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  1. Willihammer
    http://i.imgur.com/kGMbQlu.jpg
  2. Willihammer
    Is Bernier's walkup music "today was a good day?"
  3. Willihammer
    I suppose its better you cover your dilated eyes with sunglasses so the coworkers don't think ChiTown's been hitting the burbon at work again.
  4. Willihammer
    2 kinds of people who wear sunglasses indoors, blind people and *******s.
  5. Willihammer
    Gets me every time.
  6. Willihammer
    Tanner pitched 2 innings in relief against the Burlington Royals. He walked 1, struckout 2, and surrendered a double to Pedro Gonzalez, but he picked him off at 2nd. Mendonca allowed no runs.
  7. Willihammer
    My personal ranking: 1. Lincecum, 2. Kuroda, 3. Johnson, 4. Nolasco, 5. Santana, 6. Jimenez, 7. Haren. 3 or 4 of that group, at minimum. Hughes would just be more of the same. OK fastball, and squat for 2ndary offerings.
  8. Willihammer
    Kohl Stewart out 10 days after cutting his foot walking on a Florida beach Notebook: Willingham headed out on rehab stint, could return next week - Minnesota Twins news | 1500 ESPN Twin Cities ? Minnesota Sports News & Opinion (Twins, Vikings, Wolves, Wild, Gophers) | Sportswire: Minnesota Twins
  9. Willihammer
    Somehow we got onto lipstick in one of the game threads where Deduno was pitching.
  10. Willihammer
    Among the 186 starters with at least 30 IP, the Twins have 4 in the bottom 28 of first pitch strike percentage. Gibsons first pitch strike percentage of 50% is 2nd worst only to Zack Wheeler's 49.6%.
  11. Willihammer
    The strike zone is subjective
  12. Willihammer
    Hammer time!
  13. Willihammer
    Its process of elimination. Umpires? Check. Pitchers? I think, check. Batters? They've faced around 1200 at this point, so I say check. Home/away bias? Check. Check check check. The biggest or at least most obvious variable left is catchers.
  14. Willihammer
    No, they're using the average zone that umpires actually call. And after what, 100 games, and maybe a turn and a half through all the umpires in MLB, I think we can basically wash away an umpire bias at this point.
  15. Willihammer
    Chief your qualm is with what fangraphs and/or baseballprospects/brooksbaseball have defined as the zone. Pitchf/x's x/y/z coordinates should be within an inch of the actual spot of the ball in timespace. Unless the system in that park has gotten out of calibration. Whether that spot is a strike is up to interpretation. One of the tests MLB did to determine the accuracy was setup a foam plate and a pitching machine, so the foam indented at impact. They compared measurements and were satisfied. The readings are sound. Its the zone that these 3rd party internet people have created that may or may not be questionable. edit: that zone, by the way, is based off the strikes that umpires actually call. That is, the left and right extreme stop at the +/- 50% of called strikes.
  16. Willihammer
    Florimon: 223/278/333 Casilla: 248/302/333
  17. Willihammer
    "Mr. Quiry, for that, we're going to throw you in the clink... for-e-vvver."
  18. Willihammer
    Mauer needs to school Albers on the art of one word answers.
  19. Willihammer
    http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/08/06/0806-guiry-sandlot-fox-article-sub-3.jpg got drunk and headbutted an airport cop http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/08/06/0806-thomas-guiry-article-wm-mug-shot-3.jpg
  20. Willihammer
    OK boys I think its officially safe to sit on fastballs now
  21. Willihammer
    I wonder if this Duffy kid is going down the Glen Perkins career path
  22. Willihammer
    1. Think about the Minnesota Twins. MINNESOTA. Not TEAM CANADA. Sheesh. 2. Think about hockey. Its finally over thank god. 3. Think about Bullpen. Were the first baseball fields planted on farms, and if so, why would they put them right but the bull? Wasn't there a spare acre of cow pasture they could have used instead? Good grief, a bull over the right field fence makes that bull mastiff in the sandlot look like a harmless little otter. "DON"T HIT THE BALL INTO THE BULLPEN THATS OUR ONLY BALL!" 4. Think about Miguel Tejada, he's 39. I predict he goes deep today. 5. Think about Jamey Carroll, also 39. I predict he goes deep today.
  23. Willihammer
    According to this, Pitchers who allow under 4 runs/9 get about 1 extra strike per 300 pitches thrown, as compared to guys who allow between 4 and 6 runs per game. So, being a lousy pitcher doesn't appear to be a huge factor. I agree that pitchers can and do have an influence, but I just don't see the Twins as being especially disadvantaged where it seems to matter, certainly not to the point where it absolves Mauer and Doumit of losing all these strike calls. Aside from their bloated ERAs, they're not particularly young, lefthanded, or wild.
  24. Willihammer
    We're comin
  25. Willihammer
    Even in a third year of catastrophic starting pitching, the Twins are 9th in walk rate and 3rd in strike percentage, according to pitchf/x. So I find it unlikely that very much, if any of the lousiness in the framing scores are explained by the staff.
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