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Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving!!
Whether you are joining with family today, or later or enjoying an off-day with something else in mind, we here at Knuckleballs are hopeful that you keep the blessings of your life in mind today with a focus toward what you have vs what you don't have yet.
And happy Hanukkah to those celebrating that as well! The same wish above applies!
President Lincoln's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1863
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
Pohlad: "We took our eye off the ball"
With a hat tip to Twins Daily's Parker Hageman (@OverTheBaggy) for sending the link out via Twitter, I found this interview with Twins owner Jim Pohlad by Adam Platt of Twin Cities Business to be another indication that Pohlad is not looking for this offseason to be "business as usual" for Twins President Dave St. Peter, General Manager Terry Ryan and the rest of the Twins front office.
Certainly there's plenty in Pohlad's words that skeptics (and really, who in the Twins fan base is NOT a skeptic at this point?) might roll their eyes at. But for me, I'm seeing more evidence that St. Peter, Ryan and their group have different – and quite specific – marching orders this winter.
The Twins owner wants a better product on the field and he doesn't want to sit around and wait through another miserable season before he gets what he wants.
Platt asked Pohlad if losing hurts the bottom line, to which the owner replied: "Poor performance will always be out ahead of poor financial performance. 2010 was the best year in our ownership history. It's been declining ever since, and if we don't improve it will decline next year."
Pohlad pointed out that success among some organizations is cyclical, while others are able to win consistently. The Twins want to be among the latter group going forward and are doing some analysis to determine what differentiates one group from the other. Platt asked Pohlad if ownership had a role in the current down cycle. "I was probably not pushing enough in the good years. We became self-satisfied. We took our eye off the ball," Pohlad admitted.
His further responses would seem to indicate his eye is back on the ball – and on the people who work for him.
One of the more insightful exchanges came as Platt asked Pohlad about the organization's perceived insular nature. The Twins have a reputation for almost exclusively promoting from within to fill leadership roles when they open up, rather than looking to bring in people who have come up through other organizational cultures.
Said Pohlad, "Well, in order to have the 'Twins way' be successful, you have to have a methodology, but you also need players. We do embrace new perspectives. Loyalty and low turnover can inhibit that, I admit. We need to always be asking ourselves if we have the right mix of people, policies, and procedures to develop the right players."
Platt followed up by asking if Terry Ryan is open to that and Pohlad responded, "We're pressing him on it. I'm not saying Terry isn't somewhat old-fashioned. He is. But he wants to win."
For those of us hoping to see the Twins jump in to the deep end of the free agent pool this winter (or at the very least, venture out of the kiddie pool of the free agency marketplace), Pohlad responded in this way when asked specifically what could be done to fix the team's problems in 2014: "We have a lot of prospects, but most aren't quite ready. We don't have a lot of trading inventory. We have to go into the marketplace. Terry knows that. I'm not encouraging him to wait." (emphasis added)
There's nothing in this interview that indicates Jim Pohlad has lost confidence in Terry Ryan. I believe he genuinely likes Ryan and believes he's among the best in the business at evaluating baseball talent. However, he also admits at one point that, "The toughest thing for an owner is patience and avoidance of meddling…"
I encourage you to read the entire interview and come to your own conclusions, but I get the distinct impression that Pohlad's patience is not unlimited. In fact, his patience is being tested every bit as much as is ours in the fanbase.
I also get the feeling that, if things don't change soon, the days of ownership not "meddling" may come to an abrupt end. Pohlad does not come across to me as an owner who is content to let his front office stubbornly stick to old-fashioned approaches indefinitely, especially once they start to cost him real money.
At one point, Pohlad also says, "There's not one bit of truth that you can make money and lose consistently. Long-term losing destroys your brand.(emphasis added) I don't believe you can make money and lose indefinitely."
That sounds like a man who is tired of losing.
Episode 60: Jon Rauch's Terrible Neck Tattoo
Episode 60 of the Twins baseball podcast, Talk To Contact (@TalkToContact), is now available for download via iTunes or by clicking here.
60 is a number worn my several Twins throughout the years, including current "closer" Glen Perkins from 2006-2007, and most recently by Pedro Hernandez (2013) and Jeff Gray (2012), but most notably by Jon Rauch and his terrible neck tattoo in back to back seasons (2009-2010). This week on the podcast we discuss a plethora of minor league happenings, including the pending 50-game suspension of Eddie Rosario and recent 40-man roster moves. The debate wages on over which starting pitchers make sense for the Twins to sign, as Eric, Cody and Jay each make their cases of Ricky Nolasco, Bronson Arroyo and Matt Garza. Who would you take? There's a considerably lengthy discussion about the true value of the Metrodome baggie and who the real winner is in the Prince Fielder Ian Kinsler trade. Also, if you are a Leinenkugel Beer affectionado, you may want to stick around for the "Beers from Around the World" segment. This episode also features an interview with noted sabermatrician, FanGraphs
writer/editor and BBWAA member, Carson Cistulli (@cistulli). This is a long episode, almost 2 hours, but it's pure gold from beginning to end.
You can follow Cody on Twitter (@NoDakTwinsFan) or read his writing at NoDakTwinsFan, and you can find Paul on Twitter (@BaseballPirate) and read his writing at PuckettsPond.com!
