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  1. h2oface
    Not one Twin in the lineup batting in the .100s! Things are looking up. Kepler has been hitting, and Correa is attempting to be at .200, but the Royals have 5 in the .100s and 6 of 9 .200 or lower! Yikes.
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    There certainly needs to be a standard that is not subjective, that is for sure, whatever the substance is, or becomes. It would seem to me to have it on the balls out of the box. Develop the balls with the help of the MLBPA and if they don't like a ball they get a different one.
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    Thanks much for the summary. I figured many were on the IL (6) or rehabbing and many were pitchers not pitching that day (7). So really only 6 of the top 20 that can't develop right now. Injuries are burtal.
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    Update story in Sports Illustrated. No mention that the umpire told him to use alcohol. And the official seems to be not much of an "official". There is no plans to change anything at this time. Stickiness is allowed until the umpire says it is too much, with no criteria other than.... "that is too sticky now, in my opinion, and i am the Power". Not a great standard to base a rule on. But then, it is similar to guessing at the strike zone that has no visible boundries and calling balls and strikes. https://www.si.com/mlb/2023/04/26/mlb-suspension-max-scherzer-truth-behind-sticky-substance-stickygate “Pitchers can’t use soap and water because it softens the tissues of the fingers, and that’s how you can get blisters,” Boras says. Describing his actions, Scherzer told reporters, “I am in front of the MLB official that is underneath [near the dugout]. I wash my hands with alcohol in front of the official.” The “MLB official” near the dugout is a part-time seasonal employee with no administrative authority. The official is a gameday compliance monitor (GCM) who is “responsible for monitoring and reporting Club compliance with gameday requirements, as well as providing support to the sign stealing and use of electronic devices enforcement program,” according to an MLB job posting description. GCMs are paid $27.50 per hour. They are eyes and ears only for MLB. They report any violations but do not intervene."
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    Wichita box link doesn't work. Use this https://www.milb.com/gameday/cardinals-vs-wind-surge/2023/04/26/728730#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=728730 Salas and Cavaco looking pretty ugly. Always seems strange to me to see 13 of an organizations top 20 prospects not on the field developing,
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    I totally disagree with it, unless they are a total rental and a one of start or relief and then you have to DFA them anyway for roster spot. Eat innings? If you don't have a staff that can absorb a bad outing you are in trouble, anyway. This was a winnable game early, Even at 5-0 it was just after 3. Your team needs to cover for each other, not sacrifice them.
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    I don't see how that would be a solution at all. It could stick for one pitch and not the next or the one before because you grabbed the rosin bag again. How would a player know the right amount, the right mixture of sweat and rosin?And if you feel it is too much as you sweat more, you wipe it off on your pants, or it gets on your glove. Sure, the way it is now is ripe for abuse, but you could not be meaning to abuse the the use and do anyway. If rosin is legal, it should be legal. Or don't have it legal, but it should not be subjective. With what you propose, it would be variable with each pitch as sweat changes or you went to the legal rosin bag one too many times. The fact that the pitcher did what the MLB official told them to do and used alcohol to clean it off, and that caused the increased stickiness, and then they get ejected (and suspended perhaps) for what it caused, is ludicrous.
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    No Baldelli presser included today? At least not yet. He has some 'xplain'n' to do..... I so hate when the manager throws in the towel in the 4th inning. Maeda should have not even started the 4th, maybe the 3rd. He didn't get one out, anyway in the 4th! That was still a winnable game until he just quit trying to win it.
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    Headrick did contribute to Maeda misery giving up the homer and letting an inherited runner score in front of his. I score it 9 for Maeda and 2 for Headrick.
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    Giving up on a game early with only 5 runs down is just a total f you to the home fans. Giving up on games early does matter.
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    There goes the all important run differential.......
