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  1. Nine of twelve
    I'd recommend not buying a game-used jersey for use as clothing. Those jerseys are designed to wear while playing baseball, and as such they are cut quite long in order to stay tucked in. No advice beyond that.
  2. Nine of twelve
    It's not an official statistic. It's just an arbitrary thing that is used as a benchmark. So I don't stress much about it. (Even though I agree that your example doesn't make sense.)
  3. Nine of twelve
    From Wikipedia: "The quality start was developed by sportswriter John Lowe in 1985 while writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer." I don't know about ancient, but it's certainly not recent.
  4. Nine of twelve
    I think the 3-run 6-inning start is a good benchmark, but I would use the term satisfactory start rather than quality start.
  5. Nine of twelve
    Isn't that a quality start (assuming 6 innings)?
  6. Nine of twelve
    And here I thought with Hernandez moving to ump 3B we'd be experiencing an upgrade over yesterday.
  7. Nine of twelve
    Perez has had four 1-2-3 innings out of five pitched. Let's see if we can get him a W.
  8. Nine of twelve
    Big blast!
  9. Nine of twelve
    I read somewhere, maybe here, that the Twins have no 6-game stretch this year with more than 3 losses.
  10. Nine of twelve
    The point of the All Star game is to make money. The way MLB makes money is to get people to watch it. The reasoning behind allowing the fans to choose the starters is that the players who get the most votes are the players who will attract the most viewers. Promoting the sport is also to make money, but it's a longer-term approach. I know this is all obvious, but I just wish it could be an actual All Star game.
  11. Nine of twelve
    Of course that would be great. But we would have had to give up top-line youngsters (plural) to get him. Like Polanco and Kepler and probably more. 2017 was not the time to do that. And as I said, it's a moot point because he would not have approved a trade to come here anyway. But making a similar trade now, to get an ace with a longish contract, is something I would strongly support.
  12. Nine of twelve
    This describes me. In 2017 many on this board were very upset that we didn't try to trade for Verlander. I was against that because it would have only slightly improved our small chance of winning a World Championship and the cost would have been high. (Verlander would not have waived his no-trade clause to come here anyway.) That was then, this is now. In spite of the fact that we have the best record in baseball our pitching needs an upgrade if we want to contend for a world championship. Our current roster will almost certainly get us into the postseason. I don't think anyone feels the need to add a position player. It's all about improving the pitching staff, more specifically configuring it for postseason success. That means relievers are the primary targets. Making significant upgrades will come at a price that is worth paying. I don't know enough about specific prospects or about who is available to name names but the time has come.
  13. Nine of twelve
    I'll take a win no matter how. BTW, time of game 2:21. If this game had taken place in the '50's when there were no long commercial breaks it would have been under 2:00.
  14. Nine of twelve
    Rogers: good morning, good afternoon, good night. WWCD!
  15. Nine of twelve
    I wondered if there was something up when Buxton flipped the ball to Rosario after catching the second out of the top of the inning.
  16. Nine of twelve
    This is what contact-to-pitch looks like when it's done properly.
  17. Nine of twelve
    7-pitch inning for Gibson. He's got the 9th. Edit: 8-pitch.
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    Gibson with 80 pitches thru 7 innings. Nice! This is what pitch-to-contact looks like when it's done properly.
  19. Nine of twelve
    The team he manages is actually a Seattle Mariners affiliate.
  20. Nine of twelve
    Update: ALE: -13 ALC: -16 ALW: +13 NLE:-6 NLC:+4 NLW:+18 During a broadcast a few days ago Dick Bremer referred to the AL East as the toughest division in baseball. He seems to be remembering how things were a few years ago and paying no attention to this year's performances by the two avian members of this division. They could wind up being the worst division in baseball if this keeps up.
  21. Nine of twelve
    When Adrianza beat Houston and Verlander with a home run I thought it was just a blind squirrel occurrence. Now between him and Marwin we can give any non-catcher a day off and not lose a thing offensively.
  22. Nine of twelve
    Removing nicotine may make it less likely players will use tobacco, but nicotine is not what causes cancer. It's all the other toxic stuff in tobacco that does that.
  23. Nine of twelve
    Ugh
  24. Nine of twelve
    That's better.
  25. Nine of twelve
    Pseudo Sue is yummy.
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