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Episode 57: The Hot Stove, and Other Wives Tales
Episode 57 of the Twins baseball podcast, Talk To Contact (@TalkToContact), is now available for download via iTunes or by clicking here.
- This week Eric and Paul are joined by Jay Corn (@jay__corn, that's right, two underscores!) to talk Twins baseball. This will be our fist dive into the post-season hot stove, and this week we talked about available starting pitching and which pitchers we thought, if any, made sense in Minnesota. Pedro Hernandez was removed from the 40-man roster and signed a AAA deal, Terry Ryan is putting the band back together, so to speak, and the AFL continues down in the "Valley of the Sun." All that and more on this week's Talk to Contact podcast.
Thanks for listening!
You can follow Cody on Twitter (@NoDakTwinsFan) or read his writing at NoDakTwinsFan, and you can find Paul on Twitter (@BaseballPirate) and read his writing at PuckettsPond.com!
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Molitor is a Good Addition to Twins Staff
The Twins used the off-day today before the 2013 World Series gets going and MLB reimposes its "don't make news on any day we play a post-season game" gag order to announce that Hall of Famer Paul Molitor has been added to manager Ron Gardenhire's coaching staff.
MLB has begun allowing teams to dress seven coaches and while the Twins did not take advantage of that option in 2013, Gardy will have a full contingent of coaches in the dugout next season.
When the Twins announced a year ago that some of the coaching staff would not be retained, Molitor told the media he'd be open to interviewing for a coaching job with the big league staff. However, at that time, General Manager Terry Ryan said, "At this time he is not going to be a fit. I've talked to him about it. We had the discussion. And I know he has interest."
What a difference a year (and another 96 losses) makes, apparently.
But what exactly has changed?
I think we can begin and end that discussion with the obvious: A year ago, the Twins had announced that Gardenhire would not be getting what had become a near-automatic contract extension and would therefore be managing through 2013 without any assurance he'd be around beyond that.
Having Molitor lurking in the dugout would arguably just feed media and fan speculation that Gardy's replacement was already on board and looking over his shoulder if (when) the Twins started losing.
Now, however, the manager has a new two-year extension so, in theory, there should be no speculation about Gardenhire being inevitably replaced by his high-profile coach.
I think that theory held for all of about 20 seconds after the announcement of Molitor's hiring. The speculation will become even louder the first time the Twins get swept in a 2014 series (which shouldn't take long next season unless the roster gets an uncharacteristic off-season overhaul).
Personally, I don't think Molitor is the heir apparent as Twins manager. I have another favorite in that race, but I certainly could see Molitor serving as an "interim manager" in a worst-case scenario involving a mid-season change at the top. Then again, every worst-case scenario involving the Twins these days seems to come to pass, so don't bet against this one.
Despite the drama it will inevitably lead to next summer, I like the hiring of Molitor. I would have been fine with the Twins bringing in someone with no prior ties to the organization, too. I'd have liked it even more if they had added a qualified Latin American coach.
But having someone with Molitor's baseball IQ in the dugout certainly is not a bad thing.
I had some opportunities to talk to Molitor this summer when he spent the better part of a week in Cedar Rapids working with Kernels playes in his role as a roving minor league instructor focusing on baserunning and infield play (you can click here for my interview Molitor) I came away with a very positive impression of him personally, but more importantly, as someone who knows the game and knows how to communicate that knowledge.
Molitor has established coach/pupil relationships with most of the players the Twins will be relying on to bring the franchise back to relevancy. he has worked with Byron Buxton on baserunning. He's worked with Miguel Sano and virtually every other minor league infielder on improving their defensive skills.
And, oh yeah, he's someone who knows a little something about winning.
Rochester Red Wings (AAA) manager Gene Glynn was rumored to be another leading candidate for the coaching job with the Twins. With Molitor getting that gig, it would seem likely that Glynn will be assigned to manage the Red Wings again in 2014.
Had Glynn joined the Twins' staff, we may have seen some shifting in assignments among the other minor league managers in the organization. Now, it would seem logical to assume that Jeff Smith will return to AA New Britain, Doug Mientkiewicz to high-A Fort Myers and Jake Mauer to Class A Cedar Rapids.
Last year, it seems like the Twins waited until December to announce their minor league coaching assignments, but if things will remain pretty much the status quo, there doesn't seem to be any reason to delay those announcements.
I suppose, though, that the Twins may, once again, wait until the World Series is over or at least for the next off-day in the Series rather than endure the "wrath of Bud" for breaking news on a World Series game day.
I'm not sure what the chances are that anyone who cares about the Twins minor league managing/coaching assignments still gives a damn about the Red Sox and Cardinals or whether those that do have minds that are incapable of absorbing Twins news AND remembering to watch World Series games, but who are we to question Bud's edicts, right?
Anyway, this final thought concerning the Molitor hiring: The Twins won't suddenly become champions because Paul Molitor has been added to their coaching staff unless they can run him through a time machine and put him in the batting order and on the field. But by adding him to two of last season's coaching additions, Tom Brunansky and Terry Steinbach, does bring more credibility to the staff.
That may not translate in to immediate success in the win column, but I believe it will pay dividends long-term.
