8 Wild Statistics From the 2024 Minnesota Twins Season

[tarheeltwinsfan]

11 hours ago, Riverbrian said:

If they keep him... Kirilloff's baseball future comes down to this year. 

He has gotten chance after chance. Scouts, Coaches, Analysts believe in this guy.. you can tell because he has gotten chance after chance. 

Scouts, Coaches and Analysts are not always right. Although sometimes... they keep giving a guy chance after chance until he eventually makes them right.   

Edit: This was posted before the news of his retirement. Since the news of his retirement. I have reconsidered my position: His baseball future does not come down to this year. 

Kirilloff retired?

[ashbury]

1 hour ago, tarheeltwinsfan said:

Kirilloff retired?

If only there were a website that brought up-to-the-minute news about the Twins to its ardent fans.

[ashbury]

7 hours ago, Riverbrian said:

BABIP is an interesting stat to play around with.

Taking the Home Runs and strikeouts out is like taking the shoe laces out of shoes and checking out the shoe itself. 

After checking it out... I just put the shoe laces back in for a better shoe experience. The shoe laces are just to important for evaluation of the shoe.

Because home runs really really matter and those strikeouts are the untied shoe lace that sent me into the bushes last week.

There's no question in my own mind that batting average is the most important of the five tools.

Sometimes it's interesting to look at the pieces that make it up.  People scrutinize strikeouts, and everyone celebrates home runs.  BABIP was the last of the three pieces to draw some analysis, and I don't think that the analysis is complete - e.g. Trevor Larnach is reputed to hit the ball really hard without much to show for it, and his BABIP indeed is close to league average, unlike Wallner - what is the difference between the two hitters?

If someone misunderstands and thinks BABIP is some kind of ultimate all-encompassing stat, they, well, I just said, they misunderstand.