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  1. ashbury
    Including possibly a couple of Manfred Man innings.
  2. ashbury
    Yeah, the "GF" column on pitcher pages at b-r.com takes on a whole new meaning, doesn't it?
  3. ashbury
    This is a multi-faceted observation. Kind of goes with having been driven into the ditch.
  4. ashbury
    9 guys, 26 seasons to work from, and not one is on the current Twins squad. If we're going to be bad, can we at least be fun at the same time?
  5. ashbury
    "Five blown leads. So you're telling me the offense has been clicking."
  6. ashbury
    3 more to tie. 4 to win.
  7. ashbury
    CLEMENS!!!!
  8. ashbury
    Twins are too ashamed to photograph him for b-r.com in their own hat.
  9. ashbury
    Multiple, they said.
  10. ashbury
    That ball sure got out of there in a hurry.
  11. ashbury
    And can not be denied!
  12. ashbury
    Name someone, anyone, in the Twins bullpen who doesn't draw, and deserve, that response?
  13. ashbury
    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.
  14. ashbury
    WALLNER!!!!
  15. ashbury
    Nah. Our shutdown bullpen's got this.
  16. ashbury
    Getting my first look at Bradley this inning. Man, those first two fastballs had zero movement. Meatballs.
  17. ashbury
    Be careful, Jeffers. You're about to be Wally Pipped.
  18. ashbury
    I can't tell Fitzgerald from Outman at the plate. I literally thought Outman was still loitering around there after striking out.
  19. ashbury
    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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  24. ashbury
    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.
  25. 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.
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