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  1. Nine of twelve
    Before I looked up the answer I was thinking maybe Rick Sofield. But I remember your guy too. Sometimes potential just doesn't translate into a major league level of skill.
  2. Nine of twelve
    As we all know, this list is incomplete, very much so. There must be more than 100 former players who could be included, going back to 1961. I'll add one to the list from that first season. He was a journeyman reserve infielder who finished his playing career that year, appearing in 108 games at shortstop and second base. He only hit .246 but still managed to produce 5 triples and 6 home runs. I'll chime in with his name later if no one else can come up with it.
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    No.
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    I feel the same way about Forbes. SOB should have been convicted. I was a North Stars fan and went to most of the home playoff games in 1991, including that last loss to Pittsburgh. The guys just ran out of gas those last few games. And I was hurt when Worm Green moved the team to Dallas. But I just never found the same passion for the Wild, I've never attended one of their games, and at this point I have come to dislike fighting as part of the professional game. I do keep track of college hockey, though, and my heart is gladdened by each UMD win and each Gophers loss. The Gopher's men's hockey program and their fans are right down there with the Yankees. Same sense of entitlement, same arrogance. Oh, and Slap Shot is one of my favorite movies of all time.
  5. Nine of twelve
    Can we get an honorable mention for Joe Decker? Had 15 K's in a game in 1973.
  6. Nine of twelve
    Statistically speaking, every now and then there will be an statistical outlier.
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    Good one, but it was not quite a true trade. The Twins had the first pick of the Rule 5 draft and would have taken Santana straight up but there was a pre-arranged deal with the Marlins that allowed this trade to be made with a bit of additional cash coming to the Twins.
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    If Mauer would have been moved early in his career I think third base is where he would have wound up. He had the hands of an infielder and had less than ideal speed for an outfielder. The thing is that at that time the Twins were well-situated at third. And when Mauer was finally moved it was to first base mainly because that's where the team had a hole that needed to be plugged.
  9. Nine of twelve
    There have been numerous articles published by numerous sources about how the current Presidential administration took certain actions and failed to take other certain actions during the last three years which resulted in poor control of the spread of the virus in this country.
  10. Nine of twelve
    I would much rather have baseball to watch than not to have baseball to watch. But with all the current concerns to be concerned about I find that the lack of baseball doesn't really make a difference.
  11. Nine of twelve
    I'm afraid this misses the key reason for sheltering at home. It's mainly to minimize transmission of the virus, and it's turning out that it is very easily transmitted. Everyone is at risk to contract the disease. Everyone. Having "the rest of us go back to normal life" makes it far more difficult to prevent transmission to everyone. Everyone.
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    This is true, but the question is when there will be enough reliable tests. And as I said on another thread, there are tens of millions of people who should be a higher testing priority than professional athletes. From what I read it will be many months.
  13. Nine of twelve
    I clicked like not because I liked what was written but because I agreed with what was written.
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    As you stated, you are obviously not an expert and certainly not a doctor of medicine. You state you are trying to inform but you are spreading misinformation. The motivation for sheltering at home is not panic. It's based on reliable data. Hydroxychloroquine is NOT a proven treatment, not even close, and it has potential for serious side effects. We don't know if a vaccine will be successful, much less approved in a year or less. In some cases (HIV for example) no reliable vaccine has been found. And the idea of serum injections, well, let's just say it's not a sure thing by any means. Please do not post stuff like this when you do not have a thorough knowledge and understanding of medicine.
  15. Nine of twelve
    Kaat was also a very good baserunner. He was sometimes used as a pinch runner on his days off.
  16. Nine of twelve
    Regarding Gerrit Cole: the AL East is an easier division than the AL West.
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    I think the thrust of the original post was that warming up with a heavy bat should not be done immediately before an at-bat. It would seem that the time to do this training would be after a game, on a day off, or much earlier on the day of a game.
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    Here's a note that was alluded to in the opening post. I don't have a citation on this but I have read that a study was done showing that the length, weight, and weight distribution of a bat do not factor in to exit velocity of a batted ball. In the study balls were struck (I think from a tee) by different-sized bats all set at the same speed and there was no difference in the distance the balls traveled. There are other factors of course, primarily pitch speed, the angle of the swing, and how the ball is struck, but in order to get the exit velocity as high as possible you have to get the bat moving as fast as possible. So it would seem to me that players should use the lightest bat that they can control.
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    He finished 4th in the AL in batting in 1976. Not really a one hit wonder.
  20. Nine of twelve
    I experienced a sense of deja vu on this one, sort of like it had been ranked #1 in another Tom video or something.
  21. Nine of twelve
    Almost as much fun as watching it live last season.
  22. Nine of twelve
    The 2019 baseball was a travesty. But I watched every single one of those dingers and found it to be very enjoyable. I didn't keep track of first row landings but I think even with a normal baseball we'd have hit 250.
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    I would LOL except unfortunately it's not funny.
  24. Nine of twelve
    When (not if) automated strike calling comes into use (and it can't be too soon) a strike will be a strike and a ball will be a ball (like god intended).
  25. Nine of twelve
    As you stated, in spite of the fact that there is a very good and very obvious reason for the name change some people just refuse to understand.
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