old nurse
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Everything posted by old nurse
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You apparently do not get that part of safety in preventing injuries
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Four times from when I started the above note this page has reloaded. They stated in an article that traffic was down. They blamed it on the Twins. If this was a site that I was going to casually versus being a day one of their existence person, I would not come back. If the rest of the diamond centric sites do this I would not be surprised to see them struggle
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Once the Yankees worked with him his FIP became in the low 3 range and continues with the Twins, he can pitch multiple innings. Career numbers are kind of useless. Thiebar gas a career WAR of 4.4 I guess they should have kept him.
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Every arm is. Going to be different. Let’s just err on the side of stupidity rather than safety
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Minnesota Twins' Royce Lewis Gets Back to His Roots
old nurse replied to Matthew Lenz's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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Considering Paddack with his back, others with their back and oblique issues if the players have figured out they have to do core exercises to try to decrease injuries
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They go by pitch count for the game. High pitch counts have been shown to be worse for pitchers. The upper limit seems to be 100
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Well, if the bloggers at TD continually repeat the same thing, doesn’t that make the statement a true one?
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Interesting, Zobrist and Damon were auxiliary pieces when their bats were essential to all 4 teams and Zobrist wa series MVP for the Cubs. If they were auxiliary pieces then so was Correa for the Astros. It has been Altuve’s team
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Cleveland has only 5 players of the 23 prearb players as being from a trade. 1 each from trading Clevinger, Civale and Naylor. The pitchers were from deadline deals. When the Twins haven’t been in the playoff hunt, what did the Twins have that would have been similar to those 2? Clevinger was coming off from 2 seasons of more than 4 Bwar
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6 award winner, 4 had less than stellar seasons afterwards. Please don’t curse anyone who could be useful by giving them this award
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They signed him because if he can hit he hits both handed pitching and no platoon split. I would expect a positive response out of Baldelli otherwise there would be no reason to sign him. Even if they cut him, there is not a great risk. The win is that France gets a chance.. once again I would like to thank Twins Daily for crashing once and reloading once in the time I took me to post the above lines
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Only if they use him as a PH
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Thinking Keaschall will have an impact this year is folly one. The Twins thought so much of Blewett that they have brought back Tonkin 3 times. The third most impactful player is a LH pitcher that is essentially a batting practice pitcher Either the list is in error, he team really couldn’t find much for depth pieces, or the talent level in baseball has gotten so thin that this is the best they could do.
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In 10 PA as a pinch hire in Seattle he has had 2 walks and a HPP. I am not sure but that looks to be very very close to the Margot line of PH. Ofer
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It is a useless term. Pitchers go every fifth day. They go in order. As a team game the counting stat that matters is wins for the team.
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They had to limit the innings of both Mathew’s and Festa as they went over 20% more innings. Had they pitched them deeper into games they would have ran out of innings by the middle of September. Leaving them 2 SP short.
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On average Ryan, Ober, and Lopez face around 24 batters a game. Pitch counts are around 90 on average. It is not an innings pitched issue, It is not a twice through the order issue. It is a relative health issue.
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https://www.activeptandsports.com/baseball-pitch-counts/#:~:text=The study found that higher,game quadruples their injury risk.
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Go look at the stats and do the math next time. Lopez and Ober had 18 quality starts, Ryan 13 Yup. SWR usually only went through the batting order twice with a lot of pitches. No one is calling him an ace
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The last couple of years it has been pitch count. They get 100. If it doesn’t look like they will be able to complete the next inning with under 100 the pitcher gets pulled.
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I think there are any winners in this kind of game.
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That was a historically bad Cubs team. Somebody had to be named.
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If he is pitching in mop up situations and gets a ton of strikeouts he will accumulate WAR. If Coulubr pitches in high leverage situations, gets ground outs but above average in run stopping he will have less WAR. Which was more valuable to the team?
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The PT missed one thing that could have contributed to the slightly slower bat speeds. The ability to step, twist, drive and swing has a strength component and a flexibility component. The wear and tear of the season will affect the strength and the flexibility of the player. As they accumulate the data, this actually may be a trend for most players to slow down, or most of the injury prone players to slow down ever so slightly.
