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  1. Nine of twelve
    The Dave Edmunds version, not the Huey Lewis version.
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    What makes team A better is not necessarily that same thing that will make team B better.
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    I am becoming more convinced that Falvine know what they are doing. One of the side effects of having a competent and successful organization is that players and agents will take note, making Minneapolis a desirable destination for quality free agents.
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    Because the desired comparable FA may not want to sign with your team.
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    I don't know who mentioned this first, but I'll repeat it. If the Red Sox were truly concerned about Graterol's medical report they would have simply said the deal was off. The fact that they want to keep Graterol and get a second player tells the world that the medical report is not the true issue.
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    Yes.
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    I want to know what, specifically, the Red Sox cite about Graterol's medical condition that is the reason to invalidate the trade. I don't know if those details can be made public given HIPAA and so forth, but it would be very interesting to know exactly what, if anything, the Red Sox learned that they didn't already know.
  9. Nine of twelve
    You should have had your car repainted with Twins logos all over it. Now THAT would have been noticed.
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    If Graterol turns out to have a physical problem that invalidates his trade from the Dodgers to Boston, the Dodgers would have reason to turn around and invalidate his trade from Minnesota. It seems to me that the Twins will wind up on the hook if further compensation is required. Or, of course, if it cancels the whole trade we keep Graterol.
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    I don't have time to read all the posts now, so this will probably be a repeat of what someone else has said. I was really hoping Graterol would be a blow-everyone-away closer. If he stays in that role and he stays healthy he could be the career saves leader when he retires. I don't have enough insider info or talent-evaluating ability to have an opinion on whether he should be starting. As with any trade, we won't know for many years who comes out ahead. I always think about Detroit trading for Doyle Alexander in 1987, who helped them win the AL East. To get him they gave up a prospect named John Smoltz. Detroit got the help they wanted in 1987 but Atlanta clearly won the trade. Time will tell.
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    It's not just overestimating Twins' fly balls. The opposite also happens. There have been quite a few times where an opposing player hits what Dick refers to as a popup, only to have the ball travel medium to deep into the outfield.
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    This is exactly what I was referring to. He almost never says whether the runner in the above situation advances to third or not. I just don't like the job he does, and this being his 20th or 21st season I don't think things will improve. If he were on the baseball side Falvine would do a non-renewal when his contract expired.
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    I don't like this but I certainly understand and agree. I enjoy Gladden's personality and I think he has a very good understanding of the game, but he is fair to poor at describing the action when he's on play-by-play. But what really grates on me is his mispronunciation of Hispanic names. In this day and age anyone who makes a living in baseball should have at least a basic knowledge of Spanish. Gladden has been in the booth for 20 years now, and to me the fact that he still pronounces Adrianza with a long a shows a lack of professionalism. I think Atteberry is great.
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    Two comments: One: using the total OPS+ instead of ranking each position improves the accuracy of this analysis, and I think including stadium and cheating factors would move this total this even more in the Twins' favor. Two: I will henceforth refer to the Houston MLB team using this name.
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    As someone wrote on another thread, counting stats are dumb. Rather than guessing how many we'll hit I think it would be better to speculate on whether we lead the majors again and on the bomba total of the second leading team expressed as a percentage of ours. (In 2019 the Yankees bomba total was 99.67% of ours.)
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    I think WPA is on the right track as a way to measure a player's worthwhile performance because the goal of playing is to win games and it addresses that. However, its strength can also be its biggest drawback. It is weighted in favor of good performance in close-and-late situations, which is good because good performance in those situations is more important. The problem is that it penalizes players on very bad teams and very good teams because such teams have fewer close-and-late situations. It seems to me that a better way to use WPA would be to compare a player's WPA outcome in a given situation with the best possible and worst possible WPA outcomes in those situations. For example, say a player comes to bat with no outs and two on in the bottom of the ninth with his team down two runs. The best possible outcome would be hitting a home run. The worst possible outcome would be hitting into a triple play. I would guess that some stat-head somewhere has looked into doing this but I've never researched it to find out if it has been done. If it has never been done then it would be an excellent project for someone with the skill, the time, and the interest.
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    This thread reads like a medical journal, and that is meant as a compliment. Many thanks to Lucas and heezy for sharing your expertise with us.
  19. Nine of twelve
    This can serve as a game thread. Who’s here?
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    That was definitely not unique to the Twins organization. What is different is the rule change from the 15-day minimum to the 10-day minimum for the injured list that took place before the 2017 season. That rule has been modified for the 2020 season. The minimum for pitchers on the IL will be 15 days so there won't be as much use of the IL to manipulate the pitching staff in the future. Adding the 7-day concussion IL also has come into play.
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    There's more going on in downtown Minneapolis this weekend than TwinsFest and the Meltdown. Just thought I'd give everyone a heads-up. http://www.startribune.com/e-sports-weekend-event-to-launch-friday-at-the-armory-in-minneapolis/567236642/
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    If you want to watch a sport with that kind of feature then watch boxing.
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    The MLB rules-makers and policy-makers and umpires are the ones who should be in charge of keeping head-hunting down.
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    The NL won more interleague games than the AL each of the last two seasons. However, the last time before 2018 the NL did so was 2003.
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    Guess I must have misread something somewhere.
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