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  1. vavo
    Didn't Gomez become a star when he quit trying to do that and started hitting home runs?
  2. vavo
    Love this. Thanks for writing it! Also, extremely jealous.
  3. vavo
    As with most HOF arguments it's a peak vs. longevity thing. If you care about peak, then it's hard to beat a gold glove, silver slugger, MVP catcher. Longevity is typically where you accumulate counting stats. Mauer will not really have any impressive counting stats other than times on base, which no one cares about. Also this is where you think about him spending several years as a light hitting first baseman, which is a description a LONG way from the HOF. I personally think if he can add another GG and batting title at first base, it really helps his case. The only player with 4+ batting titles (14 of them) who isn't in the HOF (besides Miguel Cabrera) is Bill Madlock, which um, he's certainly the odd one out on that list. If Mauer just has a couple more mediocre years and retires, I don't think he has enough "good" years to compliment his "great" years, and his "great" years aren't "great" enough to dismiss that.
  4. vavo
    I'd be pretty hesitant to read into 26 PAs too much. For what it's worth, he hit the ball 110mph twice last night. I'm not too worried. If his average is still sub-.100 two weeks from now we can start wringing our hands a bit.
  5. vavo
    Elite players will still get payed like elite players. Teams on the bubble will be interested in picking up mid level players to fill needs. Teams with almost no chance of the playoffs are no longer going to pay 50+ million for marginal value. Elite teams usually don't have much use for a #3 type starter because they already have 5 who are at least that good. The result of all this is relatively few teams in on the mid-tier free agents. Paying through the nose for a guy that is maybe 1 win better than someone you already have or can get cheap doesn't make sense for 90% of teams.
  6. vavo
    I think the biggest question for Sano is not his weight, but rather his strikeouts. With a 35% K rate he can still be good obviously -- something like 250/340/500, but if he can find a way to cut that down to even 30% (no small task, I know), then that turns into 280/370/530, which is much more like the player we all would like him to be. He's going to walk about 10% of the time and he's going to mash taters when he makes solid contact. The question is whether he can make contact a little more often.
  7. vavo
    Okay, we don't need to get into semantics here, but I'd say a .365/.444/.587 line in 2009 is pretty good offensive numbers. And .327/.429/.507 in 2006 ain't bad either. We've gotten used to old, post-concussion Joe Mauer, and I think we forget that he was one of the best hitters in the game for several years, and at the toughest position.
  8. vavo
    I'm also a longtime lurker and (now) a first-time poster here. Similarly motivated by John's recent post, I hope to start writing here, but I was especially motivated to reply to your story. I think it's awesome you've embarked on this adventure. I spent a month in the Dominican during college and loved it. Unfortunately the only baseball game I had an opportunity to watch was a bunch of kids, but it occurs to me now that for all I know one of them is playing professionally somewhere now. I also spent several months after college in Argentina, which I consider to have been a transformative experience. I'm glad to see someone else is also adventuring among our Spanish speaking neighbors.
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