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This is so cool!
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Schoop! A bi-bomba inning!
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4 starters. 7 relievers including one who can go at least 3 innings in the event of a blowout either way. 14 position players. Adrianza makes the team for sure because of defensive versatility and switch hitting.
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I think just about every manager in the majors would like to have four starting-caliber outfielders. If playing time is spread out evenly each one still starts 3 out of 4 games. In the case of the Twins' top four the most significant on-field problem is that Buxton is the only one who bats right-handed. But...looking at this problem from the general manager's perspective is different. Your team always has one good outfielder not playing. A GM would want to trade from a position of strength to address a position of weakness. The difficult part is finding a team who wants and needs an outfielder and is willing to give up (presumably) a good pitcher in exchange. Easier said than done. In the meantime, we have to put up with having one of the best outfield corps in the game.
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The Twins took 2 of 3 games from Detroit over the weekend and improved their winning percentage from .6063 to .6077. Detroit took 1 of 3 games from the Twins over the weekend and improved their winning percentage from .3040 to .3047.
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It would have been a save situation had they pulled Thorpe for someone else.
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It's a final in Cleveland: KC 9, Cleveland 8 (10 innings). Edit: ninja'd, but a little repetition of good news is OK.
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Making catches like Cave made has to be really fun for outfielders.
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The all-whites have been widely panned. I think they go away forever.
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7-2 is relatively close?
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There's no better backup second baseman in the majors.
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More nonsense about this weekend's uniforms - home team pitchers are required to wear black caps because it was thought that white caps would be distracting to the batters. Well, there are now and have been many teams that have white caps as part of the uniform. I'm speaking not just of MLB but all levels of professional, amateur, collegiate, and high school teams. Please chime in if there is information to the contrary but this is the first I've ever heard of this being an issue.
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The uniforms are mandated by MLB. The Cubs got reprimanded for not wearing the white caps. Based on what I've read the Spy-vs-Spy color scheme will never happen again.
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Which and whose expectations are you citing regarding Sano? Because of the unreasonable hype associated with him in the past some people expect 50-HR-140-RBI-1.000-OPS performance. Other people expect nothing because they believe him to be a washout. As for me, keep in mind that he had a serious injury in 2017 followed by major surgery. This left him unable to work out during that off season, and that's why it should have been expected that he was overweight and out of sync all last year. After what appeared to be a successful off-season there was the fluke heel injury which deprived him of spring training. So I expected him to be very rusty when he was first put on the roster this season, and I expected his performance to improve as he rounded into mid-season form for the first time in over two years. I don't know if I expected him to be as impressive as he has been lately, but I am not one bit surprised.
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A reminder of the question in the original post: It may be just semantics, but the way this was worded reminds me of the distinction between best player and most valuable player. IMHO, getting into a statistical analysis misses much of the point of the question because the question is not only about who was the better baseball player. Taking everything into consideration, both performance on the field and what each man meant to the franchise from 1961 to the present, I don't think there's any doubt that the answer to this question is Harmon Killebrew.
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WWCD!!!
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Cave is riding a hot streak!
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Multiple runs this inning, boys. This is not a request.
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Not evidence to overturn.
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OK bully guys, keep 'em off the scoreboard. Our bats will take it from there.
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Earlier Dicknroy were saying that Nelson Cruz was having a positive influence on Sano. That may be true, but the biggest factor in Sano's emergence has been good health for the first time in over two years and shaking off the rust from those two years. His performance lately is not a fluke. It's who he is, and it's only going to get better.
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Blasted!!!!!! THIS is the Sano we have been waiting for!
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Well, that's OK too.
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We could use a 3-run shot. Is this batter any good?
