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Game Thread, Tigers @ Twins, 9/16 @ 7:10 pm CT

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USAFChief GOAT

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I know it's the right play to bunt the runner to third base with no one out however in this era of weak contact and strikeouts I don't even like that play. It's hard to score a runner from third without a hit anymore.

Yeah, but with Buxton's weak hitting, it's a reasonable call.

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I know it's the right play to bunt the runner to third base with no one out however in this era of weak contact and strikeouts I don't even like that play. It's hard to score a runner from third without a hit anymore.

I'd argue it was the exact wrong play in the situation with Suzuki and no real PH option available due up next. If the next batter is a guy like Mauer, Hicks, Rosario or Sano? By all means bunt him over to third and take your chances on a SF or a hit.

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rghrbek

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Nothing to lose?  

 

Squeeze plays are not automatic.  You had the winning run on third with one out.  There's a reason squeeze plays are rare.

you have two outs to work with and a not so good hitter..your chances are better with the squeeze, then letting suzuki flail.  disagree.  Other people batting than yes... not kurt

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S'up, UR,... you're no Descartes.

 

You're just reminding us how great it is to regularly post on a board where a Descartes reference thing is ...awesome?

Isn't it? 

 

Tongue in cheek exclamations of joy and disbelief sometimes call for the arcane

LaBombo Wichita Wind Surge

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McCartney. No Simon!

Denial aside, he existed.

http://www.karinahunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Chris-Simon-Washington.jpg

 

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rghrbek

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Or it turns into a double play...

 

Yeah lots of those plays turn in to double plays...thats sports center highlight stuff if they do

ScrapTheNickname FCL Twins

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Nothing to lose?  

 

Squeeze plays are not automatic.  You had the winning run on third with one out.  There's a reason squeeze plays are rare.

I've been looking around for stats of how many suiciden squeeze's are successful, but I couldn't find anything.

DaveW All-Star

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Anybody know whatever happened to JR Graham? Did he quit baseball and become a small town doctor?

Injured, this late in the season with call ups etc there is no real point to putting a guy on the DL.

USAFChief GOAT

USAFChief

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Anybody know whatever happened to JR Graham? Did he quit baseball and become a small town doctor?

I guess I'm the only one that "got" it.

LaBombo Wichita Wind Surge

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Isn't it? 

 

Tongue in cheek exclamations of joy and disbelief sometimes call for the arcane

Twins Daily begs for and demands the arcane every night.   But it also offers dollar pitchers and validates parking.

 

Draw?

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rghrbek

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I gotta say, I am not a fan of how the twins have treated Hicks.  Everyone love Rosario, and they should, he's got high end talent.  But I think Hicks, after 3 years of experiments has figured it out.  rosario has a way to go.  I know we love his arm and triples, but they are not the same players right now...hicks has a much larger upside at least right now...it all could change as kids are kids

jimbo92107 Cedar Rapids Kernels

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"Anybody know whatever happened to JR Graham? Did he quit baseball and become a small town doctor?"

I guess I'm the only one that "got" it.

Or the only one that admits getting it... ;-)

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