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  1. Nine of twelve
    Pitch framing? I suppose it does play a part but I hate that it does. If Jeffers is better than average, good on him. But automated pitch calling will be happening; it's just a question of when. So this skill will become a non-factor soon. Stolen base percentage? He threw out 7 of 38 baserunners in 2022. It's my understanding that the average catcher will have a caught-stealing rate of 25-30%, so that would have meant throwing out about 9-11 of 38. How much did the difference of 2-4 successful steals make during 2022? My guess is little to none. Now, I realize he was on the IL for a significant amount of time. And of course it's good for a catcher to have a strong arm. But I don't think Jeffers' arm is a major concern, rule changes or not. I am most concerned with a catcher's blocking skills. This is far more important than stolen base percentage because pitches in the dirt with runners on base are far more common than stolen base attempts, especially when a runner is on third base. It seems Jeffers needs to improve in that area if possible.
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    This is my philosophy as well, so I don't bet on sports. But I'll still take a position on these lines: Buxton: over Correa: pass (meaning my guess is right about where the line stands) Lopez/Ryan: over on both Team wins: over
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    I think someone pointed out that Duffey's drop-off in performance happened at the same time as the crackdown on grip-enhancers. Correlation does not imply causation, but the timing is noteworthy.
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    I think it's been established pretty clearly that he is the REAL DEAL. He is already one of the most dominant relievers in MLB, and he could progress to the point of being the most dominant by a large margin. Whatever we can get him to sign for now will be dwarfed by what the market will pay him if he stays with one-year contracts until free agency. Of course there are risks, but in the long term this looks to me like it's a good, cost-effective investment for the Pohlad family fortune.
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    Remember that we also received a catcher in those trades. Even so, it's certainly a risk trading an established catcher.
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    The catching supply will always fall short of the demand, so selling could take place only if we are in the highly unlikely position of having a never-ending supply. The hoped-for goal is to develop catching and pay the salary required to keep the developed catcher.
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    Some are saying to trade for a good catcher. That would be nice, but no team with a good catcher would trade him unless offered a significant overpay, and then they'd still say no. Some are saying to take the best catcher available with the 5th overall pick. OK, but then don't be angry when the player taken #6 becomes a star. We were so spoiled by having one of the five best catchers in history playing for us. Now we are seeing how difficult it is for catching to be a strength. While we should always strive to improve in every facet of the game, when it comes to catching we need to be satisfied with satisfactory.
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    In today's game Miranda hit a home run in the second inning. It was his 3rd dinger in 3 consecutive at bats. Maybe the author is onto something here.
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    There is probably only one situation, maybe two, in which it matters which of a team's starting pitchers is considered to be its best starter. That situation is the first game of a postseason series. The possible second one is opening day, but since that is just one of 162 regular season games it's really not that important. To me it's silly to fret about having "an ace", or "a number 1", whatever the definition of that is. Just find your five best starters and put them in the rotation. If there is an opportunity to add a pitcher who is better than at least one of those five then do so if the price is acceptable.
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    Google Billy Martin Hotel Sofitel.
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    My Grampa was a Hercules Cortez fan.
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    FTFY.
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    My assumption is that he has quite a few siblings and cousins who could have been under consideration over the years to be put in charge of this portion of the family businesses. My assumption is also that he was identified fairly early on as the most capable successor to his uncle. He has his position in part because he's a family member, and I suppose you could refer to what he has done during the last 20 years or so as "being groomed", but I prefer to think of it as working to acquire as much knowledge and experience in both the business of baseball and the game itself as he can in order to be able to handle this responsibility as well as possible.
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    The three most important things in baseball are pitching, pitching, and pitching.
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    Brock, thanks for your comment.
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    Apparently I have to restate that I am not in the minority regarding Correa's situation. Like most users, I wanted to read everything that was posted here. The problem is that the site was unequivocally a big mess with articles, threads, and comments all over the place. That situation was certainly an outlier, but the presentation of information was haphazard and it should have been much easier for users to access it. In general terms, again I am not suggesting to limit content, merely to organize it better and to limit redundancy. Overly picky? I suppose that's one perspective, but I see my suggestion as trying to be helpful. I care enough to want the site to be better and I am simply providing feedback in that regard.
