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  1. Doomtints
    Yes. The Gold Glove is a popularity contest, and thus an utterly useless award. It's an award designed to sell baseball gloves to kids. It's the award equivalent of all star game voting.
  2. Doomtints
    I dunno man ... I remember getting bashed for saying Mauer would not be a finalist due to the Gold Glove being a popularity contest .... And now people are acting surprised? Hmm... Seems to me this was predictable as all hell! Sometimes some of you just want to fight, I think. If Mauer is as good next year he will be considered, probably. One good year isn't enough to get him on voter's radar. If he bashes 25 home runs (which yes has nothing to do with defense) then even moreseo.
  3. Doomtints
    Management LOVES to hear stuff like this during the hiring process. They don't like it so much after one is hired, however. Hopefully he can quickly speak to how he is working with (and evaluating) every pitcher to improve, lest his tenure will be short. This advice goes for all of us.
  4. Doomtints
    Considering the Twins turned around their offense and defense in one year, why can't they turn around the pitching? The Twins had many pitchers who had good second halves, so they are already half a year in the improvement cycle. The position players are young and cheap, leaving a lot of cash to go after pitching. The Cubs turned their pitching around in 1-2 years, it simply took a few more years for the hitting to catch up. It should be noted that the Cubs had payrolls similar to the Twins in the years in question. Plus, Terry Ryan is gone, the pitching coach is gone, the Twins just made the playoffs, the Twins have some star players now, etc. etc. ... other pitchers won't be quick to dismiss the idea of playing for Minnesota anymore. Most pitchers would LOVE to have Buxton standing behind them!
  5. Doomtints
    There are a couple of key pitchers who had stellar ERAs in the second half ... except when Garver was behind the plate. Could be a flukey small sample size thing, could be a red flag, who knows at this point. This barely matters because the Twins have the catcher they want, and should they want Gimenez back as the backup he will be available. As far as defense, I think the presence of Buxton is going to elevate everyone else, both because of his circus plays (which no doubt confuse many defensive systems which makes other defenders look better in those systems) AND I think his hard work on the field will rub off on others, a la Kirby Puckett. The Twins need to forget about Sano in the field. His value is his bat, period. Getting another player who can cause serious damage with his bat and be an average defender at 3rd while moving Sano to DH would be a gigantic upgrade for this team. A healthy Sano at DH + another bat that other teams have to respect in the lineup? Ouch. Otherwise I think the Twins are set with defense and offense. We're back to fixing the pitching. I'm a little surprised we keep having articles and threads on other stuff, when this team literally has just one fatal flaw and it's obvious what it is. Unless the Twins create holes by trading off position players in order to fix the pitching -- creating more problems to fix (Hi Terry!) -- this team doesn't have much left to do.
  6. Doomtints
    What's the difference between the 2016 Cubs and the 2017 Cubs?
  7. Doomtints
    It's not ironic at all given that the discussion is actually "closers are overrated." If the Twins can find a Nathan-in-the-rough on some other team, yeah go get him without hesitation.
  8. Doomtints
    People remember the champions. Have you ever heard of a team called the Minnesota Vikings, who were for a time the winningest team in NFL history and are still in the top 8-10? Does anyone treat the team that way, even in Minnesota?
  9. Doomtints
    The Twins likely would have not been in the postseason at all most or all of those years without Nathan.
  10. Doomtints
    Exactly. I'm not sure how anyone who lived through the Nathan years can think closers don't matter. Nathan made the 8th inning guys look better because opposing teams were trying to force things to happen before Nathan came in, and Rincon/Romero were pretty damn good at times in their own rights....
  11. Doomtints
    Houston hasn't won anything yet, btw.
  12. Doomtints
    Fix the pitching before extending anyone, especially players who are not free agents until 2023. Berrios doesn't even have 1 year of service time yet.
  13. Doomtints
    Not by a longshot, it seems.
  14. Doomtints
    Of course they can do both. Do the other one first.
  15. Doomtints
    Use the cash to fix the pitching before extending anybody who won't be a free agent until 2019+.
  16. Doomtints
    De Leon's career isn't quite over yet.
  17. Doomtints
    Way too early to do this for a guy who doesn't hit free agency until 2022 and who might just kill himself out there long before then. Use the money to fix the pitching. When that's done, then talk about spending money on things that are superfluous.
  18. Doomtints
    No love at all for Busenitz?
  19. Doomtints
    I'm not a Molitor fan but keeping him was the logical decision if you put yourself in the boss's shoes. However, 3 years seems long to me.
  20. Doomtints
    Good stuff.
  21. Doomtints
    Statistically, a baserunner bunted over to 2nd is more likely to score. Molitor is using analytics. Those who don't like watching bunts on their TV and vent about it here are not using analytics. So what would the front office be saying to Molitor in this instance? Be more popular with the kids at home, or keep using analytics? The number of managers and front offices in major and minor league baseball who don't like statistics or analytics is at or near zero. When Ryan was quoted saying otherwise, he was really saying that what you see on Fangraphs is mostly useless data. He wasn't wrong about that. The Twins were always collecting statistical data and using it to make decisions. Even Griffith was into it. Sure, in the past what was looked at was often wrong or irrelevant, but the same is true today.
  22. Doomtints
    Yes, I figured some of you would not be able to get your heads around this strategy. I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole as I know many would rather fight about it than try to understand game theory.
  23. Doomtints
    I realize that when you're batting, the strategy is usually to "take what the pitcher gives you" ... but as I said before the game, once the Yankees bullpen gets involved there is no further hope of scoring significant runs. When the Twins realized Severino had nothing in the tank, they should have held that close to their chests and chipped at him slowly for a few innings with a grand finale outburst the 3rd time through the lineup. Yes, I realize this type of sneakiness is alien in baseball, at least to non-championship teams. Few of us are surprised the Twins did not win, so there are no tears. Next year! Also, it was nice to see a fairly called game by the umps this time around. The last time they did this was the worst called set of games I have ever seen as a baseball fan. Sure it was tilted to the Yanks, but they were getting atrocious calls as well.
  24. Doomtints
    Apart from Judge and Sanchez, the Yankees lineup is fairly banal. Santana just needs to do what he does best, and we all know he can do that when he wants to. This game will come down to whether or not the Twins hitters can hit and if the bullpen can perform. No worries about Santana. The worry is 1) will this team hit the ball well, and 2) will the bullpen shut down the team if Santana can't go the distance. There's talk about "Striking against the Yankees the starter early" being the key for the Twins. That's poppycock. If this becomes a battle of the bullpens, the Twins lose. Every member of the Yankees pen is better than anyone in the Twins pen. The best chance for a Twins victory is a low scoring affair with both starters going deep in the game.
  25. Doomtints
    I use Twitter but I freely acknowledge that it has become a dumping ground for automated messages (bots). If Twitter added a CAPTCHA, traffic would drop by at least 80% (and investors and advertisers would flee). Twitter can still be good for connecting to others with similar interests. Having said all that, I completely agree with the polling results.
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