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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 07:53 PM) It is still strange to see the Twins play bad baseball. Not since 2011...

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 07:52 PM) Ha, Frank just tweeted a picture that AJ, Rowand and Dye showed up in Cooperstown for him. Awesome. Where's Everett? Willie Harris? Nice baserunning there by Beckham...got bailed out by Deduno's throw into LF.

Fuld just gave Beckham a double there by getting turned around and taking a bad route. So that makes up for some of his "hard outs" recently.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 07:26 PM) You make no sense. Most of your minor league system will never play an inning in the major leagues. Categorically discounting every minor league prospect because they're older than Dayan Viciedo (or comparing their development arcs) makes even less sense.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 07:12 PM) I don't understand. And yet everyone seems to want an aging Russell Martin on a 3 year contract to catch next season.

Walk's (almost) as good as a hit. Magical glasses work again!!! 20 walks. Still holding at 106 K's.

McEwing just cost them a run. Salazar was conceding with that throw to 2B.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 06:58 PM) Karen Henness ‏@MlbKaren 3m MLBPA Files Grievance Against Houston Astros for Unsigned Draft Picks http://lastwordonsports.com/2014/07/24/mlb...ed-draft-picks/ … #LWOS @MLBFB "It’s frustrating listening to people who are saying we tried to pull a fast one." Luhnow has no clue about public relations. You want to change perception, do something about it. Whining or complaining about the media or bloggers won't help. Don't create a pattern that simply gets reinforced until nobody is willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. Don't try to screw over your draft pick and then change your offer at the last minute and expect a different reaction out of reasonable/rational people.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 06:53 PM) He is older than Viciedo. But that definition, we should just release 60% of our AAA and AA rosters. The Purge 3.

Flowers now with 6 k's in 29 rejuvenated Ab's with magical glasses. Tied with Dunn now...106 K's. At least the Twins are going to honor Konerko in their last trip to Minny... Eaton slow to get up after that double. Wincing a little bit.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 06:44 PM) Then what is Kendrys Morales? I need to understand. Worth a reliever who had the same surgery for the detached lat as Peavy, lol. And a large waste of money/resources by the Twins. Like Donald Sterling's g/f, basically, although from all accounts a decent human being at least.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 06:18 PM) Plenty of people (including me) would have said 'if he can simply keep hitting how he has for the past month and a half, he could be brought up when Dunn leaves.' Well he's obviously done way better than that. Even if he "cools off" back to his June level of hitting .300 with power he's worth the call up. I think he may be a more valuable baseball player than Viciedo right now and in 2015 and on. Being left-handed matters. A lot. And DeAza and Beckham and Flowers and Dunn since none of them figure into the future.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 06:25 PM) That was a nice K pitch out of Noesi. And Beckham just hit one hard. 2 days in a row he has hit a ball hard. But 1 for his last 23 nevertheless. BTW, the Tigers are nuts if they're going to use Soria in the 7th, Joba in the 8th and Nathan in the 9th. Unless they just use Soria like they used to utilize Zumaya. And DD wants to add 1-2 more pitchers to their pen. They are really desperate to win it all this year with Scherzer and Martinez.

Noesi has a 4.5ish ERA on the season for the Sox as a starter. He's fine as a 5th, but won't fetch anything significant from another team yet. Just get a 2 starter and we're set with Rodon as no more than a projected 4 to start in 2015 or 2016. Easier said than done.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 06:12 PM) Yeah no GM is far more interesting than Jose Abreu. Yet despite that interesting presence (and one of the top 5-7 pitchers in baseball), we're still somehow trailing Houston and Miami in attendance. Bottom 5 in tv ratings, 28th in attendance. One would shudder to think how depressing this season would have been without Abreu and Rodon (now).

Poor Twins. Chuck Knoblauch allegedly assaulted his ex-wife, so his induction into the Twins' Hall of Fame was cancelled on August 23rd. Traded Kendrys Morales after getting an Adam Dunn 2011 boost from his signing. DFA'ed Matt Guerrier. Mauer is terrible/hurting and one of the 5-10 worst contracts in baseball currently. Sano and Buxton are injured. Whatever happened to Terry "The Genius" Ryan?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 05:54 PM) Far more irrelevant than the SD\Cubs tilt. The Padres are more interesting because they have no GM and yet seemingly are making trades everyday. Plus the Cubs fans have their Iowa team to flip back and forth to for a diversion. We have The Great Andy Wilkins Debate. Somehow, I'm sure the Cubs/Pads game will win the ratings battle. At least Robin Ventura has made it quite convenient by placing our three best hitters 1-3...so we can now tune out for the 4-9 hitters. Finally, Matt Guerrier was just DFA'ed by the Twins. Might as well bring him back to Chicago so his career can come full circle.

