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  1. Dantes929
    Well, yeah but you still need to consider within the team concept. Santana wins all his games but the team finishes last he is still the best pitcher and deserves the Cy Young because he won all the games he was able to. How can you say Cy Young goes to the best pitcher but then say 3/4s of all pitchers don't qualify because their team didn't make the playoffs? Mike Trout can be the most valuable player in the league even if his value was on a team that lost a lot of games. You start by saying if there is one player you can have on your team who would you choose. Then you can say whose season that was just played would you like repeated on your team out of all those that played. If both of those answers are Mike Trout then you have your Most Valuable Player. The second part of that question ld eliminate his 2017 season for injury.
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    Agreed but lets not forget Gibson who has a better ERA than Berrios and also Rodney. I will be the first to admit hating that signing but he has been really good after a so so start. Funny that Escobar is giving us what we wanted out of Sano but if Sano had been giving us what we wanted then Escobar might never have been given the chances.
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    I agree with Jack Kemp though in that putting weight on winning teams for MVP and then using MVP for HOF consideration is ridiculous. Much like the Cy Young voting which might keep Santana out of the Hall.
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    I never assumed he was washed up but when you can't find the plate for a month I promoted the idea that he should fix his game in the minors. Probably would have been a good thing if he had started there. Seemed like he was walking more than one an inning and that everyone that walked scored. Very happy to see him turn it around.
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    I banking on Buxton being that spark. He was last year and he is our best chance this year.
  6. Dantes929
    Any updates on Buxton?
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    Well some of that is true. The knock on Gibson (as I remember) was never that he was pitch to contact but that he was a guy that tried to peck at the corners rather than trust his stuff. Fell behind in counts and then had to groove one. My own knock on him was that he seemed to throw the same pitch over and over again when he appeared to have a really nice curveball that he rarely used. The pitch to contact failed because we didn't have guys who were good at it. Gibson's stuff now would have played well any year. Or do you think his stuff now is the same as it was in the past? I think he went whole games without throwing a ball that bends as much as he threw to nearly every guy last night. If the mantra of the past was truly throw the same pitch at the same speed every time so you don't walk anyone then I am with you.
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    Replacing a guy that has been horrible with a great hitter. I expect better but still need Buxton and Polanco and Dozier to show up. These losses late after a good win Tuesday really hurts.
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    I would hope the coaches and the pitchers themselves are also in tune with the effort it takes to achieve those stats. Effort instead of mechanics should be monitored by observation. When guys start getting tired smoothness leaves and is replaced by effort.
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    As much as I have read, science does not support or refute innings limits. I truly believe that an injury is just as or more likely in ST than it is in inning 156. I don't know what kind of throwing program pitchers are on pre ST but it feels like they accelerate from throwing 30 pitches to 100 pretty rapidly. Throwing over 30 pitches in an inning seems like it would have more detrimental effect than innings or overall pitches. One article posited that what pitchers do between innings is very important also. We have all seen Gibson on tv doing all sorts of stretches and exercises to stay loose but I don't see the others do it much. I just don't see how shutting someone down for 5 months and then starting them over on building them up over the next 7 months and then repeating is a way to build up innings over a career. I am very much in the camp of watch for fatigue evidenced by smoothness of delivery and velocity. Some pitchers are going to get hurt no matter what and some have been babied their whole life and probably left countless innings wasted in the tank. Blyleven, Ryan and Clemens on pitch or innings limits would have eliminated thousands of innings of HOF production.
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    Its not the 6 games back that is so daunting. There may not be hundreds of teams that have come back from as big or bigger deficits but definitely multiple dozens and I can think of 4 of those seasons for the Twins alone. 3 of them happen to represent some of the best races in baseball history. Forget about the odds and the record they have to have from here on out. One thing I have learned from 6 decades of watching baseball is that the view now and the view 10 days from now can be very different. Sano and Dozier get hot and the breaks fall our way and maybe we win 8 of 10 with Mauer, Buxton and Polanco near ready to rejoin the team. Of course it can go the other way as well especially since we don't have some of our best players and a couple of the other of our best players just aren't playing well and we could lose 8 of 10 just as easily. For now though? Give up on my team when they are out 6 games? I wouldn't even do that in August.
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    "On Sunday we learned that Mauer is headed for a rehab assignment. Things are hopefully headed in the right direction for him. Tougher to feel that way about the Twins in general." Its kind of one and the same. Mauer heading in the right direction is directly linked to the Twins heading in the right direction. Same could be said of Buxton. And the starting pitching.
  13. Dantes929
    I get 89 for Pressley and 81 for Reed rather than 90+. Reed has some history being effective with heavy usage. Pressley does not. I would prefer both of them pitching two innings when sharp which would give them the same amount of innings in half the appearances.
