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  1. nicksaviking
    He'd likely have a better chance of ramping the velocity back up to a usable range in the pen. Just my two cents. Mariano Rivera worked with a 90-92 MPH cutter exclusively for years. That's Hughes' only reliable pitch anyway. Heck, Rivera might have been who he learned that pitch from.
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    It's not the Twins call, they're not opting for anything. Kirilloff isn't a piece of property, he's a young man who gets to make his own medical decisions. Which of us would immediately choose the torturous process of getting knocked out, cut open and subject to a very lengthy period of incapacitation if there was a chance something else would work?
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    The team may be lacking veteran leadership, but they aren't lacking veterans. If they feel that leadership is important and the current vets don't have it, then they need to be making some hard decisions, not easy ones like optioning the young guys. Who is supposed to be learning these leadership skills anyway, the young guys sitting in AAA or Robbie Grossman and Phil Hughes? If Hughes, Gibson, Mauer, Dozier, Escobar, Kintzler, Pressly, Perkins, Grossman etc. aren't good enough veteran leaders that the team has to bring in more, then they should go, not Kepler, Berrios and Chargois. Even if it hurts. Even if it makes some people look foolish. Even if it costs money. If those guys ARE good leaders, then they have more than enough.
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    Barring an injury or surprise trade, it's pretty much a lock that 11 of the players on the 25-man will be 27 or older. I'm really flummoxed as to how it's possible that this is not enough veteran leadership. How many vets do they want, because it sounds like they want to find a way to have 13 or 14 minimum. Is there a specific ratio of vets to pups I'm not aware of? That seems like a lot for a team that lost 100 games last year.
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    I don't disagree, but I am going to really be disappointed if this regime is making roster decisions because they feel obliged to a contract they probably would have preferred to be shorter all things being equal. In other words, I really hope this team gets away from the "get our money out of him" kind of thinking that doomed the club in years past. *Hypothetically* if Garver or someone else was by every account and measurement the best catcher on the team, Castro should be the backup from day one, contract be damned. And there should be at least one young guy given that opportunity in my opinion.
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    But it also makes the Jason Castro signing make less sense in my view. Why are the Twins signing two veteran free agent catchers for the 25-man when they need to find a long-term solution? Forget about Gimenez, I want Garver, Murphy or mystery door #3 to at least have a shot to overtake Castro by next year if not earlier. I'm fine with the Castro signing, but it's not like he's so good that the team shouldn't be actively looking for a young guy as an improvement.
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    Was that before or after the Falvey and Lavine hiring and the Johnson & Johnson scouting director switch? Just wondering because Wright looks more like a vintage Terry Ryan kind of pitcher. On the other hand Deron Johnson lately seemed to go the other way and take the bigger FB/higher ceiling arms.
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    That's the feeling I get, though to be fair, they probably do actually care about the players and do want them to have success, it would be hard to get into coaching if you don't have at least some interest in young people. They just seem to care about their job security much, much more. Unreasonably too considering college baseball coaches don't get fired nearly as much as their counterparts in the higher profile football and basketball ranks. I'd bet they justify it to themselves because the pitcher says he wants to go out there for another inning, they then conveniently forget that athletes, and young men in general, have a tendency to have low impulse control and a vision only of the here-and-now and these young men need an adult with a big picture view to reign in their recklessness.
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    After Greene I've been most interested in Faedo. That might change though if he keeps throwing 120 pitches per game. Man, the velocity will leave his FB before he's 25 if he keeps getting abused like that. Seriously, It's still February, some of those coaches from big programs seem to have next to no concern for anything past the June college WS. A playoff by the way that Florida is almost certainly going to be part of whether Faedo throws 119 pitches in February or not.
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    Why would you think he can't play defense? I've never seen anything to suggest he would be a liability.
  11. nicksaviking
    I went into Goliath wanting it to be both smart and realistic in terms of how the legal system and those within the profession worked. It wasn't terrible but it seemed like a John Grisham story with a genius do-it-all protagonist lawyer and an evil-beyond-reason villain. John Grisham stories weren't bad, and there was a reason all of them got made into movies, but I think I've been spoiled by TV lately, I wanted something different. Better. Maybe my perspective was simply based on my mood as well.
