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  1. 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.
  2. 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.....
  3. 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?
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. h2oface
    Fascinating. Thank you very much! I found it very compelling, and the diagrams are also very helpful. I love this stuff!
  7. 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......
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. h2oface
    This all sounds great. Can't wait for that starter(s) that prove it all works.
  11. h2oface
    March Sadness. NBA suspended season. Baseball is next. Buxton will have plenty of time to be ready......
  12. h2oface
    It would be nice to see a rotation as described. Still waiting for the reality..... I hope it happens sooner than later or never.
  13. h2oface
    Don't look now, but for ever it is worth, our Twins have the worst ST team average in MLB right now. .203 And are 3rd to the last in OPS at .661. It means nothing, right? Almost all the offensive stats are dreadful. And tied for last in SB. They are tied for 3rd in HRs, though.....
  14. h2oface
    Has Buxton abandoned the leg kick again? Or is this just his cage stance?
  15. h2oface
    Well that is quite a stretch. Is that what you feel? Because no one even came close to saying that. I consider extensions, and talk about them related to whether they deserve it and the risk, to be all about salary and money. After all, that is what extensions are. Future salaries.
  16. h2oface
    Yup. Definitely deserves so much less than Pineda. Or Bailey. Or Ordorizzi! That is why he won't be the opening day starter, and a number 4 or 5 of the rotation...... As far as value even just compared to our rotation...... definitely and necessarily getting screwed, and compared to many of the other pitchers in the league (not all) taking home double and triple what he will, definitely and necessarily. The system as it exsists is not fair, comparitively, to the younger stars that perform. Compared to me, not necessarily getting screwed. Shame on me for feeling the age should not be a reason and way to not have to pay someone comparitvely equal to those that are older for the same or better work.
  17. h2oface
    I like it when players get paid proportionate to their performance. I don't like how the system is set up to basically screw the players in their younger years. Should it always be about the ownership winning? I hope he gets paid what he is worth.
  18. h2oface
    The only 2 things I like(d) about Astudillo is his name (not the nickname), and the no look pick off throw he made to first in a Spring Training game. He is a liability everywhere he plays in the field, and as for "commanding the zone".... the way he swings at anything, I wonder if he even knows where the zone is. This is a team that should be done with cute stories, and refining all roster moves for a play-off run. I wish him well, just not on the Twins.
  19. h2oface
    That would be fun! .... for the independent leagues.
  20. h2oface
    It might mean that 5 tool guys were never 5 tool guys, and were overrated.
  21. h2oface
    Larnach says, "What?"
  22. h2oface
    Is there an over/under yet on when Buxton takes himself out with self inflicted injury?
  23. h2oface
    Exactly. Thanks for the article. Folks really like to shine it up when the deal is made, and those that hate the trades are spoken of as "negative". Prophetic would be more like it.
  24. h2oface
    If this is Falvey's idea of top-end, it is sure not the same as my idea of top-end. I hope he proves it, becomes it..... top-end that is. "Maeda provides the Twins with the top-end pitching that they had been seeking" He got the number he wanted. He got the role he wanted. I hope he gives us what we all want and were promised. Here's to Kenta. Just do it!
  25. h2oface
    LA didn't even want Graterol when it all started! He was going to Boston. It seems pretty clear that Graterol was the Twins choice to trade. From the video on MLB.com that Falvey did, it was Falvey that really wanted Maeda, and wanted to trade Graterol. And LA wanted to dump Maeda, and was able to suck more out from the Twins than Boston, because Falvey really wanted Maeda.
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