Sickels' "Twins Top 20″ Features Past/Future Kernels
The 2013 season was, by almost all measures, a successful maiden season for the affiliation between the Cedar Rapids Kernels and their new Major League parent, the Minnesota Twins. Now, fall is bringing out the first of what will be many published organizational "top prospect" lists, signaling that it's not too early to begin looking at what kind of talent the Twins will be sending to Cedar Rapids in 2014.
John Sickels publishes The Baseball Prospect Book yearly and is one of the more respected minor league experts in the business. This week, he released his list of the Twins' Top Twenty Prospects at his minorleagueball.com website.
A peek at that list not only confirms for Kernels fans that they had the opportunity to watch a number of future Major Leaguers on Perfect Game Field this year, but also gives a clue as to what Cedar Rapids fans can expect to see next summer.
Sickels wrote that the "Twins system is among the elite in the game," and a number of recent Kernels are among the reasons for that high praise. He also believes that, "there are some lively arms of promise at the lower levels," in the Twins organization, which should tip off Kernels fans to what they can expect to see in 2014.
Sickels uses a grading system (A, B, C, etc.) to rank the prospect status of minor leaguers and he is not an easy grader. As he writes, "Grade C+ is actually good praise, and some C+ prospects (especially at lower levels) turn out very well indeed." Of the hundreds of minor league players in the Twins organization, 24 attained that C+ grade, or better, from Sickels this fall. That may not sound like many, but it's actually a high number for one organization.
Byron Buxton, who patrolled centerfield for the Kernels during the first half of the 2013 campaign, was one of two Twins prospects (along with Class AA slugger Miguel Sano) to attain Grade A prospect status from Sickels. Wrote Sickels, "Few organizations can boast a pair of potential superstar Grade A talents like Buxton and Sano, and the Twins have good depth beyond them…"
Buxton ranks as the number one prospect in the organization, on Sickels' list, but five other Kernels alumni also rank in his Top Twenty.
Right handed pitcher Jose Berrios gets a B grade from Sickels and ranks sixth among Twins prospects. Both infielder Jorge Polanco (B) and outfielder/first baseman Max Kepler (B) make the organizational Top Ten, coming in at numbers nine and ten, respectively, in Sickels' rankings.
Third baseman Travis Harrison earns a B-/C+ from Sickels and the number 11 ranking, while outfielder Adam Brett Walker's C+/B- grade placed him at number 13.
Four additional Kernels, infielder Niko Goodrum and pitchers Mason Melotakis, Taylor Rogers and Miguel Sulbaran pulled C+ grades from Sickels and fell just outside the Top Twenty. In essence, this means ten members of the 2013 Kernels are among Sickels' Top 24 Twins Prospects going in to the offseason.
As for the future, grading recently signed or drafted ballplayers that haven't yet competed in a full season of professional baseball is a tricky business, but Sickels placed five such Twins prospects among his organizational Top Twenty. All five are pitchers.
Kohl Stewart, a right hander who was the Twins top draft pick in last summer, leads that list with a B+ grade from Sickels and his number three ranking in the organization. Sickels' wrote that Stewart, "was the best high school pitcher in the draft and showed good command of plus stuff in his pro debut."
Lefty Lewis Thorpe, an Australian 17-year-old, reportedly grew an inch and added something close to 50 pounds and several miles per hour to his fastball this past summer. Sickels grades him at a B- and places him seventh among Twins' prospects. Thorpe pitched in the Gulf Coast League (the lowest US rookie league team among Twins affiliates) in 2013 making it highly unlikely that he starts 2014 in Cedar Rapids and may not arrive until the following summer.
Felix Jorge (number 17), Stephen Gonsalves (19) and Ryan Eades (20) slip in to Sickels' Top Twenty, as well, all with C+ grades.
Jorge is a righthander from the Dominican Republic who had a very good year for Elizabethton in 2013, striking out 72 hitters in just 61 innings covering his 12 starts.
Gonsalves, a lefty and the Twins' fourth round pick last June, only threw 28 innings combined during time with both Twins rookie league teams in 2013 but was a strike out machine and posted a 0.95 Earned Run Average.
Eades, another righthander, was the Twins' second round pick in 2013 out of LSU. He accumulated just 15 2/3 innings of work for Elizabethton this summer but will be 22 years old by opening day in 2014, making it possible the Twins would try to accelerate his movement through the organization.
It could be years before Cedar Rapids fans see another collection of hitters in Kernels uniforms the likes of the group that the Twins sent through town in 2013. Buxton could well be wearing a Minnesota Twins uniform and calling Target Field in Minneapolis his home by the end of the coming season. By 2016, several of his Kernels teammates could join him with the Twins.
While Kernels hitters in 2014 are not likely to measure up to what fans saw this year, a pitching staff that could include Stewart, Jorge, Gonsalves, Eades and, possibly by the end of the season Thorpe as well, has the potential to be among the best in the Midwest League.
Getting Out of a Hole (a Parable)
A guy falls in to an eight foot deep hole while at work. His boss comes along and the guy says, "hey boss can you get me out of here?"
The boss says, "Things are pretty tight around here so we can't afford to buy a ladder, but we have this old shovel sitting around. I'll throw it down and you can dig yourself out."
