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  1. TheLeviathan
    If you think a team's ace dominating them to a title is common, I encourage you to go research that. You'll find it's simply not true. In fact, Bumgarner is the exception, not the rule.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Edited, sorry, I'm that guy with spoilers sometimes. Mostly because the whole concept of spoiler alerts annoy me.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Season 5 continues this show's excellence as pretty much the best TV has to offer. And we're starting to see some things in the show that have been dragged out needlessly in the books. (Namely, the meeting in Mereen)
  4. TheLeviathan
    The beauty of the DH spot is you don't have to "move" anyone there. You just put the guy there that either can't field or there is a positional logjam. Adding Howard takes that flexibility away at the price of a player who could easily go pumpkin. If the Twins want to truly upgrade a position and block a player I'm all for that if the player and the cost is right. But that isn't Howard.
  5. TheLeviathan
    You don't think blocking the DH spot could hurt Sano? Especially given the year Plouffe is having? Just because someone could be argued to be an upgrade right now doesn't make it a smart move. Especially when the upgrade is arguable at best.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Bautista? Sure. Howard or Revere? No. Just no.
  7. TheLeviathan
    The bat hasn't been there, but the defense is night and day better so far.
  8. TheLeviathan
    No, but historically Cuban players only fit into one of those two camps prior to now and there is still uncertainty as to how they'll fit now. We don't know if it was the that was the deterrent or something else, but we're going to find out
  9. TheLeviathan
    Right, that is important and maybe the changes with Cuba in general make this a sea-change moment for the organization like Sano was. But I'm not counting on it.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Sano was a welcome and unexpected surprise, but that was also under Bill Smith who was decidedly more aggressive in the international market. This is Ryan and the Cuban precedent with this team is pretty strong. They rarely show interest and haven't pursued it beyond that in as long as I can remember. Doesn't make it impossible, but pretty damn unlikely.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Yup. They'll go through the motions, but that's as far as it will go.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Touche. A quick google search tells me people suspect he has the "Yips", otherwise known as Knoblauch Syndrome. Weird.
  13. 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)
  14. TheLeviathan
    But seriously, did Dick or anyone say anything about this goofy ass throw back to the mound? Why isn't everyone stealing on him?
  15. TheLeviathan
    Or like the guy on your softball team that had 8 too many before the game.
  16. TheLeviathan
    What the heck is with Soto and his return throws?
  17. 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.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Tough setback for the organization and Alex.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Pfft, little did he expect we always had home runs in our back pocket if we needed it.
  23. TheLeviathan
    The high leverage component and the men on base component of that are completely independent of him. We need Mauer himself being more productive.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Long drive, but I'll be there in spirit.
  25. TheLeviathan
    One thing interesting from fangraphs is that Joe appears to be swinging much more frequently in general, but in particular at pitches outside the zone. That could be a symptom of that problem or a reflection of a more aggressive approach or something else entirely. But it's a trend clearly outside his previous track record.
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