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  1. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, I'm referencing Pelfrey. I think Milone has earned his spot.
  2. TheLeviathan
    I really, really don't like that decision. This just stinks of veteran coddling.
  3. TheLeviathan
    We have/had like four threads about Sano. Maybe, just maybe, that explains it. Or we could just be excited about Sano being up.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Generally I agree, but Vargas looked pretty lost. The mistake was sending him down the first time, this time seems justified. But this team is caught in a weird in-between of rebuilding and contending and that is forcing them to act in a weird in-between way.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I know I'm going to be tuned in tomorrow to see him hit. Patient with the expectations people. Let the kid adapt.
  6. TheLeviathan
    The guy has really proven that extension to be a smart thing and steadied his play considerably.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Good thing I have a new Batman game to play!
  8. TheLeviathan
    My god that is one ugly slide. Put that one on the top of the offseason list of "things to work on" along with general base running/stealing.
  9. TheLeviathan
    Damn kid's a sniper out there.
  10. TheLeviathan
    If May is the one that loses his spot....I may lose my mind.
  11. TheLeviathan
    I like a lot here, except I wish Mauer and Dozier were flipped.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Obviously, but he's had trouble when he has been healthy being tolerable much less this effective.
  13. TheLeviathan
    If this continues with Wimmers, I would also be really interested in what he credits for the turnaround. I saw his stats live at the game today and was absolutely shocked. (In a good way!)
  14. TheLeviathan
    Not dead yet! http://blog.earthlinkbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/mp1.jpg
  15. TheLeviathan
    I've always been on the Kepler bandwagon and I'm thrilled to see him coming along as well as he is. One concern I have is that this team going forward might have a power problem if bother corner OFs are looking 10ish HR guys. Assuming Mauer continues to play 1B that might mean a team with only 3 guys that can hit 20+ a year. (Plouffe, Sano, Dozier) I love all the speed and defense out there in the OF, but there would be a sacrifice to that as well. Just thinking out loud about that future lineup.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Well, we think of it differently because baseball is the only sport that has a different set of rules for each league. The simple fix is to simply stop having pitchers hit, then this won't seem like a fad anymore.
  17. TheLeviathan
    He's going to get eaten alive by the pitching at the big league level.
  18. TheLeviathan
    I don't think my wife would appreciate me dating any of you.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Can we please just get Vargas up here and give an actual DH option? I am confused more and more each day that he is not up with the team.
  20. TheLeviathan
    See I took player analysis as also including analysis of their tendencies. I doubt there are many multi-variable regressions in which RBIs are valuable, but I wouldn't exclude the stat completely. It may be a quick and dirty window into a deeper issue in some situations. But neither of us know what the Twins are or are not doing in order to analyze their players, I just hope they aren't artificially restricting their analysis because something is seen as antiquated. (Or, worse yet, not antiquated enough)
  21. TheLeviathan
    "Inexcusable to include" seems a lot like "dismissed" to me. It also seems strange to me to suggest that there is no conceivable type of player analysis in which RBIs might factor in as a relevant variable to consider for pattern or relationship analysis. Perhaps all you meant was that a player's RBI total isn't a very fair or conclusive way to judge a player. I agree. It also seems to me that your initial statement was stronger than that.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Well, I'll just let it go since you prefer to be condescending, even after you mistakenly accused me of misunderstanding statistical analysis. I hope the Twins are willing to use RBI if it is relevant to the analysis of a player and it most certainly can be, but need not be for all.
  23. TheLeviathan
    RBI as a statistic certainly has a great many weaknesses, but you could use the statistic as a window into other ones to examine why a player has had such success (or lack thereof) in driving runners. Perhaps it's your team's lineup construction or other issues, but I don't feel the need to dismiss the statistic entirely. Even if better alternatives exist. Sometimes the surface level questions "why is this guy struggling to post RBI?" can lead to deeper questions that require better measures to answer. Ultimately, it comes down to what questions you're asking and the best stat to find the answer.
  24. TheLeviathan
    RBI shouldn't be a go-to, but inexcusable to even consider? Going a bit far and a pet peeve of mine with talking baseball stats. No metric or stat is inexcusable or worthless. In fact, the more of them we consider and overlap only enrich the context of the evaluation....not diminish it.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Pfft, little did he expect we always had home runs in our back pocket if we needed it.
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