It takes a long time, but after a lot of trial and error (sometimes even digging in the wrong place and making the hole deeper) our guy manages to dig himself out of the hole. And of course, he's damn proud of himself for that accomplishment. It certainly wasn't easy. He's recognized far and wide for his perseverance.
The boss is so impressed that, not long after, the guy gets a promotion. And, while everyone thinks it's a bit odd, the guy never goes anywhere without that old shovel.
A couple of years later, company revenues have grown significantly but, alas, holes still happen and one day the guy's replacement in his old job falls into another eight foot hole. Sure enough, our guy is the first person to walk by and he hears, "Hey, can you get me out of here?"
Still holding on to that old shovel, the guy jumps down in to the hole, too.
"What the hell, man? Why didn't you just reach down and pull me out?"
"Don't worry," our guy answers, "I've been down here before and I know how to dig us out."
After a couple hours of digging, the boss comes by. He looks down in to the hole and shakes his head. "Hold on a minute, guys, we can afford a ladder now. I'll be right back." He walks in to a nearby hardware store and returns a few minutes later with an extension ladder and lowers it in to the hole.
The new guy climbs up the ladder and walks away.
But our guy looks distrustfully at the ladder and keeps on digging.
A couple of days later, the boss walks by the hole again and, to his surprise, the guy is still down there digging, only now the hole is 12 feet deep. The boss kind of shakes his head and laughs, but when customers question why the hole is getting deeper, he just tells them this guy has done this before and knows what he's doing.
Days later, a crowd has gathered and they're all exasperatedly trying to tell the guy that all he has to do is extend the ladder and climb out. Pretty soon, a reporter shows up and asks the guy why he won't use the ladder.
"We've got a lot different revenue streams now," says the guy, "but if you've got to try to get out using a ladder, you're probably going to fall. It just doesn't work."
Soon after, the boss walks by again and he doesn't seem as amused now. These people gathered around are all potential customers and the guy in the hole is making him and his company look foolish or like they're too cheap to give the guy the right tools to get out of the hole.
The reporter asks the boss to comment on the guy digging in the hole and the boss replies, "We have to acknowledge we probably have to use that ladder to get out of that hole. Our guy is committed to using the ladder. He can speak for himself, but I believe he's enthusiastic about doing that."
Of course, the guy continues to dig.
Eventually, the crowd turns angry because the hole just keeps getting bigger and the police have to clear the area until the only people left are the guy in the hole and his boss.
When he's certain nobody but the guy in the hole can hear what he says, the boss looks down in to the hole and says firmly, "Enough with the digging. Use the damn ladder to get out of that hole. Now!"
Of course, since there was nobody else around to hear it, we can't be 100% positive that's what the boss finally said.
But I sure hope it is.
FOXsports Reports Gardy Will Be Back
FOX reporter Ken Rosenthal reported Monday morning via Twitter that the Twins will be announce later in the day that manager Ron Gardenhire will remain the club's manager.
There was no immediate word concerning how much of his coaching staff would be returning in 2014 with him.
EDIT: Mike Berardino of the Pioneer-Press has Tweeted that source tells him Gardy's entire coaching staff will be back, as well.
Earlier Monday, the Twins announced there would be a press conference at 2:30.
Rosenthal also stated, again via Twitter, "Gardenhire would not have stayed with
#Twins on one-year deal. Presumably wanted assurances that team plans to increase payroll as well."
Hopefully, Gardy got that assurance and it didn't just mean Ryan would pay the current collection of AAAA players more money.
Honestly, if I were Gardenhire, I would not have come back to the Twins. This team is not likely to be much, if any, better in 2014, which means he's going to spend all of next summer catching the same grief he's getting right now. Why would he want that?
I've contended since forever that Gardy got more credit for the winning years than he deserved and more blame for the losing years than is warranted. He's not a baseball genius, but he handles a clubhouse pretty well and that's a huge part of being a successful manager.
Had he walked away from the Twins, he'd have been unemployed about two weeks, if that long. He'd have been one of the most sought after managers on the open market and wherever he landed would have been a better situation than he finds himself in by staying with the Twins.
I hope he got the assurances he needed from Ryan concerning roster improvement and didn't settle for a vague, "we've got talent in the pipeline."
Free Agent Pitching: 20/20 Hindsight
By the end of the coming weekend, the Twins will have reached the one-quarter mark of the season with 40+ games under their belts. It's as good a time as any to reflect upon how some of the decisions made by General Manager Terry Ryan in building the team's roster have turned out.
As a team, the Twins have been hovering over the .500 mark most of the season and, after Monday night's win over the White Sox, they are one game over the break-even point. Over the weekend, Ryan told 1500ESPN that .500 wasn't what he was looking for out of this team, that he wanted them to be contenders. It's great, of course, for your team's GM to say that kind of thing, but I think most fans would have been pretty satisfied with the prospects of a .500 year out of this Twins team.
You also have to consider that those words were coming out of the same mouth that, last November, told TwinsDaily's John Bonnes that the Twins would be pursuing one of the "pretty darn good" pitchers on the free agent market last season and then went out and made Kevin Correia and Mike Pelfrey the cornerstones of the team's free agent class.
In that same interview, Ryan also told Bonnes that he felt the free agent pitching market was, "thin," when most of us felt there was a pretty solid group of middle-to-upper-half of the rotation arms available.
