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  1. Nine of twelve
    Willie Keeler. "Wee Willie" was 5'4", 140 lbs. He hit .424 in 1897.
  2. Nine of twelve
    High school graduates who are not drafted had better hope they have been accepted at a college and that the coach there has room for them in the program. By the time the draft takes place it will be too late to simply choose a college and go.
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    Out of how many pitchers in the history of baseball? This is an extraordinarily low percentage. Moreover, five of these were knuckleballers.
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    Smiley pitched very well in 1992, but I believe I read or heard that, for whatever reason, he hated being here. Hence his departure.
  5. Nine of twelve
    Nolan Ryan is an outlier. Or maybe freak of nature would be a better term. It's extraordinarily rare for a human being to be able to do what he did.
  6. Nine of twelve
    One nitpick. The deflation game was in 1986. I was there. Bizarre and deflating for the fans, in more ways than one.
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    For me it's not so much about the fact that they destroyed the numbers. It's more about the fact that they felt it was perfectly OK to cheat to get ahead.
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    This is the main thing, and it is compounded by the fact that major league teams rely heavily on their AAA (and to some extent AA) teams. There will always be players who are injured or need personal time off or who underperform. In the past it's been necessary to have at least 10-15 minor league players ready to jump in when those situations arise. If there is no minor league season I think we can expect the major league teams to carry about 35 players, with some being on a taxi squad or something. And of course that in turn makes the logistics of a major league schedule even more complicated. Everything from travel to locker room space to support staff and more. The whole thing is a mess.
  9. Nine of twelve
    Yeah, it's not any one Yankee in particular. It's the organization and their fans and their collective sense of entitlement. And the media that feed and feed off of that. Edit: And the Red Sox and Dodgers are not far behind the Yankees. And of course we can't forget the Astros.
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    As SQUIRREL said, I don't really hate any opposing player, not like Al Secord for those of us of a certain age who were North Stars fans, but if I have to choose one player it would be either AJ or CC Sabathia. In AJ's case, I remember him spiking our first baseman once. (Mientkiewicz I think.) I was told that Ozzie Guillen said about him, "If he's not on your team you hate him. If he's on your team you hate him less." I also heard third-hand a story about his behavior in an off-field situation which I will not relate here. Regarding Sabathia, I seem to remember him purposely hitting at least two of our players when he was with Cleveland. I think he broke Morneau's wrist or something, didn't he?
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    I think Rafael Palmiero, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Roger Clemens should not be in the HOF because they improved their performance by juicing. And that's why I think Juan Rincon should not be on this list.
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    I'm not bothering to check the stats, but I think David Ortiz probably did better in his appearances as DH than Lew Ford did in his appearances as DH.
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    Not completely. True, you can't steal first base, but there is a huge difference between having Byron Buxton on first base and having, say, Bartolo Colon on first base.
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    If we continue to have two sets of rules I think it needs to go further if we are to make things equitable. I'll use Nelson Cruz to make my point. He is too good of a hitter for a NL team to sign him strictly to DH in 10 regular season games and get an at bat as a pinch hitter every other game or so. AL teams would outbid for him because his value is much higher because there are 152 games available for him to DH. NL teams and AL teams build their rosters differently because of the different rules. In a game with the DH the AL team has an advantage because, as lukeduke points out, the NL team's added batter is not likely to be one of the team's best hitters. In a game with no DH the NL team has an advantage because the batter sitting out for the AL team is likely to be one of the team's best hitters. I think it would be somewhat more equitable for the visiting team to be allowed one unrestricted roster change for interleague games. There would be no time restrictions for a player removed to be reactivated. There would be no option used for either the player added or removed. Matters like this would have to be written into the CBA but it would address the differences, at least somewhat.
  15. Nine of twelve
    Actually, there are four aspects to baseball. Baserunning is the fourth.
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    OK, no DH's. This also rules out good hitters from the pre-DH era who were poor fielders. And good hitters who were good fielders but poor baserunners. And good hitters who were good fielders and good baserunners but poor pitchers. That leaves only players who were good pitchers, good hitters, good fielders, and good baserunners. In other words, only Babe Ruth.
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    That's true for every player at every position.
  18. Nine of twelve
    40 years, 363 days on the day he was sold to Cleveland in 2011.
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    The thing about Rincon is it turned out he was juicing. As soon as he was obliged to give it up his effectiveness suffered greatly.
  20. Nine of twelve
    I agree with your top five, but maybe in a different order. I'm glad you didn't overlook Worthington. I might slide Perkins in there if peak performance is a consideration but I don't know who I would slide out to make room for him.
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    I don't think this proposal will ever come to fruition because if (and it's a huge if) there is MLB at all this season it will be a curtailed schedule and I think it's at least 99% certain that there will be no spectators. If there are no spectators there's no reason for teams to play in their regular stadiums. Also, minimizing travel and being in warm weather locations if they play into December or so will be priorities. So to me the only proposal with even a remote chance of actually happening is having teams play at their spring training sites. If they did this one team in each state would always be off unless a FL team moved to AZ or vice versa. When one takes into account the very complicated logistics that will be involved for playing even a curtailed schedule I doubt that even this option will be deemed to be worthwhile. And by the way it will also be necessary to figure out how to operate without any minor league teams because it's even more unlikely that they will be playing. A few weeks ago I heard a commentator say words to this effect: In the situation we currently find ourselves no one person is the boss. Commissioner Manfred is not the boss. The President is not the boss. The WHO is not the boss. At this point the virus is the boss. Unless and until a way is found to stop the virus it will dictate what we do.
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    It would be similar to the Twins signing Clippard. The Twins hit him well last year even though he was quite good against the rest of the majors. Coming here might be good for Clippard or Bauer, but maybe not as good for the Twins.
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    I don't think Falvine would or should target Trevor Bauer any more or any less than any other player. A good GM and his/her staff will continually evaluate players within and outside of the organization and will make a trade, a draft pick, or a free agent acquisition based on whether the transaction puts the franchise in a better position, especially at the major league level.
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    WARNING: NITPICK ALERT Baseball purists prefer to say fielding rather than defense. That said, this is an interesting thing to consider. I don't think the determination of the winner is as important as recognizing some of the best fielders in Twins history. I'm glad you included Jim Kaat.
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    I knew this one because I was at the game. Another thing to mention is that Rod Carew raised his BA above .400 during this game.
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