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    Ozzie Smith didn't get into the HOF because of his bat. The only reason people wouldn't say that he couldn't hit was because he is a beloved icon and it would seem rude to do so. Vielma also has a career .327 OBP, which isn't very satisfying considering there is no slugging to prop it up.
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    He had a .663 OPS in AA last year which represented a career high. Unless someone wants to single out a stretch or two of simply not having a terrible batting average, I think the opinion that Vielma can't hit is more than valid.
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    I only made it through two episodes of Goliath. I liked Billy Bob, but the law aspect had me shaking my head again. Right off the bat it was another show where lawyers have two jobs, their judicial duties plus of course they have to do all the detective work because the cops are incompetent and/or corrupt. I'm not a law expert, but shouldn't the conversation go like this: Client: I know it was listed as a suicide, but I don't think So And So killed themselves! Lawyer: Cool, why don't you go talk to a detective then come back to me when you have a case for wrongful death. Also, maybe tables turned or plots thickened, but I'm kind of over having the bad guy unequivocally bad and spiteful. Maybe there was more that I didn't see but William Hurt seemed villainous for the sole purpose of making Billy Bob's job difficult.
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    Huh, looks like my memory is going. I guess he just had the build and the repertoire of a crafty lefty.
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    The Twins haven't had a year-in-year out reliable lefty in the rotation in over a decade. I am normally all about the ceiling and have little concern for the floor with young guys, but the Twins have spent years shoehorning lefties into the rotation, even when they weren't one of the five best arms. If they found a lefty who for the next five years was indubitably a lock for rotation because he was actually a solid pitcher, then they hopefully don't have to keep kicking young arms to the pen and AAA for inferior talent simply because they NEED a lefty.
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    For some reason left handers seem to be able to pull this off. David Wells, CC Sabatthia, Carlos Silva, Eddie Guardado. Also, for some reason velocity tends to play up for lefties.
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    Yeah, pretty sure some of my irrational ranting posts about sinkerball pitchers have gone 2000 words easy.
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    Seth's 'Stop By, Say Hi' thread really helped bring some of our long time viewers to their keyboards. Now we just need a 'Stop By, Write a 2,000 Word Story'!
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    There seems to be far too many veterans at the AAA and MLB level. With the last front office, we could be extremely confident that the pecking order was almost always based on age then experience. I really hope that's not the case anymore. I'd really hate to think that guys like Hughes, Santiago, Vogelsong, Tepesch, Greenwood, Rucinski and Pino are going to get the first looks instead of the young guys at their respective levels. I really hope the first thing every pitcher over 26 was told yesterday when they reported was that they better be prepared to head to the pen and there better not be any grousing or campaigning to start if the younger arms are looking good to go.
  21. nicksaviking
    My wife and I watched it too. Some really good laugh out loud moments. Walking Dead level of gore but a comedy. It was great. Also, I am beyond bored of the angsty teen trope, however the daughter in this one somehow didn't get on my nerves like those stock archetypes typically do. Well done all around.
  22. nicksaviking
    I would agree, but color me extremely skeptical that Joe Mauer is going to see any significant reduction in playing time, baring injury of course. Even if in theory the front office is game to it, it will be Molitor, not them who will be omitting Mauer's name from the lineup and dealing with any awkwardness and repercussions.
  23. nicksaviking
    So Brock, or any other comic book fan, does Marvel really have a character named Sydney Barrett? Or was that a made up character for the TV show? Obviously this character is inspired by Pink Floyd's original lead singer who had terrible mental health issues.
  24. nicksaviking
    Wow, a new record. Five minutes into Legion and I'm hooked. So this is what X-men would look like if Kubrick directed them?
  25. nicksaviking
    Uncas gets killed by Magua, in both the book and the film. Chingachgook is the Last of the Mohicans. And Hawkeye is an avenger, one of the worst ones too. Alda should be forgiven though, he's like 80, not bad for a superhero. And he's still better than Hot Lips who I don't think has any superpowers but is only there for eye-candy.
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