Now, looking back over the first six weeks of the season, is it possible Terry Ryan was right?
Back on November 20, I posted an article here at Knuckleballs in which I shared my wish list of free agent pitchers for Ryan and the Twins to pursue. Other fans and writers were naturally sharing their own advice for the Twins GM about the same time. Let's see how our suggestions have been panning out compared to the guys Ryan actually signed for the Twins.
Not many of us were suggesting the Twins should (or even could) sign Zack Greinke, who eventually signed a six-year deal for $159 million with the Dodgers. Greinke was actually off to a decent start until he broke his collarbone (or rather, Carlos Quentin broke Greinke's collarbone). Maybe Greinke will bounce back and pay dividends on his deal with the Dodgers, but I'm not sorry the Twins didn't try to outbid the Dodgers for his services.
I argued in my post that the Twins should go ahead and pursue not one, but two of the other big dogs among the free agent pitching class, Anibal Sanchez and Edwin Jackson.
Sanchez is one guy who is putting up the kind of numbers you would hope for, so far, as his 2.05 ERA , 1.082 WHIP and 66 strikeouts in 52.2 innings would attest. However, he eventually re-signed with the Tigers (5 years/$88 million), so there's certainly doubt as to whether he and his agent would ever have even considered a move to Target Field.
Jackson, on the other hand, is not exactly earning his 4 year/$52 million contract with the Cubs. Yes, he's striking out almost one batter per inning pitched, but otherwise, his 6.02 ERA and 1.569 WHIP are pretty close to what the Twins are getting out of Mike Pelfrey (6.03/1.689)… and Ryan is on the hook for about $48 million less than Theo Epstein owes Jackson.
The third pitcher on my wish list was Joe Saunders. I felt the Twins needed another lefty in the rotation and while he wasn't likely to be a headliner, Saunders looked to me like a good bet to be a solid middle of the rotation pitcher for the next couple of years. When he eventually signed with the Mariners for just one year and $6.5 million, I was pretty certain the Twins would regret not outbidding the M's for Saunders' services (though I recall there was some talk about Saunders not being interested in pitching for the Twins, regardless).
Saunders has pieced together a 3-4 record despite a 5.51 ERA and a 1.521 WHIP. He's struck out exactly as many hitters (20) as Correia has for the Twins, but has walked more than twice as many batters. Correia's ERA (3.09) and WHIP (1.200) are certainly looking better than Saunders'.
So maybe my ideas, outside of Sanchez, weren't as good as I thought they were (and apparently not as good as the ideas Ryan and his staff were having at the time).
But what about the other pitchers on the market last off season? With all of the talent we thought was out there, surely there must have been several pitchers that have turned out to make the GMs who signed them look smart.
Many of the best options, like Sanchez, were re-signed by their 2012 clubs or, in some cases, had options picked up by their teams. But there were still a number of pitchers generating buzz among the Twins faithful.
There was some chatter about Dan Haren, who ended up with the Nationals on a one-year deal for $13 million. He's put up a 5.17 ERA and a 1.487 WHIP while striking out 27 batters in 38.1 innings over seven starts. That's not real impressive to me, but hey, he does have a 4-3 record if that's what you're in to.
Brandon McCarthy was also a hot commodity in the blogging world. He got a two-year deal from the D'Backs totaling $18 million. For that, he's accumulated a 5.63 ERA, a 1.542 WHIP, and has gone winless. I've read that McCarthy has been "unlucky," as reflected in a higher than average batting average on balls in play (BABIP). That's fine. But if you buy that, you need to also give a couple of the Twins (such as Pelfrey and, to an even greater degree, Vance Worley) pitchers the benefit of the same doubt for their "bad luck."
Ryan Dempster got beat up a bit by the Blue Jays on Sunday, but I don't think the Red Sox are doubting their two-year/$26.5 million investment too much, so far. He's got a 3.75 ERA, even after giving up six earned runs to the Jays in five innings of work. His 1.146 WHIP is certainly competitive, but it's his 61 strike outs in 48 innings that's perhaps more impressive. Again, I don't think there was ever any chance Dempster would sign with the Twins since he likely had more than enough suitors from among contending teams.
Shawn Marcum, though, was certainly a guy that a number of Twins fans thought might be obtainable by the club. Marcum signed a one-year deal with the Mets for just $4 million. It turns out the Mets may have overpaid. Marcum has put up a nasty looking 8.59 ERA to go with a 2.045 WHIP. He's thrown only 14.2 innings covering three starts and one relief appearance.
Were you one of the fans touting Joe Blanton as a possible Twins rotation addition? If so, you might want to keep it to yourself. Blanton signed with the Angels for $15 million over two years and has repaid them with a 0-7 record covering eight starts. His 6.46 ERA and 1.870 WHIP would indicate his record is not terribly misleading.
It's starting to look like Terry Ryan's assessment of the pitching market as "thin" might have actually been pretty accurate, isn't it?
But certainly there must be some success stories, right? Of course there are.
If, while the rest of us were laughing at the absurdity of the Royals signing Jeremy Guthrie to a 3 year/$25 million contract, you were actually going on the record saying it was a shrewd move certain to pay dividends, give yourself a pat on the back.
