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  1. Dantes929
    You know baseball. Something might click and he'll get better in the postseason.
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    I like Bremer ok but let it go already. If the Twins wanted Sano to get more competietive at bats they could have activated him sooner, given him more at bats on Friday or had him bat leadoff any time. I doubt it was a make or break at bat for Sano. Besides which Detroit has no obligation whatsoever to accomodate the wishes of the Twins or of Dick Bremer. I like Bert's attitude much better.
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    My favorite two players to watch all year were Mauer and Buxton so it is pretty great to see them both doing well down the stretch. If Mauer was truly suffering from the concussion and now is beyond it there is no reason to think he won't be as good or better next year. I am one of the few that actually enjoyed the 2016 season because you could start to see some of the pieces start to come together even though they were pretty much out of it after 9 games. This year has been a lot of fun and this site is a big reason why so thanks to all that make it special. I have said many times that I enjoy the journey more than the destination so whether the year ends Tuesday or with a World Series win I will be a little sad the next day.
  4. Dantes929
    #5 reminds me of when I pull into the garage after an errand or trip and my wife tells me to turn off the car. Geez, you make one mistake.
  5. Dantes929
    That's a great blueprint. My prediction is that Dozier leads off the first with a single, Mauer walks, Polanco sacrifices them over, Rosario hits a sac fly and we win 1-0.
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    Well yes, except recency would have Polanco and Escobar higher in the discussion. 3rd base would win it since it combined Sano's first half and Escobar's 2nd half but not how it works. Sano was great and would be 1st half MVP. Like I said earlier, in the first half I would put Kintzler in the discussion also but just not enough to carry the title for either over 162 games.
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    No one found the wall and timed jump better than Puckett and Hunter was pretty awesome as well but if they were all on the same team in their prime Buxton is the center fielder, no doubt. I would take Pucket's arm and maybe Tori's as well, but Buxton is just so much faster.
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    Aside from the WS years my favorite years were 2006, 2008, and 2009. Every one of these years ended with first round losses. Its the journey I enjoy, not the destination. This season has been right up there for enjoyment. If you don't celebrate now and then lose in New York then you won't have celebrated at all and that just seems wrong for a fun season.
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    Well..... he never predicted they would go 82-74 after the first 6 games but rather predicted that was what was needed from that point to have a shot at the playoffs. Actually off by a rather large margin in that department. 83 Wins clinched the spot so the results needed at that point was 78-78 and that is the MOST that was needed. Depending on how the other former contenders do the next 4 games it is possible that at the time a record as low as 74-82 would have done the trick. Hard to believe but that would have given us 79 wins and currently the others are stuck at 78 with 4 to go..
  10. Dantes929
    What a difference from last year. One site claimed James Beresford was the 2016 Twins MVP because he was with the twins such a short time he was least responsible for the lousy season. Dozier's hot 2nd half saved us the embarrassment of having a team MVP (by a wide margin) be a utility guy that was traded half way through the season. (Nunez).
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    Mauer put up awesome numbers in the late month of 2006, 2008 and 2009 which coincided with 3 of the best pennant races in baseball history with two game 163's and an awesome comeback (2006). its great to see him return to form just in time to help this team through a pretty amazing two months. I thought it was so absurd that last year in the first half we only had one guy have a decent performance (Nunez) I wondered what it would look like if the reverse ever happened where lots of guys had good years and here it has happened just a year later. You could actually keep going on that list. Polanco and Gibson's turnaround coincided with turning flickering hope at the deadline to clinching a playoff spot with 4 games to go. HIldenberger and Belisle were pretty huge as well. This team would have been dead in the water in the first half without Sano, Kintzler and maybe Rogers also but I think the most consistently good player and probably the one that plays with the most swagger and has come through time and again is Rosario. Maybe I am projecting leadership on him but he seems to be an igniter. Ok, I've talked my way all around it and almost had myself believing it was Rosario. It's Buxton.
  12. Dantes929
    Love the narrative but 86 Twins didn't finish last. 90 Twins did.
  13. Dantes929
    Reminds me of two great Everyone Loves Raymond episodes. One is where Deb and and Ray have a contest to see who can last without sex the longest. After a month Raymond explodes and says "OK, I can't take it anymore. You win the contest. " and Debra says "Oh, we're still doing that?" The other one is where Marie talks about a fight her and Frank had 40 years ago about an ugly fork and spoon hanging on the wall and how she thinks about that fight every time she sees them every day for forty years . She finally yells at Frank about them and Frank's response is "When did we get those?" Pretty sure Mauer is the only one left the the jinx might even apply to.
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    Hey Tom. What does catch probability mean exactly? I thought it meant the odds that a ball gets caught by any centerfielder but there is no way that Kipness liner gets caught 24% of the time even by Buxton himself. It might have been his best ever so 24% catch probability just seems ridiculously high which makes me think I it doesn't mean what I think it means.
