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  1. h2oface
    To give you an answer, since you are requesting one, and you took the time to make that awesome table of pitchers, I want pitcher E, becasue it is Jacob deGrom. But if I was the Twins FO, I would select pitchers B,C,F, or G.... because that is what they do to supply new pitchers to our team. Or worse stat pitchers. I don't mind the sss for your purposes. It really doesn't matter for your mission. Enjoy your arguing. It doesn't matter what anyone else chimes in with, you are considering it 'noise'. You hear what you want to hear. No one has said that W/L is the most important stat. Nobody, You can win if you like. I am fine with considering W/L stats not useless for my baseball considerations. You can chose what you like.
  2. h2oface
    "Standing: 5th Place in AL Central (9.5 GB)" You are so kind. This sounds way better than "Standing: tied for DEAD LAST in the entire MLB" Tonight's game: a battle of the tied to not own it outright.
  3. h2oface
    Isn't as important, and useless don't mean the same thing to me. Words mean something. If that is not what you meant, then so be it. One might say that team wins is the only important stat. But that is not inferring that all others are useless. Wins has always been part of a starting pitcher's story, and not the whole story. Even moreso now that pitchers don't pitch much past the 5th. Nor do they start every 4th game. One thing consistent is you can't get a loss if you don't allow runs to score. Might not get the win, and you could get "deGrom'ed", but you can't get a loss. Wins are not useless. They never will be useless, no matter how many new stats we can come up with. They are all part of the story, and none are useless. There used to be 3 television channels. They aren't useless now, they are just less of the whole story by sheer content.
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    Hallelujah! I breathe a fans sigh of relief. The Twins win it in the 10th! Now I can get pumped up for the series of the two worst teams in MLB facing off, and hopes to leave the MLB cellar, with thee Matt Shoemaker starting. Nowhere to go but up (except down further, but that is not a possiblity to entertain today.)
  5. h2oface
    Throw out over 100 years of history for the last 20 and the trendy cocktail stats, eh? All those great HOF pitchers. Credibility takes a hit here in my opinion.
  6. h2oface
    Nice write up. Looks like trading Huascar Ynoa was a gaff, and they just let Nick Anderson go for Brian who? It is a nice list, but we needed pitchers last year and the year before and the year before that, and this year and next year and the year after that.... I will believe it when I see these pitchers becoming stars and big leaguers. Right now, it is looking like Falvey didn't have that much to do with what was happening in Cleveland. The bullpen choices this year and the regression of all of them is not emitting much confidence, either. They can't even win one extra inning game! Right now, I doubt any other team is jealous of what the Twins have in the oven.
  7. h2oface
    And Arraez was safe at second before he pulled off the bag, and would have easily scored on Kepler's double. That would have been a win in 9 innings........ Colome with 3 days rest, still comes in and throws immediate meat. Only took 2 pitches to give up the homer. Couldn't be happy using him in earlier innings. Had to go back to: Just keep on doing the same thing and expecting different results..... To go extras these days with the pathetic rule and runner on second, you need to have fireballers that can get Ks. Contact pitchers like Colome are worthless in extras. Any news about Maeda?
  8. h2oface
    Thorpe is a waste of time. I can't believe how long they have hung on to him, especially with his drastic drop in velo. He can't even throw it 90 anymore. It may come across as insensitive, but he also has homesickness problems. Missing mom and dad in Australia. That doesn't help him grow up. He is a young man now. Tic toc.
  9. h2oface
    Happ and Shoemaker were horrible signings from the get go. The only question to me was, how much will it cost us, and not in money, but in games. Any pitcher can have a good streak, and this outing surely doens't make me change my mind about how many games Dobnak will cost us too, but it is nice to get a good start out of him.
  10. h2oface
    But wait! Dobnak is signed long term!
  11. h2oface
    The bizarre thing about this choice, the choice to do 2 makeup games in California today....... is that they have to fly out from Minnesota, play two 7 inning (littel league) games in California, and fly back to Cleveland for Friday. Two weekends ago, they were in Detroit, had a day off the next day (as did Detroit), and instead of making up the one rained out game right where they were, and then the quick trip to Chicago the next day, they scheduled another double header later in June or July, I think. Pretty ineffecient.
