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  1. ThePuck
    what about Twins attendance records in the mid-late 90s...I used to buy nosebleed seats and then move down to ground level between home and first after the third inning with no problem... Additionally, Big City places seem to have fans that hold their teams more accountable...South End Chicago, Washington, NY, Boston, Southern California...these are places where there are many, many other options for entertainment. As a whole, Minnesota nice people have a bit of a longer time frame of patience. Continue on this course though... P.S. The Twins were 3rd in the majors in attendance drop (by percentage). They saw a 12% drop. Only Houston and Cleveland saw a bigger drop in attendance. League attendance AVERAGE was UP almost 2%.
  2. ThePuck
    I read somwhere, and I'll try to find it, where he was compared to Eric Davis. When I read that, I was a bit baffled, but I'll try and find it to share.
  3. ThePuck
    Reality is a tough pill for some to swallow.
  4. ThePuck
    Only 4th? SLACKER! :-)
  5. ThePuck
    Do you have a link so all of us can read it?
  6. ThePuck
    I remember the offseason before the 2010 season, when we got Hudson and traded for Hardy, I was booming happy. It really doesn't take much to make some of us happy...the FO has conditioned us to expect offseasons like this one, so when offseasons like the one before the 2010 season happened, it was like XMas!
  7. ThePuck
    Sounds like he'll be ready right about the time Hicks is testing free agency...
  8. ThePuck
    Nice post. I concur.
  9. ThePuck
    'Remember ... the Twins' pitching was bad a year ago with Span and Revere out there regularly. I shudder to think what could happen this year.'
  10. ThePuck
    This. Additionally Fangraphs gives Mauer a value of 165.9M so far for his career. He's gotten paid less than half that so far. Where's the outrage?! :-)
  11. ThePuck
    My post was over the top snarky (which I try not to do). Your response was mild in comparison...I likely deserved worse. But thanks.
  12. ThePuck
    I'm not sure I'd agree that value of a contract lies solely with on-field production. There's other factors. However, according to Fangraphs, he was at 22.5M just in on field value last year. Obviously, in the injury year (2011) he wasn't, but last year he's right there. I would have been shocked if he had been on that list.
  13. ThePuck
    I added a part responding to your sac fly comment...
  14. ThePuck
    The IBB would affect his OBP but not his slg% and BA...that's all based on actual at bats. Not only that, but to say they don't matter would be to assume he would have gotten an out in every instance when he was IBB....which would be a strange assumption based on the results he has when he isn't IBB. 'a typical flyball with the bases empty that would drop a hitter's average no longer does if a player happens to be on 3rd at the time and scores.' Doesn't affect his BA/OBP/SLG% RISP numbers though...and there's an assumption there that if the guy had been on 2nd instead of 3rd, he wouldn't have gotten a hit instead of sacrificing himself. BTW, all these scenarios, apply to everyone...
  15. ThePuck
    This topic interests me. Baseball Prospectus talked about the numbers wiwth RISP stat. In the article it states: 'a single year’s worth of data for a player with runners in scoring position is an incredibly small sample riddled with random variation—so much so that it essentially renders the data useless.' The way that reads, that would lead me to believe that for a career, it's a much better stat to look at. As are most stats. Would you concur?
  16. ThePuck
    In any event, I learned something today, which is awesome. I'm going to research that a bit more. My sincerest apologies to ashburyjohn.
  17. ThePuck
    Correction to what I wrote. That quote came from Gleeman, not Fangraphs, so apologies on that. Wasn't purposely trying to deceive right there, just thought I had gotten it from Fangraphs... Mauer's career numbers with RISP are quite a bit better than his normal numbers though. 20 points in BA, 55 points in OBP, 30 points in slg%
  18. ThePuck
    So why do the writers at Fangraphs, who are SABR people, write the info I posted that started this conversation? 'Mauer drove in 18.1 percent of the runners on base for his plate appearances. Not only did that rank eighth-highest in the entire league, it topped Willingham's mark of 16.3 percent. Mauer converted a higher percentage of his RBI chances than Willingham (even though Willingham had a career year), but Willingham had 45 more runners on base in 26 fewer plate appearances because Mauer was on constantly in front of him.'
  19. ThePuck
    If you say so
  20. ThePuck
    I thought they've blown off RBI numbers...not numbers with RISP. Two different things there. I haven't ever heard of SABR people blowing off what a player does with RISP, and why would they? That would make no sense.
  21. ThePuck
    Yeah, pretty much what I said on anotehr thread just a bit ago. I wrote: 'yeah they got Willingham, Doumit and Carroll, and saved some money...but they lost Nathan, Cuddy and Kubel...and did nothing with the saved money. Let's not act as if they added onto the 2011 team without losing some key players....' So I agree 100%
  22. ThePuck
    'Your line of thinking becomes more out there the longer this thread goes on. How is that for adding to the discussion?' Wasn't MY line of thinking...why don't you read the post again...notice I started with: Or people say:. Notice after that, I put the statement in quotes? Notice in paragraph 3 I wrote, 'HE wrote something you didn't like,' That 'something' being what you're attributing to me. If that wasn't obvious that it wasn't me saying all that, and it should have been, Dave's followup should have made it even clearer. As far as your argument goes though...yeah they got Willingham, Doumit and Carroll, and saved some money...but they lost Nathan, Cuddy and Kubel...and did nothing with the saved money. Let's not act as if they added onto the 2011 team without losing some key players....
  23. ThePuck
    Pure poetry...by a person thinking the quality of posts/posters have gone down so much since the good old days :-) Nothing brings up the quality of posts quite like that kind of poetry...
  24. ThePuck
    Alright champ...I'm sure your faith in Ryan will be confirmed when they win 90+ games...as you're predicting...
  25. ThePuck
    well, 5 division titles in 14 years if you extend two more years out...16. Heck, why not give him credit for 2010 too. Right after 2009. I backed away from it before you 'called me on it'...before I ever read your post...so don't flatter yourself. Believe me, nothing you say will make me feel bad about what I write. I though it was dumb of me to say so I changed it. Notice I didn't deny saying it..
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