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On the morning of May 18, 1964 Harmon Killebrew was batting .183 after 26 games and 115 plate appearances. Quality players deserve a bit of patience.
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"At Guaranteed Rate Field, nobody knows you're a dog."
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My only qualm about this is, if that becomes the strategy adopted by managers league-wide, then the incentive for umpires will be to call every close pitch a strike, because the batter will be under duress to not challenge it and the catcher will of course have no incentive too. But that's for later. And I don't want my team being the only one letting their batters make asinine challenges due to bruised egos or whatever is going on with this roster of knuckleheads.
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Just to get through 5 innings. A different cause for concern, then.
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I used to love Twinkies. But now I know a guy who worked in the Twinkie factory when he was in college, and I won't eat them anymore. If you buy apparel fabricated in a sweatshop you can just launder it, but if you eat food prepared in a (literal) sweatshop .... ew.
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Fifth inning? Cause for concern - beyond just the one game.
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My guilty pleasure:
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MIN win probability: 75.9% (+23.1) Luke did his job, now the rest of the team needs to carry this through.
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Keaschall !!!!
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I always remind myself that AAA is unique, in that not one person involved in the game wants to be there. Not one. Every last person believes they belong in the majors, players and coaches alike. Once I accepted that, AAA games made a lot more sense. There's just a lot less hustle there than in AA or in the majors, to my eye at least - I still remember Willians Astudillo, a guy reputed to be a hustle guy, plod out to left field and then plod back to the dugout at inning's end. And there's no game tactics to speak of - everyone is just getting their allotted repetitions in - so if you're a base stealer and the game is 8-1 you are still gonna steal, and if you're a left handed pitcher in a close game and there's a slew of righties coming up you will still face them.
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Nah. Tom Pohald would just turn around and hire another one. He's no Calvin Griffith.
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I do give him credit that each of those three was a valuable run. Twice he put his team to an early 1-0 lead, and the other homer raised a lead from 2-1 to 3-1. That's qualitatively different from last year. The problem is that the rest of his 2026 so far has been Death by a Thousand Cuts. Which is not qualitatively different from last year.
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Is Tom Pohlad making daily phone calls to the front office offering helpful suggestions?
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If he's not already under contract then fire the front office! 😁
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As the numbers last year bear out: didn't work when they tried that.
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The problem with this narrative is that, yes, stolen bases were up and sacrifice bunts were up in August and September, but actual run scoring per game was not up compared to June when they went 9-18 and the die was becoming cast. The operation was a success but the patient didn't get better.
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This season remains small sample size, and even more so if you split those stats even one way. Nevertheless, you will not like the shape of his 2026 splits so far, bases-empty versus men-on, if you look (before or after today's game). The post you replied to was an attempt to provide balance, but the overall picture for situational hitting remains Not Good. I appreciate a home run that puts his team up by a run, but overall his WPA remains "death by a thousand cuts" that outweigh the good of those solo shots.
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"... or sit in the outfield and get one off an opposing player's bat."
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Well shoot. Revising.... Third place, bay-beeee!
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Can't give you .500 but here's a screenshot of when we were 0 games under .500
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Make that:
