB. This is the dumbest complaint people keep trotting out, because it's just plainly not true about the Twins. They are average to above-average in how long their starters go.
  5. JDubs
    Yeah, but he doesn't need ABs, he needs reps at shortstop. Which he won't get because Correa is getting those.
  6. JDubs
    I get this is kinda disappointing, but folks here are acting like we just DFA'd Derek Jeter instead of sending back down a guy who hasn't played in 2 years and who played well for 11 games. Remember when everyone was so sure we'd lost a perennial allstar in Badoo? Plenty of dudes come up and have a good two weeks and then never do anything ever again. There's nothing crazy about saying a dude his age still needs some regular work in the minors when playing time in the bigs wouldn't necessarily be guaranteed.
  7. JDubs
    I don't know that that's the case -- I think having one of the best (if not the best) players at the position in front of you means Lewis can't take it too hard. I don't know that there's an easy answer to what to do with Lewis when Correa comes back, but there's definitely value to the argument that after 2 years without game action, the most important thing for Lewis is consistent reps and paying time. For as much as it might a blow to his ego to get sent down, it would probably be much worse for his development to only play once or twice a week or have to figure out multiple new positions on the fly in the bigs.
  8. JDubs
    That's the important part to me -- there's a lot that could go wrong with this team, especially with the pitching, but damned if they aren't just entertaining. I'd love some postseason success, but the fact that I'm excited to turn on the game pretty much every night is about all you can really ask for with a baseball team
  9. JDubs
    My guess is Lewis probably struggles during his first exposure to the bigs, but in some ways this might be the ideal way for him to dip a toe into the lineup. Since there's basically no way he won't be replaced by Correa once the finger is mended, it kind of takes the pressure off, at least in comparison to being the opening day starter or some such. Here he knows his time is limited and he's a stop gap who just needs to be basically replacement level and keep the spot warm. That being said, here's hoping he forces his way into being the utility man or in some other way staying on the big league roster.
  10. JDubs
    Yes
  11. JDubs
    This has to be the most pristine example of Betteridge's law of headlines I've seen in a long time
  12. JDubs
    The Twins used something like 17 starting pitchers last year. This has basically zero impact on Winder's chance of joining the rotation this season.
  13. JDubs
    I like this kind of move. Makes way more sense than spending big money on relievers, because that has the chance to go so wrong. The Rays have really proven the model of getting a bunch of cheap arms, riding one as long as he's going well, and then swapping him out the moment he has a bad outing for someone else, riding them as long as they're going well, repeat. Make St. Paul absolutely teeming with relief pitchers and see who shakes out.
  14. JDubs
    Ok, that part genuinely hurt
  15. JDubs
    Remember when people were mad we lost Rortvedt?
  16. JDubs
    People are really overreacting by saying the Twins blew up the catching spot. Garver was tough to see go, but he's a 31 year old catcher who has only topped 100 games in a season once in his career. Rortvedt is basically the definition of replacement-level, it will absolutely not be difficult in the slightest to sign a glove-first, no-hit catcher for cheap.
  17. JDubs
    It's almost as if there's a difference between the most physically demanding position in the game and a spot where you can park people who aren't that athletic
  18. JDubs
    I'll definitely miss Garvsauce, but given his age and position, it's pretty much only downhill from here and the Twinkies desperately needed a competent SS option, so you gotta rank this as a decent trade. Certainly not a steal or anything, but given that Garver's catching days are likely limited and he's headed for a DH/1B type position, that's something the Twins already have plenty of, so this could definitely be trading from a position of strength to patch up an obvious need.
  19. JDubs
    Of course, but signing 1 or 2 front line guys in no way prevents the young guys from getting tested. No team goes through a season using only their original 5, you need at least 8 good pitchers to have a decent rotation. I think a lot of us were hoping they would both sign good pitchers and start testing out the young guys, a move which would have been quite reasonable.
  20. JDubs
    I generally think this kind of "sports writers are biased" comment is bs, but it does seem that every time a team like the Twins has a good player, everything written about them in the national media seems to focus exclusively on when they can get away from that team and to a big market. So I don't know that it's necessarily an intentional bias, but I def think a lot of national writers tilt toward assuming players should leave any market that isn't NY, Bos, or LA
  21. JDubs
    The one thing this is missing, though, is the potential that being a dedicated one inning guy could add a couple ticks of velo to his fastball, which then makes his breaking ball all the better. It's not guaranteed, but we've seen it before (Perkins comes to mind)
  22. JDubs
    I actually felt relieved when that hit came through in the 7th, because there was no way they were letting him go 9 in his second big league start after being off for several weeks, and there's a certain segment of the fans that would have completely lost their **** if he was pulled with a perfect game going. The amount of time sabermetrics would be incorrectly and agrily invoked would be impossible to quantify.
  23. JDubs
    Maybe I'm just too scarred by the Ryan regime, but I cannot remember the last time I was this excited about a trade deal. This package blows the Santana deal out of the water, and if Berrios was as set on testing free agency as has been reported, this is probably the best case scenario for what the Twins could have gotten in return. Bummed that this means next season is probably a wash, but 2023 is looking pretty exciting.
  24. JDubs
    Don't remember the year or line, but there was an Al Newman card where he had a giant booger hanging out of his nose that was a huge favorite when I was a kid. I traded away some pretty valuable cards to get multiples of that one as a youngster, but I'm pretty certain all my cards were thrown away when I went off to college and a quick google search isn't turning it up. But it definitely existed, and it was glorious.
  25. JDubs
    Dude, Schilling collects Nazi memorabilia. Only two people collect Nazi memorabilia: Museums and Nazis.
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