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  1. Dodecahedron
    Larnach is in the minors, but he has more potential than Cave, Rooker, Gordon, or Refsnyder. There's one. Cut Simmons and put Gordon there. The bat is the same, let's see if Gordon can play defense where the Twins intended him to play in the first place. Use literally anybody from the Saints to replace that roster spot. Now's the time to roll some dice. Bring up Mark Contreras and see what he can do. There's two. Still not quite a full team, but that's better than half a team.
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    When your lineup has 4.5 hitters, this will be the usual result. "We didn't execute in the big moments." This is because the manager didn't execute when filling out the lineup card.
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    We know the two extremes now, total system failure v. perfection. Who are the "in the middle" players that the Twins missed out on?
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    G-L could be one of those guys who figures things out, but if that happens it will probably be as a very good reliever.
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    Leaders don't wait for phone calls, right? Give St. Peter your analysis. If he does the predictable thing and tosses your analysis into the trash and yells at his secretary for allowing a fan to reach him unsolicited, but then the team continues to fail, that's on him. I probably wouldn't go right to Pohlad because I think he only has one eye on the team, if even that. This sounds snarky, and it is a bit, but it's also serious at the same time. Things actually do change when people step up and do these things. The effort is a failure 99.8% of the time, but nonetheless it's the only way to make change happen. St. Peter, after all, got his job by stepping out in this way.
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    To be fair, he'd be the best guy on a lot of rosters. Debatably, all of them. Buxton, eventually, performed as advertised. His injuries are truly unusual. I would say he should check himself out for Marfan Syndrome, but if that answer was determined to be yes, he'd only be screwing up his own income.
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    Baseball America says Acuna is 14. MLB says he is 16. He looks like he is 12. I'm going to go out on a limb and say he isn't 16, but if he is already getting attention when he is clearly underage, we might be looking at a future HOFer. Of course, good luck passing the smell test on his age to get him into the country should one draft him. MLB also says he is 5'11". Cough. Although, I suppose it's possible that video is two years old. Duped by TwinsDaily again! ?
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    The analysis on Jax might be a little harsh given he debuted in the majors in June. He has a lot of work ahead of him. What we are seeing is fairly predictable. As you mention, there are a lot of positives with him, and that's all we can hope for. I would be careful not to read too much into the 3-3 week. The umps were really not feeling the love, you could say, when it came to calling fair games for the Brewers on Friday and Saturday. Neither of the lineups the Twins put out there are going to win many games.
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    I'm don't recall saying anything about hearts, but if you want to go at it with a straw man, that's fine with me. I'll sit back and watch.
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    Is he wrong that analytics doesn't replace playing the game and working hard? Objectively, I think we can all agree that he is not wrong.
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    Arraez should be leading off in every game he plays. Now, even though they did the obvious thing and had him lead off ... they still burned the DH spot for the leadoff hitter. One step forward, two steps back....
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    Right. The only time I look at WPA is in these game summaries. Sano's WPA is either near the top or near the bottom. His great, superstar-caliber games only serve to pull him up into mediocrity as he goes 0-5 the rest of the time. This isn't the only year of his career where he had this tendency.
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    OK, but Viola did not do that in his tweet. He may have done that elsewhere. If I say french fries are stupid and then talk about riding in airplanes, is my opinion on airplanes null and void because you don't like what I said about french fries? Silly statement I guess, because yes that's where we are now as a society...
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    Wha? The Cubs was playing just like the 1991 Twins team was. You could see the team spirit. Same with the Red Sox.
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    Good resumes, but this doesn't address the issues the teams have today. Viola is mirroring what the 1991 Championship team said in every interview they had during their anniversary celebrations. The only difference is Viola was more direct. It's obvious to us the team isn't firing on all cylinders, and it's also clear that these players, many of whom also have impressive resumes, all spotted the same thing playing out behind the scenes when they were in town socializing with the team. The 1991 Championship was not a slam dunk. That team worked very hard. They finished the previous year in last place. They started slow and were in last place for most of the first month of the season. I dare say if the 2001 team railed out a 15-game winning streak in June as what happened in 91, we'd be having different conversations right now. That team went from 6th place to 1st place in less than 3 weeks, and I'm guessing launch angles had nothing to do with it.
