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  1. nicksaviking
    Pleeeeeeease Jose and Tyler, pitch well enough that the team would look foolish going back to the Santana/Hughes/Nolasco/Milone/Gibson rotation. Also did Milone just suck out a flush on the river or what. That guy has nine lives.
  2. nicksaviking
    Yup, I think it's possible, and if so I suspect it's why Ryan didn't give Molitor Murphy. Molitor would have been tempted to play him every day. Hypothetically possible of course. If you're into hypotheticals.
  3. nicksaviking
    Arcia, best enthusiasm on the team.
  4. nicksaviking
    I'd love to see the circus of roster moves if this game goes 16 innings. There'd be a one man bench tomorrow I'd bet.
  5. nicksaviking
    Are they both losing? I can promise I wouldn't like it if that was not the case.
  6. nicksaviking
    This bullpen management is bizarre. Meyer must really not be available which means Molitor has gone crazy pulling Milone after 4 2/3 after yesterday's marathon.
  7. nicksaviking
    Yeah and according to Dick, his brother had a red Corvair once. If Bert hadn't long been neutered, he would have asked Dick if his brother's girlfriend also had a pocket full of used condoms.
  8. nicksaviking
    Dick clearly doesn't know what that song is about. Surprise.
  9. nicksaviking
    Do the Twins know what Little Red Corvette is about, because I don't think they do.
  10. nicksaviking
    Yeah that was pretty lucky. But the luckiest 15 minutes goes to the time Oris Nixon, the ugliest human ever, stole Sugar Ray Leonard's wife, Juanita.
  11. nicksaviking
    Planet Veteran Preference.
  12. nicksaviking
    Punishment it is than.
  13. nicksaviking
    Soooo, May has been demoted to long man? Or he's getting stretched out?
  14. nicksaviking
    That's what Surly's is for.
  15. nicksaviking
    I think everyone's still at First Avenue.
  16. nicksaviking
    Tell that to Oliver Perez.
  17. nicksaviking
    Well yeah, but had Duffey been facing the Twins he would have had double digit Ks despite not even going 5 innings.
  18. nicksaviking
    I'm comfortable with 17 since we still have Milone. He's basically #18 as he's now a better offensive option than a pitching option.
  19. nicksaviking
    More like a scapegoat. Who shot DT? Some Canadian guy officer! I swear.
  20. nicksaviking
    Great, I love when I come downstairs from putting the kids to bed and the game's already over. Stupid East Coast blowouts.
  21. nicksaviking
    How is Duffey going to prove that, if he isn't actually given a shot to prove it? I don't have high expectations for Duffey, but he did well last year and I'm not willing to toss that aside and yell "Fluke" without him getting a chance to prove it wrong. This team isn't a contender, the batters are young and too strikeout prone, the lineup isn't balanced or constructed well, the bullpen is still relying on middling vets and AAAA guys and the starters are spectacularly unreliable for guys who's most glowing praise is always "experienced veteran". Unless we want to continue pushing back the timeline because the young starters and relievers haven't had a chance to take their MLB lumps, they need to get called up this year and get considerable reps. I would rather watch Meyer, Berrios and Duffey lose 85 games than watch Nolasco, Hughes and Milone lose 80. And frankly, after watching the Twins young bats last year and the young players league-wide, I really see very little reason to expect the veterans to outperform the young arms.
  22. nicksaviking
    I don't care who the Twins best starters are right now, if and when this club is ever a contender, they aren't going to be the best starters then. Game-to-game and year-to-year Nolasco and Hughes are as inconsistent as starting pitchers come, inning-to-inning, that title might fall on Milone. You don't have to milk the cow until every last drop comes out, if it's nearly dried up and a new cow has a good chance of producing more, move on to the new one. Also, why are you putting 100% of your Duffey evaluation on his unspectacular but still capable minor league numbers and 0% on his performance last year? Most folks would objectively say that earned him another good look. Edit: I've never been on a farm, is that how cows work?
  23. nicksaviking
    Also, aside from Santana, it's not like we're talking about some low-ceiling, boring-but-consistent starters like Mike Leake or Bronson Arroyo, we are talking about some of the most volatile starters in the game. On any given day, heck, any given year, these guys can and have been among the worst starters in the league. At this point we are basically equating the term "depth" with "experience".
  24. nicksaviking
    The Twins are 5-11, with a young lineup that isn't ready yet to legitimately win it all, and a rotation full of low ceiling veterans only one of whom has a history of being anything close to reliable and stable. What kind of team can afford to chose youth over depth if not the Twins?
  25. nicksaviking
    The season is young but it's interesting to see that Daniel Palka's K rate has remained the same despite the promotion. It's still high at 28% but that's what it was in High A, for comparison, Adam Walker was at 28% in High A and jumped to 34% upon his AA promotion. We'll have to see how the rest of the year plays out, but that's encouraging seeing as the strikeouts where his biggest bugaboo.
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