History could repeat. Hurricane Hazle that one year kept it up on offense for 155 PA. When Kreidler starts to approach that sample size, I'll start taking notice. And even so, Hazle's OPS in his other seasons was .462, .583, .482 and .681. #baseball
Not to get all serious or anything, but for things like regular batting titles I believe they still have a rule that covers situations like that if it played out that way at the end of the season.
I said not enough. You changed it to nothing.
Go ahead. Call up ERod.
It won't change much. The FO drove the franchise into the ditch and it's going to take a while to pull it back out. It's going to take some time simply to determine how much blame Falvey himself bore, since ownership and his underlings remain.
The bar is really high in center field. To be deemed "average," there, is no slight. An average center fielder who bats in the middle of the lineup is valuable on any roster - it saves you from having to play a light bat to gain defense, or play a sub-par glove to gain offense.
It's easy.
Bell: his best position is probably DH. Install him there.
Wallner: he profiles more as a DH going forward.
Larnach: I guess you could DH him.
Oh wait. I think I'm beginning to see the problem.
Seems like our Twins have an awful lot of players with OPS below .600.
More to the point, they have an awful lot of plate appearances invested in players with OPS below .600. I just took a look at the Blue Jays and sorted their batters by plate appearances - you have to go down to #9 to find their first guy with such a low OPS. On the Twins, you find them at #2 and #4.