  14. Dantes929
    They won't bunt for hits and they won't steal but they get picked off base and get thrown out on the bases more than I have ever seen. Garver appears to have no instincts on either side of the ball. Sano would benefit greatly from using all fields and by toning his swing down. I most definitely did not expect this team to make the playoffs. The team I thought had a decent chance of the playoffs included Mauer, Buxton, Polanco and Santana along with Sano and Dozier having decent years. I don't know how capable this team is currently but they should be able to achieve the goal of not playing ugly baseball.
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    I don't know how longevity works into the equation but Erv Santana would be in the mix for the final three spots and Thome could replace Koskie.
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    Going to MLB for recaps is great but then there is no discussion. Game threads are great but I didn't want to read through 5 pages of it to see if something had already been discussed to death in that thread. Baseball Reverence is great but they are a little slow to post and kind of annoying to go there to find out what time the next three games are. and check the standings. I still go to those sites but now I don't go from one to the other several times to find out what happened in last night's game. Thanks for all you do Tom.
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    30-31 Now take away Kemp and Grandal. Kershaw has given them 6 of 8 quality starts and has gone 7 in half those. I am by no means laying all the blame for the Twins record on injuries. I'm just saying even the good teams aren't 2 deep at every position. Sometimes you get lucky and the subs perform even better than the starters (Escobar vs Sano) but generally there is a fair dropoff between starters and subs at most positions on most teams.
  18. Dantes929
    This is the lineup we were supposed to have today. 1. Buxton batting .300 2. Mauer 3. Sano batting .275 with 15 homers 4. Rosario 5. Dozier 6. Morrison 7. Polanco 8. Kepler 9. Castro
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    Injuries are part of the equation for every team but I would debate that good teams adequately prepare for them. Every team has their Butera's and Punto's and the like as evidenced by the fact that the Twins had both when they were a good team and when those two left they went on and played for WS teams. The good teams can often withstand one or two of these guys playing regularly due to injury but usually not much more than that. Take the top pitcher, the 1st baseman, the catcher and the shortstop off any team and they are going to suffer because if the replacements were starter level they would be starters. If Trout goes down you are replacing your best player with a backup, not with another Trout. Cases in point. Its hard to argue that WS champions are not good teams so how would the 87 Twins have done without Viola, Hrbek, Puckett, Gagne and Laudner? How would the 91 Twins have done without Erickson, Hrbek, Puckett, Gagne and Harper? I'm not saying Santana, Mauer, Buxton, Polanco and Castro are the equivalent but injuries are part of the equation of every team and sometimes the equation adds up to success and sometimes it doesn't for teams good and bad. In this equation combining injuries with bad production from Dozier and Sano is a lousy formula.
  20. Dantes929
    "Bad baserunning, bad defense, bad hitting" I'll just say its bad baseball. Kind of blows when your defense first guy in Adrianza has a good night offensively but does not even come close to making up for bad defense. Ok, maybe I am wrong here. I only saw it at a bar and MLB did not include it in highlights but how did Adrianza not get an error on that ground ball up the middle? Conceivably it could have been a double play but from where I sat it definitely should have resulted on one out. Not only might have cost us the game but gave Odorizzi a couple more earned runs than he should have had. .
  21. Dantes929
    John Sickels SB nation top 20 prospects March 13, 2018 "Mitch Garver, C, Grade B-/C+: Age 26, older prospect but showed potent bat in Triple-A, hitting .291/.387/.541; hit .196/.288/.348 in 46 major league at-bats but showed enough to get more chances; defense has been very good in the minors, can also handle first base; not much left to prove in the minors. ETA 2018" I remember a year or two ago that he needed a lot of work and then though I saw some reports saying he had made great strides. Depends on who you ask I'm guessing. I thought he looked pretty bad again tonight.
  22. Dantes929
    I still haven't seen anyone guess what Ramos would be worth. I would be fine with promoting Rupp. I don't get Garver. I am ok with his offense since we are fine with learning curves with everyone else but his defense really looks bad. Almost like he has only caught D3 college pitchers before this and is not ready for major league stuff. I don't get it because his scouting report says his defense has been very good in the minors. Give him another couple weeks and if he can't adjust bring up Rortvedt if his defense is considered better and just live with him and Rupp.
  23. Dantes929
    The answer is obvious. I see Escobar has caught a game already in his career. Everyone ok with an .875 OPS from our catcher?
  24. Dantes929
    Isn't Flowers the guy that leans on his glove and throws back to the pitcher off his right leg? I don't think I can watch that.
  25. Dantes929
    I wasn't saying he should have been called out based on the rules. I'm saying the rule should be revisited. The rules regarding blocking the plate have changed whereby the catcher has to position himself inside the foul lines making that reaching tag so much harder. A revised rule saying the runner has to be able to reach home plate with his slide just makes sense to me. Most runners can still have their feet be at least 6 feet outside the line and still reach home. That seems enough. I just took another look at the play on MLB. Yes, when he slid he missed by inches but he followed the baseline all the say until near Garver and then went outside three feet and then slid back toward the plate and was unable to touch the plate so I think even by the current rules he could have been called out.
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