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  1. Nine of twelve
    Elbow injury, June 1991. Before that he was a legitimate stud. He pitched OK afterward but he never regained the heavy fastball that had caused batters to make poor contact.
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    It seems that reducing the number of minor league players (and teams) is an inevitable change. But I don't think rookie league is the place to do that. I think it makes more sense to eliminate the low-A level. My wife has relatives in Cedar Rapids who are Twins (and Kernels) fans, and I'm sure they would be very sad, but no matter which level(s) are eliminated it will be a tough transition for many people.
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    What?! Puckett in CF? No Rich Becker? No Otis Nixon?
  4. Nine of twelve
    From what I understand, spin efficiency is a measure of how close the axis of rotation of a pitched ball is to being perpendicular to the direction the ball is moving through air. The closer to perpendicular the axis is, the more the ball will break. Another way to say it is that if the axis of rotation is close to perpendicular the spin will be more efficient in causing the ball to break. If the axis of rotation is parallel to the direction the ball is moving it will not break even with a high spin rate.
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    Andrew Albers, Saskatchewan. And there has to be a mention of Calvin Griffith, Quebec.
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    Don't forget Jonathan Schoop, our best player born in Curacao. (Sorry, can't add the cedilla on my Chromebook.)
  7. Nine of twelve
    IMHO what is really needed is more extensive revenue-sharing. Absent that this might make sense every year. The obstacle is that it will be very difficult to convince the teams referenced here to agree to either plan.
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    7. 2019 W-L record. I think that's the most obvious option. It does give the teams who finished low last year a bit of an advantage in getting the same high picks two years in a row but I don't see any better way to do it.
  9. Nine of twelve
    This is the first player I thought of.
  10. Nine of twelve
    I'm pretty sure the Ted Williams story is not just a legend. He was a hard-nosed competitor, and he went 6-for-8 in a doubleheader on the last day of the 1941 season. .3996 going in, .4057 coming out. This was in Philadelphia and with the Athletics in last place I wonder if their pitchers really tried their best to get him out.
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    Tom Kelly took responsibility for that decision publicly. I don't know what the private conversation was between the two of them or who brought it up first, but TK didn't usually let players off the hook if he felt a player did anything that ran contrary to his ideas about how baseball should be played.
  12. Nine of twelve
    I was a student at Ohio State during the early 1980's and knew a guy from Anderson's home town, Lancaster, OH. Apparently he was touching the 90's in high school before having an elbow incident. Still made himself into a very good pitcher, albeit for a short time.
  13. Nine of twelve
    To be more accurate, he was the Bert Blyleven of the '60's. I remember going to see the Twins with a friend of mine in Milwaukee in 1979. Camilo was the pitching coach at the time, and he was goofing around in the outfield during BP. He picked up a ball and threw a deuce to one of the players. Even then he could still put a big bend on it.
  14. Nine of twelve
    No problem. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Even when it's wrong.
  15. Nine of twelve
    This is a hot-button issue for me, so I'll repeat what I've said before in an effort to change your mind. When Blyleven retired he was third all-time in strikeouts behind only Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton. (He's now fifth.) Moreover, Ryan and Carlton are first and second in career walks. Blyleven is 29th. Not electing him to the HOF would be analogous to not electing a player who was third all-time in home runs. He should have been a first-ballot inductee.
  16. Nine of twelve
    There are dozens of major league players in the same boat, and probably hundreds of minor leaguers.
  17. Nine of twelve
    Since nobody has identified him, I'll do it. Alfred Martin, Jr.
  18. Nine of twelve
    His name as mispronounced by Patrick Reusse: Pedro Mew-noze.
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    Before I looked up the answer I was thinking maybe Rick Sofield. But I remember your guy too. Sometimes potential just doesn't translate into a major league level of skill.
  20. Nine of twelve
    As we all know, this list is incomplete, very much so. There must be more than 100 former players who could be included, going back to 1961. I'll add one to the list from that first season. He was a journeyman reserve infielder who finished his playing career that year, appearing in 108 games at shortstop and second base. He only hit .246 but still managed to produce 5 triples and 6 home runs. I'll chime in with his name later if no one else can come up with it.
  21. Nine of twelve
    Can we get an honorable mention for Joe Decker? Had 15 K's in a game in 1973.
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    Statistically speaking, every now and then there will be an statistical outlier.
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    Good one, but it was not quite a true trade. The Twins had the first pick of the Rule 5 draft and would have taken Santana straight up but there was a pre-arranged deal with the Marlins that allowed this trade to be made with a bit of additional cash coming to the Twins.
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    If Mauer would have been moved early in his career I think third base is where he would have wound up. He had the hands of an infielder and had less than ideal speed for an outfielder. The thing is that at that time the Twins were well-situated at third. And when Mauer was finally moved it was to first base mainly because that's where the team had a hole that needed to be plugged.
  25. Nine of twelve
    There have been numerous articles published by numerous sources about how the current Presidential administration took certain actions and failed to take other certain actions during the last three years which resulted in poor control of the spread of the virus in this country.
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