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  1. Doomtints
    The headline is a strong statement seeing the the new front office hasn't done anything with pitching yet, not just this offseason but also last offseason. I'm not sure if their two major pitching moves (Jamie Garcia, Bartolo Colon) are currently considered to be elite strikeout pitchers. Ks might be less important to the Twins than for other teams, seeing as they have the best defender in the league in CF. It would be nice if the Twins get some dominant fireballers, but I don't think it's critical to their success. They just need guys who can get hitters out, whether that's by inducing weak hits or striking people out, I don't care.
  2. Doomtints
    By the numbers it's a tough sell. But HOF voters don't necessarily go by the numbers. Santana will get votes, probably a lot of them. Was Santana the best pitcher in the game for a few years? Most who can remember would say yes.
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    True, but this is the nature of the beast. Many if not most people will always try to view things in a positive light when it comes to their favorite sports teams. To some of us, Capps, Meyer, and Park were all obviously not going to work out (and May, I should add). But I don't think it's fair to say this to people who believe otherwise. Sometimes ya just gotta let it go. And anyway, none of us are right all the time. I thought Plouffe was better than he is. I thought Gibson could be a #3. Etc.
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    Also, he didn't block anybody as he wasn't on the 40 man roster last year.
  5. Doomtints
    If only some people would have spoken up that teeing off on 86 MPH pitches wasn't going to translate to success in the MLB. I wish Park all the best. He was a good sport and his work ethic was never in question.
  6. Doomtints
    Has Falvey flexed his muscles yet?
  7. Doomtints
    I agree with everyone saying thanks to Twins Daily. We have a good group over here. I also agree that #5 reads a bit dubiously. It's not accurate that the Mauer contract sank the franchise by making it impossible to address other issues.
  8. Doomtints
    The Wynegar trade for Filson (and others) was not a popular move for Twins fans. This was one one of the worst trades the team ever did. Wynegar had become too expensive.
  9. Doomtints
    Right. I don't mind telling you that I have the opposite issue of Sano. I shot up to 6' when I was 15 or 16 while still weighing 120 pounds. I didn't weigh 130 until I turned 30, and I didn't weigh 140 until I turned 40. In the past 18 months, I gained 20 additional pounds in two strange 2-week periods where I gained 10 pounds suddenly. Nothing has changed in my diet, nothing has changed in my exercise routine, esp. not during those two periods where I gained ten pounds quickly. I have always looked at all of the diet commercials on TV and scoffed!
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    He's a big guy, that's true. Just look at his neck. Are you suggesting if he eats less, his neck will regress to a normal size? I'm betting no. He's just a huge guy, the Shaquille O'Neal of baseball. Yes, there are dietary requirements that huge people have that we don't. We have to be open to the idea that he needs to eat in order to feel well because of the sheer size of his frame. So if we want dingers, the boy has to eat. The Twins signed him to hit dingers, not to sprint.
  11. Doomtints
    Exactly. We have no idea what Sano eats. He probably has his share of low-sugar protein shakes like the rest of the team. Sano didn't grow up in a culture that had a McDonald's on every corner, so it's difficult to buy into the idea that he is stuffing himself with double quarter pounders five times a week.
  12. Doomtints
    He has blown out his arm and now his leg, both times requiring major surgery. This leg issue might be one that bothers him for the rest of his life. He was signed for his bat. His bat has a nearly limitless ceiling. The Twins can get his defense anywhere and his defense is an afterthought. DH him. Forget about convention, forget about his age. This is a case where what is best for HIM is to DH, AND what is best for the TEAM is for him to DH. If he manages to still be injury prone after a year of DH, package him in a blockbuster trade and let him be someone else's problem.
  13. Doomtints
    I have been in enough board room meetings to recognize something that would come up and be heavily discussed/scrutinized. Buying and then selling within a few days of one another would be one of those things. But it's a learning process. They will learn to not have these knee jerk reactions in the future. If they are truly not sure if they are ready to buy, they won't. And they certainly won't sell after a bad road series against the best team in the NL a few days later. Would Ryan buy/sell so quickly? No, he would just sell or do nothing. But is "different" necessarily better? Of course not. Buying followed by selling is the same as doing nothing!
