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I'm a National Leaguer. I hate the DH.

If Jim Edmonds and Scott Rolen aren't getting into the HOF neither will Hunter and Donaldson.

I was surprised what happened in Minnesota. Down here in St. Louis we had a white officer kill a black man after other officers alerted him that he had the officer's son's stolen credit cards in the black man's possession. Then the police got a retired judge who found the officer not guilty on the judge's last case on the bench. The Black police officers association opposed this miscarriage of justice, but, not the white mafia-like officers association. Then we had protest and our St. Louis officers' beat an undercover agent and injured him I believe damaging his hearing sent to observe the peaceful protests. That has been sent to a Grand jury, but, look who is in the White House and who heads the Civil Rights division. All of our white officers are complicit in this travesty. Some who would speak up would be in jeopardy from the union. It is like we can't do anything about it as if the police force is above the law. I am still shocked about Minneapolis. And just a third degree murder charge. Civilians would get charged with a first degree murder for intent. This behaviour undermines the rule of law.

If I was an opposing pitcher: 1. Killebrew 1969 2. Carew 1977 3. Morneau 2006 4. Mauer 2009 5. Versalles 1965 As an opposing pitcher the one batter I fear was Killebrew for well over a decade. Carew hits a lot of singles and is a great hitter, but, he doesn't score as many runs in the 1970's with the number of times he gets on base so we can contain him except for 1977 when he put together a great season. 2006: Joe Mauer in his walk year hit a career high 28 Hrs and hit .365. I'm a pitcher I am more intimidated by seasons from Bench, Campanella, Piazza, Gary Carter as hitters. After the big contract, in the second year starts becoming a 60-70 run scoring and 55-65 RBI guy while moving to 1B. 2009: Morneau can drive in runs so top RBI guy. Too bad about concussions. 1965: Versalles Was 5th or 6th on team in OPS+. Made 39 errors at SS which won't get you playing time today. Oliva should have received award in a year they pick from a team going to WS he was hard to get out. Versalles has to rank among the worst MVPs of all-time. He led league in striking out as well in 1965.

Minor league players are more important than the rest of our laid off workers. Honestly, the wealthy MLB players union only gives lip service to other unions. They care less about minor league players. Curt Flood fought for player's rights. Like wow. Its not like that reverbated to the other workers in our country. If your employer say the FBI tells you to go to another field office can you say no and get the media's attention? No. This makes a good story. But, seriously there is going to be another 3 million jobless claims tomorrow.

When they resume the virus won't be over with in this country. They are just trying to flatten the curve so the hospitals won't be overrun. Has measles truly gone away, you should still be vaccinated. So they resume in May do you think there will be 1000's in the stands without a vaccine? With 20% unemployment? I miss the diversion. I wish they would broadcast previous years games in which they don't tell you the exact date so the outcome is still a mystery.

The only starter that any opposition player from a team that is above .500 worries about facing the Twins is Berrios. I wish Bailey was back in my division. Odorizzi is a good 5-6 inning pitcher who is beneficial to a team with good mid-inning relief. Hill at 41 years wouldn't be in the major leagues if he had been traded to a last place team instead of being serviceable by the Dodgers. Maeda wasn't traded by the Dodgers because they thought he wasn't replaceable. No wonder why I like the NL. Pitching is better except for Colorado which no pitcher can figure out.

The way this article reads the Dodgers don't know they traded off a great talent. The reason why the Dodgers traded off the cost-controlled pitcher is because he is just so-so. He had over a 5 ERA on the road for the best team in the NL.

Don't you have 3 years left of control over Berrios? Looking at my team's history of pitching extensions. We extended Jaime Garcia despite his previous arm injuries. He was injured often, but, came back well one season with 20 starts in 2015 with a 2.43 ERA and 129 inning. The 2016 season was 10-13 with a 4.67 ERA as the Cards miss the wildcard by 1 game. Somehow Atlanta thought they saw value and they traded John Gant for him. Got value out of that injury riddled pitcher. Then the Cards extended Wainwright 5 years to keep him from going FA. He got $95 million and won 19 games the first year of contract then went his Achilles tendon and arm injuries as he was no longer himself. Did get him on year extensions incentive laden. Our starting pitchers and relievers are always getting injured. We got a 1 year contract out of Kyle Lohse who went 15-5. So he and Boras agreed on a 4 year $40 million extension on last day of season. First two years arm injuries. Last 2 years record was quite good with a 16-3 season. But, unlike you Twins fans gushing over him I never thought he would dominate a good playoff team. We were smart not to re-sign him after his last contract with us. Miles Mikolas got a 4 year extension after signing a good 2 year contract coming back from Japan. He has a sore tendon this spring in his arm, but, apparently not damaged. 4 years starting this year for $68 million. Hopefully back after a couple weeks on April. But, will he be injured plagued over next four years. They gave him an extension after going 18-4 in 2018 and going 10-0 on the road. The Cards won 17 of his 32 starts last year while he went 9-14. Extended him too early before last season started. I guess they wanted payroll certainity. The Cards couldn't buy out Boras client Lance Lynn as he went through 3 down years with TJ surgery and weakness at the end of his fourth season. I still wonder about his continuing good seasons with Texas. And the same with closer Trevor Rosenthal as his arm went kaput needing surgery and Boras kept him from getting an extension. His comeback last year was a disaster for some team. So my bottom line on Berrios you are not likely to recoup value from hard throwers over that many years. It sucks losing them to rehab. The only FA the Cardinals missed out on was Matt Scherzer who is my from hometown. I talked to his aunt and she said he would have deferred $15 million a year for the Cardinals who were coming off 100 win season. Groan. Odorizzi grew up 30 miles from here so there was speculation he could sign here before accepting QO which was surprising. Not sure his arm history.

