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  1. Otto von Ballpark
    Technically Shoemaker does have 2 option years left -- he was optioned annually from 2014-2016, but in 2015-2016 he spent fewer than 20 days on optional assignment each year, thus he got credited for a full year of MLB service time those seasons and did not expend an option year. However, as another poster already alluded to, players with 5+ years of service time have the right to refuse such an assignment: Per Article XIX-A of the CBA, any player on an MLB 40-man roster who has accrued at least five years of MLB Service Time (as well as an international player with Article XIX-A contractual rights) has the right to refuse an Optional Assignment to the minors https://www.thecubreporter.com/book/export/html/3521 And if they refuse, the team has to either keep them on the roster or DFA/waive/trade/release them. It's rare for a player with 5+ years service time to accept an optional assignment. The only one I can think of right now is Anibal Sanchez for the 2017 Tigers. He had been relegated to mop-up bullpen duty for a month and a half, and I expect that he accepted the minor league assignment with the understanding that he would return to starting in the minors and the Tigers would call him back up once he was stretched out (he returned after 4 minor league starts).
  2. Otto von Ballpark
    Here’s MLB’s clip of that play: https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2021/2021-05/01/dfcfba76-c181f8a0-ce281653-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4 Taken from the excellent baseball.theater website: https://baseball.theater/game/_/634329/Highlights
  3. Otto von Ballpark
    Twins made a catching move yesterday: Jeffers was optioned to the alternate site. So at least for the next 10 days, barring injury, Astudillo is Garver's backup.
  4. Otto von Ballpark
    On the DFA guys: I'm guessing that Lin wasn't eligible for the special COVID outbreak 40-man roster removal because he replaced Telis rather than a COVID case. And while Riddle originally replaced Simmons, that was before the outbreak too -- single COVID case replacements aren't eligible for 40-man roster removal either. The Twins likely didn't get that those special outbreak permission from the league until a few days later when Garlick and others had to be replaced.
  5. Otto von Ballpark
    Big day for roster moves (Thursday April 29) - Activated RF Max Kepler and RF Kyle Garlick from the 10-day injured list - Optioned OF Brent Rooker and C Ryan Jeffers to Alternate Training Site. - Activated SS JT Riddle from the 10-day injured list and designated him for assignment. - Designated SS Tzu-Wei Lin for assignment.
  6. Otto von Ballpark
    We've been down this road before. You are still ignoring key facts: 1. It's impossible to get anything remotely like fair value by trading an elite guy like Trout. Prospect returns don't increase on a linear scale, they're basically capped at something like the Chris Sale return which can be good but is still quite a bit of a crapshoot. 2. Drafting 5-10 slots higher is nice, but it doesn't move the needle dramatically in MLB drafts either. MLB top 5-10 draft picks are still mostly busts or average players. 3. With extensions and long terms of team control, $35 mil doesn't usually go very far in MLB free agency. Betts and Tatis Jr will never even hit FA, for example. More than likely, that money will go to players who are worse bets than Trout, potentially much worse. There are certainly cases where it makes sense for a team to trade a star player. This was not one of them.
  7. Otto von Ballpark
    Actually 10 runs was pretty close to average. MLB average was 0.52 runs per 1st inning, which would be 11.4 for our 22 games entering today. (The 3 teams ranked ahead of us with 11 runs had each played 1-3 more games than us so far.) The broadcast today noted that we led all of MLB with a .360 AVG in the first inning. But second-fewest first inning HR and walk totals meant those hits didn't translate into above-average run scoring. That sure changed today!
  8. Otto von Ballpark
    Technically, Polanco had a five hit day last year -- but it was a doubleheader.
  9. Otto von Ballpark
    I suspect that post may be missing some kind of "sarcasm" marker.
  10. Otto von Ballpark
    YouTube bought the national broadcast rights to some games and is making them available for free on their platform. Just like how Fox buys the rights for their Saturday "game of the week" and World Series games, and makes them available on their over-the-air broadcast stations.
