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I meant this was only a slightly better than average start for Correia. 3 runs allowed in 6 innings equals a 4.5 ERA. 2 runs in 6 innings is 3. His ERA last season was 4.18, so somewhere between 2 and 3 runs allowed over 6 innings. This was on the slightly better side of that average. Here's another way of saying that his start was nothing out of the ordinary. Last season Correia went 6 or more innings and gave up 2 or less runs 13 times in 31 starts, 42%, approaching half.

Actually that was only a slightly better than average start for Correia. 6 innings, 3 runs, 2 earned. His ERA was only 4.18 last season. One run better than average. You're not going to get 6 shutout innings from Correia very often, but this kind of performance is well within his reach to duplicate every other start or so.

Thrylos, I consider myself a pretty loyal Twins fan: so loyal that it goes beyond results. (root root root for the home team). I'm old enough to know that success for this team is cyclical, and won't sour on them for a few putrid seasons. Actually, stinking is good because the bandwagon empties out, and you get a colorful variety of non-standard MLB players to cheer for. I lived through the loss of the North Stars, and the near loss of the Twins, my 2 favorite teams growing up. I'm just glad to have them here, and have the opportunity to watch MLB here. You are right though, that I might have hated the Carolina Twins.

I'm going with Perkins.

Rendered all the more bizarre when you consider Florimon is 3 for 9 lifetime vs. Sale, whereas Escobar had never faced him.

That baby on the right wouldn't be named George Herman Ruth would he?

I guess I'm lucky in that I just enjoy having a team in Minnesota. Winning championships was an unbelievable high, but the lows are just baseball to me. There is always a point of interest to me, even with a losing team. I save my pessimism and angst for real life problems. Maybe it's a product of age. I sure didn't used to take the losses so easily in my youth.

You going to the game ChiTownTwinsFan?

SHOULDA WOULDA COULDA You guys are masochists. I regret Ortiz, buit that's about it.

If Souhan is going to focus on personality, he's guilty of giving Puck a free ride for the shenanigans he pulled after retirement. Hard to imagine Mauer being less than a model citizen.

My darkest age in over 40 years of watching the Twins: Don Beaver and North Carolina.

Better to have a stinky team than no team. Watched that happen with the North Stars, and you lose all the good times with the bad, the history, everything. The Twins have had their peaks and valleys; I have little doubt they will rebound again someday.

I was just going to post the same thing.

I think you answered your own question. If. If the offer is AAAA castoffs, why bother? If there even is an offer.

Great write-up - thank you. Do you really think Berrios grew? That would be a really late growth spurt no?

If your system is stacked with good prospects, then winning will be a part of the picture, especially at the lower levels.

If he's the guy we got from Atlanta, yes! Sorry Leviathan, my confusion.

Well, seeing as we were talking about a prospect, I assumed....

Throughout the entire organization? I've followed the Twins for a long time, and I don't recall them ever having the kind of pitching they have now. We are quite removed from the days of having Dan Serafini, Ryan Mills, or Nick Blackburn as our top pitching prospect.

It it nice to have that depth.

Good read. Geez, the Twins have some crazy depth for pitching now as opposed to recent years. Props to the front office for getting aggressive stacking up the arms.

Boy, Gibson looked very sharp in that inning. Firing bullets down in the zone.

I could care less, grammer nazis are dominate.

That is a pretty nice looking swing.

Drew hasn't his above .253 since 2010. If he was anything but a shortstop, nobody would be petitioning so vociferously to sign him. I still think Florimon's defense will offset any improvements Drew might provide offensively.