Guthrie is 5-0 with the Royals and while he's not striking a ton of hitters out (30 Ks in 47.1 innings), he's put up a 2.28 ERA and a 1.183 WHIP in his seven starts for the Royals. He's gone at least six innings in every start and has one complete game shutout of the White Sox to his credit. Oh yeah, and the Royals are three games above .500 going in to Tuesday night's games, 1 ½ games behind Division leading Detroit.
Of course, Guthrie isn't the only free agent pitcher making his GM look wise.
Carlos Villanueva and Scott Feldman were among the pitchers Epstein added to the Cubs and it's pretty clear that neither of them are primarily responsible for the Cubs being six games under .500. Villanueva sports a 3.02 ERA and a 1.007 WHIP, but has only one win in seven starts to show for his efforts. Feldman's ERA is even lower, at 2.53 and his WHIP is a very respectable 1.148. He's actually gotten enough support to put up a 3-3 record.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't recall a lot of wailing about Terry Ryan allowing Villanueva and Feldman to slip through his fingers. And before you credit Theo Epstein for being so much more brilliant than Terry Ryan, take a look at what Epstein and the Cubs are getting in return for outbidding Ryan for the services of Scott Baker this season. Baker's next pitch in a Cubs uniform (if he ever makes one) will be his first.
There are probably a few more pitchers worth checking in on that are escaping me at the moment. But from the looks of things, I'm starting to think Correia and Pelfrey weren't such bad ideas after all. I'm not convinced Correia will continue to perform at the levels of his first few starts, but I do think that as Pelfrey continues to work out the post-TJ-surgery kinks, he may actually improve as the year goes on.
Even with the benefit of perfect hindsight, I'm not 100% sure I'd jump for joy at those free agent signings, but I certainly like the way they've turned out so far a whole lot better than most of the other options.


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The Dairy Development Department, in association with the Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), Kannur, will organise a district-level 'Dairy meet 2012-13' at the Dairy Producers' Cooperative Society, Keezhpalli, near here, on Monday and Tuesday.
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Buddhism, grief, and loss
Recently a meditation student who's only just begun practicing wrote to say that she'd experienced a bereavement. She wondered if I had any suggestions to help her through the grieving process.
I have to say first of all that I'm not a grief counsellor. I'm just a meditator who has ended up sharing what he's learned about working with pain. And I also would like to add that I'm hesitant to give advice in such situations because I know how feeble words can be in the face of powerful emotions. I long ago gave up on the notion I once held that there is some magical …
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"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final." Rainer Maria Rilke
A woman on the Triratna Buddhist Community's Urban Retreat, which this year focused on the theme of cultivating lovingkindness, or metta, asked a question about how to deal with "strong emotion" — especially grief — that may arise during lovingkindness practice. For this person, grief tended to arise particularly while she was cultivating lovingkindness toward herself, and she wondered how to be honest with her experience but not dissolve into and become lost in it.
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I've had more people asking me about the "near enemy" of compassion. So here goes…
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jackd -d alsa -C hw:2 -P hw:0 -r 44100 -p 256
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creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:2|256|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
Using ALSA driver HDA-Intel running on card 0 - HDA Intel at 0xdc500000 irq 44
configuring for 44100Hz, period = 256 frames (5.8 ms), buffer = 2 periods
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without -r 44100 I have same result (it goes 48000).
I tried as root to have a better nice, no change.
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With Laura working at the State Attorney's office, she was eventually going to face off against Lockhart/Gardner. And The Good Wife didn't waste any time in making that showdown happen.
"Here Comes the Judge" featured the season's first criminal case, unless you count Zach's skirmish in another county. With Cary back at the firm, it's nice to have a familiar face for them to face off against at the State Attorney's office. And Laura has shown herself to be formidable. When Amanda Peet showed up as Alicia's client, I hoped she'd be back. She's a pleasant addition to the cast.
Could she be a possible love interest for Will? They seemed to have a spark!
Not that Will needs to complicate his life any further. His suspension may be over, but the repercussions from it are continuing. Judge Creary was inappropriate in his comments to Will at the restaurant, but he may very well have been accurate regarding Will and Will's client. Regardless, that didn't make his words acceptable and he should have been removed from the case.
At first, I thought he didn't recuse himself because he was too proud and thought he could bully Alicia and Will into continuing under his purview. I never even considered that he didn't remember the exchange with Will. That was unexpected and actually made me a bit sad for Judge Creary. His life was in such a horrible place that he risked what he had left with his drinking.
Judge Dunaway didn't like it, but he had no choice but to rule in favor of moving the case to a new judge. One positive that came out of this situation was that Will proved he wasn't ruthless. His decision to not subpoena Giada showed a softer side. However, he really didn't know if she would tell the truth on the stand or not. Could Will and Giada work out this time? She's no longer his law student...
The case of murdered husband was not interesting. Been there, done that. But The Good Wife did right by presenting a new angle of the law. The trial to substitute the judge for cause held my interest. Despite knowing the judge should be removed, it was never a sure deal. With the new evidence that Laura found with Judge Creary's help, Will's going to most likely take the deal. With their client in jail, will the firm still be hired to oversee her finances? Tough call.
