a .39 correlation means that if you want to believe the theory you believe it. It also means if you don't want to believe the theory you can do that,...
Baker and Garza made it up through the system rather quickly. Slowey progressed not as quickly, but made multiple mid year promotions. Blackburn had...
Was there a top free agent willing to sign here? There were plenty of mediocre pitchers available. 4-5 starter types abound but the rant is about the...
So you would have one less bullpen pitcher and 6 starters that do not go deep into games? Every third day after their start they are the long man if...
In 2010 Carl Pavano went 17-11. WHIP 1.19,ERA 3.75 with a paltry k/9 of 4.3. That year for qualified starters was the third worst K/9. The problem in...
The upgrades by numbers would still leave them as 4-5 starters. You would have at best a minimal improvement over what was signed or traded for this...
Mourneau is batting about as well as an average player would. That is not good. Compared to other first base/DH types he is batting poorly. He would...
When there was a claim that there were 15 pitchers available to the Twins that were above average starters ERA+ was used as the designated statistic....
See last point about needing to make everything crystal clear for some people. Cubs. Big ticket item sucking. Feldman was a one year fill in. See the...
I would read your comment as strongly saying the Twins should have signed a shortstop. As there were more holes this winter that needed to be filled...
It is an article written for a numbers crunching group. Of course it is going to be a vanilla article. Imitation vanilla not from a bean. Diamond has...