  12. h2oface
    Kenta Maeda. Maeda Mehata was too much to just let go...... and somebody else had rundfeldt for Refsnyder. Just wow.
  13. h2oface
    Thank you. Exactly. But they just can't help themselves when it comes to putting players out of position in the endless shifts. Although...... Detroit and KC have both hurt Giolito this year, and even after tonight, his season ERA is 4.35. The Twins are pretty good at making most pitchers look good this year, regardless of the hype. Wouldn't it have been nice if the pitching experts with connections had signed Kluber this year?
  14. h2oface
    Maybe. But then, once you go down the curse road, you are living in a fantasy world no matter what perspective.
  15. h2oface
    The curse of the TD writers (and universally many others) claiming they were so good and anointing them to take the pennant and go to the world series?
  16. h2oface
    You rest/save guys like Simmons and Donaldson when they can be helpful in the pennant run. As it is, there will be no pennant run if they don't play and are part of the resurgence. Save for October ball? You have to get there to play.
  17. h2oface
    A most depressing set of 3 pitchers to have hope invested in. These are all losers. The new Smeltzer/Stashak/Theilbar bad news. We already know what we have in these guys, and is bottom of the barrel waiver wire fodder before the DFAs. I would feel different if we were talking Balazovic/Duran/Enlow, but that is not close (injuries or level) it seems. The OP is a most depressing set of pitchers and will be a waste of time until they are no longer in the system. Place holders taking up space. Nothing more. When will the great pitching identifiers and develpers that is the calling card of the FO actually deliver real depth that a team can be proud to be fielding?
  18. h2oface
    Even more depressing to know that Dobnak and Thorpe are the first depth pieces. We are doomed. It looks like Dobnak is eating a lot of fries these days.
  19. h2oface
    Luck. You make your luck. The Twins just play horribly.
  20. h2oface
    Not to continue this tangent, but this and done. It looks like Ynoa isn't too smart, though.... "Ynoa broke his hand after punching the dugout in frustration following a tough outing yesterday against the Brewers, and will now spend approximately two months or more in recovery. It’s a very unfortunate setback for a player who has become an unexpectedly big part of Atlanta’ rotation this season."
  21. h2oface
    Hope vs Reality. I take Reality. This trade still only sucks. Looking like the Expert Pitching Identifiers in the FO laid a monster egg on trading Huascar Ynoa (who is looking like a stud for the Braves) for Jaimie Garcia flipped for Enns and Littell. Is anyone still believing these guys can select and develop top notch pitching? I sure don't.
  22. h2oface
    Donaldson steps into the path of the runner that would have been out at second like he is trying to take a charge on the Basketball court. Stands/moves right in the basepath, in the runners way, trying to impede him or slow him down. I guess that ump didn't think that was interference or obstruction, because NO CALL. Intentional and malicious, and not the "runner stick my arm out so I touch the defender that isn't in the basepath anyway".
  23. h2oface
    Exactly. I plainly see Andrus reaching out with his elbow, moving a bit out of baseline. Thank you. Judgement call. Umpire made it. He was wrong. Andrus is laughing at ump as a sucker. I get all you are saying. I know the rule. They would not have touched anyway. I have eyes and can still see.
  24. h2oface
    Andrus put his elbow out and ran into our catcher, not the other way around. Easy to see. They don't touch unless he does. You are imagining things, I believe.
  25. h2oface
    Happy for you that you think a pitcher does his job perfectly when he is called in FOR RELIEF with the bases loaded and no outs.... AND ALL THE RUNNERS INHERITED SCORE. ALL OF THEM. I know what happened and how (one can watch the game and not be part of the game thread, eh?). Miss bats and things are different. That would be perfect in my book. Relief is not letting all the runners score. I know Duffey had help. He is still on the mound called in for relief, not to open the faucet. The ump should never have called interference. It did get to that point, and the runner should have been called out. Period. Umpire made a horrible call. Well documented. Easy to see on replay. Hate the catcher if you like, if that makes you happy. I have already adressed that he had other options, and should have done them. But the umpire made the call that was horrible, and the wrong call. And I won't call your behavior stupid, even if you call mine stupid.
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