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  1. Nine of twelve
    OK, name his replacement.
  2. Nine of twelve
    He's not what this team needs.
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    One of the things that I think is so cool about baseball is there are so many things that can happen, and something new can still happen even though the game has been played for over 150 years.
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    Athletic departments don't want to keep up with the Joneses. They want to be better than all Joneses. I'm sure the LSU athletic department did a search and found that Johnson was far and away the best fit for their program. Moreover, I'm sure they realized very quickly that other programs would soon make the same finding. Hence they realized that it was in their best interest to act very quickly and make an un-refusable offer before someone else did. Kudos to LSU.
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    Johnson was hired by the Twins in November of 2018. This is the time of year when college baseball coaches are in the middle of preparation for their season, which begins in February. That means workouts and practices are underway or close to beginning. This would be similar to a pitching coach leaving an MLB team in January, while spring training is being planned. I don't recall any hue and cry about Johnson leaving his position at the University of Arkansas at a critical time.
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    I'm sure money isn't the only issue. But if the difference is 400K per year as was mentioned above I would think money is a very significant issue. I will also make a guess--and it's only a guess--that after nearly 4 years in MLB he has found that he prefers working in a college setting rather than in the professional game. There have been scores of coaches who have found that they are better suited to one more than the other. Moreover, this looks to me like it's one of the best college coaching positions in the country. Rather than assuming there's something shady I choose to give all parties the benefit of doubt and believe that this move is simply a career shift for Johnson.
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    If he's available at a reasonable price, OK, I suppose, what the heck. But I certainly wouldn't give much in money or in prospects to get a so-so pitcher who's 34 years old.
  8. Nine of twelve
    Based on runs scored during this series (Cle 17, Min 16) the outcome we had (Cle 2, Min 1) is the most likely one. It's not a throwaway saying that it's not just whom you play, it's when you play them. The Twins flattened the White Sox earlier this year when we were the team on a roll and they were struggling. Considering the roles were more or less reversed here, disappointing though it was, the Twins held their own against a team on a roll. Let's hope we can build from that.
  9. Nine of twelve
    Mega-thanks to Lucas and Heezy for lending their professional expertise (free of charge, no less!) to the discussions. Not just this one but numerous orthopedic injury threads in the past (and, we hope, the future). Contrary to what we sometimes see in discussions about medical matters on this site, posts by people who have reliable, factual knowledge of the subject matter at hand is SOOO valuable and SOOO highly appreciated.
  10. Nine of twelve
    In other words, framing is about faking out the umpire into thinking that a ball is a strike or reinforcing the umpire's thinking that a strike is a strike. In either case, framing should be part of a major league catcher's skill set until the inferior system of pitch-calling currently in use in MLB is eliminated.
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    I would think almost every pitcher shows a drop-off during the second and third times through the lineup. How do Archer's numbers compare with the MLB average?
  12. Nine of twelve
    Hildenberger was really good, but only very briefly. Once major league batters figured him out he didn't have the ability to adjust to their adjustments. A flash in the pan, albeit a fairly bright flash.
  13. Nine of twelve
    I bet they didn't. Prohibition didn't end until December of that year. You can probably get a first-hand report on that from Chief.
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    I think it's fine for MLB to do whatever they want to regarding the ASG. It's just that I choose to disregard the whole thing.
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    The fact that he is unlikely to be voted in as a starter points up that the process by which players are chosen is IMHO highly flawed, to the point where I have no interest in the game at all. The purpose of the ASG in this era is to make money for MLB. That means enticing as many viewers as possible to turn on the TV, which means selecting players based on fan interest (hence each team having at least one representative). The game is no longer what it was originally conceived to be: a real baseball game played by the best players in the world with a normal-sized roster for each team. Further complicating this issue is that the best pitchers would have to be available for the game. Few teams are willing to alter their pitching sequences to accommodate that. That said, I have no doubt that Arraez will be recognized for his performance so far this season with a berth on the roster, and congratulations to him for that.
  16. Nine of twelve
    Saying that the manager should consider the home fans when deciding how to manage his lineup can be considered a silly extreme.
  17. Nine of twelve
    So the fans should have a say in who plays and who doesn't? Maybe the fans should be setting the batting order too. And make pitching changes, make defensive substitutions, put in pinch hitters, decide when to send the runners, etc etc etc.
  18. Nine of twelve
    He's a household name in my household already.
  19. Nine of twelve
    This would fit perfectly in the Fun With Numbers thread!
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    I'll disagree with this. I believe that during the regular season it's the head coach/manager's responsibility to set the team up as well as possible for the playoffs/postseason. That can often mean not going all-out to win a particular game. An example of this would be playing second-line players against a non-division opponent with the goal of resting front-line players for an important upcoming intra-division series.
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    The thought that his knee would have been injured anyway is speculative, but it's probably not an unfair point. The difference between Lewis and the other players you mention is that he is our future shortstop and that's where he should have been playing pretty much full time. Shortstop is the most important defensive position other than catcher and when you have a player who belongs there that's where he should play. Let other players be the ones who move around.
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    LOP and Linus have alluded to this, and I'm going to say it too. This is what can happen when you put a player in a position (both in the fielding sense and in the general sense) with which he is not familiar. This is an especially egregious mistake by Baldelli and by the front office when taking into account the fact that Lewis is one of the most important pieces of the future of this franchise. Even if he had stayed on the MLB roster this year it probably would have only made a difference of one or two wins this season. How many future wins has this injury cost us with decreased performance and decreased longevity when compared with improving his shortstop skills in AAA? More than one or two. Now Lewis and the franchise are paying the price for a very bad mistake, and Baldelli and Falvine owe Lewis and the fans a very big apology.
  23. Nine of twelve
    And at the end of the week, a winning day.
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    I want to thank and congratulate today's game threaders for the good work they did to pull out this victory. I didn't participate because I was here:
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