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  1. Nine of twelve
    But they had one of the most shutdown bullpens in history.
  2. Nine of twelve
    This post gets a mega-like just for these nine words.
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    It was a good gamble. It just wasn't a 100% certainty. (Of course in that case it wouldn't be a gamble then, would it?)
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    Once the universal DH comes to pass, which is just a matter of time, there is no reason to maintain separation between the AL and NL. However, considering (re)alignment, which teams are in which divisions is not a very important matter. (IMHO, of course.) Find a reasonably simple and equitable regular season schedule in terms of who plays whom and where, find a reasonably simple and equitable formula for qualifying for the postseason, find a reasonably simple and equitable postseason format, and go.
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    Whenever a player is tall and has decent hands many people assume he should be playing first base. However, if that player also has an excellent arm that skill is essentially wasted at that position. (This was also the case with Mauer.) I don't think the game-ending play could have been made by any other player on the roster. Arraez is a satisfactory-at-best third baseman and Donaldson's range is currently hampered by injury.
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    I thought this web site was for the Twins, not the Royals.
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    He has been released per Dick Bremer on tonight's telecast.
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    Here's my definition: Hal McRae. IMHO as a player and as a manager he was a total (caudal terminus of the GI tract). There's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIiYw53nGd0 There is the Brett/McRae/Brye/Mauch incident. There are numerous articles on line about that. Gene Mauch had to be restrained to be prevented from physically engaging with McRae. There's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kamDqL-AGzI Note one reporter's bloodied face. And I couldn't find this picture but I remember it clearly. There was a play at the plate during a game between the Twins and the Royals in 1977 with Glenn Borgmann preparing to tag McRae, who was trying to score. There was a photo in the Minneapolis paper the following day showing McRae sliding with his foot planted exactly on the side of Borgmann's left knee. I am 100% certain that it was intent to injure.
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    I'm sure we could have traded Pineda, Simmons, and Donaldson. And others. And I'm sure there were inquiries and possibly offers. But I don't fault Falvine for keeping them. The fact that they didn't get traded tells me that no satisfactory deals were forthcoming. We were sellers and should have been, but that doesn't mean we should have sold at a loss.
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    The crux of this thread is that the keys to success are scouting and player development. Acquire the right players at the right time for the right price and have a system in place to get them to play their best. This does not happen overnight; in baseball it takes five years to find out if the moves you make today are good ones. The organization is far improved compared to the shambles that Falvey and Levine assumed control of during the 2016-2017 off-season. If they have succeeded in implementing their plan the next five years should see the farm system producing more and more good major league players. I'm cautiously optimistic.
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    I've said more than once that when I see Berrios' pitches on the center field camera I don't understand how anyone hits the ball. It doesn't seem like any pitcher gets more movement than he does. Yet he has never had a consistent stretch of dominance. I don't know what the problem is, but it seems to me that it was way too often that he would pitch only just well enough to lose a close game. Some players have great physical ability but simply don't succeed in certain roles. In the same way that LaTroy Hawkins was an excellent set-up reliever but an unsuccessful closer I don't think Berrios can ever be counted on to be a true stopper in any rotation.
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    If it's been done before it could well have been Jim Kaat who did it. He was not infrequently used as a pinch runner when he was a Twin. From Baseball Reference: He made 898 pitching appearances during his career, spending his last five seasons principally as a reliever, but appeared in over 1,000 games - 1,004 to be exact - thanks to 24 games as a pinch-hitter and 85 as a pinch-runner.
  13. Nine of twelve
    While Eaton made a good play, this was a mistake by Polanco. It was not a difficult play for a major league right fielder to make, it was late in a 1-run game with nobody out, and the situation in right field was clearly in Polanco's view as he ran. The fact that it was not a particularly close play at second bears this out. And this was not lost on Kepler on his single to right in the ensuing at-bat. That would have put runners at the corners with nobody out.
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    I'll split that a bit further. First 7 games: 5-2. At that point the accursed virus infiltrated the organization, which threw the entire organization and the playing schedule into chaos. Next 37 games: 11-26. Any and every person in the organization who declined vaccination is certainly responsible at least in part for that.
  15. Nine of twelve
    Technically and otherwise, accuracy is a good thing.
  16. Nine of twelve
    Sano will be the default DH once Cruz is traded. Could be as soon as Friday.
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    I would worry about taking Fabian early. Not only is there concern about high K rate but he bats right, throws left. Disregarding switch hitters that is the least common permutation of the four, but it's also the most disadvantageous. In 120 years of professional baseball only one R/L position player, Rickey Henderson, has ever made the HOF. So maybe in the second round or later if he's still on the board.
  18. Nine of twelve
    If you can recoup the investment or at least come very close the boss will still approve. However, given today's events I think it's unlikely that will happen.
  19. Nine of twelve
    Too late. The team announced that he was removed from the game today as a precaution, but that sounds fishy to me. My guess is that the injury has him bound for the IL and that nobody will want to trade for him. Merde.
  20. Nine of twelve
    As long as we don't trade for Hamilton I'll deal with whatever outcome that transpires. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hamilbi02.shtml
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    I didn't take the time to read through all the posts so I apologize if what I have to say has already been said. The use of the 2017 season as a benchmark is a major flaw in any analysis. That season was an outlier, significantly so, for the American League. Cleveland and Houston were head and shoulders above everyone else. Boston and New York were solid. Detroit and Chicago were crummy. The remaining nine teams finished with 75-85 wins. The Twins were just slightly less mediocre than the other eight, qualifying for the postseason with 85 wins, the fewest by a postseason qualifier in either league since the inception of the ten-team postseason. That is almost certainly not going to be the case in 2021. This year's team is currently 13th in the AL, meaning our team has to pass eight other teams including one that is currently 12 games over .500. I don't think there's any question that the Twins should sell. However, I think they should be careful whom they sell. Veterans with short-term contracts should be heavily marketed to other teams. Younger potential core players (e.g. Berrios) should be traded only if the other team is willing to overpay. That said, no player is untouchable if the trade improves the organization.
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    Then he should have taken that into account and bailed out at the very earliest sign the pitch was not going to be a strike. It was all his fault and he deserved to die. Of course, I am speaking sarcastically. I'm simply not in agreement with the blame-the-victim viewpoint presented in the earlier post.
  23. Nine of twelve
    A batter has less than 1.5 seconds to recognize what the pitch is (which is not always possible), to recognize where it's going, and to react accordingly. The argument that Buxton did not plan his reaction properly is borderline ridiculous, IMHO. I suppose you also think that it was Ray Chapman's fault that he allowed himself to be killed by Carl Mays.
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    Even against decent teams with second-line and third-line players this team has done OK at producing runs. As long as our position players are healthy I'm not concerned about that. It seems we have enough talent coming along to keep us stocked for the next few years. Beyond that, the obvious has already been stated many times. It's time to cut bait regarding Shoemaker. I can't picture another team taking him on if he's released, much less give something up for him in a trade. We should hang on to other short-termers for now and hope their performance in the next month or so can fetch us something in trades. But don't be impatient; the offers from contenders will improve between now and the trading deadline and we want to get the most we can.
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    Interesting. Seems like one of those quirks where a new term needs to be defined to clarify the play.
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