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  1. FrodaddyG
    They aren't playing minor league games on softball fields. I'd say the difference in size of field area of the average minor league park and the average MLB park is negligible, and adding a ball that flies slightly further isn't going to turn the minors into the MLB steroid era, stats-wise.
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    I'd say the priority for "emergency catcher training" should fall somewhere around "teaching all pitchers to throw with both hands, in case the last pitcher available in a game takes a liner off his primary throwing hand" in the hierarchy of things a bad team should be focusing their players on. It's an absolute non-issue, and merits as much discussion as recommending carrying a lightning rod every minute of every day, to avoid an inconvenient electrical strike "just in case" you keel over with a heart attack in the midst of a thunderstorm.
  3. FrodaddyG
    We had a third catcher because of a stupid, misguided notion that the team needed one. Playing along with a stupid, misguided notion only adds to the stupidity of it. It doesn't fix it.
  4. FrodaddyG
    If it's only $3M, it's beyond stupid for each team to not pony up $100K to let their guys get used to the equipment they ideally will be paying them to use at some point.
  5. FrodaddyG
    What does that even mean? The need for an "emergency catcher" implies that you carry two catchers and both of them go down in the same game. Even if the day's starting catcher goes down on the first pitch of the game and the other is the DH, you're swapping the other catcher behind the plate immediately. Having to mix and match hitting a pitcher in the lineup 3-4 times has way less potential for damage throughout the game than throwing a barely-trained "emergency catcher" behind the plate and hoping that he doesn't colossally **** up somewhere between catching, throwing out runners, communicating with the pitchers while calling the game, etc... Planning around this non-event by spending any kind of organizational resources to "train emergency catchers" is beyond pointless. In the one-in-a-million chance that both catchers go down, any player on the field would be capable of strapping the pads on and slogging through a couple innings behind the plate even without any kind of preparation or notice. There's no advance licensing component required to wear shin guards.
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    I wonder how the stats get skewed by the occasional week of "day-to-day observation" that predates a failed attempt to play and then a DL stint.
  8. FrodaddyG
    Such sky high expectations we're setting. "If he can somehow slip into the top 2/3 of players at his position."
  9. FrodaddyG
    Yeah, they had best have some serious plans to be players in the free agent market for someone like Jennings or Wallace while hoping they strike gold in the draft or Peterson will need to run for 4000 next year against 10 man fronts to make them competitive.
  10. FrodaddyG
    San Diego?
  11. FrodaddyG
    I suppose the difference would make more of a stink with me if I could foresee myself checking in here more than once a week before too long. Oh well.
  12. FrodaddyG
    If this is a "battle", then I'm sure there's some elementary school playground slapfights you'll really be impressed by.
  13. FrodaddyG
    Is there a reason the posts are now smashed into a significantly narrower area in the middle of the browser window and don't scale when I widen now? It's borderline intolerable to try and read anything with a stat line at this point due to cutoff/wraparound text. Seeing an inch or so of gray border on either side of the exact same size window I've always used is proving irritating.
  14. FrodaddyG
    Yeah, send worn down players to play in two more weeks of games. That's an even better idea to limit injuries.
  15. FrodaddyG
    We're going to have to start piling up the Messiahs here shortly, we're getting so overstocked with them.
  16. FrodaddyG
    If we're going on the assumption they're all worthwhile pieces, wouldn't it be better to have the bulk of that group together in 2019-2020 for an extra year rather than an extra month of taking lumps this year?
  17. FrodaddyG
    The amount of team control is what determines the amount of monetary compensation and when they'll be forced to pay it. Hand in hand, same thing.
  18. FrodaddyG
    For the 10,000th time, it has nothing to do with being too "early" for the player or their readiness, and everything to do with their monetary compensation down the road. Good lord.
  19. FrodaddyG
    As stated below by someone else, 0^0 =/= 0*0. I impressed my future favorite teacher ever by showing the math behind why 0^0 is undefinable during my 7th grade orientation visit to the high school. Or do you really want to take this into the realm of irrational, non-existent numbers?
  20. FrodaddyG
    That equation, of course, being: 0 * anything = 0 with the "anything" in this case being a given Twins MI's chance of being useful.
  21. FrodaddyG
    WTF is Jay Leno?
  22. FrodaddyG
    Unfortunately, the rules of baseball force you to take out a specialist after one inning. You know, FORCES you. That's the rule...
  23. FrodaddyG
    In terms of geology, that's not that long ago.
  24. FrodaddyG
    I'd say the "diceyness" of your bench would need more than Jim Thome to solve it if you're carrying two bench utility infielders beyond the two already manning your MI spots.
  25. FrodaddyG
    Do you know what "starting" pitcher means?
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