Good article. But, because Maeda at soon to be 32 hasn't had TJ surgery while Brusdar has doesn't mean Boston didn't have real concerns.

Isn't Revere's OPS+ 83 for his career? And Span is like 103? There are many OFers that come up all of the time that put up those numbers. Those 2 OFers can't drive in many runs.

In mid-August Bailey's ERA was still over 5.5. He pitched well in September when he was pitching every 6 days. This coming after the 34 year old had 3 horrific years for the Reds on another idiotic pitcher contract. Hill is going to be 41. I mean he is going to try to come back with some experimental procedure on his rebuilt elbow. Then Maeda ERA on the road was over 5.1. He lost 2 starts to the Angels a bad team and had another lost in relief against the AL.

I'm wondering if Marwin Gonzales would say anything to fellow Twins players if he noticed the Astros were stealing signs against the Twins? How about when I was facing you Berrios I was tipped off. Oh, he could pretend not to notice.

By 1893 the distance was 60'6".

I think this scandal will keep Beltran out of the Hall of Fame and Altuve. I don't see how 75% of voters will vote for these 2. BtW, Pete Rose was on the HOF ballots for 3 years and he received less than 10% of the vote. If reinstated no guarantee that a future Veterans Committee puts him in.

I'm wondering what their many fired scouts have to say. Also, would their 2018 hitting coach who was in the minors in 2017 not know about the electronic sign stealing?

I'm still trying to figure out how the Cardinals since 2000 have had only one losing season since 2000 and that season they were only 1 out on September 7 that 2007 season. They've only had 2 Gold Glove starting catchers since 2000. Then every couple years 3 or 4 starting pitchers start many games that didn't start for the team a couple of years earlier. Not too many bad contracts being lucky they didn't get Heyward, Pujols, David Price and Stanton's contracts. Missed out on Scherzer who is from here. Since the MVP3 days are over they develop, acquire, and trade off lots of starting pitchers. Out there now in trades is Marco Gonzales, Zach Gallen and Sandy Alcantra and a recovered after 3 seasons off Lance Lynn. They must have some internal metrics that they use. College pitchers arms are more developed than high school graduates.

The lack of pitcher development is why most of the 2010's were major losing seasons.

I'm just curious. Have you watched any XFL games? It seems to be off to a better start than previous spring leagues. Would Minnesota consider getting an XFL team if the league succeeds?

This NBA season: TV ratings on TNT are down 21%. 15% overall.

Contract the 2 Florida teams or move at least one. If contract 2 go back to 4 divisions and just 2 postseason rounds.

Agreed on ratings, but, not true with say the Super Bowl. Game 4 of last year's WS had a 5.9 whereas some WS games have been in the high 30's. I don't watch much of the WS or Stanley Cup unless my team is in it. It's true that there is so much to do. I don't know how TV revenues keep increasing for badeball.

What can really throw off projections is a pitcher having an outstanding season in regards to his win-loss record and/or the team's record when he starts. In 2018 the Cards brought Miles Mikolas back from Japan who knew our pitching coach and didn't re-sign Lance Lynn. Miles that year went 18-4 and the Cardinals were 14 over .500 at 88-74 and 24-8 when he was on the mound, whereas if Lynn took the QO the Cards would have been around .500. We had a middle reliever who came in mid-relief in tight games and was 11-1. His WAR was 0.5 or so. That could throw off PECOTA since it can't measure a maybe outlier. I don't know why its calculated this far ahead of April 1. One pitcher swapped out for another or coming out of nowhere or declining or soaring on his own can make a big difference.

But, not the distance.

Have you seen the World Series television ratings from the late 70's compared to today? Once you let in too many teams it degrades the product. I have a better proposal. After 154 regular season games the last 8 games and 2 weekends, 4 home and 4 away, are played against one team. Your opponent is dependent upon the standings after 154 games before the last 2 weekends. Number 1 in the division would play Number 2 in the division. Number 3 would play other number 3's and Number 4 and number 5 play each other. These last 8 games are sold at the beginning of the season. The 8 games count as regular season stats. After 162 games we have the same format as today or just one wildcard. Its possible that the #3 team could finish first or wildcard if after 154 games the standings for the top 3 are close together. In years which little separates the top teams these final games would have an old time playoff atmosphere.