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July 11, 2013: Again

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I might be running out of ways to say I'm sick of watching the Twins be this bad, guys. How did I ever get through 1993-2000? Well, I know how I got through those years, but college is over and I can't really go back to all that again. I'm glad I've got a few other obsessions.

37 thoughts on “July 11, 2013: Again”

  1. From Gleeman today:

    Brian Dozier since June 1: .264/.386/.500 with six homers, eight doubles and as many walks (19) as strikeouts (19) in 35 games. Six weeks are six weeks, but it's a sign of life.

    There you go. Gleeman = DK.

    1. Is it bad if I'm happier for Dozier's recent success for what it means to Cole's journal than I am for what it means for the Twin's?

      1. Wouldn't that result in a turnover? Or did they change the out-of-bounds rules for this year?

    1. I'm ok with him on the team as he won't be relied upon for offense this time around and they do need defense. However, I think paying $5 mil per for a 20-25 minute player was maybe a bit much.

      Mostly, though, I'm excited about the Martin and impending Pek! signings.

      1. Would have preferred AK, but if that was never going to happen the Wolves have to fill out their roster somehow. I'm happy with the signing. The Wolves are going to be in contract hell for a couple of years, might as well use the money you have when you have it.

    2. I think I like it if he's not going to be anything other than a perimeter defender and finisher on breaks. Cheaper and younger than AK, not as good on offense, but will provide value.

    2. Very slow loading for the images. People, just because you set the height and width in the <img> tag, that does not resize your 2,000px by 1,500px image.

    1. Nice touch with the writer referencing Fargo and saying we always have snow. Very creative and original.

    2. Fun fact: Paul Molitor was first drafted as a pitcher by the St. Louis Cardinals. That was in 1974, and now he’s retired, and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame. As a shortstop, as you know.

      emphasis added

      Shortstop? SHORTstop??!!!??? Maybe he was a SS in the minors, but he was never "a shortstop" in the Majors. He played more innings at 2b, 3b and 1b than he did at SS, and almost as many innings in the OF.

    1. Thanks for recognizing Jimmie Hall. One of the things I dislike about modern sports media is that too often they act like sports just started ten minutes ago.

    1. Get a bird cage and a bird, utilize all those Top Jimmy columns as God intended.

    2. I found the Stribs from the 1987 WS in my parents' basement. I wonder what they did with them. Sheenie and I ended up with several papers from the moon landing and the Kennedy assassination that her grandparents saved.

    3. I have a whole pile of papers with stuff like that from my lifetime: 9/11 & Bin Laden dead, Morneau & Peterson MVP, Buxton spread from the Strib a few weeks back, etc.. Boss, the only reason* I don't take those off your hands is that my wife has made me promise not to bring any more home until I've gone through the current stacks.

      *I also have about 600 old Fed. Digests, Sup. Ct. & NW Reporters in the basement, many from the office of Warren Burger's early practice in St. Paul. My wife is not happy with all these "old books taking up room in [her] basement."

    1. Frankie shut the red-hot As down yesterday.

      He has a very tasty 2.58 FIP and 3.00 xFIP this season, with 80:28 K:BB and only 3 HR allowed in 76 2/3 innings. statcorner.com is less impressed: xRA+ of only 107. But his GB% is back up to 2010 levels and, perhaps most importantly, his walks are way down. Can't attribute ALL of that change to not facing DHs in the NL.

      2. His numbers--well, everything except ERA--so far this season look an awful lot like his 2010 numbers. Obviously Liriano is good enough to pitch like this for periods of time, it's just a matter of how long it takes for his body to betray him. His LOB% is a little ridiculous right now--85%--that's the main thing that sticks out to me as something he hasn't done for a full season in the past. Even his HR/FB rate of 6% is basically the same as what he had for all of 2010.

        Statcorner's xRA+ probably doesn't like his LD%, which admittedly isn't so hot right now.

        I will always remember Liriano's 2006 fondly, despite his injury. He was so good it was unfair. His 2.38 xFIP that season is just an outrageous statistic. Mariano Rivera has only ever had an xFIP that low once in his entire career.

        1. The Twins had the third-consecutive-time-unanimous* Cy Young winner, and for half the season he was only the second-best pitcher on the team.

          *Corrected 2005 voting.

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