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  1. nicksaviking
    I saw that video once but had to quickly turn off the TV when my wife walked in the room.
  2. nicksaviking
    I think I would have left him in until his arm popped off instead of going to Boyer and Fien in the sixth. And that's coming from a guy who has had no faith in Pelfrey all year.
  3. nicksaviking
    Is there a less sarcastic reason? Tell me it wasn't due to over confidence in the pen.
  4. nicksaviking
    I e been preoccupied, why did Pelfrey only go five?
  5. nicksaviking
    When he was on early in the year, he seemed to have an ornery but confident demeanor on the mound. Lately he's been ornery but has seemed more frustrated than confident. That kind of tells me he doesn't yet trust himself. I'll trust him again once he starts trusting himself. I'm guessing that will come once he shakes off the rust, locates his fastball better and resumes his previous steady usage of his slider which had always been 25-30% of the time. It'll happen, just not quite yet.
  6. nicksaviking
    Son of a gun. I'll take it.
  7. nicksaviking
    Argh. Twins bullpen + runners in scoring position = soon to be riots on Twins Daily.
  8. nicksaviking
    With only two starts left, there should be no cause to limit Santan's pitch count.
  9. nicksaviking
    Still no.
  10. nicksaviking
    I wonder if Jeff Manship has ever struck out the side before?
  11. nicksaviking
    Maybe he's auditioning for Danny Santana's full-time LH pinch hitting gig?
  12. nicksaviking
    Yup. If called up as things stand now, he'd never see a strike.
  13. nicksaviking
    I probably wouldn't put Beresford ahead of Walker, but I'd still rank Walker about where Jeremy did. I mean look at those numbers. It seems nearly impossible for a guy to have a 30-1 HR advantage over another player and still barely have a 100 point OPS advantage. I guess another way to look at it is, how does the league HR leader three years running only have a .807 OPS?!?! He should be getting pitched around nearly every at bat.
  14. nicksaviking
    I think we're making assumptions on this one. From my 20 years experience with a bad back, you never can tell when it's going to give you issues. Mine would lock up on me and put me out of commission even when I was a highly trained athlete back when I was a teenager. It's possible he's out of shape, but last year his issue was a forearm strain which doesn't seem like it would have much to do with conditioning. If I were to make an assumption, it would be that he's 32 and on the backside of his career. Age tends to rob pitchers of their most needed physical attributes before it does the hitters.
  15. nicksaviking
    Me too. No sure there's a lot of hard throwers available this year though. Shawn Kelley misses bats but doesn't throw too hard, maybe he'd be worth a look. Jon Broxton might have turned the corner too.
  16. nicksaviking
    If I had to have one guy with an attitude problem for my team, it would be an angry and ornery reliever. Also, we probably could have said the same things about Perkins about five years ago, he was just fortunanate enough not to break his thumb during his tantrum. As mentioned, Perkins is the closer and that's unlikely to change, however that's going to hamper matters in getting meaningful bullpen upgrades. It would be great to get the next Wade Davis, but that's going to be a guessing game. I'd have to think the guys you would have the most confidence in would be those who profile as a closer.
  17. nicksaviking
    I agree, and most managers wouldn't. Just throwing that out there in case the Twins wanted to think slightly outside the box. And to be fair, those that argue that your best relief pitcher should be used in the highest leverage situation often use hindsight to make their points. No one can actually predict that the bottom of the ninth WON'T be the highest leverage half inning, particularly since the odds are that it will.
  18. nicksaviking
    Or Perkins could be removed from the 9th. Or the Twins could stray from the fixed closer docterine.
  19. nicksaviking
    This may end up being a problem where the answer simply is that there is no good solution and we have to suck it up and live with it. We're talking about a position in which we are jealous of the Royals, who's All Star catcher can't even manage a .290 OBP the past two seasons. And this is a guy that is often cited as the best catcher in the AL, all while posting sub .700 OPS. Only 9 Catchers have a WAR over 2.0 and that's despite the position being given the highest positional adjustment based on difficulty. The position is a black hole in today's game. Basically there are two types of teams, those that have Buster Posey and those that don't. I want an upgrade, but I'm not going to stress about it this offseason as 20 some other teams likely also want an upgrade, and half of the ones who don't, should.
  20. nicksaviking
    Yeah, these guys just seem to feel more relaxed and confident. Perhaps it's a cultural thing because Vargas and Arcia always seemed to give off the same vibe as well (OK, maybe confident, not so much relaxed for Arcia). Meanwhile Hicks, Buxton, Gibson, May and Meyer all seem(ed) much more anxious and much less confident, at least at first.
  21. nicksaviking
    I don't understand how the Twins are going to be able to bring back and stretch out Phil Hughes after a month off but not Trevor May who at least has been pitching. As for the pitching coach comparison, I don't know that I have much to compare at this point. I don't like all the vets in the rotation, I want them gone in favor of the young arms. I'm not going to judge Allen on a bunch of 30+ year-old vets, those aren't the guys who need coaching up and he has little control over the physical decline that comes with that territory. If he's had anything to do with May and/or Duffey's unexpected successes, that's where I'd put most of my weight. However I would like to know if Hughes' declining velocity and strikeouts have anything to do with any changes Allen has suggested. He'd get a pretty huge strike against him in my book if he's promoting those out of date philosophies.
  22. nicksaviking
    I'm with Chief. It's better to have it than to not have it, but for the corner OF spots, I'd prioritize offense. Hopefully you can have both. Playing RF at Target Field is almost like playing racketball anyway; there's hardly any ground to cover, you just have to know how to play the bounce off of the wall.
  23. nicksaviking
    When he starts playing SS. Everyone loves shortstops, I think you get automatic bonus points for the position alone.
  24. nicksaviking
    It could be some coaching, and it probably is, but it takes a pretty big talent and brain to be able to change on the fly like that. Even for pros, I don't believe a coach can tell a guy that he needs to adjust his swing and he immediately is able to do just that and put up results. Thus far, there seems to be no need for an adjustment period for the various tinkerings Parker has pointed out. Usually the word Prodigy is used to describe someone with such a rare talent.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'm happy for Hildenberger, but I'd think the team would want to limit his innings. Maybe it's just me, but it always seemed like side-armers have a pretty limited shelf-life. I wouldn't be surprised if he makes a big jump next year, but I'd hope to give him a break from baseball and save those bullets for the big leagues.
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