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  1. Nine of twelve
    It is acceptable to use Minnie when referring to the Minneapolis-based character in the team's logo. (His counterpart is Paul.)
  2. Nine of twelve
    Will it actually make any long-term difference to start coaching a 17-year-old four months sooner? Would such a player attain major league status at a younger age because of that? Would you want your son to leave high school in January or February of his senior year? All for the sake of generating fan and media interest in the draft in December? I know what I think but I'll let each reader answer those questions for themselves.
  3. Nine of twelve
    Which is better for baseball, to have the draft be better scouted or to hype the draft in December rather than June (keeping in mind that the draft isn't even worth the hype in the first place)? I'd say the former.
  4. Nine of twelve
    I think the draft needs to remain in June. I suppose it would be better to have it in the doldrums of the offseason from a newsiness standpoint but I think the draft has to be right after the high school and college seasons so that scouts can make a better appraisal of the players. Drafting in baseball is already difficult enough and I think it would be inadvisable to make it more so. Players can develop significantly at the age of 17 or 18, and if a college player has missed the previous season that also is a problem.
  5. Nine of twelve
    The OP also was looking only at left-handed batters.
  6. Nine of twelve
    I wish him well in his retirement but, whether it's fair or unfair, I'll always remember him as the player who did more than any other player to undermine any success the 2021 team might have had. His refusal to take care of his health was the primary cause of major chaos in the Twins' roster and schedule in April and May. As a result the team went through an 11-26 stretch and was out of the pennant race six weeks into the season.
  7. Nine of twelve
    I would be more interested to see how each of the above players performed in his first full professional season at the age of 19 (when applicable). I think that would give us a more immediate idea of what to hope for or expect out of Jenkins going forward.
  8. Nine of twelve
    I wonder if those rating the Carew and Blyleven trades among the worst were even alive then. As those of us who were fans then know, Blyleven was dissatisfied with his salary and Carew was dissatisfied with Calvin Griffith's infamous remarks in Waseca. Both players were very public in their remarks about their dissatisfactions and it was eminently clear that there was no choice but to trade them. Both situations were like the Johan Santana situation but with much more animosity. In a case like that you will wind up being underpaid and that's what happened. The trades themselves were as good as could be expected; in each case the problem lay in the bad situations arising in the first place.
  9. Nine of twelve
    I know I've said this before but it applies. An MLB team is not a business unto itself. MLB as a whole is the business. And owners should know that it's the highest priority to maintain fan interest, both in the game as a whole and in individual teams. And IYAM having a system that allows a very few teams to have an advantage that other teams can never attain is not good for the business of baseball. I wish I knew what the solution is, but somehow something needs to change. Right now, if the World Series ever pits the Yankees and the Dodgers I will ignore it.
  10. Nine of twelve
    Rick Reed was persona non grata in the eyes of almost all players because he decided to play during the replacement-player phase of the 1995 season. Even if he would have been a great pitcher and a great guy he would still have been disliked. Edit: ninja'd by Brandon. That's what I get for writing before reading.
  11. Nine of twelve
    There are two ways to evaluate trades. One, judge the trade based on available knowledge at the time of the trade. Two, judge the trade based on the entire trade tree. Judge the performance of all involved players for all teams. Include all players involved in all subsequent trades. To be complete, include the performance of players who continued their careers elsewhere after they were released, DFA'd, or non-tendered, and the performance of players they were traded with and for. Trade trees can continue for decades, and it's far too soon to attempt to evaluate the Mahle trade at this point.
  12. Nine of twelve
    Significant nitpick: I attended both Twins victories in the first round vs Toronto.
  13. Nine of twelve
    There's risk in every strategy.
  14. Nine of twelve
    Nitpick: The Ramos trade was in 2010. Mauer's concussion occurred in 2013 and ended his season; he moved to first base in 2014.
  15. Nine of twelve
    I'm interested in the long term health of the franchise, so I'm not sure this goes far enough into the future. Can we get an article projecting the 2033 lineup?
  16. Nine of twelve
    As for me, I'm not unhappy or angry. It's much better to decline to make a trade or signing offer than to make a bad one just for the sake of making it look like they are doing something.
  17. Nine of twelve
    I wouldn't either. More like bottom 15.
  18. Nine of twelve
    That's baseball. It's much more difficult for a good baseball team to win the World Series than it is for a good basketball team to win the NBA championship, or for a good hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, or for a good football team to win the Super Bowl.
  19. Nine of twelve
    If the player performs well the manager will show confidence. It's on the player, not the manager, to make that happen.
  20. Nine of twelve
    The manager gets criticized when a decision counter to the analytics backfires because the decision had a low likelihood of working. He gets criticized when a decision supported by the analytics backfires because he shouldn't be a slave to the numbers. He gets criticized when a decision counter to the analytics works because he got lucky when he shouldn't have taken the risk. He gets criticized when a decision supported by analytics works because he was only doing what the computer told him to do and he didn't think for himself. It's a lose-lose-lose-lose proposition. Every manager in MLB history has used analytics to inform his decisions. No manager has ever gone with the analytics every time. I hope nobody believes otherwise.
  21. Nine of twelve
    Baseball philosophy changes with time as more is learned and as more thought is applied. As DJL44 said, relief pitching has improved markedly over the last 10-20 years. This is partly due to better conditioning and better player development but it's also a change in philosophy. With larger bullpens relievers are increasingly being coached to give maximum effort knowing they will typically pitch only one inning (or occasionally up to two if well-rested). A rested reliever will usually out-perform a starter who has pitched to 20 or so batters. Obviously a manager has to guard against overtaxing the bullpen but the idea is to use the player who is most likely to succeed. So the only starters who eat innings will be those who pitch efficiently and effectively. And IYAM that's how it should be.
  22. Nine of twelve
    It's human nature for an owner to try to out-compete the other teams to become a winning team and I get that business people by nature want to earn as much money as possible. But each individual team is not a business unto itself. MLB is the business. If a team has no other viable teams to compete with the team ceases to exist. I don't understand how the owners of the richest teams can think that doing whatever they want without considering the effect on MLB as a whole is good business.
  23. Nine of twelve
    Innovative? Yeah, I suppose it's innovative to game the system in order to circumvent the intent of the rules, especially when you are one of the few teams that can afford to do it.
  24. Nine of twelve
    I don't wish anyone ill. But if the Dodgers lose 100 games I will not come close to shedding a tear, unless it's from laughing too hard.
  25. Nine of twelve
    Whatever the limit is, the tax rate should increase exponentially once the it has been exceeded. The further above the limit a team is, the higher the percentage of the overage that they have to pay.
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