Doomtints

Who cares if the catcher can't hit? His defense is adequate. Besides, he is hitting much better than the star catcher was before he got injured. The key to the Twins taking it to the next level is Buxton turning things around. Forget about the catcher.

I'm honestly surprised by this thread. 4-5 years ago when someone said the Twins were terrible and needed to sell they got their heads chewed off. "They're good, don't be negative" was heard a lot. Meyer was awesome, Florimon was awesome, what a steal Nolasco was, Arcias' gonna rock, etc. etc. etc. And the manager? He was great. Unlike those teams, this team actually is pretty good. They are underperforming. Don't sell anything right now, don't even consider it. The Indians hovered around .500 most of last year along with the Twins before rattling off a 22 game winning streak. The Twins won't do that -- but this team could pull off a 12 game winning streak without surprising anybody. Maybe more than once!

Tell that to the accountant.

It *was* spent.

It's a business move to offset Hughes' salary. It won't get spent. From a purely utilitarian standpoint, a draft pick in the 70s range isn't worth $7.5M, so the Twins are making the move that most benefits the team. Be that as it may, the money will be earmarked to offset the lost salary.

The best part about the park is the location. It's a short walk to everything interesting in DC and it's surrounded by great DC restaurants. As for the park itself: Lots of alcohol (it's DC, after all) and lots of junky state fair-style food. The food isn't as bad as Wrigley and there is a lot of variety. Check out Jammin Island BBQ.

Whether targeted or random, 7-8 times is excessive.

And for the Twins, it gives them a chance to drop one game of a doubleheader more often than they should.

Tell that to Johan Santana. It was written years ago that it's not about the fastball velocity alone, but the difference in velocity between the fastball and the changeup. Too little of a difference doesn't work, nor does too much of a difference. There's a 'sweet spot.'

One of these is Lance Lynn's career. The other one is Tim Lincecum's career. If you have followed Lincecum, you know which is which... but appears the issue isn't control so much as it's being outside of the strike zone in the wrong place.

Morrison should have never been signed. With him on the roster, the Twins started the season with 5 left handed hitters plus two switch hitters. The only pure right handed hitter on the roster of any consequence is Dozier. Plus, he was Regression Candidate Prime of all the free agents.

Ramirez can massacre lefties. He's better than the other bench options.

Starting a team rebuild in June when you are realistically only around 3 weeks behind seems like an overreaction to me, especially in a division where no team is going to go on a tear (except maybe the Twins.) If the Twins are at this point (or worse) at the trade deadline, yeah, sell off whoever will be leaving anyway. That's all there is to do. We know Molitor won't be fired.

This is a longtime Twins tradition. Even in their playoff years this would happen.

Who is that in the stands? Jesus or Weird Al?

It doesn't matter. They can call someone up if he's on the 10-day DL too, right?

What was Mariano Rivera's draft position?

Cleveland wasn't very interesting most of last year too. It seems unlikely they would rattle off 22 wins at the end of the season two years in a row. But ... they could certainly do enough to win the division again.

That's not saying much in this division. Sure, I can buy it that they will be one game over .500 by July 4.

Nothing wrong with a little hyperbole. If the Twins can stop having these losing streaks, they'll be fine. They have all the pieces, but injuries keep disrupting their flow. Losing Buxton, Mauer, Sano, and even Santana, Castro and Polanco... That's a lot of key pieces. This isn't even bringing up swapping Vargas for Morrison, either.

Lynn and Odorizzi will regress in opposite directions if you believe in FIP. It's a really tough choice at the moment, but you can be certain that unless there are injuries there will be no May or Gonsalves as starters anytime soon.

It's interesting you say this because the thought when he came to the Twins was he would do better at Target Field. And he did do better, at least until body parts started falling off. Zombiefication is a bad sign for any baseball player. If he pitches well in the pen for the Padres, look for him to be in a Tigers uniform next year.

Something for nothing. Good job.

Congrats, it seems someone finally figured it out.

Just remember he was a very late signing and missed most of spring training. He essentially started baseball activities 6-7 weeks late. We are 6-7 weeks in the season. But on the other hand ... this is Detroit ....