TheLeviathan
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It's Martin's greatest mistake...he introduced his true antagonist for the series in his first novel and then largely ignored them for most of what he wrote subsequently. The show has never forgotten them and never let us forget them either. That's a huge thing and that 25 minutes at the end of last night were a friggin rollercoaster.
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Their performance was fine, as diehard points out it was the sheer number of career years at the same time. If you look back at that team, there are very few guys that ever approached that level of production again in their careers.
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Absolutely! I've always said the 2005 White Sox were by far the best example of a whole bunch of lucky stuff coming together in one totally unrepeatable fashion. That's an excellent example.
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I've watched them play and even I'm a bit wary of it continuing. This team is "finding a way to win" which I've always thought is baseball jargon for "they're not that good, but damned if they don't keep lucking their way to wins" They don't have to apologize for good luck, but it's also hard to count on. The problem is that many of these articles don't point out that sometimes a string of good luck can turn into real results. Confidence and those intangibles might start to turn the tide of the stats and make it less about luck soon enough. But that remains to be seen, however the foundation for sustained success is shaky. That's a fair argument and well defended with this team's peripherals.
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I think Santana is a pretty important part of the future and since I don't think Escobar is a major downgrade - I'd really like to see Santana sent down to improve his approach at the plate. Send down Santana, call up Pinto or Vargas. Solves a lot of the head scratching decisions surrounding the roster. -
I agree it's a weak 3 point shooting team, but Flip seems to discourage that anyway. Rumors are that Towns is a pretty good outside shooter though. I'd also hope that Wiggins is working on his outside game extensively this summer.
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These may be great reasons to hope things will improve, but so far his results have not been good. There is still too much weak contact and his approach is still far too inconsistent. The author said he's been terrible with the stick and while these measures might suggest improvement is coming, it doesn't change that the results to date have sucked terribly. He should continue to have the opportunity to improve, though. His defense is like a new person this time around and we should give him the rest of the year as his last chance to salvage a role, but I don't think it's inaccurate at all to say his offensive production has been terrible.
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Last night was worth it. If someone had recorded my face the last 30 minutes - it would've been the dumbest expression of pure shock/joy/amazement/marveling at the badassery ever. It was a crescendo like no other TV show can muster to a brilliant finish.
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The show just took an even bigger lead in the race for my affection last night. Holy crap.
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The point most of us are making is that the time immediately preceding his demotion was his best of the season by pretty much any measure you choose to consider. Certainly far better than the version of it you told. It was strange timing to send him down then, when he was at his best the entire season.
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21 Ks in 69 ABs in April 9 Ks in 43 ABs in May I'm reasonably confident these are not the same K rate.
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I can understand that, though I wish they had done it prior to him stringing some success together. It's a moot point now, but the timing bugs me.
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And yet what he said they told him to go down and do was hit HRs. I think this is an overly harsh version of his May. He had significantly cut his strikeouts down in those couple weeks and was making better contact. And I would expect struggles - he skipped AAA and was due an adjustment period to major league pitching. Sending him down in the middle of improved at-bats was the oddest thing about it. Had they done it in April it would have made more sense IMO.
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Not sure where I stand on Flips coaching ability, but I think Shabazz and Wiggins can play together as SF and SG respectively.
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If the Twins really want to play Escobar...why not send down the guy that looks like he needs it (Santana) and get Vargas back up?
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I'm not sure how you see Martin and Shabazz as redundant? They seem to bring two ver different skill sets to the team.
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Possibly, but Lee also moved well before the deadline (July 9),so the timeline matches well. Its all speculation, but I remember reading reports of how close that deal came to happening and it wasn't our reluctance.
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Ramos got hurt in the midst of those negotiations. So it wasn't the value being offered at the time, it was a recurring problem with Ramos that has persisted that came up at a really, really inopportune moment.
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Based on what? He has actually managed to be worse in many regards. If you want to attack the author for not having watched the team, Hicks isn't the place to do it. He has been terrible, we're all just so happy to see the defense that we're missing his abysmal performance at the plate.
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I would imagine it is in part to avoid waste. Which makes sense - it's a crap ton of wasted paper and garbage.
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Absolutely! It was great to see, but I haven't seen any noticeable difference from 2015 Hicks at the plate and the last two years of failure. In CF I'm not even sure it's the same dude. He's been incredible.
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Hicks, with the bat, has absolutely been terrible. Putrid and still not driving the ball. He's been an absolutely outstanding fielder, however.
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The grantland article, between the heaping amounts of snark, is based on the same facts the Bollinger one is. I think we can all identify why the Twins are winning, but the Grantland piece is looking at the larger context and the odds of sustainability. It's not a crime, or anything to hold against the team, that they are winning and being successful against the odds. It happens every year to a few teams. I tend to agree that the clubhouse changes have had a tremendous and largely unquantifiable gain for the team on the field. At the same time, there are a lot of underlying issues with the team that makes sustainability unlikely. But there is no law against lucky winning - they all count the same. And there is also nothing stopping the team's confidence from growing and changing some of those underlying factors that make sustainability unlikely. (Thus shifting the success from luck to actual sustainability) It doesn't take anything away from my joy at watching quality baseball again to know that the team is bucking the odds. They've had enough bad luck over the last 5 years for me not to feel like I need to apologize for it.
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Grantland's writer schtick is becoming noticeably more obnoxious. I saw it in the "Are the NBA Playoffs boring" post as well. But this article does a nice job pointing out how the Twins are defying the odds. It's not wrong to point out, because either the Twins are going to keep defying them or things might get hairy or they might change the odds. Either way, a little deeper analysis of our success isn't a bad thing.
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Unwritten rule for a 13 man bullpen quota?
