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  1. Nine of twelve
    There's no reason to go if I can't watch Craig play.
  2. Nine of twelve
    Dang. I'm canceling my trip to KC on account of that.
  3. Nine of twelve
    At a game I went to about 10 years ago number 24 hit a home run. A fan near where I was sitting yelled, "You can't handle the Plouffe!"
  4. Nine of twelve
    If you think a prospective ticket buyer is entitled to know someone's personal medical information then you and I disagree.
  5. Nine of twelve
    Whether it can or can't hurt depends on one's perspective. Fans want to know all the details, but the truth is that the details are none of their business. I do not want my private medical information disseminated for everyone to know about, and that wouldn't change if I happened to be a professional athlete.
  6. Nine of twelve
    This a yarmulke on the head of a guy I happened to see at Costco 4 years ago, so there is such a thing. (FYI he did give me permission to take the photo.)
  7. Nine of twelve
    I suppose some people view the trade as bitter, but I certainly don't. To me it was just baseball.
  8. Nine of twelve
    This does not matter. At all. The ERA title threshold was an arbitrary number (1 inning pitched per team games played) set over 100 years ago. As FDG was saying, it's team wins that matter. A manager's goal in the regular season is to win enough games to qualify for the postseason. Having pitchers throw 162 innings is not anywhere on the priority list.
  9. Nine of twelve
    I think it's a valid point that Baldelli sometimes pulls the starter too early, but that's the case with every manager. Is that better or worse than pulling the starter too late? It's not possible to perfectly guess the best point to make the change every time. Some say to let the starter go until he gets into trouble. OK, but a fatiguing pitcher can get into trouble quickly, and into big trouble very quickly, many times more quickly than a reliever can get warm. And the pitch clock will amplify this because pitchers won't be able to stall now. You can't constantly warm a reliever beginning in the 6th inning every game just in case the starter does get in trouble because you'll burn through your bullpen much faster that way. So what it comes down to is the manager has to take everything into account--including statistics--and make a pitching change if he feels the reliever coming in has a better chance of succeeding than the pitcher currently in the game. Period. And if the pitcher coming out gets in a snit about that he just needs to get over it.
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    I will guess (and it's only a guess) that Coulombe would have provided more help this year than Sands. We'll check back on that in 6 months. But I'm sure the front office was looking beyond just this season as Sands is 8 years younger. If there was not room for both on the 40-man choosing Sands over Coulombe could well be the better choice overall. Edit: Even if there was room on the 40-man it's easy to make the argument that rostering someone younger would be a better use of that space than Coulombe.
  11. Nine of twelve
    As with everyone, if he does the job he'll get the ball. I agree with many that he seems to be emerging as a good major league reliever.
  12. Nine of twelve
    When this issue comes up it makes me think of the 2017 Dodgers. They finished with a record of 104-58, but they had a stretch of losing 16 of 17 games overlapping August and September. It has to be one of the most incongruous stretches of play in baseball history. I wonder how things would have gone for them if they opened that season 1-16.
  13. Nine of twelve
    Nitpick: Let's Make A Deal debuted in 1963.
  14. Nine of twelve
    Not directly. But if you do that consistently you'll be in a much better position to get them.
  15. Nine of twelve
    Is Mexico City one of those places? I don't know, just asking an honest question.
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    There's not enough money in PR or the DR to support a major league team. As you said, Asia is out of the question due to travel logistics, as is Europe. Even if the political/sociological issues in Venezuela were to be sufficiently resolved it would be a stretch to consider that option. Mexico City is the largest city in the western hemisphere so I expect an MLB franchise could be supported financially, but I would think any potential ownership group and MLB itself are pretty skittish about committing to expansion there.
  17. Nine of twelve
    How many times has any team ever extended a player who has played zero major league games? This was intended as a rhetorical question but after I typed it I reread it and wondered if this has actually occurred. Does anyone know?
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    I don't think teams put much stock, if any, in spring training stats. If a player really stands out, either in a good way or in a bad way, the manager and front office will know without looking at a stat sheet.
  19. Nine of twelve
    I hope it's a one-horse runaway for the good guys.
  20. Nine of twelve
    What I would like to see is to have two or three major league success stories like these every year.
  21. Nine of twelve
    Pitch framing? I suppose it does play a part but I hate that it does. If Jeffers is better than average, good on him. But automated pitch calling will be happening; it's just a question of when. So this skill will become a non-factor soon. Stolen base percentage? He threw out 7 of 38 baserunners in 2022. It's my understanding that the average catcher will have a caught-stealing rate of 25-30%, so that would have meant throwing out about 9-11 of 38. How much did the difference of 2-4 successful steals make during 2022? My guess is little to none. Now, I realize he was on the IL for a significant amount of time. And of course it's good for a catcher to have a strong arm. But I don't think Jeffers' arm is a major concern, rule changes or not. I am most concerned with a catcher's blocking skills. This is far more important than stolen base percentage because pitches in the dirt with runners on base are far more common than stolen base attempts, especially when a runner is on third base. It seems Jeffers needs to improve in that area if possible.
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    This is my philosophy as well, so I don't bet on sports. But I'll still take a position on these lines: Buxton: over Correa: pass (meaning my guess is right about where the line stands) Lopez/Ryan: over on both Team wins: over
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    I think someone pointed out that Duffey's drop-off in performance happened at the same time as the crackdown on grip-enhancers. Correlation does not imply causation, but the timing is noteworthy.
  24. Nine of twelve
    I think it's been established pretty clearly that he is the REAL DEAL. He is already one of the most dominant relievers in MLB, and he could progress to the point of being the most dominant by a large margin. Whatever we can get him to sign for now will be dwarfed by what the market will pay him if he stays with one-year contracts until free agency. Of course there are risks, but in the long term this looks to me like it's a good, cost-effective investment for the Pohlad family fortune.
  25. Nine of twelve
    Remember that we also received a catcher in those trades. Even so, it's certainly a risk trading an established catcher.
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