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    Maybe doesn't crack the top five, but how about the homerun he hit off of Freddy Garcia on August 23, 2005? It ruined a no-hitter by Garcia and gave the Twins and Johan Santana a 1-0 win in a rare bright spot that year.
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    That's correct. What we do have, though is Hunter's own words - freely offered - acknowledging a potential difficulty. What we need, then, is a reporter to broach the topic. A press conference announcing an eight figure deal that he landed, at least in part, due to his ability to mentor young players seems like an ideal time to try and reach some clarity on the topic. Either way, he's not uniquely responsible for deciding when it constitutes a relevant discussion and when it doesn't. He clearly thought it was a baseball matter when he spoke to the LATimes about gay teammates. If he doesn't think that's the case any longer, a simple "no comment" would have been sufficient. But it's unfair to blame Berardino for taking his word that it matters.
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    I don't believe that's possible, and Torii Hunter himself doesn't think this topic can be separated from his ability to lead a clubhouse or be a mentor for young players: But former Angels outfielder Torii Hunter, among baseball's most thoughtful and intelligent players, isn't kidding when he says an "out" teammate could divide a team. "For me, as a Christian … I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right," he says. "It will be difficult and uncomfortable." If part of the Twins' expectation for Hunter is that he perform those two tasks you mention, it seems to me that he's saying he'd have a tough time doing that job in the case of a (hypothetical, but plausible) gay Minnesota Twin.
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    Thanks for this. LaTroy Hawkins just seems like a really good guy.
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    I was not aware of that. Who's the Punto-analogue in that fracas? Maicer Izturis?
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    And, as a follow-up, his second choice in case that punch somehow misses it's 6'4" target.
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    Hunter's musings on gay teammates were also shared pretty candidly in the LA Times. It seems like a perfectly legitimate line of inquiry for a player that seems to have been acquired, in large part, for his clubhouse presence. We've wanted Twins' reporters to challenge the team-driven narrative. This is what that looks like.
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    There needs to be a term for when a player redeems his career by settling into a semi-valuable role that, even as a floor, would have deeply disappointed fans at the height of his prospect hype. How about "bust out."
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    This was such a strange article. It actually works pretty well to kind of poke at some of the epistemological issues that come along with scouting amateurs, but its focus on Gordon meant taking a big pass at those big ideas in exchange for ... something else. In any case, there's a big question in the middle of this that he straight passes on. When Gordon was picked, not even two months ago, he wasn't regarded as an overdraft by any of the usual sources. In that time, he's signed and held his own in an aggressive early assignment for an 18 year old. It's a really odd thing for Stoltz to call in the support of some scouts he talked to and who supported his overall "meh" evaluation without answer the question of what, precisely, he thinks happened in the not-yet-two-months. I'm open to the idea that it's something. But it has to be something for this to be worth writing, doesn't it? That he showed up and all the tools just play a little less loudly then they did on the showcase circuit. That his solid performance so far should be even better. Instead we get "It’s funny how things change so much right after the draft, though."
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    Randy Johnson was, like Meyer, an extraordinarily tall pitcher drafted out of college who needed additional development time to get all those long limbs moving in the right direction and therefore didn't pick up five starts by age 25.
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    You're right. I think the issue is that they're not doing something particularly clever, just that they appear to have the will to go further than front offices have been willing to go so far. There's an inter-personal reason that's the case - that you just don't treat people that way. But there may also be a business reason - that you don't want to acquire a reputation for pulling stuff like this. Keith Law tweeted a reaction from an anonymous agent that the Astros could feel the bite on this worse than the Phillies would/did from the Wetzler situation.
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    I'm not sure what resource we're exhausting talking about Nate Roberts. There is no "instead" in play when it comes to idle baseball chitchat.
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    He was featured in BPro's "eyewitness accounts" series this morning. And it's free. FREE! http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=23579
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    Well picked. I was shocked the first time I heard Hudler and thought that, perhaps, Harrelson would have a rival in awfulness. But then Hudler coined the term "gettin' Figgy with it" for successful Angels' applications of Chone, and Harrelson was already knocked off the obnoxious catchphrase throne. Hudler compounds this feat with the extra weird bit of homerism where he can't seem to give an opposing team credit for anything. Like, at all. Though I've noticed that less in his time with the Royals because they're the Royals.
