Yeah. It's a compliment to be said to have a rifle arm. I, at least, associate 12 gauge with shotguns. Which seems like a more scattered compliment to bestow... / A real gun expert can now tell me that 12 gauge rifles are a thing. Whatev.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Suffering leads to White Sox fanhood. Or vice versa it is? Forget, do I always."
League-wide it's .846 and .599 respectively. Never would have guessed quite so wide, either. http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/split.cgi?t=b&lg=AL&year=2015 When winning, the entire team is all-stars. When losing, AAA scrubs, every last one.
If I'm reading bb-ref.com correctly, the entire team is .833 in wins and .548 in losses. I really don't know if there is anything to be read into these splits - when you lose it's because you're not hitting or not pitching or not doing both. Mauer looks like the interesting outlier this year with an OPS in losses only slightly lower than in wins.
It's a statement of the negatives outweighing the positives. He's never played an inning out there and I don't see the braintrust throwing him that kind of curve.