TO THE WATCHTOWER!!!!!

LMAO

Every ex MLB player with even marginal service time is. They get a decent pension and free healthcare for life.

Source:

MLB players must play 43 days in the majors to earn a minimum $34,000 annual pension plan. Just one day in the majors gets them lifetime healthcare coverage. After 10 years in the big leagues, benefits grow to $100,000 annually.

What s the consensus? Yost and GMDM last the season?

David Glass took a team I loved as a child and used it to turn me into a very angry middle aged man.

I hate Frenchy even more with those stupid comments. **** that guy

Probably. It would be hard to justify allowing Dayton to make a 3rd manager hire especially when manager candidates know his future is really shaky. Dayton has another year on his deal although $1m isn't that much of a buyout for Glass to make if he chooses to do so. The next regime is largely working with the same roster for next year anyway.

A roster full of failures.

Our whole team save Alex lacks plate discipline. Maybe our coaches are pushing this "aggressive swinging mentality." I mean, I'm no baseball expert, but if I was a player, my approach wouldn't be to swing at anything close and try to put the ball in play. It would be to sit and wait for MY pitch until two strikes, and then revert to just trying to get a ball in play.

No one on this team takes ****ing pitches. I wonder what the percentage is of our hitters who get in 0-2 counts?

It was nice to not have to watch them lose tonight.

We be sweeping those Twins, Georgie Boy!

John Lamb watch:

He was hitting 91-92 early in his start last night and faded as the game wore on (was 84-85 by the time his pitch count got into the 80s and got lit up a bit at that point).

Still, a positive sign. If he can HIT that velocity, that just means he has to build up his stamina further as he goes along. Every pitcher and every arm is different.

Best thing all along has been the way he retained his command. If his velocity comes back and he can get to 100 pitches sitting at 91-92, he's in good shape.

Why do I spend so much time blathering about John Lamb?

1) I always thought he was the best of the pitching prospects from the BFSiBH. This is a guy who has the skills to be a Jon Lester sort of pitcher.

2) Lamb, Ventura, Duffy, Zimmer are the key to this team's ability to succeed under the new GM (which I still think happens at the end of the year). If two of those four guys hit, the rebuild window is shortened.

In fact, if you compare the rebuild this GM would be facing and the one Moore faced in 2006... much better shape for the new guy.

Gordon, Butler, Perez, Escobar and Cain are all fairly well to extremely well established as major leaguers. Perez, Butler and Gordon are "pluses" for their positions. Cain and Escobar are, at least, above-average defenders who can hit well enough to stick at those spots.

Hosmer and Moustakas still have the talent that popped off the field at scouts. With better instruction, that talent could be unlocked. It's hard to look at what Hosmer is doing and listen to the Seitzer interview without thinking someone else can get through to him.

Shields and Guthrie are more established than anything Moore had in his rotation in 2006 (and Shields is a better trade chip in 2014 than anything Moore had).

And the young pitching... still a lot of good, controlled guys in the bullpen. Still a lot of high impact guys dotting the minors.

Still in denial that we are facing another rebuild... such a tough pill to swallow this time around...

Quick trivia: match the player with his career OPS.

(1) Angel Berroa,
(2) Neifi Perez,
(3) Alcides Escobar

(a) .656 (b) .672 (c) .677