Outside of the courtroom, there was quite a bit going on. Perhaps too much. Grace befriended the dead Grace's ex-boyfriend, Connor, which was just weird from a story perspective. Though, I guess it makes sense in a way. Grace is a caring person and saw that Connor was being ostracized by the other classmates. It just seemed like the writers thought they needed a story for Grace and pulled this one out. I hope it has a good payoff.
While Grace was skipping class with the smoker, Zach was helping out at his father's campaign under an alias. I find this hard to believe. No one at Peter's campaign recognized Zach? He never ran into Peter, Eli or any campaign workers who would know him? With Eli's manipulation, it looks like Alicia will let him help out. It will be good for Zach, though will he end up in a relationship with another campaign worker. Both of Peter's kids are ultimately going to be pulled into the campaign. I don't think there's anything that Peter or Alicia can do to stop it.
Lastly, we have the dreaded Nick-Kalinda story. As soon as Nick and Cary had a confrontation in the office, I knew trouble was coming. Will Cary's attack be enough for Kalinda to finally cut Nick loose? I hope so. He really needs to go. I miss the old Kalinda and once he is gone, we can have her back!
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Gosh, I am becoming less and less enthralled with GW. They crossed their line and became like everyone else in the politics of personal destruction. Surprising. If I wanted to see gratuatous violence there are any number of shows I could tune in, but expect more from GW. This story line of Kalinda's is growing tedious.
I am starting to lose interest in the show on a number of levels- darn it! I'm tired of worrying about their business and the bankruptcy problems. I find the law cases, the way each character reacts to a case, the ethics involved far more interesting than their money problems at the firm. Enough of their business problems already! Kalinda has been a favorite character until this year! I have always enjoyed the way she does her job- smart, quick, intuitive, an amazing investigator who seems to find the truth and facts to support it. She's private, but loyal, and walks so close to the line she inevitably crosses it at times. She crosses that line only with a purpose and offers no apologies. Kalinda's character has been mysterious and elusive, revealed in bits and pieces, a deep character with many different facets. Suddenly she has become a flat character with the abusive husband- the predictably unpredictable, scary, husband- it's been done the same hundreds of times in thousands of shows- and done much better in many of them. So disappointing! Enough of Nick, enough of Nathan Lane, enough money problems!!!
Here we go again; "wishing for Alicia and Will to reunite>" Can't you understand that will is a womanizer. One viewer wanted to know if Amanda Peet could be a love interest for will? Are you kidding? If she is female and in the area, look out! He has slept with his student, his married "friend," who is his subordinate and countless other females. Diane once asked him to keep his pants zipped. Alicia needs to be with her family and Grace really needs her now with this Conner character in the picture. Why not root for "TGW" instead of the bad one?
I sent too soon. I was trying to say that maybe GOOD WIFE is going to try to have an Angela/Jordan relationship with Grace/Conner. (a la My So Called Life._If you had better actors it might draw new interest in younger audience, However, I am sick of Kalinda and always mentally tune her out. Just a thought.
I have been watching reruns of wonderful MY SO CALLED LIFE.
Amanda Peet is a great addition, but I do have a feeling that she might end up getting involved with either Will or Peter, thus causing tension with Alicia. Nick needs to go away and bring back the old Kalinda. She's usually my favorite, but not this season. However, I'm not interested in a Carey/Kalinda pairing...I just don't see the chemistry. The case of the week was sad, because it almost felt like they crossed the line in their efforts to substitute the judge. Furthermore, their actions have probably created a lot of ill-will with their firm and other judges in the future. I hope the case was worth it, but it doesn't seem so. THe daughter's side story is just filled with the usual cliches. Not really interested yet, but maybe there will be an interesting twist.
Kalinda just needs to kick Nick out with her boots already. Every time he's on the screen I get nauseated before I leave the room for a snack break.
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As winter weather is now upon us, it is important that families and staff are notified of school closings as soon as possible so plans can be made for an unexpected no-school day. If the weather cooperates we always attempt to make the call the night before. But more likely the school closing decision won't be made until the middle of the night, but usually no later than 4:00 a.m.
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When bad weather is anticipated, members of Lincoln's Transportation Department are out driving the roads and assessing road conditions. The Lincoln district covers 72 square miles, many of these in rural areas. Considerations include road conditions, amount of snow, will sidewalks be cleared and safe for walking, and is the temperature safe enough for students to walk to school or bus stops? A recommendation based on all these factors is made to the Superintendent. This includes a discussion with neighboring districts. A decision is usually made no later then 4:00 a.m.
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Because our middle and high school students catch their bus as early as 6:20 a.m., we plan to notify all families no later then 5:30 a.m. This will include an automated phone call to all Lincoln students and staff. We know this is early, especially for elementary only families, but we also know many families need to make plans for a day off of school. We also notify local radio and television stations. You can always find the closing list on Channels 2 (Fox), 4 (NBC), 7 (ABC) and 62 (CBS) as well as all major radio stations in the Ann Arbor and Detroit area. We also post a notice on the district website (LincolnK12.org), and use Facebook and Twitter.
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Corning Museum of Glass, November 1, 2007 Tina Oldknow: Hi. I'm Tina Oldknow, curator of modern glass at The Corning Museum of Glass. On November 2, 2007, we opened Masters of %%Studio Glass%%: Joel Philip Myers and Steven I. Weinberg, the first in a series of exhibitions highlighting the works of
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A type of decoration in the stems of 18th-century and later drinking glasses made by twisting columns of air.
