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jimmer Wichita Wind Surge

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In 1900 our good friend Charlie Hickman committed 86 errors at 3B ...

and ... his dWAR was .... -1.0.

 

(Doesn't give me a lot of faith in the definition of dWAR!)

Seriously? People were charged a bunch of errors in that day.  And the overall dWAR puts a positional adjustment in there.  That's why youll notice almost every 1B has a negative dWAR nowadays.  

 

Plus, I think it's probably easier to judge defense for players they had film on for every game :-)

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The fact that this is actually an understandable statement and not fueled by really late age dementia makes me a little sad.

Could be both.

h2oface Wichita Wind Surge

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Regardless of his learning curve, the flashes Sano shows indicates his ability. Now it is focus. Like it matters right now anyway. This is a perfect time to hang in there with him.

 

Milone still is responsible for serving up that Jack, unearned runs or not. It is still his job to not serve the meatball. This also helps get Milone out of the rotation and on the way to his success story in Korea.

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Regardless of his learning curve, the flashes Sano shows indicates his ability. Now it is focus. Like it matters right now anyway. This is a perfect time to hang in there with him.

Milone still is responsible for serving up that Jack, unearned runs or not. It is still his job to not serve the meatball. This also helps get Milone out of the rotation and on the way to his success story in Korea.

 

Park will eat him up.

Blake All-Star

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I prefer Sano in right field.

 

Seriously.

I prefer Kepler, but, I understand the sentiment.

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Sano's defense at 3B is making Brauns rookie year at 3B look good.

Yeah, it's brutal... But lots of infielders are brutal when they're introduced to the league. Everything is harder hit, guys are faster, smarter... It's a tough gig.

 

Trevor Plouffe was once a terrible third baseman. If the Twins were in this thing, I'd be screaming for Sano to go back to DH and rotate Nunez to third... But it's a lost season. Give Sano another 65 games at third and revaluate in November.

 

It's likely he won't stick at the position but he can't improve defensively if he's the DH.

jimmer Wichita Wind Surge

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Yeah, it's brutal... But lots of infielders are brutal when they're introduced to the league. Everything is harder hit, guys are faster, smarter... It's a tough gig.

 

Trevor Plouffe was once a terrible third baseman. If the Twins were in this thing, I'd be screaming for Sano to go back to DH and rotate Nunez to third... But it's a lost season. Give Sano another 65 games at third and revaluate in November.

 

It's likely he won't stick at the position but he can't improve defensively if he's the DH.

Plouffe wasn't raised in the minors a 3B and he, still, was never THIS brutal. Sano at 3B is a kind of bad one rarely sees at the major league level and he played there almost his whole minor league career.  Pop ups, throwing errors, errors between his legs.  Brutal on everything but soft hit balls he comes in on.

Danchat Minnesota Twins

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Kennys Vargas now has as many doubles as Mauer does (9). Vargas has had just 55 PAs compared to Mauer's 396 PAs.

 

Wow.

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Sano:  I understand the sentiment for him playing 3rd.  However,

 

  • how many times have we seen him flub simple infield popups?  Including the one that bonked him on the head.
  • how many times have we seen, because of poor footwork, Sano had to use his strong arm to just barely throw out runners today.
  • 15 HR's 12 ER's

IDK.  I'd hate to see a young guy end up as a DH.

 

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Hosken Bombo Disco

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Plouffe wasn't raised in the minors a 3B and he, still, was never THIS brutal. Sano at 3B is a kind of bad one rarely sees at the major league level and he played there almost his whole minor league career.  Pop ups, throwing errors, errors between his legs.  Brutal on everything but soft hit balls he comes in on.

wrong, but you've made your point

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