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  1. Nine of twelve
    Really excellent point and post. When Joe took over some people said that he had "been groomed" for his position. To me that's borderline insulting. Joe realized at some point, possibly as early as when he was in high school, that he was the one best suited to assume control of the team when it was time for Jim to step back. (I have to believe that there have been numerous family discussions over the years that have reinforced this.) But my take is that once he knew this was what his future held he set about working hard to get the knowledge and experience needed to do the job as well as he could. His grandfather and uncle seem to have been highly skilled business people, but neither had a strong baseball background like Joe now has. This bodes well for the team's future.
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    The more I think about this the more it makes sense. Free agents very often are past their peak performance and a poor value for the size of their contracts. At the other extreme, it is very difficult to project the eventual performance of a draftee who has never faced professional hitters. A player at least two years into his professional career is going to be much easier for scouts and player development people to evaluate. So once again this reinforces that scouting and player development are the keys to success, especially for small-to-mid market teams.
  3. Nine of twelve
    Sometimes you make your own luck. In this case it turns out that the FO had Correa's value pegged pretty well and chose to let him go rather than to compromise on the contract. Turns out the Giants and Mets got carried away, offered him too much, and then tried to walk things back. Meanwhile the Twins never wavered and were ready when the opportunity presented itself.
  4. Nine of twelve
    The premise of banning grip-enhancing substances is that they give pitchers an unfair advantage. Accepting that, why should the use of rosin be allowed when the use of all other substances is banned? Why is it the policy for umpires to inspect pitchers for grip-enhancers at the end of the half-inning? It would make much more sense to me to do so at the beginning of the half-inning or, in the case of a reliever entering during the game, before he throws his first pitch.
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  6. Nine of twelve
    Current Twins team ERA: 2.50. Second best in MLB. Now, I know ERA is not a perfect stat but it's still not a bad overall indicator of how the pitchers are doing. Oh, and the best team ERA is 1.76. We all know which team that is. SSS or not, that is crazy.
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    He's still gotta avoid the interference because that's an automatic out. Level the ump if need be.
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    I was also always glad to see him do well. The issue that sticks in my mind (pun intended) is that the drop-off in his performance seemed correlated to the crackdown by MLB on the use of grip-enhancers by pitchers. Correlation does not equal causation but I'll always wonder if that was the reason.
  9. Nine of twelve
    It depends hugely on the score. In the bottom of the potentially last inning with a runner on second and nobody out it should certainly be in play. Of course, who is batting and who would be up next also comes into play, and in this case that moved the needle from possible to obvious.
  10. Nine of twelve
    I don't think it was a surprise at all. In spite of Taylor's earlier home run, he's a light hitter historically and the top of the order was on deck. It would have been a surprise to me if he didn't bunt.
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    https://www.startribune.com/edouard-julien-joey-gallo-running-game-in-al-central-minnesota-twins-guardians-white-sox-yankees/600266317/
  12. Nine of twelve
    This drops us to 6-4. Keep in mind that this is MLB, where 6-4 is outstanding.
  13. Nine of twelve
    Sounds like she was not the sharpest bulb in the sky.
  14. Nine of twelve
    This sounds like a good problem to have. Both players should probably be playing shortstop almost every day. Since fielding can be worked on just as well at low A as it can at high A it seems to me that Miller might benefit from some more time at low A if he's struggling at the plate. If he starts raking we can move him up and worry about making adjustments at that time.
  15. Nine of twelve
    The thing about this is that Ted Williams was an otherworldly hitter. He had an outstanding eye to recognize not only whether a pitch was a strike but what the pitch would do. And he was the rare player who did have insane bat-to-ball skills. Because of this he was able to take strikes early in the count with little to no worry. Mere mortals, however, have to swing at pitcher's pitches more frequently, hoping the ball happens to hit the bat.
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    The home plate umpire is empowered to overrule the electronic call in such cases. No challenge needed. And by the way, I'm not sure I've ever seen this happen in a major league game. I'd bet it doesn't happen more than about once a year.
  17. Nine of twelve
    I haven't done or read a comparison of the Twins' strength of opposing teams comparing the new schedule and what the old schedule would have been, but it is no surprise that the difference is of little to no consequence. We lose games against Detroit and Kansas City but we gain games against the Pirates, Reds, Cubs, Diamondbacks, and Rockies. Don't forget that the NL Central had a lower win percentage in 2022 than the AL Central.
  18. Nine of twelve
    Interesting thought. Hadn't considered that before. I guess I'd stay with the rules as they are now. (I know we are veering off-topic a bit here but sometimes a discussion just flows like that.)
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    It's easy to see if a pitch is in the box graphic on the TV. But that box is far less precise than electronic pitch calling systems, especially for the upper and lower boundaries.
  20. Nine of twelve
    This sounds like a good idea. I would think that someone in the organization must have thought of it.
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    That may be true for the first few months or so, maybe even less time than that. But human beings are adaptable. Ultimately, a control pitcher and a batter with a good eye will benefit. Just the way it should be.
  22. Nine of twelve
    My understanding is that each player has the top and bottom of his strike zone programmed into the system.
  23. Nine of twelve
    The objective of officiating any sport is to correctly determine what has happened in the game and to correctly enforce the rules of the game. Many other sports have had systems to supplant or supplement human officiating for many years. In some cases this has even become part of the English vocabulary. (Photo finish is one example.) Electronic pitch calling is more accurate than human pitch calling and has been for several years. Moreover, electronic pitch calling will improve over the course of time. Human pitch calling will not. MLB should have implemented electronic pitch calling years ago.
  24. Nine of twelve
    I'm not sure what your expectations are. In addition to checking the active roster, there are numerous web sites that post starting lineups several hours before game time. If you have to choose a game in advance do you expect the team to notify you who will be playing in which games days or weeks before the fact?
  25. Nine of twelve
    This is a good point. So simply check the 26-man roster on the Twins web site and you'll have all the information you need.
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