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  1. Dantes929
    Danny Thompson. Traded with Blyleven to Texas but then shortly dies of Leukemia. Hmm looking over the ones I remember. Bostock, Thompson, Eisenreich, Castino. Two died tragically after leaving the Twins and 2 had good careers that could have been much better but for medical issues.
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    Another of my favorite players. John Castino. I really liked that guy. Too bad his career was cut short by a bad back. Good hitter and great glove.
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    One of my favorites Lyman Bostock. Overshadowed by Carew much like one of my other favorites Shane Mack was overshadowed by Puckett. Bostock had a .318 average in his 3 years with the Twins.
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    At the trade deadline they were less than 7%. I said they were just a modest winning streak (5 of 6 or so) from quadrupling that percentage. Of course, they had to actually go on that modest winning streak. Same thing here. Its a little better than a coin flip because they have a 2 game lead and a weak schedule but they have to actually win those weak schedule games not to mention there are other teams that can go on a decent winning streak. Fun times.
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    This guy never played above A Ball before being promoted to the Twins. Cal Griffith saw him in A ball and said "This guy is doomed to be an all star". Jim Eisenreich. He was a much better player than Gladden and if he didn't have his health issues maybe he would have been the left fielder in the glory days. Of course, maybe he would have been the center fielder and Puckett would have been traded. Who knows?
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    In my 20's I was playing basketball against some guy in his 30's. He didn't look all that athletic. After the game I said to my brother " I can't believe that guy scored on me". My brother told me who he was and I said " I can't believe I scored off him". Greg Thayer.
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    You know, for all the criticism Molitor takes for his use of players it really is a balancing act with this group of pitchers. Feels a lot like 87 when we had Viola, Blyleven and Straker and then Smithson who lost 7 of his last 8 decisions, and every other guy that started had a 6 ERA or higher and in some cases much higher. Juan Buerenguer at 3.94 had the lowest ERA in the entire bullpen. You know, on 2nd thought, compared to 87 Molitor has a cake walk with this staff.
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    I'd be happier if he pitched a lot the rest of the season and did well.
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    2 of 4 at KC only hurts because we won the first two. Its really not a bad reesult. I hate days off when the Twins have been on a good streak. This break probably comes at a good time.
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    The bullpen has held countless leads this year for which they generally do not get much credit. No one ever knows if one run is enough but it is reasonable to play for 1 run in the 8th inning. The issue many have on here is that playing for 1 run, based on statistics and probability, is not enhanced by sacrificing an out by your #3 hitter to get the guy to second. In Molitor's defense, if he gets his run in the 8th perhaps he uses hit bullpen differently in the bottom of the inning. I would give the bullpen decent grades in holding leads late in games. In a tie game you still have to imagine that it will go extra innings . Of course using 5 guys in one inning doesn't further that theory.
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    "Sometimes a manager pushes all the right buttons and pulls all the right levers and things still just don’t work out. This doesn’t feel like one of those times, at least not to me. Is hindsight 20/20? Am I way off base? You’ll have to let me know." Not way off base. Maybe blamed Boshers too much and Pressley not enough. Apparently Pressley has occasionally been good because I have read about it but have never seen it. Maybe I need to turn away when he comes in. Some of it is luck. Catro 3 at bats and only one mattered. In the two that didn't matter he got hits and popped up in the one that did. Maybe a little bad luck but more a bad slide that got Rosario out stealing the first time. If base hits had scored the runners that were sacrificed over and Pressley had done his job maybe we would feel differently about it so some of it is on the players and some of it is hindsight but I think enough TD fans were saying No! at Molitor's moves before they happened to rule it all to hindsight.
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    Not arguing that particular instance. Not even arguing for sacrificing a guy to second in general since I did say I agree that it is not a high percentage play. Just saying there are some advantages to doing it, ie scoring position and staying out of double play, which is why it has been done for a century. Advanced stats now say don't do it. I doubt the stats are that lopsided but over time small percentages make a difference.