  11. Otto von Ballpark
    I muted the YouTube broadcast, and opened the radio feed on MLB.TV in another tab. My MLB.TV radio feed was slightly ahead, so I paused it when I heard the catcher's glove (you could also use the crack of the bat), then unpaused as soon as I saw that happen in the YouTube feed, so now they are in sync.
  12. Otto von Ballpark
    The YouTube stream is live now, with a pregame show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIoQc2fFf3U If you seek back in the stream a bit, they did an interview with Buxton.
  13. Otto von Ballpark
    Stream is live now!
  14. Otto von Ballpark
    Cleveland DFAs lefty reliever Oliver Perez, despite a $1.25 mil salary, an apparently effective 2020 season, and 5 appearances so far in 2021 without allowing an earned run or leaving any baserunners for subsequent relievers (he did allow one of the special extra innings baserunners to score, though). https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/04/indians-dfa-oliver-perez.html Perhaps the first direct casualty of the 3 batter minimum rule? Or maybe Cleveland sees something troubling in his underlying pitch data, and are choosing to cut him before it becomes a problem? Outside of that single extra innings appearance, his other 4 appearances this year have been exclusively low-leverage mop-up work, so there already seemed to be a lack of trust.
  15. Otto von Ballpark
    If the immediate outcome of labeling it "inexcusable" is to say "don't let this happen again", I think we all pretty much agree with that, regardless of what words we use to describe the circumstances.
  16. Otto von Ballpark
    I haven't seen that wording anywhere else, so I'll chalk it up to a paraphrase error on the poster. In fairness to Seth, his exact words were far more ambiguous -- could have been facetious, could have been a simple statement of fact (the confusion likely did give Robles a little more time to warm up, regardless of how one feels about the mistake):
  17. Otto von Ballpark
    No one is denying they made a mistake, or excusing it. They are just explaining that the mistake was a brain fart forgetting that they had already made a mound visit, rather than a brain fart thinking they could make multiple mound visits in one inning. From the Strib story (also in the video): https://www.startribune.com/jose-berrios-leaves-game-rocco-baldelli-blunder-twins-cleveland/600050694/ "That's on me. I was locked into something else at the time," Baldelli said. "I actually called down to get Robles going. Not a great moment."
  18. Otto von Ballpark
    To be fair, the Strib eventually published a separate story that was specifically about the Colomé appearance, which is probably why they didn't address it in the game story: https://www.startribune.com/twins-alex-colome-setback/600050989/ Technically, the situation Colomé entered last night was a "low-leverage" situation, as defined by game-entering leverage index. It had a value of 0.55, compared to average/neutral leverage of 1.0 or top reliever leverage of 1.5+. I would have guessed higher, with only a 1-run deficit, but as the road team entering the bottom of the 8th, we had only 1 more chance on offense and our opponent had 2 more. (Also, not factored into leverage index but something Baldelli could consider, but the top 4 in our batting order had just batted in the 8th, so they were unlikely to bat again in the 9th.) But it still felt a little weird, using him in that situation immediately after he lost the game Monday, and while we were trying to stop a losing streak.
  19. Otto von Ballpark
    Also: "The Willie Eyre Fixation" could be a good band name!
  20. Otto von Ballpark
    I know this may not be the most opportune time to watch the Twins, in multiple ways, but today's game with Cleveland will be streamed for free, with no blackouts, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIoQc2fFf3U Game time is 12:10 PM CDT. (You should also be able to jump back or "rewind" the YouTube live stream if you join late, and you can also watch the recording after it is over -- hopefully today's game will be worth re-watching!)
  21. Otto von Ballpark
    Yes, they get MLB service time, salary, and benefits for those days, although they obviously won’t appear in most stat registers, since they didn’t accumulate any stats. Telis was also on the roster briefly last week without getting into a game.
  22. Otto von Ballpark
    You had a long way to run.
  23. Otto von Ballpark
    Smalley?
  24. Otto von Ballpark
    Very good this spring, per B-Ref: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maedake01.shtml
  25. Otto von Ballpark
    It's enough of a success to not get fired this year.
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