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  1. Nine of twelve
    I definitely favor having the DH. I admit to enjoying the novelty of seeing an AL pitcher get a hit in one of his 5 plate appearances of a season but I would enjoy seeing a real batter get a hit just as much. One point regarding the comment about Gerrit Cole running the bases: NL starting pitchers run the bases and I doubt they are injured doing so any more frequently than other players. I think it's a matter of being accustomed to doing it. If I were a manager I would consider identifying a couple starting pitchers who would be capable base runners and make sure they get coaching and opportunities to do that in spring training and in games that aren't close. This gives the manager a little more flexibility. The Twins used to do this with Jim Kaat in the '60's. Example: a slow catcher (that's probably redundant) hits a double late in a close game. Put a pitcher in to pinch run so you don't have to use a position player who would come out of the game right away before another slow catcher is put in. On a separate note, why is this thread in the Minor League Talk Forum?
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    As I said in my previous post I don't know who it was. I had been flipping channels and I only caught about 5 minutes of the interview before I arrived at my destination and stopped listening. That said, I did not get any sense whatsoever of your guess that the player may have held disdain for metrics.
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    The Twins don't have to put Donaldson onto the 40-man until signatures on the contract are in place. The 40-man currently has 41 players according to the Twins' MLB web site; I assume Pineda doesn't have to be counted. I am curious to see who is removed and I am also curious to see what number Donaldson will wear. He wore 20 in Atlanta, Toronto, and Oakland but I would not expect Rosario to give it up.
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    One very small complaint: the link to Other Baseball on the header is gone. This means having to make an extra click to get there. More wear and tear on the fingers, you know. (As I said, a very small complaint, but if there's a way to restore that it would be a good thing.)
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    I caught a bit of an interview with a player or former player, don't know who, on the SirusXM MLB channel the other day. He stated that the advantage gained by knowing which pitch was coming during half the games of a season is far greater than the advantage gained by using PED's.
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    WAR is purported to be a good measure of a player's value. However, it is somewhat situational, especially in terms of translating it to dollars. If he had signed this contract with, say, the Marlins, a 12-WAR player might move them out of fifth place in the NL East during the course of the contract. Maybe. Money poorly spent. If he had signed this contract with, say, the Yankees, it would improve their already high likelihood of postseason contention only a little. Again, one could argue money poorly spent, although if there's a lot of money available, so what? A team will get much more bang for the buck if a player moves it from the edge of contention to strong contention, especially when the team has budget constraints. The Twins fall into this in-between category. Yes, it's unfortunate a high-WAR starting pitcher isn't coming here, but if Donaldson produces not only will his signing be good in and of itself it will make Minnesota a more desirable destination for that type of pitcher in the future.
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    This is a reflection of how baseball is different from the other 3 major team sports (OK, 4, I suppose, if you include soccer). It takes much longer on average for players to develop their skills to the point where they succeed at the sport's highest level. It's extremely rare for a player in one of the other sports to make his debut at or after age 25 but that happens a lot in baseball.
  8. Nine of twelve
    A batting order assembled completely at random would still be fearsome.
  9. Nine of twelve
    There's no way that this is an electronic device. Even a really stupid baseball player would know better than to stand in front of a camera while wearing a tank top with such a thing taped to his upper chest.
  10. Nine of twelve
    He'll be 38 years old then. That's probably not an unreasonable number.
  11. Nine of twelve
    Concur. I would even consider taking the over on 100 for the next two years.
  12. Nine of twelve
    FTFY. (IMHO, of course.)
  13. Nine of twelve
    This is true, but it's still more important than outfield defense.
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    I'm not going to defend Calvin Griffith's infamous Waseca remarks. But for the purpose of a broader perspective I will mention a couple related things about Rod Carew. Carew at the time strongly denounced Griffith for those remarks, but when Carew was elected to the Hall of Fame the first person he called to thank was Calvin Griffith. And Carew attended Griffith's funeral.
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    Pffft. Drinking in the evening. Anyone can do that.
  16. Nine of twelve
    Keep in mind that most valuable player is not the same thing as best player. Beyond just stats it also factors in how much your team benefits from your performance.
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    To expand on that, he was put on the Twins roster with almost no preparation. He was quite rusty and was at the point that most players would be at in early March. That was compounded with the fact that he was going up against players in mid-season form. Once he shook off the rust he was a monster.
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    It's my understanding that the primary factor in the increase in the number of home runs last year was due not to changes in average exit velocity or in average launch angle or in the hardness of the ball, but rather to the decreased air resistance of the ball. This means that the distances of home runs hit would be the most important variable to consider. A player who hit a lot of dingers less than 400 feet will probably see a large regression. A player who hit a lot of them more than 400 feet will probably regress very little.
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    That's the thing about the free agent market. It's the anti-draft. Instead of the team choosing a player the player chooses a team. If a player doesn't want to play for a team it doesn't matter how much he's offered. In spite of 101 wins I would guess that many players still view the Twins as perennial non-contenders. I think we're going to have to prove ourselves by putting together a few more years of high-level performance before players consider Minneapolis to be a worthwhile destination.
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    Since your second sentence is an insult of others with a different vantage point you should be able to answer the question you ask in the third sentence. Were you aware of the extreme irony here? Did you intentionally use that for the purpose of making a point? Or are you being hypocritical? I honestly can't tell.
  21. Nine of twelve
    Your point is well taken. I have to admit that the 2015 Toronto team came about 1% closer than the 2002 Twins team.
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    I think we all remember Jim Pohlad's famous comment about total system failure after the 2016 season. That was not just an idle comment. He took seriously the need to make changes, and so he initiated a complete restructuring of the entire franchise. It is easy to become impatient, but keep in mind that it takes a number of years to implement a top-to-bottom change in personnel and philosophy in a franchise and even longer for the results to be seen at the major league level. We are only three years in so it's still early. Even though I don't know the inner workings of the organization I get the strong feeling that Derek Falvey knows what he is doing. I share Mr. Schwerzler's optimism and snide remarks such as those above do not dissuade me.
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    Who has said a team should shoot for sustained mediocrity? It certainly wasn't me. I said a team should shoot for sustained contention for the postseason. And BTW the Twins lost the ALCS to the eventual WS champs in 2002. The BJ's did it in 2015, an interval of 13 years. Is 13 almost 30?
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    It's not my case to make, and I did not advocate for it. I simply said a case could be made.
  25. Nine of twelve
    A case can be made for Santana to be number two behind Mauer.
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