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  1. ashbury
    Name someone, anyone, in the Twins bullpen who doesn't draw, and deserve, that response?
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    The Out Man doesn't seem to learn from striking out looking at a high strike. Twice in a row is hard to, uh, take.
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    WALLNER!!!!
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    Nah. Our shutdown bullpen's got this.
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    Getting my first look at Bradley this inning. Man, those first two fastballs had zero movement. Meatballs.
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    Be careful, Jeffers. You're about to be Wally Pipped.
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    I can't tell Fitzgerald from Outman at the plate. I literally thought Outman was still loitering around there after striking out.
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    Yes.™
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    Concur. There's no law of physics (or baseball) I know of that decrees BABIP needs to be around .300 or will normalize to it. Where it comes to normalization, it's to whatever the player's norm is - and I don't know of a tool for guessing what that will be for a player just reaching the majors so when in doubt it's reasonable to guess .290-.300. But some players, pitchers or batters alike, maintain departures from .300 that eventually need to be acknowledged. Joe Mauer was one - his lifetime .341 BABIP wasn't luck*, it was a mark of his superior skill. Clayton Kershaw? His .274 BABIP is well earned and is also a mark of his greatness. Max Kepler's a batter chronically on the low side; Ricky Nolasco was a hurler perpetually on the high side. Aaron Judge's lifetime BABIP is .348. Does that mean he's lucky? Yes, of course - he's lucky to have been born with that much talent!!! So Cody Klemens having a BABIP of .229 across 703 PA starts to look like who he really is. And the .440 BABIP he enjoyed during a 17-game run of 1.265 OPS in May of this year might, just might, be the outlier. * I dislike using the word "luck" when discussing competition between opposing players who are each trying their best. I think of a low or high BABIP as potentially unsustainable, for reasons that may or may not be knowable.
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    I read somewhere that this was NC's worst defeat since Belichick's girlfriend was in middle school. Granted, that was just 11 years ago, but still it's bad.
  14. ashbury
    Not to mention, Byron has performance incentives, which at this point in the season is nearly all there is to play for. I assume he's not telling the team he needs the day off. If he misses the plate appearance incentive by one or two, costing him a half million dollars or whatever, I just don't know what to think.
  15. ashbury
    Where's Waldo (Green Edition)
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    We've probably all run into people, in our respective lines of work, who were old and kind of dead wood but were hanging on as long as they could because they were in their peak earning years. Unless and until their work quality slipped so much that they got fired, we might grumble about them but could at least see things from their point of view. (And I freely confess to having been exactly that kind of dead wood in my final couple of years as well.) The usual pay structure in the US is such that you don't hit your peak earning years until close to the end. It leads to some perverse incentives but all in all seems acceptable to the employers and the work force alike. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Big time sports operate differently. Peak earning years may not happen instantly (baseball and basketball and football each have their own rhythms to this), but they still come at a very early age in the human lifespan. I can't get much more worked up about an athlete in his 20s, not even dead wood yet, trying to protect his peak earning years in whatever way makes sense to him, than I can about the dead wood dudes where I worked. As an aside: elsewhere we see posters beg Derek Falvey or Joe Pohlad to just "tell us the truth." Royce Lewis spoke his mind, and we see what kind of blowback that earns someone in the public eye.
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    We've had a grand total of two ownerships, for all intents and purposes. And the other owner has the name of the town of Waseca attached to his own tone-deaf legacy.
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    It's been fun this season to occasionally go to his b-r.com page and click the sort link for each of his counting stats. He won't reach his major-league highs set in 2017 in several things like games played or at bats. But to my pleasant surprise, he has eclipsed his own personal best in Runs Scored by a healthy margin, sitting at 83 this morning. RBIs at 72, ditto, personal best. He's not going to reach 100 in either of those two categories, due mostly to some time away from the field but also in part to a pretty sub-par offense surrounding him. He just topped his personal best in home runs, as mentioned in the article - somehow he's traded some doubles (which he's a bit low on this season) for homers, generally a worthwhile swap because he doesn't have to depend on the next hitter to drive him in. He'll likely establish a new personal high in walks before the season is over, and without topping his career high in strikeouts. All in all this is the season we were hoping for a decade ago - a year that would have left us expecting even better things to come, instead of representing what could turn out to be a career-year in a career full of disappointment if not downright tragedy.
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    The battle of the 4.82 ERAs. Can't wait.
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    "a sustainable and championship-caliber team and organization that Twins fans across Twins Territory will be proud of". -- Derek Falvey, November 7, 2016 https://zonecoverage.com/2016/mn-twins-news/twins-introduce-derek-falvey-thad-levine-as-new-baseball-power-structure/
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    I'm naturally at a loss for words.
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    He's probably safe in the belief he's the worst in the last 15 minutes, though.
  25. ashbury
    Technically, is the upper deck part of the outfield?
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