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Half of the white population is also female, hence your math is off.

The quality of the pitching staffs of KC, Detroit and Chicago in a smaller sample size will make the biggest difference in The Who is number 2 debate.

With fewer games maybe Buxton can actually play a whole season.

Jake Reed's window of opportunity may be coming to an end. Windows of opportunity is an interesting concept, yet it is the door slamming shut rather than the shades being drawn. The phrase curtains for you refers to a stage. It would be likely he gets a few AAA curtain calls but due to age and no MLB time it may only be one

Jake Reed is the new Anthony Slama

The over under number on players testing positive must be high. It would appear that the roster is the 40 man plus 20 players that could be used. After shuffling through 50 players last year the FO might have thought with the positive testing numbers growing, all of the 60 man will be needed

I did not debate his worth. Span had offers. Like every other aging player his skills have eroded. His worth is set by the teams. He had become the one year player. Some players will play on, some won't

Span did not want to play for league minimum. It is what it is. The lack of a major league job was his choice.

For the college senior they might be able to get 20k rather than 10k , It hurts the couple hundred juniors drafted between rounds 6 and 20

They started looking years ago and following players.

Don't you just love when you question a comment in a thread and you question appears just below an answer

That was a couple years ago protests that I looked that up

Research also shows the longer and louder the protest the more likely for success

Baseballs were flying out of ballparks at a record pace during the 2020 season and the Twins took full advantage by clocking 307 home runs and setting the all-time MLB record That record would have an * due to the probability the only 2020 season would be a simulated one. However that record would only match the 2019 record.

Hill has been a 6 inning pitcher, Berrios not that much better. Hill would have to be separated from Berrios or your limited bullpen of 5 pitchers will get abused.

It seems odd in an article about under the radar, bargain bin, potential free agents that losing Trevor May is mentioned. Without a great 2020, May would be that type of free agent.

Bill Campbell went undrafted and had a long career Marty Coedova was a 10th round pick 50 years of drafting and not even 15 players. I do not think it was his intention but it does point out that late round picks for tr the Twins rarely pan out. If most teams have similar success it is no wonder there is talk of reducing the draft.

About once out of every four drafts they get a good player after the fifth round. Maybe this was the year, maybe not. Donaldson now or long odds of third round draft pick. I sincerely hope that it does not become an issue. The same goes for the other draft pick.

First remember that the Minimum bat weight in MLB is 32 oz, Harper uses the heaviest bat at 35oz. 2 oz of bat weight doesn't make a huge difference. Copied and pasted from something To see the effects of bat weight and bat speed, here is a summary of an experiment that I found summarized in a 1980 high-school textbook, Physics of Sports developed by Florida State University.[6] For this experiment, the ball mass, pitch speed, and bat swing speed were all kept constant. Only the bat mass was changed. The data shows that a heavier bat produces a faster batted ball speed. This makes intuitive sense since a heavier bat brings more momentum into the collision. Doubling the mass of the bat results in an increase of almost 12mph. So, using a heavier bat should result in faster hit balls, which means the hit ball will travel farther. If a player can maintain the same bat swing speed with a heavier bat, the heavier bat will produce higher batted ball velocity and an increase in distance. But, any player who has experimented swinging bats with widely different weights knows that it is easier to swing a light bat than a heavier bat. Put another way, it takes more effort to swing a heavy bat with the same speed as it does a lighter bat, and most players cannot swing a heavy bat as quickly as they can a bat which is half the weight. So, we need to see how the batted ball speed depends on bat swing speed. Bat Weight Batted Ball Velocity 20oz (0.57kg) 68.5mph (30.6m/s) 25oz (0.71kg) 73.0mph (32.6m/s) 30oz (0.85kg) 76.2mph (34.0m/s) 35oz (0.99kg) 78.6mph (35.1m/s) 40oz (1.14kg) 80.4mph (35.9m/s)

I don't ever recall someone complaining about someone not being promoted from the A+ level or higher ever panning out.

Stroman is a decent pitcher. Simeon Woods Richardson might be a better one. 2 years younger than Balazovic and at the same level of pitching. Toronto did not do all that poorly for a year and a half of Stroman. Dobnac has 30 innings in the major leagues. What he is or can be is really yet to be determined

The Marlins have the highest average velocity fastball, the Twins one of the lowest. They have nearly the same swinging strike percentage. They do have a very different team ERA Must be a little more something something than velocity to pitching.

Yet the Anderson mantra of do not walk batters lives on as Twins relievers had the lowest BB%

To maintain a wining team the draft needs to provide 3-4 players. It looks good so far. I wouldn't call it loaded as your draft should be providing 7-i players who look good in the first 2 years. Anything else is a bad draft

The difference between a .315 and a .360 woba is the differnce between a burger at a cafeteria that has sat in a steamer for hours versus thr burger that was at Victory 44. Arraez can improve his fielding, Revere went backwards in the batting. There really is not a similarity