h2oface
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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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Game Recap: Twins 8, Cleveland 5
h2oface replied to David Youngs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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.) -
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.
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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.
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Game Recap: Cleveland 5, Twins 3
h2oface replied to Nash Walker's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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? -
But how about that hard hit ratio?
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Yeah...... I can't go with that. Consistently wrong is just more wrong. No getting around it. I can't talk myself into if someone consistently is wrong it is fair. It is just more unfair. Wrong is wrong. More wrong is more wrong.
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Lewis Thorpe Should Be in the Bullpen
h2oface replied to Cody Pirkl's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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. -
WE?
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2 pitches and Colome blows another one. You just had to use him, eh Rocco? SNAFU!
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Colome! I need to moderate the spelling.
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"It's not in my spead sheet. I have no gut to go on....."
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2-3-4 batters and out. Someone tell me about that worthless run expectancy stat again. No wait, save it and use it to defend our pitcher who gives up the run.......
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Bringer of Nada
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Yes.... he moves his glove about a foot even when he doesn't need to!
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Robles "Just like I planned it!"
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Hedges started game battin .117. 2 for 2 so far.....
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Umpire been giving tons of free strikes all game. Sickening.
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so...... IF we make it to the tenth..... does that mean Colome? Theilbar? eeeeeee
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Falvey ain't developing anyone like Karinchak for the Twins........
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Francona is just thinking, "all we have to do is get them into the 10th, and it's a done deal, and we still get a shot in the bottom of the ninth..
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It was looking like Arraez was going to get in the way and not give way to Simmons....
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whew. breath of relief.
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Duffey. Still pretending Duffey is a late inning option. Foolishness.
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"Maeda only made one mistake" .... BS. Pitchers make plenty of mistake pitches. It isn't reduced to one just because that is the one someone clobbered. There are still plenty of mistake pitches that don't get hit out. I see Twins batters missing the mistakes all the time. To use that tired statement as an announcer or writer is cheap and just wrong.