By the way, Eduardo Escobar still has a .718 OPS playing half of his home games (300ish AB's) in a huge pitcher's park. Never thought he was capable of going .650+.

Welcome Jake Petricka offically to the closer's role. Or Webb. Or Guerra.

Welcome to Mr. Irrelevant...err, most irrelevant MLB game on the docket for today, except for draft choice position next June. Nice try Twins...you gave Kendrys Morales his spring training at the MLB level and then probably shipped him out at pennies on the dollar to the M's. Building that new ballpark was the worst thing that ever happened to them from a competitive standpoint. It has turned into Safeco Central.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 05:21 PM) C Todd Hundley 1B Hee Sop Choi 2b Bobby Hill SS Shawn Dunston 3B Josh Vitters RF Felix Pie CF Corey Patterson LF Alfonso Soriano How is Soriano there? Maybe Brant Brown, Brett Jackson, Jerome Walton or Dwight Smith. You could also add Kevin Orie and Gary Scott at 3B. Dunston didn't live up to his billing, but he was a fine MLB SS, if an inconsistent offensive contributor. Nobody had a better arm for that position in my memory. Geo Soto completely imploded.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 05:21 PM) I was listening to an old Baseball Prospectus podcast the other day that talked about how Jack Z was coached for his GM interview about new statistics and still judges players by batting average, RBI, homers, ERA etc. And I wasn't saying the Mariners specifically, I was saying a Mariners-type front office. They didn't put that defense in place (from 3-4 years ago) with Endy Chavez/Franklyn Gutierrez/Jack Wilson/Ichiro using any type of offensive statistics that I've ever heard of.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 05:12 PM) For the players and their development. Too many people pretend like player's aren't affected by a s***ty environment. It's about managing to put together an environment where the players can semble some sort of argument in their heads that they should put in their work every day and try to win. Getting us salary relief that we don't currently need to sign some overpriced player from a weak free agent class to ANOTHER bad contract isn't worth frustrating the guys you are trying to develop into a "core." Who is more likely to do that in a development season? Players playing out the string and waiting for next year or retirement, like a Peavy/Rios/Dunn/Konerko....or guys with the fire to play like Eaton, Garcia or maybe even an Andy Wilkins who has a ton of skeptics to prove wrong. Obviously, Beckham/DeAza/Ramirez/Flowers...and even Viciedo at this stage...are what they are. How does continuing to run them out there everyday not contribute to that same s***ty environment? If the major argument is trying to maximize their trade value, fine. But that's not exactly leading to a healthy environment for a team. either. This was never going to be a year of stability/consistency/cohesiveness (especially the bullpen). Going into 2014, it looked like we had 5-6 positions that would be changing before 2015. The only thing that's changed about that scenario is Conor is sticking so far at 3B, and Viciedo's on the way out (with major questions now about Davidson, E. Johnson and Semien). A.Garcia got hurt and Abreu/Eaton (arguably) have proven themselves. Then you have Alexei. Everything else is in flux, other than Sale/Quintana at the top of the rotation.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 05:03 PM) 7 games ago he was hitting .251 with a less than .300 OBP. I don't recall anyone saying the Sox just had to see what he can do at the major league level. Because those numbers (April-May, as opposed to June and July) would indicate he was hitting as well as Alejandro DeAza his first two months in AAA. So that's either a sign of progress/learning/adjustment or just an insignificant blip on the radar/statistical noise. We can do the same thing with 6 weeks chunks for Beckham and Viciedo, while ignoring what the rest of the season is telling us. The truth is we know a heckuva lot more about Gordon and Dayan at the major league level than anything we can forecast or predict with Wilkins.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 04:55 PM) The one thing that gives me pause for the Yankees seriously being in on Danks is how heavily they used peripherals to evaluate Brandon McCarthy, and to a lesser extent Chase Headley (batted-ball speed). I feel like we'd be more likely to offload Danks to a team like the Mariners who still seem to use basic evaluations of performance, because Danks does not look good outside of the ERA, which itself is meh. Except the Mariners were the first team to use defensive metrics extensively. Just because they're interested in Viciedo doesn't mean they're ignoring his peripherals either, it just means they believe he has potential to be something more, so they can try to buy him on a low (just like 2 months ago teams inquiring about Beckham would have been overpaying had they been forced to pull the trigger at that point for an injury). The Mariners don't need pitching. That's the least of their problems. They need to improve nearly every element of their offense, other than Seager, Cano and Zunino. J. Jones and Ackley have been doing fine recently but who knows how long that will last. SS (Miller), Morrison and Hart have been really hurting them. Basically, their outfield's been a mess.