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  1. dex8425
    As much as I love Max, have to disagree here. Through four seasons he's been barely an above average hitter, and he's already 27. He was arguably the team MVP last year though. (I would go Cruz but you could make the argument)
  2. dex8425
    I think the consensus is that Tatis and Bogaerts will also be better than Polanco this year. Semien was an absolute monster last year. I don't see Polanco taking that step but hope I'm wrong. There are a lot of elite shortstops in the A.L. right now. Tim Anderson is really good too.
  3. dex8425
    Buxton is too low. He could very easily lead the team in WAR.
  4. dex8425
    Course there were hardly any tests back in March. Now testing is widely available.
  5. dex8425
    You're going to take Cruz, our best hitter, out of the lineup? Garver himself stated he'd like to catch 40-45 games. I wouldn't want to take Sano out of the lineup either.
  6. dex8425
    Agree that Kiriloff has the highest ceiling of the options, including Marwin. Then Rooker. I think it's notable that Wiel received a lot of ST AB's. I recall he hit well in spring training as well but that probably means nothing. I doubt any prospects will receive regular at bats this season though, as others have stated. If that happens, there have been lots of positive tests and likely MLB would shut the season down at that point.
  7. dex8425
    I'm glad we have veteran guys with postseason experience and a history of doing well in the postseason. (Donaldson, Cruz, Clippard, Romo) This season will feel like a September game where the standings are tight, the whole 60 games. I like the Twins chances on paper, how can you not?
  8. dex8425
    Revisiting this thread because someone on instagram, as well as the general consensus, says Scherzer should be in the HOF if he retired today. If he retired today I think he's an interesting Santana comp. Through their best seven seasons, guess who had the better era+? Johan. Innings pitched are almost equal, but Scherzer had a better WHIP and more strikeouts. I'll concede that Scherzer's resume is better, plus he has postseason cred. He also has higher counting stats overall but their peaks are not that different if you give Santana the 2006 Cy he deserved. Both 3 Cy youngs. Scherzer had 7 straight years of top 5 in Cy young voting. Johan had 6/7 years where he was top 7. Oh, and I agree- Scherzer should be in if he retires today. There's no way he shouldn't be in.
  9. dex8425
    Also, through 11 starts another Twins pitcher was 7-1 with a 2.95 ERA. His name is Martin Perez. I guess that's exhibit A of what a small sample size 60 games is and how regression to the mean may not necessarily happen in 60 games. Hey, maybe Luis Arraez will hit .400 for the season.
  10. dex8425
    Nope. He's only eligible for the final 21 games, and eligible for the postseason.
  11. dex8425
    If there was a Cy Young vote after 60 games last year Odo would've gotten some votes too.
  12. dex8425
    Getting a lot of house projects done with not watching baseball in the evenings!
  13. dex8425
    The owners' hard line stance is paying for 50 games (or less) at prorated salary. (Roughly 33% of players' full salaries) The players' hard line stance is not playing more than 50 games at 33% salary. Their justification for not playing more games is that if they played 70 games, they'd be playing 20 games for free since the owners already offered 50 games at prorated pay. I don't see how this is solely the fault of the owners. It's a negotiation. By definition, that means two sides.
  14. dex8425
    Mauer should absolutely be in. Even if you're a "small hall" proponent. The peak is absolutely hall worthy with the MVP, three batting titles as a catcher and five silver sluggers. The longevity is just good enough; the 2000 hits is an important milestone. No other AL catcher won a batting title; Mauer won three. Only catcher to do it in the modern era period. Only five catchers have won an MVP. Mauer's HOF resume compares favorably/slightly better than that of Mickey Cochrane. He won't be first ballot, but he better get in within the first four years.
  15. dex8425
    I don't think we'll need an asterisk. I think people for years will know why the 2020 season was weird, like they remember why 1943-1945 were weird MLB years.
  16. dex8425
    His breakdown video of Kepler hitting five HR's in a row off him is pretty good.
  17. dex8425
    Cy young voters didn't start looking at the non-win stats until later, the Felix Hernandez year when he won the Cy Young and went 13-12 on a Mariners team that lost over 100 games. Of course, the argument is that Cy Young was a stat accumulator who won a lot of games, and that historically "wins" mattered to a pitcher who was considered for the Cy Young award. I'd rather the award go to the best pitcher, not "best pitcher on a good team who wins 20 ish games or more."
  18. dex8425
    You've got three hall of famers, one future hall of famer, and possibly the best hitter to not be in the hall of fame. Can't argue with the top 5.
  19. dex8425
    What about Berrios, Hill, and Maeda? Odo and Berrios pitched well enough to win those two games last year. Everything else was a disaster.
  20. dex8425
    OMG, it's almost like people watch more stuff on the internet and social media than TV!
  21. dex8425
    I'm pretty sure if Royce Lewis hit .360 in just about every level like Juan Soto than he would be with the Twins right now. Hey, the Twins promoted Arraez straight from AA and that worked pretty well. Arraez is younger than Devers.
  22. dex8425
    I do agree with you that the written rules weren't necessarily clear at the time. However, baseball (for some reason) has a LOT of unwritten rules. If you as a batter on second base yell, "curveball coming" to the batter at the plate, well, that's not against any rules. But the batter on second base will most definitely get a fastball to the back his next time up. Seems like 100% of current and former players also have agreed for years that using technology to steal signs is against the unwritten rules. Now the written rules are clear on this. Another unwritten rule is that there's some sort of clubhouse code, where you don't rat out fellow baseball brethren. I totally get loyalty but personally I think this rule is stupid as applied to the astros situation. This is why some people were/are mad at Mike Fiers.
  23. dex8425
    Didn't Jose Canseco do that? Or did he just sell it?
  24. dex8425
    It's not subjective. Using technology to steal signs and relay them to the batter in real time is 100% cheating. It's explicitly against the rules. Your hypothetical scenario is not cheating. Nobody would say that's cheating and it's not against the rules.
  25. dex8425
    They probably honestly don't think of themselves as a cheater. Before they make a decision to cheat, they rationalize it as not being cheating in their mind, and thus can accept themselves doing it. Heard it with Lance, heard it with Barry, heard it with asbel kiprop, heard it with Pineda. "everyone else is doing it" "it doesn't provide that much of an advantage." "it probably didn't even help." "I never failed a drug test" "My superiors told me to do it, and I wanted to keep my job; I have to provide for my family"
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