Underused Stat Explains Everything

[Game7-91]

Wondering if any cause/effect relationship explains this years dumpster fire of a season? Your question is answered. While other teams invest enormous time and money crunching never ending data, here in Minnesota, we have the silver bullet that explains everything: Uniforms. The trend is clear, results dispositive. Through the end of June, with data courtesy of UniformLineups.com, we see that when wearing their dark blue alternate (road or home), the Twins are sporting a hefty 15-12 record, for a .556 winning percentage.

Road grays come out to 7-9/.438.

Home whites fare the same: 7-9/.438.

Alt home reds: 4-9/.308.

And last and certainly least,

Alt Powder Blues '70's throwbacks: 1-5/.177. 

Caps are Dark Blues for all games except red uniforms, which have matching red caps, and 3 dates, May 14-16, when the cammy caps were worn, winning once, (red uni) losing twice (red and dk blue uni).

The data is clear. Powder Blues must go.

May we please look forward to a promotional night, sooner than later, titled "Burn the Blue!".

All several hundred fans in attendance that special night can enjoy bonfires scattered throughout the stadium, featuring the toasting of these hideous reminders of all things '70's, not the least of which is a series of bad baseball teams that our current heroes unfortunately too closely mimic. Not only will these execrable excuses for clothing go up, but anything fans who lived through and are still recovering from the trauma of the 70's pop culture need to let go of may be piled on as well-such as, disco balls, polyester of any kind/shape/color, lava lamps, fragments of shag carpet, The Carpenters Greatest Hits 8-Track, pictures of self or loved ones sporting a feather haircut-the list can goes on. Like a shamanic exorcism, each current powder blue monstrosity shall be ceremoniously placed atop pyres, publicly accused and convicted of carrying negativity by the simple fact of its existence, generously doused, and lit afire, a thousand points of light throughout Target Field, a purging that will lead to brighter, purer, healthier win-loss record in the future.

In case you are wondering what might replace these in the uni rotation, I suggest Clear as a home/road alternate. Utterly unique in concept and design, clear uni's will make a statement. Of the inevitable questions that may result, players will have a ready come-back: "I'm not naked, I'm on the 26-man."

[Nine of twelve]

The powder blues should go even if we had won every game in which they were worn.

[IndianaTwin]

Disco records!

Let's burn disco records as part of the celebration night. That would be really keen!

 

 

[Number3]

Not complicated enough. How about UPOPSPSR. Uniform plus on base % plus slugging plus spin rate. Baseball now reminds me of an economics class I took; Money and Banking, which had terms like "marginal propensity to consume".

[Dodecahedron]

The powder blue uniforms remind me too much of the early 80s teams.  My mind has those uniforms permanently linked to Twins failures.

And furthermore, my mind has the pinstripes linked to teams that do exciting things.

Image is important in baseball, no?

[Brock Beauchamp]

8 minutes ago, Dodecahedron said:

The powder blue uniforms remind me too much of the early 80s teams.  My mind has those uniforms permanently linked to Twins failures.

And furthermore, my mind has the pinstripes linked to teams that do exciting things.

Image is important in baseball, no?

Not that it really changes your overall point, as the Twins were mostly mediocre/bad in the 70s too, but the powder blues originated in the early 70s.

[Original_JB]

On 7/10/2021 at 11:25 AM, Game7-91 said:

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In case you are wondering what might replace these in the uni rotation, I suggest Clear as a home/road alternate. Utterly unique in concept and design, clear uni's will make a statement. Of the inevitable questions that may result, players will have a ready come-back: "I'm not naked, I'm on the 26-man."

Combine that with a protocol where our pitchers *ask* to be checked for foreign substances each inning, and I think you might be onto something.

[RedBull34]

On 7/10/2021 at 11:25 AM, Game7-91 said:

In case you are wondering what might replace these in the uni rotation, I suggest Clear as a home/road alternate. Utterly unique in concept and design, clear uni's will make a statement. Of the inevitable questions that may result, players will have a ready come-back: "I'm not naked, I'm on the 26-man."

They might be a bit hard to explain from the family section!

[Otto von Ballpark]

16 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Not that it really changes your overall point, as the Twins were mostly mediocre/bad in the 70s too, but the powder blues originated in the early 70s.

The 70s Twins teams feel almost forgotten sometimes. Not good or bad like other decades, just consistently around .500.

Leaving out the 98 win 1970 division champ season, the rest of the decade the Twins were 714-730 -- an 80-82 pace over 162 games. And they never strayed far from that -- max 85 wins, and max 89 losses. And they followed it up with another typical 77-84 mark in 1980 too.

1981 was the change -- strike shortened season, but a 61-101 pace, after the franchise had never been below 70 wins since the Washington days (and hadn't been below 73 wins since their inaugural season in Minnesota).

[ashbury]

8 minutes ago, RedBull34 said:

They might be a bit hard

Are we no longer considering phrasing at all?

[Brock Beauchamp]

5 minutes ago, Otto von Ballpark said:

The 70s Twins teams feel almost forgotten sometimes. Not good or bad like other decades, just consistently around .500.

Leaving out the 98 win 1970 division champ season, the rest of the decade the Twins were 714-730 -- an 80-82 pace over 162 games. And they never strayed far from that -- max 85 wins, and max 89 losses. And they followed it up with another typical 77-84 mark in 1980 too.

1981 was the change -- strike shortened season, but a 61-101 pace, after the franchise had never been below 70 wins since the Washington days (and hadn't been below 73 wins since their inaugural season in Minnesota).

Yeah, I was looking into that just a little while ago. Those 70s Twins teams really had "mediocrity" nailed down. They rarely finished outside the 3/4 slots in their 6-7 team divisions.

[RedBull34]

3 hours ago, ashbury said:

Are we no longer considering phrasing at all?

Your mind needs some serious cleaning up.

I like that.