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  1. Whammy
    I can't believe this topic doesn't have more discussion. This is the most interesting aspect of the 2026 season, in my opinion.
  2. Whammy
    This is helping out big time with the divisional tiebreakers.
  3. Whammy
    There's an interesting side effect to Wallner making these challenges on pitches that end up being obvious strikes. Now pitchers know that he doesn't think those are strikes. I bet he gets a lot more pitches in those areas.
  4. Whammy
    I have no idea who on the team is smart and who isn't, but I also think you just lost about 1/3 of them with the word "hierarchy," so the key to maximizing the ABS challenges is probably to know the audience and give them clear instructions. Like... "Wallner. Its the 2nd inning and there's 1 out and nobody on. I don't care if you think strike 3 missed by 3 feet, You don't challenge here. Period."
  5. Whammy
    Batters should be banned from it for all but the highest leverage situations. It's just too valuable for the catchers to have to be burning them on the hitting side. Last night was the prime example of that. I swear Jeffers got like 0.2 WPA just from those two challenges to end the 6th and 7th innings. Also... some website has to be tracking WPA for challenges (won and lost), right?
  6. Whammy
    Jeffers the challenge demon!
  7. Whammy
    Does Taj go 3-0 every time he gets to 2 outs?
  8. Whammy
    With the ABS system in place, aren’t all of the measurements accurate now?
  9. Whammy
    All this talk about these right handed AAA infielders (Culpepper at SS and Gonzalez at 1B) getting called up this year has me thinking that the lefthanded Tristan Gray selection as back up SS to start the year might have been a bit of foretelling. Because if by May you've got Lewis, Culpepper, Keaschall, Bell as your primary infielders from left to right, then having Gray and Gonzalez as your backups (or pushing Bell to DH) actually looks to have good platoon/days off flexibility.
  10. Whammy
    I'm personally offended by lazy, repetitive analysis and jokes.
  11. Whammy
    I’d rather the stands be full, but we all know the attendance is going to suck. It just so constantly gets brought up. No reason to discuss it all year and post pictures on social media showing empty seats each game.
  12. Whammy
    Why is everyone so obsessed with attendance numbers. Geez. Who cares.
  13. Whammy
    OK. I’ve had enough. These CarShield commercials are the worst
  14. Whammy
    I think Larnach was 1-1 count, but Bell was the first pitch.
  15. Whammy
    The 12th and 13th round picks that have both contributed to the MLB team? One of whom has around 10 career WAR? Those haven’t gone well?
  16. Whammy
    I mean, yeah... it's basically the Mirriam-Webster definition of what's going on.
  17. Whammy
    Given how extraneous Clemens is, I think it actually can work. It just means more time for Bell and/Caratini at 1B and probably more time for Wallner at DH. Not perfect, but doable.
  18. Whammy
    Larnach and Clemens serve no purpose and should be gone. Outman can provide some value as the 25/26th man on a decent team. He can stick around for now. If he stinks though May, then Fedko can come up and play that role Wallner has enough positive history that he should get a much longer leash than Larnach. Ride with him until midseason. If at that point he’s performing like last year or worse, then reduce his role. Ober, same as Wallner, but with less of a clear replacement so he probably gets the full season to prove if he can be serviceable at 89mph ERod should be up in a week when his MLB service time clock stays at zero for 2026. Roden should also be up with the Larnach/Clemens exodus, but without any real service time concern. Culpepper and Jenkins can be midseason replacements for underperforming players (Like Wallner and Lee/Lewis), assuming they both keep performing well. Prielipp? Not sure what the Twins are doing with him. I’d probably keep him as a starter through June to build up innings, then call him up and use him in the bullpen for the rest of the year. With the goal of getting him to 120 innings on the year Zebby…. Find a role for him once he has a solid month at AAA. Anyone else?
  19. Whammy
    My biggest complaint is that the Twins rarely spend beyond their bonus pool. It’s not a hard cap. There are just penalties for going your pool. The penalties start rather small and then escalate to very severe. Many (most?) other team spend beyond their pools. ——— "A team that exceeds its bonus pool faces a penalty. A club outspending its allotment by 0-5 percent pays a 75% tax on the overage. At higher thresholds, a team loses future picks: a first-rounder and a 75% tax for surpassing its pool by more than 5 and up to 10 percent; a first- and a second-rounder and a 100% tax for more than 10 and up to 15 percent; and two first-rounders and a 100% tax for more than 15%." ——— Said more plainly… The Twins could spend 17.78M on draftees and then pay roughly a $635k fine on the overage. Beyond 5% (17.78M for the Twins) the penalties become future draft picks, which is why nobody has ever done that.
  20. Whammy
    My crazy prognostication is that MLB will shrink the strike zone vertically this coming offseason. This will sort of accomplish what you’re talking about.
  21. Whammy
    I’m not super interested in defending Outman, but spotting him against a lefty (Because of the Buxton injury) isn’t setting him up for any possible success.
  22. Whammy
    Caratini might have challenged 2 of those ball calls (in the 4 pitch walk) if Bell hadn’t burned our first ABS challenge
  23. Whammy
    Man, our hitters gotta stop challenging in ultra low leverage situations
  24. Whammy
    Oops… wrong thread
  25. Whammy
    After the first strike of the Fralick AB there was a very brief graphic that popped up. I can’t get a freeze frame of it. It sort of looked like a live ABS
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