  15. Dantes929
    His success rate last year proved that he cannot actually out run a thrown baseball. He still needs a good jump. Also, there is theory that him being on 1st is a disruptive force to the pitcher and that the batter will get better pitches to hit because of it. If he has the 99% chance because he sometimes waits around and is thus unpredictable then that would be the reason for waiting around. Does beg the question though. If he is disruptive and the other team concedes that he is going to get the steal no matter what can they simply give him a pass to 2nd base like they now do for intentional walks?
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    Thank you. Just to be on the safe side I will plan to not get any work done on either day.
  17. Dantes929
    I thought it was pretty important. Gets us closer to clinching, was important for home field advantage for Cleveland and it lets us know that even with Colon starting and our entire bullpen on display the team is at least capable of beating the hottest team in baseball Tom. Please tell me that Thursday start time is wrong.
  18. Dantes929
    Maybe not with champagne but I am guessing they celebrate. I've never cared for the idea of setting sights on a World Series title in anything but the broadest sense. I remember in the spring of 2010 Cuddyer said the goal was to win the WS. Just seemed like the cart before the horse because you can't win the WS in March, or April or any time during the regular season but you can lose it in the regular season by not making the playoffs. 162 games of paving the way to make the playoffs is an accomplishment well worth celebrating even in the next 5 years when we think we might be good. There are 20 teams that have invested everything they've got for the last 162 games that are on the outside looking in. Of course you celebrate.
  19. Dantes929
    Since we are talking about the low odds of us losing all the remaining games while those behind us have to win all their games I might as well point out that if we run the table and the Yankees lose the rest of their games we get home field.
  20. Dantes929
    I agree. I will be quite upset if we have a lead in the 9th inning and Molitor puts in Joe Nathan.
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    #5 reminds me of a parade i was at where a politician had volunteers handing out pamphlets with her picture on it and then she would follow along shaking hands. When she got to me I told her she looked familiar and she stopped and said "yeah, you look familiar too". Then I looked down at the picture I had been given 10 seconds earlier and said "Oh, that's why" I voted for her despite the name she called me. #5 also reminded me of this. https://www.google.com/search?q=matt+harvey+asks+about+matt+harvey&oq=matt+harvey+asks+&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0.195199.196208.0.202017.6.6.0.0.0.0.223.422.0j1j1.2.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..4.2.420....0.ciaa5Pwi9KM
  22. Dantes929
    I don't think there has ever been consensus on that approach though I don't disagree with it. 87 team lost their last 5 before the playoffs and I didn't get the sense they were trying all that hard.
  23. Dantes929
    You are right. We still have to beat the Yankees to even have the discussion about the Indians. They have been an astounding 29-2 in their recent hot streak but that is the thing about hot streaks. They come to an end. Look at the Dodgers this year. Starting to be called a Super Team and then lost 16 of 17 games. There is some pressure on a team that comes in super hot. Indians are much more the team that was 10-6 against us than the team that has been 29-2 even though the 29-2 blinds people to the idea.
  24. Dantes929
    Kluver is 8-5 against the Twins lifetime with a very good but not insurmountable 3.31 ERA. He is 0-0 against the Twins this year even though he did not allow a run in 7 innings. A game the Twins won by the way so I wouldn't go so far as saying we have no chance. When against a superior team I am not opposed to arranging our own rotation to match up differently than 1vs1, 2vs2, etc.
  25. Dantes929
    I agree with you 100% but also believe it can be said about almost any manager out there. Gardy was top two Manager of the Year 6 times. This happened to coincide with Santana, Nathan, Radke, Morneau, Mauer, Cuddyer, etc, etc on the team. I actually think his worst year was the year he won the award because choices that were forced upon him worked out and in some cases were the choices he should have made without the injuries. I don't think he got many votes when the Twins were fielding a AAA team the last 5 years of his career. Does Molitor get credit for putting Escobar in there and Escobar actually doing better than Sano might have done? Kind of lucky. Should Molitor get credit for Buxton, Rosario and Gibson putting it together? Probably not any more than he gets the blame for Nunez being the only worthwhile performer in the first half of 2016 at any position. Lets look at Kelly. He sure got a lot of credit but I don't think Morris and Knoblach alone were responsible for going from last to first. Did he manage poorly in 1990 and magically manage great in 91. Should a team that had the talent to win two WS have only made the playoffs twice? I don't think Molitor is a baseball genius but I don't see any baseball geniuses managing any other teams either. I said before you have Scioscia and then all the rest that you can pick out of a barrel. If you said Scioscia should be in the barrel also I probably wouldn't argue much.
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