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    My suggestion, and it's just a suggestion, was simply to consider reorganizing the forums into a format that seemed more user-friendly to me. And your response has been one to dismiss the suggestion out of hand even though you are not in charge of organizing the forums (as far as I know). I have to say that I'm not clear on where you are coming from here. If you are saying this as an individual I say you are free to express that opinion and I welcome your participation in the discussion. But if you are speaking as a moderator you are speaking as an official of the site, and therefore essentially speaking on behalf of the owners. If the owners prefer not to implement my suggestion that's fine, but I would like to hear one of them address that. And beyond that, are you as an official of the site really encouraging a loyal regular visitor to quit being a loyal regular visitor? Is that what the owners want? As I said before, the owners can and should do what they feel is best for their business. But typically business owners welcome suggestions from customers regarding what customers would like to experience from the business. If the TD owners prefer that I not patronize their business because I made a suggestion and explained why I made it I'll respect that, but I would like to hear that from one of them, not from an underling.
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    And that made the Red Sox the last MLB team to integrate.
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    I accept that the site owners can run the site the way they want. It's their property to do with what they wish. And I understand that it's the role of moderators to carry out the wishes of the owners in managing the forums. But I'm free to disagree with how it's done, especially when I'm right.😉
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    This is where you and I have divergent opinions. I already understood how the Front Page News Forum is generated. And I already understood that the owners and other contributors wish to highlight these articles, and with that I have no complaint. But I find that having a separate forum for those articles is a needless barrier for the user to access information on the site. To use the Correa situation as an example, I LIKED that a lot was being written about it, I had NO complaint--NONE--about the number of articles written, and I WANTED to read ALL the articles and ALL the user comments. What I didn't like was that there were so many articles and threads and user comments that reading everything was inconvenient and that it was nigh on impossible to keep track of what was written in which threads and in which articles and by whom. That's why such articles should ALWAYS be merged either with other articles or other threads on the same topic in any forum. (IMHO, of course.) I agree that content should not be limited. However, if site administrators wish to highlight articles I'm sure that it can easily be done using techniques such as a larger or unique font or color, or framing, or even having links to articles within a particular thread. But for the sake of user-friendliness (which is something of highest priority, IMHO) please place articles in consolidated threads with other comments and articles about the same topic.
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    A player who is drafted is usually one of the best players on his team, often the best, especially one chosen with an early draft pick. A coach will generally put a team's best fielder at SS. So being listed as a shortstop does not necessarily mean a player will wind up there as a professional, it's simply a consequence of being the biggest fish in a small pond.
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    This year's April is atypical. There are only 3 off days from the start of the season on 3/30 until 4/30. Those dates: 3/31, 4/7, and 4/17. 29 games in the first 32 days of the season.
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    After participating on this site for years it was only today that I noticed this forum. I have PM'd Brock about this issue but thought I'd post about it here as well. I view it as a problem that there are often multiple threads on the same topic, or very closely-related topics. This was especially messy during the Correa free agency and subsequent contract signing when I think there were close to a dozen or more different concurrent threads on the matter in the various forums. Just today a new article was posted on the topic of the opening day starter when the matter had been extensively discussed only a couple weeks previously. My suggestion is for administrators and moderators to be much more active in the area of merging similar threads, and when doing this to keep in mind that there's nothing wrong with reviving an old thread if a new thread or article fits there. I would also suggest re-organizing the forums into just two sections: Twins organization topics and non-Twins baseball topics. (I guess archived game threads would still be in their own forum, and should be locked when moved.) I don't think there's a need for a separate minor league forum because some topics overlap major and minor leagues and because the title of the thread lets the reader know the topic anyway. I think taking these steps would make it easier to follow discussions, to merge discussions, and to minimize the number of redundant posts.
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    We just discussed this a couple weeks ago. What is the point of doing it again?
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    And I'll also say that I think robo umps would have little to no effect on how the game is played. There may be a few more walks and/or strikeouts at first until the players adjust but after that the biggest change will be positive, with more consistent and more accurate calls and less griping directed at Angel Hernandez and the like.
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