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  1. Doomtints
    Like everyone else, I'm not sure what the point is with this move. I could only guess as to what they could be thinking....
  2. Doomtints
    We know, which is why they were brought up in this convo.
  3. Doomtints
    You're not the first to report that. Twins felt he wasn't listening to them. That's one sure way to be sent away....
  4. Doomtints
    Hopefully we all knew Gibson would struggle a bit this year. In spite of the narrative that he has been bad for years, he is playing worse over his past 5 starts than he ever has before. And that's all we're talking about here -- 5 starts. He deserves 8, at a minimum, to decide what to do with him. We live in an instant gratification culture so this will be the daily gripe around here but, nevertheless, the Twins are doing the right thing in working with him.
  5. Doomtints
    Leave it to Dozier to smack home runs in games where it doesn't matter.
  6. Doomtints
    Re: the primary/caucus image. Texas has both. They call it the "Texas Two Step." If you want your primary vote to really count you have to go to the caucus too.
  7. Doomtints
    Polanco was rated the best defensive SS in the Florida League in 2014. So out of every prospect in that league, he was recognized by as the best SS they had. Who wrote what in 2015-2016 that convinced so many that Polanco couldn't play SS, and convince them all so quickly, when there were no metrics to back it up? I want that kind of power. (But I have to say, if this came from KLaw I will be very disappointed in everyone for falling for him once again.)
  8. Doomtints
    Truth.
  9. Doomtints
    And he closed the season with the Twins organization playing 400 innings at shortstop.... I'm sure it occurred to you at some point that the Twins were trying him at 2B because they were planning to shop Dozier, and not because Polanco suddenly could not handle SS. Sometimes the narrative isn't "he sucks" -- there are numerous reasons a team can do things.
  10. Doomtints
    Not sure who started this but it's not true. Polanco was never taken off of SS. You may want to pull up his stats and look. He played SS all through the minors and most of the games he played last year in the majors. I see this repeated a lot and it's simply bizarre to me. Is there a Twins team in another dimension that everyone else is watching?
  11. Doomtints
    I could use bifocals myself.
  12. Doomtints
    OK. But if your eyes were wrong about Polanco, could they also be wrong about Sano? Polanco is playing well just as some of us thought he would. There was nothing tangible that suggested he could not do the job. Sano is not fielding well, again, just as many of us thought he would. In fact, Sano's OF defense last year is showing up as being marginally better than his 3B defense is this year on the stat sheet -- and we all know the narrative around his OF defense.
  13. Doomtints
    The worry that many had over Polanco was ridiculous. It was literally based on nothing. I would love to know the original source that everyone aped on that one. If people are no longer worried about Sano, that is equally ridiculous. He has mishandled a lot of plays and will continue to do so.
  14. Doomtints
    I'm not sure who would be dumber in this scenario. The Twins for offering it or Sano if he accepted it.
  15. Doomtints
    I don't see anyone agreeing to that.
  16. Doomtints
    "Rank of FIP in the league" isn't how you would see if the team pitching will get worse. The other teams can pitch better and the Twins would still fall in the ranking. Let's look at the actuals. ERA 3.18 FIP 3.97 cFIP 105 DRA 3.75 DRA (starters) 4.02 DRA (relievers) 3.31 cFIP is showing that the Twins are within the 95-105 range which is considered to be average talent (though they are at the bottom edge of average), but most teams in the league are far worse than average right now. Yes, the Twins "rank" will fall as other teams improve, but they Twins pitching might not get worse. FIP, DRA, and ERA are off but not really by that much. Looks like the problem is with the starting staff and this will be a shock to exactly no one. We all know the team has four #4/#5 starters
  17. Doomtints
    But he is pretty darn good as a reliever so far, so why are you writing him off as a reliever? There's a false premise here that starters > relievers. Good relievers are a huge asset.
  18. Doomtints
    In 2015 he was pitching after the roster expansion, no? So against a mix of AAA and major league players? One would expect a 2-pitch guy to be decent ~2 times through the batting order. If I recall correctly, this was the case last year. With a small repertoire, one has to put more strength into each pitch. One isn't going to last as long through the game. I think the smartest move is when you find a reliever who can swoop in with his superman cape and shut down the opposition, you keep him in the pen. Esp. on a team with such a shaky bullpen.
  19. Doomtints
    We'll never learn to stop overreacting to small sample sizes.
  20. Doomtints
    Before we crown either Santiago or Castro as Totally Awesome, let's let the sample size grow a bit.
  21. Doomtints
    When you put a player in the right position for him good things happen. Who woulda thought?
  22. Doomtints
    I agree. It's not just a valid discussion but an essential discussion and it will be an extremely interesting one. But I think it's still too early, people are still too passionate about it, ballplayers and teams are still unwilling to talk about it. At some point someone will write a great, comprehensive book about what happened.
  23. Doomtints
    That was my argument during the offseason, that there was no way the return could be better than what Santana will offer. The holes were just too big. But as time goes on and people move through the pipeline and as Santana's contract gets closer to the end, it starts to make sense to move him.
  24. Doomtints
    They made this mistake a couple of years ago. The Twins still have a thin pitching staff with not much in the pipeline. Unless they want to buy, they have to sell. They can't just hold pat. Do you think they will be buyers if they are around .500?
  25. Doomtints
    League average hovers around .300. It's a decent way to predict the "luck" of pitchers, but it's not as good at predicting "luck" of hitters because some hitters can hit directionally very well. That being said, new data is showing that "good" pitchers are "good" at inducing weak infield grounders which would boost BABIP even on a defensively challenged team. If you watched the World Series last year you know this story well (and know how dull it is to watch as a baseball fan). But no, he's not likely to have 1-hitters the rest of the way through 2017 unless he is shooting for the MVP. Buxton, et al,, have done a lot for Santana this year.
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