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  1. Miggy's Little Helper
    There is clearly blame there. At this point, you cannot use Duffey against premier power hitters. Period. Once LeMahieu reached base, it should have been Smith. And if not Smith, literally anyone else. Maybe he (or any other reliever) gets beat, but at least you’re using someone that has a chance of keeping the ball down. Duffey hangs breaking balls every single outing.
  2. Miggy's Little Helper
    Can anyone think of a worse group of batters in Judge/Rizzo/Stanton for Duffey to face? A hang-it-and-bang-it waiting to happen.
  3. Miggy's Little Helper
    Rocco special.
  4. Miggy's Little Helper
    Rocco’s rules: cannot use prime relievers close and late when losing.
  5. Miggy's Little Helper
    If that was to Judge or Stanton, would have been. Got lucky.
  6. Miggy's Little Helper
    To be clear, Wolfson claimed Joe Ryan is ready to go. But our beloved Perpetual Manager of the Year (Hallowed Be His Name) believes he needs a rehab start. So, he’d rather have Sands get lit up and go 2IP rather than get a pitch count limited Ryan through 4ish. To say that’s suboptimal is an insult to definition of suboptimal.
  7. Miggy's Little Helper
    Gotta love Rocco bringing in Thielbar here. Has there ever been a manager that plays to lose the game more than Rocco? He gives up in every close game that we are trailing.
  8. Miggy's Little Helper
    As a labor lawyer, it always seemed that this was the likely result at any initial deadline for negotiations (be it a lockout at season start or strike on the brink of the playoffs). Failure to reach an agreement was likely a baked-in consequence of the starting negotiating positions combined with a relationship that is less than "okay" (to be charitable). Although I understand the frustrations, welcome to labor negotiations--they aren't pretty. We'll get there at some point in the next several weeks to months, but this is how it is designed to work. In baseball, given the resources on both sides, it's about imposing some level of pain on the other in order to get to agreement (again, a product of a fraught relationship). As a baseball fan, I for one am happy that we have a lockout and are seeing this playout before a season starts. Without the lockout, we'd almost certainly just push this down the road to the brink of the playoffs--at which point we'd see the players walk off the job. I leave it up to you as to which of these scenarios, long term, is better for baseball. We'd all prefer option C, an agreement and opening day. But that was basically never in the cards. So we move on to the next best option.
  9. Miggy's Little Helper
    If you want to objectively criticize his pitching performance, fine. But 40 pitches to get through 2 innings when you strike out 4 and give up 2 weak hits (flyball exit velo 69 and grounder exit velo 84), you are doing fine. Good luck to anyone hitting the change last night, Tigers or not.
  10. Miggy's Little Helper
    The situation made little sense. You need to get the magic number down to 0 before you trust Gibson in that situation. BUT...Gibson was objectively good last night. His control was excellent and he had true swing and miss stuff. Did he give up a couple hard hit balls? Yes, but the Gibby we saw last night was mighty encouraging. If he can pitch like that, he's a valuable piece for the playoffs.
  11. Miggy's Little Helper
    Call it whatever you want. It was patently obvious that Harper, May, and Hildy were all superior options to Mejia at that point in the game. Last time I checked, the general strategy in the eighth inning with a two-run lead does not involve running out your fourth best available relief option. If we play the optimal strategy and get beat, I can live with it. Play sub-optimal strategy and get beat, I think we all have the right to be frustrated.
  12. Miggy's Little Helper
    The problem with tonight is clearly that WE DID have the bullpen to close it out. It didn't take a genius to figure out how to get the last nine outs from some combination of Perez, Harper, May, and Hildy. If Perez, May, and Hildy were considered off limits tonight, it's going to be a long year and perhaps the FO should've have thought about signing one of the four hundred thousand 7/8/9 relievers available.
  13. Miggy's Little Helper
    Someday, I hope to see a manager that understands that there is no guarantee that the team will be in a position to win tomorrow. Quit worrying about a guy being unavailable out of the 'pen TOMORROW until that need presents itself. If Mejia had to pitch the 8th tomorrow out of necessity, I could understand. We weren't there yet. The splits in the 8th were essentially neutral. May should have pitched the 8th (there was a strong case for Harper to pitch a second inning given how well the ball was coming out of his hand) and Hildy the 9th. For all we know, 2-3 innings of mop up work will be available tomorrow. Also, I don't know what trash prep program we're running if we can't give Perez the ball in the 7th with something like 1,200 games in a row upcoming. Being on a pitch count when we've known this is the game he'd start for the last 30 years is insane. The managing (both general and game) errors are mounting.
  14. Miggy's Little Helper
    Hot take: Not hyperbole, Baldelli (or the person that ultimately called for Vasquez) should be fired. Bringing in Vasquez in a 1-0 game with the bases loaded is the football equivalent of running the ball up the middle down 6 on your own 45 with 0:02 left. Hi, my name in Taylor Rogers and I am one of the most dominant, if not the most dominant, left handed pitcher in all of baseball. Instead, we brought in the guy with an MLB WHIP of 2.00 and AAA WHIP of 1.714. Shockingly, he did not get the out. OH AND DID I MENTION THAT ROGERS DIDN'T PITCH LAST NIGHT AND TOMORROW IS AN OFF DAY. This was malpractice of the most serious degree.
