Giggle. Right. Here's a question: when you sit down one-on-one with someone, do you know who else seems like a good guy?A: Bad guys.
Q: And when you sit down one-on-one with someone, do you know who seems like a bad guy?
A: Blatantly stupid bad guys.
So I think we can surmise that Jose Mijares isn't blatantly stupid, which is encouraging news given his actions since he joined the Twins:
- He screwed up his visa for spring training last year, Twinsfest this year and now spring training this year
- He showed up so obscenely overweight that he cost himself a spot on the 25-man roster for Opening Day
- He walked out on his winter league team last year, and when he returned his manager left him off the playoff roster even though he was sporting a 1.40 ERA
- And of course he incited his own teammate to charge him from the batters box during a critical pennant race game.
Looks like the Twins have their Jabba the Hut. Or will, once he gets his visa.
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Well written, thanks. He strikes me as a young man who would benefit by having his mother travel with him. Does Bill James have a statistic to measure and predict maturity?
Don't forget he 'fell asleep' at the wheel and crashed his car in 2008, resulting in a fractured left elbow and injured pitching shoulder!
What you write makes sense to me, as always.
However . . .
If our personal Kenny Powers only sees an inning at a time and keeps posting good numbers, I'm all for him. It's a different, creepier feel to see him trot slowly to the mound than a Crain/Guerrier, and I think there is value in that.
If he starts getting hit and loses those numbers, that's a different story.
Little bit of crazy can be a good thing on the mound, I think.
Also, don't forget about his attempt to start a beanball war last year that got him on Delmon's bad side.
i r dum. Disregard my comment... somehow I missed that you'd already covered it in your list of indiscretions.
At what point do we get to start saying, that's just Mijares being Mijares?
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