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  1. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    Keeping your starting players sharp certainly isn't meaningless. I can't think of any manager who would sit his starters for over a week in preparation for the playoffs. It'd be nuts. Heck, the Dodgers have been playing meaningless games for a while now, yet Bellinger and Seager are still out there playing. It's a bummer what happened to Arraez, but that's baseball. Wrapping him in bubble wrap until October 4th was never an option.
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    I'm not sure how one game negates the past couple months. Tough crowd, I guess.
  3. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    I don't recall anyone saying you had to proclaim Falvey and Levine the "best" anything, so maybe ease up on the strawmen. You said "with a little luck" Falvey and Levine would be gone from Minnesota, meaning you want them gone. Why? Providing an explanation would have been helpful.
  4. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    Tony Diaz is the kind of guy who hits on 19 in blackjack.
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    I hardly think it's unreasonable to believe Baldelli may have been a little too bold in using Dyson in Miami, but I agree with you that it's ultimately on him that he hasn't gotten the job done. It's certainly on him to pull himself together. I'm still confident he will.
  6. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    What's your alternative?
  7. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    This made me dizzy.
  8. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    When Joe gets his #7 retired, he'll join #14 and #28. If I'm a new Twin, I'm grabbing that #56 before anyone else does.
  9. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    This feels like an end of an era for the Twins. Not having Joe on the team is going to take some getting used to.
  10. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    I agree Kepler has been a bummer this year, but the 71 BB at least provide a glimmer of hope. Maybe he blossoms like Aaron Hicks? One can dream, I guess.
  11. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    I really hope Sano is at the plate not thinking at all about home runs, but rather singles and doubles like the ones he's been getting since his return. He's looked so much better than the all-or-nothing (mostly nothing) hitter he was earlier in the season. Just let the home runs happen on their own.
  12. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    IT'S KIRILLOFF TIME, BABY! :go:
  13. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    Oh, and The Sporting News is now apparently just Sporting News, so I really am non-modern as hell.
  14. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    The Sporting News does a good job covering that "controversy": http://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/ace-pitcher-theory-number-one-starter-greinke-baseball-philsophy/rm2bq6eiz9y61m9v0lomz4ijt But the point I'm making is that saying Berrios isn't the Twins' ace requires only allowing for one definition of the term. Tom was clearly going for the "staff ace" definition in the above headline, hence the headline is fine. I'm sure the world is big enough to allow for more than one way to describe an ace pitcher.
  15. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    If you type "ace pitcher" into Google, the first definition you see is: "In baseball, an ace is the best starting pitcher on a team and nearly always the first pitcher in the team's starting rotation." Tom's headline is perfectly fine.
  16. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    Wow, you certainly took my comment seriously. Alrighty then.
  17. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    Somebody should inform this announcer that the Dodgers haven't won anything since the Reagan years.
  18. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    And he's been hit by a pitch 39 times in the past two seasons. Way to lean into 'em, Luke!
  19. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    The epitaph on Dozier's Twins career (assuming it's near its end) has to include him being a victim of his own surprising success. Here we have an 8th-round draft pick, never pegged to do much at the MLB level, becoming not only an everyday starter, but one that averaged more than 4 WAR per season during his prime years with the team (and at only $5 million per season). By any reasonable standard, a successful run. Unfortunately for him, being a good player on a team that's been light on good players for years means the spotlight on you becomes that much more intense. For the more irrational fans, it's no longer enough for you just to be a good player, you must be a S-T-A-R. Anything less and you're a bum. Instead of these fans appreciating you for what you are, they curse you for what you are not. Grumblings about you being overrated or never being clutch enough become fashionable narratives, while your contributions to the team are simply disregarded. Joe Mauer knows all about this. In the end, Dozier should be remembered as a somewhat limited player who got more out of his talent than anyone could have reasonably hoped. The best Twins 2nd baseman since Chuck Knoblauch. He'll be missed when he's on another team, even by the those who didn't think much of him.
  20. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    Dozier has a 1.016 OPS in July, Polanco just a .718. I'd say Dozier had more to do with "what got this team going" than Polanco. But if Polanco truly is responsible for Dozier finding his swing and the team playing better, that's awesome. Hopefully, he can sprinkle some of that magic "good baseball" dust on Buxton and Sano and we can really get back in the pennant race.
  21. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    So you don't think Dozier's emergence from his slump has anything to do with the team playing better baseball? Maybe he doesn't merely ride the wave, but helps to create it.
  22. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    29 SO in 27.2 IP, 2.60 ERA, 1.16 WHIP... If we had seven relievers on the staff who put up those numbers, we'd have one of the best bullpens in MLB. Is anyone else getting worried about Reed and Ryan Pressly's workload? Reed's on pace to appear in 84 games this season and Pressly in 93. I find this more than a bit worrisome.
  23. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    Disagree. If a batter fouls off 15 pitches before making an out, that's definitely a good at-bat.
  24. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    Who would you have used? Rogers, Pressly, and Reed already pitched, Hildenberger wasn't available, and Rodney needed to be saved to close out the game. That leaves Duke, Magill and Hughes. No, I am neither amazed nor disgusted that Molitor chose Zach Duke over Matt Magill and Phil Hughes to pitch the bottom of the 9th inning of a tie game.
  25. Dozier's Glorious Hair
    But games like this happen at least several times a year (to every team). They certainly happened to the Twins last season, and yes, there were some who thought those losses were "season-enders" for us. It turns out the Twins made the playoffs fairly easily. Close losses are frustrating, but they happen a lot in baseball. The Twins will be fine.
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