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  1. Nine of twelve
    In an ideal situation a developing player should be competing at a level slightly higher than where he has already succeeded. And I think that's fairly easy to do in the minor league system that's in place today. However, the jump from AAA to MLB is a bigger jump than moving up one class in the minors. For example, not many AAA batters can do much to a straight 95 fastball, but in MLB there are lots of players who turn those into 400-foot dingers.
  2. Nine of twelve
    Here's another way to finish games sooner: start every game at 5 minutes past the hour or half hour instead of 10, or 15, or even 20 as some teams have done in the past. It shouldn't take announcers more than 5 minutes to do an intro. Talk briefly about the starting pitchers and other pertinent important items then be ready to go for the first pitch.
  3. Nine of twelve
    Another way to look at it is that it gives the Twins the inside track to whichever player they feel will be a better fit for 2019.
  4. Nine of twelve
    That would appear to be a logical move at this point, especially Vargas. I'd think we could get decent return in a trade involving them.
  5. Nine of twelve
    Pretty sure Sanchez signed a minor league contract. No need to clear space unless he makes the team out of ST.
  6. Nine of twelve
    I don't believe Santana will be out long enough to be placed on the 60-dqy.
  7. Nine of twelve
    I'll bite my tongue for now. If he's lights out in ST I'll praise Falvine for their genius. If he's not they better cut him loose.
  8. Nine of twelve
    It would be informative to know a swing-and-miss percentage outside the zone and to know how batters fared when making contact with a pitch outside the zone.
  9. Nine of twelve
    For low-level FA's that will be a factor. For high-level FA's playing time will be the same everywhere.
  10. Nine of twelve
    I have no disagreement with any of the players chosen. One thing I would have probably considered would be going with a 6-man bullpen. I realize 7 has become the minimum these days but with that rotation 6 should be plenty. I don't know who I'd leave off but that would allow another position player to be added.
  11. Nine of twelve
    That means three 90-loss teams in the division. If that's the case the Twins should be able to hit 90 wins simply by playing .500 baseball outside the division.
  12. Nine of twelve
    You are entitled to feel the way you do as long as you heap even more disdain on the owners. They are the ones who control the money that we spend on baseball.
  13. Nine of twelve
    It's not so much the timetable for free agency as it is the salary schedule. The minimum salary could be made more equitable with a significant increase in the minimum salary for low seniority players with arbitration eligiblity beginning in year two. Edited to add: Reading shimrod's post I agree in principle with performance-related payouts if there is a fair and accurate way to evaluate performance. However, how one quantifies a player's contribution to his team's performance is a subject that is much debated among sabrmetricians and others. And if you factor in the significant money that would be riding on that it becomes even more challenging to define. Nevertheless, I think it's possible that something like that could be woven into a CBA with conscientious statisticians involved on both sides of the negotiations.
  14. Nine of twelve
    But the public money that goes to sports is a very small percentage of the overall revenue, and it's mostly for infrastructure, in other words stadiums. I think it's OK for taxpayers to contribute some of the money for stadiums because having viable professional sports contributes to the overall liveability and vibrancy of a large metropolitan area.
  15. Nine of twelve
    It's easy to gripe about how much the players make but there's no reason the owners should get a huge payoff either. Nobody complains how much money Tom Hanks or Paul McCartney has made and the players are entertainers just like them. The reality is that we fans contribute huge sums to the sport and the players are the reason we do that. Hence, the players should get most of the dough.
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    I think the timetable on free agency is probably about right and I think the players are entitled to at least as large a share of revenue as they currently receive, but I think the revenue sharing system needs to be adjusted. It's a recipe for apathy in half the country for the highest-revenue teams to continue to have a large advantage in the free agent market. Owners need to be aware that for the sport to maximize its total revenue every team should have a reasonably similar chance to sign top free agents.
  17. Nine of twelve
    In the six years of the two-wild-card format the number of wins for the second AL team have been 93, 92, 88, 86, 89, 85. I think 90 could do it because teams from other divisions will play more difficult schedules than Cleveland and Minnesota.
  18. Nine of twelve
    I don't think tanking for the first pick in the baseball draft is really worth it. Basketball, yes. Football and hockey, probably. Baseball, no. You can certainly wind up with a top-flight player like the Nationals did two years in a row with Strasburg and Harper. But as this list will show, it's also very easy to select a journeyman or worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_overall_Major_League_Baseball_draft_picks
  19. Nine of twelve
    I identify with this. There are two seasons to every year: baseball season and waiting for baseball season.
  20. Nine of twelve
    Want more action? Make the strike zone larger so that batters will swing at more pitches. Decrease the height of the mound so that pitchers won't be able to strike as many batters out.
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    This is a bad idea. Managers should not have an artificial constraint like this getting in the way of managing a game. The purpose of minor league baseball is player development. Winning games is of low priority. It's much more like spring training baseball than it is like regular season major league baseball. Pitchers are used based on how much work they need, not based on how they can help win a given game. For that reason, comparing the length of major league relief appearances and the length of minor league relief appearances is worthless data.
  22. Nine of twelve
    What this article fails to discuss is the actual accuracy of automated systems vs accuracy of MLB umpires. I don't have a citation off the top of my head but I have read previously on this site that the automated systems, while far from perfect, have a higher percentage of correct calls than umpires.
  23. Nine of twelve
    You can call it whatever you like, but the objective is to convince the umpire that a pitch is a strike whether the pitch is in the strike zone or not. This is not how things should be. If a pitch is in the strike zone it should be called a strike. If it is not it should be called a ball. If automated systems perform this task better than umpires, and they do, the umpires should be replaced and this aspect of catching would properly be rendered moot.
  24. Nine of twelve
    The term "pitch framing" is a misnomer that euphemizes its true nature. The correct term is "faking out the home plate umpire". The fact that there are metrics for it and that it's a topic of discussion on this web site strongly reflects the need for the implementation of a good automated pitch calling system ASAP.
  25. Nine of twelve
    Teams are getting better at drafting as the years progress but baseball is unique in that players are eligible for the draft years before they will develop the skills necessary to play in the majors. It would be interesting to see how many future stars were available at the end of each round of the drafts of years past and picture what kind of team could be constructed out of those players.
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