The process of reheating a blown glass object at the glory hole during manufacture, to permit further inflation, manipulation with tools, or fire polishing.
Frederick Carder was born in England on September 18, 1863. Fred, as people called him, was fascinated with his family's pottery factory. At the age of 14, he insisted on quitting school so he could work there. His father was very unhappy about this, so he made Fred work from six in the morning
The prophet Muhammad proclaimed the new religion of Islam in 622. Following his death ten years later, Arab armies conquered much of what is now Egypt, the Near East, and Iran. Here the Moslems found flourishing glass industries, which continued to produce large quantities of objects for daily use.
Anyone who has gazed into the clear depths of a paperweight knows how intoxicating solid glass can be. Glass in vessel form can be decorative, beautiful, even breathtaking, but one cannot escape the utilitarian. After all, it can hold our Cheerios. On the other hand, you would be lying to yourself
Robert Willson (1912–2000) was a sculptor, "half Texan and half Choctaw Indian," as he liked to describe himself. A maverick in art and in life, he worked outside the mainstream. His work explores themes inspired by ancient mythologies, pre-Columbian and other native American art, and the American
What is your first association with the term "bohemian"? Does it evoke a fine beer-brewing tradition, or connote unpronounceable town names? Germans have a saying: "lauter böhmische Dörfer" (nothing but Bohemian villages), referring to something completely incomprehensible, because of the odd
The permanent collection of The Corning Museum of Glass holds sixteen glass panels affixed to light boxes, which were crafted in a mid-20th-century technique that has recently seen a surge in public interest. The panels, made in the 1950s and 1960s, came to the museum in 1993, and are called
The Beginning of the Studio Movement During the 1950s, studio ceramics and other craft media in the U.S. began to gain in popularity and importance, and American artists interested in glass looked for new paths outside industry. The catalyst for the development of studio glass in the United States
They make glass. By day and night, the fires burn on … and bid the sand let in the light. -Carl Sandburg, In Reckless Ecstasy, 1904. To see the unseeable: the quest is unending. But lenses and prisms are only as good as their glass. Optical-quality glass must be flawless. Even tiny flecks,
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In April 2005, The Corning Museum of Glass commissioned the artist Josh Simpson to create the world's first 100-pound glass paperweight, which will be part of Simpson's series of solid glass spheres he calls "planets" or " Megaplanets." It will be the 1,000th %
In glassworking, the process of coloring the surface of glass by the application of silver sulfide or silver chloride, which is then fired at a relatively low temperature. The silver imparts a yellow, brownish yellow, or ruby-colored stain, which can be painted, engraved, or etched. Drinking Horn
A trail of glass drawn out to form a ring or conical foot on which the vessel stands. Tall Beaker (Stangenglas)
A type of glass with air traps and specks of aventurine, patented in the 1890s by James Couper, Christopher Dresser, and George Walton. Clutha
Mold-blown decoration that has two sets of ribs. This is made by blowing the gather in a vertically ribbed dip mold, extracting and twisting it to produce a swirled effect, and then redipping it in the same or another dip mold to create a second set of ribs. Flask
A common, naturally colored, greenish or brownish glass. The color is characteristic of glass that includes traces of iron found in the silica used as the major ingredient. Such glass is inexpensive to produce, and it is used for such items as bottles, when good quality is not essential. Sometimes,
Glassware made in America between about 1815 and 1835 that was blown in a fullsize mold that (despite the popular name) consisted of between two and five pieces. Footed Bowl
The technique of decorating hot glass by dropping onto the surface blobs of molten glass, usually of a different color or colors. Beaker or Lamp
A type of Art Glass developed by Joseph Locke (1846-1936) at the New England Glass Company and patented in 1885. Made of colorless glass, it was mold-blown repeatedly, partly etched and stained amber or rose, and decorated with blue and amber garlands of flowers and fruits. Lemonade Glass in "
The part of a lamp where the flame is produced. Early Fluid Burning Lamp
Two varieties of glass, opaque black and opaque red, developed by the Bohemian glassmaker Jirí von Buquoy (1781-1851) and patented in 1817 and 1819 respectively. Hyalith Beaker
(from Greek) A small globular flask with two handles, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans to contain toilet oil. Aryballos or Oil Flask
(from Arabic al-anbiq, "the still") An apparatus used for distilling. Alembic
A glass object decorated with emblems or inscriptions associated with Freemasons. Masonic Decanter
(1) A shiny metallic effect made by painting the surface with metallic oxides that have been dissolved in acid and mixed with an oily medium. Firing in oxygen- free conditions at a temperature of about 1150°F (600°C) causes the metal to deposit in a thin film that, after cleaning, has a distinctive
Nineteenth-century pressed glass whose patterns include extensive stippling to produce a bright, lacelike effect that conceals wrinkles caused when the cold plunger of the pressing machine came into contact with the hot glass. Tray
(1) In Islamic art, an intricate pattern of interlaced ornament consisting of curvilinear stems and tendrils that terminate in leaves; (2) in Renaissance and later European art, a pattern of interlaced curvilinear stems, scrolls, and leaves, sometimes containing animal motifs. Vase


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