ALDS Game 1 thread: Twins (Ober) v ASTROS (Verlander), 10/7@3:45pm CT

[RpR]

Stolen base took away a double play.

[CoastiePilot08]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

No worse batting than Wallner and a better fielder.

Uhhhh. What?

[IndianaTwin]

1 minute ago, Jocko87 said:

First base.

Geez, Chief. I told you that a few pages ago. 

[SwainZag]

Down 2, 3 outs to go.  Presley coming in.  Top of the lineup.   Why not now?

[glunn]

Winning in the 9th will be sweet.

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, Jocko87 said:

For all the sabermetrical stats we have I just can’t believe we aren’t measuring that situation.  Pass/fail, it doesn’t matter how you chose to approach it but did you score the run.

There are numerous people on this site who will die on the "strikeouts are just like any other out" hill.

Those same people dig K's from our pitching staff, BTW

 

 

[mrtwinsfan]

Payback Pressley here ,    Go Twins

[insagt1]

If they don't come back I'd like each hitter to hit the ball and not wave at strike 3...or take close ones because they should know the umps aren't going to give them the close ones.

[CoastiePilot08]

Worst case they showed some fight in this game and have top 2 starters going next. 
 

best case 1-0 Twins in the series. 

[Jocko87]

3 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

Oh, it’s measured. 

Outside of the game thread, where?

[USAFChief]

2 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

Geez, Chief. I told you that a few pages ago. 

A few pages ago?? Bless you, for thinking I can remember that far back.

[IndianaTwin]

 

[insagt1]

julien will either k or walk

[IndianaTwin]

1 minute ago, Jocko87 said:

Outside of the game thread, where?

Baseball-reference.com splits pages. 

[CoastiePilot08]

That was ball 4. Come on man. 

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, insagt1 said:

julien will either k or walk

False.

[Aggies7]

Terrible pitch it swing at 3-1

[insagt1]

I was wrong...but the result wasn;t good!

[Jocko87]

2 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

There are numerous people on this site who will die on the "strikeouts are just like any other out" hill.

Those same people dig K's from our pitching staff, BTW

 

 

Their opinions have merit but they may adjust approach when presented with the success percentage of a run scoring play over the course of a full season.  What’s the WPA of improving the success rate in that situation by say, 20%?

[CoastiePilot08]

Gotta take a better swing on 3-1

[CoastiePilot08]

Lol 4 balls to polo but it’s 2-2

[Parfigliano]

Just now, Jocko87 said:

Their opinions have merit but they may adjust approach when presented with the success percentage of a run scoring play over the course of a full season.  What’s the WPA of improving the success rate in that situation by say, 20%?

I thought this was a math free forum.

[CoastiePilot08]

Sigh 

[Jocko87]

2 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

Baseball-reference.com splits pages. 

It’s a data point I can work into by combining multiple lines on the splits page.  That’s not a measured stat.

[Aggies7]

A whiff a whiff a whiff 

[CoastiePilot08]

Expected better from polo 

[glunn]

That was a nasty curveball to Polanco.

[Jocko87]

1 minute ago, Parfigliano said:

I thought this was a math free forum.

That’s ok, it’ll be muted soon.

[CoastiePilot08]

AJ pretty spot on. Not great approaches. 

[USAFChief]

Agree with AJ...TF is Lewis swinging 2-0 there?