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  1. Thrylos
    Mea Cupla. Got it from BR. Here.
  2. Thrylos
    Do you really believe that? Next will hear that Sano head-butted McCann's glove... Gee.
  3. Thrylos
    Do you remember how much baseball suffered when MLB umpires decided to strike and the league replaced them with AAA umpires? Neither does any one, including the MLB union that decided to stop their strike after a while
  4. Thrylos
    This will reduce replay calls. Automatic detection of foul balls (just like tennis), checked swings, HRs and balls and strikes will reduce replays as well as arguments..
  5. Thrylos
    Sano is the victim here. By both the Tiger's catcher and pitcher. Who did not get punished for starting this whole thing. The message that the league gives is that it is ok to retaliate and the batter should just "take it". I wonder if they feel the same next time the Twins face the Tigers and the Twins' pitcher throws behind Kinsler. Because this is exactly what baseball (and Turbow) are advocating right now...
  6. Thrylos
    That's an incomplete list. Likely the players who only have the qualified PAs. Missing Danny Santana (.105) and Chris Gimenez (.190) for starters. Oh Manny Machado fell to .197 as well Batting average is one thing, and really does not say the whole story, especially about Buxton. These are the lists that matter: MLB players with > 45% K% Buxton MLB players with > 38% K% Buxton MLB players with >35% K%, <100 wRC+ and > 60 PA: Buxton He has a known issue: Striking out on off-speed and breaking stuff. And until he fixes it, he will not be a major leaguer with the stick. The question here is whether the Twins are willing to let him figure it out at the MLB level or in the AAA level. The answer should be based on, whether they think they can compete this season and whether they think that Buxton's glove is good enough to let him hang around. Based on the fact that they wanted Mejia to figure it out in AAA, I suspect that the answer on the competing question is yes. So the only thing that keeps Buxton in the majors is his glove. It think that he is about another lazy throw like the one vs. the Wsux, which lost the game, or letting another ball go to the wall dive, away from his glove not being good enough to keep him in the majors. Unless they decide they don't want to compete.
  7. Thrylos
    Look at Tennis as an example. For a good decade or so, they are using computerized systems to aid the refs to make the correct calls, without taking anything from the game, other than disputes. There is no reason in 2017 and with the technology there, esp. in a time that the league wants to speed up the game, not to give umpires the tools to make the correct calls (balls and strikes, and fair vs foul, checked swing or not, or HR or not, etc.) before and not after replay. Just don't get it.
  8. Thrylos
    Is an understatement and it is not only "last season". The Twins really messed up with Polanco since they called him up from the Miracle for a whole month in 2014 with Gardy allowing him only 8 PAs and 12 total innings on the field. Ditto in 2015: 50 days in the majors, 12 PAs and 28 total innings on the field. Compared to last season, 2014 and 2015 were criminal, but, regardless, Polanco persevered. At least, the very few of us who have been following Polanco since he signed, and knew that he can play SS in the majors, despite his detractors from inside the organization who started spreading that BS about his defense, feel validated that it has finally happened... The Twins are in a position of strength as far as SS and middle infield goes. Polanco can be it at least until Palacios or Javier are ready to take over. Vielma can fill in the gaps, add Arraez as the second baseman of the future, and it becomes obvious that the front office can and should use Gordon as a trading chip in rebuilding the team's pitching.
  9. Thrylos
    Check their career numbers. I never gave small sample size numbers for Dozier. If you are talking about his performance at high leverage situation, the numbers I gave were for the whole 2016 season (N= 146 PA, .192 BA, .672 OPS) and his career (N= 610 PA, BA .225, .671 OPS) Gibson's career numbers are in the post above yours (.268, .296 and .260 for Gibson (1st, 2nd, & 3rd time)). Huge difference in a. sample size and b. tendencies compared to one's career.
