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  1. h2oface
    Still all hope and dreams, so far. Something to write about. Something to talk about, but until they do anything in the bigs, it is all talk.
  2. h2oface
    Sano/3B with Cruz/DH. By far.
  3. h2oface
    It really doesn't matter if a player only played one season in the decade in my opinion. Outlandishly stellar for his total performance on the team? If I am selecting a team to represent the Twins, and could have Cruz on it, I certainly would have him in the DH slot. Same with Sano over Plouffe at third. And seriously, this is fantasy, so if I could have a healthy Buxton playing center, I wouldn't pick anybody else. Not even close. Not happy to have Buxton in center field? I am happy anyday he is playing in center.
  4. h2oface
    1- Nathan - hands down. Nobody even close. 2- Reardon 3- Aguilera 4- Worthington 5- Perkins Eddie? I can't shine that up like some can. He was lucky to have a manager that kept using him.
  5. h2oface
    Am I the only one that expects a couple of bonafide starters as good or better than Bauer (it appears the 2018 is an outlier, no?) coming from our system, and surfacing this season or next? I mean, isn't it time that the "pitching expertise" lauded in the article starts to be performance of the pitchers developed, and not just talk in the Twin Cities? It happens all the time around MLB, and we salivate about it finally being farmed here. It's time.
  6. h2oface
    His cheeks do the Dizzy when he throws the ball........ I like it.
  7. h2oface
    Outfielders, like the all-star team - and this is a all-star team of speed - are outfielders. Top 3 outfielders. It doesn't matter which field they played the most of. Plug them in and let them run.
  8. h2oface
    Is there a game log and box score for this game? "You can find the box score and pitch-by-pitch results for Game Seven attached below."
  9. h2oface
    Is there a game log and box score for this game?
  10. h2oface
    All other teams thank you for this article.
  11. h2oface
    You can keep playing because you love the game, and you want to get back to the greatness you once were. But if you finish your career on a prolonged slide, and not even close to the greatness that puts you in the HOF..... you have knocked yourself out of the Hall, and diminished your 7 year greatness. Mauer will have the same problem, regardless of his greatness as a catcher. I think it is a snub to be a one and done on the ballot for Johan, absolutely. I don't think he would have ever, or will ever, eventually be elected to the HOF, however.
  12. h2oface
    Yet Dizzy Dean had 150, Sandy Koufax 165, Roy Halladay 203, Don Drysdale 209, Pedro Martinez 219, Whitey Ford 236, Bob Gibson 251, just to name a few. In fact the "average pitching HOF'er" has 246 wins. While the relievers that are factored into that average will skew that a bit, (perhaps a stat guy can filter out the relievers), just a look at the list and it is blatant. I think the 300 wins thing has been the "automatic" number (only Clemens has 300 and is not in), but not the only counting stat that matters..... https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof_pitching.shtml
  13. h2oface
    Koufax also pitched off of a 15 inch pithcer's mound, and in Dodger Stadium, it was more like 18 inches (legendary). Koufax had 6 pretty pedestrian years to start his career, but the final 6 were the ticket. Santana, like Mauer, finished his career on the slide. Best to go out in glory for a ticket to the HOF. Mauer was a lock, like Puckett, if he would have retired after the concussion year. Now.......? Best to go out in glory.
  14. h2oface
    .....and in only one month! 8 decisions. Must have pitched every 3rd or 4th day.
  15. h2oface
    It shouldn't be a surprise that Moya pitched anymore. Apparently Baldelli got hit in the head by a foul ball during batting practice. Harper has pitched in 3 games, and Moya in 3. Magill in 3. The 2019 fans are livid. Smeltzer and May in 2, Rodgers and Duffey only in 1. Romo hasn't pitched. They will either be rested.. or rusty. Erickson hasn't pitched at all.
  16. h2oface
    Hill could be a bonus, but I, for one, am not planning on him contributing. Thanks for the amazing discussion of the procedure and options, Heezy. I love this stuff.
  17. h2oface
    A Play-off! Next up, 1965 against 1987, the two winners play for the title. You might get the 87/91 matchup you are looking for. But some adjustment needs to be made. Rosters can only be 25 players, not everyone that played for the team at anytime during the year. If a player was suspended (like Pineda), they don't get to play. If they were traded during the season, or released or sent down and didn't finish the year on the team..... not on the roster. I don't mind those that may have been off the playoff rosters of the teams because of injury being able to be on the active roster for the simulations. But this simulation seems to allow for many of the above, and unlimited rosters, and therefore pretty unrealistic.
  18. h2oface
    As much fun as this is, and the write ups are great, it has just gotten absurd. First Neagle, who had pitched all of 20 inning as a rookie in 1991 with a .329 average against is lights out and started instead of Scott Erickson (20-8, 3.18 ERA, .248 average against) for game 3, and then Erickson is skipped and Tapani gets game 4 on 2 days rest! NEAGLE WASN'T EVEN ON ANY OF THE POST SEASON ROSTERS (and never pitched for the Twins again past those 20 innings)! And neither was Pineda. Come on! I don't care who wins, and the premise is really interesting, but the computer games should at least be representative of resonable choices that would be made, and the whole Erickson debacle the computer has picked is just not. At least it didn't have Magill pitching in relief for the 4th game in a row...... (as if he would have pitched in the first 3.... after being sold to Seattle in July). Buxton playing in the post season, too. I guess non of that matters. It is just for fun. I have too much time on my hands these days.....
  19. h2oface
    Having Harper and Magill (who has appeared in all three games!!!) even on this 2019 post season roster is seemingly not representative of what that team would field for this most important series..... The 2019 bullpen must be laden with rust by now. And seriously..... what do you expect from Pineda, fresh off his suspension..... he was suspended right? Does the computer know that? Again I ask... how many players on on each team's roster?
  20. h2oface
    EDDIE! EDDIE! Good thing Buxton is healed and playing. Let's see if you can make it through this series. And I love the box score and game log attachments (except the box score isn't generating the average, home run, and RBI totals for the series). Moya and Magill pitching in both games 1 and 2? How many players are on these rosters?
  21. h2oface
    Exactly.... and Harper wasn't even on the team at the end of 2019, so how could he pitch in the Series? But all good fun. It's only one game.
  22. h2oface
    Fascinating. Thank you very much! I found it very compelling, and the diagrams are also very helpful. I love this stuff!
  23. h2oface
    This blog entry really gets buried. I couldn't find it today, and then I went to my content, and posts (since I knew I had commented and that would be quick, right?)..... and the comment didn't even show up there! Had to go to your personal page, and finally found it from the blog tab. This really needs moved to the article page, especially in these times of no baseball......
  24. h2oface
    Thanks much for this Heezy. I always really enjoy your articles. I have an intramedullary nail (called a rod when "installed" in 1991) in my right tibia from a tib/fib mess, and a had a plate screwed onto my right ulna from 1992 to 2018, and have spent many hours in medical journals, pretending to educate myself. The two hip replacements in 2016 also made me dig in. Your discussions always fascinate me. I for one welcome a technical a surgery discussion, and anything else you would ever want to offer. Thanks again.
  25. h2oface
    I think suspension games should count even if the games are cancelled. What they are doing now is like not counting time served in prison before the conviction. They still sat out those games, whether the league choses to cancel them or not.
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