  14. Doomtints
    Rosario could work out for the Cubs if they have the patience. He is still another year out at best, in my opinion.
  15. Doomtints
    The team bought a pitcher before the deadline and then sold him a few days later. This shows a lack of sound decision making ability.
  16. Doomtints
    The Calvin Griffith teams were known for having outstanding infield defenses. I'm not sure how accurate we can be when we only look back 15 years. The underrated 70s teams were playing very good defense.
  17. Doomtints
    Well deserved. Last year was successful ... now the real challenge begins to take the team to the next level.
  18. Doomtints
    I expect Vargas won't have a good career until he finds an organization that doesn't think he is broken and is unrealistically negative about his defense. For Vargas's own good, the Twins should just rip the band aid off quickly and let him blossom elsewhere. If they keep him, they have to stop treating him like he's a 12 year old version of Refrigerator Perry and give him the space to sink or swim. I don't see that happening under Molitor.
  19. Doomtints
    Yes, the Astros were a mediocre pitching team, but they may have had the best hitting in the league. And as banal as the Astros pitching was, it was still +6 WAA from the Twins. The Twins have to add a lot of talent to get up to where the Astros are! Add three more Santanas and you are just about there.
  20. Doomtints
    It's worth it to look at how crappy the teams the Royals beat in the playoffs were. - The Astros had no hitting and barely above average pitching. - The Blue Jays hit well but had poor pitching - The Mets may have been the worst-hitting team to ever play in the WS Every team the Royals faced in the playoffs had pitching at or worse than theirs. 2015 was a year where whoever got hot would win the WS, this happened to be an above-average but unexciting Royals. This was a fluke year ... an outlier ... an exception ... thus it's not helpful to bring it up. You can't win a world series by betting on more exceptions happening.
  21. Doomtints
    This is what I was thinking. If we start looking at the SPs on the other playoff teams, we will notice most of the names. For fun, we can analyze how these pitchers were acquired. Only then can we state: 1) The Twins don't need good, proven SPs. 2) The Twins shouldn't acquire them via free agency or trade. I'm guessing these two ideas could be shattered just by looking at what successful teams are doing.....
  22. Doomtints
    FIP doesn't include any ball that would get hit to Buxton, though, unless you are saying the ERA would have been higher if not for Buxton. In any case, the Twins pitching was much better in the 2nd half. I think you almost have to throw out the first half pitching stats for 2017. The Twins won games in spite of their pitching in the first half, but down the stretch everyone was contributing. Division foes will be worried if the Twins manage to field a full set of starters next year.
  23. Doomtints
    Yeah. As you and others are pointing out, this statistic can change overnight by getting rid of pitchers who are bad at this and signing pitchers who are good at it. In fact, that's probably the ONLY way to fix this problem, which goes back to what we already knew -- the Twins simply need a lot of turnover on the pitching side. Now bear in mind this is just one statistic and is no guarantee of wins. There are pitchers who can make players swing and miss who also get shredded once contact is made..... The Twins need a multitude of pitching styles on the roster to be truly successful (and no, they don't currently have that).
  24. Doomtints
    There are many who remain bullish on May, I'm not one of them. In fact I guess you could say I never expected anything out of either May or Meyer. If it were me, I would base his Twins future on how he performs in spring training and toss him into any trade talks until then. In other words, his chance to stay on the team would be slim. But it's not me, and I realize it's likely he's with the team next year. In that regard, I hope he surprises me and turns a corner, remains healthy, and learns how to be consistent.
  25. Doomtints
    It's painful to think about which position players would/could be traded. Everybody has a high ceiling, the only debate is who has the highest floors. That's tough, esp. with a young group. Hopefully the Twins can do more buying than selling in the next few months and not disrupt the position player side of things any more than necessary.
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