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  1. KingKat
    But where do you play him? Third base over Lawrie? First Base over EE? The OF? There's nowhere to put him barring the Lind injury.
  2. KingKat
    If Lind goes on the DL, you'll get your wish. Otherwise there's really nowhere to play him.
  3. KingKat
    My ideal bench probably has Getz on it. He's right-handed and covers a lot of positions. The bat isn't much but he's a plus on the field. Might as well go with players who can provide defensive value because the offense only players like Sierra and Francisco might not actually provide any offense. I like the idea of starting Getz against LHP either at 2B or at SS (with Reyes sliding to DH). He might not be too bad against lefties and we know he'll at least improve the defense when he's on the field.
  4. KingKat
    The only way I would consider having Francisco on the team is if Lind is on the DL. He might be an o.k. replacement as the main dh but as a bench option, he's basically a left-handed Sierra, another player using up a roster spot while providing no defensive value.
  5. KingKat
    Looking at all the different roster scenarios makes me wish Izturis hadn't fallen down those stairs. He looked like he had probably bounced back enough to be a one win player and a switch hitter was nice to have on a team running a short bench. Kawasaki is fairly similar minus the switch hitting part but unlike Izturis he has options which I think means he'll be the one demoted even though he shouldn't. Thanks to a recent uptick in production, the Ryan Goins as starting 2B experiment will probably be prolonged. If Diaz is demoted instead of Kawasaki, I figure Kawasaki would still be strictly a backup until another prolonged Goins slump.
  6. KingKat
    Seems to work fine for me and I'm at work where a lot of s*** gets blocked.
  7. KingKat
    I guess tha twould have to be Roberts, Solarte, Johnson which I suppose isn't that bad considered that only two of them would be in the lineup if it wasn't for the Teixeira injury. I guess perception makes it seem worse than it actually is and the pitching rotation is quite solid.
  8. KingKat
    Goins down Reyes up Sierra DFA Gose up Lind DL Kratz up
  9. KingKat
    I don't know about that. The Yankees sure seem to be stuck with a lot of scrubs for a team with a payroll that high.
  10. KingKat
    Even for the Yankees it's kind of a bad deal. That roster is a total mess of stars and scrubs. They could really benefit from spreading the money around and not being so top heavy.
  11. KingKat
    That's the larger issue ultimately. I don't care much for the notion that coaching can make up for poor roster decisions (see Seitzer+Goins).
  12. KingKat
    A roof is a far greater necessity in a rainy climate like Seattle where you could potentially lose a lot of games throughout the year. One especially crappy winter doesn't make Target Field a bad idea.
  13. KingKat
    How so? A. The team didn't assign it's Minor Leaguers in time for them to be available to them at the start of the season. B. The team announces that they are DFAing Jeffres and calling up Jenkins. The move gets voided because of A. C. The team can't call up any of the pitcher on the 40 man so they are forced to add Walden to the 40 man just to cover for the Jeffres DFA. D. Walden, the player who they were forced to add to the 40 man gets claimed by another team. So what part of this show competence exactly? What part of this is nit-picking?
  14. KingKat
    Everyone realizes that. It's still dumb to lose a player, even an org filler, for nothing just because the team didn't understand the rules.
  15. KingKat
    Holly f*** are you ever obtuse. Walden didn't deserve an opportunity but he also shouldn't have been outright lost over a misunderstanding of the rules. If the Jays has assigned their minor leaguers when they were supposed to, they never would have had to add him to the 40 man roster in the first place. But don't use this as evidence of poor roster management or anything. I'm sure all the other teams in baseball don't know the rules either.
  16. KingKat
    lol at this
  17. KingKat
    Day game and a night game. Most double headers are this way anyways so it's really just a bunch of unnecesary jargon.
  18. KingKat
    Jenkins and Gose should at least be hanging out with the team in case there's a move that needs to be made (DFA Rogers and/or swap out Wagner if it's not an outright DL situation).
  19. KingKat
    There's no way there's enough of a sample size to know that but we can certainly keep our fingers crossed and hope that it will be the case.
  20. KingKat
    Looking more closely at pictures at the stadium, I think what distinguishes Safeco is an outfield that looks a lot more normal. Miller's outfield looks like an airplane hanger and Chase just looks like full on domed stadium.
  21. KingKat
    I have never actually been to Chase Field but I find the place looks absolutely depressing on TV. It seems to me to be as cavernous and drab as a non-dome can be. Maybe that averse reaction isn't that common but I think over time people will grow to dislike it just as much as any dome. Miller doesn't seem all that great to me either. Safeco does look nice and from everything I've heard, it's truly a great place to catch a game.
  22. KingKat
    It's shame Gibson and Pelfrey are both righties. It would have been preferrable to have a left in there to vary the lineups although Thole will definitely get the Dickey start and Diaz might as well get one of the SS starts just to get his glove in there. Hopefully Lind is good to go at DH for both games or a roster move will be needed.
  23. KingKat
    Safeco does look a lot better than Chase. I wonder what the secret for that is.
  24. KingKat
    I think a lot of people are looking at this from the perspective of how annoying it is for a visiting team but from the Twins perspective, it was very important to have a stadium experience that was the antithesis of the Metrodome. It was a decision that came with some cost but I think if you polled baseball fans in the area, they would tell you this is what they wanted.
  25. KingKat
    Because they weren't going to let the possiblity of one exceptionally nasty winter get in the way of building the nicest stadium possible. Retractable roof stadiums don't compare in the slightest to open air fields. Look at Chase Field, the place looks just like a dome even though it's a retractrable stadium. Most years the weather isn't this bad and the few times that it will be are well worth the trade-off for having a true open air stadium in the summer.
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