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  1. Nine of twelve
    Reducing it to three is impossible. Babe Ruth is the best baseball player ever, but that's partly because no other player who would even be considered for that description was both an elite pitcher and an elite batter. Even so I'd still include him here because no other player has ever been so far beyond his contemporaries. After Ruth there's no such thing as naming two players who clearly stand out above the rest. I'm not going to try to do that, but I will mention a few things. Frank Robinson should be considered. Willie Mays played many games at Candlestick Park, known for less-than-ideal baseball weather. Hank Aaron played many games at Fulton County Stadium, which was also called the launching pad because of batter-friendly outfield dimensions and less dense air than any other major league venue (until the Rockies came into existence). Ted Williams lost three seasons in the prime of his career (the seasons in which he turned 25, 26, and 27) due to military service. Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash before his career would have otherwise ended. Is Ken Griffey, Jr. a candidate? Oscar Charleston and James Bell? We'll never know.
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    Check out the outfielders on the NL roster of the 1965 ASG. The starters were Stargell in LF, Mays in CF, and Aaron in RF. The reserves were Callison, Clemente, Frank Robinson and Billy Williams. Now picture Gene Mauch, who managed the NL team, telling those four players this: Sorry, guys, have a seat on the bench. You're not good enough to start.
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    Warning: math approaching. I enjoy the YouTube channel Numberphile. Sometime during the last month I found this video. I think it's worth watching, even for non-mathematicians. Watch it all the way to the end.
  4. Nine of twelve
    Willie may think you're jumping the gun on this a little.
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    Acquiring Capps improved the Twins' 2010 bullpen, and this was a team that had legitimate postseason possibilities. That made it a good trade in the short term. Obviously, we now know that Smith overpaid and that made it a bad trade in the long term. Trades like that are risky and it takes excellent talent evaluation skills to make it work in one's favor. Smith seems to have been lacking in that regard.
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    Much of the time--probably most of the time--teams have no choice other than to "let free agents walk away". The player has earned the right to accept any offer he chooses by putting in his time and playing well. Teams can make a trade (usually getting little in return) or make a QO but that's about it. One must also take into account the value a team has gotten from having that player on the roster, often at below-market salary. Losing a player to free agency should not necessarily be regarded as a failure on the part of the team because many times--probably most times--the team did everything they reasonably could to retain the player.
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    I'm surprised no one has posted this in this forum already. Here's the story from Phil Miller of the Strib. https://www.startribune.com/toby-gardenhire-will-manage-twins-top-affiliate-the-st-paul-saints/600012179/
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    Certainly the thought occurred to me. In this day and age of testing it has become difficult to get away with it but when a player who is about to have his career end due to mediocre performance suddenly becomes dominant it makes one wonder.
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    We are dinosaurs. We finally ditched our landline phone in 2020 but due partly to inertia the cable is still hooked up, so FSN it is. We are a one-TV family so if there's another show being watched by another family member I'll stream the game on a site that is not supposed to be mentioned on Twins Daily's web site. When I'm in the car it's SiriusXM (better sound quality than AM) unless the home broadcast isn't available there, in which case it's CCO. And even then I find that I sometimes enjoy listening to the opposition radio crew while the Twins are batting, even John Sterling if the Twins are having a rare good inning against the team that must not be named. As much as I love going to Target Field, I'll wait until community immunity reaches a satisfactory level before I venture there. I hope we get to that point sooner rather than later.
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    We would need to do a full trade tree as has been done on other threads regarding other trades. This was certainly not a popular trade but it wasn't horrible. Remembering the Nettles trade made me think of another one. We got Jerry Koosman from the Mets in exchange for Jesse Orosco in December of 1978. Look at the cumulative stats for those pitchers from 1979 forward and you'll see how bad that one was for our team.
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    Concur regarding beer and bratwurst. The Kramarczuk stand at Target Field has been a must-visit for me for a long time. I confess to being in the minority here in that I don't hate the White Sox. I don't want them to do well, especially against us, but having made many visits to Chicago they are the clear choice for me over the Cubs. I reserve my hatred for the team from the Bronx, whose name must not be spoken.
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    To me the solution to the problem is to change revenue sharing to require the high-revenue teams to share more of their revenue with low-revenue teams, but that's a whole different thread.
  13. Nine of twelve
    Does Hand have a son named Armand?
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    If he would truly love to play for the Twins I hope that can lead to to a home-team discount. That would make signing him worthwhile.
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    Watching a natural-born centerfielder like Buxton is a beautiful thing. I suppose the same could be said about catchers and shortstops, but neither of those positions inspired John Fogerty to write a song about them.
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    A color. Just like the Cincinnati Reds, the St. Louis Browns, the Stanford Cardinal, etc. I think most people understand this concept so this explanation is for those who don't.
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    That's a pretty low bar to clear.
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    I don't think there needs to be a "clear mandate" in order to make it right to change the Cleveland mascot. Even if only 10% of First Americans find it offensive that's more than enough, IMHO.
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    I still want to see a game in Blue Wahoos Stadium someday even though my favorite team will no longer have an affiliate playing there.
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    I certainly never used this argument. I think the level of disrespect, which is high enough to justify getting rid of these logos, mascots, etc, was always just as high as it is now. What has gradually become more widespread is the awareness of how disrespectful they are.
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    I echo this complaint (and I agree that it's minor), and I'll also mention the "deep drives" that wind up being easily caught. Those may seem contradictory on the surface, but the pop-ups to the warning track are typically hit by opposition batters and the deep drives to the medium outfield are typically hit by the Twins.
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    I also like the Hammers. And by the way, look at the current logo in your avatar. It's easy for me to understand how the inclusion of the tomahawk and the ethnic stereotype it implies would be considered offensive to many people.
  23. Nine of twelve
    Of course the Negro Leagues were major leagues. This was the highest attainable level for Black professional baseball players.
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    I disagree about distinguished. Read item number 7. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1006037-10-most-revolting-on-field-acts-in-baseball-history
  25. Nine of twelve
    As long as the source of the fee was agreed to by both parties it doesn't matter to me.
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