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  1. Nine of twelve
    I know the bone that was removed was from a forearm bone (I think the ulna but I don't remember). I didn't realize that there was cartilage removed from the wrist, so that means the surgery involved both the wrist and the forearm.
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    Nitpick: His surgery was not on his wrist. It was on one of the bones in his forearm.
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    For a reference point, the league-wide OPS is somewhere around .720.
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    After today's game I have changed my mind. Maeda needs to go on the IL with a rehab assignment and it needs to be stretched out long. If after his rehab assignment he clearly shows that he can get major league hitters out then he goes into the bullpen. Otherwise DFA.
  5. Nine of twelve
    From the Twins official web site: A surprise celebrity bartender will be mixing drinks at the Gray Duck Deck John, I guess this means that you are now considered a celebrity. Of course, everyone at TD thinks you are already! **And, according to the Twins web site it appears that the specials only run from when gates open (at 1 PM) until 3 PM.
  6. Nine of twelve
    To provide a reference point, the batting average of MLB as a whole is .244.
  7. Nine of twelve
    This has been said before by a few of us: Kenta Maeda. Move him to the pen and insert Ober or Varland into the rotation.
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    After last night's game the Twins and the Yankees are both 13-10. This extrapolates to 92 wins. That's not bad.
  9. Nine of twelve
    AFAIK, no team has ever used a set rotation of 6 starters for an extended period. First, you want your best starter(s) to start every fifth game, maybe even moving other starters back when there's a day off in order to start them every fifth day. Second, even though it would seem that a fifth day off between starts would enable a starter to perform better, it's my understanding that this is often not the case. Of course, spot starts will be needed in certain circumstances such as doubleheaders or for someone to skip a start but IMHO a 6-man rotation is a non-starter (pardon the play on words). The issue at hand then becomes choosing which five pitchers to put in the rotation. Right now both Ober and Varland appear more ready and able to perform in the majors than Maeda, both appear to have higher ceilings than Maeda, and both are much more likely to be part of the future than Maeda. Also, Maeda should not automatically be entitled to a spot in the rotation. Coming off TJ he's an unknown quantity and he's 35 years old. It makes sense to give him opportunities to demonstrate what he can do but I think those opportunities would be best given in a relief role. Use him when a pitching change is indicated in the 5th or 6th inning, let him go 3 innings or so, and if things go better for him than for someone in the rotation consider making a change.
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    0.62. Sonny Gray's season ERA after tonight's 7 scoreless innings.
  11. Nine of twelve
    These are the points I want to highlight. As is the case with everyone here, I hoped to see the 2020 Maeda again, but I also knew that was unlikely, especially at the very beginning of this season. His recent leg injury gave us a reason to IL him and send him on a rehab assignment to St. Paul. If the results are spectacular, OK, then consider putting him back in the rotation. Otherwise with Ober appearing to have improved putting Maeda in the pen as the long guy is probably what is best for this team. He has pitched as a reliever in the past so I think he can adapt. Baseball has always been and will always be about pitching first. If you pitch well you are never out of a game. Our batters are good enough that they will stop sputtering. As long as our pitching holds up this team will strongly contend for the division title.
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    This is probably more like not much fun with numbers for Oakland fans--the Athletics have allowed an average of 8.1 runs per game while scoring an average of 3.4 per game. The team ERA is 7.97.
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    Don't forget about the ignore feature on this site. I find that putting it to use has been very helpful.
  14. Nine of twelve
    I'm going to respond regarding several comments made about pitching substitutions made in last night's game. I'll start by saying that I think Rocco made the right moves. First, the Twins do not have a designated closer. Instead, the manager makes substitutions based on matching up to the opponent's batting order. The principle behind this is to try to have your best pitcher in the game against the opponent's best hitters no matter which inning it happens to be. This is logical, and that's why most teams are moving in the direction of taking this approach. In last night's game the Nats had the bottom of their order coming to the plate in the 8th inning. He put in Jax, saving either Duran or Lopez (last night it was probably Lopez) to pitch the 9th when the top of the order was coming around. And by the way, Jax has pitched well, so Rocco was still making a strong move to keep the lead. In last night's game Jax got two pretty easy outs, and then was victimized by two seeing-eye grounders, a defensive misplay, and a soft single. Even though the right moves are not 100% guaranteed to win you the game a good manager still makes them, as Rocco did last night. But, as I said in last night's game thread, in baseball sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue.
  15. Nine of twelve
    No pressure or anything...
  16. Nine of twelve
    If Pagan had had 20 good outings we wouldn't be so upset. But there were only 5.
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    Or Varland. He can be recalled before 15 days if Maeda goes on the IL
  18. Nine of twelve
    No way. Neither city has enough money or enough people for a MLB team. Not even close. The only cities outside the US with even a remote chance are Montreal and Mexico City. Within the US, I do not see Portland or Utah as viable locations at all. Again, not enough money or people. There are enough of both in Florida to support two teams if those teams are run properly. I suppose Las Vegas, North Carolina, and Tennessee are possibilities, but the state with the largest current population growth is Texas. The questions there are where to put a third team that would develop a large enough following and how to make a third team acceptable to the Rangers and Astros franchises.
  19. Nine of twelve
    They have not been the Devil Rays since 2007.
  20. Nine of twelve
    And by the way, Larnach absolutely pasted that home run. And it looked like he didn't even swing hard. Team MVP.
  21. Nine of twelve
    Large hands help, but talent rules. Moses Malone was a 3-time NBA MVP, 8-time all NBA center, first-ballot HOF. He was a beast on the boards. 6"10", 260 lb. And his hands were so small that he could not palm a basketball.
  22. Nine of twelve
    This may not be quite as impressive as the initial impression. Three of those teams currently have losing records.
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    I think Rocco's bullpen management was fine up until the fourth batter of the 10th inning, at which point it was obvious that Moran was not having a good night and probably should have been lifted. In innings 6-9 Rocco matched up his pitchers to the opposing batting order and they did their jobs, allowing only one unearned run. We don't know for certain, but had he used lower-leverage pitchers for innings 6-8 the game could well have been over after the top of the ninth. I'm not sure what I think about whether Duran should have taken the 10th inning. High-velocity pitchers need to be fully warmed up to achieve their best stuff and getting cool between innings can make it risky to go back out, in terms both of performance and of injury potential. On a warm summer night I'd be much more inclined to give it a try. Remember, players are not machines. As is the case for every human being, they have physical limitations and taking that into account needs to be of high importance when making decisions about who plays when, where, and how much.
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    In some ways this game was an example of what I like about baseball--even though I have watched thousands of games I don't recall ever seeing a catcher's interference in which the manager chose which play will stand and I know I've never seen a DP like the Twins executed in the 10th. And those occurred in the same game. But that doesn't mean I enjoyed watching it. I don't fault Rocco for having Moran start the 10th inning but no pitcher is on his game every night. So like many others, I do fault Rocco for not making a pitching change in the 10th when it became clear that Moran was struggling.
  25. Nine of twelve
    Me too, along with most people on this board, and probably along with the FO. The problem is that everyone in baseball knew Kepler would be available so I suspect that if the Twins did get any offers they were all lowballs, below even Kepler's currently low perceived value. Plus I bet a lot of other teams figure a trade is not worth doing because there is a good chance Twins will wind up releasing him sometime this season. So about all the FO could do is hope that he would find a way to rebound and that he would generate some interest as part of a package at the trading deadline.
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