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    I made the same bet in early January but only got 80:1, I think. I don't really feel like checking the ticket in my (emtpy) wallet. So if you're an idiot at those odds... /declines to create poll
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    That article says that he probably tore it in his last intrasquad game. So, Dr. Andrews didn't actually miss anything unless he was using some sort of hybrid MRI/time machine to examine a future version of Miguel Sano's elbow. And that seems like an exceedingly dull use of something with time travel capacity.
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    Since he didn't get elected in fifteen tries, that's clearly not the case.
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    I agree with this. I think a team in a different situation (maybe the Twins after end of 2014 - when Bailey himself wont be a trade option) that has a young core and smells some blood in the divisional water would find acquiring a guy with one year left to free agency a useful addition for the valuable experience of providing genuine contention to that core. But I don't think that describes the winter-of-2013 Twins. If Bailey is the sort of player that the front office would feel comfortable acquiring for four years, they should wait until he hits free agency next winter and is available for the cost of only money.
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    I'm not sure how much of this falls under your purview (but thanks to your gracious responses here, I will probably have a better idea by the end - seriously, thanks for this) but here is a non-exhaustive list: 1)Infielders becoming catchers 2)Catchers becoming pitchers (I realize both 1 & 2 are more scouting issues, but if Tyler Grimes is a pitcher in 2015, then I'm probably going to credit this conversation) 3)Double steals 4)Senior couples on the kiss cam 5)A reliever coming in to face a batter, moving to rightfield for the subsequent batter, and then returning to the mound. Unless this isn't allowed for some reason. This one, I'm pretty much just guessing would be a lot of fun.
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    I have a lot of fun watching teams play extreme defensive shifts. Do you take into account how much fun I'm having when you determine the value of these shifts?
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    It's apparently a bad thing, responsible for a curiously diverse set of arm injuries. That conclusion is not necessarily supported by research.
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    I'm comfortable with a desire for innovation, but thought this piece was pretty contentless. Mr. Hageman's rundown above (but for his charitable refusal to blame Joe Sheehan, who I'm sure deserves blame for something) added a helpful curtain-pulling context to this article's weirdly unironic "the Indians are twitter" conclusions. The Indians were distinctly non-brilliant until they started winning, and outside of a manager change it's not clear that things are any different there than they were a couple years ago. I guess the difficulty is that there's too many things to name when a team has been this bad for three consecutive years. Something with a bit more grit to it, like "the Twins need to play more extreme defensive shifts" would seem sort of hopelessly deck-chair-on-the-Titanic. But since I agree with it then at least one fewer person would be harping on Mr. Mackey here. Whatever. It sounds like he thinks the Twins would win more if Terry Ryan got some Malcolm Gladwell books for Christmas. I've kind of come to expect better from this author than traditional grouchy columnist pieces, but I suppose he did impressively blend old school grumping with new school hobby horses on this one
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    If it's as much fun as saying "Engelb Vielma" then we're all in for a treat.
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    I really appreciate this perspective. Most of the time, watching people to take a crack at the psychology behind performance ebbs and flows is teeth-grinding. But it's very cool how you've tried to cover both sides. I think Hicks' initial rough time in Rochester (if we are to attribute it to anything beyond injury) is something that's pretty frequently observed with guys shuttling between their first MLB taste and AAA. Call it a big league hangover. My general outlook on it is that I am deeply impressed by guys who immediately shake off a demotion and start performing like management was wrong all along - but that I don't want to knock guys who have trouble with that for the precise reasons you named. In any case, good post. Hicks' day so far in this extra weird Rochester/SWB game is kind of why I'll remain fascinated with him as a prospect. When the entire roster is getting their shots in (13 hits and 12 runs through four innings), Hicks is 0-1 and has taken a pair of walks. He has his game and he's going to play it. I love that.
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    The question you should be asking, since you don't know the man, is why you felt the need to comment on his character at all.
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