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    ? This was on the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast. Not a press release at all. Just a demo. The pitchers used the rosin, washed their hand with alcohol as instructed by the umpires, and it got worse. The umpires don't have the tools to correct the problem, they just made it worse. If rosin is to be OK to use, then MLB has to come up with a protocol to have it not be subjective. Plus, when it comes to cheating, don't forget, we have Correa on our team.
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    Ignorance is bliss.
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    And he had even more energy for the time off the court! Load management? https://www.essentiallysports.com/nba-basketball-news-wilt-chamberlain-who-slept-with-20000-women-once-detailed-the-story-behind-the-numbers-the-number-of-women-who-have-come-and-gone-through-my-bedrooms-and-various-hotel-rooms-around/
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    German has sucked in his 3 starts not against the Twins. But he seems to own us.
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    Maeda was credited with 5 earned. Solano missed grounder, Gordon throw, Correa missed catch, Gallo throwing to a cut off man instead of first.... seems a bit unfair to call them all earned.
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    No. Questioning, not complaining, the manager's decision to not have him in the lineup, because he is a switch hitter, can bat left against German, and HE IS RAKING!
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    All from the Solano misplay/Gordon throw/Correa missed catch debacle, and the giveaway getaway self full fulling prophecy takes over. All for the home crowd. It never makes sense to me. Baseball is just not that tiring to need so many days off. Who knows, coming back from 5 down with the B team in would sure be a confidence builder.
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    These guys are in a fog. Little League play.
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    Rosin is not grease, so maybe, but I doubt it. The solvent should be tried and tested, and supplied to all teams, and not a best guess, that is for sure. While soluble in alcohol, ether, benzene, and chloroform, none of them except alcohol is an option, and Cone's demo shows that it just increases the stickiness of what is left. Perhaps it is not a solvent that is needed, but something other than rosin that is the option provided for universal allowed stickiness. But the mass judgement by so many condemning the pitchers and accussing them of lying is now laughable. This ought to clear it up: 😇 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2020.00030/full https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosin#:~:text=It is soluble in alcohol%2C ether%2C benzene and chloroform.
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    Don't tell Kyle Wright that. https://www.mlb.com/news/kyle-wright-wins-20th-game-of-2022#:~:text=Kyle Wright wins 20th game of 2022 Or Julio Urias. https://www.mlb.com/news/julio-urias-20th-win-2021
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    https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/04/24/david-cone-rosin-experiment-sunday-night-baseball-max-scherzer-suspension Well, sometimes being the judge without all the physics or evidence can make one look silly. Looks like if rosin is legal, MLB needs to come up with an endorsed solvent to use instead of ejecting and suspending players for doing what the MLB officials/umpires told them to do.
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    I didn't know either, but I do now. How do you feel now if you accused Scherzer and German of lying so? "Cone’s point was to depict how everything Scherzer said — and everything the umpires noticed — was consistent with what happens when a person mixes sweat with rosin, and then adds alcohol (as Scherzer was forced to do)." https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/04/24/david-cone-rosin-experiment-sunday-night-baseball-max-scherzer-suspension https://larrybrownsports.com/baseball/david-cone-rosin-experiment-espn-max-scherzer/614331 https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/david_cone_conducts_rosin_experiment_in_examination_of_scherzer_case/s1_127_38732706 "MLB Crew Chief Dan Bellino said that Scherzer’s hand was “far stickier than anything we’ve felt” at the time of his ejection. Scherzer said he washed his hands with alcohol in front of league officials in between innings on Wednesday. As Cone’s experiment indicated, the presence of alcohol combined with rosin resulted in his hand getting significantly stickier than with the rock rosin alone."
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    Sometimes ignorance makes people proudly act like they know what they are talking about. Scherzer did as he was told in front of umpires, and the alcohol activated the rosin to be more sticky. Looks like MLB and the teams need to come up with a solvent that works, instead of making the pitcher get more sticky and then ejecting them and suspending them. https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/04/24/david-cone-rosin-experiment-sunday-night-baseball-max-scherzer-suspension
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