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  1. Nine of twelve
    Here's what I have read from various sources at various times: 1. The most recent CBA calls for more days off during the course of the season. This necessitated the earliest opening day ever. 2. The presence of the NCAA men's basketball Final Four in Minneapolis means the Twins need to be away during the second, third and fourth series of the season. 2a. MLB knows it's not fair to have a team open with four straight road series. 3. It's not fair to have warm weather teams open at home every year. 4. No other MLB stadium is better equipped than Target Field to handle cold weather games. That still doesn't necessarily make it a great idea, but that's why it is going to happen.
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    Phillies: their color has always intrigued me. It registers with me as a purple-ish orange. I know there's no such thing but that's what I see.
  3. Nine of twelve
    I would never, ever rank the Athletics number 1. I guess there's no accounting for some people's tastes. (This was posted with the knowledge that that statement goes both directions.)
  4. Nine of twelve
    That would be great, but it would take a very good and unlikely set of circumstances to actually occur. With all the days off in the early season there's no reason to push a starter much beyond 80-90 pitches.
  5. Nine of twelve
    I agree. How many teams in history have had 6 starters who were all good? I'd guess the answer is in single digits. This makes sense only if all your starters are mediocre or if you have several pitchers on an inning limit due to recovery from injury, conversion from relieving or something like that. Otherwise get your best starters out there every fifth game. If there are prospects you want to evaluate in the majors I see nothing wrong with rotating them up and down from AAA after a couple starts.
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    I don't know much about advanced stats, but I wonder if there's something called "wild pitches prevented percentage" or something similar. Track all pitches that were more than some arbitrary distance outside the strike zone (including any pitch in the dirt) with runners on base or with two strikes on the batter and find out what percentage of those pitches did not become wild pitches. HBP would not be included.
  7. Nine of twelve
    Because it isn't fair to anyone to have the same 15 teams always open with 3 series at home and the same 15 teams always open with 3 series on the road. It just isn't.
  8. Nine of twelve
    Still too early to tell on Trevor May. He appears to be positioned to become a valuable reliever and may even wind up closing before the end of this season. Ben Revere is a one-dimensional player: speed. It's a great dimension but he has a very hollow batting average, rarely hits even a double and he's got a high-school quality arm. On a good team he's the fourth outfielder and pinch runner.
  9. Nine of twelve
    Trading Hicks was the right thing to do at the time. Getting a good catcher for him was the right thing to do at the time. However, the Twins got Murphy instead.
  10. Nine of twelve
    Point well taken.
  11. Nine of twelve
    This is a Ginger-or-Mary-Ann question. The answer is both. Influencing the umpires to make calls in your favor is a good thing for your team.
  12. Nine of twelve
    How much money and how many prospects should a team sacrifice based on a 20% chance of success? Probably not much and not many.
  13. Nine of twelve
    1974: Lew Ford? Must be a typo or editing error.
  14. Nine of twelve
    Why would the umpire be involved at all? I don't know the details of how these systems are configured but if I were in charge there would be two different auditory signals coming from speakers installed behind home plate, perhaps a beep for a strike and a buzz for a ball or something like that. The other thing about this is that the home plate umpire would no longer need to be positioned immediately behind the catcher, probably about 5-10 feet back instead. He/she would need to be close enough to call catcher's interference, to call whether the catcher held the ball on a third strike, and to easily get in position to make a call if there's a runner on third. Corner umps would make all calls on check swings.
  15. Nine of twelve
    Yes.
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    Thanks for the link. Got to see replays of a couple dingers. Headed for an 18-9 final score, eh?
  17. Nine of twelve
    Wish I could have been at that game. One of my favorite spring training stories. For those not aware, it must have been spring of 2004. Doug Mientkiewicz got a walk or a single sometime around the 6th inning and LeCroy immediately lobbied hard with Gardy to go in as a pinch runner and Gardy said, sure, what the heck. Mientkiewicz said something to the effect that it was the longest two and a half minutes of his life waiting for LeCroy to get from the dugout to first base.
  18. Nine of twelve
    I'm posting just after Channing1964, and I'll echo those sentiments but I'm not quite so over-the-top. I think advanced statisical analysis is valid and worthwhile, but I think some of us get a bit too involved with that. On a 25-player roster a player like this is invaluable. He is able to play many positions satisfactorily and his batting skills are above average. And a switch-hitter no less. I think there's no doubt that our team has significantly improved with this signing.
  19. Nine of twelve
    Haven't read 8 (8!) pages of comments yet, but thankfully I think this marks the end of the Adrianza era. At the very least now we don't have to listen to Gladden and Blyleven continually mispronounce Adrianza.
  20. Nine of twelve
    So let's just eliminate drunk driving laws. If someone gets killed by a drunk driver that's just a bad break. I guess it evens out in the end because they would have died eventually anyway. An extreme analogy, to be sure. But the point I'm making is if there's a way to have players see the reward for making the proper play let's do it. A pitcher should be rewarded for throwing a strike and a batter should be rewarded for taking a ball. It shouldn't be tainted by bad judgement on the part of the human being charged with making the decision.
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    Marwin Gardens, anyone?
  22. Nine of twelve
    Depends on what you amputate. Prosthetic heads suck even more.
  23. Nine of twelve
    The day can't come soon enough that framing becomes unnecessary. The essence of framing is to try to create optical illusions that make the umpire call strikes on pitches that are outside the zone. Automated pitch calling systems are already outperforming major league umpires and this needs to be implemented as soon as it is feasible.
  24. Nine of twelve
    I don't remember for sure, but I believe in ARoid's case he already had a signed contract in place when he was traded to the Yankees. This is not the same thing as signing a new contract as a free agent.
  25. Nine of twelve
    That's the gambling houses' problem, not MLB's.
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