  10. Thrylos
    First time is .205. Interestingly enough, the third time is less than the second time, But DickN2I failed to mentioned that. N = 34, 30, and 11 ABs. Pretty much the definition of an insignificant sample size. Career-wise it is .268, .296 and .260 for Gibson (1st, 2nd, & 3rd time) The other thing that DickN2I failed to mention is that it is the same situation with Santiago (.125, .324) & Santana (.094 & .118), but that would not fit their story. Insignificant
  11. Thrylos
    Well, I'd be darned if next time the Twins face Detroit, they don't throw behind Cabrera
  12. Thrylos
    That's TR
  13. Thrylos
    Nope. That -0.4 fWAR is for 2017. His career number is 5.5 fWAR (1.8 points higher than Hector Santiago's, and 1.5 higher than Nick Blackburn's, FWIW) As far as Gibson goes: 4 games. Stuff happens. When I look at his numbers, the ones that jump out at me are 26.3% HR/FB, .362 BABIP & 60.7% LOB%. They will normalize. He has a career high this season with 10.2 SwStr%, which is encouraging. As far as pitches go, his velocity is there, looks like he needs to get a feel of his slider and change. From those four games, he had an average game that the Twins won (Game score 48), two below average games ( GS 35 & 38) and a bad game (GS 17), for which Buddy B. was the one who let 2 of the 7 runs in, and the Twins' infielders had balls go under their gloves. Stuff happens. I'd give him another month or so before I panic.
  14. Thrylos
    I think that Chargois' health is TBD. He pitched 1-2/3 innings in a single game for Rochester four days ago. I do not have velocity reports, but I think that the Twins would like want to see more of him, including pitching back to back days, before they make a move.
  15. Thrylos
    This is a good list from BA. The top 50 international bonuses to date. The Twins have 2 players (Javier, 6th and Sano, 9th.)
  16. Thrylos
    .192/.288/.384 in high leverage situations, when the game mattered. "Elite power hitter" when it did not matter. And nothing "elite" about his .886 OPS. Above average for sure, but 4th among MLB second basemen and 26th overall among qualified hitters. That's not "elite", because the 3 better than him second basemen would be what? "Eliter"?
  17. Thrylos
    Buddy tops my list
  18. Thrylos
    How much worse can you be as a reliever if in 75% of your outings you allow a double and a HR. That is about 15 xBH and 7.5 HR / 9 innings. Pretty disgusting actually Even Mejia pitched better than that...
  19. Thrylos
    May 6th, 2017; next day they need a fifth starter.
  20. Thrylos
    Sano with his .990 OPS, .415 w0BA, 177 wRC+, and 182 OPS+ is not underperforming by any means. The rest are, but Buxton and Rosario are not yet "leaders". Mauer and Dozier, off-course.
  21. Thrylos
    Attacks? Nope. My position has been that flaunting his personal religious beliefs at a workplace is a. unprofessional and b. divisive. Period. Nothing less nothing more. His beliefs belong in his home and place of worship not in a baseball game. If that is considered an "attack", it is a comical hot take. I have no issue with anyone's beliefs, if kept where they should be, in private. Jorge Polanco was a better hitter than Brian Dozier in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and will be a better hitter than Brian Dozier in the future. I stand by this position. Of course a player on his prime will have more power than a 22 year old, which has been Dozier's single advantage against Polanco last season. Especially in high leverage situations (*). Again: Dozier's career year (2016) slash line when the game was on the line: .192/.288/.384. That's not comical, it is tragic, as is the fact that Dozier will never have as high a value as he did last off-season and the Twins did not get rid of him... (*) Polanco's career slash in high leverage situations is .309/.359/.527
  22. Thrylos
    The market has already bottomed out, since Dozier predictably return to his old usual self...
  23. Thrylos
    "Massive blunder"? No way. I'd rather have 4 years of control of Del Leon post TJ surgery than Dozier stinking up Target field at a .242/.306/.364 rate (*) and blocking younger players for 2 years. He needed to and still needs to go. He was and is part of the problem, and hopefully someone is willing to take him off the Twins' hands this season. (*) .200/.273/.200 in high leverage situations, where he has a career .225/.294/.377 slash line, including a .192/.288/.384 line last season.
  24. Thrylos
    He is out of options. He has to be DFA'd to go to AAA and will be claimed.
  25. Thrylos
    You do realize that if one will not sign at 1-1 and re-enter the draft will lose $, like Aiken did, correct?
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