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  1. jkcarew
    Davis played over 120 games in a season 8 times in his career, including 5 consecutive years ages 24-28…all while playing the OF, primarily CF. He was Lou Gehrig compared to Buxton, who did this once, and never was really even close other than that…apparently ever.
  2. jkcarew
    So true. Only one among us that vividly recalls all three franchise WS wins. Favorite all-time player is Goose Goslin. Wished WWII had lasted longer after the Senators moved to within a game of the pennant in ‘45.
  3. jkcarew
    Not going to say how old I am…but have a framed photo in the man cave of Rod Carew in his rookie season with his arms around me on one side and my brother on the other. (‘Picture Day’ at the Met)
  4. jkcarew
    Saw Liam Hendriks is throwing bullpen sessions to build up. Wonderful to hear.
  5. jkcarew
    Lewis did NOT hit a 3rd HR in his 4th PA. Line drive single and a caught steeling. Rocco plans to have Buxton and Lewis split DH duties, with each DH’ing half of each game. To be safe.
  6. jkcarew
    Fwiw, it hurts more against a right-handed starter where we have decent left handed bats as an alternative at DH. Against lefties, it’s not like we have an extra dangerous right handed bat to DH if Buxton was to go to center (Rocco has Jeffers but won’t use him with only 2 guys that can catch active.)
  7. jkcarew
    If I’m going to bat only one lefty, Larnach is NOT my first or second choice. Kirilloff (about 5th), Gallo (about 7th) before Larnach at any spot. But I suppose both Larnach and Gallo currently have health concerns that Larnach doesn’t.
  8. jkcarew
    If I’m going to bat only one lefty, Larnach is NOT my first or second choice. Kirilloff (about 5th), Gallo (about 7th) before Larnach at any spot. But I suppose both Larnach and Gallo currently have health concerns that Larnach doesn’t.
  9. jkcarew
    Since Ron Guidry won it in 1978, a Yankees pitcher has won it one time. Twins pitchers have three since then. I think they’ve got it wrong a few times, but don’t see any east coast bias (or west coast bias) for this award in resent history.
  10. jkcarew
    I’d rather have 3 legitimately good starters than one Cy Young guy and little else. In the ‘real’ post season, it’s about how you match up at 1, 2, and 3. Yes, being at a real disadvantage at the no. 1 matchup can be deflating. But that can be overcome if matchups 2 and 3 are even or better….all the more realistically if the discrepancy at no. 1 isn’t dramatic. I think this is what…at least at the quarter pole…SEEMS like a somewhat realistic situation for the Twins in 2023. Even with a faulty offense, you have a puncher’s chance if the starter is keeping you in the game. I don’t think that’s been a realistic playoff scenario for the Twins in a long, long time. Now, if the bats and the bullpen will allow us to get there.
  11. jkcarew
    Relievers who have faced more batters than Duran this season… Lopez, Jax, Pagan, Moran, Alcala Sometime you need to use your number 1 leverage guy in the 7th or 8th inning.
  12. jkcarew
    He’s 1000% gone when Lewis arrives…barring another infield injury. For those that would keep him at that point, who else are you DFA’ind or demoting. They’re not DFA’ing Gordon, nor should they.
  13. jkcarew
    The young batters are really struggling at Cedar Rapids. The non-pitchers in Cedar Rapids average a year YOUNGER than those at Fort Myers. Unusual? It shows in the hitting stats….despite the notoriously tough hitting conditions in the GCL.
  14. jkcarew
    Rodriguez has been pretty much overmatched…pretty badly, at Cedar Rapids. Not that that really means anything yet, other than make we wonder how could he have possibly moved up. There can’t be that many other guys K’ing at a 50% clip. Graduations?
  15. jkcarew
    Kingman’s best 3 years we’re in Wrigley…he barely had anything close to a good year outside of wrigley…maybe one. He wouldn’t be in the hall of fame in ANY era.
  16. jkcarew
    Yeah. Not much of a comparison really…even while just looking at batting. Kingman had one big year…only 2 years where his OPS was over 850…and both in parks very conducive to HR. Crew had a relatively long ramp up (injuries and also had two seasons before they lowered the mound in 1969)…and then a career tale, as well. He had 6 consecutive years where he averaged 900 OPS, without one being as low as 850.
  17. jkcarew
    No. But in 1979, the Angels would have been better off with Kingman, rather than Carew. Carew batted 318, that year. Kingman 288.
  18. jkcarew
    Again, not really. Not for many big power guys. Aaron Judge batted 311 last year…he struck out 175 times. A lot of power hitters through the years have sustained BA above average with high K%. Why? Because when they do make contact, they hit the ball much harder than average…result, not just HRs, but also sustainably high BABiP.
  19. jkcarew
    A batting average between 200 and 300 means nothing without more data, IMO. I’d say significantly below 200, it’s more and more likely that it says “bad”. Likewise, once you get past, say 325…it’s very likely you’re at least “good” even with very little power or walks. (Currently a 363 hitter that hits all singles and never walks is an average hitter in terms of run production.)
  20. jkcarew
    But not with one out left. Hugely disrespectful to the veteran Fullmer. And the game.
  21. jkcarew
    And then he would have tried to find the elevator. Better odds on the first.
  22. jkcarew
    Absolute dick move by the Cubs manager. And he got what he deserved.
  23. jkcarew
    It’s a weird place to be in when both catchers swing right-handed and the better defensive catcher is the weaker hitter. I don’t know exactly where the threshold is for Vazquez’s offense before the defensive advantage is negated. I do know that I’d at least try to start Jeffers against all lefties (didn’t start against Smyly)…just based on the HR/XBH potential that presents.
  24. jkcarew
    Right? Poor Joey and his 199 BA. If he keeps playing like this, he’ll be lucky to get a contract worth more than $60M this off-season.😉
  25. jkcarew
    Who are these ‘pretty decent’ platoon bats of which you speak? Solano with his career OPS against lefties of 707 (worse this year)? Or Castro and his 699 (also worse this year)? But, yes…if the plan is to have Kirilloff play 75% of games (or whatever) because the wrist can’t handle more…that’s different. Then, might as well try to line those days up with lefty starters as much as possible.
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