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  1. Muppet
    No better day to give up a bunch of home runs.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Muppet
    THIS will be the year of Jake Cave. We will all eat our words when Cave's slash line is 3/4/5. Anything is possible (before opening day gives us a sudden jolt of reality).
  5. 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.
  6. Muppet
    How about next they let people hit off the tee after four balls instead of walk?
  7. Muppet
    If he can hit .250+ he can weigh as much as he wants
  8. 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).
  9. Muppet
    Unfortunately he falls just short of the Dave Winfield line.
  10. Muppet
    If Rodriguez wants to be safe he’ll walk the bases loaded
  11. Muppet
    Didn’t they give Kepler a lifetime contract a couple years ago?
  12. Muppet
    I’d bet $20 they come up empty
  13. Muppet
    If we're gonna start playing with little league rules can they do the thing where a batter gets to hit off the tee on ball four?
  14. Muppet
    After you're done in Glencoe, don't forget to swing north through Darwin on your way back to visit the Twine Ball.
  15. Muppet
    I'm not a doctor, but before just googling this, I thought that 'cervical strain' was a problem men typically didn't have to worry about. I figured this was a modern day 'bilateral leg weakness' kind of thing with a more bizarre name. Anyway... good luck with your stiff neck Mr. Rooker. See you soon.
  16. Muppet
    That is now allowed in extra innings.
  17. Muppet
    Bold assertion now that 10th innings start with a runner on second.
  18. 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.
  19. Muppet
    Polanco surprise mvp Garver home run king Twins finally beat the Yankees in the playoffs
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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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