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I just looked, and you are correct, sir. In the past 10 years it's fluctuated around the .690-.700 range. If this figure holds up for the rest of the season, it will be a huge and sudden drop.
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What is your ideal and REALISTIC playoff roster?
ashbury replied to DaveW's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
My understanding could be incorrect: Graham has to be on the 25-man active roster the whole season (else the Braves get him back if they want), but the playoff roster is not the same as the 25-man. Hopefully JR pitches so well that this distinction (if correct) becomes moot. -
Prove it.
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Wow, I hadn't looked at FSL numbers, but the average OPS is .651 (the AL number is .717). Swim and Garver at .698 and .685 respectively suddenly look pretty good. Their defensive numbers look good, though those don't mean a lot.
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Then that's the method I support, at least at the moment. Add language to clarify that it does not mean guilty until proven innocent, if it's felt to be needed, so that we're all on board with it, and so that court challenges will go in the direction that the framers of the law intend.
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Per Seth Stohs' transactions page at TD. Tyler has been promoted back to Cedar Rapids. In the five games since last report Tyler went 7-for-20 (.350), including 2 home runs, for Elizabethton. His Appy League OPS thus stands at a highly acceptable .833. Got my fingers crossed for the big lunk.
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Per Seth Stohs' transactions page at TD, JJ has been placed on the disabled list. Update: Jeremy Nygaard quotes beat writer Jeff Johnson as saying Fernandez will miss the rest of the season after breaking his hand punching a wall. Oops. Lost season for JJ already, this just puts the period at the end of the sentence.
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Is presumption of guilt really what's being proposed? My understanding is that presumption of innocence is to be replaced with preponderance of evidence. But I could be wrong.
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A contract to play for a team would probably have done the trick. I didn't know this, but he was born in Kansas. And went to high school in Californy. I think the railroad network could have gotten him to Minnesota too, same as DC.
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Don't bother to research Sandy Cummings. Unless you also look up Candy Koufax.
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Do they keep track of Blown Saves for 2Bmen?
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Bacbacbacbac, bacbacbac, bacbac, bacbac, bacbac...
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Three. O. M. G.
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Oh, how quickly they forget Steve King. WAR of 1.1 in 1871. Which is not so easy to accomplish in 29 games. Or John McMullin. "Lefty". Gave up a league leading 430 hits. Which is not so easy to accomplish in 29 games.
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MLB needs to grab a franchise by the lapels and say "you have the old Senators heritage, got it?" I don't care if it's the Twins, the Nationals, or even conceivably the Rangers (Senators II). Make it the Tampa Bay Rays, for all I care. Just don't let important history slip through the cracks, OK? I'll give them a pass for the Troy Haymakers or the Worcesters. But starting 1901, history is history, and the AL was established and remained stable. Someone take the old Senators.
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60-day DL at a minimum.
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http://haphappy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/homerbeer1.jpg
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I'd be surprised if this kind of thinking occurs very much below AAA, for a variety of reasons.
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John Farrell at #30 is apparently to ugly to live? Based on all the snark, I'd be very reluctant to have my wife submit my photo in a Rate My Husband contest at this site1. 1or any site. Because, me.
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Now take another breath and repeat this: minor league batting stats do have predictive power. Bill James showed this long ago and later researchers have built on it. Of course, this doesn't deny your larger point that Gordon should not be written off. Indeed I suspect a competent stats analysis will classify Gordon as having a very high ceiling. He's putting up the stats at age 19, as you said. That's what a critic would be overlooking, that the age differential is huge. He's got miles of room to grow as a player. Brett Doe, a catcher on the same team, is putting up better numbers. But he's 25 years old, playing single-A ball. He's surprised people, but does anyone suppose him to be a legitimate prospect? I know we're on the same side of this question. I'm just suggesting there's a better way to express it. Unless Gordon decides to stop improving at age 22, he's got a chance to arrive in the majors as a productive player and then keep improving.
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I hope he wasn't doing BackBackBack on every fly ball.
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An option, once exercised, is good for the rest of the season. Thus bringing Arcia back up and sending him down again doesn't cost anything. But once guys are on the 40-man, each year they must either be on the active roster (25-man) as of Opening Day, or else be optioned, or else DFA via the waiver process. I don't think they can do in 2016 what you are proposing.
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If he hasn't had any pitches buzzing under his chin, he will now.
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ashbury replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Of course not. You also have to throw in Duensing as a sweetener. / is what they meant to say... -
Vance Worley as a starter in 2015: ERA 4.38. In the NL where the league average for starters is 3.93. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=worleva01&year=2015&t=p http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/split.cgi?t=p&lg=NL&year=2015
