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  1. yarnivek1972
    Kind of an important start for Lachlan Wells tonight. He was fine his first couple starts. 2 of the last 3 have been kinda f-ugly.
  2. yarnivek1972
    I think with Haley there might likely be a physical issue. He only had one rehab appearance before being summoned because Tonkin was DFA. Maybe should have waited until a replacement was actually ready to pitch.
  3. yarnivek1972
    Apparently being the key word. There is nothing that supports your opinion. The fact that the WBC is allowed to continue to exist supports my opinion that MLB and therefore the majority of its owners want MLB players to play in it.
  4. yarnivek1972
    I'm not sure that he would have been able to predict that. Two of the pitchers that started for PR had fewer career MLB innings than Berrios had at the time.
  5. yarnivek1972
    Then reimpinge Haley's elbow and bring Boshers back up. Or bring up Hurlbut.
  6. yarnivek1972
    The Twins were 9-10 against the Indians last year. That was their best divisional opponent record. I don't know if I would call it really good. The Twins were 5-2 against the Rangers. They seem to always be overrated because they hit so well. A lot of the talking heads seem to forget that pitching matters. Outside of a handful of seasons, the Rangers pitching has been terrible going back to the Bush Sr. administration. The Rangers won their division going away and had the best record in the AL. Then were easily dismissed by the third best team in the AL East. The Twins also had winning records against the Angels and Mariners last year. Put all that together and it seems pretty obvious that the West was a weak division last year. Regardless, the next 3 weeks is likely to tilt the scale between contender and pretender one way or the other.
  7. yarnivek1972
    David Hurlbut is left handed and breathing on his own. And he hasn't been with 6 different MLB organizations (and one in Korea) over the last 5 years.
  8. yarnivek1972
    If enough teams truly felt that way, the WBC would cease. The commisioner works for the owners, not the other way around.
  9. yarnivek1972
    Which leads back to a point I made two days ago in the Berrios thread. No plan. You release/send down two pitchers. Now, oops. I need a pitcher. Maybe this guy who has never done anything is better than a guy who has been serviceable for 3 years. No plan.
  10. yarnivek1972
    What does that even mean with relevance to Berrios?
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  12. yarnivek1972
    The Twins are 11-10 in the division. That record is worst of all the Central teams other than the Royals.
  13. yarnivek1972
    MLB established the WBC. It is a 100% league sanctioned and funded entity - meaning that the Twins fund 1/30 of it. They presumably want good players to participate. It seems contradictory at best for a TEAM to punish a guy for doing what his LEAGUE wants him to do.
  14. yarnivek1972
    Just out of curiosity, do grid standings matter to you? Because they show that the only teams currently above .500 that the Twins have played this year are the Tigers, Indians and Red Sox. Twins are 3-9 against them. They are 13-5 against Texas, Oakland, Kansas City and the White Sox, all teams with losing records. In the next 3 weeks, the Twins play Cleveland, Colorado, Kansas City, Baltimore, Tampa and Houston - 4 of those teams currently lead their divisions.
  15. yarnivek1972
    Anyone else thinking the real problem here, ie, the "split in the FO" is concerning Justin Haley? I mean after Sunday, how could Molitor bring him into a game with a straight face? I have no love for Drew Rucinski but Justin Haley is not a major league pitcher right now. Maybe he is still hurt. Maybe he's simply rusty. Maybe he simply isn't good. But it seems to me that removing him from the active roster would have improved the roster more than removing Rucinski. Rucinski actually got some MLB hitters out in his last stint. The only hitter Haley retired was Deven Marrero, who I'm not sure qualifies as an actual MLB hitter. He's certainly never hit MLB pitching.
  16. yarnivek1972
    Does a team that makes a claim not go to the end of the list after doing so? I honestly don't know. I know it is set by record, but I guess I always thought it was fluid based on made claims.
  17. yarnivek1972
    In which case the claim now makes even less sense. You just gave up your waiver spot for wait for it Adam Wilk.
  18. yarnivek1972
    It would make little sense to claim a guy, add him to your 40 man roster and then release him after one start. Especially when there are at least two down in AAA who have similar qualifications (Wheeler and Hurlbut). Correct me if I am wrong, if the Twins DFA and he is NOT claimed, aren't the Twins on the hook for his salary for the rest of the year? I don't know how it works with these minor league/major league split guys that are pre-arb. Are the Twins on the hook for Tonkin's salary (paltry though it is) if he doesn't get claimed?
  19. yarnivek1972
    Then why send Gibson down? Gibson is bad, but IMO he's better than Wilk.
  20. yarnivek1972
    Santiago and Santana went to the WBC too.
  21. yarnivek1972
    Maybe they just feel Wilk needs to pitch to an expert framer.
  22. yarnivek1972
    They already have Gibson, Mejia, Wheeler, Hurlbut, Slegers and Turley. How many more starters do they need?
  23. yarnivek1972
    Maybe the goal is to get Paul Molitor to say "Are you ******* kidding me? You want me to START this ****??? I QUIT!!"
  24. yarnivek1972
    Exactly.
  25. yarnivek1972
    I hope Falvey has an explanation that satisfies the players or he risks losing their respect and possibly their effort in a real hurry.
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