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  1. TheLeviathan
    Under, I don't like that lineup.
  2. TheLeviathan
    I think that's pretty unlikely. If May pitches well the argument becomes "he's too good to move back!" If he struggles it becomes "well if he can't hack the pen....." Guys just don't flip back and forth much, this likely is the end of the line for one of our higher upside SPs.
  3. TheLeviathan
    This is the crux of it for me. In terms of upside, only Berrios exceeds May among guys likely to pitch for the Twins this year. We're trading that upside in to patch something we could've solved in other ways. I just can't get behind operating like that.
  4. TheLeviathan
    6th or 7th huh? Well then....
  5. TheLeviathan
    That we did nothing via trade or free agency to bolster the bullpen and that we loaded our rotation with a number of overpriced FA signings. So now we move arguably the 2nd or 3rd best starter in the rotation out to the bullpen to compensate.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Do you toss everyone out for their stats the first go around in the big leagues? Watch out Byron Buxton..... The freaking kid had 25 starts under his belt and was starting to show EXACTLY what you want from a young starter when we flipped him to the bullpen. It's patently absurd to argue that May's move to the pen had anything to do with his inability to be a starter. It had much more to do with the team's inability to field a competent bullpen and overspending on mid-tier FA starters. We should be investing in players like Trevor May for the future of this rotation, not using his talents to put a band-aid on roster blunders.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I think this is an important point for any holding hope that May can return to the rotation in the future. It's just so uncommon for guys to flip back and forth successfully that we can pretty much mourn May's potential as a starter today. I hope he turns into a brilliant reliever, but I can't help thinking the team made a mistake here.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I'm glad they didn't carry on the ruse of him competing any longer. I'd rather him start preparing for his role now if that's what the decision was always going to be any way.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I'll go with the over...a full season of Wieters plus better depth helps them squeak by the over.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I think the only way Sweeney or Quentin makes it is in addition to Arcia and Santana. And I just don't think we'll carry that thin of a pitching staff to start.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Looks like no flip. Maybe he's warming up. I hope he flips on every home run and doesn't care one damn bit about people whining about it.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I hope it was an epic flip. Gotta get ready for prime time.
  13. TheLeviathan
    If they do that....it instantly makes this entire OF thing The Stupid.
  14. TheLeviathan
    It's almost as if you can't just throw infielders in the outfield and expect magic! I'd say that's some sort of newsflash, but it appears someone should run the headline over to the Twins at some point here. But I like that we're giving Escobar the job right now. We have Polanco in the wings so I feel ok about the position, or at least more ok about it than I did last year.
  15. TheLeviathan
    According to DRS on Fangraphs, he had a good year in 2004 but was otherwise pretty crappy from then on. Most other measures say the same thing.
  16. TheLeviathan
    We still need that article talking about what a "floor" is.....
  17. TheLeviathan
    Last year I was excited about Rosario and that worked out well. So I'm throwing my prospect hat in the Kepler ring this year. He brings so much to the table that this team will need. I, too, share the hope that he forces the Twins to rethink their outfield configuration.
  18. TheLeviathan
    A lot of the other measures on fangraphs show him to be considerably below average. And, to the best of my recollection, that matched the ol' eye test.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Out of curiosity, by what measure do you think he was pretty good? I can't find much of any that would even put him in the "meh" camp. We'll have to see what kind of range he can produce. I'm not so much worried about his running ability or anything like that, but so much of playing the outfield is reading the bat off the ball, judging depth, etc. And that's something you learn to do rather than just use athleticism to fix.
  20. TheLeviathan
    That is not even remotely a ray of hope.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I don't worry about Sano's size at third or in the outfield. The point made earlier that athletes (and humans in general) are getting larger is a good one to point out. What concerns me about Sano's defense in the outfield is that he's never done it and is learning to on the fly as a major league player. I wouldn't care if he was 5'7 and 160 pounds, that would concern me.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I don't think so. At least from my experience they stay pretty mum about that stuff. They were trumpeting the "Plouffe is not for sale" sign as soon as was humanly possible and haven't wavered from it.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Another quote in the STrib today that he was never on the market. You could read that as TR read the market beforehand or that he just held on to Plouffe for loyalty, but can we please just all accept that Plouffe was never shopped? It's been made as plainly clear as humanly possible.
  24. TheLeviathan
    It may be strongly worded, but I'm not sure it's profoundly untrue. The team takes a "little engine that could" approach and seems perfectly willing to just sit back. Most of what you went on to say is exactly the point being driven at here. The team is determined to win, I believe that about them. But I think they count wins 3 years ahead at the expense of wins in the present and that does require a lot of complacency.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Except he wasn't.
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