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  1. Muppet
    All true, but I don’t see how the Yankees and Astros are supposed to get better over the season when virtually every team they play is worse than them. The twins have a lot of opportunity to improve with the lot they currently have. It’s a tortoise and hare situation. Except that in the twins case, the hare beats them in the playoffs every single time.
  2. Muppet
    They don't have a playoff team yet. But some of these guys tend to heat up late in the season. If those players don't get going, they'll need 2 or 3 pitchers the caliber of Clayton Kershaw who can consistently hold opposing teams to 0 or 1 run if they want to make it anywhere in the playoffs.
  3. Muppet
    I won't ever blame the pitchers for losing the game when the offense only scores 2 runs. Don't care if it is 3-2 or 13-2.
  4. Muppet
    Whoops. Sorry. Can't delete extra posts.
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    Also... The Twins are going to really need that slight defensive upgrade they get with Correa back when they are going to score 2 or (now) fewer runs per game.
  6. Muppet
    Also... The Twins are going to really need that slight defensive upgrade they get with Correa back when they are going to score 2 or (now) fewer runs per game.
  7. Muppet
    On the radio broadcast last night, I heard Gladden say "People think that when you are 0 for 17, that you are a terrible player. On the contrary, if you are 0-17 that means you are great. That means people believe in you (Miranda dribbles a weak grounder to SS)... Make that 0-18." Well. At least the Twins still have their great rookie infielder.
  8. Muppet
    Because Lewis is speed on the bases and is good to have with Arraez at the plate. Also, though he has hit well so far, he doesn't have enough experience yet to show he is consistently a .300 hitter. Why Miranda is within the first six... I have no idea. Because he has to hit somewhere and there are already a lot of bad hitters on the team?
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    I like to think the schedule loaded with highly beatable teams gives the Twins an opportunity to train, practice, and get better. By the time they need to face good teams, they'll be ready to rock. Those who aren't injured anyway.
  10. Muppet
    Absolutely. I grew up on the 80's Cardinals. Though that is one extreme of running and small ball, I think that the Twins are losing out on a big potential to increase their game by outright ignoring that side of things. Sano is tied for first with stolen bases. For a team that is in the top 5% of GIDP, it is not much of a risk to try to swipe a few.
  11. Muppet
    I know baseball has changed. But can anybody imagine a team before 2000 that had a player as fast as Buxton who didn't even try to steal bases? Stealing bases does so much more than just advance a runner. It constrains the defense, throws off the pitcher, sparks offense, and excites crowds.
  12. Muppet
    It all depends on how many runs Buxton can score and drive in. If he can stay healthy throughout the series, the Twins have a pretty good chance.
  13. Muppet
    I love it!... About as much as I love a good colonoscopy.
  14. Muppet
    He has pretty good numbers until 2021. But I’m not convinced he can get his old form back on a team that is notable for making newly acquired decent pitchers perform poorly. It’s also the same team where poor performing pitchers, once departed, suddenly perform exceptionally well on their new teams.
  15. Muppet
    This type of thinking is long overdue. A dozen or more years ago we started obsessing about OBP, OPS, and such metrics resulting in drastic changes in the way lineups were constructed. It is time that pitching staffs and bullpens are blown up and logically reconfigured. Then the smart teams will better be able to beat the rich teams.
  16. Muppet
    For this team to contend it will take a career year from most of the team. It has happened before, and it can happen this year too. At this point, every single team is highly unlikely to be in the world series so the Twins are in good company. Time to bid this winter a hearty farewell and start watching some young guys get paid a lot of money to play games while I drink beer.
  17. Muppet
    Maybe Buxton can throw a strike from center field. Can Buxton alone take the twins to the playoffs? Too bad they DFA'd their best performing pitcher (Astudillo).
  18. Muppet
    Unfortunately he falls just short of the Dave Winfield line.
  19. Muppet
    After you're done in Glencoe, don't forget to swing north through Darwin on your way back to visit the Twine Ball.
  20. Muppet
    Outfield seems to be in rough shape. We have Kepler, Buxton (who will get injured), Cave (of whom nobody is overly impressed) and a slew of people who had to battle it out for the least worst option as 4th.
  21. Muppet
    Polanco surprise mvp Garver home run king Twins finally beat the Yankees in the playoffs
  22. Muppet
    This will be a great year. Remember back in the teams full of Tolberts, Willinghams, and Puntos... and t he pitching staffs with sps like Blackburn, Slowey, L. Hernandez. This year we are scuffling over the last spots. Garlick and Astudillo would have been near the top performers on previous teams.
  23. Muppet
    The headline reads ‘make Arraez the lead off guy’ then makes the case for why he’d be a great number 2 behind Buxton. I agree. He might be the best no.2 guy in the history of the game if Buxton manages to hit decently as leadoff. Alas, I expect to see someone like Garver with the highest home run rate in baseball leading off more than Buxton.
  24. Muppet
    The problem is that those statistics represent an average over dozens of years and don't tell us too much on their own. These are the average runs during those situations... on average, with average hitters on average teams in average situations. We don't even know the standard devations. Are 0.78 and0.70 actually even different staistically speaking? Furthermore, bunting happens in a situational context when you know that in your particular case the odds are different than average. If I have a hypotehtical situation with Buxton on first with Matt Tolbert at bat... I'm going to bunt every time knowing that there is a chance Buxton ends up on third with one out, and at best Tolboert will avoid grounding into a double play.
  25. Muppet
    Comparing Garver to the other hitters in the entire league, Garver hit a home run in a full 10% of his at bats. The next highest was Trout at .096, followed by Nelson Cruz at .090. Alonso, who led the league with 53, only hit home runs in 8.9% of at bats. So, not only was Garver the most improved Twins player, but he was the most likely player in MLB to hit a home run in a given at bat.
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