  15. Miggy's Little Helper
    I'll put it in a bit of a different way: that's not how baseball works. You don't get to magically put Betts/Ramirez/Yelich on your roster. Trout is the greatest player in several generations. They did the right thing.
  16. Miggy's Little Helper
    It could result in a drop in productivity. Or he'll be a clone of Mark Buerhle. Excellent soft-tossing lefties have always existed and, even in the age of velocity, some of them can and will continue to thrive. Given his track record, I'd be willing to bet that Keuchel is far more likely to be Mark Buerhle than Tommy Milone. I'd be willing to take up to 4 years if the price was right. 3/$50-55M would seem reasonable given the market. A steal, really, for a team that is staring into the abyss when it comes to starting pitching depth.
  17. Miggy's Little Helper
    For all those throwing the stones at Sano, may your body never betray you. Clearly, two weeks ago, the doctors thought it would heal on its own. Sano's been in a boot for 2 weeks--presumably compliant with the doctor's orders. Fast forward two weeks, it didn't heal. I know this is difficult for some of the posters to read, but sometimes that's what happens. Bodies are weird things. Sometimes lacerations don't heal right--even when you do everything in your power to coax along the healing process. Sometimes extra medical attention is necessary. When a laceration doesn't heal, you undergo a debridement procedure and restart the healing process.
  18. Miggy's Little Helper
    The Twins were killed by injuries last year and still won 78 games. So, they're not going back to 60 wins. I'd say the mid 70s is the floor with this team in this division. And, the entire point of my post is that signing someone like Keuchel could really make this team pretty darn good--especially if the offense takes off. A Berrios, Keuchel, Gibson, Odorizzi, Pineda rotation is, at worst, an MLB average rotation. Even with a below average rotation in 2017, the Twins offense propelled the team to 85 wins.
  19. Miggy's Little Helper
    Uh, in a word, no. Since when is every feature of capitalism resulting in labor making gains against capital now called "socialism"? Sorry your beloved market economy did a number on your expectation for perpetually low ticket prices to watch the top 750 baseball players on a planet of 7,500,000,000 ply their trade.
  20. Miggy's Little Helper
    The SP pain is real.
  21. Miggy's Little Helper
    The players are not going to give up guaranteed contracts. They'd pool their money with a different group of billionaires and start their own baseball league before agreeing to non-guaranteed contracts. That being said, non-guaranteed contracts would change free agency, but I'm not sure it'd be good for small market teams. What small market teams "save" in being able to cut underperforming players, they'd lose in bonus and contract size. I mean, how much do you think Harper could get on a 5 year deal right now? 40M per? The Twins would never be in on a guy that's 1/3 or their total payroll--not even for 5 years.
  22. Miggy's Little Helper
    From what I understand, there's no way to verify each team's revenue. We can calculate payroll, of course. From what I can gather, the revenue numbers are about: Revenue 2010 - 6.14B 2011 - 6.36B 2012 - 6.81B 2013 - 7.1B 2014 - 7.86B 2015 - 8.39B 2016 - 9.03B 2017 - 9.46B 2018 - 10.3B Payroll is: 2010 - 2.91B 2011 - 3.0B 2012 - 3.15B 2013 - 3.35B 2014 - 3.63B 2015 - 3.9B 2016 - 4.07B 2017 - 4.25B 2018 - 4.22B 2019 - SPOTRAC NUMBER - Currently 3.78B I agree we don't know the whole story behind the numbers. It's rough and can be misleading. These numbers indicate revenue is up about 68% since 2010 and payroll is up 46%. Take that for what you will. Regardless of actual numbers, the players union will look at these numbers and be mighty skeptical of owners--rightfully so.
  23. Miggy's Little Helper
    I forgot about the part where the players are just supposed to shut up and be happy while team revenue and profit increase at a faster rate than player pay.
  24. Miggy's Little Helper
    If you represent the players, isn't the obvious response, "Okay, you want to let basic economics dictate pay? Deal. The players get market wages from day 1. No team control. Pure free agency." The owners obviously balk and now "basic economics" is out the window as a framework for agreement. The whole point of a collective bargaining agreement is that the parties get to play with what you've termed the "economic laws of nature."
  25. Miggy's Little Helper
    Operating "systemically and intelligently to mitigate risk" ignores the fact that the owners and players (a) have a contractual relationship and ( will have a contractual relationship for the foreseeable future. If the owners want to abuse the labor contract "systemically and intelligently to mitigate risk" to extract maximum profit for their side, the owners can't expect that the renegotiation of the contract will proceed smoothly. Something about an equal and opposite reaction. To be clear, the coming labor strife isn't about superstars like Harper and Machado. They get paid and they should get paid. The coming labor strife is about all the players that have to take shorter-term deals for less money than expected or, even worse, minor league contracts. The boneyard of free agency has never seen so many carcasses.
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