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    Yes, a response like this was predictable. What I said before, and can say again, is that the Twins could have ridden him while he was still serviceable and let him go at a better time. The Twins had no one better at the time. Thus, "What were they thinking?"
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    Yes, that's obvious. There are 0 teams teams in baseball history who have not used analytics. But is that why any team won the world series? The story typically is when a team focuses on one set of things, they may dominate the season but they fall short in the playoffs. That's the point of the Vikings analogy. If someone tells you they cracked the code of baseball thanks to Formula X, bet against them to become rich. The only proven way to win championships is to build a team. But this is also sort of going down the wrong path. Twins fans, even more than the Twins themselves, beat the analytics drum. Yet, even basic things like choosing who bats first the Twins can't do, even though this can be almost purely determined by analytics. We know they love launch angles and created a nice fad there, which is over. Is that the extent of their analytics? Is anyone still impressed?
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    In 2013, I felt the Twins did not give Albers a fair shake simply because he came out of the independent leagues. His minor league numbers were OK, his major league numbers up to that point were OK. He was no ace, but who cares, and the Twins were in no position back then to toss a capable pitcher to the side. If someone is working out, keep it going. There is no one magical formula for success. Although his chances in the majors were few and far between since, he still put up quality numbers in the minors. I am as surprised as anyone to see him back. I'm surprised-not-surprised he is doing well. But this brings up the same question it brings up all too often in Twinsland -- what the heck were the Twins thinking?
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    Number of baseball championships won by teams coming together, helping each other, leaning on each other: 80+ Number of baseball championships won by high spending, payola, or other assorted ugly things: {a large portion of Yankees championships} Number of championships won by statcast analytics: 0 This is all Viola is saying. Is he wrong? The idea of "chemistry" in sports is nothing new. We are in a strange era in baseball, where a vocal set of fans refuses to acknowledge anything that can't be measured, as if we have all never heard of groups of high performers -- at anything -- ultimately failing. This does not just happen in sports, it happens in everything. Vikings history is full of crushingly dominant teams who found success by finding ways to game the status quo and/or beat up on the division. Every one of those teams got crushed in the end by teams that played the fundamentals, rather than focusing on one thing. (Or, in 2 cases, the opposition cheated, but that happens, too).
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    Viola is mirroring exactly what the 1991 championship team was saying when they were in town, that group simply chose a more diplomatic way of saying it. Most of us can see it too, and a few of us have been saying this all year. I think it's too much to ask of people to put in 100% every day when the manager continuously sets the team up to lose. Anything less than 100% performance from a pitcher and the game is lost. Pitchers are not put into situations where they have a chance to perform well in the first place. This sucks a lot of gas out of the room when it's suddenly more difficult to hit home runs.
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    The player's union doesn't like highly incentivized contracts. We can be theoretical about this if we want, of course, but know that such a contract is incredibly unlikely to be accepted by the union. The fear is once one highly incentivized contract drops, the precedent will be set and other such contracts will follow.
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    With the way the Twins aired their dirty laundry to the press over Buxton's contract, it seems very unlikely to me that he remains in a Twins uniform much longer. The Twins told a reporter what would happen -- if he doesn't sign by the trade deadline, he's gone at the first chance they get -- and I see no reason not to believe them. Even if that was an idle threat, that's such a low-class move that Buxton is now unlikely to sign any piece of paper the Twins put in front of him. Life is short, and he can make millions wherever he goes. He may as well play for people who respect him.
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    I was looking at the 2011 roster over the weekend. It struck me how many pitchers the Twins had that year who never pitched in the majors again. I suspect history is about to repeat itself.
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    It's the playoffs all year, baby!
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    Dobnak started games after failing miserably as a late-inning reliever. Remember, these guys are human. I expected him to struggle for a while after moved back to starting. Didn't we see this episode before, starring Glen Perkins? You simply can't treat people this way, where you surprise a pitcher with a new role, a role that many will see as a demotion, with no warning and with no reason, on day 1 of a baseball season. The team should have also seen by Dobnak's repertoire that he is not a late inning reliever. They should not have needed to put him there to know what the result was going to be, and no one should be surprised that the effects were going to linger. Dobnak is no superstar, that's for sure, but he's better than what we saw this year. And they jerked him around to make room for ... Shoemaker? Good lord. A total system failure in two acts.
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