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  1. Well when you construct your roster in a way that the best pitchers have to take a back seat to preserve depth, you kind of cancel out the positive benefit of the depth. Milone traded/DFA'd, Nolasco and Hughes to the pen, all three of Berrios, Duffey and Meyer up by June. It wouldn't be popular and it would never happen, but if this club ever cared about getting the most peak years out of their young arms, this is what they should be doing.
  2. I hope pulling Milone in the 4th after only allowing one run is a sign that the team has already identified Berrios' path of least resistance.
  3. Ish. Young players get their butt chewed for that. I doubt Dozier gets more than a dirty look. Not complaining, just wondering what the tension in the dugout is like when the rookies are silently resentful that they'd get called out for not running out a grounder.
  4. So basically through two turns through the Miracle rotation, Gonsalves is fifth best out of the six starters? And he has still been really good? If I was in the Chattanooga rotation, I wouldn't feel very comfortable about my prospects of remaining a starter for the entire season.
  5. Not bad. Save the taking a crap excuse to check your phone for the next date.
  6. So the night ended at 10:30? Or you told her you had to take a crap, then came here to tell us?
  7. Dozier can now be sure there is nothing that will let him see the field tonight.
  8. I'd feel much better about this game if Twins pitchers didn't have to come back onto the field.
  9. Whoever this new guy 42 is, I think he has a shot at going the distance. Probably helps that he's ambidextrous.
  10. A bunch of children waiving useless sticks around pretending they're magic wands?
  11. Hey, we had a lead for a full 1/3 of an inning. Baby steps folks.
  12. If Mauer could pull the ball I'd predict he drills Nunez with a line drive.
  13. Seems to me league-wide it is more common for a young pitcher to be called up than a hitter, but I don't have any numbers, just the sense that 20-22 year-old arms are more common, at least as a percentage. Some teams probably also prefer to get the most MLB time out of their pitchers before their inevitable decline.
  14. I think the team probably has the protocol for player development reversed. Pitchers are the causation and the batters are the reaction. Young pitchers with rough spots should be the ones promoted early, batters have to adjust and figure them out. It's the hitters that probably need more seasoning as they have to do the adjustment and cover up their weaknesses. Just trying to say that we should expect young batters to struggle, the team is more likely to get strong results from pitchers in the same situation.
  15. The Twins losses may be able to be explained away, but their lack of hitting and making contact really can't. They haven't been facing elite pitching. Pretty sub-elite in fact. If they were losing games 10-9, that would be one thing.
  16. Per Wolfson he gets a pro-rated $1.15M if he makes the MLB club. I hope that's incentive enough for him not to make the club. I'm worried he won't be riding pine allowing young players to develop if he makes the team. I think I'm mostly frustrated because there doesn't seem to be a plan for developing the young guys and building the team. Maybe they're not, but it really seems like they're just winging it at this point and they've been winging it since last year. It worked for awhile, but hasn't since about last June. Edit: well I can't copy the link for some reason, but it's probably not even worth figuring out why.
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