I guess they are gambling that Mitch's injury woes and age (entering age-31 season) limit his value going forward. But he isn't eligible for free agency until 2024 and is pretty cheap.
The cupboard looks pretty dry for catchers who can swing the bat competently. Neither Jeffers nor Rorvedt inspire any hope, let alone confidence.
It's a definite upgrade over Simmons, but it leaves us a little short behind the plate. I have to assume other moves are coming.
Classic no-hit, good-glove SS. What year is this, 1962?
He was worth 3.7 rWAR last year. Low-hit rather than no-hit.
Career-high 93 OPS+ in 2020. 85 in 2021.
That's an improvement over Simmons' 57, to be sure. 2.6 oWAR vs Simmons' -0.1.
Maybe 'incremental improvement' would be a more apt way of putting it.
Was Mitch broken or something??
He was a union rep.
Taylor Rogers is next to go.
I don't see how this has anything to do with it.
I knew not to hope the Twins would sign Trevor Story, but seeing them fill a need that could be met simply by expending some payroll by instead trading from a position of strength is frustrating.
Falvey & Levine badly misjudged this off-season and their strategy of not signing premier free agent pitchers is going to cost them prospect and major league talent.
It's only a misjudgment if you assume management's goal is to build a championship ball club.
I think they're more interested in fielding a more or less perrenial contending team than winning a championship. The former generates respectable steady income for them, the latter requires occassional large investments in premium talent the Twins seldom seem willing to make.
I would like to believe their goals are that high, but I'm not sure I see a lot of evidence for it over the last year or so.
Buxton in center and Kiner-Falefa at short will turn a lot of balls into outs. Not quite the path to improved pitching I was hoping for.
I don't know much about what they acquired, but I'm not confident that Garver is ever going to be what he was in that one good season.
well, 1½ seasons. Much as I like Garvsauce, I can't fault them for trading high, but I can fault them for what they got in return.
I hadn't realized that the Rangers had acquired both Corey Seager and Marcus Semien.
I think those transactions happened minutes before the lockout
Scheduled yesterday to fly back to MPLS at 10am from Phoenix. Got to the airport at 8 am. Eventually the flight finally took off around 9:45 PM??? 14 hours in one airport terminal is brutal. Landed in MPLS at 2:30am. Due to slow baggage offloading, we left the airport at 3:15am. Drove the daughter up to Duluth, and then had to drive home to Alex. Arrived at 9 am in Alex. 4 hour nap and then back to work at the joint. Fun times!
did they give a reason for the delay?
oofta
Some issue with cabin pressurization. They tried to fix on the tarmac, then moved it into the shop. They thought they fixed it. We were ready to re-board the plane and the captain said it wasn't fixed. Tried to fix on the tarmac again. All this between 930 am and 3:00 with take off being pushed back an hour at a time. Finally at 3:30 they announced a part was being flown in from Atlanta and take off would be 9:00 pm. No other flights available to MPLS, so we were stuck.
there was sucky weather affecting part of the US, which complicated things as well. I left Omaha almost ½ hr after I was supposed to have landed here in StL
If congress would stop rumbling and get their act together, hopefully this will be the last DST weekend.
Yes. As long as we get DST all year. It's rather have 9:30 sunset than 4:30 sunrise in the summer.
And no more 4:30 pm sunsets in the winter.
That's a Rudyard Kipling size if.
Thats not a starting pitcher
garver!?
I don't get it either.
Ugh.
I guess they are gambling that Mitch's injury woes and age (entering age-31 season) limit his value going forward. But he isn't eligible for free agency until 2024 and is pretty cheap.
The cupboard looks pretty dry for catchers who can swing the bat competently. Neither Jeffers nor Rorvedt inspire any hope, let alone confidence.
It's a definite upgrade over Simmons, but it leaves us a little short behind the plate. I have to assume other moves are coming.
Classic no-hit, good-glove SS. What year is this, 1962?
He was worth 3.7 rWAR last year. Low-hit rather than no-hit.
Career-high 93 OPS+ in 2020. 85 in 2021.
That's an improvement over Simmons' 57, to be sure. 2.6 oWAR vs Simmons' -0.1.
Maybe 'incremental improvement' would be a more apt way of putting it.
Was Mitch broken or something??
He was a union rep.
Taylor Rogers is next to go.
I don't see how this has anything to do with it.
I knew not to hope the Twins would sign Trevor Story, but seeing them fill a need that could be met simply by expending some payroll by instead trading from a position of strength is frustrating.
Falvey & Levine badly misjudged this off-season and their strategy of not signing premier free agent pitchers is going to cost them prospect and major league talent.
It's only a misjudgment if you assume management's goal is to build a championship ball club.
I think they're more interested in fielding a more or less perrenial contending team than winning a championship. The former generates respectable steady income for them, the latter requires occassional large investments in premium talent the Twins seldom seem willing to make.
I would like to believe their goals are that high, but I'm not sure I see a lot of evidence for it over the last year or so.
Buxton in center and Kiner-Falefa at short will turn a lot of balls into outs. Not quite the path to improved pitching I was hoping for.
I don't know much about what they acquired, but I'm not confident that Garver is ever going to be what he was in that one good season.
well, 1½ seasons. Much as I like Garvsauce, I can't fault them for trading high, but I can fault them for what they got in return.
I hadn't realized that the Rangers had acquired both Corey Seager and Marcus Semien.
I think those transactions happened minutes before the lockout
Scheduled yesterday to fly back to MPLS at 10am from Phoenix. Got to the airport at 8 am. Eventually the flight finally took off around 9:45 PM??? 14 hours in one airport terminal is brutal. Landed in MPLS at 2:30am. Due to slow baggage offloading, we left the airport at 3:15am. Drove the daughter up to Duluth, and then had to drive home to Alex. Arrived at 9 am in Alex. 4 hour nap and then back to work at the joint. Fun times!
did they give a reason for the delay?
oofta
Some issue with cabin pressurization. They tried to fix on the tarmac, then moved it into the shop. They thought they fixed it. We were ready to re-board the plane and the captain said it wasn't fixed. Tried to fix on the tarmac again. All this between 930 am and 3:00 with take off being pushed back an hour at a time. Finally at 3:30 they announced a part was being flown in from Atlanta and take off would be 9:00 pm. No other flights available to MPLS, so we were stuck.
there was sucky weather affecting part of the US, which complicated things as well. I left Omaha almost ½ hr after I was supposed to have landed here in StL