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    Lets not pretend there is no value to getting a guy to second especially when you don't do it and the 2nd guy bats into a double play. Guy on second with 1 out is way different than no one on and two outs. I mean that is the main reason for doing it. I agree its not a good percentage play though. The fact that most pro teams don't field bunts much better than high school teams is offset by the fact that pro hitters are no better than high schoolers at actually getting the bunt down.
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    Kind of left off Oliva's 3 batting titles and GG. Sorrento?
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    He's Puntonian!
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    For me its more about the journey so I agree with this. If it were all about the destination I wouldn't tune in until late September. Football is different for me. If the Vikings are in the hunt with two games to go in the season that is when I become a fan. Twins have been fun this year.
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    I am more tolerant of bunting than you are and really like the bunt as an attempt to get a base hit. I didn't see the game. Was it definitely a sacrifice? Your 3rd sentence I agree with completely. Buxton is 1 for his last 16. To me bunting is his hedge against slumps. Its a great weapon for him so even when he is hot I like to see him lay one down every once in a while. He's not hot at the moment.
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    "That being said, the 2017 Twins wouldn’t be in a position to make September baseball interesting without the contributions of their Venezuelan utility man. When the dust settles, Eduardo Escobar is never going to be a game changer for a big league team." Kind of funny. I can't help but notice that in consecutive sentences you said that for the 2017 Twins Escobar has been a game changer and that Escobar is never going to be a game changer. Paraphrasing of course. I have never really liked watching Escobar play and I have no idea why but I still believe your first sentence I quoted which is that when Sano went down, Escobar stepped up. I don't know what the R in WAR would have been without Escobar but I am guessing it would not have ended up with a few more losses in a very tight battle.
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    We are 6-4 in our last 10 games. If we go 13-10 we have a good shot and aside from this series it probably doesn't matter how we get there. I would gladly take a split this weekend. 7 of our last 10 are against Detroit and I think everyone else playing for the WC has a tougher schedule the rest of the way. Good time to play some good baseball..
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    Long time since I have read the Trib more because of the posters than the writers but I remember kind of liking Howard Sinker. Is he still going?
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    "Since people don’t seem to know who to believe, let me help. Here are the people you should and shouldn’t listen to when it comes to the Twins:" Wow! Maybe if he hadn't put himself first on the list I might have a different take but honestly, I couldn't help think that for any political or social issue Trump's advice would be the same. "Since people don't seem to know who to believe about Russian interference with regards to our elections, let me help. Donald Trump is the one you should listen to. Democrats are the ones you should not listen to" Seriously, it came across just as narcissistically. Here is my list of people I listen to with regards to the Twins. Riverbrian, Tom Froeming, the rest of the TD staff, TD posters I used to have an on line subscription to the Trib and I was mostly ok with the writers. It was the posts after the articles that made me look elsewhere. TD is by far the best source for the Twins. They will reference articles and stories by all the other media sources as well as give you great stories, game threads and now that we have the recaps I really don't go anywhere else except baseball reference and mlb.com
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    I agree with this. Keep 1-3 and see what else is out there. How about Gardy? Feels like we have a whole generation of players that need new nick names. Buxtie, Vargie, Miggie, Berrsie, Escie, Garvie, Dozie, Keplie. Ervie.
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    Steve Bartman was the first thing that came to mind. Would have been a really nice catch by Joe but I think he would have had it. Cool that he gave the ball to the guy that interfered.
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    I heard it was Gibson, Mauer, Dozier, Polanco and Buxton. Molitor might have been there also.
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    I like it as a general stat and also as a long term one. In your example, it obviously means nothing but over the course of 162 games those kinds of series tend to even out and when there is the kind of negative differential we had with a winning record it is interesting to try to figure out why. As TheJackKmp said we have not had the blow out losses in the 2nd half so if our run differential had continued in the deficit column we would not have had the success in the win column. Over the long haul you cannot keep running a 60 run deficit. Many run differentials vs win/loss are pretty close over a full season with the occasional out flier. Way too lazy but if you ran any teams's 10 year run differential I am guessing it would come out very close.
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